TCM Schedule for Monday February 26, 2024 - 31 Days of Oscar: Special Effects
(all times Eastern)
6:30 AM Green Dolphin Street (1947)
2h 21m | Epic | TV-G
In 19th-century New Zealand, two sisters compete for the same man against a backdrop of political unrest and natural disaster.
Director: Victor Saville. Cast: Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed
9:00 AM Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
2h 18m | War | TV-PG
General Jimmy Doolittle trains American troops for the first airborne attacks on Japan.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock
11:30 AM Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
3h 5m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
Lavish remake of the classic tale of the villainous Captain Bligh who drives his crew to revolt during a South Seas expedition.
Director: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard
2:45 PM Forbidden Planet (1956)
1h 38m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
A group of space troopers investigates the destruction of a colony on a remote planet.
Director: Fred Mcleod Wilcox. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen
4:30 PM Topper Returns (1941)
1h 25m | Comedy | TV-G
A beautiful ghost enlists a henpecked husband to track down her killer.
Director: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis
6:15 PM Them! (1954)
1h 34m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
Federal agents fight to destroy a colony of mutated giant ants.
Director: Gordon Douglas. Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon
8:00 PM Fantastic Voyage (1966)
1h 40m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
A team of scientists shrinks to remove a blood clot from the brain of a defecting scientist.
Director: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'brien
10:00 PM Blithe Spirit (1945)
1h 36m | Comedy | TV-G
A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
Director: David Lean. Cast: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond
11:45 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2h 40m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
Classic sci-fi epic about a mysterious monolith that seems to play a key role in human evolution.
Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
2:30 AM Destination Moon (1950)
1h 20m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-G
A crusading scientist defies the government to launch an expedition to the moon.
Director: Irving Pichel. Cast: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers
4:15 AM tom thumb (1958)
1h 38m | Musical | TV-G
A six-inch-tall boy takes on a pair of comical crooks.
Director: George Pal. Cast: Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young, June Thorburn