An Orson Welles Festival, 50s Sci-fi and a smattering of foreign classics highlight TCM's May cinematic flowers. My picks Below. All times Eastern. Full Schedule HERE.
1 Friday
8:00 PM
The investigation of a publishing tycoon's dying words reveals conflicting stories about his scandalous life.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Joseph Cotten , Dorothy Comingore , Agnes Moorehead .
BW-119 mins, CC,
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| Despite a botched studio edit The Magnificent Ambersons is still, well, magnificent |
10:15 PM
A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Joseph Cotten , Dolores Costello , Anne Baxter .
BW-88 mins, CC,
12:00 AM
A governess at a remote estate falls in love with her brooding employer.
Dir: Robert Stevenson Cast: Orson Welles , Joan Fontaine , Margaret O'Brien .
BW-96 mins, CC,
2:00 AM
Disaster follows a man's discovery that he has a romantic rival.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Edgar Barrier , Joseph Cotten , Virginia Nicholson .
BW-40 mins,
2 Saturday
2:00 AM
When her favorite roller disco is threatened with closing, a girl organizes the skaters to save it.
Dir: Mark L. Lester Cast: Linda Blair , Jim Bray , Beverly Garland .
C-104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
3:45 AM
A disc jockey tries to land an in-depth interview with the Swedish rock group during their hit Australian tour.
Dir: Lasse Hallstr÷m Cast: Anni-Frid Lyngstad , Benny Andersson , Bjorn Ulvaeus .
C-97 mins, Letterbox Format
5:30 AM
Short safety film about dangers associated with earthmoving equipment operation, showing many simulated accidents on construction sites.
C-23 mins,
4 Monday
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| Something bad is in the air for Susan Hayward in I Want to Live! |
8:00 PM
True story of the small-time lady crook who fought to escape the gas chamber.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Susan Hayward , Simon Oakland , Virginia Vincent .
BW-121 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
10:15 PM
A priest tries to straighten out juvenile delinquents.
Dir: Irvin Kershner Cast: Don Murray , Larry Gates , Cindi Wood .
BW-102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
3:45 AM
A convicted bank robber bargains with his wife's life to escape prison.
Dir: Laurence Harvey Cast: Laurence Harvey , Sarah Miles , Robert Walker Jr. .
BW-106 mins,
8 Friday
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
A narcotics agent risks his wife's life to investigate a crooked cop.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Charlton Heston , Janet Leigh , Orson Welles .
BW-111 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Rita Hayworth , Orson Welles , Everett Sloane .
BW-87 mins, CC,
11:45 PM
A private eye investigates a millionaire's mysterious past before a murderer can get to the witnesses.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Orson Welles , Robert Arden , Paola Mori .
BW-106 mins,
10 Sunday
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| Get your DVR ready for the great Russian war film The Ascent on the 10th. |
4:45 AM
Two Soviet soldiers are captured in WWII Belarus.
Dir: Larisa Sheptiko Cast: Boris Plotkinov , Sergei Jakovlev , Ludmila Poliakova .
BW-109 mins,
11 Monday
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
A Vietnam vet stands alone against a motorcycle gang terrorizing a small town.
Dir: Paul Lewis Cast: Tom Laughlin , Elizabeth James , Jane Russell .
C-113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
Motorcycle-riding delinquents take over a small town.
Dir: Laslo Benedek Cast: Marlon Brando , Mary Murphy , Robert Keith .
BW-79 mins, CC,
11:30 PM
A gas station attendant falls for the girlfriend of a vicious motorcycle gang.
Dir: Richard Rush Cast: Adam Roarke , Jack Nicholson , Sabrina Scharf .
C-95 mins, Letterbox Format
1:30 AM
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
Dir: Dennis Hopper Cast: Peter Fonda , Dennis Hopper , Antonio Mendoza .
C-96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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| Lots of damn hippies and bikers on the 11th. |
A tough motorcycle gang leader abducts a rival and his girlfriend.
Dir: Anthony M. Lanza Cast: Dennis Hopper , Jody McCrea , Chris Noel .
C-85 mins,
4:45 AM
Rival motorcycle gangs take over a small town and fight it out.
Dir: Daniel Haller Cast: John Cassavetes , Beverly Adams , Mimsy Farmer .
C-84 mins,
12 Tuesday
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
Three prospectors fight off bandits and each other after striking-it-rich in the Mexican mountains.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart , Walter Huston , Tim Holt .
BW-126 mins, CC,
10:30 PM
The Tramp struggles to live in a modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Dir: Charlie Chaplin Cast: Charlie Chaplin , Paulette Goddard , Henry Bergman .
BW-87 mins, CC,
12:15 AM
Three returning servicemen fight to adjust to life after World War II.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Myrna Loy , Fredric March , Dana Andrews .
BW-170 mins, CC,
14 Thursday
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
Subway excavations unearth a deadly force from beyond space and time.
Dir: Roy Ward Baker Cast: James Donald , Andrew Keir , Barbara Shelley .
C-98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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| Village of the Damned turns the creepiness up to 11 |
9:15 AM
After a mysterious blackout, the inhabitants of a British village give birth to emotionless, super-powered offspring.
Dir: Wolf Rilla Cast: George Sanders , Barbara Shelley , Martin Stephens .
BW-77 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
10:45 AM
A scientist's experiments open the doorway to a strange and deadly world.
Dir: Gilbert Gunn Cast: Forrest Tucker , Gaby Andre , Martin Benson .
BW-72 mins,
12:00 PM
A radioactive dinosaur plots a deadly path to London.
Dir: Eugene Lourie Cast: Gene Evans , Andre Morell , John Turner .
BW-80 mins, Letterbox Format
1:30 PM
A scientist's experimental space craft puts him in the path of an intergalactic invasion.
Dir: Nathan Juran Cast: Edward Judd , Lionel Jeffries , Martha Hyer .
C-103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
3:15 PM
Children bred to survive a nuclear holocaust escape from a top-secret military facility.
Dir: Joseph Losey Cast: MacDonald Carey , Shirley Field , Viveca Lindfors .
BW-95 mins, Letterbox Format
5:00 PM
A radioactive ooze terrorizes a remote Scottish village.
Dir: Leslie Norman Cast: Dean Jagger , Edward Chapman , Leo McKern .
BW-80 mins, CC,
6:30 PM
Astronauts are trapped on a space station with a ticking bomb.
Dir: Paul Dickson Cast: Kieron Moore , Lois Maxwell , Donald Wolfit .
C-85 mins,
15 Friday
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Vladimir Nabokov's racy classic focuses on an aging intellectual in love with a teenager.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: James Mason , Sue Lyon , Shelley Winters .
BW-153 mins, CC,
5:45 PM
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross Cast: James Coburn , Raquel Welch , Dyan Cannon .
C-119 mins, Letterbox Format
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| Welles' rarely seen Chimes at Midnight on the 15th. |
8:00 PM
An aging knight uses his wits to survive in war and peace.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Orson Welles , Jeanne Moreau , Margaret Rutherford .
BW-115 mins,
10:15 PM
The legendary Moor of Venice battles his growing suspicions that his wife is unfaithful.
BW-93 mins,
12:00 AM
A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Orson Welles , Jeanette Nolan , Dan O'Herlihy .
BW-107 mins, CC,
2:00 AM
Spurred by his wife and a witch's prediction, a samurai murders his lord to steal the throne.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Toshiro Mifune , Isuzu Yamada , Takashi Shimura .
BW-109 mins,
4:00 AM
A samurai-for-hire sets the warring factions of a Japanese town against each other.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Toshiro Mifune , Eijiro Tono , Seizaburo Kawazu .
BW-111 mins, Letterbox Format
18 Monday
6:00 AM
6:00 AM
On an ocean voyage, a librarian falls for a married man.
Dir: Frank R. Capra Cast: Barbara Stanwyck , Adolphe Menjou , Ralph Bellamy .
BW-85 mins,
7:30 AM
When he inherits a fortune, a small-town poet has to deal with the corruption of city life.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Gary Cooper , Jean Arthur , George Bancroft .
BW-116 mins, CC,
9:30 AM
A girl from a family of freethinkers falls for the son of a conservative banker.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Jean Arthur , Lionel Barrymore , James Stewart .
BW-126 mins, CC,
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| Mass quantities of Capra on the 18th |
11:45 AM
An idealistic Senate replacement takes on political corruption.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Jean Arthur , James Stewart , Claude Rains .
BW-130 mins, CC,
2:00 PM
A reporter's fraudulent story turns a tramp into a national hero and makes him a pawn of big business.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Gary Cooper , Barbara Stanwyck , Edward Arnold .
BW-123 mins, CC,
22 Friday
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
A schoolgirl obsessed with her teacher accuses him of molesting her.
Dir: Peter Glenville Cast: Laurence Olivier , Simone Signoret , Sarah Miles .
BW-113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
6:00 PM
Teenagers elope with the help of an aging pickpocket.
Dir: George Roy Hill Cast: Laurence Olivier , Diane Lane , Broderick Crawford .
C-110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Edward G. Robinson , Loretta Young , Orson Welles .
BW-95 mins, CC,
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| Clear your docket for Welles' visually spectacular The Trial on the 22nd |
10:00 PM
In this adaptation of Kafka's classic, a man in a nameless country stands trial for an unnamed crime.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Anthony Perkins , Jeanne Moreau , Romy Schneider .
BW-120 mins, CC,
12:15 AM
A sailor bets he can seduce a wealthy man's wife, not knowing the man has hired a woman to play the role.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Orson Welles , Jeanne Moreau , Roger Coggio .
C-62 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
1:30 AM
Director Orson Welles examines the career of a notorious art forger.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Orson Welles , Oja Kodar , Joseph Cotten .
C-88 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
24 Sunday
10:00 PM
10:00 PM
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor to keep their sanity during wartime.
Dir: Robert Altman Cast: Donald Sutherland , Elliott Gould , Tom Skerritt .
C-116 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
12:15 AM
In this silent film, a young innocent enlists for World War I service but soon learns the horrors of war.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: John Gilbert , Renée Adorée , Hobart Bosworth .
BW-151 mins,
3:00 AM
French POWs fight to escape their German captors during World War I.
Dir: Jean Renoir Cast: Erich von Stroheim , Jean Gabin , Pierre Fresnay .
BW-113 mins,
27 Wednesday
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| Everyone should see Altman's The Long Goodbye |
11:45 PM
Detective Phillip Marlowe investigates shady characters involved in a long-lost friend's murder.
Dir: Robert Altman Cast: Elliott Gould , Nina Van Pallandt , Sterling Hayden .
C-107 mins, Letterbox Format
1:45 AM
A conflicted artist tries to find a sense of purpose in life.
Dir: Irvin Kershner Cast: George Segal , Eva Marie Saint , Sterling Hayden .
C-89 mins, Letterbox Format
3:30 AM
A mad United States General orders an air strike against Russia.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Peter Sellers , George C. Scott , Sterling Hayden .
BW-95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
28 Thursday
9:45 PM
9:45 PM
When Jack the Ripper steals his time machine, author H.G. Wells travels to modern-day San Francisco to track him down.
Dir: Nicholas Meyer Cast: Malcolm McDowell , David Warner , Mary Steenburgen .
C-112 mins, Letterbox Format
11:45 PM
In the aftermath of WWIII, a man is sent back and forth through time to find a solution to the world's fate in this experimental short film.
Dir: Chris Marker Cast: Jacques Branchu , Etienne Becker , Pierre Joffroy .
BW-28 mins, Letterbox Format
12:30 AM
The eccentric Time Lord and his companions help a peaceful race fight off murderous mutant robots.
Dir: Gordon Flemyng Cast: Peter Cushing , Roy Castle , Jennie Linden .
C-82 mins,
31 Sunday
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| A mini-festival of Mikio Naruse's sobering visions of life in mid-century Japan on the 31st. |
2:45 AM
A single mother struggles to raise her son while working in a bar.
Dir: Mikio Naruse Cast: Yuji Hori , Ranko Hanai , Kinuyo Tanaka .
BW-87 mins,
4:15 AM
An unhappy wife faces her husband's infidelity.
Dir: Mikio Naruse Cast: Mieko Takamine , Ken Uehara , Rentaro Mikuni .
BW-89 mins,
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