TCM Schedule for Monday January 9, 2023 - True Crime
After a birthday tribute to Lee Van Cleef, it's a night of films about real criminals.
(all times Eastern)
6:45 am MGM Parade Show #2 (1955)
25m | Documentary | TV-G
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."
7:15 am Arrow in the Dust (1954)
1h 20m | Western | TV-PG
A deserter takes on his dead captain's identity to save a wagon train.
Director: Lesley Selander. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen
8:45 am Kansas City Confidential (1952)
1h 38m | Crime | TV-PG
To commit the perfect crime, a former detective keeps his colleagues' identities secret from each other.
Director: Phil Karlson. Cast: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster
10:45 am The Desperado (1954)
1h 20m | Action | TV-PG
In Texas, during the 1870-1873 carpetbag administration of Governor E. J. Davis, the law is enforced by a brutal, despotic organization called the Texas State Police, known as the "Bluebellies.
Director: Thomas Carr. Cast: Wayne Morris, James Lydon, Beverly Garland
12:15 pm The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
1h 20m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
Nuclear tests set a dormant prehistoric monster on a path of destruction.
Director: No Director Available. Cast: Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway
1:45 pm Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
1h 35m | Western | TV-PG
A brutal rancher has to soften his ways to win the woman he loves.
Director: Robert Wise. Cast: James Cagney, Don Dubbins, Stephen Mcnally
3:30 pm How the West Was Won (1962)
2h 35m | Epic | TV-G
Three generations of pioneers take part in the forging of the American West. .
Director: John Ford. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb
6:15 pm El Condor (1970)
1h 42m | Action | TV-14
A chain-gang escapee and an Apache search for a fortune in gold buried in a Mexican fortress.
Director: John Guillermin. Cast: Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Patrick O'neal
8:00 pm I Want to Live! (1958)
2h | Drama | TV-PG
True story of the small-time lady crook who fought to escape the gas chamber.
Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent
10:15 pm The Boston Strangler (1968)
1h 56m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-14
Federal and local law officers try to catch a deadly serial killer.
Director: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
12:30 am In Cold Blood (1967)
2h 14m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-14
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Director: Richard Brooks. Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
3:00 am Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
1h 51m | Crime | TV-14
The legendary bank robbers run riot in the South of the 1930s.
Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
5:00 am The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1950)
56m | Short | TV-G
A collection of MGM previews with an introduction by Lionel Barrymore.
Director: Herman Hoffman. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Dore Schary, Ira Heymann