TCM Schedule for Tuesday, April 15: Tax Troubles (Crime Dramas)/Music Background, Part 1 - with Marty Stuart

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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Star of the Month: Red Skelton (continued)

12:00 AM Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
Singer May wants to marry a rich man but her heart belongs to a penniless dancer named Alec. Louis Blore, who has just won a fortune through a sweepstakes, promptly marries May. However, after Louis accidentally has a laced drink, he has a fantastic dream in which he, May and Alec are members of the royal French court. Once Louis awakens, he begins to reconsider his relationship with May.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

2:00 AM Merton of the Movies (1947)
A star-struck hick goes to Hollywood to become a star.
Dir: Robert Alton Cast: Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien, Gloria Grahame
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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3:30 AM Lady Be Good (1941)
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod Cast: Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


5:30 AM Flight Command (1940)
A cocky cadet tries to prove himself during flight training.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



7:30 AM Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
Legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld imagines the kind of Follies he could produce with MGM's musical stars.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM The Automat (2021)
A documentary focusing on the popular 20th century vending machine that offered freshly cooked meals.
Dir: Lisa Hurwitz Cast: Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Colin Powell
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

TCM Daytime: Tax Troubles

11:00 AM The Secret Six (1931)
A secret society funds the investigation of a bootlegging gang.
Dir: George Hill Cast: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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12:30 PM Special Agent (1935)
A government agent poses as a newspaperman to get the goods on a mobster.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Ricardo Cortez
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

2:00 PM Alcatraz Island (1937)
A prison inmate is framed for killing a con who once tried to kidnap his daughter.
Dir: William McGann Cast: Ann Sheridan, John Litel, Mary Maguire
Runtime: 61 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:15 PM The Last Gangster (1937)
When a notorious gangster gets out of prison, he vows revenge on the wife who left him.
Dir: Edward Ludwig Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y

4:45 PM The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
A defense lawyer sets out to topple a powerful gangster.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: N

6:15 PM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

TCM Prime Time: Music Background, Part 1 - with Marty Stuart

8:00 PM Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
A dramatization of the life of iconic country music singer Loretta Lynn. Born in Butcher's Holler, Kentucky, Lynn grew up desperately poor, and was married to Dolittle "Mooney" Lynn when she was just thirteen. By the time she was twenty, she had four children, and was singing on weekends at local honky-tonks. With her husband ...as her manager, Lynn became a recording artist at age twenty-five, and eventually a huge star.
Dir: Michael Apted Cast: Tom Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek, Levon Helm
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

10:15 PM Road to Nashville (1967)
A Hollywood film company wants to make a movie about country music and sends Doodles Weaver to round up talent to appear. Several of the country stars of the day perform their hits.
Dir: Will Zens Cast:Marty Robbins, Connie Smith, Doodles Weaver
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Music Rating: TV-PG CC:

12:15 AM Five Minutes to Live (1961)
A deranged bandit holds a bank president's wife hostage.
Dir: Bill Karn Cast: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forester
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

TCM Late Night: Martin Sheen

1:45 AM Badlands (1973)
A teenager from a dead-end town decides to join a charming older boy on his shooting spree through Montana's badlands.
Dir: Terrence Malick Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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3:45 AM Rage (1972)
An angry cattle rancher takes on the U.S. army in this tense drama. When the government's chemical warfare tests get out of hand, the man's cattle are the first to die. Then his son is stricken... and he vows revenge.
Dir: George C Scott Cast: George C Scott, Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


5:30 AM Soft Drinks and Sweet Music (1934)
In this short film, a soda jerk/songwriter dreams of performing his songs on Broadway. Vitaphone Release 1776-1777.
Dir: Roy Mack Cast: George J. Lewis, George Watts, Billie Leonard
Runtime: 22 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N