TCM Schedule for Wednesday, June 11: African Adventures/Star of the Month: Gary Cooper

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

12:00 AM Gaslight (1940)
A turn-of-the-century bride moves into the house where her aunt was murdered and begins to fear she's going mad.
Dir: Thorold Dickinson Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:30 AM Good Time Girl (1948)
A British magistrate tells the story of a wayward girl who joins two GI deserters in a crime spree.
Dir: David Macdonald Cast: Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Diana Dors
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: N


3:15 AM The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
In this fascinating epic, Colonel Blimp relished a good fight, but as the atrocities of combat took their toll, he was forced to rethink the sense of it all. Deborah Kerr co-stars playing three different women who touched the colonel's heart over the course of his 40-year career.
Dir: Michael Powell Cast: Deborah Kerr, Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook
Runtime: 163 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-G CC: Y

TCM Daytime: African Adventures

6:00 AM Trader Horn (1931)
Two white traders in the darkest Africa of the 1870s find a missionary's daughter, who was captured as a child by a savage tribe and is now worshiped as a goddess.
Dir: W.S. Van Dyke Cast: Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

8:15 AM Rhino! (1964)
A scientist is forced to join forces with an unscrupulous African hunter.
Dir: Ivan Tors Cast: Harry Guardino, Shirley Eaton, Robert Culp
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:00 AM Hitting a New High (1937)
A crackpot press agent tries to pass off an aspiring opera singer as a jungle girl.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, John Howard
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

11:30 AM Africa Screams (1949)
Abbott and Costello search for an African diamond mine.
Dir: Charles Barton Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

1:00 PM Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
The jungle king fights to protect his wife from a greedy ivory hunter.
Dir: Cedric Gibbons Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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3:00 PM Mogambo (1953)
In this remake of Red Dust, an African hunter is torn between a lusty showgirl and a married woman.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

5:15 PM Out of Africa (1985)
True life story of Karen Blixen, a woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who finds happiness with an adventurer.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Runtime: 162 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

TCM Prime Time: Star of the Month: Gary Cooper

8:00 PM For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
During the Spanish Civil War, an American mercenary and an army of peasants fight in the International Brigades against Francisco Franco's forces.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff
Runtime: 159 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:

11:00 PM Morocco (1930)
A sultry cabaret singer falls hard for a Foreign Legionnaire.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg Cast: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: N

12:45 AM Desire (1936)
An automotive engineer bound for a holiday in Spain meets a sultry jewel thief.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

2:30 AM A Farewell to Arms (1932)
An American soldier falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse he meets after being wounded at the front.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

4:00 AM Love in the Afternoon (1957)
When Parisian private detective Claude Chavasse tells a client that his wife is having an affair with American Frank Flannigan, the client vows to kill Flannigan. To prevent a murder, Chavasse's daughter, Ariane, goes to warn Flannigan. Ariane resorts to seductively teasing Flannigan to lure him away from danger - not realizing ...
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y