TCM Schedule for Tuesday, September 11: AAFCA Presents: The Black Experience on Film
It's home sweet home—ior is it?—for the TCM daytime roster. At evening it's time to head off to Cooley High and other stops on the journey of African-American filmmaking.
Tuesday, September 11th, 2018
12:30 AM
PERFORMANCE ( 1970)
A wounded mobster holes up in a reclusive rock star's decaying mansion.
Dir: Donald Cammell Cast: James Fox , Mick Jagger , Anita Pallenberg .
C- 106 mins, CC,
2:30 AM
THIEVES LIKE US ( 1974)
A young bank robber falls for an innocent girl and starts planning an escape from crime and the law.
Dir: Robert Altman Cast: Keith Carradine , Shelley Duvall , John Schuck .
C- 123 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
5:00 AM
THEY LIVE BY NIGHT ( 1949)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: Cathy O'Donnell , Farley Granger , Howard Da Silva .
BW- 95 mins, CC,
6:45 AM
KISS IN THE DARK, A ( 1949)
A concert pianist inherits an apartment house full of loony tenants.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: David Niven , Jane Wyman , Victor Moore .
BW- 88 mins, CC,
8:15 AM
BACHELOR APARTMENT ( 1931)
An honest working girl falls for a skirt-chasing playboy.
Dir: Lowell Sherman Cast: Lowell Sherman , Irene Dunne , Mae Murray .
BW- 77 mins, CC,
9:45 AM
ONE FOR THE BOOK ( 1948)
A lovelorn actress shares her apartment with a lonely soldier.
Dir: Irving Rapper Cast: Ronald Reagan , Eleanor Parker , Eve Arden .
BW- 103 mins, CC,
11:30 AM
LIVING ON LOVE ( 1937)
A man and woman working different shifts share the same apartment without realizing it.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: James Dunn , Whitney Bourne , Joan Woodbury .
BW- 61 mins, CC,
12:45 PM
GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE ( 1942)
A pair of New Yorkers face culture shock when they buy a dilapidated country house.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Jack Benny , Ann Sheridan , Charles Coburn .
BW- 91 mins, CC,
2:30 PM
WINDOW, THE ( 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 .
BW- 73 mins, CC,
3:45 PM
WAIT UNTIL DARK ( 1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who've invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Audrey Hepburn , Alan Arkin , Richard Crenna .
C- 108 mins, CC,
5:45 PM
APARTMENT, THE ( 1960)
An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmon , Shirley MacLaine , Fred MacMurray .
BW- 125 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: AAFCA PRESENTS: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE ON FILM
8:00 PM
COOLEY HIGH ( 1975)
African-American teens in Chicago prepare for life after high school.
Dir: Michael Schultz Cast: Glynn Turman , Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs , Garrett Morris .
C- 107 mins, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
SOUNDER ( 1972)
Black sharecroppers during the Depression fight to get their children a decent education.
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: Cicely Tyson , Paul Winfield , Kevin Hooks .
C- 105 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM
BRIGHT ROAD ( 1953)
Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.
Dir: Gerald Mayer Cast: Dorothy Dandridge , Philip Hepburn , Harry Belafonte .
BW- 68 mins, CC,
1:30 AM
LEARNING TREE, THE ( 1969)
A black boy growing up in Kansas dreams of a better life in this film version of director Gordon Parks's autobiography.
Dir: Gordon Parks Cast: Kyle Johnson , Alex Clarke , Estelle Evans .
C- 107 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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3:30 AM
FAME ( 1980)
Students at a performing arts high school struggle with personal problems.
Dir: Alan Parker Cast: Irene Cara , Eddie Barth , Lee Curreri .
C- 133 mins, CC,
