TCM Schedule for Saturday 4/11: Roger Corman, Michael Caine, Dial M For Murder, Bloody Mama

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DAY AT A GLANCE

SPECIAL THEME: DIRECTOR ROGER CORMAN
Trip, The (1967)
Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy
the World in Order to Save It. (1970) (TCM Premiere)
Bloody Mama (1970)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: ADVENTURE
Back from Eternity (1956)
Saturday, April 11
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
'Til We Meet Again (1940)
Holt of the Secret Service Ch. 11:
Ominous Warnings (1941) (TCM Premiere)
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
Buried Loot (1935) (short)
Kismet (1955) (Musical Matinee)
This Happy Breed (1944)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
- TCM PRIMETIME
MICHAEL CAINE
Get Carter (1971)
Deathtrap (1982)
- NOIR ALLEY
Bad Blonde (1953) (TCM Premiere)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: BAD KIDS
Bad Seed, The (1956)
Bad Boy (1949)

FULL SCHEDULE

11:30 PM The Trip (1967)
A TV commercial director experiences his first acid trip during the height of the free-love '60s.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC:


1:00 AM Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. (1970)
What if young people ran the world? That's the premise of this 1970 Roger Corman dark comedy after a nerve gas kills everyone over the age of 25.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Robert Corff, Elaine Giftos, Bud Cort
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC:


2:30 AM Bloody Mama (1970)
In Depression-era America, Ma Barker leads her three sons on a crime spree that includes the kidnapping of a millionaire. Plus her loyal brood proves to have every perversion imaginable.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Don Stroud
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


4:15 AM Back from Eternity (1956)
When an airliner crashes in the jungle, the repaired plane can only hold five of the survivors.
Dir: John Farrow Cast: Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:00 AM Romance on the High Seas (1948)
A man hires a private eye to watch his wife on a cruise, but the wife sends an impostor.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Doris Day, Don Defore
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


7:45 AM 'Til We Meet Again (1940)
A dying woman shares a shipboard romance with a criminal on his way to the gallows.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Pat O'Brien
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


9:30 AM Ominous Warnings (1941)
Chapter 11 of the Holt of the Secret Service 1941 serial. A gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped a government engraver and is forcing him to print virtually undetectable phony money. The Secret Service sends agent Jack Holt and a female partner after the gang.
Dir: James W. Horne Cast: Jack Holt, Evelyn Brent, C. Montague Shaw
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC:


10:00 AM Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
The jungle king saves five survivors of an airplane crash.
Dir: H. Bruce Humberstone Cast: Gordon Scott, Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:30 AM Buried Loot (1935)
A man confesses to embezzlement only after burying the money he stole.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Robert Livingston, Shirley Ross, Brooks Benedict
Runtime: 18 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: Y


12:00 PM Kismet (1955)
In this Arabian Nights musical, the "king of the beggars" infiltrates high society when his daughter is wooed by a handsome prince.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 PM This Happy Breed (1944)
A middle-class family faces personal triumphs and tragedies when they move to a new home in the suburbs.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:00 PM Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
True story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:00 PM Dial M for Murder (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he'd hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 PM Get Carter (1971)
A small-time gangster searches for the truth behind his brother's death.
Dir: Mike Hodges Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


10:00 PM Deathtrap (1982)
A playwright with writer's block plots to kill a beginner and steal his script.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


12:15 AM Bad Blonde (1953)
A scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager.
Dir: Reginald Le Borg Cast: Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC:


2:00 AM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight year old girl--a quintessential psychopath--kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this "bad seed" to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:15 AM Bad Boy (1949)
A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
Dir: Kurt Neumann Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Jane Wyatt, James Gleason
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y