TCM Schedule for Monday May 20, 2024 - Star of the Month: Sessue Hayakawa
Plus: daytime features films about Mediterranean history.
(all times Eastern)
6:45 AM Athena (1954)
1h 36m | Musical | TV-G
A society lawyer falls in love with the daughter of a family of fitness fanatics.
Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Virginia Gibson
8:30 AM The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
1h 36m | Epic | TV-PG
A blacksmith's rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack. Cast: Preston Foster, Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone
10:15 AM The Slave (1962)
1h 32m | Adventure | TV-PG
Randus, the son of Spartacus, is the only man who can put an end to the tyrant Gora and his nasty habit of carving an S into each of his victims.
Director: Sergio Corbucci. Cast: Steve Reeves, Jacques Sernas, Gianna Maria Canale
12:15 PM Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
1h 46m | Adventure | TV-14
A scheming seductress plots to make herself queen of Egypt.
Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin
2:15 PM The Silver Chalice (1954)
2h 24m | Epic | TV-G
A silversmith is charged with engraving the Holy Grail.
Director: Victor Saville. Cast: Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance
4:45 PM Quo Vadis (1951)
2h 51m | Epic | TV-PG
A Roman commander falls for a Christian slave girl as Nero intensifies persecution of the new religion.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn
8:00 PM House of Bamboo (1955)
1h 42m | Crime | TV-PG
A repressed undercover army agent tangles with a homosexual gangster.
Director: Samuel Fuller. Cast: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi
10:00 PM Green Mansions (1959)
1h 44m | Romance | TV-PG
A young adventurer falls in love with a mystical woman in the South American jungle.
Director: Mel Ferrer. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins, Lee J. Cobb
12:00 AM Hell to Eternity (1960)
2h 12m | War | TV-PG
A young man adopted by Japanese-Americans becomes a hero in World War II.
Director: Phil Karlson. Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone
2:30 AM Grand Prix (1966)
2h 59m | Adventure | TV-14
Story follows the loves and lives of various auto racers as they make their way around the European racing circuit.
Director: John Frankenheimer. Cast: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand