TCM Schedule for Saturday, April 25: Arsenic and Old Lace, The Bad Seed, I Confess, The Wrong Man

AT A GLANCE


SPECIAL THEME: DIRECTOR ROGER CORMAN
- ROGER CORMAN AS A PRODUCER
Shooting, The (1966)
Roger Corman: The Pope of Pop Cinema (2021)
Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: DOCUMENTARY
Made in England: The Films of Powell and
Pressburger (2024
Saturday, April 25
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Bachelor Mother (1939)
I Love You Again (1940)
Holt of the Secret Service Ch. 13:
Prison of Jeopardy (1941) (TCM Premiere)
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
Easy Life (1944) (short)
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) (Musical Matinee)
Berlin Express (1948)
Bad Seed, The (1956)
Moonstruck (1987)
- TCM PRIMETIME
POISONOUS EFFECTS
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Murder, He Says (1945)
- NOIR ALLEY
711 Ocean Drive (1950)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: HITCHCOCK FILM NOIR
I Confess (1953)
Wrong Man, The (1956)

FULL DAY SCHEDULE

11:30 PM The Shooting (1966)
A hired gun seeks to enact revenge on a group of bounty hunters in the Old West.
Dir: Monte Hellman Cast: Jack Nicholson, Millie Perkins, Will Hutchins
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:15 AM Roger Corman: The Pope of Pop Cinema (2021)
The career of maverick producer Roger Corman, covering his heyday as a director touching upon subjects that major studios wouldn't allow that appealed mainly to youth audiences at their local drive-ins.
Dir: Bertrand Tessier Cast: Roger Corman, Peter Bogdanovich, Gene Corman
Runtime: 52 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC:


2:15 AM Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
Three teens get into the drug business when they discover heroin in a stolen briefcase.
Dir: Irving Kershner Cast: Yale Wexler, Morris Miller, Jonathon Haze
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


3:45 AM Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024)
Martin Scorsese reflects on the influence of directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Dir: David Hinton Cast: Martin Scorsese, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Runtime: 131 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:00 AM Bachelor Mother (1939)
A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
Dir: Garson Kanin Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


7:30 AM I Love You Again (1940)
A solid married man discovers he's forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM Prison of Jeopardy (1941)
Chapter 13 of the Holt of the Secret Service 1941 serial. A gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped a government engraver and is forcing him to print virtually undetectable phony money. The Secret Service sends agent Jack Holt and a female partner after the gang.
Dir: James W. Horne Cast: Jack Holt, Evelyn Brent, C. Montague Shaw
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC:


10:00 AM Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
Tarzan rescues a beautiful American pilot who crash lands in the jungle, and together they pursue a band of evil, mercenary diamond hunters who have stolen explosives from a village.
Dir: John Guillermin Cast: Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sara Shane
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC:


11:30 AM Easy Life (1944)
A high school dropout finds that leading a life of crime is not all he thought it would be.
Dir: Walter Hart Cast: William "bill" Phillips, William Tannen, James Warren
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:00 PM It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)
A returning GI and his friends try to make it in the music business.
Dir: Richard Whorf Cast: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 PM Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


3:45 PM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight year old girl--a quintessential psychopath--kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this "bad seed" to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:00 PM Moonstruck (1987)
A levelheaded young woman falls in love with her fiance's brother in a Brooklyn Italian-American neighborhood.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


8:00 PM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret penchant for poisoning old male callers with their homemade elderberry wine, to end the men's loneliness!
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


10:15 PM Murder, He Says (1945)
A pollster stumbles on a family of small-town killers.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y


12:00 AM 711 Ocean Drive (1950)
A telephone repairman gets mixed up with illegal gambling.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:00 AM I Confess (1953)
Based on a 1902 play, a Jesuit priest is wrongly accused of murder and cannot defend himself because he has vowed to protect the confession of the real criminal.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:00 AM The Wrong Man (1956)
Based on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y