TCM Schedule for Fri, July 11, 2025: Tab Hunter / David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, The Straight Story, more)

Tributes to actor Tab Hunter, born June 11, 1931, and film director David Lunch, who passed away in January of 2025.


DAYTIME: (EST)

6:30 AM | The Sea Chase (1955)
Captain of a WW II German freighter tries to get his ship back home through a gauntlet of Allied warships.
Dir: John Farrow | Cast: John Wayne, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter

8:30 AM | The Burning Hills (1956)
A young cowboy and a Mexican girl run from a ruthless criminal.
Dir: Stuart Heisler | Cast: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Skip Homeier

10:15 AM | The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
A college dropout has no choice but to go into the Army.
Dir: David Butler | Cast: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Jesse Royce Landis

12:00 PM | Lafayette Escadrille (1958)
A hotshot young flyer falls for a French prostitute during World War I.
Dir: William A. Wellman | Cast: Tab Hunter, Etchika Choureau, Marcel Dalio

1:45 PM | The Golden Arrow (1962)
An Arabian bandit discovers he's the long lost son of a Sultan.
Dir: Antonio Margheriti | Cast: Tab Hunter, Rossana Podestà, Umberto Melnati

3:30 PM | The Loved One (1965)
An Englishman in Hollywood moves into the funeral business.
Dir: Tony Richardson | Cast: Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer

5:45 PM | The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
A self-appointed judge cleans up a corrupt western town twice.
Dir: John Huston | Cast: Paul Newman, Roy Jenson, Gary Combs



PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM | The Straight Story (1999)
A 73-year-old embarks on a 240-mile journey to visit his ailing brother by riding a lawn mower.
Dir: David Lynch | Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz

10:00 PM | Blue Velvet (1986)
A severed human ear leads a young man to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of kidnappers.
Dir: David Lynch | Cast: Kyle Maclachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper

12:15 AM | Wild at Heart (1990)
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Dir: David Lynch | Cast: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willima Dafoe

2:30 AM | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Laura Palmer's harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks.
Dir: David Lynch | Cast: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Kyle Maclachlan

5:00 AM | Eraserhead (1977)
A man tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and screams of his newborn mutant child.
Dir: David Lynch | Cast: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Judith Anna Roberts