TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 11th: Race and Hollywood

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It's romance, murder, and then the Race and Hollywood line-up, which spotlights Native Americans.

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

12:30 AM Love Me Or Leave Me (1955)
True story of torch singer Ruth Etting's struggle to escape the gangster who made her a star. Cast: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell. Dir: Charles Vidor. C-122 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 AM Random Harvest (1942)
A woman's happiness is threatened when she discovers her husband has been suffering from amnesia. Cast: Greer Garson, Ronald Colman, Susan Peters. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-127 mins, TV-G, CC



5:00 AM Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
A tramp rescues the mayor's girlfriend from a suicide attempt. Cast: Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan. Dir: Lewis Milestone. BW-83 mins, TV-PG



6:30 AM MGM Parade Show #24 (1955)
Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney perform in a clip from "Strike Up the Band"; John Gilbert and Renee Adoree perform in a clip from "The Big Parade." Hosted by George Murphy. BW-25 mins, TV-G

7:00 AM Runaway Bus, The (1954)
A London motor coach gets lost in the fog with a cache of stolen gold aboard. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris. Dir: Val Guest. BW-74 mins, TV-G

8:30 AM Murder At The Gallop (1963)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson. Dir: George Pollock. BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

10:00 AM Murder Ahoy (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson. Dir: George Pollock. BW-93 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

11:45 AM Murder Most Foul (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Francesca Annis. Dir: George Pollock. BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

1:30 PM Murder In The Air (1940)
A secret service agent fights to keep enemy spies away from top secret government plans. Cast: Ronald Reagan, John Litel, James Stephenson. Dir: Lewis Seiler. BW-55 mins, TV-PG

2:30 PM Murder in the Clouds (1934)
A hotshot pilot takes on enemy agents to fly a scientist and his new explosive to Washington. Cast: Lyle Talbot, Ann Dvorak, Gordon Westcott. Dir: D. Ross Lederman. BW-61 mins, TV-PG

3:45 PM Murder In The Fleet (1935)
Seamen hunt down a deadly saboteur. Cast: Robert Taylor, Jean Parker, Jean Hersholt. Dir: Edward Sedgwick. BW-70 mins, TV-G

5:00 PM Murder In The Private Car (1934)
A speeding train becomes the setting for murder. Cast: Russell Hardie, Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel. Dir: Harry Beaumont. BW-63 mins, TV-G, CC

6:15 PM Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe's search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC

What's On Tonight: TCM SPOTLIGHT: RACE AND HOLLYWOOD

8:00 PM Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
A young couple fights off Indian attacks to start a farm in the Mohawk Valley. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver. Dir: John Ford. C-104 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format



10:00 PM Northwest Passage (1940)
True story of Rogers' Rangers and their fight to open up new frontiers for Colonial America. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan. Dir: King Vidor. C-127 mins, TV-G, CC

12:15 AM Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)
A Native's adopted son falls for the British officer's daughter he's assigned to protect during the French and Indian War. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means. Dir: Michael Mann. C-112 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format



2:30 AM Geronimo (1962)
A defiant Apache warrior tries to unite his tribe against the U.S. Army. Cast: Chuck Connors, Kamala Devi, Ross Martin. Dir: Arnold Laven. C-103 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

4:15 AM Mohawk (1956)
When a Boston artist is commissioned to paint landscapes, he gets caught up in a land war between settlers and the Mohawks. Cast: Scott Brady, Rita Gam, Neville Brand. Dir: Kurt Neumann. C-79 mins, TV-G

5:35 AM Short Film: History Brought To Life (1950)
BW-9 mins,

5:45 AM Chuka (1967)
A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories. Cast: Rod Taylor, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills. Dir: Gordon Douglas. C-105 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format