Classic Films
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TCM Saturday May 3
At a Glance
HORROR
- NATIONAL PARANORMAL DAY
Scanners (1981)
Village of the Damned (1960)
Children of the Damned (1964)
Saturday, May 3
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Biggest Bundle of Them All, The (1968)
MGM Cartoons: The Alley Cat (1941)
Fabulous Fraud, The (1948) (short)
Rambling 'Round Radio Row 5
(The Happiness Boys) (1933) (short)
Trail Guide (1952)
(P) Lone Ranger Ch. 1: Hi-Yo Silver (1938)
Popeye: Onion Pacific (1933)
Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)
Du cote de la cote (1958) (short)
Shine on Harvest Moon (1944) (Musical Matinee)
- KENTUCKY DERBY TRIBUTE
Day at the Races, A (1937)
Story of Seabiscuit, The (1949)
National Velvet (1944)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TWO FOR ONE
- LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA
Band Wagon, The (1953)
All That Jazz (1979)
- NOIR ALLEY
Riffraff (1947)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: THIEVES
Thief Who Came to Dinner, The (1973)
Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)
Full schedule
12:15 AM Scanners (1981)
A scientist sends a "scanner" to hunt others like him with explosive psychic powers.
Dir: David Cronenberg Cast: Michael Ironside, Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: N
2:15 AM Village of the Damned (1960)
After a mysterious blackout, the inhabitants of a British village give birth to emotionless, super-powered offspring.
Dir: Wolf Rilla Cast: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens
Runtime: 77 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
4:00 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
6:00 AM The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
A kidnapped gangster turns his captors into a crack band of crooks.
Dir: Ken Annakin Cast: Vittorio De Sica, Raquel Welch, Robert Wagner
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
8:00 AM The Alley Cat (1941)
An alley cat attempts to win over a female cat in her Park Avenue apartment by serenading her but the butler decides to send the family bulldog after him instead.
Dir: Hugh Harman Cast: Sara Berner, Billy Bletcher, William Hanna
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y
8:10 AM The Fabulous Fraud (1948)
This short film focuses on Dr. Anton Mesmer, the man who discovered hypnotism.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn Cast: Phyllis Morris, John Baragrey, Morris Ankrum
Runtime: 11 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N
8:25 AM Rambling 'Round Radio Row 5 (The Happiness Boys) (1933)
The Happiness Boys attend a party filled with other famous radio performers in this musical short film. Vitaphone Release 1453.
Dir: Jerry Wald Cast: Jerry Wald, The Funnyboners, The Happiness Boys
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N
8:35 AM Trail Guide (1952)
Two cowhands sign on to protect a wagon train.
Dir: Lesley Selander Cast: Tim Holt, Linda Douglas, Frank Wilcox
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y
9:40 AM Hi-Yo Silver (1938)
Chapter 1 of the The Lone Ranger 1938 serial. When a band of Texas Rangers is massacred in an ambush, one of the men is nursed back to health by an Indian named Tonto. The lone survivor swears vengeance, and assumes another identity to learn more about who was behind the attack.
Dir: John English, William Witney Cast: Lynn Roberts, Chief Thunder-Cloud, George Letz
Runtime: 31 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
10:10 AM Onion Pacific (1933)
Popeye and Bluto are rival locomotive engineers engaged in a mad cross-country dash to see which of them gets the franchise for the rail line. In the hair-raising, neck-and-neck race that follows, Popeye not only overtakes Bluto but also manages to rescue Olive Oyl from Bluto's train.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky Cast: Pinto Colvig, Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
10:20 AM Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)
Bulldog Drummond hunts down an assassin after a priceless diamond.
Dir: James Hogan Cast: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell
Runtime: 66 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: N
11:30 AM Du cote de la cote (1958)
The French Riviera comes to life only after the tourists are gone.
Dir: Agnes Varda Cast: Roger Coggio, Anne Olivier, Jacopo Nizi
Runtime: 25 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N
12:00 PM Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
Song-filled look behind the scenes of vaudeville, based on the lives of Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:00 PM 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
4:00 PM The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
Fictionalized account of the legendary racehorse's training and triumphs.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon Mccallister
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
5:45 PM National Velvet (1944)
A British farm girl fights to train a difficult horse for the Grand National Steeplechase.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
8:00 PM The Band Wagon (1953)
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
10:00 PM All That Jazz (1979)
Joe Gideon is a hedonistic workaholic who knocks back a daily dose of amphetamines to juggle a new Broadway production while editing his new movie, not to mention ex-wife Audrey, steady girlfriend Kate, a young daughter, and various conquests. Joe cannot, however, avoid intimations of mortality from white-clad vision Angelique ...
Dir: Bob Fosse Cast: Gary Bayer, Leonard Drum, Jan Flato
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
12:15 AM Riffraff (1947)
After lucking into a map to a rich oil field, a man has to dodge those out to steal it.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff Cast: Pat O'Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:00 AM The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
A computer programmer decides to become a thief, and he meets a woman who becomes his accomplice. Eventually he is noticed by an insurance investigator who starts to hound him.
Dir: Bud Yorkin Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
4:00 AM The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
A young thief faces amazing monsters to return Bagdad's deposed king to the throne.
Dir: Ludwig Berger Cast: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y
