TCM Schedule for Saturday, July 9 --- THE ESSENTIALS: NUCLEAR THRILLERS

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9 Saturday



6:00 AM Kentucky Kernels (1935)
Two musicians try to get an orphaned heiress through hillbilly country to claim her inheritance.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Mary Carlisle.
BW-75 mins, TV-G,

7:30 AM Grand Central Murder (1942)
A detective investigates an actress's murder in a train car.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Cecilia Parker.
BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC,

8:50 AM Glimpses Of Florida (1941)
C-9 mins,

9:00 AM Flipper's New Adventure (1964)
The heroic dolphin helps capture a group of escaped convicts.
Dir: Leon Benson Cast: Luke Halpin, Pamela Franklin, Helen Cherry.
C-98 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

10:50 AM Ice Antics (1939)
BW-9 mins,

11:00 AM Secret Service (1936)
In Chapter Nine of Ace Drummond, the ace pilot races to the airport to warn a clipper ship about the Dragon's aerial attack.
BW-19 mins, TV-G,

11:30 AM The Mountain of Jade (1936)
In Chapter Ten of Ace Drummond, the ace pilot searches for a kidnapped woman.
BW-19 mins, TV-G,

12:00 PM Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950)
A dying tribe kidnaps the jungle king's wife to help replenish their numbers.
Dir: Lee Sholem Cast: Lex Barker, Vanessa Brown, Robert Alda.
BW-74 mins,

1:30 PM Spencer's Mountain (1963)
A Wyoming farmer fights to build a better life for his oldest son.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, James MacArthur.
C-118 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

3:37 PM The Man Who Makes The Difference (1968)
A behind the cameras featurette showcasing the action film "Ice Station Zebra" (1968) and the talents of John Stevens, renowned second unit/stunt photographer, who filmed the racing sequences in "Grand Prix" (1966).
C-7 mins,

3:45 PM Tom Sawyer (1973)
The classic American bad boy sails the Mississippi with his friend Huck Finn after their supposed deaths.
Dir: Don Taylor Cast: Celeste Holm, Jodie Foster, Sandy Kenyon.
C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:30 PM Red River (1948)
A young cowhand rebels against his rancher stepfather during a perilous cattle drive.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru.
BW-133 mins, TV-PG, CC,

7:52 PM Action On The Beach (1964)
BW-6 mins,


WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: THE ESSENTIALS: NUCLEAR THRILLERS

8:00 PM Fail Safe (1964)
A failure in the U.S. defense system threatens to start World War III.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau.
BW-112 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

10:00 PM The Bedford Incident (1965)
An American destroyer, with a journalist on board, pursues a Russian submarine during the Cold War.
Dir: James B. Harris Cast: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur.
BW-102 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

12:00 AM The 49th Man (1953)
A U.S. agent investigates a subversive group suspected of smuggling nuclear weapons.
Dir: Fred F. Sears Cast: John Ireland, Richard Denning, Suzanne Dalbert.
BW-73 mins, CC,

1:18 AM Visiting Italy (1951)
A moving postcard of Italy showing Rome, Assisi, Pisa and Florence, which highlights several of the most famous pieces of the country's impressive architecture.
C-7 mins,

1:30 AM Seven Days to Noon (1950)
A scientist threatens to detonate a nuclear warhead if the nation will not halt arms research.
Dir: John Boulting Cast: Barry Jones, Andre Morell, Hugh Cross.
BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC,

3:15 AM Split Second (1953)
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that's the target of a nuclear bomb test.
Dir: Dick Powell Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling.
BW-86 mins, TV-PG,

4:45 AM Seven Days In May (1964)
An American military officer discovers his superiors are planning a military coup.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March.
BW-118 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format