TCM Schedule for Fri, Apr 3, 2026: Cinemascope / Director Roger Corman
Corman tribute includes a documentary of his work and five films, two of which are making their premiere on TCM.
DAYTIME (listings EST)
7:30 AM Lucky Me (1954)
Struggling actors team with a songwriter to secure financing for a new production.
Dir: Jack Donohue Cast: Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers
9:30 AM The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
Story of the life of Helen Morgan, the grand dame of torch singers during 1920s Chicago.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson
11:45 AM Helen of Troy (1956)
A shipwrecked prince's love for a married queen triggers war between Greece and Troy.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Stanley Baker, Rossana Podestà, Brigitte Bardot
2:00 PM Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
A scheming seductress plots to make herself queen of Egypt.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin
4:00 PM Strange Lady in Town (1955)
A suffragette doctor travels from Boston to establish a new practice in New Mexico.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Greer Garson, Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell
6:00 PM East of Eden (1955)
Brothers struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey
PRIME TIME & LATE NIGHT
8:00 PM Roger Corman: The Pope of Pop Cinema (2021) TCM Premiere
The career of maverick producer Roger Corman.
Dir: Bertrand Tessier Cast: Roger Corman, Peter Bogdanovich, Gene Corman
9:00 PM A Bucket of Blood (1959)
A jealous Bohemian wannabe resorts to murder to perpetuate his success as a sculptor.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone
10:15 PM The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
A floral shop assistant invents a carnivorous monster plant that feeds on human blood.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Jack Nicholson
11:30 PM Teenage Doll (1957) TCM Premiere
A delinquent girls' gang pursues a nice ingenue linked romantically to the male leader of a rival gang.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: June Kenney, Fay Spain, John Brinkley
1:00 AM Five Guns West (1955) TCM Premiere
The Confederacy sends five Civil War criminals to recover seized gold.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: John Lund, Dorothy Malone, Mike Connors
2:30 AM The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)
An alien controls humans and animals through mind control.
Dir: David Kramarsky, Roger Corman, Lou Place Cast: Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole
EARLY MORNING
4:00 AM The Beginning or the End (1947)
True story of the Manhattan Project and the race to build the atomic bomb.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake