TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 28: Star of the Month: Tough Guys
The daytime schedule is something of a continuation of the Memorial Day theme, focusing on veterans and readjustment to life following war and trauma.
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
12:15 AM
God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
A flyer dismissed as too old fights to prove himself against the Japanese.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Dennis Morgan , Dane Clark , Raymond Massey .
BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2:00 AM
Flight Command (1940)
A cocky cadet tries to prove himself during flight training.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Robert Taylor , Ruth Hussey , Walter Pidgeon .
BW-116 mins, TV-PG, CC,
4:00 AM
Dive Bomber (1941)
A crusading scientist fights to prevent bomber pilots from blacking out.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Errol Flynn , Fred MacMurray , Ralph Bellamy .
C-133 mins, TV-G, CC,
6:15 AM
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 .
C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:45 AM
Home Before Dark (1958)
A woman struggles to adjust to her unhappy marriage after time in a mental institution.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Jean Simmons , Dan O'Herlihy , Rhonda Fleming .
BW-137 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
11:15 AM
Enchanted Cottage, The (1945)
A scarred veteran and a homely woman are transformed by love.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Dorothy McGuire , Robert Young , Herbert Marshall .
BW-92 mins, TV-G, CC,
12:54 PM
Infantile Paralysis (Greer Garson) (1944)
BW-4 mins,
1:00 PM
Desire Me (1947)
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Greer Garson , Robert Mitchum , Richard Hart .
BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2:30 PM
Till The End of Time (1946)
A returning World War II veteran falls for a troubled war widow.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Dorothy McGuire , Guy Madison , Robert Mitchum .
BW-105 mins, TV-G, CC,
4:30 PM
Come Live With Me (1941)
A Viennese refugee weds a struggling author platonically so she can stay in the U.S.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: James Stewart , Hedy Lamarr , Ian Hunter .
BW-87 mins, TV-G, CC,
6:00 PM
Prodigal, The (1955)
Biblical story of a young man led astray by an evil priestess.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Lana Turner , Edmund Purdom , Louis Calhern .
C-113 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STAR OF THE MONTH: TOUGH GUYS
8:00 PM
Hard Times (1975)
A Depression-era drifter takes up street fighting to make his fortune.
Dir: Walter Hill Cast: James Coburn , Charles Bronson , Jill Ireland .
C-93 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
9:38 PM
2010: The Odyssey Continues (1984)
C-20 mins,
10:00 PM
Bullitt (1968)
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen , Robert Vaughn , Jacqueline Bisset .
C-114 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM
Pale Rider (1985)
A mysterious avenger helps the innocent citizens of a corrupt gold-mining town.
Dir: Clint Eastwood Cast: Clint Eastwood , Michael Moriarty , Carrie Snodgress .
C-116 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 AM
Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.
Dir: Gordon Parks Cast: Richard Roundtree , Moses Gunn , Drew Bundini Brown .
C-105 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
3:50 AM
Soul In Cinema: Shaft On Location (1971)
A short behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of "Shaft" (1971), focusing on Gordon Parks' directing and Isaac Hayes' score.
Dir: Hugh A. Robertson
C-11 mins,
4:00 AM
Shaft in Africa (1973)
Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.
Dir: John Guillermin Cast: Richard Roundtree , Frank Finlay , Vonetta McGee .
C-112 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
