TCM Schedule for Tuesday, July 9: Drive-In Theater/Clint Eastwood Westerns

Today's schedule of drive-in movie fare includes From Hell It Came, which famously drew the following response from a critic: "And to hell it can go!"

Tonight TCM goes west with Clint Eastwood, who will not be talking to chairs or trees, as far as I know.

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

1:30 AM Bachelor Mother (1939)
A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
Dir: Garson Kanin Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:00 AM The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
Film about a circus girl who's manipulated into becoming a governor's lover. When the governor kills the former circus boss, the girl takes the blame and faces the electric chair.
Dir: Phil Goldstone Cast: Cora Sue Collins, Zita Johann
Runtime: 65 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:15 AM That Certain Woman (1937)
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Anita Louise
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:00 AM From Hell It Came (1957)
On a remote South-Sea island a tribal prince is killed by a witch doctor for making friends with the American atomic scientists researching nearby. Before his death he swears revenge and returns from the grave as a giant tree-like monster looking to devour everything in its path.
Dir: Johnny Greenwald Cast: Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, Linda Watkins, John McNamara
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

7:15 AM The Black Scorpion (1957)
Giant prehistoric scorpions terrorize the Mexican countryside.
Dir: Edward Ludwig Cast: Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



8:45 AM Jamboree! (1957)
Two young people attempt to find love and success by making it in the music industry.
Dir: Roy Lockwood Cast: Dick Clark, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Frankie Avalon
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



10:15 AM Girl Happy (1965)
Elvis Presley stars as a singer on an undercover assignment to chaperone the rich and sexy daughter of a Chicago mob boss. Sun, sand and girls in bikinis! Band singer Rusty Wells wants some time off from his Chicago nightclub gig to enjoy the springtime migration of young, beautiful women to the beaches of Ft. Lauderdale, ...
Dir: Boris Sagal Cast: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Harold J. Stone
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



12:00 PM Queen of Outer Space (1958)
While on a space mission to Venus, explorers discover a society of Amazons.
Dir: Edward Bernds Cast: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Lisa Davis
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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1:30 PM Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)
Alien creatures turn plane crash survivors into vampires.
Dir: Hajime Sato Cast: Hideo Ko, Teruo Yoshida, Tomomi Sato
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: N

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3:00 PM Moon Zero Two (1969)
In the distant future of May 2021, the Moon is in the process of being colonized on lunar settlements. A former astronaut turned salvager helps a millionaire space industrialist capture a sapphire asteroid, while also helping a woman find her missing brother.
Dir: Roy Ward Baker Cast: James Olson, Catherina Von Schell, Warren Mitchell
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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4:45 PM The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Nuclear tests set a dormant prehistoric monster on a path of destruction.
Dir: Eugène Lourié Cast: Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



6:15 PM Them! (1954)
Federal agents fight to destroy a colony of mutated giant ants.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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What's on Tonight: Clint Eastwood Westerns

8:00 PM A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
A lone drifter wanders into a Western town torn apart by two feuding families. He hires himself out as a mercenary, taking no sides and playing one side against the middle, until all is destroyed.
Dir: Sergio Leone Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volontè
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



10:00 PM For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Two rival bounty hunters form a shaky alliance to capture a wanted bandit.
Dir: Sergio Leone Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



12:30 AM The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1968)
A cashbox containing $200,000, that was stolen and hidden in an unmarked grave, is the focus of three men: two criminals and a stranger.
Dir: Sergio Leone Cast: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
Runtime: 180 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



3:45 AM Hang 'Em High (1968)
A cowboy drifter survives a hanging by a band of thugs and then swears vengeance.
Dir: Ted Post Cast: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y