TCM Schedule for Fri, Mar 20, 2026: Gordon MacRae / Directors' Early Works
Prime time: Early work of film notables.
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DAYTIME (listings EST)
6:00 AM About Face (1952)
Two military school cadets discover their best friend is married.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken, Dick Wesson
8:00 AM The West Point Story (1950)
A Broadway producer tries to put on a show at the legendary military academy.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day
10:00 AM The Desert Song (1953)
A French professor secretly leads a band of desert freedom fighters.
Dir: Bruce Humberstone Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Steve Cochran
12:00 PM On Moonlight Bay (1951)
A small-town tomboy falls for the boy-next-door in the years before World War I.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, ["Smiling"] Jack Smith
2:00 PM By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
A small-town girl's love life goes ballistic when her sweetheart returns from World War I.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames
3:45 PM Oklahoma! (1955)
Film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical about the early settlers on the Oklahoma plain.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson
6:15 PM Three Sailors and a Girl (1953)
Three sailors on leave back a Broadway hit.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Jane Powell, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson
PRIME TIME. LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING
8:00 PM Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
A widowed chef clings to recipes for food and wisdom while his three daughters create lives of their own.
Dir: Ang Lee Cast: Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-Lien Wu
10:15 PM Knife in the Water (1962)
A young businessman and a hitchhiker develop a deadly rivalry during a boating weekend.
Dir: Roman Polanski Cast: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
12:00 AM Cronos (1992)
A device designed to provide its owner with eternal life surfaces after four hundred years. Mayhem ensues.
Dir: Guillermo Del Toro Cast: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook
2:00 AM Mauvaise Graine (also known as Bad Seed) (1934)
A stolen car introduces a young playboy to a gang of car thieves. Comedy, supposedly.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Mingand, Raymond Galle
3:30 AM Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
When a group of schoolgirls mysteriously disappear, the survivors find their lives changed forever.
Dir: Peter Weir Cast: Martin Vaughan, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray