TCM Schedule for Thurs, Mar 26, 2026: Foreign Romance / Hitchcock & Herrmann

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Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in film scoring. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in film.

He is best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock, with whom he worked on nine films including The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) (where he makes a cameo as the conductor at Royal Albert Hall), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963) (as 'sound consultant') and Marnie (1964). Herrmann also collaborated with Orson Wells. The first film he ever scored was Citizen Kane (1941).

Herrmann stated that Hitchcock would invite him on to the production of a film and, depending on his decision about the length of the music, either expand or contract the scene. It was Hitchcock who asked Herrmann for the "recognition scene" near the end of Vertigo to be played with music. He recalled: "he said when we came to the famous recognition scene, ‘If we’re going to have music, we won’t have one word of dialogue; we’ll just have the camera and you.’"

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DAYTIME (listings EST)

7:45 AM Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
A street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman.
Dir: René Clair Cast: Albert Préjean, Pola Illéry, Edmond T. Gréville

9:30 AM The French Way (1945)
A cabaret star helps young lovers stay together. Originally produced in 1940 with the French title "Fausse alerte" (False Alarm).
Dir: Jacques de Baroncelli Cast: Lucien Baroux, Micheline Presle, Josephine Baker

11:00 AM Seven Hills of Rome (1957)
A television star finds love while trying to get away from it all in Rome.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Mario Lanza, Renato Rascel, Marisa Allasio

1:00 PM Indiscretion of an American Wife (1954)
An American woman tries to break it off with her Italian lover.
Dir: Vittorio De Sica Cast: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi

2:15 PM Black Orpheus (1959)
A streetcar conductor loses his true love during Brazil's carnival season.
Dir: Marcel Camus Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes Deoliveira

4:15 PM The Passionate Friends (1949)
A married woman has one last fling with her childhood sweetheart.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Isabel Dean

6:00 PM Latin Lovers (1953)
An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Lana Turner, Ricardo Montalban, John Lund


PRIME TIME. LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run encounters a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin

10:00 PM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor's son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie

12:15 AM Vertigo (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he's been hired to tail.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes

2:30 AM North by Northwest (1959)
Mistaken identity embroils an adman into a web of intrigue and murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

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5:00 AM The Immortal Story (1968)
A sailor bets he can seduce a wealthy man's wife, not knowing the man has hired a woman to play the role.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Roger Coggio