TCM Schedule for Saturday, October 11: Cat People, Oklahoma!, The Manchurian Candidate, Sweet Smell of Success

THE DAY AT A GLANCE

- HORROR
Haunting, The (1963)
Sugar Hill (1974)
Night School (1981)
Night Watch (1973)
Saturday, October 11
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Cat People (1942) (6:45 am ET)
Lonely Wives (1932)
Mystery Mountain Ch. 3:
The Eye That Never Sleeps (1934) (TCM Premiere)
Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
Oklahoma! (1955) (Musical Matinee)
Last Voyage, The (1960)
Convicts 4 (1962)
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TCM SERIES: TWO FOR ONE
- JAMIE LEE CURTIS
Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
- NOIR ALLEY
New York Confidential (1955) (TCM Premiere)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: FAMILY STRUGGLES
Great Santini, The (1979)
East of Eden (1955)

FULL DAY'S SCHEDULE

11:30 PM The Haunting (1963)
You may not believe in ghosts...but you cannot deny terror! Hill House has a reputation for evil. The mysterious New England mansion has been the scene of grisly murders. But when four people spend the night, they find themselves trapped by The Haunting. Anthropologist Dr. John Markway, who seeks to disprove the legends; ...
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:30 AM Sugar Hill (1974)
When gangsters kill her boyfriend, a woman enlists a Voodoo queen to raise an army of the dead.
Dir: Paul Maslansky Cast: Raymond E Simpson, Ed Geldart, Walter Price
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC:


3:15 AM Night School (1981)
A police investigator attempts to solve the murders of two women from a local night school.
Dir: Ken Hughes Cast: Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward, Drew Snyder
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


5:00 AM Night Watch (1973)
Ellen Wheeler is an unhappy housewife who settles her fraying nerves with alcohol while staring out her window. When she witnesses what she thinks is a murder through a neighbor's window, she calls the police, who find nothing when they investigate. With her neglectful husband skeptical and unsupportive, Ellen turns to ...
Dir: Brian G. Hutton Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:45 AM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 AM Lonely Wives (1932)
A lawyer hires someone to impersonate him so he can have an affair.
Dir: Russell Mack Cast: Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Laura La Plante
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM The Eye That Never Sleeps (1934) (TCM Premiere)
Chapter 3 of the Mystery Mountain 1934 serial. Railroad detective Ken Williams is dispatched to catch the mysterious Rattler, who is disrupting construction of a new railroad line and interfering with a stagecoach line run by Jane Corwin. The Rattler remains a mystery with his skill at disguising himself to look like other people.
Dir: Otto Brower, B. Reeves Eason Cast: Ken Maynard, Verna Hillie, Syd Saylor
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC:


10:00 AM Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
The jungle king helps a young woman rescue her father from the high priest of a lost city.
Dir: Robert F. Hill Cast: Buster Crabbe, Jacqueline Wells, Eddie Woods
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:00 PM Oklahoma! (1955)
Film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical about the early settlers on the Oklahoma plain.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson
Runtime: 148 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:30 PM The Last Voyage (1960)
Passengers and crew fight to escape a sinking ocean liner.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:15 PM Convicts 4 (1962)
A convicted killer discovers a talent for art while behind bars.
Dir: Millard Kaufman Cast: Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:15 PM Kansas City Confidential (1952)
To commit the perfect crime, a former detective keeps his colleagues' identities secret from each other.
Dir: Phil Karlson Cast: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 PM The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
Runtime: 126 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:15 PM Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
A sleazy PR man who will do anything to get his clients mentioned in the column of a powerful journalist, gets involved in a plot to break up the journalist's sister's relationship with a jazz musician.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

(TCM Premiere)
12:00 AM New York Confidential (1955) (TCM Premiere)
A top syndicate crime boss and his corrupt politicians make multi-million dollar deals and order murders until the vicious pattern finally catches up to them.
Dir: Russell Rouse Cast: Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Anne Bancroft
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: N


2:00 AM The Great Santini (1979)
A marine has problems adjusting to domestic life during peacetime.
Dir: Lewis John Carlino Cast: Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


4:00 AM East of Eden (1955)
Film adaptation of Steinbeck's classic about a 1917 California farm family and the two brothers who struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y