TCM Schedule for Wednesday, November 5: Native Americans/Spotlight: Political Thrillers

[CBHagman]

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Star of the Month: Rock Hudson (continued)

1:15 AM One Desire (1955)
In the early 1900s, an Oklahoma gambler-casino dealer teams up with a saloon dancer and together they seek a new life in a Colorado mining town where their relationship and respectability are tested.
Dir: Jerry Hopper Cast: Anne Baxter, Rock Hudson, Julie Adams
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:


3:00 AM Gun Fury (1953)
A cowboy trails the outlaws who kidnapped his fiancee during a stagecoach robbery.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, Phil Carey
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC:


4:30 AM Something of Value (1957)
The native tribes of Kenya stage a revolt against British settlers during the years of colonization and two boyhood friends--one white and the other black--are caught in the middle.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

TCM Daytime: Native Americans

6:30 AM The Daughter of Dawn (1920)
Conflict between villages arises when a Kiowa chief's daughter wishes to wed the son of a Comanche leader, but her father has another spouse in mind. One of the few silent films made with an entirely Native American cast.
Dir: Norbert A. Myles Cast: White Parker, Esther LeBarre, Hunting Horse
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC:

8:00 AM Ramona (1928)
Ramona refuses to marry Felipe, her adopted brother, and runs away to marry a Native American. When her husband and child die, she goes insane and flees into the wilderness. Felipe finds her, nurses her back to health and the two reconcile.
Dir: Edwin Carewe Cast: Dolores Del Rio, Warner Baxter, Roland Drew
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: N

9:30 AM The Exiles (1961)
Three young Native Americans feel lost and isolated when they leave the reservation for the big city.
Dir: Kent Mackenzie Cast: Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, Tommy Reynolds
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:45 AM Navajo (1952)
A young Navajo Indian boy is caught up in the conflict of cultures when he rejects the white man's reservation boarding school he is forced to attend.
Dir: Norman Foster Cast: Francis Kee Teller, John Mitchell, Mrs. Kee Teller
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N

12:15 PM Devil's Doorway (1950)
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

1:45 PM Bearing Witness: Native American Voices in Hollywood (2024)
Examination of Hollywood's use of the Indian label for Native Americans to represent the ultimate villain in Westerns, and how a shift occurred in the 1960s and 70s with films like "Little Big Man" and "Soldier Blue."
Dir: Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg Cast: Irene Bedard, Tantoo Cardinal, Darrell Redleaf-Fielder
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

3:15 PM Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyennes.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden
Runtime: 160 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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6:00 PM Powwow Highway (1988)
Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.
Dir: Jonathan Wacks Cast: A Martinez, Gary Farmer, Joanelle Romero
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

TCM Primetime: Spotlight: Political Thrillers

8:00 PM The Day of the Jackal (1973)
A nameless, faceless British assassin, with a code name of the Jackal, is hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Edward Fox, Alan Badel, Jean Sorel
Runtime: 143 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-MA CC:

10:30 PM Z (1969)
A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
Dir: Costa-Gavras Cast: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: N

12:45 AM The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
Runtime: 126 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

3:00 AM Blow Out (1981)
When audio technician Jack Terri is recording sound effects for a movie, he hears a car crash. Just as the car is sinking in the river, Jack pulls the woman inside to safety, but cannot save the other passenger. When he learns that the man who drowned was a presidential candidate, he suspects that the wreck was not an accident but murder. After Jack becomes romantically involved with the woman he saved, he learns that she is part of a scheme to blackmail important men, and he begins to wonder if things are as they appear to be. Jack realizes that he was right about the accident when the assassin focuses on him and his girlfriend, and he has to utilize all of his special effects skills to keep them alive.
Dir: Brian De Palma, John Fox Cast: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC:

5:00 AM Executive Action (1973)
A hypothesis constructed from the conspiracy theories advanced by Kennedy assassination investigator, Mark Lane. Based on evidence the Warren Commission refused to hear.
Dir: David Miller Cast: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Paul Carr
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

[tazcat]

1. Thanks for schedule! Gonna ck out Blow Out again!

[CBHagman]

2. You are welcome!

It's a good month for political thrillers.