TCM Schedule for Tuesday, January 2: Star of the Month: Robert Mitchum
Happy Noir Year! There's lots to see on January 2. Daytime theme: 60th Anniversary Films. Evening: SOTM Robert Mitchum, bringing the noir.
Have a healthy, happy 2024, and keep watching and discussing great films.
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
12:30 AM A Day at the Races (1937)
A group of zanies tries to save a pretty girl's sanitarium.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:30 AM Room Service (1938)
Three zany producers try to extend their hotel credit until they can get a play mounted.
Dir: William A. Seiter Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:00 AM At the Circus (1939)
The Marx Bros. team up to keep a circus from going bankrupt.
Dir: Edward Buzzell Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
6:00 AM Children of the Damned (1964)
Space invaders impregnate six women with super-powered offspring.
Dir: Anton M. Leader Cast: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
7:45 AM The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
A wimpish bookkeeper with a passion for sea life slips off a pier and comes back as a fish. He then helps the Navy track down German U-Boats.
Dir: Arthur Lubin Cast: Don Knotts, Carole Cook, Jack Weston
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
9:30 AM 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
A Chinese showman uses his magical powers to save a Western town from itself.
Dir: George Pal Cast: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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11:15 AM The Night of the Iguana (1964)
An ex-minister works as a tour guide in a Mexican coastal town, falls into some romantic interludes with a group of schoolteachers, and then meets a beautiful artist at a run-down hotel where the proprietress is in love with him.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
1:15 PM A Hard Day's Night (1964)
A rock and roll mockumentary that follows "a day in the life" of those four lads from Liverpool who would go on to make music history as the Beatles.
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:45 PM Murder Most Foul (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:30 PM Viva Las Vegas (1964)
A race car driver preparing for the Grand Prix whiles his time away in Las Vegas working as a waiter to pay for his new engine. Soon, he strikes up a romance with a beautiful young woman.
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Elvis Presley, Cesare Danova, William Demarest
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
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6:00 PM Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
A nosy smut magazine editor wishes to find out whether a novelist has based her erotic novel on fact or fiction.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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What's on Tonight: Star of the Month: Robert Mitchum
8:00 PM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
9:45 PM The Big Steal (1949)
A man is on the trail of a thief who stole a $300,000 Army payroll, but there is someone else after him - a woman.
Dir: Don Siegel Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
11:15 PM His Kind of Woman (1951)
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
Dir: John Farrow Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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1:30 AM Angel Face (1953)
A woman murders her family for their money.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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3:15 AM Where Danger Lives (1950)
A psychopath draws her doctor into her murderous schemes.
Dir: John Farrow Cast: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
4:45 AM The Racket (1951)
A tough cop has to fight his superiors in order to battle the mob.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y