TCM Schedule for Tuesday, January 13: Film Noir/Special Theme: The Working Class
What an amazing schedule! It includes something (including TCM premieres) for just about everyone. Watch and DVR in good health.
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
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1:30 AM The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
A New Orleans fisherman fights snobbery to become an opera star.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza, David Niven
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
3:30 AM Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)
A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Jane Powell, Danielle Darrieux, Wendell Corey
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
5:30 AM MGM Parade Show #2 (1955)
Judy Garland and Bert Lahr perform in a clip from The Wizard of Oz. Gene Kelly introduces a clip from It's Always Fair Weather.
Dir: null Cast: Gene Kelly, Bert Lahr, George Murphy
Runtime: 25 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N
TCM Daytime: Film Noir
6:00 AM Flaxy Martin (1949)
Messing with a mobster's girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.
Dir: Richard Bare Cast: Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
7:30 AM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
9:30 AM The People Against O'Hara (1951)
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, Diana Lynn
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
11:30 AM Johnny Angel (1945)
A sailor sets out to solve his father's murder.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y
1:00 PM Johnny Eager (1942)
A handsome racketeer seduces the DA's daughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y
3:00 PM Nora Prentiss (1947)
An ambitious singer ruins a doctor's life.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
5:00 PM My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
A young girl finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis Cast: Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready
Runtime: 65 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
6:15 PM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith star in this thriller of an artist who can only find inspiration in murder and of the two women who inspire him, the two women he loves - The Two Mrs. Carrolls. When artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally Morton while on a fishing trip to Scotland, romance sparks between the pair. Back home, Geoffrey paints a portrait of his wife as the Angel of Death just before she dies mysteriously. But Geoffrey and Sally soon wed and live happily together for a time. Now, Geoffrey spends time with the much younger Cecily while he paints Sally as the Angel of Death, and Sally's health mysteriously decays with each passing day.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y
TCM Primetime: Special Theme: The Working Class
8:00 PM Nine to Five (1980)
Recently divorced Judy Bernly takes an office job and soon becomes pals with fellow secretaries Violet Newstead and Doralee Rhodes. Their boss is male chauvinist Franklin Hart Jr., who is trying to land Doralee in bed. While smoking pot one night the women hatch a plan to take revenge on their cruel boss.
Dir: Colin Higgins Cast: Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
10:00 PM The Full Monty (1997)
Lost your job? Well, you can always strip for a buck! A bunch of unemployed steelworkers decide to become strippers -- with hilarious results -- in this delectable British comedy.
Dir: Peter Cattaneo Cast: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: N
11:45 PM Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
Blue-collar workers stand up to their bosses in this earthy comedy. Returning to his hometown to increase production at the local brewery, Frank Macklin runs into unexpected opposition -- as well as his old girlfriend.
Dir: Gus Trikonis Cast: Robert Hays, Art Carney, Barbara Hershey
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-14 CC: N
1:45 AM The Commitments (1991)
An unemployed Dublin boy decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class.
Dir: Alan Parker Cast: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Colm Meaney, Bronagh Gallagher
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
4:15 AM Modern Times (1936)
When an oppressed assembly-line factory worker is mistaken for a radical political leader, he is arrested and thrown into jail. Upon his release he tries to find work but can't seem to get ahead or escape the long arm of the law.
Dir: Charlie Chaplin Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC: Y