TCM Schedule for Tuesday, June 1: Star of the Month: Cyd Charisse [View all]

There's quite the range of movies in 24 hours on TCM: war epics, science fiction/horror, mythology, the Bible, suspense/mystery.

Then Cyd Charisse dances into view and the mood changes once more!

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

12:00 AM The Enemy Below (1957)

Two submarine commanders, one American and the other German, engage in a dangerous, suspenseful game of cat and mouse as they try to overtake one another in the North Atlantic during World War II.

Dir: Dick Powell
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Curt Jurgens, Al Hedison
Runtime: 98 mins
Genre: War .. Rating: TV-PG .. CC: Y

1:45 AM Battle of the Bulge (1965)

A crack Nazi unit holds off the Allies during World War II.

Dir: Ken Annakin
Actors: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan
Runtime: 163 mins .. Genre: War .. Rating: TV-14 .. CC: Y

4:45 AM War Nurse (1930)

A nurse fights to survive when she's caught behind enemy lines during World War I.

Dir: Edgar Selwyn Actors: Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, June Walker
Runtime: 80 mins .. Genre: War .. Rating: TV-G .. CC: N

6:15 AM Trog (1970)

A scientist tries to protect a caveman brought back from suspended animation.

Dir: Freddie Francis Actors: Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay
Runtime: 93 mins .. Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction .. Rating: TV-PG .. CC: Y



8:00 AM The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

A scientist keeps his wife's severed head alive until he can find a new body for her.

Dir: Joseph Green Actors: Virginia Leith, Herb Evers, Adele Lamont
Runtime: 81 mins .. Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction .. Rating: TV-PG .. CC: Y

9:30 AM Queen of Outer Space (1958)

While on a space mission to Venus, explorers discover a society of Amazons.

Dir: Edward Bernds Actors: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Lisa Davis
Runtime: 80 mins .. Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction .. Rating: TV-PG .. CC: Y
Genre: [ "Sci-Fi"]

11:00 AM Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (1963)

When two legendary Greek heroes are marooned, they're pushed into conflict with the famed Biblical strongman.

Dir: Pietro Francisci Actors: Kirk Morris, Richard Lloyd, Liana Orfei
Runtime: 85 mins .. Genre: Adventure .. Rating: TV-PG .. CC: Y

12:30 PM The Prodigal (1955)

Biblical story of a young man led astray by an evil priestess.

Dir: Richard Thorpe Actors: Lana Turner, Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern
Runtime: 114 mins .. Genre: Epic .. Rating: TV-PG .. CC: Y

2:30 PM Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

A space visitor's touch turns an unhappy heiress into a vengeful giant.

Dir: Nathan Hertz Actors: Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers
Runtime: 65 mins .. Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction .. Rating: TV-PG .. CC: Y

3:45 PM Dead Ringer (1964)

One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter's identity.

Dir: Paul Henreid Actors: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
Runtime: 115 mins .. Genre: Suspense/Mystery .. Rating: TV-14 .. CC: Y

5:45 PM The Bad Seed (1956)

An eight year old girl--a quintessential psychopath--kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this "bad seed" to her own premature finish.

Dir: Mervyn Leroy Actors: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
Runtime: 129 mins .. Genre: Suspense/Mystery .. Rating: TV-PG .. CC: Y

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STAR OF THE MONTH: CYD CHARISSE

8:00 PM The Band Wagon (1953)

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

Dir: Vincente Minnelli Actors: Fred Astaire,Cyd Charisse,Oscar Levant
Runtime: 112 mins .. Genre: Musical .. Rating: TV-G .. CC: Y

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10:15 PM Brigadoon (1954)

Two New Yorkers on a hunting trip to Scotland stumble upon the legendary and magical village of Brigadoon, which appears once every hundred years. They are enchanted and charmed by this wonderful world and one of them falls for a beautiful woman who lives in it.

Dir: Vincente Minnelli Actors: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse
Runtime: 108 mins .. Genre: Musical .. Rating: TV-G .. CC: Y



12:30 AM Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)

A ballerina becomes a gambler's lucky charm.

Dir: Roy Rowland Actors: Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Agnes Moorehead
Runtime: 112 mins .. Genre: Musical .. Rating: TV-G .. CC: Y

2:45 AM Fiesta (1947)

A Mexican beauty replaces her toreador brother in the bull ring so he can pursue his musical career.

Dir: Richard Thorpe Actors: Esther Williams, Akim Tamiroff, Ricardo Montalban
Runtime: 104 mins .. Genre: Musical .. Rating: TV-PG .. CC: Y

4:45 AM The Kissing Bandit (1949)

A timid young man is forced to follow in his father's footsteps as a notorious masked bandit.

Dir: Laslo Benedek Actors: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, J. Carrol Naish
Runtime: 102 mins
Genre: Musical .. Rating: TV-G .. CC: Y