TCM Schedule for Wednesday, July 12: The South on Film - Part 2: Southern Gothic

[CBHagman]

Uh-oh. Daytime's devoted to LOVE TRIANGLES! And there's a Robert Montgomery sighting, too!

And a heads-up: In the early hours of Thursday morning, you can catch Alan Arkin in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

12:00 AM Bugsy (1991)
New York mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel leaves New York City to dip into the glamour of Hollywood, CA and to build up syndicate gambling rackets. Bowled over by actress Virginia Hill, the dapper Siegel courts her, despite having a wife and children. Obsessed with creating a gambling haven, Siegel takes racketeering to ...
Dir: Barry Levinson Cast: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel
Runtime: 135 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


2:30 AM Machine Gun McCain (1970)
A gangster defies the mob by going ahead with a casino job they had called off.
Dir: Giuliano Montaldo Cast: John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


4:30 AM Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
A ballerina becomes a gambler's lucky charm.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Agnes Moorehead
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:30 AM Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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8:30 AM Red Dust (1932)
A plantation overseer in Indochina is torn between a married woman and a lady of the evening.
Dir: Victor Fleming Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

10:00 AM Forsaking All Others (1934)
A woman pursues the wrong man for almost twenty years.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

11:30 AM Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)
When she returns to her alma mater to pick up an honorary degree, a congresswoman re-ignites an old flame.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Frank Lovejoy
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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1:30 PM Jules and Jim (1962)
Two friends, the German Jules and the French Jim, fall in love with the same woman, Catherine, but she marries Jules and returns to Germany with him. World War I separates the two friends and when they meet again Catherine changes partners.
Dir: François Truffaut Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: N

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3:30 PM Fanny (1961)
An old waterfront character tries to help his daughter when her lover leaves her pregnant.
Dir: Joshua Logan Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer
Runtime: 133 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

5:45 PM The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)
A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Roger Moore
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: THE SOUTH ON FILM - PART 2: SOUTHERN GOTHIC

8:00 PM Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
As the family of a wealthy Southern patriarch informs his children that he is dying of cancer, lies and secrets surface that threaten to rip the family apart.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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10:00 PM Wild River (1960)
In 1930's Tennessee, the native folk go to odds with a representative from the Tennessee Valley Authority who wants to buy up some land needed for the construction of the now famous dam.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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12:00 AM Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
A road-house singer/ex-con comes back to his wife and young daughter but can't seem to stay out of trouble.
Dir: Robert Mulligan Cast: Lee Remick, Steve McQueen, Don Murray
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

1:45 AM Wise Blood (1979)
An ambitious Southern boy tries to set himself up as a street preacher.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Brad Dourif, Dan Shor, Harry Dean Stanton
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

3:45 AM The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
A deaf mute changes the lives of all he meets.
Dir: Robert Ellis Miller Cast: Alan Arkin, Chuck McCann, Peter Mamakos
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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[kimbutgar]

1. Thank you for posting this !

I used to get the TCM booklet in the mail until they discontinued it. Now I download the monthly schedule but they only show the eastern pm schedule. I see two movies I am definitely recording!