TCM schedule for Saturday, May 16: New serial: 'Batman and Robin,' 'They Were Expendable,' 'To Sir With Love'

AT A GLANCE

STAR OF THE MONTH: GREGORY PECK
Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The (1956)
Designing Woman (1957)
Snows of Kilimanjaro, The (1952)
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Saturday, May 16
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Great Sinner, The (1949) (7:00 am ET)
Alice in Movieland (1940) (short)
Batman and Robin Ch. 1: Batman Takes Over (1949)
Tarzan Goes to India (1962)
Rabbit Fire (1951) (short)
Bully for Bugs (1953) (short)
Baton Bunny (1959) (short)
Fashions of 1934 (1934) (Musical Matinee)
Glass Bottom Boat, The (1966)
Crimson Pirate, The (1952)
They Were Expendable (1945)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TCM SERIES: TWO FOR ONE
- SHERYL LEE RALPH
To Sir, with Love (1967)
(P) Piece of the Action, A (1977)
- NOIR ALLEY
Strangers on a Train (1951)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: SUSPENSE
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Wait Until Dark (1967

FULL SCHEDULE
12:00 AM The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
A World War II veteran fights his way up the corporate ladder while searching for meaning in his life.
Dir: Nunnally Johnson Cast: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March
Runtime: 153 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:


2:45 AM Designing Woman (1957)
A sportswriter and a fashion designer have a lot of adjusting to do when they marry in haste.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


5:00 AM The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
As he fights a deadly jungle fever, a hunter remembers his lost loves.
Dir: Henry King Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

7:00 AM The Great Sinner (1949)
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


9:00 AM Alice in Movieland (1940)
When a beauty queen tries to make it in Hollywood, she learns stardom comes at a price.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Joan Leslie, Nana Bryant, Jack Mower
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


9:30 AM Batman Takes Over (1949)
Episode One of the Batman and Robin serial.
Dir: Spencer Gordon Bennet Cast: Robert Lowery, Johnny Duncan, Jane Adams
Runtime: 27 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:00 AM Tarzan Goes to India (1962)
The jungle king travels to India to help move a herd of elephants threatened by a new dam.
Dir: John Guillermin Cast: Jock Mahoney, Leo Gordon, Mark Dana
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC:


11:30 AM Rabbit Fire (1951)
Elmer Fudd is out hunting when Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck each try to trick him into shooting the other. Eventually, Bugs and Daffy team up and start hunting Elmer.
Dir: Chuck Jones Cast: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC:


11:40 AM Bully for Bugs (1953)
Bugs Bunny takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque and winds up in a Mexican bullring fighting one heck of a big bullying bull.
Dir: Chuck Jones Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC:


11:50 AM Baton Bunny (1959)
Bugs Bunny conducts the Warner Brothers Symphony in Franz von Suppé's "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" while reacting to a bothersome fly.
Dir: Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC:


12:00 PM Fashions of 1934 (1934)
A con artist and his beautiful assistant take on the fashion world.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:30 PM The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
After a series of misunderstandings, the head of an aerospace research laboratory begins to suspect that his new girlfriend is a Russian spy.
Dir: Frank Tashlin Cast: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:30 PM The Crimson Pirate (1952)
A pirate gets mixed up in a Caribbean revolution.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y


5:30 PM They Were Expendable (1945)
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully ...
Dir: John Ford Cast: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed
Runtime: 135 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 PM To Sir, with Love (1967)
A new teacher changes the lives of a rowdy class of youngsters and gains their respect and admiration.
Dir: James Clavell Cast: Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:00 PM A Piece of the Action (1977)
Manny and Dave are Chicago con artists who specialize in cheating people who take advantage of the poor.
Dir: Sidney Poitier Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones
Runtime: 135 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC:


12:30 AM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:30 AM Dial M for Murder (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he'd hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:30 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


6:30 AM Forbidden Planet (1956)
A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors. A futuristic version of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Dir: Fred McLeod Wilcox Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:15 AM Kiss Me Kate (1953)
An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," but off-stage the production is rife with ex-lovers' quarrels and gangsters looking for kickbacks.
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


10:15 AM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:15 PM Humoresque (1946)
A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy neurotic.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:30 PM The Nun's Story (1959)
A young nun is sent to do nursing work in the Belgian Congo, but soon begins to doubt her vows and question a life with the Convent, and instead joins the underground resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Dame Edith Evans
Runtime: 149 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


5:15 PM South Pacific (1958)
A Navy nurse must choose between love and prejudice while serving on an island in the South Pacific during World War II. Adaptation of the 1949 stage musical.
Dir: Joshua Logan Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr
Runtime: 158 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:00 PM Silkwood (1983)
A laborer at a nuclear power plant risks her life to report unsafe practices.
Dir: Mike Nichols Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
Runtime: 131 mins Genre: Biography Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


10:30 PM Moonstruck (1987)
A levelheaded young woman falls in love with her fiance's brother in a Brooklyn Italian-American neighborhood.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


12:30 AM The Rag Man (1925)
In this silent film, a runaway orphan helps a junk dealer make his fortune.
Dir: Edward F. Cline Cast: Jackie Coogan, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Ethel Wales
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC: N


2:00 AM Fires on the Plain (1959)
Japanese soldiers abandoned by their command fight to survive the last days of World War II.
Dir: Kon Ichikawa Cast: Eijii Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC:


4:00 AM Pigs and Battleships (1961)
An comedic look at Japan's relationship to the American military presence.
Dir: Shōhei Imamura Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: