TCM Schedule for Tuesday, July 14: Singers as Stars/That's Entertainment Trilogy/Spotlight: American Independents

[CBHagman]

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Singers as Stars (continued)

12:15 AM Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
Country singer and songwriter Buck Bonham has a solid following in his home state of Texas and in the West, but has not had a hit that would give him national fame. As he and his band are on the road, his wife and son miss him, and Buck is beginning to wonder if he should continue with his musical career or quit. Just as ...
Dir: Jerry Schatzberg Cast: Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, Amy Irving
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


2:30 AM Lisztomania (1975)
Roger Daltry, lead singer of The Who, stars as 19th century genius pianist Franz Liszt in this brash, loud and freewheeling rock 'n' roll fantasy about an imagined rivalry between Liszt and composer Richard Wagner.
Dir: Ken Russell Cast: Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Biography Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

4:15 AM Performance (1970)
A wounded mobster holes up in a reclusive rock star's decaying mansion.
Dir: Donald Cammell Cast: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

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6:15 AM Five Minutes to Live (1961)
A deranged bandit holds a bank president's wife hostage.
Dir: Bill Karn Cast: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forester
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

7:45 AM 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
Runtime: 141 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

10:15 AM Looking for Love (1964)
A promising singer has to choose between show business and marriage.
Dir: Don Weis Cast: Connie Francis, Jim Hutton, Susan Oliver
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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11:45 AM A Hard Day's Night (1964)
A rock and roll mockumentary that follows "a day in the life" of those four lads from Liverpool who would go on to make music history as the Beatles.
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

TCM Daytime: That's Entertainment Trilogy

1:15 PM That's Entertainment! (1974)
An all-star cast, including Fred Astaire and Frank Sinatra, introduces clips from MGM's greatest musicals.
Dir: Jack Haley Jr. Cast: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor
Runtime: 132 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y

3:30 PM That's Entertainment! II (1976)
Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly dance together again for the first time in more than 30 years as they introduce classic musical numbers and comedy bits.
Dir: Gene Kelly Cast: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Saul Bass
Runtime: 133 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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5:45 PM That's Entertainment! III (1994)
This third installment in the series features previously unseen behind-the-scenes footage, musical outtakes, and three-strip color negative restorations.
Dir: Bud Friedgen Cast: Carmen Miranda, Ray Bolger, Cyd Charisse
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y

TCM Primetime: Spotlight: American Independents

8:00 PM Little Fugitive (1953)
Fearing he has killed his older brother, a boy runs off to Coney Island.
Dir: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin Cast: Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC:

9:30 PM Park Row (1952)
A crusading newspaperman fights to save his paper from a hostile takeover.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Gene Evans, Mary Welch, Tina Pine
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:

11:00 PM The Connection (1961)
A fictional film posing as a documentary in which a group of heroin addicts wait for their connection to arrive with a fix.
Dir: Shirley Clarke Cast: William Redfield, Warren Finnerty, Garry Goodrow
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

1:00 AM Night of the Living Dead (1968)
An army of dead bodies comes to life and terrorizes a group of friends trapped inside a rural farmhouse.
Dir: George A. Romero Cast: Judith O'Dea, Russell Streiner, Duane Jones
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

2:45 AM Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
Falsely accused of murder, Sweetback goes on the run, dodging dirty cops, dealing with Hell's Angels, and always leaving the ladies satisfied.
Dir: Melvin Van Peebles Cast: Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC:

4:30 AM Pink Flamingos (1972)
Taking on and demolishing just about every known middle-class value, a comedy about which concerns itself with a competition for the filthiest person alive. The contestants: Divine, who lives in a trailer with her egg-fixated mama Edie, her sex-obsessed son Crackers, and his voyeuristic travelling companion Cotton, along with Raymond and Connie Marble.
Dir: John Waters Cast: Linda Olgeirson, Divine, Channing Wilroy
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC:

[CBHagman]

1. I'm actually rather amazed no one put the kibosh on those trailers.

Sometimes I attempt to post a movie trailer, thinking nothing of it, and I find that it's not considered acceptable. That happened with a trailer for A Room with a View. Then again, that was some view, if you know what I mean.