TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 18: Body Images on Film
TCM is certainly visiting some challenging territory today, starting with the islands — where all is not always as it seems — and then moving to dysfunctional relationships, between people and between the individual and the body.
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
12:00 am
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
1h 22m | Comedy | TV-MA
An aspiring African-American actor tries to fight against stereotyping.
Director
Robert Townsend
Cast
Michael LaViolette, Tony Edwards, Myra J
1:30 am
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
2h 1m | Musical | TV-PG
A hapless window washer becomes head of a corporation in a matter of days...
Director
David Swift
Cast
Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee
3:45 am
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
2h | Drama | TV-PG
Sir Thomas More opposes Henry VIII's divorce, and events lead inexorably to his execution...
Director
Fred Zinnemann
Cast
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern
6:00 am
The Last Voyage (1960)
1h 31m | Epic | TV-PG
Passengers and crew fight to escape a sinking ocean liner.
Director
Andrew L. Stone
Cast
Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders
7:45 am
Cattle King (1963)
1h 28m | Western | TV-G
Cattlemen square off over a hotly contested strip of grazing land.
Director
Tay Garnett
Cast
Robert Taylor, Joan Caulfield, Robert Loggia
9:30 am
The Devil-Doll (1936)
1h 19m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
A Devil's Island escapee shrinks murderous slaves and sells them to his victims as dolls. ...
Director
Tod Browning
Cast
Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton
11:00 am
Miss Robin Crusoe (1953)
1h 14m | Adventure | TV-G
A shipwrecked woman fights to survive on a desert island.
Director
Eugene Frenke
Cast
Amanda Blake, George Nader, Rosalind Hayes
12:30 pm
Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1960)
1h 30m | Adventure | TV-G
A Greek fisherman gets caught up in court intrigue in a land of scientific wonders.
Director
George Pal
Cast
Anthony Hall, Joyce Taylor, John Dall
2:15 pm
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
1h 3m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
A big game hunter decides to stalk human prey.
Director
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong
3:30 pm
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954)
1h 30m | Adventure | TV-PG
A shipwrecked Englishman fights to survive on a desert island.
Director
Luis Buñuel
Cast
Daniel O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernández
5:00 pm
Isle of the Dead (1945)
1h 12m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
The inhabitants of a Balkans island under quarantine fear that one of their number is a vampire.
Director
Mark Robson
Cast
Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer
6:15 pm
The Little Hut (1957)
1h 18m | Comedy | TV-14
A neglected wife is shipwrecked on a desert island with her husband and her would-be lover...
Director
Mark Robson
Cast
Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, David Niven
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: BODY IMAGES ON FILM
8:00 pm
Fatso (1980)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-MA
Dominick DiNapoli is an overweight New Yorker who's getting pressure from his sister to lose weight.
Director
Anne Bancroft
Cast
Dom DeLuise, Anne Bancroft, Ron Carey
9:45 pm
The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
1h 46m | Crime | TV-14
Two very-much-in-love con artists--a sadistic, corpulent nurse and a conscience-free ex-con--embark on a crime spree.
Director
Leonard Kastle
Cast
Shirley Stoler, Tony LoBianco, Mary Jane Higby
11:45 pm
Precious (2009)
1h 42m | Adaptation
Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece "Precious" Jones, a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want.
Director
Lee Daniels
Cast
Gabourey Sidibe, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey
1:45 am
Fat Girl (2001)
1h 23m | Drama
Elena is fifteen years old and forced to drag along pudgy twelve-year-old Anais as she trolls for boys in the cafes of a seaside resort where their family is vacationing.
Director
Catherine Breillat
Cast
Anais Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo
3:30 am
Sweetie (1989)
1h 37m | Drama | TV-MA
A young woman's life is torn apart by the sudden intrusion of her mentally disturbed sister...
Director
Jane Campion
Cast
Geneviève Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos
5:15 am
Human Voice (2014)
25m | Drama | TV-PG
An aging beauty tries desperately to win back a lover drawn to a younger woman.
Director
Edoardo Ponti
Cast
Sophia Loren, Enrico Lo Verso