TCM Schedule for Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 - Critters / Future Tech (Modern Times, Westworld, Metropolis & More)
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6:00 AM | Challenge to Lassie (1949)
A faithful dog changes the lives of all who know her after her master dies.
Dir: Richard Thorpe | Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks
7:30 AM | Fearless Fagan (1952)
When a circus clown is drafted, he tries to sneak his pet lion into the service.
Dir: Stanley Donen | Cast: Janet Leigh, Carleton Carpenter, Keenan Wynn
9:00 AM | Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
The jungle king's cousin tries to get him to help find a diamond treasure.
Dir: Cyril Endfield | Cast: Lex Barker, Dorothy Hart, Patric Knowles
10:30 AM | Room for One More (1952)
A couple adopt several kids born into less fortunate circumstances.
Dir: Norman Taurog | Cast: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle
12:30 PM | Gypsy Colt (1954)
A faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to return to the family it loves.
Dir: Andrew Marton | Cast: Donna Corcoran, Ward Bond, Frances Dee
2:00 PM | The Gazebo (1960)
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
Dir: George Marshall | Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
4:00 PM | Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover by the man she loves.
Dir: Charles Walters | Cast: Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante
6:15 PM | Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)
Animal doctors fight to protect the wildlife of Africa.
Dir: Andrew Marton | Cast: Marshall Thompson, Betsy Drake, Richard Haydn
---- PRIME TIME & LATE NIGHT ----
8:00 PM | Desk Set (1957)
Personalities clash over the computerization of a television network's research department.
Dir: Walter Lang | Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young
10:00 PM | Modern Times (1936)
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Dir: Charlie Chaplin | Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman
11:45 PM | Westworld (1973)
A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for vacationers at a futuristic amusement park.
Dir: Michael Crichton | Cast: Richard Benjamin, Yul Brynner, James Brolin
1:30 AM | Metropolis (1926)
A city is threatened with destruction when a corporate leader enlists a scientist to put down labor reformers.
Dir: Fritz Lang | Cast: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich
4:15 AM | THX 1138 (1971)
A man and a woman rebel against their rigidly controlled society in the 25th century.
Dir: George Lucas | Cast: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley