TCM Schedule for Friday, Nov 1, 2024 - Somerset Maugham/Political Films (Being There, The Candidate, & more)
William Somerset Maugham was an English writer known for plays, novels and short stories.
Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham
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Evening co-hosts, political films:
8:00 PM - Being There (1979) with Andy Garcia. Garcia is an American actor, director and producer.
10:30 PM - The Candidate (1972) with Kaitlan Collins. Collins is an American journalist and news anchor on CNN.
12:30 AM - Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) with Lee Grant. Grant is an American actress, documentarian, and director.
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Accurate synopsis, full cast, and trivia for all films available at https://www.imdb.com
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7:00 AM | About Face (1942)
Dir: Kurt Neumann | Cast: William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Jean Porter
7:45 AM | The Magician (1926)
Dir: Rex Ingram | Cast: Alice Terry, Paul Wegener, Ivan Petrovich
9:15 AM | Isle of Fury (1936)
Dir: Frank Mcdonald | Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods
10:30 AM | Rain (1932)
A missionary tries to reform a streetwalker trapped on a Pacific island.
Dir: Lewis Milestone | Cast: Frederic Howard, Ben Hendricks, William Gargan
12:15 PM | Our Betters (1933)
Dir: George Cukor | Cast: Constance Bennett, Violet Kemble-cooper, Phoebe Foster
1:45 PM | The Letter (1940)
Dir: William Wyler | Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
3:30 PM | Strictly Unconventional (1930)
Dir: David Burton | Cast: Catherine Dale Owen, Paul Cavanagh, Tyrrell Davis
4:30 PM | The Painted Veil (1934)
Dir: Richard Boleslawski | Cast: Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent
6:00 PM | Of Human Bondage (1946)
Dir: Edmund Goulding | Cast: Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker, Alexis Smith
--- PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, SATURDAY MORNING ---
8:00 PM | Being There (1979)
Dir: Hal Ashby | Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas
10:30 PM | The Candidate (1972)
Dir: Michael Ritchie | Cast: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas
12:30 AM | Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
Dir: Barbara Kopple | Cast: Norman Yarborough, Houston Elmore, Phil Sparks
2:30 AM | The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Dir: John Frankenheimer | Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
4:45 AM | Weekend (1967)
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard | Cast: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon