TCM Schedule for Fri, Oct 17, 2025: Tod Browning/Montgomery Cliff/Creepy Cinema

It's not everyday there's opportunity to wake up to films directed by the great Tod Browning. In the afternoon there's a quickie birthday tribute to Montgomery Cliff, followed by Creepy Cinema in prime time with films starring Gene Tierney and Ginger Rogers. Late night? Madness and gruesome ghouls!

DAYTIME: (EST)

6:15 AM | The Mystic (1925) TCM PREMIERE
A fake spiritualist helps a businessman gain control of an heiress's fortune.
Dir: Tod Browning | Cast: Aileen Pringle, Conway Tearle, Mitchell Lewis

7:45 AM | The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
A phony medium tries to prove her protege innocent of murder.
Dir: Tod Browning | Cast: Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Margaret Wycherly

9:15 AM | Mark of the Vampire (1935)
Vampires seem to be connected to an unsolved murder.
Dir: Tod Browning | Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allen, Lionel Atwill

10:30 AM | The Devil-Doll (1936)
A Devil's Island escapee shrinks murderous slaves and sells them to his victims as dolls.
Dir: Tod Browning | Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton

12:00 PM | The Big Lift (1950)
Two Air Force sergeants find love while flying the Berlin Airlift.
Dir: George Seaton | Cast: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers

2:00 PM | I Confess (1953)
A pries, accused of murder, cannot defend himself because of a vow to protect a confession.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden

3:45 PM | Indiscretion of an American Wife (1954)
An American woman tries to break it off with her Italian lover.
Dir: Vittorio De Sica | Cast: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi

5:00 PM | Raintree County (1957)
A Civil War-era southern belle goes mad out of fear that she may be part black.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk | Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint


PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM | Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
A beautiful neurotic will stop at nothing to hold onto her husband's love.
Dir: John M. Stahl | Cast: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain

10:00 PM | Black Widow (1954)
The murder of a scheming female writer throws a group of theatrical friends into turmoil.
Dir: Nunnally Johnson | Cast: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney

12:00 AM | The Hypnotic Eye (1960)
A city is stricken by a wave of self-mutilations performed by women who appear to be in a trance.
Dir: George Blair | Cast: Jacques Bergerac, Merry Anders, Marcia Henderson

1:30 AM | Eyes Without a Face (1959)
A surgeon steals young women's faces hoping to heal his daughter's scars.
Dir: Georges Franju | Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob

3:15 AM | Chamber of Horrors (1966)
A madman uses various devices as murder weapons to gain revenge.
Dir: Hy Averback | Cast: Patrick O'Neal, Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White

5:00 AM | It! (1967)
A museum curator brings a statue, the Golem of Prague, to life. Mayhem ensues.
Dir: Herbert J. Leder | Cast: Roddy McDowall, Jill Haworth, Paul Maxwell