TCM Schedule for Wednesday, September 22: First Day of Fall

The daytime schedule is saddling up for '50s Westerns, and then at night it's autumn, Cheyenne or otherwise.

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

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
Famous crime writers (fiction and nonfiction) discuss the genre.
Director
Laurent Bouzereau
Cast
James Ellroy, Philip Kerr, Michael Connelly

6:00 am
Wild Stallion (1952)
1h 10m | Western | TV-G
A horse hunter pursues a white colt that ran off when his parents were killed.
Director
Lewis D. Collins
Cast
Ben Johnson, Edgar Buchanan, Martha Hyer

7:15 am
Tall Man Riding (1955)
1h 23m | Western | TV-PG
Scott plays a small-time rancher who was once driven from town by nasty cattle magnate...
Director
Lesley Selander
Cast
Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Peggie Castle

8:45 am
Riding Shotgun (1954)
1h 14m | Western | TV-PG
A stagecoach guard is mistaken for a member of a gang of outlaws.
Director
André De Toth
Cast
Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris, Joan Weldon

10:15 am
Tension at Table Rock (1956)
1h 33m | Western | TV-PG
When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.
Director
Charles Marquis Warren
Cast
Richard Egan, Dorothy Malone, Cameron Mitchell

12:00 pm
The Young Guns (1956)
1h 24m | Western | TV-PG
A disaffected youth falls in with the wrong crowd back in 1897.
Director
Albert Band
Cast
Russ Tamblyn, Gloria Talbott, Perry Lopez

1:30 pm
Rio Bravo (1959)
2h 21m | Western | TV-14
A sheriff enlists a drunk, a kid and an old man to help him fight off a ruthless cattle baron.
Director
Howard Hawks
Cast
John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson

4:00 pm
The Left Handed Gun (1958)
1h 42m | Western | TV-PG
Billy the Kid sets out for vengeance on the men who killed his mentor.
Director
Arthur Penn
Cast
Paul Newman, Lita Milan, John Dehner

6:00 pm
The Lusty Men (1952)
1h 53m | Drama | TV-PG
A faded rodeo star mentors a younger rider but falls for his wife.
Director
Nicholas Ray
Cast
Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy



WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: FIRST DAY OF FALL

8:00 pm
Autumn Leaves (1956)
1h 48m | Drama | TV-PG
A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
Director
Robert Aldrich
Cast
Joan Crawford, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene

10:00 pm
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
2h 40m | Western | TV-PG
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyennes.
Director
John Ford
Cast
Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden



12:45 am
Autumn Sonata (1978)
1h 32m | Drama | TV-14
A concert pianist faces the daughter she's neglected for years.
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman



2:30 am
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
1h 53m | Drama | TV-PG
In an increasingly Americanized postwar Tokyo, a father gives up his only daughter in marriage.
Director
Yasujiro Ozu
Cast
Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada



4:30 am
The Winds of Autumn (1976)
1h 40m | Adventure
After his parents are murdered, an eleven-year-old Quaker boy travels across Montana...
Director
Charles B Pierce
Cast
Jack Elam, Jeanette Nolan, Andrew Prine