TCM Schedule for January 24, 2021 - One Big Misunderstanding
A twin bill of mixups and crossed wires.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 am Grand Hotel (1932)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through scandal and heartache.
Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
8:00 am Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
A Norwegian farmer tries to raise two children in the Midwest.
Director: Roy Rowland. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig
10:00 am Born to Kill (1947)
1h 32m | Crime | TV-PG
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
11:45 am Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-G
A New York businessman's dream of a country home is shattered when he buys a tumbledown rural shack.
Director: H. C. Potter. Cast: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas
1:30 pm The Philadelphia Story (1940)
1h 51m | Comedy | TV-G
Tabloid reporters crash a society marriage.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
3:30 pm West Side Story (1961)
2h 35m | Musical | TV-PG
A young couple from dueling street gangs falls in love.
Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn
6:15 pm What's Up, Doc? (1972)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-PG
The accidental mix up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
8:00 pm Send Me No Flowers (1964)
1h 40m | Comedy | TV-G
When he mistakenly thinks he's dying, a hypochondriac tries to choose his wife's next husband.
Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
10:00 pm Sunday in New York (1963)
1h 45m | Comedy | TV-PG
A philandering pilot gets very moral, very fast, when his sister contemplates a premarital fling.
Director: Peter Tewksbury. Cast: Rod Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson.
12:00 am Rosita (1923)
1h 57m | Adaptation
The King of Spain falls in love with Rosita, a Spanish streetsinger.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Mary Pickford, Holbrook Blinn, Irene Rich
2:15 am Kika (1994)
1h 55m | Comedy, Drama
Story about a subnormal person with an enormous sex drive, the woman he rapes, her husband, a lovelorn journalist and her best friend.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar. Cast: Victoria Abril, Mónica Bardem, Karra Elejalde
4:15 am Flower of My Secret, The (1995)
1h 40m | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Spanish writer who pens romance novels as Amanda Gris, Leo Macias is successful.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar. Cast: Abraham Garcia, Kiti Manver, Rossy De Palma