TCM Schedule for Sunday September 22, 2024 - Screwball Comedies

Plus: Imports has the final film from Taiwanese master Edward Yang.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Twenty Plus Two (1961)
1h 42m | Suspense | TV-PG
When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
Director: Joseph M. Newman. Cast: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill

8:00 AM Ring of Fire (1961)
1h 30m | Crime | TV-PG
A group of delinquents hold a sheriff hostage in the middle of a forest fire.
Director: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: David Janssen, Joyce Taylor, Frank Gorshin

10:00 AM Split Second (1953)
1h 25m | Suspense | TV-PG
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that's the target of a nuclear bomb test.
Director: Dick Powell. Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling

12:00 PM Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
1h 47m | Musical | TV-G
Fanciful musical biography of Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
Director: George Sidney. Cast: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern

2:00 PM It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
1h 42m | Musical | TV-G
World War II buddies get mixed up with gangsters and an egotistical TV star when they hold a 10-year reunion.
Director: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. Cast: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse

4:00 PM Baby Doll (1956)
1h 54m | Drama | TV-14
A child bride holds her husband at bay while firting with a sexy Italian farmer.
Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach

6:00 PM The Learning Tree (1969)
1h 47m | Drama | TV-14
A black boy growing up in Kansas dreams of a better life in this film version of director Gordon Parks' autobiography.
Director: Gordon Parks. Cast: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans

8:00 PM Libeled Lady (1936)
1h 38m | Comedy | TV-G
When an heiress sues a newspaper, the editor hires a reporter to compromise her.
Director: Jack Conway. Cast: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy

10:00 PM The Awful Truth (1937)
1h 31m | Comedy | TV-PG
A divorced couple keeps getting mixed up in each other's love lives.
Director: Leo McCarey. Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy

12:15 AM Mockery (1927)
1h 15m | Silent | TV-PG
A peasant saves a countess during the Russian Revolution.
Director: Benjamin Christensen. Cast: Lon Chaney, Ricardo Cortez, Barbara Bedford

2:00 AM Yi Yi (2000)
2h 53m | Drama | TV-MA
All about the struggles of an engineer, NJ, and three generations of his middle-class Taiwanese family in Taipei.
Director: Edward Yang. Cast: Wu Nien-Jen, Jonathan Chang

5:00 AM Desert Passage (1952)
1h 2m | Western | TV-PG
A cowboy doesn't realize the man he's been hired to drive to Mexico is an outlaw.
Director: Lesley Selander. Cast: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Walter Reed