TCM Schedule for Thurs, Nov 20, 2025: Dir. Vincent Sherman/Neo-Noir/Dir. Nicolas Roeg (and a film starring Mick Jagger)

Vincent Sherman (July 16, 1906 – June 18, 2006) was an American director and actor who worked in Hollywood. His movies include Mr. Skeffington (1944), Nora Prentiss (1947), and The Young Philadelphians (1959).

As a stage actor, he made his Broadway debut in the ensemble of Eugene O’Neill’s Marco Millions (1928). He arrived in Hollywood during the early sound era, where he appeared in William Wyler's 1933 film Counsellor at Law starring John Barrymore. In 1938, Sherman signed on at Warner Bros. as a director. His first film as a director was the 1939 horror film The Return of Doctor X, which starred Humphrey Bogart. The 2006 release of The Return of Doctor X included a director's commentary that Sherman had recorded that year at the age of 99.

Sherman quickly built a reputation for his ability to rewrite any script he was given and turn it into the basis for a successful film. It was these skills that led him to much bigger and star-studded pictures.Sherman was initially known as a "woman's director" during the mid 1940s, but his range expanded as his career developed.

Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Sherman

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Nicolas Roeg (August 15, 1928 – November 23, 2018) was an English film director and cinematographer, best known for directing Performance (1970), Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Bad Timing (1980) and The Witches (1990).

Making his directorial debut 23 years after his entry into the film business, Roeg quickly became known for an idiosyncratic visual and narrative style, characterized by the use of disjointed and disorienting editing. For this reason, he is considered a highly influential filmmaker, cited as an inspiration by such directors as Steven Soderbergh, Christopher Nolan and Danny Boyle.

In 1999, the British Film Institute acknowledged Roeg's importance in the British film industry by naming Don't Look Now and Performance the 8th- and 48th-greatest British films of all time in its Top 100 British films poll.

Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Roeg

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DAYTIME (EST)

6:30 AM | The Return of Doctor X (1939)
A reporter finds the corpse of an actress, but later she turns up alive and sues the paper. The reporter begins to investigate on his own, discovering an evil doctor and a series of unsolved murders.
Dir: Vincent Sherman | Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris

7:45 AM | Backfire (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir: Vincent Sherman | Cast: Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien

9:30 AM | The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
A defense lawyer sets out to topple a powerful gangster.
Dir: Vincent Sherman | Cast: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall

11:00 AM | Saturday's Children (1940)
A young inventor's new marriage is jeopardized by financial problems.
Dir: Vincent Sherman | Cast: John Garfield, Anne Shirley, Claude Rains

12:45 PM | Janie Gets Married (1946)
A war bride helps her husband adjust to civilian life.
Dir: Vincent Sherman | Cast: Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold

2:30 PM | In Our Time (1944)
A Polish count and his English wife battle Nazi invaders.
Dir: Vincent Sherman | Cast: Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Nancy Coleman

4:30 PM | All Through the Night (1942)
A criminal gang turns patriotic to track down a Nazi spy ring.
Dir: Vincent Sherman | Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne

6:30 PM | Flight from Destiny (1941)
An elderly professor with six months to live plots a murder to reunite two young lovers.
Dir: Vincent Sherman | Cast: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Jeffrey Lynn



NEO-NOIR, with EDDIE MULLER

8:00 PM | Point Blank (1967)
A thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
Dir: John Boorman | Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn

10:00 PM | The Late Show (1977)
An private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner's murder.
Dir: Robert Benton | Cast: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy



TCM LATE NIGHT: DIRECTOR NICOLAS ROEG

12:00 AM | Performance (1970)
A wounded mobster holes up in a reclusive rock star's decaying mansion.
Dir: Donald Cammell | Cast: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg

2:00 AM | Walkabout (1971)
Siblings, stranded in the Australian Outback, learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy.
Dir: Nicolas Roeg | Cast: Jenny Agutter, Lucien John, David Gulpilil

4:00 AM | Insignificance (1985)
Four individuals converge in a NYC hotel one night in 1954, generically referred to as (but inspired by) The Ballplayer (Joe DiMaggio), The Professor (Albert Einstein), The Actress (Marilyn Monroe), and The Senator (Joseph McCarthy). Interesting conservations ensure.
Dir: Nicolas Roeg | Cast: Gary Busey, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis