TCM Schedule for Saturday, July 4: Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Music Man, 1776, A Hard Day's Night

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AT A GLANCE
SUMMER OF DARKNESS
Criss Cross (1949)
Thieves' Highway (1949)
TCM LATE NIGHT: NEO-NOIR
Against All Odds (1984) (TCM Premiere)
Marlowe (1969)
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY
Judge Hardy and Son (1939) (6:30 am ET)
Howards of Virginia, The (1940)
Scarlet Coat, The (1955)
1776 (1972) (Musical Matinee)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Music Man, The (1962)
Bunker Hill Bunny (1950) (short) (TCM Premiere)
TCM SERIES: TWO FOR ONE - DIANE WARREN
Born Free (1966)
Hard Day's Night, A (1964)
NOIR ALLEY
Angel Face (1953)
TCM LATE NIGHT: HAPPY 4TH
Stealing Home (1988)
Independence Day (1983) (TCM Premiere)

FULL DAY SCHEDULE
11:00 PM Criss Cross (1949)
A man tries to save his fickle ex-wife from her criminal lover.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:45 AM Thieves' Highway (1949)
A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortesa, Lee J. Cobb
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:30 AM Against All Odds (1984) (TCM PREMIERE)
A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his estranged girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love and things get complicated.
Dir: Taylor Hackford Cast: Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC:


4:45 AM Marlowe (1969)
Detective Philip Marlowe probes the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in search of a woman's missing sister.
Dir: Paul Bogart Cast: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


6:30 AM Judge Hardy and Son (1939)
A small-town judge tries to save an elderly couple from eviction while coping with his wife's illness.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:00 AM The Howards of Virginia (1940)
A young Virginian joins the American Revolution despite his love for a beautiful Royalist.
Dir: Frank Lloyd Cast: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC:


10:00 AM The Scarlet Coat (1955)
During the American War of Independence, an American officer deserts to the British in order to unmask a traitor.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, George Sanders
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


11:45 AM 1776 (1972)
The founding fathers struggle to draft the Declaration of Independence.
Dir: Peter H. Hunt Cast: William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard
Runtime: 141 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:45 PM Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The life story of dancing vaudevillian George M. Cohan.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
Runtime: 126 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


5:15 PM The Music Man (1962)
A con man, masquerading as a music professor, convinces a small town to form a brass band as a way for him to pocket some money.
Dir: Morton Dacosta Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett
Runtime: 151 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


7:50 PM Bunker Hill Bunny (1950)
The historic Revolutionary War battle at Bagel Heights is fought between Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc, Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC:


8:00 PM Born Free (1966)
A game warden and his wife face a wrenching decision when the lion cub they've raised becomes too big to keep.
Dir: James Hill Cast: Virginia Mckenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:00 PM A Hard Day's Night (1964)
A rock and roll mockumentary that follows "a day in the life" of those four lads from Liverpool who would go on to make music history as the Beatles.
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:00 AM Angel Face (1953)
A woman murders her family for their money.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 AM Stealing Home (1988)
An aging baseball player returns to his home town after the suicide of a childhood friend.
Dir: Steven Kampmann Cast: Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster, Blair Brown
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:00 AM Independence Day (1983)
Mary Ann Taylor, of Mercury, Texas, loves the comforts of her hometown but is dissatisfied with a life dedicated to serving coffee and grilling hamburgers in her father's cafeteria. Her true passion is photography.
Dir: Robert Mandel Cast: Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Frances Sternhagen
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-MA CC: