TCM Schedule for Wednesday, July 8: Director John G. Adolfi/Nun Adventures

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Spotlight: American Independents (continued)

12:00 AM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
Dir: Ida Lupino Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:30 AM Glen or Glenda (1953)
A psychiatrist tells the stories of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda) and a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne).
Dir: Edward D. Wood Jr. Cast: Edward D. Wood Jr., Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot
Runtime: 65 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:


3:00 AM The Blood of Jesus (1941)
A rural black woman lying near death is torn between heaven and hell.
Dir: Spencer Williams Cast: Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams, Juanita Riley
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:15 AM Captain Fury (1939)
An Irish convict escapes an Australian prison to organize a revolution.
Dir: Hal Roach Cast: Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen, Paul Lukas
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC:

TCM Daytime: Director John G. Adolfi

6:00 AM Show of Shows (1929)
Warner Bros. stars perform a series of musical and dramatic sketches.
Dir: John G. Adolfi Cast: Frank Fay, William Courtenay, H. B. Warner
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC:



8:15 AM Sinners' Holiday (1930)
A jealous young man frames his sister's boyfriend.
Dir: John G. Adolfi Cast: Grant Withers, Warren Hymer, Evalyn Knapp
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC:



9:30 AM The Millionaire (1931)
A bored millionaire retires from big business to open a garage.
Dir: John G. Adolfi Cast: George Arliss, Florence Arliss, David Manners
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC:



11:00 AM Alexander Hamilton (1931)
The American patriot's political career is threatened when he falls in love with a married woman.
Dir: John G. Adolfi Cast: George Arliss, Doris Kenyon, Dudley Digges
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y



12:15 PM The Man Who Played God (1932)
After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.
Dir: John G. Adolfi Cast: George Arliss, Violet Heming, Bette Davis
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y



1:45 PM A Successful Calamity (1932)
A family pulls together to help a member in financial trouble.
Dir: John G. Adolfi Cast: George Arliss, Mary Astor, Evalyn Knapp
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:00 PM Central Park (1932)
Small-town kids out to make it in the big city inadvertently get mixed up with gangsters.
Dir: John G. Adolfi Cast: Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford, Guy Kibbee
Runtime: 58 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:00 PM The King's Vacation (1933)
A monarch thinks he can find a simpler life with his former wife.
Dir: John G. Adolfi Cast: George Arliss, Marjorie Gateson, Dick Powell
Runtime: 61 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC:


5:15 PM The Working Man (1933)
A wealthy manufacturer takes a vacation incognito and ends up working for his chief rival.
Dir: John G. Adolfi Cast: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Theodore Newton
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y



6:45 PM Voltaire (1933)
The famed French writer becomes the conscience of his country during the French Revolution.
Dir: John G. Adolfi Cast: George Arliss, Doris Kenyon, Margaret Lindsay
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC:

TCM Primetime: Nun Adventures

8:00 PM Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
There's more than one surprise in store when gritty gunslinger Clint Eastwood runs into whisky-swilling nun Shirley MacLaine in the Mexican desert!
Dir: Don Siegel Cast: Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Manolo Fabregas
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-MA CC:



10:15 PM Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
A marine and a nun are shipwrecked on a Pacific Island.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Akira Ohno
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y



12:15 AM The Nun's Story (1959)
A young nun is sent to do nursing work in the Belgian Congo, but soon begins to doubt her vows and question a life with the Convent, and instead joins the underground resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Dame Edith Evans
Runtime: 149 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



3:00 AM The Nun and the Sergeant (1962)
A sergeant commanding a mission in Korea is joined by a schoolgirl and a nun.
Dir: Franklin Adreon Cast: Robert Webber, Anna Sten, Leo Gordon
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:


4:30 AM The Singing Nun (1966)
Fanciful biography of the Belgian nun who briefly made the hit parade.
Dir: Henry Koster Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban, Greer Garson
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y