TCM Schedule for Fri, June 12, 2026: The Supernatural / Classic Film Noir
Prime time: Three classic Noir films, which TCM host Eddie Muller lists in a blog post as being among "Top 25 Noir films that will stand the test the time."
Muller's comments:
SCARLET STREET, (1945): Deeply perverse, and immensely enjoyable for the ways writer Dudley Nichols and Fritz Lang run circles around the Production Code. Were the three leads (Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea) ever any better?
THE KILLERS, (1946): Hemingway's short story is fleshed out into an incredibly involuted screenplay, which Director Robert Siodmak renders as the ultimate noir dreamscape. The Citizen Kane of crime movies. And Burt Lancaster's film debut.
NIGHTMARE ALLEY, (1947):
Little by little, as this film resurfaces in the mainstream, it will come to be seen as Tyrone Power's greatest contribution to the movies.
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DAYTIME (listings EST)
7:00 AM Turnabout (1940)
Battling spouses accidentally switch bodies.
Dir: Hal Roach Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard
8:30 AM Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
A ghost tries to smooth the way for two young lovers he knew during his lifetime.
Dir: A. Edward Sutherland Cast: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger
10:00 AM The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
A struggling farmer makes a pact with Satan, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from the contract.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell
12:00 PM The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
A musician dreams he's an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight, marking the end of the world.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran
1:30 PM I Married an Angel (1942)
A playboy drops his many girlfriends when he falls in love with a grounded angel.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Edward Everett Horton
3:00 PM Topper Returns (1941)
A beautiful ghost enlists a henpecked husband to track down her killer.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis
4:30 PM The Canterville Ghost (1944)
A ghost who died a coward tries to inspire U.S. G.I.s to become heroes.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien
6:15 PM The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)
A young boy's talent for picking winning race horses threatens his life.
Dir: Anthony Pelissier Cast: Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire
PRIME TIME: FILM NOIR
8:00 PM Scarlet Street (1945)
A middle aged would be painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
10:00 PM The Killers (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer's beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
12:00 AM Nightmare Alley (1947)
The rise and fall of a carny mentalist, whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray
LATE NIGHT: NEO-NOIR
2:00 AM The Yakuza (1974)
An American private-eye travels to Japan to rescue a friend's daughter from the Yakuza.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith
4:00 AM The First Deadly Sin (1980)
A detective cares for his bedridden wife while tracking a serial killer.
Dir: Brian Hutton Cast: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, James Whitmore