TCM Schedule for Monday April 20 - Hitching a Ride

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After daytime brings us nuns and missionaries, prime time shows films about folks bumming rides (and usually getting in hot water as a result).

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM NUN'S STORY, THE (1959)
A headstrong girl fights the strictures of the Catholic church in Europe and the Belgian Congo. Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Audrey Hepburn , Peter Finch , Dame Edith Evans . C-152 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

8:45 AM HAWAII (1966)
Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands fight nature, disease and their own passions. Dir: George Roy Hill Cast: Julie Andrews , Max von Sydow , Richard Harris . C-161 mins, Letterbox Format

12:00 PM SINGING NUN, THE (1966)
Fanciful biography of the Belgian nun who briefly made the hit parade. Dir: Henry Koster Cast: Debbie Reynolds , Ricardo Montalban , Greer Garson . C-97 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

1:45 PM SEVEN WOMEN (1966)
The women staffing an isolated Chinese mission fight to survive a bandit attack. Dir: John Ford Cast: Anne Bancroft , Sue Lyon , Margaret Leighton . C-87 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:15 PM CAT'S PAW, THE (1934)
A missionary's son gets mixed up in a Chinese clan war. Dir: Sam Taylor Cast: Harold Lloyd , Una Merkel , George Barbier . BW-102 mins,

5:00 PM SHE DONE HIM WRONG (1933)
A saloon singer fights off smugglers, an escaped con and a Salvation Army officer out to reform her. Dir: Lowell Sherman Cast: Mae West , Cary Grant , Owen Moore . BW-65 mins, CC,

6:15 PM BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN, THE (1932)
An American missionary falls in love with a Chinese warlord. Dir: Frank R. Capra Cast: Barbara Stanwyck , Nils Asther , Toshia Mori . BW-87 mins, CC,

8:00 PM KISS ME DEADLY (1955)
Detective Mike Hammer fights to solve the murder of a beautiful hitchhiker with a mysterious connection to the Mob. Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Ralph Meeker , Albert Dekker , Paul Stewart . BW-106 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

10:00 PM THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (1940)
Truck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho. Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: George Raft , Ann Sheridan , Ida Lupino . BW-95 mins, CC,

11:45 PM THREE (1969)
A pretty female hitchhiker creates tension between two friends touring France. Dir: John J. Sughrue Cast: Antonio Fargas , Joseph Sirola , David Bailey . C-105 mins, Letterbox Format

1:45 AM KNIFE IN THE WATER (1962)
A young businessman and a hitchhiker develop a deadly rivalry during a boating weekend. Dir: Roman Polanski Cast: Leon Niemczyk , Jolanta Umecka , Zygmunt Malanowicz . BW-94 mins,

3:30 AM DETOUR (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man's identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman. Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast: Tom Neal , Ann Savage , Claudia Drake . BW-68 mins, CC,

4:45 AM HITCH-HIKER, THE (1953)
A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip. Dir: Ida Lupino Cast: Edmond O'Brien , Frank Lovejoy , William Talman . BW-71 mins, CC,

[longship]

1. Kiss Me Deadly

A classic noir. The hitcher in this one is Cloris Leachman. And no, it doesn't work out too well for her.