TCM Schedule for Wednesday, July 15: In the Shadows/Jill Clayburgh

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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Spotlight: American Independents (continued)

1:00 AM Night of the Living Dead (1968)
An army of dead bodies comes to life and terrorizes a group of friends trapped inside a rural farmhouse.
Dir: George A. Romero Cast: Judith O'Dea, Russell Streiner, Duane Jones
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


2:45 AM Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
Falsely accused of murder, Sweetback goes on the run, dodging dirty cops, dealing with Hell's Angels, and always leaving the ladies satisfied.
Dir: Melvin Van Peebles Cast: Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC:


4:30 AM Pink Flamingos (1972)
Taking on and demolishing just about every known middle-class value, a comedy about which concerns itself with a competition for the filthiest person alive. The contestants: Divine, who lives in a trailer with her egg-fixated mama Edie, her sex-obsessed son Crackers, and his voyeuristic travelling companion Cotton, along ...
with Raymond and Connie Marble.
Dir: John Waters Cast: Linda Olgeirson, Divine, Channing Wilroy
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC:

TCM Daytime: In the Shadows

6:15 AM Shadow of a Woman (1946)
A woman suspects her husband of plotting to kill his son from a previous marriage.
Dir: Joseph Santley Cast: Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y


7:45 AM Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
A man shows up at a woman's villa claiming to be her presumably deceased brother.
Dir: Michael Anderson Cast: Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

9:30 AM Shadow in the Sky (1952)
A shell-shocked veteran tries to recover his sanity while living with his sister.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox Cast: Ralph Meeker, Nancy Reagan, James Whitmore
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: N


11:00 AM Shadow on the Wall (1950)
A child is left mute by the sight of her stepmother's murder.
Dir: Patrick Jackson Cast: Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

12:30 PM Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
A wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.
Dir: Lewis Gilbert Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

2:00 PM House of Dark Shadows (1970)
A vampire seeks a cure so he can wed the reincarnation of his lost love.
Dir: Dan Curtis Cast: Jonathan Frid, Joan Bennett, Grayson Hall
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

4:00 PM Night of Dark Shadows (1971)
Newlyweds try to survive life at a haunted family estate.
Dir: Dan Curtis Cast: David Selby, Grayson Hall, Kate Jackson
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

6:00 PM Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

TCM Primetime: Jill Clayburgh

8:00 PM Starting Over (1979)
A frustrated middle-aged writer searches for love and happiness after divorce.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC:

10:00 PM An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Life after divorce takes some amusing and frustrating turns for a Manhattan woman.
Dir: Paul Mazursky Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC:

12:15 AM I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
A Valium-addicted documentary filmmaker's apparent success masks a deeper failure to cope with life's complexities.
Dir: Jack Hofsiss Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Nicol Williamson, Dianne Wiest
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Biography Rating: TV-14 CC:

2:15 AM Semi-Tough (1977)
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
Dir: Michael Ritchie Cast: Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC:

4:15 AM The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
A computer programmer decides to become a thief, and he meets a woman who becomes his accomplice. Eventually he is noticed by an insurance investigator who starts to hound him.
Dir: Bud Yorkin Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y