TCM Schedule for Monday December 9, 2024 - TCM Spotlight: How To Throw A Party

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Daytime features adventures set in Africa.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Safari Drums (1953)
1h 11m | Adventure | TV-PG
A group of movie makers arrive in Africa to make a film about jungle wildlife.
Director: Ford Beebe. Cast: John[ny] Sheffield, Douglas Kennedy, Barbara Bestar

7:15 AM Africa Adventure (1954)
1h 3m | Documentary | TV-PG
Documentary about a trio of hunters bagging big game in Africa.
Director: Robert C. Ruark. Cast: Robert C. Ruark, Harry Selby, Andrew Holmberg

8:30 AM Rhino! (1964)
1h 31m | Adventure | TV-PG
A scientist is forced to join forces with an unscrupulous African hunter.
Director: Ivan Tors. Cast: Harry Guardino, Shirley Eaton, Robert Culp

10:15 AM Mighty Joe Young (1949)
1h 34m | Adventure | TV-G
Showmen try to exploit a giant ape raised by an orphan.
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack. Cast: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong

12:00 PM Sanders of the River (1935)
1h 38m | Adventure | TV-14
A British District Officer in Nigeria fights against gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
Director: Zoltan Korda. Cast: Paul Robeson, Leslie Banks, Nina Mae McKinney

1:45 PM Homecoming (1948)
1h 52m | Romace | TV-PG
A married man's wartime love affair spells trouble when peace comes.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter

3:45 PM Something of Value (1957)
1h 53m | Drama | TV-PG
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.
Director: Richard Brooks. Cast: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller

6:00 PM Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
1h 52m | Action | TV-PG
Retelling of Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic tale.
Director: John Derek. Cast: Bo Derek, Miles O'Keeffe, John Phillip Law

8:00 PM Father of the Bride (1950)
1h 33m | Comedy | TV-G
A doting father faces mountains of bills and endless trials when his daughter marries.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor

9:45 PM All Night Long (1963)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-PG
A jazz band's leader thinks his wife is unfaithful.
Director: Basil Dearden. Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Marti Stevens, Betsy Blair

11:30 PM The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
1h 28m | Drama | TV-PG
A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter

1:15 AM Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
1h 43m | Musical | TV-G
The seven Pontipee brothers ease the loneliness of their Oregon farm by courting seven women.
Director: Stanley Donen. Cast: Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn

3:00 AM Black Orpheus (1959)
1h 43m | Musical | TV-PG
A streetcar conductor loses his true love during Brazil's carnival season.
Director: Marcel Camus. Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes Deoliveira

5:00 AM Sylvia and the Phantom (1946)
1h 30m | Romance | TV-PG
On the eve of a young girl's birthday she is visited by the ghost of her grandmother's former lover.
Director: Claude Autant-Lara. Cast: Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Pierre Larquey