TCM Schedule for Thursday, May 30, 2024: International Incidents / The Front Page [View all]

The Front Page is a Broadway comedy about newspaper reporters on the police beat. Written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, it was first produced in 1928 and has been adapted for the cinema several times. The play entered the public domain in the United States in 2024.

Tonight TCM airs the original film adaptation from 1931, plus three remakes. All showcase some of biggest names in Hollywood history.


----------------- MORNING & DAYTIME (EST)-----------------

6:00 AM | British Agent (1934)
An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Leslie Howard, Kay Francis, William Gargan

7:30 AM | Crossroads (1942)
A French diplomat who's recovering from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
Dir: Jack Conway | Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor

9:00 AM | Mission to Moscow (1943)
Story of U.S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies' attempts to forge a wartime alliance with the Soviet Union.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oscar Homolka

11:15 AM | Princess O'Rourke (1943)
A flying ace's romance with a princess creates diplomatic problems.
Dir: Norman Krasna | Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn

1:00 PM | A Majority of One (1961)
A Jewish widow falls in love with a Japanese businessman.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy | Cast: Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton

3:30 PM | The Notorious Landlady (1962)
A state department man rents an apartment from a woman suspected of murdering her husband.
Dir: Richard Quine | Cast: Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire

5:45 PM | The Ugly American (1963)
An American scholar becomes ambassador to a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing.
Dir: George Englund | Cast: Marlon Brando, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church


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

8:00 PM | The Front Page (1974)
A ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before he quits.
Dir: Billy Wilder | Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett

10:00 PM | The Front Page (1931)
A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.
Dir: Lewis Milestone | Cast: Adolph Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian

12:00 AM | His Girl Friday (1940)
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Dir: Howard Hawks | Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy

2:00 AM | Switching Channels (1988)
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
Dir: Ted Kotcheff | Cast: Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve


----------- MORE BURT REYNOLDS -----------

4:00 AM | Hooper (1978)
Two Hollywood stunt men, a long-time veteran and a younger man, compete for the title of greatest.
Dir: Hal Needham | Cast: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jan-Michael Vincent