TCM Schedule for Wednesday, April 2: Classic Tearjerkers/Special Theme: Acts of Faith - The Religious Life
Shed some tears and explore the spiritual side this Wednesday on TCM.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
12:45 AM Monkey Business (1931)
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
Dir: Norman McLeod Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Runtime: 77 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:15 AM Bringing Up Baby (1938)
A straight-laced paleontologist loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to a free-spirited heiress. In the course of retrieving the bone he falls for the heiress and many subsequent mishaps ensue.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:00 AM Sherlock Jr. (1924)
A gag-filled comedy which revolves around a film projectionist, unjustly accused of stealing a watch, who dreams of being a great detective.
Dir: Buster Keaton Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane
Runtime: 51 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC: N
5:00 AM Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Frances Rafferty
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
TCM Daytime: Classic Tearjerkers
6:30 AM Waterloo Bridge (1940)
A ballerina turns to prostitution when her fiance is reportedly killed during World War I.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
8:30 AM On Borrowed Time (1939)
An old man and his grandson trap Death in a tree.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
10:15 AM The Old Maid (1939)
An unmarried mother gives her illegitimate child to her cousin.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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12:00 PM In This Our Life (1942)
A neurotic southerner steals her sister's husband then vies with her for another man.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, George Brent
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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1:45 PM Penny Serenade (1941)
A woman on the verge of divorce recalls her heartbreaking attempts to adopt a child.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y
3:45 PM Old Acquaintance (1943)
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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5:45 PM A Summer Place (1959)
An adulterous couple discovers that their children are sexually involved.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
TCM Prime Time: Special Theme: Acts of Faith - The Religious Life
8:00 PM Going My Way (1944)
A young priest revitalizes a failing parish and brings new life to the elder priest.
Dir: Leo McCarey Cast: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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10:15 PM Black Narcissus (1947)
Nuns founding a convent in the Himalayas are tormented by the area's exotic beauty.
Dir: Michael Powell Cast: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
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12:15 AM The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
A Russian man, released from a Siberian prison after 20 years, takes a strong religious stance against the world's problems, including nuclear war, and becomes elected Pope.
Dir: Michael Anderson Cast: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner
Runtime: 162 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:15 AM One Foot in Heaven (1941)
A minister and his wife cope with the problems of church life in the 20th century.
Dir: Irving Rapper Cast: Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
5:15 AM Boys Town (1938)
True story of Father Flanagan's fight to build a home for orphaned boys.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y