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ificandream

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Mon Jun 8, 2026, 01:17 PM 1 hr ago

TCM Schedule for Saturday, June 13: House of Wax, San Francisco, Sex And the Single Girl, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

AT A GLANCE

SPECIAL THEME: SUMMER OF DARKNESS
Nightmare Alley (1947)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: NEO-NOIR
Yakuza, The (1974)
First Deadly Sin, The (1980)
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
Lovers Courageous (1932)
Batman and Robin Ch. 4: Batman Trapped (1949)
Tarzan and the Great River (1967)
Speedy Gonzales (1955) (short)
Water, Water Every Hare (1952) (short)
Knighty Knight Bugs (1958) (short)
San Francisco (1936) (Musical Matinee)
House of Wax (1953)
36 Hours (1964)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TCM SERIES: TWO FOR ONE
- MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Babette's Feast (1987)
- NOIR ALLEY
Blackout (1954)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: DINNER TIME
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Dinner at Eight (1933)

FULL DAY SCHEDULE

12:00 AM Nightmare Alley (1947)
An ambitious carny attempts to scam his way out of a traveling carnival in this brutal noir.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC:


2:00 AM The Yakuza (1974)
Harry Kilmer is an ex-soldier who returns to Japan to help his friend George Tanner whose daughter has been kidnapped by the Japanese mafia known as the Yakuza.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


4:00 AM The First Deadly Sin (1980)
Detective Edward Delaney, played by Frank Sinatra, tries to care for his bedridden wife while he tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.
Dir: Brian Hutton Cast: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, James Whitmore
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC:


SATURDAY, June 13
6:00 AM Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
A nosy smut magazine editor wishes to find out whether a novelist has based her erotic novel on fact or fiction.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 AM Lovers Courageous (1932)
A failed playwright falls for an admiral's daughter.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Roland Young
Runtime: 77 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


9:30 AM Batman Trapped (1949)
Chapter 4 of the Batman and Robin 1949 serial. Batman and Robin follow an evil mastermind's henchmen to a lonely mountain road.
Dir: Spencer Gordon Bennet Cast: Robert Lowery, Johnny Duncan, Jane Adams
Runtime: 17 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: N


10:00 AM Tarzan and the Great River (1967)
Tarzan is summoned to Brazil by an old friend to stop an evil tribal cult from destroying native villages.
Dir: Robert Day Cast: Mike Henry, Diana Millay, Jan Murray
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-PG CC:


11:30 AM Speedy Gonzales (1955)
Hungry Mexican mice are kept out of a cheese factory by Sylvester the Cat. Speedy Gonzalez has to try to get cheese for the mice.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC:


11:40 AM Water, Water Every Hare (1952)
Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole floods, causing him to float to the laboratory of an evil scientist who wants to use his brain for a robot.
Dir: Chuck Jones Cast: Mel Blanc, John T. Smith
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC:


11:50 AM Knighty Knight Bugs (1958)
Bugs Bunny is a hapless court jester who sneaks into the villain's castle while Black Knight Sam is snoozing.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC:


12:00 PM San Francisco (1936)
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the big earthquake.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 PM House of Wax (1953)
Ghoulish shenanigans, creepy goings-on, and bloody mayhem all register to full effect in the "Wax Museum."
Dir: Andre Detoth Cast: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:15 PM 36 Hours (1964)
Nazis kidnap a key American intelligence officer and try to convince him that World War II is over.
Dir: George Seaton Cast: James Garner, Rod Taylor, Eva Marie Saint
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:15 PM Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
A private eye hunts a Nazi for a svelte client and meets rough characters clipped from 1940s films.
Dir: Carl Reiner Cast: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 PM Nights of Cabiria (1957)
A streetwalker dreams of a better life.
Dir: Federico Fellini. Cast: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:00 PM Babette's Feast (1987)
A French refugee in Denmark transforms the lives of the elderly women for whom she works.
Dir: Gabriel Axel Cast: Sttphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 AM Blackout (1954)
An American in London finds himself caught up in a murder plot.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:00 AM My Dinner with Andre (1981)
A conversation between a globe-trotting theater director and a playwright playfully explores ideas about art, theater, and daily life.
Dir: Louis Malle Cast: Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, Jean Lenauer
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:00 AM Dinner at Eight (1933)
A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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