TCM Schedule Saturday May 17: Frankenstein, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, White Heat

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THE DAY AT A GLANCE

CLASSIC FILM NOIR
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Deception (1946)
Johnny Eager (1942)
White Heat (1949)
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Cowboy Quarterback, The (1939) (7:00 am ET)
MGM Cartoons: Barney's Hungry Cousin (1953)
Headpin Hints (1955) (short)
Rambling 'Round Radio Row 7
(Ted Pearson) (1934) (short)
Rustlers (1949)
Lone Ranger Ch. 3: The Pitfall (1938) (TCM Premiere)
Popeye: Nurse-Mates (1940)
Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1939)
Wonderful World of Tupperware (1965) (short)
Finian's Rainbow (1968) (Musical Matinee)
Shooting, The (1966)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
From Darkness to Light (2024)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TWO FOR ONE
- JOHN CARPENTER
Frankenstein (1931)
Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957)
- NOIR ALLEY
Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: FILM NOIR BACKGROUND
Guns Don't Argue (1957)
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity (2015) (doc.)

FULL SCHEDULE

11:15 PM In a Lonely Place (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:00 AM Deception (1946)
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
Dir: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


3:00 AM Johnny Eager (1942)
A handsome racketeer seduces the DA's daughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y


5:00 AM White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


7:00 AM The Cowboy Quarterback (1939)
A football scout tries to get a legendary runner back into the game.
Dir: Noel Smith Cast: Bert Wheeler, Marie Wilson, Gloria Dickson
Runtime: 56 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC:


8:00 AM Barney's Hungry Cousin (1953)
While out on a picnic Barney Bear suffers from an untamed, mooching bear.
Dir: Dick Lundy Cast: Paul Frees
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:10 AM Headpin Hints (1955)
In this short film, professional bowlers Lee Jouglard and Sylvia Wene give some tips and show off their skill.
Dir: William Deeke Cast: Sylvia Wene, Fred Wolf, Lee Jouglard
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:20 AM Rambling 'Round Radio Row 7 (Ted Pearson) (1934)
A radio salesman looks into a crystal ball and witnesses various musical performances in this short film. Vitaphone Release 1474.
Dir: Jerry Wald Cast: Ted Pearson, Al Dary, Tito Guizar
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:35 AM Rustlers (1949)
Two cowboys get mixed up in rustling and counterfeit schemes.
Dir: Lesley Selander Cast: Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Martha Hyer
Runtime: 61 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: N


9:50 AM The Pitfall (1938)
Chapter 3 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: 19 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:20 AM Nurse-Mates (1940)
Popeye and Bluto vie with each other over caring for Swee'Pea while Olive visits the beauty parlor. They have orders that he is to be bathed, fed and put to bed. Olive returns to a surprising situation.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Orestes Calpini Cast: Pinto Colvig, Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:30 AM Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1939)
Scotland Yard and Captain Drummond attempt to track down the murderer of a scientist who had invented a "death-ray" device.
Dir: James P. Hogan Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner
Runtime: 57 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:30 AM Wonderful World of Tupperware (1965)
This short industrial film focuses on the making of Tupperware.
Dir: George J. Yarbrough Cast: Anita Bryant, Johnny Desmond, Russ Blair
Runtime: 28 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


12:00 PM Finian's Rainbow (1968)
A leprechaun follows the Irishman who stole his pot of gold to the U.S. South.
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele
Runtime: 160 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:30 PM The Shooting (1966)
A hired gun seeks to enact revenge on a group of bounty hunters in the Old West.
Dir: Monte Hellman Cast: Jack Nicholson, Millie Perkins, Will Hutchins
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:00 PM Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
The daughter of a well-to-do white family comes home from a vacation to announce her intentions of marrying a well-to-do black physician. The prospective in-laws must come to terms with the implications.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:00 PM From Darkness to Light (2024)
An exploration of Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day The Clown Cried", its mysterious disappearance, and the search for footage. Includes interviews with Lewis' associates and previously unseen production content.
Dir: Eric Friedler, Michael Lurie Cast: Jerry Lewis, Mel Brooks, Rune Ericson
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


8:00 PM Frankenstein (1931)
A crazed scientist creates a living being from body parts, not realizing it has a madman's brain.
Dir: James Whale Cast: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:00 PM The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
A retelling of Shelley's famous novel, but told in flashbacks from the point of view of Dr. Frankenstein, awaiting execution for the murder of his wife in the climactic confrontation with the monster.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


12:00 AM Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
An aging gangster comes out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped.
Dir: Jacques Becker. Cast: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: N


2:00 AM Guns Don't Argue (1957)
The FBI takes on the Depression's most notorious criminals.
Dir: Richard C. Kahn Cast: Myron Healey, Jean Harvey, Paul Dubov
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N


4:00 AM Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity (2015)
After Marsha Hunt's successful acting career was destroyed when she was blacklisted during the McCarthy era, she became an agent of change for good all over the world.
Dir: Roger C Memos Cast: Marsha Hunt, Roger C Memos, Roger C Memos
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Biography Rating: TV-PG CC: Y