TCM Schedule for Sunday October 3, 2021 - TCM Classic Horror (with Mario Cantone): Creature Features

It's October and that means horror on Sundays this month; tonight it's menacing birds and a vicious plant.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am Smash Up, The Story of a Woman (1947)
1h 43m | Drama | TV-PG
A singer's wife turns to the bottle when she fears she's lost her husband to success.
Director: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Susan Hayward, Lee Bowman, Marsha Hunt.

8:00 am Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
1h 47m | Drama | TV-PG
A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse

10:00 am The Glass Wall (1953)
1h 20m | Drama | TV-PG
A World War II refugee fights to stay in the U.S.
Director: Maxwell Shane. Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson

11:30 am Mata Hari (1931)
1h 30m | Romance | TV-PG
Romantic biography of World War I's notorious lady spy.
Director: George Fitzmaurice. Cast: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore

1:15 pm Bachelor Mother (1939)
1h 20m | Comedy | TV-G
A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
Director: Garson Kanin. Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn

2:45 pm The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
1h 50m | Drama | TV-G
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Director: Albert Lewin. Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed

4:45 pm Barry Lyndon (1975)
3h 7m | Epic | TV-PG
An Irish rogue cheats his way to the top of 18th-century British society.
Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee

8:00 pm The Birds (1963)
2h | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-14
In a California coastal area, flocks of birds unaccountably make deadly attacks on humans.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy

10:15 pm Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
1h 28m | Musical | TV-14
A timid shop clerk discovers a plant from outer space that lives on blood.
Director: Frank Oz. Cast: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin

12:30 am This is Francis X. Bushman (2021)
Documentary

2:00 am Ben-Hur (1925)
2h 13m | Silent | TV-G
A rebellious Israelite prince out for vengeance crosses paths with the Messiah.
Director: Fred Niblo. Cast: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May Mcavoy

4:45 am The Human Condition III (1961)
3h 11m | War
A pacifist Japanese soldier struggles to survive in China after his country's defeat.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi.