TCM Schedule for Fri, May 23, 2025: Solving the Crime / Memorial Day Weekend Marathon

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DAYTIME: (EST)

7:45 AM | Follow Me Quietly (1949)
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed "The Judge."
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer | Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey

9:00 AM | Mystery Street (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim's bones to go on.
Dir: John Sturges | Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett

10:45 AM | The Tattooed Stranger (1950)
Detectives investigate the Central Park murder of a young woman with a Marine Corps tattoo.
Dir: Edward J. Montagne | Cast: John Miles, Patricia White, Walter Kinsella

12:00 PM | Scene of the Crime (1949)
A detective tries to solve a policeman's murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland | Cast: Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria De Haven

1:45 PM | The Naked City (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir: Jules Dassin | Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart

3:30 PM | Crime Wave (1954)
A reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
Dir: Andre Detot | Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk

4:45 PM | The Big Combo (1955)
An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.
Dir: Joseph Lewis | Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy

6:15 PM | While the City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang | Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders



PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Three World War II veterans have difficulty readjusting to life in small-town America.
Dir: William Wyler | Cast: Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews

11:00 PM | Till the End of Time (1946)
A returning World War II veteran falls for a troubled war widow.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk | Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison, Robert Mitchum

1:00 AM | Pride of the Marines (1945)
A blinded Marine tries to adjust to civilian life.
Dir: Delmer Daves | Cast: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark

3:15 AM | Battle Cry (1955)
A group of Marines eagerly await deployment during World War II.
Dir: Raoul Walsh | Cast: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman

5:45 AM | Marines in the Making (1942)
This war-time promotional short exhibits the U.S. Marine Corps' training.
Dir: Herbert Polesie | Cast: R. E. Hanley, Charles Horvath, Stephen McNally