TCM Schedule for Fri, Dec 26, 2025: Cary Grant / In Memoriam

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In Memorium: Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton); Top Secret! (Val Kilmer); Walking Tall (Joe Don Baker); The Yearling (Claude Jarmon Jr.); The Entertainer (Joan Plowright); Cool Hand Luke (Lalo Schifrin).


DAYTIME (EST):

7:30 AM Night and Day (1946)
Fanciful biography of songwriter Cole Porter.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley

9:45 AM North by Northwest (1959)
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

12:15 PM Operation Petticoat (1959)
A WWII commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit submarine, a con man officer, and army nurses.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien

2:30 PM Indiscreet (1958)
An actress who has given up on love meets a married, suave banker. Flirtation ensues.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker

4:15 PM The Grass Is Greener (1960)
Impoverished aristocrats consider splitting up to pursue wealthy spouses.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum

6:15 PM That Touch of Mink (1962)
Attraction develops between a businessman and a young woman determined to protect her innocence.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young



PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
When his wife leaves him, an ad exec gets a crash course in parenting.
Dir: Robert Benton Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander

10:00 PM Top Secret! (1984)
An Elvis-like singer falls for a French resistance fighter during World War II.
Dir: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker Cast: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Peter Cushing

11:45 PM Walking Tall (1973) TCM PREMIERE
Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser, who rid a small town of crime and corruption.
Dir: Phil Karlson Cast: Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Noah Beery Jr.

2:00 AM The Yearling (1946)
A Florida boy's pet deer threatens the family farm.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.

4:15 AM The Entertainer (1960)
A has-been vaudevillian destroys his family around him in pursuing a lost cause.
Dir: Tony Richardson Cast: Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Joan Plowright

6:00 AM Cool Hand Luke (1967)
A loner sentenced to a prison chain-gang becomes the leader of his fellow prisoners.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon