TCM Schedule for Friday, Nov 22, 2024 - Romantic Complications/Film Noir
Alternate synopses, full cast, and trivia for all films available at https://www.imdb.com
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6:00 AM | Call of the Flesh (1930)
A Latin lover fights for the heart of a beautiful convent girl.
Dir: Charles Brabin | Cast: Ramón Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Ernest Torrence
7:45 AM | Green Mansions (1959)
A young adventurer falls in love with a mystical woman in the South American jungle.
Dir: Mel Ferrer | Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins, Lee J. Cobb
9:45 AM | Kismet (1955)
In this Arabian Nights musical, the "king of the beggars" infiltrates high society when his daughter is wooed by a handsome prince.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli | Cast: Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray
11:45 AM | Rome Adventure (1962)
A man falls in love with two women.
Dir: Delmer Daves | Cast: Troy Donahue, Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi
1:45 PM | Romance on the High Seas (1948)
A man hires a private eye to watch his wife on a cruise, but the wife sends an impostor.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don Defore
3:30 PM | Fugitive Lovers (1934)
A cross-country bus trip brings together a chorus girl and an escaped convict.
Dir: Richard Boleslavsk | Cast: Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Ted Healy
5:00 PM | Between Two Women (1937)
A nurse with an alcoholic husband falls for a doctor, only to find his interests lie elsewhere.
Dir: George B. Seitz | Cast: Franchot Tone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Virginia Bruce
6:30 PM | Tonight or Never (1931)
An opera diva falls in love with a dashing, handsome young man but she must find out whether he is the answer to her dreams or...just a gigolo.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy | Cast: Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth
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8:00 PM | Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.
Dir: Billy Wilder | Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
10:00 PM | Laura (1944)
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she's dead, the obsessed detective can't get her out of his mind.
Dir: Otto Preminger | Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
11:45 PM | Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe's search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk | Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
1:30 AM | Phantom Lady (1944)
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
Dir: Robert Siodmak | Cast: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis
3:15 AM | The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.
Dir: Jean Negulesco | Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson
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5:00 AM | Brand of Fear (1949)
Two cowboys try to help the new schoolteacher when she's accosted by bandits.
Dir: Oliver Drake | Cast: Jimmy Wakely, Dub "Cannonball" Taylor, Tom London