TCM Schedule for Sunday May 31, 2026 - 1971 Thrillers

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Madame Satan (1930)
1h 55m | Musical | TV0G
A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Cast: Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth

8:15 AM Flying Down to Rio (1933)
1h 29m | Musical | TV-G
A bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer. This musical comedy is most famous for being the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Director: Thornton Freeland. Cast: Dolores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien

10:00 AM House of Numbers (1957)
1h 32m | Crime | TV-PG
A man tries to spring his twin brother from prison.
Director: Russell Rouse. Cast: Jack Palance, Barbara Lang, Harold J. Stone

11:45 AM Watership Down (1978)
1h 31m | Adventure | TV-PG
Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren, in this animated feature film.
Director: Martin Rosen. Cast: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox

1:30 PM The Seventh Victim (1943)
1h 11m | Horror | TV-PG
A girl's search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
Director: Mark Robson. Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell

3:00 PM The Breaking Point (1950)
1h 37m | Drama | TV-PG
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter

4:45 PM Detour (1945)
1h 8m | Suspense | TV-PG
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man's identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake

6:00 PM Get Carter (1971)
1h 52m | Crime | TV-14
A small-time gangster searches for the truth behind his brother's death.
Director: Mike Hodges. Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland

8:00 PM Klute (1971)
1h 54m | Suspense | TV-MA
A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
Director: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi

10:00 PM Play Misty for Me (1971)
1h 42m | Suspense | TV-MA
Clint Eastwood directed and stars in this classic 1971 thriller about a late-night deejay who is pursued by a psychotic fan.
Director: Clint Eastwood. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills

12:00 AM Strike (1925)
1h 22m | Silent | TV-PG
Russia's Czarist rulers go all out to thwart a factory workers' strike.
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein. Cast: Grigory Alexandrov, Maxim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov

2:00 AM The Walls of Malapaga (1949)
1h 29m | Drama | TV-PG
After fleeing from France to Genoa, a murderer becomes involved with a waitress and her daughter.
Director: René Clément. Cast: Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi

3:45 AM French Cancan (1955)
1h 44m | Musical | TV-PG
A world-weary impresario transforms a laundress into a theatrical star.
Director: Jean Renoir. Cast: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix

5:30 AM Good Morning, Eve! (1934)
19m | Short | TV-G
In this short musical comedy, Adam and Eve go on an adventure that leads them from the Garden of Eden to Florida. Vitaphone Release 1702-1703.
Director: Roy Mack. Cast: Leon Errol, June MacCloy, Vernon Dent