TCM Schedule for Fri, June 19, 2026: Alfred Hitchock / Juneteenth Tribute

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TCM celebrates Juneteenth!

At 9:45pm, there’s a fascinating feature from across the pond—The Song of Freedom (1936).

This British production, which is the first fully surviving feature from Hammer Film Productions, forefronts Black characters in a way that Hollywood rarely did at the time. It also comes from a country that abolished slavery in 1838, creating a unique depiction of racial relationships and Black history, which comes alive through Paul Robeson’s lead performance as Johnny Zinga.

Johnny, with his melodic voice, goes from being a dockworker to an international opera star, but he learns that the medallion he’s possessed since he was a baby means he’s the leader of an African tribe. It’s a challenging movie that provides distinct insights into British ideas regarding race and colonialism in the 1930s.

The evening will also play host to the French romance Zou Zou (1934) starring Josephine Baker, Daniel Petrie’s acclaimed adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun (1961) starring Sidney Poitier, Zoltán Korda’s Cry, the Beloved Country (1951), the James Baldwin documentary I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982) and the sci-fi drama The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) starring Harry Belafonte.

https://www.tcm.com/articles/now-playing-newsletter/60077/tcm-june-round-up

DAYTIME (listings EST)

6:00 AM The Lodger (1927)
A family running a boarding house suspects their new tenant is Jack the Ripper.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ivor Novello, Malcolm Keen, Marie Ault

7:45 AM Young and Innocent (1937)
A young girl helps an innocent man escape the law when he's framed for murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont

9:15 AM The Wrong Man (1956)
Based on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbery
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle

11:15 AM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
A young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from a train.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas

1:00 PM North by Northwest (1959)
An advertising executive finds himself embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

3:30 PM Foreign Correspondent (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall

5:45 PM Suspicion (1941)
A young woman marries a charming man but comes to believe that he is only after her money.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke

7:30 PM MGM Parade Show #7 (1955)
Ray Bolger performs in "The Great Ziegfeld"; Debbie Reynolds introduces "The Tender Trap."



PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM Zou Zou (1934)
A singing star tries to clear a childhood friend of murder charges.
Dir: Marc Allégret Cast: Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey

9:45 PM Song of Freedom (1936)
A dock-worker becomes an opera star, then discovers his African roots.
Dir: J Edgar Willis Cast: Paul Robeson, Elizabeth Welch, Ingram D'abbes

11:15 PM A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
An insurance payment could mean either salvation or personal ruin for a poor family.
Dir: Daniel Petrie Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee

1:30 AM Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)
A South African minister travels to Johannesburg to find his missing son.
Dir: Zoltan Korda Cast: Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Charles Carson

3:30 AM I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)
James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement.
Dir: Dick Fontaine, Pat Hartley Cast: James Baldwin, David Baldwin, Chinua Achebe

5:15 AM The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
One woman and two men are the only people left alive after a nuclear disaster.
Dir: Ranald MacDougall Cast: Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer