TCM Schedule for Fri, Jan 30, 2026: Explorers & Treasure Hunters / Flashback Fridays
DAYTIME (EST)
6:00 AM Captain Applejack (1931)
The worm turns when gangsters try to uncover buried treasure in a timid man's home.
Dir: Hobart Henley Cast: John Halliday, Mary Brian, Kay Strozzi
7:15 AM Mara Maru (1952)
A salvage diver is accused of murder while hunting a mysterious treasure.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr
9:00 AM Bengazi (1955)
Three shady characters team up to search for Nazi gold in the African desert.
Dir: John Brahm Cast: Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen, Richard Carlson
10:30 AM Valley of the Kings (1954)
Archaeologists clash with graverobbers during the search for a priceless Egyptian treasure.
Dir: Robert Pirosh Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Carlos Thompson
12:00 PM The Secret of Monte Cristo (1961)
A soldier sets out to find a lost treasure.
Dir: Robert S. Baker Cast: Rory Calhoun, John Gregson
1:45 PM Adventure Girl (1934)
A female explorer and her aged father search the Guatemalan jungle for a lost city.
Dir: Herman Raymaker Cast: Joan Lowell, Captain Nicholas Wagner, William Sawyer
3:00 PM Sphinx (1981)
An archaeologist becomes the target for assassins while searching for he lost tomb of an Egyptian king.
Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner Cast: Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, Maurice Ronet
5:00 PM Watusi (1959)
An African explorer leads a beautiful woman in search of a mythical treasure.
Dir: Kurt Neumann Cast: George Montgomery, Taina Elg, David Farrar
6:30 PM King Solomon's Mines (1937)
African explorers enlist an exiled native chief to help them find a legendary treasure.
Dir: Robert Stevenson Cast: Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young
PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING
8:00 PM Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)
A devoted teacher sacrifices personal happiness to stay with her students.
Dir: Henry Koster Cast: Jennifer Jones, Robert Stack, Kipp Hamilton
10:00 PM The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.
Dir: John Ford Cast: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles
12:15 AM The Great McGinty (1940)
A bum is transformed into a political kingpin by a hoodlum, only to be destroyed by the same man when he decides to go straight.
Dir: Preston Sturges Cast: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff
1:45 AM Mrs. Parkington (1944)
A lady's maid marries a man whose prospects push her into high society.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold
4:00 AM A Man to Remember (1938)
A small-town doctor fights crooked politicians during a polio epidemic.
Dir: Garson Kanin Cast: Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman