TCM Schedule Saturday 4/12/25: The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Film Noir, Stanley Kramer

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Day At a Glance

TCM SPOTLIGHT: PULP FICTION
- FILM NOIR
My Gun Is Quick (1957)
Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946)
Harper (1966)
Getaway, The (1972)
TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
MGM Cartoons: Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
(8:00 am ET)
Fightin' Fools (1941) (Our Gang short)
Hard Guy, The (1930) (short)
Thundering Hoofs (1942)
Galloping Ghost Ch. 10: The Vulture's Lair (1931) (TCM Premiere)
Popeye: Females Is Fickle (1940)
Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)
Ups and Downs (1937) (short)
Unsinkable Molly Brown, The (1964) (Musical
Matinee)
East of Eden (1955)
Wichita (1955)
12 Angry Men (1957)
- TCM PRIMETIME
ERSKINE CALDWELL ADAPTATIONS
God's Little Acre (1958)
Claudelle Inglish (1961)
- NOIR ALLEY
Steel Trap, The (1952)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: STANLEY KRAMER DRAMAS
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Defiant Ones, The (1958)

Full day's schedule

11:45 PM My Gun Is Quick (1957)
Detective Mike Hammer's investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves.
Dir: George A. White Cast: Robert Bray, Whitney Blake
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:30 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


3:30 AM Harper (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman's missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


5:45 AM The Getaway (1972)
Steve McQueen stars as "Doc" McCoy - a convict who makes a deal to split his hidden loot with a corrupt politician in exchange for early release from prison--in this fast-paced tale of greed and betrayal. Once free, McCoy tries to uphold his part of the agreement, but he quickly learns there is no one he can trust as he ...
Dir: Sam Peckinpah Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali Macgraw, Ben Johnson
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 AM Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
Instead of the forest, Grandma lives in the city in this altered version of the classic tale of Red Riding Hood.
Dir: Tex Avery (fred) Cast: Frank Graham, Sara Berner
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:10 AM Fightin' Fools (1941)
In this comedic short, two rival gangs of children duke it out.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn Cast: Freddie Walburn, Robert Blake, Leonard Landy
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:20 AM The Hard Guy (1930)
An unemployed man puts a pistol in his pocket and walks out of his apartment, leaving his wife in fear in this short film. Vitaphone Release 1036.
Dir: Arthur Hurley Cast: Katharine Alexander, Pat Kearney, Spencer Tracy
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N


8:30 AM Thundering Hoofs (1941)
A young man fights to keep his father from cheating the owner of a stagecoach line.
Dir: Lesley Selander Cast: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Lee "lasses" White
Runtime: 61 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:35 AM The Vulture's Lair (1931) (TCM Premiere)
Chapter 10 of The Galloping Ghost 1931 serial. A gambling ring is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, who try to eliminate him from playing.
Dir: B. Reeves Eason Cast: Harold "Red" Grange, Dorothy Gulliver, Walter Miller
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y


10:05 AM Females Is Fickle (1940)
Olive Oyl's pet goldfish jumps out of his bowl and falls overboard. Popeye dives after the missing pet and the chase is on! Various undersea denizens strive to thwart Popeye's efforts to catch the goldfish.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Dave Tendlar Cast: Pinto Colvig, Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:15 AM Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)
A rock thrown through his window sets a gentleman adventurer on a search for enemy agents.
Dir: Norman Lee Cast: John Lodge, Dorothy Mackaill, Victor Jory
Runtime: 59 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: N


11:30 AM Ups and Downs (1937)
In this short musical, an elevator operator and an engaged girl in love dodge the girl's fiancee and attempt to win over her father. Vitaphone Release B36-37.
Dir: Roy Mack Cast: June Allyson, Hal Le Roy, Phil Silvers
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 PM The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
Adventurous, young Molly Tobin moves alone to the Colorado mining camp of Leadville with a dream of becoming rich. There, she marries tall and handsome Irish prospector "Leadville" Johnny Brown, who soon discovers a gold mine almost as rich as Molly's ambition. But even with their newfound wealth, Molly is snubbed by Colorado's ...
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley
Runtime: 128 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:30 PM East of Eden (1955)
Film adaptation of Steinbeck's classic about a 1917 California farm family and the two brothers who struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:45 PM Wichita (1955)
Wyatt Earp fights to straighten out a crooked cattle town.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:15 PM 12 Angry Men (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 PM God's Little Acre (1958)
A dirt-farmer lets his family fall apart while he hunts for his grandfather's buried gold.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Buddy Hackett
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:15 PM Claudelle Inglish (1961)
A defiant Southern girl marries a poor dirt farmer instead of the wealthy landowner her mother picked out.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: Diane McBain, Arthur Kennedy, Will Hutchins
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:15 AM The Steel Trap (1952)
When he has second thoughts, an embezzler races the clock to return what he stole.
Dir: Andrew Stone Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:00 AM Inherit the Wind (1960)
True story of a Tennessee schoolteacher who went on trial in 1925 for teaching Darwin's theories.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:15 AM The Defiant Ones (1958)
Two convicts, a white racist and an angry black, escape while chained to each other.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

[BigmanPigman]

1. Wow! So many of my favorites.....

Eadt Of Eden, 12 Angry Men, and Inherit The Wind. Harper still confuses me, even though I have watched it before.