TCM Schedule for Wednesday, July 17: Westerns/Memorial Tribute: Roger Corman - Part 3
TCM has Westerns for your Wednesday viewing, then a new installment of the memorial tribute to Roger Corman. This evening's roster of films focuses on his career as a producer.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
12:45 AM On an Island with You (1948)
A movie star falls for a handsome naval officer during location shooting in Hawaii.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:45 AM All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
Brothers on a whaling schooner become romantic rivals.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
4:30 AM Bird of Paradise (1932)
An island visitor falls for a Polynesian beauty slated for sacrifice to the gods.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
6:00 AM Rocky Mountain (1950)
A Confederate troop makes a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Scott Forbes
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
7:30 AM Bad Lands (1939)
Indians pick off the members of a posse lost in the desert.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Robert Barrat, Noah Beery Jr., Guinn Williams
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
8:45 AM Desert Pursuit (1952)
Three camel-riding Arabs pursue a pair of gold-laden miners across the Death Valley desert.
Dir: George Blair Cast: Wayne Morris, Virginia Grey, George Tobias
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
10:00 AM The Lawless Frontier (1935)
Two gunmen team up to take on a Mexican bandit who's done them both wrong.
Dir: R. N. Bradbury Cast: John Wayne, Sheila Terry, Jack Rockwell
Runtime: 59 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y
11:00 AM Triple Justice (1940)
A cowboy has to clear his name when he's mistaken for a bank robber.
Dir: David Howard Cast: George O'Brien, Virginia Vale, Harry Woods
Runtime: 66 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: N
12:15 PM Gun Law (1938)
A criminal poses as the lawman he's ambushed.
Dir: David Howard Cast: George O'Brien, Rita Oehmen, Ray Whitley
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y
1:30 PM Gold of the Seven Saints (1961)
Two trappers fight to protect their gold from outlaws.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: Clint Walker, Roger Moore, Leticia Roman
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:15 PM Hell's Heroes (1930)
Three cowboys risk their lives to get an abandoned baby to civilization.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler
Runtime: 65 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
4:30 PM Valley of the Sun (1942)
A government spy goes after a crooked Indian agent in Arizona.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Lucille Ball, James Craig, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y
6:00 PM A Thunder of Drums (1961)
A green cavalry lieutenant learns the ropes fast when he's shipped out West.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman Cast: Richard Boone, George Hamilton, Luana Patten
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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8:00 PM Boxcar Bertha (1972)
A union leader enlists his girlfriend in a plot to get back at the railroad's evil management.
Dir: Martin Scorsese Cast: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
9:45 PM Targets (1968)
An aging horror star and a psychotic veteran come face to face at the premiere of the star's most recent film.
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich Cast: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N
11:30 PM Dementia 13 (1963)
The family members of an Irish family are being killed off one by one by a mysterious one of their own who wishes to inherit the family's inheritance.
Dir: Francis Coppola Cast: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
1:00 AM Caged Heat (1974)
A women's prison is run by a sadistic, wheelchair-bound woman (played by Barbara Steele). When a convict (played by Erica Gavin) is falsely accused of trying to escape, she is subjected to torture. Later, Erica and Juanita Brown do attempt an actual jail break, but return to save their friend, who is going to be lobotomized.
Dir: Jonathan Demme Cast: Juanita Brown, Roberta Collins, Erica Gavin
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
2:30 AM Piranha (1978)
When insurance investigator Maggie McKeown is sent to find two missing teenagers who were hiking near Lost River Lake, she hires a local man named Paul Grogan to be her guide in the area. The two come across an abandoned military facility whose only resident is Dr. Robert Hoak, who was formerly in charge of a secret project to breed piranha to be used in the Vietnam War. Although the project has been defunct for years, Hoak continued to raise the killer fish. When the doctor is knocked out, Maggie and Paul accidentally release the fish into a river that feeds into a lake which is used as a children's summer camp and a new tourist resort. Maggie and Paul try to warn the local citizens, and are met with skepticism until the piranha begin to attack.
Dir: Joe Dante Cast: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Horror Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
4:15 AM What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018)
The life and work of the controversial film critic.
Dir: Rob Garver Cast: Lili Anolik, Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Biography Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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