TCM Schedule for Friday, Oct. 4, 2024 - 1950s MGM Musicals/Political Films

Evening co-hosts:

8:00 PM: The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) with Sally Field. Field is an American actor. Known for her extensive work on screen and stage, she has received many accolades throughout her career spanning six decades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and two British Academy Film Awards.

10:00 PM: The Best Man (1964) with Josh Mankiewicz. Mankiewicz is an American journalist, who has been reporting for Dateline NBC since 1995. He has reported for The Today Show and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, and Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly. Before moving to NBC, Mankiewicz worked as a producer and reporter for ABC News. He is the older brother of Turner Classic Movies prime-time host Ben Mankiewicz.

12:00 AM: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) with Lonnie Bunch. Bunch is an American educator and historian. Bunch is the fourteenth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian. He has spent most of his career as a history museum curator and administrator.

TCM PREMIERE, 1:45 AM: City Hall, (1996) starring Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello


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7:00 AM | Sombrero (1953)
Three sets of lovers are caught between feuding Mexican villages.
Dir: Norman Foster | Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Pier Angeli, Vittorio Gassman

9:00 AM | Pagan Love Song (1950)
An American tourist romances a Tahitian beauty.
Dir: Robert Alton | Cast: Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Minna Gombell

10:30 AM | Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1956)
A playboy finds love while managing a posh hotel in Rome.
Dir: Richard Thorpe | Cast: Dean Martin, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Eva Bartok

12:30 PM | For the First Time (1959)
While vacationing in disguise, an opera star falls in love with a deaf girl.
Dir: Rudolph Maté | Cast: Mario Lanza, Johanna Von Koczian, Kurt Krasznar

2:15 PM | Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)
A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.
Dir: Norman Taurog | Cast: Jane Powell, Danielle Darrieux, Wendell Corey

4:00 PM | Lovely to Look At (1952)
Broadway producers inherit a Parisian fashion house.
Dir: Mervyn LeroyvCast: Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel

6:00 PM | The Student Prince (1954)
A prince falls in love with a barmaid during his last fling before assuming the crown.
Dir: Richard Thorpe | Cast: Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson


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8:00 PM | The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Documentary: the career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay councilor.
Dir: Robert Epstein | Cast: Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg, Harvey Fierstein

10:00 PM | The Best Man (1964)
Two presidential hopefuls get caught up in the dirty side of politics.
Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner | Cast: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams

12:00 AM | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Army veteran, caught up in a robbery and sentenced to a chain gang, struggles to clear his name.
Dir: Mervyn Le Roy | Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson

1:45 AM | City Hall (1996) TCM PREMIERE
Accidental shooting of a boy leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly consequences.
Dir: Harold Becker | Cast: Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello

3:45 AM | Strike (1925)
Russia's Czarist rulers go all out to thwart a factory workers' strike.
Dir: Sergei M. Eisenstein | Cast: Grigory Alexandrov, Maxim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov

5:15 AM | High and Low (1963)
Wealthy man faces the dilemma of paying the ransom of his chauffeur's son, kidnapped by mistake.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa | Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa