TCM Schedule for Thurs, May 29, 2025: Television / Westerns
Western theme tonight: The End on an Era
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DAYTIME: (EST)
6:15 AM | Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
A real cowboy signs on to impersonate a faded western star for public appearances.
Dir: Norman Panama | Cast: Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel
7:45 AM | My Favorite Year (1982)
A flamboyant star throws a TV comedy show into chaos.
Dir: Richard Benjamin | Cast: Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-baker, Jessica Harper
9:30 AM | It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
Army buddies meet in NYC ten years after their discharge only to discover each has compromised on his dreams.
Dir: Gene Kelly | Cast: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
11:15 AM | Ginger and Fred (1986)
A song-and-dance team are reunited for a nostalgic television special.
Dir: Federico Fellini | Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Franco Fabrizi, Giulietta Masina
1:30 PM | A King in New York (1957)
A European king loses his money while stranded in the U.S.
Dir: Charles Chaplin | Cast: Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde
3:30 PM | A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A female television executive turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
Dir: Elia Kazan | Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa
5:45 PM | Network (1976)
Television programmers turn a deranged news anchor into the mad prophet of the airwaves.
Dir: Sidney Lumet | Cast: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT & EARLY MORNING
8:00 PM | Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
A stranger joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin.
Dir: Sergio Leone | Cast: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale
11:00 PM | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.
Dir: John Ford | Cast: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles
1:15 AM | The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
A prospector creates a thriving stagecoach stop at the site of a spring.
Dir: Sam Peckinpah | Cast: Jason Robards Jr., Stella Stevens, David Warner
3:30 AM | The Wild Bunch (1969)
An aging band of outlaws make one last score and head to Mexico with a band of bounty hunters on their heels.
Dir: Sam Peckinpah Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan