TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 16: Happy Hour
The booze is flowing tonight on TCM.
And for the daytime, it's a tribute to Audrey Totter, bringing along noir galore! All that and Robert Montgomery, too.
Belly up to the TCM bar, folks. 
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
1:15 AM Picnic (1956)
A handsome drifter ignites passions at a small-town Labor Day picnic.
Dir: Joshua Logan Cast: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:15 AM The Outrage (1964)
A murderer, a sexually assaulted wife and the dead man himself present conflicting versions of a brutal crime.
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
5:00 AM Objective, Burma! (1945)
An elite team of paratroopers lands deep behind Japanese lines in the jungles of Burma - only to find its escape route blocked. Now, the brave survivors of the original mission must fight their way through 150 miles of enemy held jungle.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince
Runtime: 142 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
7:30 AM Main Street After Dark (1944)
A police clean-up campaign could put a family of pickpockets out of work.
Dir: Edward Cahn Cast: Edward Arnold, Selena Royle, Tom Trout
Runtime: 56 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
8:45 AM The Cockeyed Miracle (1946)
Father and son ghosts sort out their family's problems.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Frank Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Cecil Kellaway
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
10:15 AM The Unsuspected (1947)
The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
12:00 PM The Sellout (1951)
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
Dir: Gerald Mayer Cast: Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
1:30 PM Lady in the Lake (1947)
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective's viewpoint.
Dir: Robert Montgomery Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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3:15 PM High Wall (1947)
Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife's murder.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
5:00 PM The Set-Up (1949)
An aging boxer defies the gangsters who've ordered him to throw his last fight.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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6:15 PM Tension (1950)
A man who had planned to murder his wife's lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it.
Dir: John Berry Cast: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: HAPPY HOUR
8:00 PM Spring and Port Wine (1970)
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working-class Bolton, England.
Dir: Peter Hammond Cast: Arthur Lowe, Maria Mantella, Barry McCormick
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-PG CC:
10:00 PM Sam Whiskey (1969)
A beautiful widow enlists three cowboys to help her unearth money her husband stole from the U.S. Mint.
Dir: Arnold Laven Cast: Burt Reynolds, Clint Walker, Ossie Davis
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
12:00 AM Tequila Sunrise (1988)
A beautiful restauranteur becomes involved in a romantic triangle with two old friends: one a police officer, and the other an ex-drug dealer.
Dir: Robert Towne Cast: Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
2:15 AM The Moonshine War (1970)
A revenuer tries to destroy a sadistic bootlegger's still.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Richard Widmark, Alan Alda
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
4:15 AM What--No Beer? (1933)
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick Cast: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Rosco Ates
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
5:30 AM MGM Parade Show #4 (1955)
George Murphy tours Lake Metro, where "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "Show Boat" were shot, and introduces a clip from "Good News." These clips feature June Allyson and Peter Lawford.
Dir: null Cast: Peter Lawford, George Murphy, June Allyson
Runtime: 25 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N
