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Classic Films
Related: About this forumTCM Schedule for Saturday, July 12: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Eraserhead, Your Cheatin' Heart, Kansas City Bomber
Day At a GlanceMEMORIAL TRIBUTE: DIRECTOR DAVID LYNCH
Blue Velvet (1986)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Eraserhead (1977)
WEEKEND FEATURES
Wagons Roll at Night, The (1941) (6:30 am ET)
MGM Cartoons: The Bear and the Hare (1948)
So You Want to Throw a Party (1950) (short)
Believe It or Not #2 (1931) (short)
Danger Patrol (1937)
Lone Ranger Ch. 10: Flaming Fury (1938) (TCM Premiere)
Popeye: with Poopdeck Pappy (1933)
Calling Philo Vance (1939)
Rushin' Art (1936) (short)
Maid for a Day (1936) (short)
Your Cheatin' Heart (1964) (Musical Matinee)
Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (1968)
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TWO FOR ONE
- DEBRA WINGER
People Will Talk (1951)
Scarlet Empress, The (1934)
- NOIR ALLEY
Gangster, The (1947)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: RAQUEL WELCH
Kansas City Bomber (1972)
Flareup (1969)
Full day schedule
10:00 PM Blue Velvet (1986)
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Dir: David Lynch Cast: Kyle Maclachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
12:15 AM Wild at Heart (1990)
After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hit man to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. ...
Dir: David Lynch Cast: Diane Ladd, Nick Love, Koko Taylor
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
2:30 AM Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
In the folksy town of Deerfield, Wash., FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, ...
Dir: David Lynch Cast: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Kyle Maclachlan
Runtime: 135 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
5:00 AM Eraserhead (1977)
A printer named Henry Spencer is on vacation when he learns that his ex-girlfriend, Mary X, has given birth to a terribly deformed baby. Henry marries Mary and the two try living together, but it does not work out. So Mary leaves and Henry begins to care for the baby. After this, several bizarre events take place. There ...
Dir: David Lynch Cast: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Judith Anna Roberts
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
6:30 AM The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
A circus manager turns a young farm boy into a star lion tamer.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Eddie Albert
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
8:00 AM The Bear and the Hare (1948)
Out hunting up north, Barney Bear spots a snowshoe rabbit and goes after it, but it proves to be not as easy as he thought.
Dir: Michael Lah Cast: Paul Frees, Non-Speaking Role
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y
8:10 AM So You Want to Throw a Party (1950)
Joe McDoakes and his wife throw a disastrous party.
Dir: Richard Bare Cast: George O'Hanlon
Runtime: 10 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
8:25 AM Believe It or Not #2 (1931)
Robert L. Ripley presents more of life's curiosities, such as a small office building designed to look like a dresser drawer.
Dir: Murray Roth Cast: Robert L Ripley
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: Y
8:35 AM Danger Patrol (1937)
Tempers ignite when an explosives carrier falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Sally Eilers, John Beal, Harry Carey
Runtime: 59 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC:
9:35 AM Flaming Fury (1938)
Chapter 10 of the The Lone Ranger 1938 serial. When a band of Texas Rangers is massacred in an ambush, one of the men is nursed back to health by an Indian named Tonto. The lone survivor swears vengeance, and assumes another identity to learn more about who was behind the attack.
Dir: John English, William Witney Cast: Lynn Roberts, Chief Thunder-Cloud, George Letz
Runtime: 17 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: N
9:55 AM With Poopdeck Pappy (1933)
It's bedtime but old Pappy refuses to go and despite Popeye's efforts, the old man sneaks out to a nightclub. After waltzing all the ladies on the dance floor, the old fellow gets involved in a brawl with their boyfriends.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, William Nolan Cast: Pinto Colvig, Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
10:05 AM Calling Philo Vance (1939)
Society sleuth Philo Vance tangles with foreign agents when he investigates the murder of an aircraft manufacturer.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O'Neill
Runtime: 62 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y
11:15 AM Rushin' Art (1936)
In this comedic short, an expert on Russian art apparently doesn't know as much about the subject as he thinks he does. Vitaphone Release 2063.
Dir: Lloyd French Cast: Edward Andrews, Betty Pierce, Fred Harper
Runtime: 10 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N
11:30 AM Maid for a Day (1936)
A fading Broadway entertainer takes a job as a maid.
Dir: Joseph Henabery Cast: Ray Foster, Marvin Jensen, Peter Lind Hayes
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
12:00 PM Your Cheatin' Heart (1964)
Legendary country-western singer Hank Williams uses alcohol to deal with the pressures of fame.
Dir: Gene Nelson Cast: George Hamilton, Susan Oliver, Red Buttons
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
1:45 PM The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1968)
A cashbox containing $200,000, that was stolen and hidden in an unmarked grave, is the focus of three men: two criminals and a stranger.
Dir: Sergio Leone Cast: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
Runtime: 180 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
5:00 PM The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
In this fascinating epic, Colonel Blimp relished a good fight, but as the atrocities of combat took their toll, he was forced to rethink the sense of it all. Deborah Kerr co-stars playing three different women who touched the colonel's heart over the course of his 40-year career.
Dir: Michael Powell Cast: Deborah Kerr, Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook
Runtime: 163 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-G CC: Y
8:00 PM People Will Talk (1951)
A controversial doctor gets mixed up with an unwed mother.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
10:00 PM The Scarlet Empress (1934)
A young innocent masters the decadent ways of Imperial Russia in order to reign as Catherine the Great.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
12:00 AM The Gangster (1947)
A troubled gangster, who has lost all faith in people, loses his weak grip on life.
Dir: Gordon Wiles Cast: Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
1:45 AM Kansas City Bomber (1972)
A roller-derby queen fights off jealous rivals and amorous men.
Dir: Jerrold Freedman Cast: Raquel Welch, Kevin Mccarthy, Helena Kallianiotes
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
3:45 AM Flareup (1969)
A psychopath stalks an exotic dancer from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.
Dir: James Neilson Cast: Raquel Welch, James Stacy, Luke Askew
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Thriller Rating: TV-14 CC: Y