TCM Schedule for Sunday June 19, 2022 - Fathers on Film - Part 3 (Father's Day)

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Plus for Juneteenth some African-American themed films in daytime, and Silent Sundays has a Buster Keaton classic.

(all times Eastern)

6:15 am Madame Bovary (1949)
1h 46m | Drama | TV-PG
A romantic country girl sacrifices her marriage when she thinks she's found true love.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Jennifer Jones, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan

8:15 am Bus Stop (1956)
1h 36m | Drama | TV-PG
An innocent cowboy kidnaps a small-time singer with whom he's infatuated.
Director: Joshua Logan. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'connell

10:00 am Thieves' Highway (1949)
1h 34m | Drama | TV-G
A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.
Director: Jules Dassin. Cast: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortesa, Lee J. Cobb

11:45 am Stormy Weather (1943)
1h 17m | Musical | TV-G
A relationship blossoms between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress.
Director: Andrew Stone. Cast: Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway

1:15 pm Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)
1h 24m | Documentary | TV-PG
An incredible collection of classic live performances, "Jazz on a Summer's Day" captures Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Chuck Berry, Mahalia Jackson, and many others performing at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.
Director: Bert Stern. Cast: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Gerry Mulligan

2:45 pm How They Got Over (2018)
How African Americans created the upbeat musical form that started out as gospel quartet music and became rock and roll.
Director: Robert Clem. Cast: Robert Clem

5:15 pm The Wiz (1978)
2h 13m | Musical
A schoolteacher is swept to a magical land to face witches, wizards and a singing scarecrow.
Director: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell

8:00 pm Life with Father (1947)
1h 58m | Comedy | TV-G
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor

10:15 pm The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
1h 57m | Comedy | TV-G
A young boy plays matchmaker for his widowed father.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens

12:30 am The General (1927)
1h 23m | Silent | TV-G
A Confederate engineer fights to save his train and his girlfriend from the Union army.
Director: Buster Keaton. Cast: Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley

2:00 am Eijanaika (1981)
2h 31m | Drama
On the eve of the Meiji Restoration, the cataclysmic upheaval which ended Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate, Genji returns from six years in America, only to find the life he had known irretrievably lost, his young wife sold into prostitution.
Director: Shohei Imamura. Cast: Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Masao Kusakari

4:45 am Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival: Michael Douglas (2018)
1h 10m | Documentary | TV-14
Michael Douglas discusses his career in front of a live audience.