TCM Schedule for Thurs, June 12, 2025: Film Noir Suspense / Composer Ennio Morricone (Robert DeNiro, La Cage aux Folles)
Ennio Morricone was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest film composers of all time.
He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Golden Globes, six BAFTAs, ten David di Donatello, eleven Nastro d'Argento, two European Film Awards, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and the Polar Music Prize in 2010.
His filmography includes more than 70 award-winning films, all of Sergio Leone's films since A Fistful of Dollars, all of Giuseppe Tornatore's films since Cinema Paradiso, Dario Argento's Animal Trilogy, as well as The Battle of Algiers (1966), 1900 (1976), La Cage aux Folles (1978), Le Professionnel (1981), The Thing (1982), The Key (1983) by Tinto Brass and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989).
He received Academy Award for Best Original Score nominations for Days of Heaven (1978), The Mission (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Bugsy (1991), Malèna (2000) and The Hateful Eight (2015), winning for the last. He won the Academy Honorary Award in 2007. His score to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) is regarded as one of the most recognizable and influential soundtracks in history. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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DAYTIME
6:30 AM | The Narrow Margin (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's moll on a tense train ride.
Dir: Richard Fleischer | Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
8:00 AM | Terror on a Train (1953)
It's a race against the clock to defuse a bomb on board a speeding train filled with high explosives.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff | Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham
9:15 AM | Split Second (1953)
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that's the target of a nuclear bomb test.
Dir: Dick Powell | Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
10:45 AM | Suddenly (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Dir: Lewis Allen | Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason
12:15 PM | The Petrified Forest (1936)
Patrons of a diner are held against their will by a desperate gangster.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo | Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin
1:45 PM | The Stranger (1946)
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
4:00 PM | Cause for Alarm! (1951)
A woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder.
Dir: Tay Garnett | Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
5:15 PM | High Tide (1947)
A private investigator recounts the details of a murder to a newspaperman as they face death by drowning.
Dir: John Reinhardt | Cast: Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop
6:30 PM | D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Dir: Rudolph Maté | Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler
PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT & EARLY MORNING
8:00 PM | The Mission (1986)
Missionaries fight for the rights of native South Americans against Spanish landowners in the 1800s.
Dir: Roland Joffe | Cast: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally
10:15 PM | The Great Silence (1968)
A mute gunfighter defends a widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in 1898.
Dir: Sergio Corbucci | Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Vonetta McGee
2:15 AM | La Cage Aux Folles (1979)
A gay couple face a crisis when their son brings home his conservative fiancée and her parents.
Dir: Édouard Molinaro | Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier
2:00 AM | The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Algiers revolts against the French Foreign Legion.
Dir: Gillo Pontecorvo | Cast: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag
4:15 AM | Ennio (2021)
A documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone.
Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore | Cast: Ennio Morricone, Silvano Agosti, Alessandro Alessandroni