TCM's James Earl Jones tribute, and other schedule notes

[NB: The first draft of this post was written a few weeks in advance, and TCM may have updated the schedule without my noticing in the intervening time.]

Actor James Earl Jones died back in September. As I said then, there aren't too many movies Jones made, but there is enough for TCM to do a modest tribute. That tribute is tonight, October 27, and includes two of his movies:

8:00 PM Cry, the Beloved Country, a 1990s adaptation of the famous South African novel that had already been filmed in the 1950s; and
10:00 PM Matewan, a film about union organizing in the mining sector.

Matewan has a 135 minute running time, and with an intro and outro, it means the next film is going to start at 12:30 AM, and that's where the schedule problems begin. The current iteration of the schedule properly has Silent Sunday Nights, and at 12:30 AM, the silent version of The Phantom of the Opera. But, the schedule lists a following movie, also at 12:30 AM, that being a documentary on Lon Chaney. Phantom of the Opera is listed at 94 minutes, with the documentary beind 90 minutes.

However, the following movie, the TCM Import is a latter-day Polish movie, The Lure, scheduled to begin at 3:30 AM and run 92 minutes. The rest of the TCM schedule, into the morning of October 28, lines up in terms of time. But as you can see, the listed running times for Silent Sunday Nights would have it run past 3:30 AM, never mind the intro and outro from Jacqueline Stewart.

My first thought was that the documentary: Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces was in fact made for TV and that the 90 minute runtime listed would be when it was on TV with commercial breaks. That would make it significantly shorter and, along with The Phantom of the Opera, fit in to a three-hour slot. But IMDb lists the documentary as 85 minutes, which would come up right against the start of the next feature even without Jacqueline Stewart. My guess, as of this running, is that Silent Sunday Nights will run over but there's enough buffer in TCM Imports to have the next feature (Sweetie at 5:15 AM) start on time.