TCM Schedule for Thurs, May 15, 2025: Composer Heinz Roemheld / Westerns (The Magnificent Seven, High Noon, and more)
Western theme tonight: Heroism and Sacrifice
Heinz Roemheld (May 1, 1901 – February 11, 1985) was an American composer. A child prodigy who began playing the piano at four, Roemfeld graduated from the Milwaukee College of Music at age 19. He performed in theaters, earning enough money to further his piano studies in Europe.
Returning to America, Roemheld became involved in music for silent films, both as a pianist and conductor. In 1925, he was sent back to Berlin as head of Universal Pictures theaters but returned to the U.S. in 1929.
Roemheld settled in Los Angeles and became a prominent cinema composer. He scored some scenes in Gone with the Wind (1939) though was not credited on-screen. In 1942, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score for Yankee Doodle Dandy. Among the more than 400 other films for which he composed music were Gentleman Jim (1942) and The Lady From Shanghai (1948), both airing today.
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DAYTIME: (EST)
7:15 AM | Four's a Crowd (1938)
A publicist falls for his most difficult client's daughter.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Rosalind Russell
9:15 AM | British Intelligence (1940)
A lady spy uses a British nobleman's home in her undercover work for the Germans.
Dir: Terry Morse | Cast: Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester
10:30 AM | The Male Animal (1942)
A college professor fights censorship and an amorous football player who is after his wife.
Dir: Elliott Nugent | Cast: Henry Fonda, Olivia De Havilland, Joan Leslie
12:30 PM | The Hard Way (1942)
An ambitious woman doesn't care who she hurts in her drive to make her sister a star.
Dir: Vincent Sherman | Cast: Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie
2:30 PM | The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
A man's infatuation with a gold-digging beauty continues after his marriage.
Dir: Raoul Walsh | Cast: James Cagney, Olivia De Havilland, Rita Hayworth
4:30 PM | Gentleman Jim (1942)
Fanciful biography of 19th-century boxing champion Jim Corbett.
Dir: Raoul Walsh | Cast: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
6:30 PM | The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Dir: Orson Welles | Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT
8:00 PM | The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Seven gunslingers are hired by a Mexican village to end the pillaging of a vicious gang.
Dir: John Sturges | Cast: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen
10:30 PM | High Noon (1952)
A retired Marshal must defend his town from a revengeful villain.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges
12:00 AM | High Noon on the Waterfront (2022)
A look at Elia Kazan and Carl Foreman's works through the lens of the HUAC hearings.
Dir: David Roberts | Cast: Edward Norton, John Turturro
12:15 AM | My Darling Clementine (1946)
Wyatt Earp brings law and order to the aptly named town of Tombstone.
Dir: John Ford | Cast: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature
2:15 AM | A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
A gunfighter plays two rival families against each other torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
Dir: Sergio Leone | Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volontè
EARLY MORNING (WWII Documentaries)
4:00 AM | Know Your Ally: Britain (1944)
Documentary cameras capture how Britain got involved in World War II.
Dir: Robert Stevenson | Cast: Walter Huston, Leon Birnbaum, Charles W. Bradshaw, David Buttolph
5:00 AM | Thunderbolt (1947)
Documentary cameras trace the P-47 Thunderbolt bomber's role in the invasion of Italy.
Dir: William Wyler, John Sturges | Cast: James Stewart, Lloyd Bridges