TCM Schedule for Wednesday, July 10: Sandy Dennis/Memorial Tribute: Roger Corman - Part 2

Today is devoted to classic films featuring actress Sandy Dennis, though the schedule is not a birthday tribute.

And tonight TCM brings on the second part of its memorial tribute to Roger Corman with a unique roster of films, including some E.A. Poe-inspired chillers with Vincent Price. But of course!

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

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


6:00 AM Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
A look at Jerry Harvey and his creation, the Z Channel, the first pay cable network. The Z Channel launched in 1974 as California's first pay-TV service, showing two movies a week, and quickly became required viewing for Hollywood's elite and cinephiles alike.
Dir: Xan Cassavetes Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

8:30 AM Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Set in the 1920s, two Midwest teenagers fall in love, are frightened by their physical desires and struggle to navigate their feelings of sexual repression.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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11:00 AM Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The film adaptation of Edward Albee's Broadway play that rips the façade of civility off the dysfunctional marriage between an alcoholic college professor and his shrew of a wife during a dinner party the two host for a young couple.
Dir: Mike Nichols Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
Runtime: 131 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y



1:30 PM Up the Down Staircase (1967)
A novice schoolteacher faces delinquent students and apathetic administrators in a tough inner city high school.
Dir: Robert Mulligan Cast: Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Eileen Heckart
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



4:00 PM Thank You All Very Much (1969)
A pregnant student decides to raise her child alone.
Dir: Waris Hussein Cast: Sandy Dennis, Ian McKellen, Eleanor Bron
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N



6:00 PM The Out-of-Towners (1970)
An Ohio sales executive accepts a higher position within the company and travels to New York City with his wife for his job interview but things go terribly wrong from the start.
Dir: Arthur Hiller Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC:



What's on Tonight: Memorial Tribute: Roger Corman - Part 2

8:00 PM House of Usher (1960)
A young man tries to rescue the woman he loves from her demonic brother.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



9:30 PM The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
A young man investigates his sister's death in a mysterious castle.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



11:00 PM The Raven (1963)
A widowed sorcerer discovers his late wife is alive and living with his mortal enemy.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



12:45 AM The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
A sadistic nobleman isolates his court from a world stricken with the plague.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



2:30 AM Bloody Mama (1970)
In Depression-era America, Ma Barker leads her three sons on a crime spree that includes the kidnapping of a millionaire. Plus her loyal brood proves to have every perversion imaginable.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Don Stroud
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y



4:15 AM The Wild Angels (1966)
A motorcycle gang rescues one of their own from the hospital and uses the occasion to run rampant in the place. When their friend dies on the way home, they stage a funeral service that soon becomes an orgiastic, drug-induced celebration.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y