TCM Schedule for Wednesday, July 7: From Hollywood to the Heartland

The daytime theme is Ty Hardin, and the evening schedule appeared in TCM's Now Playing under the description The Great American Middle: Small Town Dramas (I'd add that tonight's category contains precisely what you'd expect). See the article below for more on the series:

https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/021363?source=Block

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

12:00 am
The Bad and the Beautiful (1953)
1h 58m | Drama | TV-PG
An unscrupulous movie producer uses everyone around him in his climb to the top.
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Cast
Elaine Stewart, Sammy White, Leo G. Carroll

2:15 am
The Harder They Fall (1956)
1h 49m | Drama | TV-PG
A cynical press agent exposes inhuman conditions in the boxing game.
Director
Mark Robson
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling

4:15 am
Back from Eternity (1956)
1h 37m | Adventure | TV-PG
When an airliner crashes in the jungle, the repaired plane can only hold five...
Director
John Farrow
Cast
Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger

6:00 am
Merrill's Marauders (1962)
1h 38m | War | TV-PG
A grizzled U.S. general leads his men against the Japanese in Burma during World War II.
Director
Samuel Fuller
Cast
Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown

7:45 am
PT 109 (1963)
2h 20m | War | TV-PG
Assigned to command a small, swift PT boat in the South Pacific, a young Lieutenant John F. Kennedy fights to save his crew when their boat sinks.
Director
Leslie H. Martinson
Cast
Cliff Robertson, Ty Hardin, James Gregory



10:30 am
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
2h 43m | War | TV-14
A crack Nazi unit holds off the Allies during World War II.
Director
Ken Annakin
Cast
Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan

1:30 pm
Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
1h 40m | Comedy | TV-PG
College students on spring break turn Palm Springs into a disaster area.
Director
Norman Taurog
Cast
Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin



3:15 pm
Wall of Noise (1963)
1h 52m | Drama | TV-PG
A horse trainer with a loyal girlfriend has a fling with an owner's wife...
Director
Richard Wilson
Cast
Suzanne Pleshette, Ty Hardin, Dorothy Provine

5:15 pm
The Chapman Report (1962)
2h 5m | Comedy | TV-PG
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
Director
George Cukor
Cast
Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda

7:30 pm
Dating: Do's and Don'ts (1949)
13m | Drama | TV-G
A young man is given advice on what to do and what not to do on a date.
Director
Ted Peshak
Cast
John Lindsay, Jackie Gleason, Dick Creyke

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: FROM HOLLYWOOD TO THE HEARTLAND

Small Town Dramas

8:00 pm
Peyton Place (1957)
2h 42m | Drama | TV-PG
Small-town scandals erupt when a repressed woman deals with her daughter's move into adult...
Director
Mark Robson
Cast
Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan



10:45 pm
Picnic (1955)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-PG
A handsome drifter ignites passions at a small-town Labor Day picnic.
Director
Joshua Logan
Cast
William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field



12:45 am
East of Eden (1955)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-PG
Film adaptation of Steinbeck's classic about a 1917 California farm family and the two brothers...
Director
Elia Kazan
Cast
Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey



3:00 am
Kings Row (1942)
2h 7m | Drama | TV-PG
Small town scandals inspire an idealistic young man to take up psychiatry.
Director
Sam Wood
Cast
Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan



5:15 am
Our Town (1940)
1h 30m | Drama | TV-G
Small town lovers search for happiness.
Director
Sam Wood
Cast
Frank Craven, William Holden, Martha Scott