TCM Schedule for Tuesday, July 8: Director Clarence Brown/Star of the Month: Ladies of the '80s

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

12:00 AM    Seven Samurai (1956)
Japanese villagers hire a team of traveling samurai to defend them against a bandit attack.
    Dir: Akira Kurosawa    Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kuninori Kodo
    Runtime: 207 mins    Genre: Epic    Rating: TV-14    CC: N


3:45 AM    Yojimbo (1961)
A samurai drifter arrives at a small town where two factions are battling each other. He offers to fight on the side of the highest bidder, but then secretly arranges a ploy to have both sides destroy each other.
    Dir: Akira Kurosawa    Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Seizaburo Kawazu
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-14    CC: N

TCM Daytime: Director Clarence Brown

6:00 AM    Idiot's Delight (1939)
A hoofer and a fake Russian countess are caught behind enemy lines at the outbreak of World War II.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold
    Runtime: 105 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

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8:00 AM    The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
An American woman with a British husband fights to keep her family together through two world wars.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy Mcdowall
    Runtime: 126 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



10:15 AM    Ah, Wilderness! (1935)
In his only comedy, Eugene O'Neill captures the trials of growing up in small-town America.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline MacMahon
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



12:00 PM    Come Live with Me (1941)
A Viennese refugee weds a struggling author platonically so she can stay in the U.S.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: James Stewart, Hedy Lamarr, Ian Hunter
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



1:30 PM    Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
    Runtime: 89 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

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3:00 PM    Of Human Hearts (1938)
A rebellious son neglects his parents after enlisting in the Civil War.
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Walter Huston, James Stewart, Gene Reynolds
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



4:45 PM    Anna Karenina (1935)
On a trip to St. Petersburg, Anna Karenina, neglected wife of the famed Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin, meets a handsome military officer, Count Vronsky. Vronsky becomes enamored of Anna and follows her back to Moscow to confess his feelings. Will she follow her heart to be with him, even if it destroys her family and results in public disgrace?
    Dir: Clarence Brown    Cast: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y

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6:30 PM    Garbo (2005)
Documentary that explores the life and career of screen legend Greta Garbo.
    Dir: Christopher Bird, Kevin Brownlow    Cast: Julie Christie, Greta Garbo, Charles Busch
    Runtime: 86 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y

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TCM Prime Time: Star of the Month: Ladies of the '80s

8:00 PM    Romancing the Stone (1984)
A repressed romance novelist travels to Colombia to uncover the mystery behind her sister's disappearance. Once there, she meets up with a rough-and-tumble American adventurer whom she hires to help her in her search. The two embark on an adventure involving a valuable gem and some dastardly villains, but a budding love affair is not far behind.
    Dir: Robert Zemeckis    Cast: Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, Danny De Vito
    Runtime: 106 mins    Genre: Adventure    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



10:00 PM    Nine to Five (1980)
Recently divorced Judy Bernly takes an office job and soon becomes pals with fellow secretaries Violet Newstead and Doralee Rhodes. Their boss is male chauvinist Franklin Hart Jr., who is trying to land Doralee in bed. While smoking pot one night the women hatch a plan to take revenge on their cruel boss.
    Dir: Colin Higgins    Cast: Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Dabney Coleman
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



12:00 AM    Working Girl (1988)
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to take over after her boss breaks her leg.
    Dir: Mike Nichols    Cast: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver
    Runtime: 114 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y



2:00 AM    Protocol (1984)
A woman lands a menial government job in Washington, but soon finds herself embroiled in some major dealing with Middle Eastern leaders.
    Dir: Herbert Ross    Cast: Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y



4:00 AM    Stealing Home (1988)
An aging baseball player returns to his home town after the suicide of a childhood friend.
    Dir: Steven Kampmann    Cast: Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster, Blair Brown
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y