TCM Schedule for Sunday February 21, 2021 - Precode Classics [View all]

A pair of naughty delights from the days before the Production Code took effect highlight tonight.

(all times Eastern)

6:15 am Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
1h 33m | Crime | TV-G
Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy

8:00 am The Corn Is Green (1945)
1h 54m | Drama | TV-G
A dedicated teacher sacrifices everything to send a young miner to Oxford.
Director: Irving Rapper. Cast: Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams

10:00 am Native Son (1951)
1h 45m | Adaptation
Richard Wright stars in this adaptation of his novel about a black youth in Chicago during the 30's.
Director: Pierre Chenal. Cast: Jean Wallace, Richard Wright, Nicholas Joy

11:45 am Born Yesterday (1950)
1h 43m | Comedy | TV-PG
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman's girlfriend.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden

1:45 pm Trouble in Paradise (1932)
1h 21m | Comedy, Crime | TV-G
A love triangle ignites trouble between two jewel thieves and their intended victim.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall

3:15 pm The Fortune Cookie (1966)
2h 5m | Comedy | TV-PG
A crooked lawyer trumps up an insurance case for a cameraman injured at a pro football game.
Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich

5:30 pm The Remains Of The Day (1993)
2h 14m | Drama | TV-PG
A proper British butler sacrifices happiness to remain faithful to his position.
Director: James Ivory. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve

8:00 pm Bombshell (1933)
1h 31m | Comedy, Adaptation, Romantic Comedy, Classic Hollywood | TV-G
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Director: Victor Fleming. Cast: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan

10:00 pm Design for Living (1933)
1h 30m | Comedy, Romance | TV-G
An independent woman can't chose between the two men she loves.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins

12:00 am The Cossacks (1928)
1h 40m | Drama, Silent | TV-G
A young Cossack is branded a coward when he opposes the slaughter of the Turks.
Director: George Hill. Cast: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Ernest Torrence

2:00 am Touki Bouki (1973)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-MA
A young African couple dream of a trip to Paris.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambtty. Cast: Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Siro Asteni

3:45 am Countryman (1982)
2h 23m | Musical
A young American couple crash-lands their plane in Jamaica.
Director: Dickie Jobson. Cast: Duncan Booth, Kristina St Clair, Monair Zacca