TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 27: Singing Star Biographies/TCM Spotlight: Western - American Psyche

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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

1:45 AM Kelly's Heroes (1970)

An American platoon tries to recover buried treasure behind enemy lines.

Dir: Brian G. Hutton Cast: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles
Runtime: 143 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:15 AM Dark of the Sun (1968)

A mercenary band fights to get refugees and a fortune in diamonds out of the Congo.

Dir: Jack Cardiff Cast: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Peter Carsten
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

TCM Daytime: Singing Star Biographies

6:00 AM The Great Caruso (1951)

Mario Lanza stars as the most famous opera tenor of all time in this musical biography of the brief, stellar and tragic life of The Great Caruso.

Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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8:00 AM So This Is Love (1953)

Opera singer Grace Moore turns to popular music when her dreams of a classical career fail to materialize.

Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Merv Griffin, Joan Weldon
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

10:00 AM The Singing Nun (1966)

Fanciful biography of the Belgian nun who briefly made the hit parade.

Dir: Henry Koster Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban, Greer Garson
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

11:45 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.

Dir: Charles Vidor Cast: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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2:00 PM The Helen Morgan Story (1957)

Story of the life of Helen Morgan, the grand dame of torch singers during Roaring Twenties Chicago.

Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

4:00 PM Your Cheatin' Heart (1964)

Legendary country-western singer Hank Williams uses alcohol to deal with the pressures of fame.

Dir: Gene Nelson Cast: George Hamilton, Susan Oliver, Red Buttons
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

6:00 PM Interrupted Melody (1955)

True story of Australian opera singer Marjorie Lawrence and her battle against polio.

Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

TCM Prime Time: TCM Spotlight: Western - American Psyche

8:00 PM The Searchers (1956)

A veteran returning to Texas after the Civil War discovers that Comanche Indians have killed his family and kidnapped his niece, and sets out on a journey to find her.

Dir: John Ford Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:15 PM Duel in the Sun (1946)

A fiery half-breed comes between a rancher's good and evil sons.

Dir: King Vidor Cast: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck
Runtime: 138 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

1:00 AM Winchester '73 (1950)

A man combs the West in search of his stolen rifle.

Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

2:45 AM I Shot Jesse James (1949)

Robert Ford shoots his friend and mentor, outlaw Jesse James, for love and the reward money to buy a ranch, marry and settle down. Instead, the government denies him the reward, his girlfriend leaves him and he is reduced to a traveling stage show and the target of every gunslinger who wants to make a name for himself.

Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

4:30 AM Blood on the Moon (1948)

A gunslinger hired to drive off a rancher falls in love with the man's daughter.

Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y