TCM Schedule for Friday, Sept. 20, 2024 - Trains / Politics (Dr. Strangelove, Mr. Smith, & More)

Evening co-hosts:

Spike Lee: Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Stacey Abrams: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Phil Mattingly: Hearts and Minds (1974)


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6:00 AM | The Silk Express (1933)
A young silk importer fights off threats to his cargo during a perilous train ride.
Dir: Ray Enright | Cast: Neil Hamilton, Sheila Terry, Arthur Byron

7:30 AM | Murder in the Private Car (1934)
A speeding train becomes the setting for murder.
Dir: Harry Beaumont | Cast: Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle

9:00 AM | Strangers on a Train (1951)
A psychopath's suggestion that two strangers can kill the other's most-hated person ensnares a tennis star.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker

11:00 AM | Shanghai Express (1932)
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg | Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong

12:30 PM | Avalanche Express (1979)
A Soviet KGB General Marenkov defects to America and helps reveal KGB agents in Europe.
Dir: Mark Robson | Cast: Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans

2:00 PM | Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur | Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin

3:30 PM | The Tall Target (1951)
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
Dir: Anthony Mann | Cast: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou

5:00 PM | Terror on a Train (1953)
It's a race against the clock to defuse a bomb on board a speeding train filled with high explosives.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff | Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham

6:30 PM | The Narrow Margin (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's moll on a tense train ride.
Dir: Richard Fleischer | Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White

---- PRIME TIME & LATE NIGHT ----

8:00 PM | Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
A U.S. President and his staff try to stop a mad general's nuclear attack on the USSR.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick | Cast: Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden

9:45 PM | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
An idealistic Senate appointee takes on political corruption.
Dir: Frank Capra | Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains

12:15 AM | Hearts and Minds (1975)
Filmmakers capture conflicting attitudes toward the Vietnam War.
Dir: Peter Davis | Cast: Daniel Ellsberg, General William Westmoreland, Vo Thi Tu

2:15 AM | The Lives of Others (2006)
In East Berlin, a secret policeman becomes obsessed with the couple he is ordered to surveil.
Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Cast: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch

4:45 AM | Born in Flames (1983)
In a future where a socialist government gains power, a group of women decides to organize and rebel.
Dir: Lizzie Borden | Cast: Dee Dee Halleck, Julia Hanlon, Johanna Heer