TCM Schedule for Sunday January 19, 2025 - Presidential Adventures

(all times Eastern)

6:30 AM Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
1h 27m | Comedy | TV-G
A baby-sitter dreams himself and his best friend into the famous fairy tale.
Director: Jean Yarbrough. Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buddy Baer

8:00 AM Tom Thumb (1958)
1h 38m | Musical | TV-G
A six-inch-tall boy takes on a pair of comical crooks.
Director: George Pal. Cast: Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young, June Thorburn

10:00 AM Without Pity (1948)
1h 30m | Drama | TV-PG
A black American GI decides to remain in Italy than return to a racially divided United States and falls in love with an Italian girl.
Director: Alberto Lattuada. Cast: Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Giulietta Masina

11:45 AM The Doughgirls (1944)
1h 42m | Comedy | TV-G
Honeymooners in Washington get caught up in wartime crowding, with disastrous results.
Director: James V. Kern. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson

1:45 PM The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
1h 36m | Musical | TV-G
British parents try to prepare their Americanized daughter for her social debut.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon

3:30 PM Cabaret (1972)
2h 4m | Musical | TV-14
Set in Berlin in 1931, a starry-eyed singer and the club's master of ceremonies try to bring happiness and decadence to the lives of Berliners as the spectre of Nazism grows around them and threatens to destroy their lives.
Director: Bob Fosse. Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem

6:00 PM Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
1h 56m | Drama | TV-PG
A medium kidnaps a child so she can help the police solve the crime.
Director: Bryan Forbes. Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey

8:00 PM The Wind and the Lion (1975)
1h 59m | Adventure | TV-MA
An Arab chief triggers an international incident when he kidnaps an American widow and her children.
Director: John Milius. Cast: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith

10:00 PM PT 109 (1963)
2h 20m | War | TV-PG
Future president John Kennedy fights to save his crew when their PT boat sinks in the Pacific.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson. Cast: Cliff Robertson, Ty Hardin, James Gregory

12:45 AM The Big Idea (1934)
19m | Comedy | TV-PG
In this short comedy, the proprietor of the "Big Idea Scenario Company" suffers as various visitors constantly interrupt his train of thought.
Director: William Beaudine. Cast: Heinie Conklin, Eddie Bartel, Larry Fine

1:05 AM His Royal Slyness (1920)
27m | Silent | TV-G
A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.
Director: Hal Roach. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Snub Pollard

1:30 AM Captain Kidd's Kids (1919)
19m | Comedy | TV-G
After a wild bachelor party, a boy finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures in this short film.
Director: Hal Roach. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub Pollard

1:50 AM A Sammy in Siberia (1919)
10m | Comedy | TV-G
A bumbling U.S. soldier attempts to aid a put-upon Russian woman in this silent short comedy.
Director: Hal Roach. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels

2:05 AM From Hand to Mouth (1919)
22m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, a young burglar tries to save an heiress from kidnappers.
Director: Alf Goulding. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Snub Pollard

2:30 AM Silent Waters (2003)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-14
In Pakistan during the late 1970s, widowed Ayesha lives with her beloved son, Saleem. Saleem is a content but slightly bored teenage boy until two radical Muslims move into his village.
Director: Sabiha Sumar. Cast: Kiron Kher, Aamir Malik, Arsad Mahmud

4:15 AM The Music Room (1958)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-PG
Discover how a man became in debilitating debt and desperately clings to his life where he hosted many people and lavish concerts in his music room.
Director: Satyajit Ray. Cast: Chhabi Biswas, Padma Devi, Pinaki Sengupta