TCM Schedule for Wednesday, November 22: Guest Programmer: Jonathan Scott
Happy Thanksgiving Eve! Today TCM's offering All-Star Casts, followed by films chosen by Guest Programmer Jonathan Scott. 
Save room for turkey and pumpkin pie.
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
12:00 AM Not As a Stranger (1955)
A medical student will stop at nothing to become a top surgeon.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra
Runtime: 135 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:30 AM The Cobweb (1955)
Inmates and staff at a posh asylum clash over love and lunacy.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
4:45 AM Chandler (1971)
A former private eye lands in hot water when he agrees to protect a government witness.
Dir: Paul Magwood Cast: Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
6:30 AM The Women (1939)
It's all about men! In the eternal battle between the sexes, one side holds an overwhelming advantage: Armed with razor-sharp wit and wielding gossip as a weapon, victory can only go to The Women. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell enter the skirmish as Mary Haines, Crystal Allen and Sylvia Fowler - whose ...
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
Runtime: 132 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
8:45 AM Ocean's Eleven (1960)
A group of friends plot to rob a Las Vegas casino.
Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
11:00 AM The Great Escape (1963)
Drama based on Paul Brickhill's factual account of the efforts of Allied prisoners to break out of Stalag Luft North during World War II.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Robert Graf, Nigel Stock, Angus Lennie
Runtime: 168 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:00 PM Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
The fantastic adventures of Englishman Phileas Fogg who, to win a bet, journeyed around the world in the "record time" of 80 days using every mode of transportation from train to boat to elephant and balloon.
Dir: Michael Anderson Cast: Cantinflas, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley
Runtime: 170 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-G CC: Y
5:15 PM The Great Race (1965)
Mayhem and double-crossing abound as some zany professional racers go up against each other in a 1908 cross-continental road race from New York to Paris.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon
Runtime: 157 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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8:00 PM Russian Roulette (1975)
A mountie finds himself engulfed in a KGB conspiracy to kill the renegade Russian Premier Alexei Kosygin during his visit to Canada in 1970.
Dir: Lou Lombardo Cast: George Segal, Cristina Raines, Bo Brundin
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Political Rating: null CC:
10:00 PM The Parallax View (1974)
A reporter uncovers the deadly conspiracy behind a political assassination.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, Earl Hindman
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-MA CC: N
12:00 AM Being There (1979)
Political pundits mistake an illiterate gardener for a media genius and turn him into a national hero.
Dir: Hal Ashby Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley Maclaine, Melvyn Douglas
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
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2:30 AM The Party (1968)
A no-name, bumbling foreigner ends up at a posh Hollywood party and gets in one series of embarrassing pickles after another.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Marge Champion
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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4:15 AM I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
A henpecked L.A. lawyer escapes into the world of hippies and free love.
Dir: Hy Averback Cast: Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y