TCM Schedule for Monday January 16 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day
TCM marks King day with a selection of movies from pioneering African-American filmmakers.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 AM WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL, THE (1959)
One woman and two men are the only people left alive after a nuclear disaster. Dir: Ranald MacDougall Cast: Harry Belafonte , Inger Stevens , Mel Ferrer. BW-95 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
7:45 AM CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY (1952)
A South African minister travels to Johannesburg to find his missing son. Dir: Zoltan Korda Cast: Canada Lee , Sidney Poitier , Charles Carson. BW-108 mins, TV-14, CC,
9:30 AM PRESSURE POINT (1962)
A black psychiatrist tries to help a racist convict deal with his mental demons.
Dir: Hubert Cornfield Cast: Sidney Poitier , Bobby Darin , Peter Falk. BW-89 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
11:00 AM ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results. Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Harry Belafonte , Robert Ryan , Shelley Winters. BW-96 mins, TV-PG,
12:45 PM LOST BOUNDARIES (1949)
A black family tries to build a new life by passing as white. Dir: Alfred L. Werker Cast: Beatrice Pearson , Mel Ferrer , Susan Douglas. BW-99 mins, TV-14, CC,
2:30 PM INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1949)
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob. Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: David Brian , Claude Jarman Jr. , Juano Hernandez. BW-87 mins, TV-G,
4:00 PM RAISIN IN THE SUN, A (1961)
A black woman uses her late husband's life insurance to build a better world for her children. Dir: Daniel Petrie Cast: Sidney Poitier , Claudia McNeil , Ruby Dee. BW-128 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
6:15 PM DEFIANT ONES, THE (1958)
Two convicts, a white racist and an angry black, escape while chained to each other. Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Tony Curtis , Sidney Poitier , Theodore Bikel. BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM MY BROTHER'S WEDDING (1983)
Estranged brothers reconcile when one agrees to be the other's best man. Dir: Charles Burnett Cast: Everett Silas , Jessie Holmes , Ronald E Bell. C-81 mins, TV-14,
9:30 PM LEARNING TREE, THE (1969)
A black boy growing up in Kansas dreams of a better life in this film version of director Gordon Parks's autobiography. Dir: Gordon Parks Cast: Kyle Johnson , Alex Clarke , Estelle Evans. C-107 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
11:30 PM BLACK GIRL (1972)
A dramatic tale about three generations of women in a black family. Dir: Ossie Davis Cast: Brock Peters , Claudia McNeil , Leslie Uggams. C-97 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
1:30 AM STIR CRAZY (1980)
Two innocents go to prison after being framed for a bank robbery. Dir: Sidney Poitier Cast: Gene Wilder , Richard Pryor , Georg Stanford Brown. C-111 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
3:30 AM WATERMELON MAN (1970)
A bigoted man comes to see the many sides of racism. Dir: Melvin Van Peebles Cast: Godfrey Cambridge , Estelle Parsons , Howard Caine. C-100 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
5:30 AM MGM PARADE SHOW #8 (1955)
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant perform in a clip from "The Philadelphia Story"; George Murphy introduces a clip from "The Tender Trap." Hosted by George Murphy.
BW-26 mins, TV-G,
