TCM Schedule for Sunday April 12, 2026 - Charles Boyer Double Feature

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6:00 AM The Pirate (1948)
1h 42m | Musical | TV-PG
An actor poses as a notorious pirate to court a romantic Caribbean girl.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak

8:00 AM The Wicked Lady (1945)
1h 44m | Adventure | TV-PG
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
Director: Leslie Arliss. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc

10:00 AM Bad Blonde (1953)
1h 21m | Crime | TV-PG
A scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager.
Director: Reginald Le Borg. Cast: Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater

11:45 AM Shadow of a Woman (1946)
1h 18m | Crime | TV-G
A woman suspects her husband of plotting to kill his son from a previous marriage.
Director: Joseph Santley. Cast: Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince

1:15 PM Pride and Prejudice (1940)
1h 57m | Romance | TV-PG
The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland

3:30 PM Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
2h 11m | Drama | TV-MA
The film adaptation of Edward Albee's Broadway play that rips the façade of civility off the dysfunctional marriage between an alcoholic college professor and his shrew of a wife during a dinner party the two host for a young couple.
Director: Mike Nichols. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal

6:00 PM My Dinner with Andre (1981)
1h 51m | Drama | TV-PG
A conversation between a globe-trotting theater director and a playwright playfully explores ideas about art, theater, and daily life.
Director: Louis Malle. Cast: Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, Jean Lenauer

8:00 PM Back Street (1941)
1h 29m | Drama | TV-PG
A woman accepts life in the shadows as the price for her affair with a married man.
Director: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson

9:45 PM Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
2h 5m | Drama | TV-PG
A gigolo flees Nazi occupation and sets his sights on a shy schoolteacher who happens to be a US citizen.
Director: Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard

12:00 AM Ballet mécanique (1924)
19m | Short | TV-G
This early French experimental film features mechanical and repetitive images, in a Dadaist, post-Cubist style. Score by composer George Antheil.
Director: Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy. Cast: Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, Kiki de Montparnasse

12:30 AM A Trip to the Moon (1902)
14m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, a group of scientists ride to the moon in a cannon shell.
Director: Georges Méliès. Cast: Georges Méliès, Victor André, Bleuette Bernon

1:00 AM A Page of Madness (1926)
1h 20m | Silent | TV-PG
A man infiltrates an insane asylum to help his wife escape. Also known by the Japanese title "Kurutta Ippeiji."
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa. Cast: Masao Inoue, Ayao Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa

2:30 AM Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
1h 56m | Action | TV-MA
Zatoichi travels to a village that had been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by a feuding father and son yakuza as well as the younger crime boss’s bodyguard, the Yojimbo.
Director: Kihachi Okamoto. Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Toshiro Mifune, Mori Kishida

4:30 AM Sword of the Beast (1965)
1h 25m | Action | TV-MA
After being betrayed by his clan, a fugitive samurai falls in with outlaws engaged in a scheme to steal gold.
Director: Hideo Gosha. Cast: Mikijiro Hira, Gô Katô, Shima Iwashita