TCM Schedule for Wednesday, January 22: Director Mark Sandrich/Director Alfred Hitchcock - Part 2

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

12:45 AM Race Street (1948)
A night-club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:15 AM Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
The fantastic adventures of Englishman Phileas Fogg who, to win a bet, journeyed around the world in the "record time" of 80 days using every mode of transportation from train to boat to elephant and balloon.
Dir: Michael Anderson Cast: David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton
Runtime: 170 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:00 AM Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933)
A socialite can't choose between the tough guy she's turned into a gentleman and the gentleman she's turned into a tough guy.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Charles Farrell, Wynne Gibson, William Gargan
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


7:30 AM Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934)
Two nitwits are mistaken for the king's physicians in medieval England.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Thelma Todd
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC:


9:00 AM Carefree (1938)
When lovely singer Amanda Cooper has trouble accepting the marriage proposals of her beau, Stephen Arden, he calls upon his psychiatrist friend Dr. Tony Flagg to analyze her. Though Tony initially tries to maintain a typical doctor/patient relationship, it's not long before he's falling for Amanda. After a session of hypnosis, from their home - and Dombrowski from his job, which Taylor then receives. But Taylor's association with the Legion drives him to alcoholism, destroys his marriage and eventually leads to murder.

Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y



10:30 AM Melody Cruise (1933)
A playboy finds true love during an ocean cruise.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Charles Ruggles, Phil Harris, Helen Mack
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



12:00 PM Shall We Dance (1937)
A ballet dancer and a showgirl fake a marriage for publicity purposes, then fall in love.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



2:00 PM A Woman Rebels (1936)
A Victorian feminist has an illegitimate baby.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Herbert Marshall, Elizabeth Allen
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y



4:00 PM The Gay Divorcee (1934)
A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



6:00 PM Top Hat (1935)
A woman believes that an enamored dancer is her best friend's husband.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



What's on Tonight: Director Alfred Hitchcock - Part 2

8:00 PM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
While vacationing in Switzerland, a British couple gets wrapped up in an assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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9:30 PM The 39 Steps (1935)
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed -- with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as "The 39 Steps."
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y



11:00 PM Sabotage (1936)
An unhappily married woman discovers her husband is an enemy agent.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, Desmond Tester
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



12:30 AM Young and Innocent (1937)
A young girl helps an innocent man escape the law when he's framed for murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



2:00 AM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Miss Froy disappears on her return train trip from a vacation in the Balkans. However, Iris Henderson is the only person, on a train filled with suspicious and unsavory characters, who can attest that Miss Froy was ever on that trip.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y



3:45 AM Becoming Hitchcock - The Legacy of Blackmail (2024)
A reflection on the development of Alfred Hitchcock's signature style, through the making of one of his benchmark films - Blackmail (1929).
Dir: Laurent Bouzereau Cast: Elvis Mitchell (narrator), Alfred Hitchcock
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-14 CC:


5:00 AM Foreign Correspondent (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y