TCM Schedule for Wednesday, May 27: Period Adventure Films/Eileen Heckart

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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Special Theme: Director Yasujiro Ozu (continued)

12:30 AM An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
In an increasingly Americanized postwar Tokyo, a father gives up his only daughter in marriage.
Dir: Yasujirō Ozu Cast: Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N


2:30 AM Equinox Flower (1958)
A businessman who excels at giving others family advice, can't cope with his daughter's wedding plans.
Dir: Yasujirō Ozu Cast: Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: N


4:30 AM Good Morning (1959)
Two boys stop speaking until their parents will buy them a new TV. Also known by the Japanese title "Ohayō."
Dir: Yasujirō Ozu Cast: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishū Ryū
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: N


6:15 AM The End of Summer (1961)
A brewery manager tries to manage his daughter's affairs in the wake of his wife's death.
Dir: Yasujirō Ozu Cast: Ganjirô Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N

TCM Daytime: Period Adventure Films

8:00 AM Stingaree (1934)
An Australian bandit kidnaps an opera singer and falls in love with her.
Dir: William Wellman Cast: Irene Dunne, Richard Dix, Mary Boland
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

9:30 AM The Beggar's Opera (1953)
A jailed thief creates an opera based on his exploits.
Dir: Peter Brook Cast: Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC:

11:15 AM The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
A British aristocrat's effete facade masks a swashbuckling hero rescuing victims of the French revolution.
Dir: Harold Young Cast: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

1:00 PM The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)
In an effort to change his typecasting, Daffy Duck pitches an adaptation of the Scarlet Pumpernickel as a starring vehicle for himself.
Dir: Chuck Jones Cast: Mel Blanc, Marian Richman
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC:


1:15 PM The Three Musketeers (1948)
Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

3:30 PM The Wicked Lady (1945)
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
Dir: Leslie Arliss Cast: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: N

5:30 PM Buccaneer Bunny (1948)
Bugs Bunny infuriates pirate Yosemite Sam by stealing his treasure, and Yosemite chases Bugs onto the pirate ship.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC:


5:45 PM Tom Jones (1963)
In 18th century England, an abandoned orphan is adopted by a Squire. The young Tom Jones grows up to become a bawdy womanizer.
Dir: Tony Richardson Cast: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

TCM Primetime: Eileen Heckart

8:00 PM Butterflies Are Free (1972)
Don Baker, a self-reliant, sightless young man becomes the object of affection for kooky Jill. After Jill makes love to Don, she tries to help him break free from the smothering influence of his mother, a children's-story writer.
Dir: Milton Katselas Cast: Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:00 PM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight-year-old girl--a quintessential psychopath--kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this "bad seed" to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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12:15 AM Up the Down Staircase (1967)
A novice schoolteacher faces delinquent students and apathetic administrators in a tough inner city high school.
Dir: Robert Mulligan Cast: Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Eileen Heckart
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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2:30 AM Zandy's Bride (1974)
This western follows the relationship that tough rancher Zandy Allan develops with his mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. Although Zandy sent off for a compliant slave, he ends up with a feisty, headstrong woman.
Dir: Jan Troell Cast: Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

4:15 AM Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
True story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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