TCM Schedule for Sunday October 27, 2024 - Memorial Tribute: James Earl Jones

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(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Cat People (1942)
1h 11m | Suspense | TV-PG
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Director: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph

7:15 AM I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
1h 9m | Horror | TV-PG
A nurse in the Caribbean resorts to voodoo to cure her patient, even though she's in love with the woman's husband.
Director: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway

8:30 AM Martin Scorsese Presents, Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007)
1h 16m | Documentary | TV-PG
This looks at the imaginative producer who fashioned a lasting body of beautiful and unsettling films on meager budgets.
Director: Kent Jones. Cast: Val Lewton, Martin Scorsese, Elias Koteas

10:00 AM I Walk Alone (1947)
1h 37m | Crime | TV-PG
Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting to receive a share of a Prohibition bootlegging business from his ex-partner. But Frankie is unprepared for how things have changed while he was behind bars.
Director: Byron Haskin. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas

12:00 PM The Invisible Boy (1957)
1h 25m | Horror | TV-G
A boy's robot playmate is taken over by aliens.
Director: Herman Hoffman. Cast: Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster

1:45 PM The Bad Seed (1956)
2h 9m | Suspense | TV-PG
A woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden

4:00 PM Night Watch (1973)
1h 45m | Suspense | TV-PG
A woman recovering from mental problems witnesses a murder, but nobody believes her.
Director: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw

6:00 PM Gaslight (1944)
1h 54m | Suspense | TV-PG
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten

8:00 PM Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
1h 46m | Drama | TV-14
A South African preacher goes to search for his wayward son, who has committed a crime in the big city.
Director: Darrell Roodt. Cast: James Earl Jones, Vusi Kunene, Richard Harris

10:00 PM Matewan (1987)
2h 15m | Drama | TV-14
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
Director: John Sayles. Cast: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell

12:30 AM The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
1h 34m | Silent | TV-G
In this film, a severely deformed man haunts the sewers beneath the Paris Opera.
Director: Rupert Julian. Cast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry

12:30 AM Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
1h 30m | Documentary | TV-PG
This documentary reveals the secrets of the screen's first great horror star.
Director: Kevin Brownlow. Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Nick Adams, John Ames

3:30 AM The Lure (2015)
1h 32m | Drama | TV-MA
Two mermaid sisters become caught in a love triangle when they fall for the same man.
Dir: Agnieszka Smoczynska. Cast: Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, Kinga Preis

5:15 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: Genevifve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos

[Sparkly]

1. I'd never seen Night Watch before!

I tuned in about half-way through, I think. That might have made it more of a mystery as I unraveled who was who, what their relationships were, what the backstory was. (Were those known from the start?)

Kind of dated, over-acted to the point of campy, and a plot that was a bit predictable, although I didn't anticipate the ending.

Now time for Gaslight -- can't count how many times I've seen this one, but with classics, there's always something new to discover!