TCM Schedule for Tuesday, October 4: Pick Your Poison

TCM's Now Playing newsletter for October contains a number of mistakes. It indicates the daytime schedule for October 4 is devoted to Margaret Sullivan [sic], but it's actually Adventures in Waitressing. Margaret Sullavan's day is coming up on October 18.

The evening schedule for October 4 is accurate. Poisonings all evening long!

Tuesday, October 4, 2022


12:15 AM
The Devil's Own (1966)
1h 30m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-14
Following a horrifying experience with the occult in Africa, a schoolteacher moves to a small English village, only to discover that black magic resides there.
Director
Cyril Frankel
Cast
Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen

2:00 AM
The Haunting (1963)
1h 52m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
You may not believe in ghosts...but you cannot deny terror! Hill House has a reputation for insistent hospitality; it seemingly dislikes getting its guests get away.
Director
Robert Wise
Cast
Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson

4:00 AM
Night Watch (1973)
1h 45m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
Ellen Wheeler is an unhappy housewife who settles her fraying nerves with alcohol while staring out her window. Then she sees something suspicious...
Director
Brian G. Hutton
Cast
Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw

5:45 AM
The Spiral Staircase (1975)
1h 26m | Adaptation | TV-14
Helen has been incapable of speech since seeing her husband die. Will she become the target of a serial killer who preys on people with disabilities?
Director
Peter Collinson
Cast
Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer

7:15 AM
Going Highbrow (1935)
1h 7m | Comedy | TV-G
A nouveau riche couple try to break into high society.
Director
Robert Florey
Cast
Guy Kibbee, Zasu Pitts, Edward Everett Horton

8:30 AM
Sweepstakes Winner (1939)
59m | Comedy | TV-G
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
Director
William McGann
Cast
Marie Wilson, Johnnie Davis, Allen Jenkins

9:30 AM
Shopworn (1932)
1h 12m | Romance | TV-G
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
Director
Nicholas Grinde
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, Zasu Pitts

10:45 AM
Sweet Adeline (1935)
1h 27m | Musical | TV-G
A gay nineties waitress rises from beer gardens to Broadway.
Director
Mervyn Le Roy
Cast
Irene Dunne, Donald Woods, Hugh Herbert

12:15 PM
Sally (1930)
1h 43m | Musical | TV-G
A waitress dreams of becoming a Broadway star.
Director
John Francis Dillon
Cast
Marilyn Miller, Alexander Gray, Joe E. Brown

2:00 PM
Return from the Sea (1954)
1h 19m | Romance | TV-G
A sailor vows to give up his wandering ways when he falls for a waitress.
Director
Lesley Selander
Cast
Jan Sterling, Neville Brand, John Doucette

3:30 PM
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
1h 15m | Comedy | TV-G
An English professor helps a waitress take a dream vacation in Paris.
Director
Alexander Hall
Cast
Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Walter Connolly

5:00 PM
Boy Meets Girl (1938)
1h 20m | Comedy | TV-G
Two wacky Hollywood writers drive their boss crazy while trying to help a pregnant waitress.
Director
Lloyd Bacon
Cast
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson

6:30 PM
It's a Great Feeling (1949)
1h 25m | Comedy | TV-G
When nobody at Warner Bros. will work with him, movie star Jack Carson decides to turn an unknown into his costar.
Director
David Butler
Cast
Dennis Morgan, Doris Day, Jack Carson



WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: PICK YOUR POISON

8:00 PM
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
1h 58m | Comedy | TV-G
Cynical drama critic Mortimer Brewster and his innocent bride are in for the unexpected when they drop by the Brooklyn home of Mortimer's sweet maiden aunts and the unpredictable Uncle Teddy. That's all I'm telling you; just watch the movie.
Director
Frank Capra
Cast
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey

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10:15 PM
The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
1h 39m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith star in this thriller about an artist who can only find inspiration in murder.
Director
Peter Godfrey
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith

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12:15 AM
D.O.A. (1950)
1h 23m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-14
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Director
Rudolph Maté
Cast
Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler



2:00 AM
The Casino Murder Case (1935)
1h 23m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
Society sleuth Philo Vance takes on a series of murders at an aging dowager's mansion.
Director
Edwin L. Marin
Cast
Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook

3:30 AM
The Falcon Out West (1944)
1h 4m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
A society sleuth turns cowboy to investigate a Texas murder.
Director
William Clemens
Cast
Tom Conway, Carole Gallagher, Barbara Hale

4:45 AM
Hollywood Without Make-Up (1966)
50m | Documentary | TV-G
In this special, Ken Murray hosts his own behind-the-scenes home movies of some of Hollywood's stars.
Director
No Director Available
Cast
Ken Murray