TCM Schedule for Tuesday, October 18: Joe Caroff

This is a schedule with interesting range. After the Halloween horrors of midnight and early morning, enjoy a day filled with Margaret Sullavan movies of various genres (and yes, The Shop Around the Corner is one of them). Then learn about graphic designer Joe Caroff's career and check out the accompanying films, for which he created iconic logos.

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

1:30 AM
House of Wax (1953)
1h 28m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
Ghoulish shenanigans, creepy goings-on, and bloody mayhem all register to full effect in the "Wax Museum."
Director
Andre DeToth
Cast
Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk

3:15 AM
The Hypnotic Eye (1960)
1h 18m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
A city is stricken by a wave of self-mutilations performed by beautiful women who appear to be in a hypnotic trance.
Director
George Blair
Cast
Jacques Bergerac, Merry Anders, Marcia Henderson

4:45 AM
Mad Love (1935)
1h 7m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
A mad doctor grafts the hands of a murderer on to a concert pianist's wrists.
Director
Karl Freund
Cast
Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive

6:00 AM
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
1h 28m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
After a famous pianist's murder, his hand returns to wreak vengeance.
Director
Robert Florey
Cast
Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre

7:30 AM
The Shining Hour (1938)
1h 20m | Drama | TV-PG
A nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.
Director
Frank Borzage
Cast
Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Melvyn Douglas

9:00 AM
Three Comrades (1938)
1h 40m | Romance | TV-G
Three life-long friends share their love for a dying woman against the turbulent backdrop of Germany between two wars.
Director
Frank Borzage
Cast
Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone



10:45 AM
Cry 'Havoc' (1944)
1h 37m | War | TV-PG
A group of war nurses fight to survive the siege of Bataan.
Director
Richard Thorpe
Cast
Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell

12:30 PM
The Shopworn Angel (1938)
1h 25m | Romance | TV-G
A showgirl gives up life in the fast lane for a young soldier on his way to fight World War I.
Director
H. C. Potter
Cast
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon

2:00 PM
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
1h 37m | Romance | TV-G
Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Cast
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan



4:00 PM
The Mortal Storm (1940)
1h 40m | Drama | TV-PG
The Third Reich's rise tears apart a German family.
Director
Frank Borzage
Cast
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young



5:45 PM
So Ends Our Night (1941)
1h 57m | Drama | TV-G
Story about three German refugees racing across Europe during World War II.
Director
John Cromwell
Cast
Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: JOE CAROFF

8:00 PM
By Design: The Joe Caroff Story (2022)
52m
A look into the life and career of Hollywood graphic designer Joe Caroff.
Director
Mark Cerulli
Cast
Joe Caroff, Phyllis Caroff, Mike Medavoy and Dan Chapman

9:00 PM
Manhattan (1979)
1h 36m | Romance | TV-MA
A middle-aged TV writer living in Manhattan finds himself torn between relationships with a teenage girl who idolizes him, a thirty-something woman who shares his intellectual passions, and his ex-wife, who left him for another woman.
Director
Woody Allen
Cast
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway

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11:00 PM
By Design: The Joe Caroff Story (2022)
52m
A look into the life and career of Hollywood graphic designer Joe Caroff.
Director
Mark Cerulli
Cast
Joe Caroff, Phyllis Caroff, Mike Medavoy and Dan Chapman

12:00 AM
Cabaret (1972)
2h 4m | Musical | TV-14
In this musical set in 1931 Berlin, a starry-eyed nightclub singer and the master of ceremonies offer decadent distractions amid the rise of Nazism.
Director
Bob Fosse
Cast
Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem



2:15 AM
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
1h 32m | Musical | TV-PG
A rock and roll mockumentary that follows "a day in the life" of those four lads from Liverpool.
Director
Richard Lester
Cast
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison



4:00 AM
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968)
1h 35m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
Produced by Beatles associate Allan Klein, this tuneful comedy stars UK chart toppers Herman's Hermits.
Director
Saul Swimmer
Cast
Peter Noone, Karl Green, Keith Hopwood