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Tue Jul 15, 2025, 02:04 PM Tuesday

TCM Schedule Saturday July 19: Cleopatra, On the Town, Hang 'Em High, Julius Caesar

DAY AT A GLANCE

DIRECTOR JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ
Cleopatra (1963)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1960)
Julius Caesar (1953)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: DOCUMENTARY
Without Lying Down - Frances Marion and the
Powerful Women in Hollywood (2000)
Saturday, July 19
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Street Scene (1931)
MGM Cartoons: Bear Raid Warden (1944)
So You're Going on a Vacation (1946) (short)
Believe It or Not #3 (1931) (short)
Kid Nightingale (1939)
Lone Ranger Ch. 11: The Silver Bullet (1938) (TCM Premiere)
Popeye: Popeye Presents Eugene the Jeep (1933)
Case of the Howling Dog, The (1934)
Men of the Sky (1942) (short)
On the Town (1949) (Musical Matinee)
Hang 'Em High (1968)
Password Is Courage, The (1962)
Twenty Plus Two (1961)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TWO FOR ONE
- ROSIE PEREZ
Killer's Kiss (1955)
Harder They Fall, The (1956)
- NOIR ALLEY
Intruder in the Dust (1949)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: WHEELER & WOOLSEY COMEDY
Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934)
Kentucky Kernels (1934)
Mummy's Boys (1936)

FULL DAY'S SCHEDULE

8:00 PM Cleopatra (1963)
The legendary Egyptian queen tries to use her beauty to conquer the Roman Empire.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
Runtime: 243 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:30 AM Suddenly, Last Summer (1960)
A psychiatrist is brought into the web of a wealthy Louisiana widow, who wishes him to perform a lobotomy on her niece, whom she says is suffering from madness after the death of her cousin, the widow's son. In exchange for his services, she promises to donate a hefty sum to his hospital, but soon the doctor realizes there's ...
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:45 AM Julius Caesar (1953)
Cassius and Brutus lead the conspirators who murder Caesar, but are themselves routed by Mark Antony.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


5:00 AM Without Lying Down - Frances Marion and the Powerful Women in Hollywood (2000)
The life and career of screenwriter Frances Marion. By the mid 1920s, she was the most respected and highest paid script writer in Hollywood. She also became the first person to win two Oscars for her work.
Dir: Bridget Terry Cast: Uma Thurman, Kathy Bates, Mary Lea Bandy
Runtime: 56 mins Genre: Biography Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:00 AM Street Scene (1931)
A husband's violent reaction becomes the talk of the neighborhood when he catches his cheating wife in the act.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


8:00 AM Bear Raid Warden (1944)
Barney is the local air raid warden and he has trouble with both an owl and a firefly that wake him up and make his patrol difficult.
Dir: George Gordon Cast: Billy Bletcher
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:10 AM So You're Going on a Vacation (1946)
Joe McDoakes is informed of his two-week vacation at the last minute and decides to take advantage of a free vacation-planning service at a local department store. With his usual low sales resistance, he ends up spending $1,000 on useless equipment and traveling 500 miles.
Dir: Richard Bare Cast: Art Gilmore, Paul Panzer, Jane Harker
Runtime: 11 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:25 AM Believe It or Not #3 (1931)
Robert L. Ripley shares with reporters the various sights and oddities he has seen through his world travels such as a baseball team made up of nine brothers.
Dir: Murray Roth Cast: Clarence E Willard, James Dunn, Robert L Ripley, Murray Roth
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:35 AM Kid Nightingale (1939)
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
Dir: George Amy Cast: John Payne, Jane Wyman, Walter Catlett
Runtime: 57 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: N


9:35 AM The Silver Bullet (1938)
Chapter 11 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


10:05 AM Popeye Presents Eugene the Jeep (1933)
Olive presents Popeye with a cute little puppy, Eugene the Jeep, as a birthday present with instructions to make him sleep outside. Eugene refuses to oblige the harried Popeye and winds up sleeping in his bed. Popeye gives up finally and ends up outside nestled in Eugene's bed with the pup sleeping peacefully beside him.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Grim Natwick Cast: Pinto Colvig, Jack Mercer
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:15 AM The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
Perry Mason gets caught between feuding neighbors who claim to be married to the same woman.
Dir: Alan Crosland Cast: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


11:30 AM Men of the Sky (1942)
This short film, produced in cooperation with the U.S. Army Air Force during WWII, focuses on a group of fledgling pilots receiving their wings. Vitaphone Release 1017-1018A.
Dir: B. Reeves Eason Cast: Tod Andrews, Eleanor Parker, Don Defore
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:00 PM On the Town (1949)
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Dir: Gene Kelly Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 PM Hang 'Em High (1968)
A cowboy drifter survives a hanging by a band of thugs and then swears vengeance.
Dir: Ted Post Cast: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:00 PM The Password Is Courage (1962)
A British officer leads an attempt to escape from a German POW camp.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Alfred Lynch
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:00 PM Twenty Plus Two (1961)
When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman Cast: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 PM Killer's Kiss (1955)
When he rescues a girl from her gangster lover, a prizefighter is marked for death.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane
Runtime: 67 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


9:30 PM The Harder They Fall (1956)
A cynical press agent exposes inhuman conditions in the boxing game.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:00 AM 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


1:45 AM Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934)
Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:00 AM Kentucky Kernels (1934)
Two musicians try to get an orphaned heiress through hillbilly country to claim her inheritance.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Mary Carlisle
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:30 AM Mummy's Boys (1936)
Two ditch-digging fools sign on to help excavate a cursed Egyptian tomb.
Dir: Fred Guiol Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Barbara Pepper
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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