TCM Schedule for Friday, May 23

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23 Friday


6:00 AM---- Garden Of The Moon (1938)
A nightclub owner and a bandleader compete for the lead singer's heart. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Margaret Lindsay, John Payne. Dir: Busby Berkeley. BW-94 mins, TV-G


7:35 AM---- Short Film: Desert Regatta (1932)
BW-9 mins,


7:45 AM---- Indianapolis Speedway (1939)
A race-car driver tries to keep his kid brother from taking to the track. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan, John Payne. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-82 mins, TV-PG


9:15 AM---- Kid Nightingale (1939)
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter. Cast: John Payne, Jane Wyman, Walter Catlett. Dir: George Amy. BW-57 mins, TV-G


10:15 AM---- King Of The Lumberjacks (1940)
A northwoods lumberjack unwittingly marries his best friend's girl. Cast: John Payne, Gloria Dickson, Stanley Fields. Dir: William Clemens. BW-59 mins, TV-G


11:15 AM---- Tear Gas Squad (1940)
A brave young policeman single-handedly takes on a vicious criminal gang. Cast: Dennis Morgan, John Payne, George Reeves. Dir: Terry Morse. BW-55 mins, TV-PG


12:15 PM---- MGM Parade Show #6 (1955)
Greta Garbo performs in a clip from "Anna Christie"; Robert Taylor introduces a clip from "Quentin Durward." Hosted by George Murphy. BW-26 mins, TV-G


12:45 PM---- Neptune's Daughter (1949)
Mistaken identity complicates a polo player's romance with a bathing suit designer. Cast: Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban, Red Skelton. Dir: Edward Buzzell. C-93 mins, TV-G, CC


2:30 PM---- My Sister Eileen (1955)
Two sisters from Ohio, one pretty, one witty, plot to take New York City by storm. Cast: Betty Garrett, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon. Dir: Richard Quine. C-107 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format


4:30 PM---- He Laughed Last (1956)
When a chorus girl inherits a gangster's nightclub, her boyfriend accuses her of cheating. Cast: Frankie Laine, Lucy Marlowe, Anthony Dexter. Dir: Blake Edwards. C-77 mins,


6:00 PM---- Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
A dowager tries to buy a lobotomy to silence the woman who witnessed her son's murder. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


8:00 PM---- How To Murder Your Wife (1965)
After marrying while drunk, a cartoonist puts his murderous fantasies into his work. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas. Dir: Richard Quine. C-118 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format


10:15 PM---- Out-of-Towners, The (1969)
A man's New York job interview turns into a non-stop nightmare. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Anne Meara. Dir: Arthur Hiller. C-97 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


12:00 AM---- Odd Couple, The (1968)
A divorced neat freak moves in with his sloppy best friend. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Herb Edelman. Dir: Gene Saks. C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


2:00 AM---- Sugar Hill (1974)
When gangsters kill her boyfriend, a woman enlists a Voodoo queen to raise an army of the dead. Cast: Marki Bey, Robert Quarry, Don Pedro Colley. Dir: Paul Maslansky. C-91 mins, , Letterbox Format


3:32 AM---- Short Film: From Paris-Your Reporter Richard Crenna (1966)
C-7 mins,


3:45 AM---- Death Line (1973)
Tunnel dwellers use the London Underground as a hunting ground. Cast: Hugh Armstrong, James Cossins, Sharon Gurney. Dir: Gary Sherman. C-88 mins, , Letterbox Format


5:13 AM ---- Short Film: Sky Divers, The (1969)
C-15 mins,


5:30 AM---- Festival of Shorts #23 (1999)
TCM promotes two 10-minute shorts from 1950 entitled "Screen Actors" and "Moments in Music". This series spotlighted the various arts, crafts, and sciences employed in the making of a motion picture. BW-21 mins, , CC

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