TCM Schedule for Saturday, July 5: Drums Along the Mohawk; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; The Omega Man

Day At A Glance

INDEPENDENCE DAY
1776 (1972)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Scarlet Coat, The (1955)
MGM Parade Show #28 (1955)
Saturday, July 5
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Fury (1936)
MGM Cartoons: Barney Bear's Polar Pest (1944)
So You Want to Hold Your Wife (1947) (short)
Believe It or Not #1 (1931) (short)
Code of the Secret Service (1939)
Lone Ranger Ch. 9: The Missing Spur, The
(1938) (TCM Premiere)
Popeye: My Pop, My Pop (1940)
Garden Murder Case, The (1936)
Teddy the Rough Rider (1940) (short)
Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution
of the United States (1937) (short)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) (Musical Matinee)
Fistful of Dollars, A (1964)
Omega Man, The (1971)
Getaway, The (1972)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TWO FOR ONE
- JOE DANTE
Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
Fool Killer, The (1965) (TCM Premiere)
- NOIR ALLEY
This Side of the Law (1950)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: HOW MANY?
Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
One is a Lonely Number (1972)

Full Day Schedule

10:30 PM 1776 (1972)
The founding fathers struggle to draft the Declaration of Independence.
Dir: Peter H. Hunt Cast: William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard
Runtime: 141 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:30 AM Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
A young couple fights off Indian attacks to start a farm in the Mohawk Valley.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:30 AM The Scarlet Coat (1955)
During the American War of Independence, an American officer deserts to the British in order to unmask a traitor.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, George Sanders
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


5:15 AM MGM Parade Show #28 (1955)
Walter Pidgeon introduces Part 2 of Captains Courageous and interviews Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet.
Dir: null Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew
Runtime: 25 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:00 AM Fury (1936)
An innocent man escapes a lynch mob then returns for revenge.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

8:00 AM Barney Bear's Polar Pest (1944)
It's time to hibernate but Barney Bear's nephew from the North Pole shows up to ruin any plans Barney may have to get some rest.
Dir: George Gordon Cast: Non-speaking Role
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:10 AM So You Want to Hold Your Wife (1947)
A husband attempts to save his marriage with humorous consequences.
Dir: Richard Bare Cast: Frank Moran, A. Edward Sutherland, Art Gilmore
Runtime: 11 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:25 AM Believe It or Not #1 (1931)
This short entry in the "Believe It Or Not" series focuses on various sites and oddities to be found in northern Africa. Vitaphone Release 1282.
Dir: Murray Roth Cast: Robert L Ripley
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:35 AM Code of the Secret Service (1939)
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Dir: Noel Smith Cast: Ronald Reagan, Rosella Towne, Eddie Foy Jr.
Runtime: 58 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:35 AM The Missing Spur (1938) (TCM Premiere)
Chapter 9 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


9:55 AM My Pop, My Pop (1940)
Popeye is building a boat when his daddy, Poopdeck Pappy, insists on helping. When the old man keeps dozing off on the job, Popeye swallows some spinach and finishes the boat in record time. Pappy wakes up, proudly believing he's done his part.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Arnold Gillespie Cast: Jack Mercer
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:05 AM The Garden Murder Case (1936)
Society sleuth Philo Vance suspects dirty doings behind a mysterious series of suicides.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume
Runtime: 62 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:10 AM Teddy the Rough Rider (1940)
This Academy Award-winning Technicolor short follows the political career of president Theodore Roosevelt.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Sidney Blackmer, Pierre Watkin, Theodore von Eltz
Runtime: 19 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


11:30 AM Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States (1937)
This historical short film looks at the Founding Fathers of the United States and the creation of the Constitution of the U.S.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn Cast: Harry C. Bradley, John Dilson, Lester Dorr
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


12:00 PM Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Two singers work their way to Paris, enjoying the company of eligible men they meet along the way.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:45 PM A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
A lone drifter wanders into a Western town torn apart by two feuding families. He hires himself out as a mercenary, taking no sides and playing one side against the middle, until all is destroyed.
Dir: Sergio Leone Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volontè
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


3:45 PM The Omega Man (1971)
A scientist who believes he is the only human to survive a worldwide bacteriological war unharmed attempts to save humanity by developing a curative serum from his own blood in this frightening vision of a post-apocalyptic near future.
Dir: Boris Sagal Cast: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


5:45 PM The Getaway (1972)
Steve McQueen stars as "Doc" McCoy - a convict who makes a deal to split his hidden loot with a corrupt politician in exchange for early release from prison--in this fast-paced tale of greed and betrayal. Once free, McCoy tries to uphold his part of the agreement, but he quickly learns there is no one he can trust as he ...
Dir: Sam Peckinpah Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali Macgraw, Ben Johnson
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 PM The Night of the Hunter (1955)
After hearing an about-to-be-hanged murderer's story about some hidden money he left in the care of his two young kids, the murderer's cell-mate is released and embarks on a journey to find the killer's family.
Dir: Charles Laughton Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:00 PM The Fool Killer (1965) (TCM Premiere)
After the Civil War, a Southern boy aged 12 runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside and meets various odd characters along the way.
Dir: Servando González Cast: Anthony Perkins, Edward Albert, Henry Hull
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 AM This Side of the Law (1950)
An unscrupulous lawyer hires a vagrant to impersonate a missing millionaire.
Dir: Richard Bare Cast: Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:45 AM Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
A middle-aged man starts an affair with a younger woman and discovers the pain he causes his wife and children.
Dir: Bud Yorkin Cast: Mary Ewald, Gayle Bellows, Ally Sheedy
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


3:45 AM One is a Lonely Number (1972)
A pretty divorcee tries to build a new life.
Dir: Mel Stuart Cast: Trish Van Devere, Monte Markham, Janet Leigh
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y