TCM Schedule for Monday September 6, 2021 - Music by Ennio Morricone
Labor Day daytime is full of adventure movies, while one of the all-time great film composers takes the prime time spotlight.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 am The Sea Hawk (1940)
2h 7m | Adventure | TV-G
A British buccaneer holds the Spanish fleet at bay with the covert approval of Elizabeth I.
Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
8:15 am Kim (1951)
1h 53m | Adventure | TV-PG
Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of an orphaned boy who helps the British Army against Indian rebels.
Director: Victor Saville. Cast: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas
10:15 am Mighty Joe Young (1949)
1h 34m | Adventure | TV-G
Showmen try to exploit a giant ape raised by an orphan.
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack. Cast: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong
12:00 pm The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
1h 42m | Adventure | TV-G
The bandit king of Sherwood Forest leads his Merry Men in a battle against the corrupt Prince John.
Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone
2:00 pm Ivanhoe (1952)
1h 46m | Epic | TV-G
Sir Walter Scott's classic tale of the noble knight torn between his fair lady and a beautiful Jew.
Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine.
4:00 pm Back from Eternity (1956)
1h 37m | Adventure | TV-PG
When an airliner crashes in the jungle, the repaired plane can only hold five of the surviors.
Director: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger
6:00 pm King Solomon's Mines (1950)
1h 42m | Adventure | TV-PG
A spirited widow hires a daredevil jungle scout to find a lost treasure in diamonds.
Director: Compton Bennett. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson
8:00 pm Cinema Paradiso (1989)
2h 35m | Drama | TV-MA
A boy coming of age in WWII Italy develops a lifelong love affair with movies.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore. Cast: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attil.
10:15 pm The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)
3h | Western | TV-14
Three men seek hidden loot during the Civil War.
Director: Sergio Leone. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
1:30 am The Battle of Algiers (1966)
2h | War | TV-14
Algiers revolts against the French Foreign Legion.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo. Cast: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag
3:45 am Bugsy (1991)
2h 15m | Crime | TV-MA
The famed gangster running the mobs in Los Angeles tries to turn Las Vegas into a vacation paradise.
Director: Barry Levinson. Cast: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel