Classic Films
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020
12:15 AM
Girlfriends (1978)
1h 26m | Comedy | TV-PG
A tale of an aspiring photographer struggling for a Soho gallery exhibition, as she suppor...
Director: Claudia Weill
Cast: Melanie Mayron, Bob Balaban, Eli Wallach
2:00 AM
Party Girl (1994)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-MA
A downtown party girl takes a job as a library clerk to prove to her librarian godmother t...
Director: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Cast: Parker Posey, Omar Townsend, Sasha Von Scherler
3:45 AM
The Connection (1962)
1h 43m | Drama | TV-PG
A fictional film posing as a documentary in which a group of heroin addicts wait for their...
Director: Shirley Clarke
Cast: William Redfield, Warren Finnerty, Garry Goodrow
5:45 AM
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
1h 54m | Comedy | TV-PG
Set in Yonkers, New York, in the summer of 1942, a story about two boys who live with thei...
Director: No Director Available
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Mercedes Ruehl, David Strathairn
Yes, a director is available. It's Martha Coolidge.
7:45 AM
Mabel's Strange Predicament (1914)
Comedy | TV-G
A drunk Tramp is trying to find his room at a hotel when he meets Mabel, who is locked out...
Director: Henry Lehrman
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Chester Conklin
8:15 AM
Foreign Letters (2012)
1h 40m | Biography | TV-G
Two girls, from Israel and Vietnam, help each other adapt to life in America.
Director: Ela Thier
Cast: Noa Rotstein, Dalena Le, Daniel Bahr
10:00 AM
Winter Meeting (1948)
1h 44m | Drama | TV-G
A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.
Director: Bretaigne Windust
Cast: Bette Davis, Janis Paige, James Davis
12:00 PM
I Know Where I'm Going (1945)
1h 32m | Comedy | TV-G
A determined young Englishwoman sets out to accomplish her goals even at the risk of her h...
Director: Michael Powell
Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
1:45 PM
The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
1h 31m | Romance | TV-G
A scarred veteran and a homely woman are transformed by love.
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Dorothy Mcguire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall
3:30 PM
Random Harvest (1942)
2h 4m | Romance | TV-G
A woman's happiness is threatened when she discovers her husband has been suffering from a...
Director: Mervyn Leroy
Cast: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn
6:00 PM
Desire Me (1947)
1h 31m | Drama | TV-PG
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart
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8:00 PM
The Best Man (1964)
1h 42m | Drama | TV-PG
Two presidential hopefuls get caught up in the dirty side of politics.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams
10:00 PM
The Last Hurrah (1958)
2h 1m | Drama | TV-PG
A political boss faces changing times as he runs for re-election.
Director: John Ford
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster
12:15 AM
The Great McGinty (1940)
1h 21m | Comedy | TV-PG
A bum is transformed into a political kingpin by a corrupt hoodlum, only to be destroyed b...
Director: Preston Sturges
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff
2:00 AM
The Candidate (1972)
1h 49m | Drama | TV-14
Without a candidate to run for the senate seat against admired Republican Crocker Jarmon, ...
Director: Michael Ritchie
Cast: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas
4:00 AM
All the King's Men (1949)
1h 49m | Drama | TV-PG
A backwoods politician rises to the top only to become corrupted.
Director: Robert Rossen
Cast: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru
BigmanPigman
(52,292 posts)NYC 1978 classic.
CBHagman
(17,139 posts)...especially as it's from a particular place and time.