TCM Schedule for Thurs, Aug 14, 2025: Summer Under the Stars - Sterling Hayden

Awesome back-to-back Film Noir today: The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing. Also worthwhile: Werner Klemperer (Hogan's Heroes), co-stars in a great supporting role in Five Steps to Danger, another Noir treat.

Good day for fans of Sterling Hayden.


DAYTIME (EST)

6:00 AM | The Star (1953)
A faded film star fights to hold on to her past glamour despite failing finances.
Dir: Stuart Heisler Cast: Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood

8:00 AM | Kansas Pacific (1953)
An army engineer is sent to speed up work on the Kansas Pacific Railroad in the mid 1880s.
Dir: Ray Nazarro | Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton Maclane

9:30 AM | Arrow in the Dust (1954)
A deserter takes on his dead captain's identity to save a wagon train.
Dir: Lesley Selander | Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen

11:00 AM | Suddenly (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Dir: Lewis Allen | Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason

12:30 PM | The Golden Hawk (1952)
Male and female pirates join forces against a corrupt Caribbean governor.
Dir: Sidney Salkow | Cast: Rhonda Fleming, Sterling Hayden, Helena Carter

2:15 PM | Valerie (1957)
A Civil War veteran's Post-Traumatic Stress leads to tragedy in this psychological thriller.
Dir: Gerd Oswald | Cast: Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel

4:00 PM | Zero Hour! (1957)
When a flight crew falls ill, the only man who can land the plane is afraid of flying.
Dir: Hall Bartlett | Cast: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden

6:00 PM | The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
A heist goes off as planned, but double crosses and bad luck cause everything to unravel.
Dir: John Huston | Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Marilyn Monroe


PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM | The Killing (1956)
Criminal Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring robbery.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick | Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards

9:45 PM | Crime Wave (1954)
A reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
Dir: Andre Detoth | Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk

11:15 PM | Five Steps to Danger (1957)
A man's car trip from L.A. to Texas turns into a Cold-War espionage drama.
Dir: Henry S. Kesler | Cast: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer

12:45 AM | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
A general orders a nuclear attack on Russia; POTUS and the Joint Chiefs try to cancel it.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick | Cast: Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden

2:30 AM | Winter Kills (1979)
An assassinated president's brother investigates the unsolved crime.
Dir: William Richert | Cast: Jeff Bridges, Sterling Hayden, Anthony Perkins, John Huston

4:15 AM | A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewic | Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara