TCM Schedule for Wednesday, July 13: Special Theme: Black Independents
What a day for movies! Rarely seen films featuring Star of the Month Dana Andrews. A Ruth Chatterton double feature. An evening of Black independent movies. This is why we have TCM.
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
1:00 AM
Boomerang! (1947)
1h 28m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A prosecutor fights to prove the defendant in a scandalous murder case is innocent.
Director
Elia Kazan
Cast
Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb
2:45 AM
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
1h 39m | Romance | TV-PG
On the rebound from a married man, a woman marries a veteran, just as her lover becomes available.
Director
Otto Preminger
Cast
Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda
4:30 AM
Night Song (1947)
1h 42m | Drama | TV-G
A socialite pretends to be blind to win the love of a blind concert pianist.
Director
John Cromwell
Cast
Dana Andrews, Merle Oberon, Ethel Barrymore
6:30 AM
My Foolish Heart (1950)
1h 39m | Romance | TV-PG
A young innocent's life is shattered when she falls for a World War II flyer.
Director
Mark Robson
Cast
Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Kent Smith
8:15 AM
Sword in the Desert (1949)
1h 40m | Drama | TV-PG
After smuggling Jewish refugees into pre-Israel Palestine, a freighter captain becomes embroiled in the conflict.
Director
George Sherman
Cast
Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, Stephen McNally
10:00 AM
I Want You (1951)
1h 42m | Drama | TV-PG
The draft and the Korean War threaten a small-town romance.
Director
Mark Robson
Cast
Dana Andrews, Dorothy McGuire, Farley Granger
12:00 PM
Sealed Cargo (1951)
1h 29m | Adventure | TV-G
A fisherman tangles with Nazi smugglers off the Canadian coast.
Director
Alfred Werker
Cast
Dana Andrews, Carla Balenda, Claude Rains
1:45 PM
Assignment - Paris (1952)
1h 25m | Drama | TV-G
An international correspondent digs up evidence of a Communist conspiracy.
Director
Robert Parrish
Cast
Dana Andrews, Audrey Totter, George Sanders
3:15 PM
Dodsworth (1936)
1h 41m | Romance | TV-PG
A husband whose wife left him looks for new love in Europe.
Director
William Wyler
Cast
Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas
5:15 PM
Journal of a Crime (1934)
1h 5m | Drama | TV-PG
Before she can confess to shooting her husband's mistress, a woman succumbs to amnesia.
Director
William Keighley
Cast
Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd
6:30 PM
The Lady of Scandal (1930)
1h 16m | Romance | TV-G
A nobleman risks his family's wrath by courting an actress.
Director
Sidney Franklin
Cast
Ruth Chatterton, Basil Rathbone, Ralph Forbes
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SPECIAL THEME: BLACK INDEPENDENTS
8:00 PM
Compensation (1999)
1h 32m | Drama
Inspired by a 1906 poem from early African American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar, this unique drama explores aspects of Black culture in both turn-of-the-century and present-day Chicago through two parallel love stories.
Director
Zeinabu Irene Davis
Cast
Michelle A Banks, Nirvana Cobb, L C Satterfield
9:45 PM
Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
1h 21m | Drama | TV-MA
Enduring the bleakness of the Watts unemployment office and occasional stints as a day laborer, Charlie Banks struggles to find a job and maintain his role as head of the family.
Director
Billy Woodberry
Cast
Nate Herd, Kaycee Moore, Angela Burnett
11:15 PM
I Will Follow (2010)
1h 21m | Drama
Maye is a success. Hot career. Hot boyfriend. But when her world is turned upside down by tragedy, she must struggle to keep her balance.
Director
Ava DuVernay
Cast
Salli Richardson, Omari Hardwick, Beverly Todd
12:45 AM
My Brother's Wedding (1983)
1h 56m | Drama | TV-14
Estranged brothers reconcile when one agrees to be the other's best man.
Director
Charles Burnett
Cast
Everett Silas, Jessie Holmes, Gaye Shannon-Burnett
3:00 AM
The Killing Floor (1984)
2h | Drama
The story of a Black slaughterhouse worker who was part of the pioneering attempt to unionize Black and white workers.
Director
Bill Duke
Cast
Clarence Felder, Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard
5:15 AM
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion (1982)
Drama based on the real-life story of an enslaved man who buys his freedom and then leads a rebellion.
Director
Stan Lathan
Cast
Yaphet Kotto, Cleavon Little, Ned Beatty