TCM Schedule for Monday November 6, 2023 - Alan Arkin Memorial Tribute
Plus: daytime has stories set in small towns.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 am Our Town (1940)
1h 30m | Drama | TV-G
Small town lovers search for happiness.
Director: Sam Wood. Cast: Frank Craven, William Holden, Martha Scott
7:30 am The Human Comedy (1943)
1h 58m | Drama | TV-PG
A small-town telegraph boy deals with the strains of growing up during World War II.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig
9:30 am Kings Row (1942)
2h 7m | Drama | TV-PG
Small town scandals inspire an idealistic young man to take up psychiatry.
Director: Sam Wood. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
11:45 am A Stranger in Town (1943)
1h 7m | Comedy | TV-G
A Supreme Court justice on vacation takes on crooked small-town politicians.
Director: Roy Rowland. Cast: Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Jean Rogers
1:00 pm On Moonlight Bay (1951)
1h 35m | Musical | TV-G
A small-town tomboy falls for the boy-next-door in the years before World War I.
Director: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Doris Day, Gordon Macrae, Smiling Jack Smith
2:45 pm Small Town Girl (1953)
1h 33m | Musical | TV-G
A sheriff's daughter falls for a playboy arrested for speeding.
Director: Leslie Kardos. Cast: Jane Powell, Farley Granger, Ann Miller
4:30 pm The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
1h 36m | Documentary | TV-G
A newly promoted plant supervisor finds himself in the position of having to announce a laayoff of his fellow workers.
Director: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Dorothy Gish, Carleton Carpenter
6:15 pm She Couldn't Say No (1954)
1h 29m | Drama | TV-G
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt
8:00 pm The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
2h 3m | Drama | TV-PG
A deaf mute changes the lives of all he meets.
Director: Robert Ellis Miller. Cast: Alan Arkin, Chuck Mccann, Sondra Locke
10:15 pm Wait Until Dark (1967)
1h 48m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who've invaded her home.
Director: Terence Young. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
12:15 am The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming (1966)
2h 6m | Comedy | TV-PG
When a Russian sub runs aground in New England, it creates a local panic.
Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin
2:30 am Popi (1969)
1h 53m | Comedy | TV-14
A Puerto Rican immigrant hatches a series of zany schemes to insure his children's future.
Director: Arthur Hiller. Cast: Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Miguel Alejandro
4:30 am The In-Laws (1979)
1h 43m | Comedy | TV-MA
The father of the groom drags the bride's father into a series of madcap adventures.
Director: Arthur Hiller. Cast: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini