TCM Schedule for Saturday, July 23 --- THE ESSENTIALS: HARD TIME

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23 Saturday



6:15 AM The Milky Way (1936)
A mild-mannered milkman stumbles onto a career in the boxing ring.
Dir: Leo McCarey Cast: Harold Lloyd , Adolphe Menjou , Verree Teasdale .
BW-88 mins, TV-G,

7:45 AM Scene of the Crime (1949)
A detective tries to solve a policeman's murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Van Johnson , Arlene Dahl , Gloria De Haven .
BW-94 mins, TV-PG, CC,

9:30 AM The Tall Target (1951)
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Dick Powell , Paula Raymond , Adolphe Menjou .
BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC,

11:00 AM The World's Akin (1936)
In Chapter 13 of Ace Drummond, the ace pilot races to help fight off a criminal mastermind's attack on a strategic airport.
BW-18 mins, TV-G,

11:30 AM Death from the Sky (1937)
In the first chapter of Zorro Rides Again, the swashbuckler's great grandson fights villains out to control a railroad.
BW-30 mins,

12:15 PM Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
The jungle king's cousin tries to get him to help find a diamond treasure.
Dir: Cyril Endfield Cast: Lex Barker , Dorothy Hart , Patric Knowles .
BW-80 mins,

1:45 PM Lord of the Flies (1963)
Schoolboys marooned on a Pacific island create their own savage civilization.
Dir: Peter Brook Cast: James Aubrey , Tom Chapin , Hugh Edwards .
BW-91 mins, TV-14, CC,

3:30 PM North to Alaska (1960)
Two prospectors cope with woman problems and a con man.
Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: John Wayne , Stewart Granger , Ernie Kovacs .
C-122 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:45 PM Fort Apache (1948)
An experienced cavalry officer tries to keep his new, by-the-books commander from triggering an Indian war.
Dir: John Ford Cast: John Wayne , Henry Fonda , Shirley Temple .
BW-128 mins, TV-PG, CC,


WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: THE ESSENTIALS: HARD TIME

8:00 PM Cool Hand Luke (1967)
A free-spirited convict refuses to conform to chain-gang life.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg Cast: Paul Newman , George Kennedy , J. D. Cannon .
C-126 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

10:30 PM Caged (1950)
A young innocent fights to survive the harsh life in a women's prison.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Eleanor Parker , Agnes Moorehead , Ellen Corby .
BW-97 mins, TV-PG,

12:15 AM Brute Force (1947)
Tough, disgruntled prisoners plan a daring, possibly bloody escape while on a drain pipe detail.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Burt Lancaster , Hume Cronyn , Charles Bickford .
BW-98 mins, TV-14,

2:00 AM Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
A political prisoner and a gay man share their dreams in a South American prison.
Dir: Hector Babenco Cast: Sonia Braga , William Hurt , Raul Julia .
C-120 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format

4:15 AM Midnight Express (1978)
A young man arrested for drug smuggling fights to survive the horrors of a Turkish prison.
Dir: Alan Parker Cast: Brad Davis , Randy Quaid , John Hurt .
C-121 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format