TCM Schedule for Wednesday, May 7: Issues of the Day/Foreign Films - TCM Imports Book
A fascinating slate of films on today's TCM schedule.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
12:00 AM Red River (1948)
A young cowhand rebels against his rancher stepfather during a perilous cattle drive.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:30 AM How the West Was Won (1962)
Panoramic Western following the daughter of a pioneering family from her youth in 1830 to old age.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Spencer Tracy, Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb
Runtime: 155 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-G CC: Y
5:30 AM The Mild West (1933)
This musical focuses on the trials and tribulations of a saloon singer.
Dir: Joseph Henabery Cast: Olive Borden, Janet Reade, Paul Keast
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: N
TCM Daytime: Issues of the Day
6:00 AM Joe Smith, American (1942)
Nazi spies in search of government secrets kidnap a munitions worker.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Robert Young, Marsha Hunt, Harvey Stephens
Runtime: 63 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
7:30 AM Citizen Kane (1941)
The investigation of a publishing tycoon's dying words reveals conflicting stories about his scandalous life.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
9:30 AM A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A female television executive turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa
Runtime: 126 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
11:45 AM The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
The famed writer risks his reputation to defend a Jewish army officer accused of treason.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Gale Sondergaard
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
1:45 PM Meet John Doe (1941)
A reporter's fraudulent story turns a tramp into a national hero and makes him a pawn of big business.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:00 PM The Candidate (1972)
Without a candidate to run for the senate seat against admired Republican Crocker Jarmon, campaign manager Marvin Lucas recruits leftist lawyer Bill McKay. McKay's appearance piques the public's interest, and gradually Lucas pushes McKay toward a more centrist message. As McKay's original and honest platform gets watered down, his popularity increases so much that he is running even with Jarmon as Election Day approaches.
Dir: Michael Ritchie Cast: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
6:00 PM Freedom on My Mind (1994)
The dramatic story of the Mississippi Voter Registration project (1961-64) is told through the eyewitness accounts of several remarkable men and women.
Dir: Connie Field Cast: Endesha Ida Mae Holland, Pam Chude Allen, Marshall Ganz
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
TCM Prime Time: Foreign Films - TCM Imports Book
8:00 PM The Girls (1968)
Three Swedish stage actresses give differing interpretations of the classic Aristophanes play "Lysistrata."
Dir: Mai Zetterling Cast: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: N
10:00 PM Purple Noon (1961)
Tom Ripley is an angelic-looking young American whose talents for everything but holding down a job are impressive. When he is recruited by a concerned father to travel first class (all expenses paid) to Paris to bring back an errant son, he accepts. The two young men enjoy the good life in Italy until Tom finds his money source cut off and discovers a more sinister way to maintain his lifestyle.
Dir: René Clément Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: N
12:15 AM The Vanishing (1988)
A young man is obsessed with finding the girlfriend who vanished at a rest stop.
Dir: George Sluizer Cast: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna Ter Steege
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: N
2:15 AM In the Mood for Love (2000)
Set in the 1960s, Chow is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At approximately the same time, Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary, and her executive husband also move in. With their spouses away often, Chow and Li-zhen spend most of their time together as friends -- until they realize that their spouses are having an affair and slowly decide to do the same.
Dir: Wong Kar Wai Cast: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Siu Ping-lam
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: N
4:00 AM Ikiru (1952)
A dying man devotes his last months to building a children's playground.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki
Runtime: 143 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: N