TCM Schedule for Wednesday, October 8: Randolph Scott/Director Otto Preminger

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Films from the 1980s (continued)

12:45 AM Working Girl (1988)
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to take over after her boss breaks her leg.
Dir: Mike Nichols Cast: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


2:45 AM Thief (1981)
A safecracker tries to outrun the mob so he can retire.
Dir: Michael Mann Cast: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


5:00 AM Diner (1982)
A group of friends who hang out in a Baltimore diner face the problems of growing up.
Dir: Barry Levinson Cast: Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

TCM Daytime: Randolph Scott

7:00 AM Fighting Man of the Plains (1949)
A former bandit enlists Jesse James to help him clean up a Kansas town.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: Randolph Scott, Bill Williams, Victor Jory
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: N



8:45 AM Ride the High Country (1962)
Employed to guard a gold shipment from the lawless Sierra mining town of Course Gold, Gil Westrum hires his longtime friend Steve Judd and Heck Longtree to ride shotgun. The two, however, have less honorable plans for the gold. But both sets of plans are thrown into disarray when the men encounter Elsa Knudsen fleeing her ...
Dir: Sam Peckinpah Cast: Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



10:30 AM Canadian Pacific (1949)
A railroad surveyor faces an Indian rebellion.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, J. Carroll Naish
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: N



12:15 PM Virginia City (1940)
A rebel spy poses as a wild West dance hall girl.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y



2:30 PM Carson City (1952)
When the local stagecoach is raided by bandits, a western banker sinks all of his capital into a railway line.
Dir: Andre Detoth Cast: Randolph Scott, Lucille Norman, Raymond Massey
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



4:00 PM Roberta (1935)
John Kent, visiting Paris with his bandleader friend, Huck Haines, suddenly inherits his aunt's fashionable dress shop in the city. Although clueless about the fashion world, John and Huck get help from designer Stephanie and the fiery Countess Scharwenka, whom Huck recognizes as his small-town sweetheart, Lizzie. But when John's snooty ex, Sophie, shows up, he must reconsider his new feelings for Stephanie.
Dir: William A. Seiter Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



6:00 PM Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)
Army veterans are on a mission to find out who sold faulty ammunition to a cavalry troop.
Dir: Richard L. Bare Cast: Randolph Scott, James Craig, Angie Dickinson
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



TCM Prime Time: Director Otto Preminger

8:00 PM Laura (1944)
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she's dead, the obsessed detective can't get her out of his mind.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



9:45 PM Daisy Kenyon (1947)
On the rebound from a married man, a woman marries a veteran, just as her lover becomes available.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: N



11:30 PM Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
A defense lawyer takes on a case of a man accused of murdering a bartender who apparently raped his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
Runtime: 160 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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2:30 AM Angel Face (1953)
A woman murders her family for their money.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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4:15 AM The Man with the Golden Arm (1956)
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y