TCM Schedule for Monday December 21, 2020 - Classic Christmas Marathon
And the Xmas films just keep on coming...
(all times Eastern)
7:30 am Hell's Heroes (1930)
1h 5m | Drama | TV-PG
Three cowboys risk their lives to get an abandoned baby to civilization.
Director: William Wyler. Cast: Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler
9:00 am A Christmas Carol (1938)
1h 9m | Drama | TV-G
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve....
Director: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart
10:30 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
12:15 pm Crooks Anonymous (1963)
1h 28m | Comedy | TV-PG
A petty thief's plan to reform is jeopardized when he's locked in a department store during Christmas.
Director: Ken Annakin. Cast: Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Wilfrid Hyde-White
2:00 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: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, John Ireland
4:00 pm Room for One More (1952)
1h 38m | Comedy | TV-G
A family with three children takes in troubled orphans.
Director: Norman Taurog. Cast: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle
5:45 pm Penny Serenade (1941)
2h 5m | Comedy | TV-G
A woman on the verge of divorce recalls her heartbreaking attempts to adopt a child.
Director: George Stevens. Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi
8:00 pm Come to the Stable (1949)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-G
Two nuns set up a children's hospital in the New England countryside.
Director: Henry Koster. Cast: Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Elsa Lanchester
9:45 pm The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
2h | Drama | TV-G
A town supports the memory of an aspiring actress who dies before her first film premieres.
Director: Irving Pichel. Cast: Fred Macmurray, Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb
12:00 am Good Sam (1948)
1h 53m | Comedy | TV-G
A family man helps out people in need and ends up broke in the process.
Director: Leo McCarey. Cast: Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins
2:15 am The Blue Bird (1940)
1h 28m | Fantasy | TV-G
A woodchopper's children go off in search of the bluebird of happiness.
Director: Walter Lang. Cast: Shirley Temple Black, Spring Byington, Gale Sondergaard.
3:45 am Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
2h 4m | Drama | TV-MA
During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
Director: Nagisa Oshima. Cast: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto