TCM Schedule for Friday, January 19, 2024: Cars, Planes, Boats and Show Dogs
DAYTIME (EDT)
6:00 AM | Jalopy (1953)
The Bowery Boys enter an auto race when one of them invents a new super gas.
Dir: William Beaudine | Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey
Runtime: 62 mins | Genre: Comedy
7:15 AM | Earthworm Tractors (1936)
At the urging of his ambitious girlfriend, a salesman starts hawking tractors.
Dir: Raymond Enright | Cast: Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Guy Kibbee
Runtime: 63 mins | Genre: Comedy
8:30 AM | Fast Life (1932)
Two ex-Navy sailors attempt to build the ultimate speed boat engine.
Dir: Harry Pollard | Cast: William Haines, Madge Evans, Conrad Nagel
Runtime: 84 mins | Genre: Comedy
10:00 AM | Excuse My Dust (1951)
An inventor's new automobile could put his girlfriend's livery stable out of business.
Dir: Roy Rowland | Cast: Red Skelton, Sally Forrest, Macdonald Carey
Runtime: 82 mins | Genre: Comedy
11:30 AM | Flying Down to Rio (1933)
A bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer.
Dir: Thornton Freeland | Cast: Dolores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Runtime: 89 mins | Genre: Musical
1:15 PM | The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
A pilot and a temperamental heiress are stranded in the desert together.
Dir: William Keighleyv | Cast: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin
Runtime: 92 mins | Genre: Comedy
3:00 PM | Tugboat Annie (1933)
A lady tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy | Cast: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young
Runtime: 87 mins | Genre: Comedy
4:30 PM | The Old Dark House (1963)
An eccentric millionaire invites a car salesman to visit his decaying family home.
Dir: William Castle | Cast: Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott
Runtime: 86 mins | Genre: Comedy
6:00 PM | Corvette Summer (1978)
A high school student takes off in search of his stolen, rebuilt Corvette.
Dir: Matthew Robbins | Cast: Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Jon Terry
Runtime: 105 mins | Genre: Adventure
PRIME TIME & LATE NIGHT
8:00 PM | Best in Show (2000)
A "behind the scenes" look into the highly competitive and cut-throat world of dog-shows through the eyes of a group of ruthless dog owners.
Dir: Christopher Guest | Cast: Fred Willard, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Jennifer Coolidge, Parker Posey
9:45 PM | The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
Runtime: 73 mins | Genre: Suspense/Mystery
11:15 PM | It's a Dog's Life (1955)
A bull terrier rises from rags to riches.
Dir: Herman Hoffman | Cast: Jeff Richards, Jarma Lewis, Edmund Gwenn
Runtime: 86 mins | Genre: Comedy
1:00 AM | The Black Marble (1980)
Alcoholic police sergeant A.M. Valnikov is transferred from a homicide case to a burglary detail. Valnikov and his new partner Natalie are opposites, and initially do not get along. But as they overcome their differences to help solve the case, they find that they are attracted to each other.
Dir: Harold Becker | Cast: Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss, James Woods, Harry Dean Stanton
Runtime: 113 mins | Genre: Comedy
3:00 AM | Hold That Kiss (1938)
Romance blossoms when a man and woman each think the other is rich.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin | Cast: Maureen O'Sullivan, Dennis O'Keefe, Mickey Rooney
Runtime: 75 mins | Genre: Comedy
4:30 AM | My Pal Wolf (1944)
A little girl fights to keep her dog over her nanny's objections.
Dir: Alfred Werker | Cast: Sharyn Moffett, Jill Esmond, Una O'Connor
Runtime: 75 mins | Genre: Drama