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Classic Films
Related: About this forumTCM Schedule for Monday December 20, 2021 - Classic Christmas Marathon
And the holiday movies keep coming...(all times Eastern)
7:45 am Kind Lady (1935)
1h 16m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
A con artist and his criminal colleagues move in on a trusting old lady.
Director: George B. Seitz. Cast: Aline Macmahon, Basil Rathbone, Mary Carlisle
9:00 am The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
1h 52m | Comedy | TV-G
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
Director: William Keighley. Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
11:00 am Cover Up (1949)
1h 25m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-14
An insurance investigator smells something wrong when he looks into a small-town suicide.
Director: Alfred E. Green. Cast: William Bendix, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Britton
12:30 pm Crooks Anonymous (1962)
1h 28m | Comedy | TV-PG
A thief joins an ex-convict's organization for reform but backslides.
Director: Ken Annakin. Cast: Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Wilfrid Hyde-White
2:15 pm Backfire (1950)
1h 31m | Crime | TV-PG
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Director: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Virginia Mayo
4:00 pm Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
1h 33m | Drama | TV-G
After being betrayed, a gangster hangs out in a settlement house while seeking revenge.
Director: Henry Levin. Cast: Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, John Ireland
6:00 pm Lady on a Train (1945)
1h 33m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A young woman enlists a mystery writer to help her solve a murder when the corpse vanishes.
Director: Charles David. Cast: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce
8:00 pm
We're No Angels (1955)
1h 46m | Comedy | TV-G
After escaping Devil's Island, three offbeat prisoners help a goodhearted family outwit a scheming relative.
Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov
10:00 pm Fitzwilly (1967)
1h 42m | Comedy | TV-PG
When an aging philanthropist goes broke, her butler robs from the rich so she can give to the poor.
Director: Delbert Mann. Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Feldon, Edith Evans
12:00 am Lady in the Lake (1947)
1h 43m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective's viewpoint.
Director: Robert Montgomery. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
2:00 am Larceny, Inc. (1942)
1h 35m | Comedy | TV-PG
An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
4:00 am The Silent Partner (1978)
1h 45m | Adaptation | TV-MA
A bank teller skims $50,000 for himself during a robbery, and a Santa Claus crook wants it.
Director: Daryl Duke. Cast: Susannah York, Christopher Plummer, Elliott Gould
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TCM Schedule for Monday December 20, 2021 - Classic Christmas Marathon (Original Post)
rdmtimp
Dec 2021
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Auggie
(31,770 posts)1. Set the DVR for The Silent Partner
Christopher Plummer plays a great bad guy.
Real sleeper of a film and one of my favorites. You wont regret it.
BigmanPigman
(52,160 posts)2. Those interested in fast and witty dialogue should watch
The Man Who Came To Dinner.
CBHagman
(17,124 posts)3. "Larceny, Inc."
That one was a nice surprise. I'd never even heard of it until TCM ran it some years back.
And Edward G. Robinson is always watchable.