TCM Schedule for Sunday May 23, 2021 - Directed by James Whale [View all]

In addition to tonight's James Whale triple-header, Imports has a pair from Japanese director Seijun Suzuki.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
1h 52m | Comedy | TV-G
Two girls with Broadway aspirations find work in a Bowery saloon.
Director: Henry Koster. Cast: Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Lauritz Melchior

8:00 am Young Bess (1953)
1h 52m | Drama | TV-G
The future Elizabeth I fights court intrigue in the turbulent years before her ascension to the throne.
Director: George Sidney. Cast: Jean Simmons, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton

10:00 am The Brothers Rico (1957)
1h 32m | Crime | TV-PG
A reformed mob accountant tries to get to his gangster brother before the criminals can.
Director: Phil Karlson. Cast: Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant

12:00 pm The Secret Garden (1949)
1h 32m | Drama | TV-G
An orphaned girl changes the lives of those she encounters at a remote estate.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox. Cast: Margaret O'brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell

1:45 pm The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
2h 2m | Comedy | TV-PG
A classic car changes the lives of three sets of owners.
Director: Anthony Asquith. Cast: Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Edmund Purdom

4:00 pm His Girl Friday (1940)
1h 32m | Comedy | TV-G
An unscrupulous editor plots to keep his star reporter-and ex-wife-from re-marrying.
Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy

5:45 pm Some Came Running (1958)
2h 14m | Drama | TV-PG
A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley Maclaine

8:00 pm Frankenstein (1931)
1h 11m | Horror | TV-PG
A crazed scientist creates a living being from body parts, not realizing it has a madman's brain.
Director: James Whale. Cast: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles

9:30 pm Waterloo Bridge (1931)
1h 21m | Romance | TV-PG
A ballerina sinks into prostitution when her husband is reported killed in World War I.
Director: James Whale. Cast: Mae Clarke, Kent Douglass, Doris Lloyd

11:00 pm The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)
1h 7m | Suspense/Mystery
An attorney defending a friend whose wife cheated on him suspects his own wife of adultery.
Director: James Whale. Cast: Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas

12:15 am The Merry Widow (1925)
1h 51m | Romance | TV-PG
A European nobleman courts the wealthy American widow he once loved to save his bankrupt homeland.
Director: Erich Von Stroheim. Cast: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'arcy

2:45 am Youth of the Beast (1963)
1h 31m | Action | TV-14
Following the rise of power of a young yakuza seeking revenge.
Director: Seijun Suzuki. Cast: Joe Shishido, Misako Watanabe, Tamio Kawaji

4:30 am Everything Goes Wrong (1960)
Drama | TV-14
Jirô wanders the streets with friends committing petty crimes that gradually escalate.
Director: Seijun Suzuki. Cast: Tamio Kawachi, Yoshiko Nezu, Sayuri Yoshinaga