TCM Schedule for Sunday May 16, 2021 - East Side Stories
Some tales from NYC's upper crust tonight. Plus: Imports has two movies involving running.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 am The Merry Widow (1934)
1h 39m | Romance | TV-PG
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette Macdonald, Edward Everertt Horton
7:45 am I Want to Live! (1958)
2h | Drama | TV-PG
True story of the small-time lady crook who fought to escape the gas chamber.
Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent
10:00 am Touch of Evil (1958)
1h 35m | Crime | TV-14
A narcotics agent risks his wife's life to investigate a crooked cop.
Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
12:15 pm Lover Come Back (1961)
1h 47m | Comedy | TV-G
An ad exec in disguise courts his pretty female competitor.
Director: Delbert Mann. Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
2:15 pm Bringing Up Baby (1938)
1h 42m | Comedy | TV-G
A madcap heiress upsets the staid existence of a straitlaced scientist.
Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
4:00 pm An American in Paris (1951)
1h 53m | Romance | TV-PG
An American artist finds love in Paris but almost loses it to conflicting loyalties.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
6:00 pm Mildred Pierce (1945)
1h 53m | Drama | TV-PG
A woman's ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Director Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
8:00 pm Metropolitan (1990)
1h 38m | Comedy | TV-14
A group of friends from New York's haute-bourgeoisie gather together during the holiday season.
Director: Whit Stillman. Cast: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman
10:00 pm East Side, West Side (1949)
1h 48m | Drama | TV-G
A chic New York couple is torn apart by a seductive model.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast; Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin
12:00 am Love (1927)
1h 22m | Romance | TV-G
In this updated, silent adaptation of Anna Karenina, a married woman sacrifices everything for the love of a military officer.
Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, George Fawcett
2:00 am Run Lola Run (1998)
1h 27m | Action
A woman needs to obtain 100,000 Deutschmarks in twenty minutes to save her boyfriend's life.
Director: Tom Tykwer. Cast: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup
3:45 am The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
1h 44m | Drama | TV-14
A boy from the Irish slums reviews his troubled past while training for a school race.
Director: Tony Richardson. Cast: Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Avis Bunnage