TCM Schedule for Tuesday, November 5: Tropical Locations/Star of the Month: Ruth Roman

Visit the tropics during the day. Get to know (or get reacquainted with) Star of the Month Ruth Roman during the evening!

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

1:00 AM Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
A modern-day cowboy gets himself locked up in prison so that he can try to escape with an old friend.
Dir: David Miller Cast: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



3:00 AM The High Cost of Loving (1958)
An office worker thinks he's going to lose his job just as his wife announces she may be pregnant.
Dir: José Ferrer Cast: José Ferrer, Joanne Gilbert, Jim Backus, Gena Rowlands
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



4:45 AM Night on Earth (1991)
Five stories, each involving the relationship between a cab driver and his or her passenger, that take place simultaneously around the globe during the course of one night.
Dir: Jim Jarmusch Cast: Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Runtime: 128 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y



7:00 AM Kongo (1932)
A crippled madman seeks revenge on the daughter of the man who betrayed him.
Dir: William Cowen Cast: Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



8:30 AM Safe in Hell (1931)
On the run from the police, a New Orleans prostitute gets stranded in a tropical haven for outlaws.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



9:45 AM The Bribe (1949)
A sultry singer tries to tempt a federal agent from the straight-and-narrow.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



11:30 AM Red Dust (1932)
A plantation overseer in Indochina is torn between a married woman and a lady of the evening.
Dir: Victor Fleming Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y



1:00 PM Mandalay (1934)
A woman with a past tries to get rid of a former lover.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland
Runtime: 65 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y



2:15 PM Bird of Paradise (1932)
An island visitor falls for a Polynesian beauty slated for sacrifice to the gods.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



3:45 PM China Seas (1935)
A sea captain caught in a romantic triangle has to fight off modern-day pirates.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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5:15 PM Law of the Tropics (1941)
A night-club singer on the lam marries a South American rubber planter to escape the law.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Constance Bennett, Jeffrey Lynn, Regis Toomey
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



6:45 PM Singapore Woman (1941)
A woman who believes she's cursed, takes refuge on a rubber plantation.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Brenda Marshall, David Bruce, Virginia Field
Runtime: 64 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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What's on Tonight: Star of the Month: Ruth Roman

8:00 PM Belle Starr's Daughter (1947)
The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.
Dir: Lesley Selander Cast: George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, Ruth Roman
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC:



9:45 PM Champion (1949)
Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:



11:45 PM The Window (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can't get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y



1:15 AM Invitation (1952)
A millionaire tries to buy his dying daughter a husband.
Dir: Gottfried Reinhardt Cast: Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire, Ruth Roman
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y



2:45 AM Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)
A vaudeville clown neglects his family while fighting for stardom.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Milton Berle, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



4:45 AM Starlift (1951)
An actress and an air transport crewman fall in love in this star-studded salute to the Korean war.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y