TCM Schedule for Thurs, Feb 20, 2025: 30 Days of Oscar - Day 20
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6:30 AM | The Crowd (1928)
In this silent film, an office worker deals with the simple joys and tragedies of married life.
Dir: King Vidor | Cast: Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach
8:15 AM | The Divine Lady (1929)
Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Nelson rocks the British Empire.
Dir: Frank Lloyd | Cast: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H. B. Warner
10:15 AM | Stage Door (1937)
Women at a theatrical boarding house try to make their big break happen.
Dir: Gregory LaCava | Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou
12:15 PM | Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
A veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero's family.
Dir: John Sturges | Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
2:00 PM | The Search (1948)
An American soldier in post-war Europe becomes attached to a homeless child.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann | Cast: Montgomery Clift, Aline Macmahon, Wendell Corey
4:00 PM | The Thin Man (1934)
In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke | Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan
5:45 PM | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Prospectors fight off bandits and each other after striking it rich in Mexico.
Dir: John Huston | Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
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8:00 PM | Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Story of Robert Stroud, Alcartaz prisoner and amateur ornithologist.
Dir: John Frankenheimer | Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter
10:45 PM | The Defiant Ones (1958)
Two convicts, a white racist and an angry black, escape while chained to each other.
Dir: Stanley Kramer | Cast: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel
12:30 AM | I Want to Live! (1958)
True story of the small-time lady crook who fought to escape the gas chamber.
Dir: Robert Wise | Cast: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent
2:45 AM | Cool Hand Luke (1967)
A brooding loner is sentenced to a prison chain-gang.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg | Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon
5:00 AM | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Aspiring engineer, unwillingly caught up in a robbery, struggling to clear his name.
Dir: Mervyn Le Roy | Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
6:45 AM | Caged (1950)
A young innocent fights to survive the harsh life in a women's prison.
Dir: John Cromwell | Cast: Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby