TCM Schedule for Saturday, May 23: The Guns of Navarone, Captain Newman, M.D., Midway, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
AT A GLANCE
STAR OF THE MONTH: GREGORY PECK
- MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WAR FILMS
MacArthur (1977)
Guns of Navarone, The (1961)
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
Purple Plain, The (1954)
Days of Glory (1944)
Saturday, May 23
- TCM DAYTIME
STAR OF THE MONTH: GREGORY PECK (cont.)
Sea Wolves, The (1980) (6:15 am ET)
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND MARATHON
Red Badge of Courage, The (1951)
Skirts Ahoy! (1952) (Musical Matinee)
Steel Helmet, The (1951)
Darby's Rangers (1958)
Take the High Ground! (1953)
- TCM PRIMETIME
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND MARATHON
(P) Wacky Blackout (1942) (short)
Falling Hare (1943) (short)
(P) Draftee Daffy (1945) (short)
Midway (1976)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Hook, The (1963)
Hasty Heart, The (1950)
Imitation General (1958)
FULL SCHEDULE
10:30 PM The Guns of Navarone (1961)
A team of Allied saboteurs fight their way behind enemy lines to destroy Nazi artillery on the Aegean island of Navarone.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker
Runtime: 158 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-PG CC:
1:15 AM Pork Chop Hill (1959)
Americans take a vital hill in Korea but have trouble holding it.
Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: N
3:00 AM The Purple Plain (1954)
A blinded Canadian pilot has to find his way through World War II Burma.
Dir: Robert Parrish Cast: Gregory Peck, Bernard Lee, Maurice Denham
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-PG CC:
4:45 AM Days of Glory (1944)
Russian freedom fighters battle the Nazi occupying forces.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Gregory Peck, Lowell Gilmore, Maria Palmer
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
SATURDAY, May 23
6:15 AM The Sea Wolves (1980)
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers veterans from World War I, using ...
Dir: Andrew V. Mclaglen Cast: Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, Trevor Howard
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
8:30 AM Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
A World War II Army psychiatrist tries to help his battle-shocked patients.
Dir: David Miller Cast: Gregory Peck, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert
Runtime: 126 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC:
10:45 AM The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
A young Union soldier fights to atone for a moment of cowardice during the Civil War.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Andy Devine, Robert Easton Burke, Douglas Dick
Runtime: 69 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
12:00 PM Skirts Ahoy! (1952)
Three women join the Navy to find husbands.
Dir: Sidney Lanfield Cast: Esther Williams, Joan Evans, Vivian Blaine
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:00 PM The Steel Helmet (1951)
Americans trapped behind enemy lines fight off Communists during the Korean War.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
3:45 PM Darby's Rangers (1958)
An Army Major leads his men behind enemy lines during World War II.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: James Garner, Etchika Choureau, Jack Warden
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
6:00 PM Take the High Ground! (1953)
A tough drill sergeant prepares green recruits for service in the Korean War.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Maurice Jara, Robert Arthur, William Hairston
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
8:00 PM Wacky Blackout (1942)
During World War II, a commentator explains how barnyard animals cooperate with the war effort.
Dir: Robert Clampett Cast: Thurl Ravenscroft, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC:
8:10 PM Falling Hare (1943)
A gremlin hijacks a World War II bomber, and Bugs Bunny must stop him before he does some serious damage.
Dir: Robert Clampett Cast: Mel Blanc, Robert Clampett
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC:
8:20 PM Draftee Daffy (1945)
A man from the draft board comes to Daffy Duck's house to draft him. Daffy has to figure out how to escape him but the drafter keeps appearing everywhere.
Dir: Robert Clampett Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC:
8:30 PM Midway (1976)
Japanese and American forces face off in the infamous 1942 sea-air battle that became a turning point in World War II.
Dir: Jack Smight Cast: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn
Runtime: 132 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-14 CC:
11:00 PM Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
General Jimmy Doolittle trains American troops for the first airborne attacks on Japan.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock
Runtime: 138 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
1:30 AM The Hook (1963)
Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.
Dir: George Seaton Cast: Kirk Douglas, Robert Walker Jr., Nick Adams
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:15 AM The Hasty Heart (1950)
Doctors try to get a Scottish soldier to open up to his comrades before telling him he's dying.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
5:00 AM Imitation General (1958)
A sergeant impersonates a slain general at a key moment during World War II.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Glenn Ford, Red Buttons, Taina Elg
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y