TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 13: Cannes Film Festival Award-Winners/TCM Spotlight: Western - Social Commentary...

[CBHagman]

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

12:00 AM Hoosiers (1986)
A basketball coach gets one last chance at redemption at a rural Indiana high school.
Dir: David Anspaugh Cast: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


2:00 AM Mississippi Burning (1988)
FBI agents investigate the murders of civil rights workers in the South.
Dir: Alan Parker Cast: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances Mcdormand
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


4:15 AM Night Moves (1975)
An L.A. private detective puts aside his own marital woes while tracing a topless nymphet to the Florida Keys.
Dir: Arthur Penn Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

TCM Daytime: Cannes Film Festival Award-Winners

6:00 AM Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
Legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld imagines the kind of Follies he could produce with MGM's musical stars.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

8:00 AM Friendly Persuasion (1956)
A peaceful Quaker family's sanctity is tested during the Civil War.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Marjorie Main
Runtime: 137 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

10:30 AM Scarecrow (1973)
While traveling to the East Coast to open a car wash, paroled convict Max meets a sailor named Lion who dreams of reuniting with his wife and child after six years. Lion helps Max learn to understand and manage his anger, and Max discovers the fragility of his new friend Lion. But as both learn that they will never realize their goals, they discover a friendship even more important than their former dreams.
Dir: Jerry Schatzberg Cast: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

12:30 PM Paris, Texas (1984)
An amnesiac tries to find the family he lost.
Dir: Wim Wenders Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell
Runtime: 145 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

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3:00 PM Missing (1982)
A conservative American businessman travels to a South American country to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a right-wing military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the right-wing dictatorship. He also must learn to live with his son's and daughter-in-law's leftist passions which brought them there in the first place.
Dir: Costa-Gavras Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: N

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5:30 PM Union Pacific (1939)
A crooked politician tries to stop construction of the first intercontinental railroad.
Dir: Cecil B. De Mille Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff
Runtime: 135 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

TCM Prime Time: TCM Spotlight: Western - Social Commentary in Disguise

8:00 PM The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
A loner gets caught up in a posse's drive to find and hang three suspected rustlers.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

9:30 PM Hombre (1967)
A white boy, raised by Apaches, finds a purpose in defending a stagecoach from an ambush by a gang of thugs.
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

11:30 PM The Great Silence (1968)
A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds. (The original Italian title is "Il grande silenzio.&quot
Dir: Sergio Corbucci Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Vonetta McGee
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: N

1:30 AM Wichita (1955)
Wyatt Earp fights to straighten out a crooked cattle town.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

3:00 AM Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
A 19th-century lawyer tries to clear a black man of rape and murder charges.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode, Constance Towers
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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5:00 AM The Méliès Mystery (2021)
Documentary detailing the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated by a Franco-American collaboration between Lobster Films, the National Film Center and the Library of Congress.
Dir: Serge Bromberg, Eric Lange Cast: Leonard Maltin, Serge Bromberg, Georges Méliès
Runtime: 61 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

[broiles]

1. Thanks!

I always appreciate this.

[CBHagman]

3. You are welcome!

And that is some schedule on TCM's part. I had no idea Klaus Kinski had a made a western, for instance...

[broiles]

2. Thanks!

I always appreciate this.