TCM Schedule for Monday July 21, 2025 - Starring Audie Murphy

Daytime features Natalie Wood (both she and Audie Murphy have birthdays July 20).

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM The Searchers (1956)
1h 59m | Western | TV-PG
A veteran returning to Texas after the Civil War discovers that Comanche Indians have killed his family and kidnapped his niece, and sets out on a journey to find her.
Director: John Ford. Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles

8:15 AM Splendor in the Grass (1961)
2h 4m | Drama | TV-14
Set in the 1920s, two Midwest teenagers fall in love, are frightened by their physical desires and struggle to navigate their feelings of sexual repression.
Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle

10:45 AM Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
1h 54m | Comedy | TV-PG
A nosy smut magazine editor wishes to find out whether a novelist has based her erotic novel on fact or fiction.
Director: Richard Quine. Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda

1:00 PM Gypsy (1962)
2h 29m | Musical | TV-PG
During New York's vaudeville days a tough stage mother tries to get her daughters to become stars. After a long, seedy struggle, the shy "Gypsy" becomes a hit and then tries to turn her back on the mother who got her there.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden

3:30 PM Brainstorm (1983)
1h 46m | Science Fiction | TV-14
A scientist battles the military for control of a machine that records sensory experiences, including death.
Director: Douglas Trumbull. Cast: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher

5:30 PM Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
2h 8m | Drama | TV-PG
A behind-the-scenes epic that explores the effects of the Hollywood dream machine on a spirited young singer and actress from the time of her discovery at age 15 through her triumphs and defeats.
Director: Robert Mulligan. Cast: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford

8:00 PM To Hell and Back (1955)
1h 46m | War | TV-PG
Film star Audie Murphy plays himself in this tale of how he became World War II's most decorated U.S. soldier.
Director: Jesse Hibbs. Cast: Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake

10:00 PM Walk the Proud Land (1956)
1h 29m | Western | TV-G
A government agent tries to treat the Apaches with respect.
Director: Jesse Hibbs. Cast: Audie Murphy, Anne Bancroft, Pat Crowley

11:45 PM The Quiet American (1958)
1h 11m | Drama | TV-PG
An American economist gets caught between Communists and colonialists in Indochina.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin

2:00 AM The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
1h 9m | Drama | TV-PG
A young Union soldier fights to atone for a moment of cowardice during the Civil War.
Director: John Huston. Cast: Andy Devine, Robert Easton Burke, Douglas Dick

3:30 AM Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1964)
1h 31m | Western | |TV-PG
Detective employed to help smash a band of outlaws works his way into the gang and saves himself from an impossible situation by exposing the master-mind of the gang in time to save his own life.
Director: Frank McDonald. Cast: Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, Colleen Miller