TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 17: Around the World in 80 Movies
Wow. Sin and salvation are really on the menu today. Good guys, bad guys, but which is which? Love triangles. Self-deception. Doomed individuals of various kinds. Past lovers, potential lovers. Laughter, tears, terror. Music and miracles.
Get the popcorn ready.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
12:30 AM
Girl Crazy (1943)
1h 39m | Musical | TV-G
A womanizing playboy finds true love when he's sent to a desert college.
Director
Norman Taurog
Cast
Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton
2:15 AM
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
1h 38m | Musical | TV-G
God and Satan battle for the soul of a wounded gambler.
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Cast
Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne
4:00 AM
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
1h 39m | Musical | TV-PG
A man hires a private eye to watch his wife on a cruise, but the wife sends an impostor.
Director
Michael Curtiz
Cast
Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore
6:00 AM
Purple Noon (1961) [Italy]
1h 58m | Crime | TV-PG
French adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel, about Tom Ripley, a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser.
Director
René Clément
Cast
Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet
8:15 AM
Algiers (1938) [Algeria]
1h 35m | Crime | TV-PG
A thief on the run from the law risks his life for love.
Director
John Cromwell
Cast
Sigrid Gurie, Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr
10:00 AM
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952) [Portugal]
1h 42m | Drama | TV-G
Three children from a small village claim to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary.
Director
John Brahm
Cast
Gilbert Roland, Angela Clark, Frank Silvera
12:00 PM
Adventures of Don Juan (1948) [Spain]
1h 50m | Adventure | TV-PG
The legendary lover saves his queen from treason.
Director
Vincent Sherman
Cast
Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas
2:00 PM
The Singing Nun (1966) [Belgium]
1h 38m | Musical | TV-PG
Fanciful biography of the Belgian nun who briefly made the hit parade.
Director
Henry Koster
Cast
Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban, Greer Garson
4:00 PM
Grand Hotel (1932) [Germany]
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
The lives of the denizens of the Grand Hotel intertwine: a lonely ballerina, a noble thief, a dying bookkeeper.
Director
Edmund Goulding
Cast
Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
6:00 PM
Horror of Dracula (1958) [Transylvania]
1h 22m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
The legendary count tries to turn his enemies' women into his bloodthirsty brides.
Director
Terence Fisher
Cast
Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 MOVIES
8:00 PM
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [Hungary]
1h 37m | Romance | TV-G
Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Cast
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
9:45 PM
The Journey (1959)
2h 3m | Drama | TV-PG
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
Director
Anatole Litvak
Cast
Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards Jr.
12:00 AM
The Passionate Friends (1949) [Switzerland]
1h 35m | Drama | TV-PG
A married woman has one last fling with her childhood sweetheart.
Director
David Lean
Cast
Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Isabel Dean
1:45 AM
Grand Prix (1966) [French Riviera]
2h 59m | Adventure | TV-14
Story follows the loves and lives of various auto racers.
Director
John Frankenheimer
Cast
James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand
4:45 AM
Casablanca (1942) [Morocco]
1h 42m | Romance | TV-PG
An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up.
Director
Michael Curtiz
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid