TCM Schedule for Sunday April 13, 2025 - Rod Steiger [View all]

Plus: an Ernst Lubitsch silent and a pair from Vittorio De Sica.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Baby Doll (1956)
1h 54m | Drama | TV-14
A child bride holds her husband at bay while flirting with a sexy Italian farmer.
Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach

8:00 AM Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
1h 49m | Drama | TV-PG
A military officer becomes obsessed with an enlisted man.
Director: John Huston. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith

10:00 AM The Steel Trap (1952)
1h 25m | Crime | TV-PG
When he has second thoughts, an embezzler races the clock to return what he stole.
Director: Andrew Stone. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale

11:45 AM The Valley of Decision (1945)
1h 51m | Romance | TV-PG
An Irish housemaid's romance with the boss's son is complicated by labor disputes in the Pittsburgh mills.
Director: Tay Garnett. Cast: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp

2:00 PM This Happy Breed (1944)
1h 50m | Drama | TV-G
A middle-class family faces personal triumphs and tragedies when they move to a new home in the suburbs.
Director: David Lean. Cast: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills

4:00 PM Sunday in New York (1963)
1h 45m | Comedy | TV-PG
A prim 22-year-old virgin, Eileen Tyler, considers premarital sex when she travels from Albany to visit her womanizing brother in New York City, and although engaged to another man, flirts with a stranger she meets on a bus.
Director: Peter Tewksbury. Cast: Rod Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson

6:00 PM Born Yesterday (1950)
1h 43m | Comedy | TV-PG
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman's girlfriend.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden

8:00 PM On the Waterfront (1954)
1h 48m | Drama | TV-PG
A young stevedore takes on the mobster who rules the docks.
Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint

10:00 PM In the Heat of the Night (1967)
1h 49m | Suspense | TV-14
A black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town in the South. Over time, they begin to find respect for one another.
Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates

12:00 AM Die Austernprinzessin (1919)
1h | Comedy | TV-G
The daughter of an American industrialist falls in love with a European prince.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, Julius Falkenstein

2:00 AM The Children Are Watching Us (1944)
1h 19m | Drama | TV-PG
A child's world collapses when his mother runs off with her lover.
Director: Vittorio De Sica. Cast: Emilio Cigoli, Luciano Deambrosis, Isa Pola

4:00 AM The Bicycle Thief (1948)
1h 30m | Drama | TV-G
A working man's livelihood is threatened when someone steals his bicycle.
Director: Vittorio De Sica. Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell