TCM Schedule for Saturday, April 27, 2013 -- WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: MESSING WITH TEXAS

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6:15 AM
BOYS' RANCH (1946)

A ball player creates a ranch for troubled kids from the city.
Dir: Roy Rowland
Cast: Jackie "Butch" Jenkins, James Craig, Skippy Homeier.
BW-97 mins, TV-G


8:00 AM
BEACHCOMBER (1954)

A female missionary teams with a drunken beachcomber to save a South Seas island during an epidemic.
Dir: Muriel Box
Cast: Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden.
BW-84 mins, TV-G, CC


9:30 AM
WALKING ON AIR (1936)

A girl torments her parents by hiring a phony suitor.
Dir: Joseph Santley
Cast: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Jessie Ralph.
BW-70 mins, TV-G


10:45 AM
A DATE WITH THE FALCON (1941)

The gentleman detective postpones his wedding to find a cache of stolen diamonds.
Dir: Irving Reis
Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, James Gleason.
BW-63 mins, TV-G


12:00 PM
MURDER AHOY (1964)

Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
Dir: George Pollock
Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell.
BW-93 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format


1:45 PM
TARANTULA (1955)

A scientist's experiments to cure hunger create a giant tarantula.
Dir: Jack Arnold
Cast: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll.
BW-80 mins, TV-PG, CC


3:15 PM
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957)

When he mysteriously starts shrinking, a man finds a new world of danger in everyday creatures.
Dir: Jack Arnold
Cast: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent.
C-81 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


4:45 PM
FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH (1968)

Subway excavations unearth a deadly force from beyond space and time.
Dir: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley.
C-98 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format


6:30 PM
THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD (1957)

An earthquake unleashes a horde of giant prehistoric monsters.
Dir: Arnold Laven
Cast: Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried.
BW-85 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format


WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: MESSING WITH TEXAS

8:00 PM
GIANT (1956)

A Texas ranching family fights to survive changing times.
Dir: George Stevens
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean.
BW-201 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


11:45 PM
RIO BRAVO (1959)

A sheriff enlists a drunk, a kid and an old man to help him fight off a ruthless cattle baron.
Dir: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson.
C-141 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


2:15 AM
THE MANITOU (1978)

A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
Dir: William Girdler
Cast: Stella Stevens, Tony Curtis, Michael Ansara.
C-104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format


4:00 AM
THE DEVIL WITHIN HER (1975)

A pregnant woman learns she is about to give birth to Satan's child.
Dir: Peter Sasdy
Cast: Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Donald Pleasence.
C-94 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format