TCM Schedule for Tuesday, September 21: Starring George C. Scott

Brush up your Shakespeare, because the daytime theme is the Bard. Then a truly great player, George C. Scott, struts and frets his way through the evening schedule.

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

12:15 am
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
1h 10m | Comedy | TV-PG
A clumsy young man nurtures a bloodthirsty plant that forces him to kill to feed it.
Director
Roger Corman
Cast
Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles

1:45 am
10 (1979)
2h 2m | Comedy | TV-14
George is a middle-aged songwriter who feels that his life has become boring. He becomes infatuated with a blonde beauty.
Director
Blake Edwards
Cast
Max Showalter, Dudley Moore, Bo Derek

4:00 am
One Sunday Afternoon (1949)
1h 30m | Musical | TV-PG
A dentist in turn-of-the-century New York thinks he may have married the wrong girl.
Director
Raoul Walsh
Cast
Dennis Morgan, Janis Paige, Don Defore

6:00 am
Romeo and Juliet (1937)
2h 7m | Romance | TV-G
Shakespeare's classic tale of young lovers from feuding families.
Director
George Cukor
Cast
Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore

8:15 am
All Night Long (1963)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-14
A jazz band's leader thinks his wife is unfaithful.
Director
Basil Dearden
Cast
Patrick McGoohan, Marti Stevens, Betsy Blair



10:00 am
Playmates (1941)
1h 36m | Comedy | TV-G
A bandleader enlists a down-on-his-luck actor to teach him Shakespeare.
Director
David Butler
Cast
Kay Kyser, John Barrymore, Lupe Velez

11:45 am
Kiss Me Kate (1953)
1h 51m | Musical | TV-G
An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew."
Director
George Sidney
Cast
Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller

1:45 pm
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
2h 12m | Comedy | TV-PG
Shakespeare's classic about two pairs of lovers and an amateur actor who get mixed up with fairies.
Director
Max Reinhardt
Cast
Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Hobart Cavanaugh



4:15 pm
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
1h 48m | Comedy | TV-14
An actress schemes to win back her married lover from his still virginal wife.
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Margit Carlqvist



6:15 pm
Forbidden Planet (1956)
1h 38m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
A futuristic version of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Director
Fred McLeod Wilcox
Cast
Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen



WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STARRING GEORGE C. SCOTT

8:00 pm
Patton (1970)
2h 51m | War | TV-14
The legendary general's rebellious behavior almost costs him his command during World War II.
Director
Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast
George C Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates



11:00 pm
The Hospital (1971)
1h 43m | Comedy | TV-MA
A harried hospital administrator copes with rising costs, a seductive young woman and a serial killer.
Director
Arthur Hiller
Cast
George C Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes



1:00 am
Rage (1972)
1h 39m | Drama | TV-PG
When an experimental military gas kills a rancher's son, he sets out to seek answers and revenge.
Director
George C Scott
Cast
George C Scott, Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen



3:00 am
The Last Run (1971)
1h 22m | Crime | TV-14
An aging gangster insists on pulling one more job for the mob.
Director
Richard Fleischer
Cast
George C Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere

5:00 am
A Night at the Movies: Cops & Robbers and Crime Writers (2013)
57m | Documentary
A number of well-known writers of crime fiction and nonfiction discuss movies about their chosen subject matter.
Director
Laurent Bouzereau
Cast
James Ellroy, Philip Kerr, Michael Connelly