TCM Schedule for Sunday October 20, 2024 - Starring Nicol Williamson

Plus: classic early Hitchcock on Silent Sundays.

(all times Eastern)

6:15 AM The Ghost Ship (1943)
1h 9m | Horror | TV-PG
A young innocent signs on with a ship whose captain is going mad.
Director: Mark Robson. Cast: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett

7:30 AM Isle of the Dead (1945)
1h 12m | Horror | TV-PG
The inhabitants of a Balkans island under quarantine fear that one of their number is a vampire.
Director: Mark Robson. Cast: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer

8:45 AM The Leopard Man (1943)
1h 6m | Suspense | TV-PG
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Director: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks

10:00 AM Too Late for Tears (1949)
1h 39m | Crime | TV-PG
A married woman's discovery of stolen money changes her character for the worse.
Director: Byron Haskin. Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don Defore, Dan Duryea

12:00 PM Johnny Eager (1942)
1h 47m | Crime | TV-G
A handsome racketeer seduces the DA's daughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold

2:00 PM The Big Sleep (1946)
1h 54m | Suspense | TV-PG
Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely

4:00 PM The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
1h 26m | Crime | TV-PG
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane

6:00 PM Blithe Spirit (1945)
1h 36m | Comedy | TV-G
A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
Director: David Lean. Cast: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond

8:00 PM The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
1h 54m | Suspense | TV-14
Sherlock Holmes seeks psychiatric help from Sigmund Freud and gets caught up in mystery.
Director: Herbert Ross. Cast: Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson

10:00 PM The Human Factor (1980)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-14
A diplomat is suspected of being a double agent.
Director: Otto Preminger. Cast: Nicol Williamson, Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer

12:15 AM The Lodger (1927)
1h 31m | Silent | TV-PG
A family running a boarding house suspects their new tenant is Jack the Ripper.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ivor Novello, Malcolm Keen, Marie Ault

2:15 AM Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
1h 23m | Documentary | TV-14
The filmmakers travel up and down Thailand interviewing people from all walks of life and feeding them an interrupted storyline which they are asked to finish.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Cast: Duangja Hiransri, Kongkeirt Komsiri, Somsri Pinyopol

4:00 AM Close-Up (1990)
1h 40m | Drama | TV-PG
An unemployed young man poses as a famous film director after he is inspired by a biography he read on Iranian director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami. Cast: Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mehrdad Ahankhah