TCM Schedule for Thurs, Apr 23, 2026: Director Frank Borzage/Set in Texas (Places in the Heart, Tender Mercies, more)

DAYTIME (listings EST)

6:00 AM Big City (1937)
An honest cab driver fights against corruption.
Dir: Frank Borzage, George B. Seitz Cast: Spencer Tracy, Luise Rainer, Charley Grapewin

7:30 AM Flirtation Walk (1934)
A West Point cadet falls for his commanding officer's daughter.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O'Brien

9:15 AM Green Light (1937)
An idealistic doctor sacrifices his career to protect an elderly surgeon.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay

10:45 AM Living on Velvet (1935)
A guilt-ridden pilot finds a new outlook on life when he falls for a society girl.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Kay Francis, Warren William, George Brent

12:15 PM The Mortal Storm (1940)
The Third Reich's rise tears apart a German family.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young

2:00 PM Seven Sweethearts (1942)
A father insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Marsha Hunt, Cecilia Parker

3:45 PM Shipmates Forever (1935)
An admiral's son gives up the Navy for a career as a song-and-dance man.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Lewis Stone

5:45 PM Strange Cargo (1940)
A prostitute and some prisoners attempt to escape from a penal colony in French Guiana.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter


PRIME TIME. LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM Places in the Heart (1984)
A widowed Texas woman makes ends meet for her family during the depression.
Dir: Robert Benton Cast: Sally Field, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan

10:00 PM Tender Mercies (1983)
A divorced country singer stops drinking and starts over with a loving widow.
Dir: Bruce Beresford Cast: Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley

11:45 PM A Well Spent Life (1971)
Tribute to the songster Mance Lipscomb, considered to be the greatest guitarist of all time.
Dir: Les Blank Cast: Mance Lipscomb, Les Blank, Les Blank

12:45 AM Written on the Wind (1957)
A young woman marries into a corrupt oil family then falls for her husband's best friend.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack

2:30 AM Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
True-life story of Edna Gladney, who fought for orphans' rights in Texas.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart

4:15 AM Boom Town (1940)
Friends become rivals when they strike-it-rich in oil.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert