TCM Schedule Saturday 9/6/25 - Lawrence of Arabia, Blazing Saddles, A Patch of Blue, Blazing Saddles, Wait Until Dark

TCM Saturday 9/6/25

At A Glance

INTERRACIAL ROMANCE - PART 1
- WITH DONALD BOGLE
Island in the Sun (1957)
World, the Flesh and the Devil, The (1959)
Patch of Blue, A (1965)
Grasshopper, The (1970)
Saturday, September 6
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Cat O' Nine Tails (1971)
MGM Cartoons: Blue Monday (1938) (TCM Premiere)
So You Want to Be a Gladiator (1955) (short)
Believe It or Not #5 (1932) (short)
Central Park (1932)
Lone Ranger Ch. 13: The Fatal Plunge (1938) (TCM Premiere)
Popeye: Quiet! Pleeze (1941)
Gay Falcon, The (1942)
Boy and His Dog, A (1946) (short)
Two Girls on Broadway (1940) (Musical Matinee)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Some Came Running (1958)
- TCM PRIMETIME
WESTERN PARODY
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Paleface, The (1948)
- NOIR ALLEY
He Ran All the Way (1951)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: SUSPENSE
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Klute (1971)

Full Day's Schedule

10:15 PM Island in the Sun (1957)
On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner's son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office against black labor leader David Boyeur. As if the contentious election weren't enough, there are plenty of scandals to go around: Boyeur has a secret white lover and Fleury's wife, Sylvia, is also having an affair. And then, ...
Dir: Robert Rossen Cast: James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:30 AM The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
One woman and two men are the only people left alive after a nuclear disaster.
Dir: Ranald MacDougall Cast: Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:15 AM A Patch of Blue (1965)
A young blind white woman, living with her prostitute mother and sheltered inside most of her life, meets a black man, who, resisting family pressures, falls in love with her, puts her into a school for the blind, and promises to marry her.
Dir: Guy Green Cast: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:15 AM The Grasshopper (1970)
A young woman's odyssey from innocence to decadence. Hopeful for a career in show business, Christine Adams leaves British Columbia with her boyfriend at age 19. But a detour to Las Vegas leads her into a life that no one would envy.
Dir: Jerry Paris Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Jim Brown, Joseph Cotten
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


6:00 AM Cat O' Nine Tails (1971)
A blind man and a reporter investigate a break-in at a center for genetic research.
Dir: Dario Argento Cast: James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


8:00 AM Blue Monday (1938)
When the Captain questions how Mama runs the house, she challenges him by putting him in charge of the housekeeping for the day. First entry in "The Captain and the Kids" series of cartoons.
Dir: William Hanna Cast: Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Martha Wentworth
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:10 AM So You Want to Be a Gladiator (1955)
Joe McDoakes becomes a gladiator in ancient Rome.
Dir: Richard Bare Cast: George O'Hanlon
Runtime: 10 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:20 AM Believe It or Not #5 (1932)
This short entry in the "Believe it or Not" series presents such oddities as a shrunken head, an iron execution chamber, and entertaining tombstone descriptions. Vitaphone Release 1336.
Dir: Murray Roth Cast: Robert L Ripley, Roy Mack
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:30 AM Central Park (1932)
Small-town kids out to make it in the big city inadvertently get mixed up with gangsters.
Dir: John G. Adolfi Cast: Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford, Guy Kibbee
Runtime: 58 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM The Fatal Plunge (1938)
Chapter 13 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


10:00 AM Quiet! Pleeze (1941)
Popeye starts a one-man anti-noise campaign when his Pappy suffers from a hangover and the street sounds aggravate it. Popeye hushes a wailing infant, throttles a factory whistle and deadens an explosion.
Dir: Dave Fleischer Cast: Jack Mercer
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC:


10:15 AM The Gay Falcon (1942)
A society sleuth tries to break up an insurance scam.
Dir: Irving Reis Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins
Runtime: 66 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:30 AM A Boy and His Dog (1946)
A young boy fights to save a dog from his cruel owner.
Dir: LeRoy Prinz Cast: Harry Davenport, Dorothy Adams, Heinie Conklin
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: Y


12:00 PM Two Girls on Broadway (1940)
A sister act splits up over love.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Lana Turner, Joan Blondell, George Murphy
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:30 PM Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Sweeping epic about the real life adventures of T.E. Lawrence, a British major who unified Arab tribes and led them in the fight for independence from the Ottoman Turks in the 1920s.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Peter O'toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Runtime: 227 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


5:30 PM Some Came Running (1958)
A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine
Runtime: 134 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 PM Blazing Saddles (1974)
A corrupt State Attorney tries to drive townspeople off of valuable land by appointing the first Black sheriff to the town, thinking the racist townsfolk will move away but the sheriff sets out to win the town over.
Dir: Mel Brooks Cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


10:00 PM The Paleface (1948)
An inept dentist must rescue his outlaw wife from the Indians.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod Cast: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


12:00 AM He Ran All the Way (1951)
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
Dir: John Berry Cast: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
Runtime: 77 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:45 AM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who've invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


3:45 AM Klute (1971)
A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-MA CC: Y