TCM Schedule for Fri, April 10, 2026: Directors Delmer Daves and Roger Corman
Daves gets the daytime spotlight.
Delmer Daves (July 24, 1904 – August 17, 1977) was an American screenwriter, film director and film producer. He worked in many genres, including film noir and warfare, but he is best known for his Western movies, especially Broken Arrow (1950), The Last Wagon (1956), 3:10 to Yuma (1957) and The Hanging Tree (1959). Unfortunately, none of these are in the line-up today.
A Summer Place (1959), one of his biggest commercial successes, is. Based on the novel by Sloan Wilson, it was controversial at the time for its treatment of adultery and pre-marital sex.
Daves worked with some of the best known players of his time including established stars like Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Glenn Ford, James Stewart and Richard Widmark. He also helped to develop the careers of up-and-coming players such as Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Felicia Farr and George C. Scott.
FULL BIO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmer_Daves
DAYTIME (listings EST)
7:00 AM Destination Tokyo (1943)
A U.S. sub braves enemy waters during World War II.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale
9:30 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife's murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
11:30 AM A Summer Place (1959)
An adulterous couple discovers that their children are sexually involved.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee
1:45 PM Susan Slade (1961)
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass the baby off as her own.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire
3:45 PM Rome Adventure (1962)
A man falls in love with two women.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Troy Donahue, Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi
6:00 PM Spencer's Mountain (1963)
A Wyoming farmer fights to build a better life for his oldest son.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, James Macarthur
PRIME TIME & LATE NIGHT
8:00 PM The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
A sadistic nobleman isolates his court from a world stricken with the plague.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher
9:45 PM The Wild Angels (1966)
A motorcycle gang rescues one of their own from the hospital and uses the occasion to run rampant.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern
11:30 PM The Trip (1967)
A TV commercial director experiences his first acid trip during the height of the free-love sixties.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern
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 after nerve gas kills everyone over age 25.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Robert Corff, Elaine Giftos, Bud Cort
2:30 AM Bloody Mama (1970)
Ma Barker leads her three sons on a 1930s crime spree that includes kidnapping.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Don Stroud
EARLY MORNING
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