TCM Schedule for Wednesday, October 14: Presidential Biopics

Prepare to be duly creeped out as director Tod Browning takes over the daytime schedule. Then settle in for a roster of movies about presidents, including two for the price of one in that pre-Hamilton Founders musical, 1776.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

12:15 am
Rafiki (2018)
Drama | TV-14
Kena and Ziki live very different lives in Nairobi. Kena works in her father's shop and aw...
Director: No Director Available
Cast: No Cast Information Available.

2:30 am
First Love (1977)
1h 31m | Romance | TV-MA
A young man falls for an older, more experienced woman.
Director: Joan Darling
Cast: William Katt, Susan Dey, John Heard

2:00 am
The House Is Black (1963)
21m | Documentary | TV-PG
The life and suffering of leprosy patients in a hospital in Bababaghi, Iran.
Director: Forugh Farrokhzad
Cast: Forugh Farrokhzad, Ebrahim Golestan, Hossein Manso...

4:15 am
The Night Porter (1974)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-MA
Thirteen years after World War II, Lucia, a survivor of a German concentration camp, runs...
Director: Liliana Cavani
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy-b...

6:30 am
Le Bonheur (1965)
1h 27m | Romance | TV-MA
When his wife dies, a man takes his children and goes off to live with his mistress happil...
Director: Agnes Varda
Cast: Jean-claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Sandrine Drouot

8:15 am
Danzon (1991)
1h 43m | Dance | TV-14
A Mexico City telephone operator and erstwhile ballroom dancer travels to Veracruz to find...
Director: Maria Novaro
Cast: Maria Rojo, Carmen Salinas, Blanca Guerra

10:15 am
The Unholy Three (1925)
1h 26m | Drama | TV-G
In this silent film, a ventriloquist masquerades as an old lady to front a crime ring.
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore

12:00 pm
The Unknown (1927)
1h 1m | Drama | TV-PG
In this silent film, an escaped killer pretends to be a sideshow's armless wonder.
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford

1:00 pm
The Blackbird (1926)
1h 26m | Comedy | TV-G
A benevolent bishop helps the needy during the day, but runs a crime syndicate at night.
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: No Cast Information Available.

2:30 pm
The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
1h 12m | Crime | TV-G
A phony medium tries to prove her protege innocent of murder.
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Margaret Wycherly

4:00 pm
Freaks (1932)
1h 30m | Horror | TV-PG
A lady trapeze artist violates the code of the side show when she plots to murder her midg...
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova

5:15 pm
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
1h 1m | Horror | TV-PG
Vampires seem to be connected to an unsolved murder.
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allen, Lionel Atwill

6:30 pm
The Devil-Doll (1936)
1h 19m | Horror | TV-PG
A Devil's Island escapee shrinks murderous slaves and sells them to his victims as dolls. ...
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: PRESIDENTIAL BIOPICS

8:00 pm
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
1h 50m | Biography | TV-G
An exploration into the domestic and political life of former president, Abraham Lincoln.
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon

10:00 pm
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
2h 23m | Drama | TV-G
In the summer of 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...
Director: Vincent J. Donehue
Cast: Zina Bethune, Tim Considine, Alan Bunce



12:45 am
PT 109 (1963)
2h 20m | Drama | TV-PG
Assigned to command a small, swift, PT boat in the South Pacific, a young Lieutenant Kenne...
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Ty Hardin, James Gregory



3:15 am
1776 (1972)
2h 21m | Comedy | TV-G
The founding fathers struggle to draft the Declaration of Independence.
Director: Peter H. Hunt
Cast: William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard