TCM Schedule for Wednesday, July 5: The South on Film - Part 1: Race in the South
TCM's daytime theme is the Red Menace!
At evening the channel begins a series on the South. The topic for the first evening is race, and there's quite a mixture of movies and genres tonight. How many have you seen?
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
1:45 AM The Devil's Disciple (1959)
A preacher and a rebel leader change places during the Revolution.
Dir: Guy Hamilton Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:15 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
5:00 AM Ah, Wilderness (1935)
In his only comedy, Eugene O'Neill captures the trials of growing up in small-town America.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline Macmahon
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
6:45 AM The Steel Fist (1952)
In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities.
Dir: Wesley Barry Cast: Roddy McDowall, Kristine Miller, Harry Lauter
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
8:00 AM The Whip Hand (1951)
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
Dir: William Cameron Menzies Cast: Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
9:30 AM Arctic Flight (1952)
Mike Wien, an Alaskan bush pilot operating in the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, who is posing as a wealthy American businessman. But, in reality, he is a Russian spy on his way to Siberia carrying microfilms of U.S. defense installations.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Wayne Morris, Lola Albright, Alan Hale Jr.
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC:
11:00 AM The Red Danube (1949)
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Barrymore, Peter Lawford
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
1:15 PM The Woman on Pier 13 (1950)
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
Dir: Robert Stevenson Cast: Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:30 PM Blood Alley (1955)
An American sailor breaks out of a Chinese jail and dodges Communist agents on the road to Hong Kong.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
4:30 PM Big Jim McLain (1952)
A U.S. agent takes on communists in Hawaii.
Dir: Edward Ludwig Cast: John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
6:15 PM The Phynx (1970)
A rock band tours to Albania to rescue kidnapped American stars.
Dir: Lee H. Katzin Cast: A. Michael Miller, Ray Chippeway, Dennis Larden
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: N
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: THE SOUTH ON FILM - PART 1: RACE IN THE SOUTH
8:00 PM Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Daisy Werthan, an elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta, is determined to maintain her independence. However, when she crashes her car, her son, Boolie, arranges for her to have a chauffeur, an African-American driver named Hoke Colburn. Daisy and Hoke's relationship gets off to a rocky start, but they gradually form a ...
Dir: Bruce Beresford Cast: Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
10:00 PM Gone With the Wind (1939)
Classic tale of Scarlett O'Hara's battle to save her beloved Tara and find love during the Civil War.
Dir: Victor Fleming. Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell
Runtime: 219 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:00 AM The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Dir: John Korty Cast: Cicely Tyson, Odetta, Josephine Premice
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
4:00 AM Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
5:30 AM Storm Warning (1951)
While visiting relatives in a small town, Marsha Mitchell witnesses the beating death of a man at the hands of the Klan and soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by the group--and that her loutish brother-in-law is a member. District Attorney Burt Rainey finally breaks the stranglehold of the hooded terrorists, ...
Dir: Stuart Heisler Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y