TCM Schedule for Thurs, Apr 16, 2026: Look-Alikes / Set in Texas ( TCM Premiere of 'Raggedy Man' and 'Slacker')

[Auggie]

DAYTIME (listings EST)

6:00 AM Penrod's Double Trouble (1938)
A missing boy's lookalike takes his place and raises havoc.
Dir: Lewis Seiler Cast: Billy Mauch, Bobby Mauch, Dick Purcell

7:15 AM Twice Blessed (1945)
Twin sisters set a parent trap to reunite their divorced mother and father.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: Preston Foster, Gail Patrick, Lee Wilde

8:45 AM Another Face (1935)
Plastic surgery turns a gangster into a movie star.
Dir: Christy Cabanne Cast: Wallace Ford, Brian Donlevy, Phyllis Brooks

10:00 AM Road to Paradise (1930)
A delinquent girl helps a criminal gang rob her look-alike.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Loretta Young, Jack Mulhall, George Barraud

11:30 AM The Phantom Ship (1936)
A search for a lost treasure on a haunted ship in the frozen North.
Dir: Jack King Cast: Tommy Bond, Bernice Hansen, Shirley Reed

11:40 AM The Goofy Gophers (1947)
A watchdog guarding a vegetable patch spots the Goofy Gophers stocking up on food.
Dir: Robert Clampett, Arthur Davis Cast: Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg

11:50 AM Droopy's Double Trouble (1951)
Droopy and his twin brother Drippy are butlers who give a hungry Spike more then he can handle.
Dir: Tex Avery Cast: Bill Thompson, Daws Butler

12:00 PM The Double Man (1967)
Russian officials attempt to kidnap a CIA officer and replace him with a double of their own.
Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner Cast: Yul Brynner, Britt Ekland, Clive Revill

2:00 PM Dead Ringer (1964)
A jealous twin kills her sister and takes over her identity.
Dir: Paul Henreid Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford

4:00 PM The Scapegoat (1959)
A man is tricked into trading places with a look-alike nobleman with murderous plans.
Dir: Robert Hamer Cast: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey

5:45 PM The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
An obsessed movie director grooms an unknown to play his deceased movie-star wife.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine


PRIME TIME. LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM Hud (1963)
An amoral modern rancher clashes with his rigid father.
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal

10:00 PM Raggedy Man (1981) TCM Premiere
Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, befriends a sailor, causing judgmental tongues to wag in town.
Dir: Jack Fisk Cast: Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard

11:45 PM Slacker (1990) TCM Premiere
Twenty-four hours with an assortment of "slackers" as they wander around Austin, Texas.
Dir: Richard Linklater Cast: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine

1:30 AM Paris, Texas (1984)
An amnesiac tries to find the family he lost.
Dir: Wim Wenders Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell

4:00 AM The Southerner (1945)
A sharecropper fights the elements to start his own farm.
Dir: Jean Renoir Cast: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish

[CBHagman]

1. I had never heard of Twice Blessed...

...and I immediately thought it was yet another Hollywood version of Erich Kästner's Das doppelte Lottchen (Lisa and Lottie), which was the inspiration for both versions of The Parent Trap. However, Kästner's book didn't come out until well after World War II. So I wonder how many versions of the story exist and whether there is a source material I have overlooked.

And if that sounds ridiculous, consider that the musical Hello, Dolly! owes its existence to multiple plays from multiple cultures across at least two centuries.