TCM Schedule for Thurs, July 17, 2025: "Strange" / Director William Dieterle

Daytime theme: "Strange" is in the film title.

Primtetime: William Dieterle (July 15, 1893 – December 9, 1972) was a German-born actor and film director who emigrated to the United States in 1930 to leave a worsening political situation. He worked in Hollywood primarily as a director for much of his career, becoming a United States citizen in 1937.

His best-known films include The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) and The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), all airing tonight. His film The Life of Emile Zola (1937) won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the second biographical feature to do so.

Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dieterle


DAYTIME (EST)

6:00 AM | Strange Interlude (1932)
A doctor's daughter defies convention in her fight for love and her child.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard | Cast: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland

8:00 AM | The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)
A woman's bad taste in men leads to pregnancy out of wedlock.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Ann Dvorak, Lee Tracy, Richard Cromwell

9:15 AM | Strange Alibi (1941)
An undercover cop finds himself trapped on the wrong side of the law.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman | Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry, Jonathan Hale

10:30 AM | Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)
A young doctor uses pioneering methods to treat a mental patient.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet | Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day

12:00 PM | Strange Lady in Town (1955)
A suffragette doctor travels from Boston to establish a new practice in 1880s New Mexico.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy | Cast: Greer Garson, Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell

2:00 PM | Strange Cargo (1940)
A prostitute and some prisoners attempt to escape from a penal colony in French Guiana.
Dir: Frank Borzage | Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter

4:00 PM | The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone | Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott

6:00 PM | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
An unstable American general orders a nuclear attack on Russia.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick | Cast: Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden


PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM | The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer makes a pact with Satan for economic success
Dir: William Dieterle | Cast: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell

10:00 PM | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
A deformed bell ringer rescues a gypsy girl falsely accused of witchcraft and murder.
Dir: William Dieterle | Cast: Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell

12:00 AM | A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
An entrepreneur builds an international news agency.
Dir: William Dieterle | Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert

1:45 AM | The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
True story of the French scientist's battle to establish modern medical methods.
Dir: William Dieterle | Cast: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise

3:15 AM | From Headquarters (1933)
A police lieutenant uses scientific methods to solve a decadent playboy's murder.
Dir: William Dieterle | Cast: George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette

4:30 AM | Another Dawn (1937)
An officer's wife at a British outpost in Africa falls for another man.
Dir: William Dieterle | Cast: Kay Francis, Errol Flynn, Ian Hunter