TCM Schedule for Sunday October 1, 2023 - Gordon MacRae Double Feature

Plus: a Lon Chaney silent classic and 2 sci-fi films from Japanese director Kazui Nihonmatsu.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am Tom Thumb (1958)
1h 38m | Musical | TV-G
A six-inch-tall boy takes on a pair of comical crooks.
Director: George Pal. Cast: Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young, June Thorburn

8:00 am The Time Machine (1960)
1h 43m | Science Fiction | TV-G
In this adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel, a scientist in 1880s Victorian England builds a vehicle to transport him through time. He first travels to 1917 and the horror of World War I. Next, he sets his destination for 1940 and the start of World War II.
Director: George Pal. Cast: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux

10:00 am Whiplash (1948)
1h 31m | Drama | TV-G
An artist becomes a boxer but finds that it may not have been the best career choice.
Director: Lew Seiler. Cast: Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott

11:45 am Black Narcissus (1947)
1h 39m | Drama | TV-14
Nuns founding a convent in the Himalayas are tormented by the area's exotic beauty.
Director: Michael Powell. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar

1:30 pm To Have and Have Not (1944)
1h 40m | Drama | TV-G
A skipper-for-hire's romance with a beautiful drifter is complicated by his growing involvement with the French resistance.
Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall

3:15 pm The Goodbye Girl (1977)
1h 50m | Comedy | TV-14
Paula is a divorced mother and ex-Broadway dancer, who learns that her lover has left her only when aspiring actor Elliot arrives to sublet the apartment in the middle of the night. Their uneasy truce blossoms into love.
Director: Herbert Ross. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings

5:15 pm Lolita (1962)
2h 33m | Drama | TV-14
A professor finds himself in a struggle of temptation of desire for a young teen nymphet.
Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: James Mason, Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters

8:00 pm Carousel (1956)
2h 8m | Musical | TV-G |
A dramatic love story unfolds between a rough-talking, macho carousel barker, and a young, innocent mill worker.
Director: Henry King. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell

10:15 pm On Moonlight Bay (1951)
1h 35m | Musical | TV-G
A small-town tomboy falls for the boy-next-door in the years before World War I.
Director: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, ["Smiling"] Jack Smith

12:00 am The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
1h 34m | Silent | TV-G
In this film, a severely deformed man haunts the sewers beneath the Paris Opera.
Director: Rupert Julian. Cast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry

2:00 am The X from Outer Space (1967)
1h 29m | Science Fiction | TV-PG
A reptilian extraterrestrial of mysterious origin lays waste to the Japanese countryside.
Director: Kazui Nihonmatsu. Cast: Shunya Wazaki, Itoko Harada, Shinichi Yanagisawa

4:00 am Genocide (1968)
1h 24m | Science Fiction | TV-PG
The insects of the Earth rise up against humanity in this horror film.
Director: Kazui Nihonmatsu. Cast: Keisuke Sonoi, Yusuke Kawazu, Emi Shindo