TCM Schedule Saturday June 14: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Imitation of Life, The Music Man, Where The Boys Are

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Day At a Glance

TCM SPOTLIGHT: CON ARTISTS
Music Man, The (1962)
Skin Game (1971)
Il bidone (1955)
Saturday, June 14
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Blues in the Night (1941) (6:15 am ET)
MGM Cartoons: The Calico Dragon (1935)
Six Hits and a Miss (1945) (short)
Black Cats and Broomsticks (1955) (short)
Red River Robin Hood (1943)
(P) Lone Ranger Ch. 6: Red Man's Courage (1938)
Popeye: Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive (1940)
Kennel Murder Case, The (1933)
Forest Commandos, The (1945) (short)
Where the Boys Are (1960) (Musical Matinee)
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The (1962)
Hitch-Hiker, The (1953)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TWO FOR ONE
- BRIAN TYREE HENRY
Imitation of Life (1959)
Learning Tree, The (1969)
- NOIR ALLEY
Crack-Up (1946)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: RICHARD HARRIS
Man in the Wilderness (1971)
Deadly Trackers, The (1973)

Full Day Schedule

12:00 AM The Music Man (1962)
A con man, masquerading as a music professor, convinces a small town to form a brass band as a way for him to pocket some money.
Dir: Morton Dacosta Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett
Runtime: 151 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:45 AM Skin Game (1971)
Two western con artists team with a lady card shark to take on slavers.
Dir: Paul Bogart Cast: James Garner, Lou Gossett, Susan Clark
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:30 AM Il bidone (1955)
A trio of swindlers roam the countryside with schemes to bilk poor people out of their money, their most famous of which is disguising themselves as priests. Eventually, they go their own ways, but team up again, and one thief in particular can't resist the priest scheme one more time. Unfortunately, this time, believed ...
Dir: Federico Fellini Cast: Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Franco Fabrizi
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: N


6:15 AM Blues in the Night (1941)
The members of a traveling jazz band try to keep their leader from drinking himself to death.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 AM The Calico Dragon (1935)
After being read a fairy tale, a little girl's doll and stuffed animals come to life in her dreams, with the landscape of her bed as their world.
Dir: Rudolf Ising Cast: Johnny Murray, Rudolf Ising, The Californians
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:15 AM Six Hits and a Miss (1945)
This presents musical performances by such talents as Six Hits and a Miss and Rudolph Friml Jr. and His Band.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Bobby Connolly, Paul Draper, Louis Hesse
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:30 AM Black Cats and Broomsticks (1955)
Superstitions are examined in the context of mid-20th century America.
Dir: Larry O'Reilly Cast: Peter Roberts, Frances Dinsmoor, Frances Dinsmoor
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:45 AM Red River Robin Hood (1943)
Two ranchers fend off a crooked land grabber.
Dir: Lesley Selander Cast: Tim Holt, Cliff "ukulele Ike" Edwards, Barbara Moffett
Runtime: 57 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:45 AM Red Man's Courage (1938)
Chapter 6 of the The Lone Ranger 1938 serial. When a band of Texas Rangers is massacred in an ambush, one of the men is nursed back to health by an Indian named Tonto. The lone survivor swears vengeance, and assumes another identity to learn more about who was behind the attack.
Dir: John English, William Witney Cast: Lynn Roberts, Chief Thunder-Cloud, George Letz
Runtime: 17 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:15 AM Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive (1940)
There's plenty of excitement when Popeye takes Olive Oyl out for a driving lesson. She commits every blunder in the book and Popeye and his trusty spinach have to come to her rescue.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Orestes Calpini Cast: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:25 AM The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:40 AM The Forest Commandos (1945)
This short film focuses on Ontario's fire rangers, who keep watch over Canada's forests. Vitaphone Release 1406A.
Dir: Van Campen Heilner Cast: George Phillips, Knox Manning, Joe Laflamme
Runtime: 19 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


12:00 PM Where the Boys Are (1960)
Four college coeds go looking for love during spring break in Fort Lauderdale.
Dir: Henry Levin Cast: Dolores Hart, Yvette Mimieux, Barbara Nichols
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:45 PM The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
A boy from the Irish slums reviews his troubled past while training for a school race.
Dir: Tony Richardson Cast: Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Avis Bunnage
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


3:45 PM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
Dir: Ida Lupino Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


5:00 PM It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
A group of greedy clowns tear up the countryside in search of buried treasure.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar
Runtime: 192 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:00 PM Imitation of Life (1959)
A successful actress with a distant only daughter sets up housekeeping with a black housekeeper whose own daughter has disowned any connection to her race.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:15 PM The Learning Tree (1969)
Newt Winger is a sensitive teenager who dreams often and big and from whom his mother dreams even bigger. Gordon Parks proves a triple threat as director, producer and screenwriter of this film version of his autobiographical novel about Winger, a young black man coming of age in small-town Kansas during the 1920s. In 1989, ...
Dir: Gordon Parks Cast: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


12:15 AM Crack-Up (1946)
An art critic risks his reputation and his life to track down a forgery racket.
Dir: Irving Reis Cast: Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:15 AM Man in the Wilderness (1971)
A Northwest frontiersman, in 1820, after being badly mauled by a bear is left for dead. He survives with a rare determination and comes to be looked upon as a god by the Indians.
Dir: Richard C. Sarafian Cast: Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:15 AM The Deadly Trackers (1973)
A Texas sheriff wrecks revenge on a band of desperados who murdered his wife and child.
Dir: Barry Shear Cast: Rod Taylor, Richard Harris, Al Lettieri
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y