TCM Schedule for Tuesday, September 2: Mad Obsession/Cary Grant Comedies
It's September 2, and we've already got a Robert Montgomery sighting!
I mention that because some time back Robert Montgomery was unofficially declared patron saint of Classic Films Group.
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan (continued)
12:00 AM Tarzan Escapes (1936) Jane Parker's cousins try to kidnap the jungle king to get their hands on her inheritance. Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Buckler
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
1:45 AM Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939) The jungle king adopts the infant survivor of a plane crash. Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, John[ny] Sheffield
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:30 AM Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) Prospectors kidnap Jane and Boy to force the jungle king to reveal the location of a golden treasure. Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, John[ny] Sheffield
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
5:00 AM Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) When a circus kidnaps Boy, Tarzan and Jane follow him to New York City. Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, John[ny] Sheffield
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
6:15 AM Tarzan Triumphs (1943) The jungle king helps the princess of a lost civilization fight off Nazi invaders. Dir: William Thiele Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Johnny Sheffield, Frances Gifford
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
TCM Daytime: Mad Obsession
7:45 AM Act of Violence (1949) An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer. Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
9:15 AM Night Must Fall (1937) A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman's household, then reveals a deadly secret. Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
11:15 AM Mad Love (1935) A mad doctor grafts the hands of a murderer on to a concert pianist's wrists. Dir: Karl Freund Cast: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive
Runtime: 67 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
12:30 PM The Strangler (1964) Completely dominated by his neurotic, bed-ridden mother, an overweight lab technician develops a doll fetish and a bad habit of murdering nurses. Dir: Burt Topper Cast: Victor Buono, David McLean, Diane Sayer
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:15 PM Julie (1956) A stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband. Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
4:00 PM Midnight Lace (1960) A young woman can't get anyone to believe she's being stalked. Dir: David Miller Cast: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
6:00 PM Cape Fear (1962) A released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer. Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
TCM Prime Time: Cary Grant Comedies
8:00 PM His Girl Friday (1940) Walter Burns is a conniving but irresistible newspaper publisher desperate to woo back the paper's star reporter, who happens to be his estranged wife. She's tired of the business and is ready to settle down with a new beau. But (as Walter well knows) she has one weakness: she can't quite resist a juicy scoop. Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
10:00 PM I Was a Male War Bride (1949) An Army woman stationed overseas tries to get her French husband back home. Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
12:00 AM Monkey Business (1952) A scientist's search for the fountain of youth makes him and his wife regress to childhood. Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:00 AM Bringing Up Baby (1938) A straight-laced paleontologist loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to a free-spirited heiress. In the course of retrieving the bone he falls for the heiress and many subsequent mishaps ensue. Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:00 AM The Philadelphia Story (1940) Socialite Tracy Lord is getting married, and an honest reporter is there to get the story. It's a dull assignment until Tracy's ex-husband shows up, with a thirst for alcohol and a not-quite extinguished torch for his lovely one-time wife. Dir: George Cukor Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y