TCM Schedule for Wednesday, August 2: Summer Under the Stars: Anthony Perkins

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

12:00 AM Meet the People (1944)
A fading stage star tries to revive her career by taking a job in a shipyard.
Dir: Charles Riesner Cast: Lucille Ball, Dick Powell, Virginia O'Brien
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 AM Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
Singer May wants to marry a rich man but her heart belongs to a penniless dancer named Alec. Louis Blore, who has just won a fortune through a sweepstakes, promptly marries May. However, after Louis accidentally has a laced drink, he has a fantastic dream in which he, May and Alec are members of the royal French court. ...
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:00 AM Without Love (1945)
An inventor who sleepwalks and a widow with a big house try platonic marriage in wartime Washington.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



6:00 AM The Actress (1953)
True story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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7:45 AM Tall Story (1960)
Love puts a college basketball star into a tailspin.
Dir: Joshua Logan Cast: Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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9:15 AM The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
A self-appointed judge cleans up a corrupt western town twice.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Paul Newman, Roy Jenson, Gary Combs
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



11:30 AM Five Miles to Midnight (1963)
A woman tries to free herself from her husband by helping him fake his own death.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Gig Young
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: N



1:30 PM Phaedra (1962)
A tycoon's restless wife seduces her stepson.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: N



3:30 PM Goodbye Again (1961)
A 40-year-old woman swaps her sophisticated lover for a young law student.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: N



5:45 PM The Trial (1963)
Adaptation of Kafka's classic novel about a meek bureaucratic clerk who is arrested and put to trial without knowing what crime he's been accused of.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: ANTHONY PERKINS

8:00 PM Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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10:00 PM Fear Strikes Out (1957)
Major League star Jimmy Piersall fights to save his sanity.
Dir: Robert Mulligan Cast: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N



12:00 AM Friendly Persuasion (1956)
A peaceful Quaker family's sanctity is tested during the Civil War.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Marjorie Main
Runtime: 137 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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2:30 AM Winter Kills (1979)
An assassinated president's brother investigates the unsolved crime.
Dir: William Richert Cast: Jeff Bridges, Anthony Perkins, John Huston
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-MA CC: N



4:15 AM Remember My Name (1978)
A young woman released from prison begins stalking a married construction worker.
Dir: Alan Rudolph Cast: Anthony Perkins, Geraldine Chaplin, Moses Gunn
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-MA CC: N