TCM Schedule for Thurs, July 31, 2025: Young Love/Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now)

Primetime TCM premiere: the AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to director Francis Ford Coppola, followed by the film Apocalypse Now and the TCM premiere of the documentary of its making, Hearts of Darkness.


DAYTIME (EST)

6:00 AM Janie (1944)
A small-town girl defies her father by falling for a soldier.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding

8:00 AM Cynthia (1947)
A sheltered girl uses music as a means of winning her independence.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, George Murphy, S. Z. Sakall

10:00 AM Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
A small-town boy tries to juggle two girlfriends at once.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker

12:00 PM The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
An adult artist gets mixed-up with a teenager. Hilarity ensues.
Dir: Irving Reis Cast: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple

2:00 PM The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
A lovesick teenager searches for romance at college.
Dir: Don Weis Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick

3:30 PM A Summer Place (1959)
An adulterous couple discovers that their children are sexually involved.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee

6:00 PM AFI Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special (2023)
Ben Mankiewicz hosts a retrospective of the AFI Life Achievement Award.
Dir: Chris Merrill Cast: Gregory Peck, Bette Davis, Meryl Streep


PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM The AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Francis Ford Coppola (2025)
50th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala on April 26, 2025, in Hollywood.
Dir: Chris Merrill Cast: Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford

9:15 PM Apocalypse Now (1979)
During the Vietnam War, an American captain is given the assignment to hunt down and kill one of his own.
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall

12:00 AM The AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Francis Ford Coppola (2025)
Francis Ford Coppola was honored at the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala on April 26, 2025, in Hollywood.
Dir: Chris Merrill Cast: Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford

1:15 AM Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
A chronicle of how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was made.
Dir: Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola Cast: Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando

3:15 AM The Rain People (1969)
A housewife who feels trapped leaves home and takes up with a hitchhiker.
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: James Caan, Shirley Knight, Robert Duvall

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5:15 AM MGM Parade Show #28 (1955)
Captains Courageous; interviews with Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet.
Dir: null Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew