Friday, October 9th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies USA
Jour de Fete (1949)
A French mailman (Jacques Tati) sees a film on U.S. postal efficiency and applies it to his route on Bastille Day.
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
A hapless French tourist attempts to make the most of his disastrous vacation as he causes havoc at a seaside resort hotel.
Mon Oncle (1958)
Simple bachelor M. Hulot charms his nephew in his brother-in-law's gadget-filled home.
Flamingo Road (1949)
A small-town Florida sheriff (Sydney Greenstreet) frames his political pawn's (Zachary Scott) dancer girlfriend (Joan Crawford) for prostitution.
A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
A Southern salesman (James Cagney) marries a schoolteacher (Barbara Hale) and runs for governor as a champion of sharecroppers.
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A TV woman (Patricia Neal) turns Arkansas bum Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) into a homespun media hero rotten with power.
Patterns (1956)
A New York corporate boss (Everett Sloane) grooms an Ohio engineer (Van Heflin) for the No. 2 man's (Ed Begley) job.
Boorman and the Devil (2025)
Filmmaker John Boorman seizes the opportunity to direct "Exorcist II: The Heretic," but the movie's disappointing reception from critics and fans nearly ends his career. Includes interviews with Boorman and actresses Linda Blair and Louise Fletcher.
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Four years after an exorcism, another priest (Richard Burton) arrives to free a possessed young woman (Linda Blair).
Hope and Glory (1987)
A 9-year-old boy (Sebastian Rice Edwards) recalls life with his mother (Sarah Miles) and family in World War II England.
Point Blank (1967)
A ruthless crook seeks revenge against the partner who betrayed him and left him for dead on Alcatraz Island.
In My Country (2004)
An American reporter (Samuel L. Jackson) and an Afrikaans poet (Juliette Binoche) meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
Microscopic Mysteries (1932)
The life and death struggles of insects are viewed through a microscope.
The Green Slime (1969)
Two space-station astronauts (Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckel) destroy an asteroid, then face monsters formed from viscous cells.
The Haunted Strangler (1958)
The ghost of the long-dead Haymarket Strangler takes possession of a researcher bent on clearing the killer's name.