TCM Schedule for Monday September 18, 2023 - I Like Big Bugs and I Cannot Lie

Daytime has a birthday salute to Greta Garbo; at night get the industrial size Raid out for some massive creepy-crawlies.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am Conquest (1937)
1h 52m | Romance | TV-PG
A Polish countess sacrifices her virtue to Napoleon to save her homeland.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen

8:00 am Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
1h 15m | Romance | TV-PG
A farm girl runs from her abusive father to a series of affairs in the big city.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Hersholt

9:30 am The Painted Veil (1934)
1h 23m | Romance | TV-G
A wife strays, then fights to redeem herself to her husband.
Director: Richard Boleslawski. Cast: Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent

11:00 am Ninotchka (1939)
1h 50m | Comedy | TV-G
A coldhearted Soviet agent is warmed up by a trip to Paris and a night of love.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire

1:00 pm Anna Christie (1930)
1h 14m | Drama | TV-PG
Eugene O'Neill's classic about a romantic prostitute trying to run away from her past.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion

2:30 pm Camille (1937)
1h 48m | Romance | TV-PG
In this classic 19th-century romance, a kept woman runs off with a young admirer in search...
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore

4:30 pm Romance (1930)
1h 16m | Romance | TV-G
An opera singer leaves her wealthy lover for a young priest.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Gavin Gordon

6:00 pm Queen Christina (1933)
1h 37m | Romance | TV-G
In this classic 19th-century romance, a kept woman runs off with a young admirer in search of love and happiness.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith

8:00 pm Them! (1954)
1h 34m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
Federal agents fight to destroy a colony of mutated giant ants.
Director: Gordon Douglas. Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon

10:00 pm Tarantula (1955)
1h 20m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
A scientist's experiments to cure hunger create a giant tarantula.
Director: Jack Arnold. Cast: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll

1:30 am The Wasp Woman (1960)
1h 13m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
A cosmetics executive's search for eternal beauty turn her into a monster.
Director: Roger Corman. Cast: Susan Cabot, Fred Eisley, Barboura Morris

3:00 am The Black Scorpion (1957)
1h 28m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
Giant prehistoric scorpions terrorize the Mexican countryside.
Director: Edward Ludwig. Cast: Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas

4:30 am The Cosmic Monster (1958)
1h 18m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
A scientist's experiments open the doorway to a strange and deadly world.
Director: Gilbert Gunn. Cast: Forrest Tucker, Gaby Andre, Martin Benson