TCM Schedule for Friday, April 12, 2024: Leading Men / Not What They Seem To Be
Handsome faces during the day; duplicity, deception, and ulterior motives at night. All times Eastern.
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6:00 AM | A Farewell to Arms (1932)
An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.
Dir: Frank Borzage | Cast: Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou
7:30 AM | The Candidate (1972)
An idealistic, charismatic U.S. Senate candidate faces overwhelming odds against the incumbent.
Dir: Michael Ritchie | Cast: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas
9:30 AM | The Golden Arrow (1964)
An Arabian bandit discovers he's the long lost son of a Sultan.
Dir: Antonio Margheriti | Cast: Tab Hunter, Rossana Podestà, Umberto Melnati
11:15 AM | Giant (1956)
A Texas ranching family fights to survive changing times.
Dir: George Stevens | Cast: Rock Hudson, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor
2:45 PM | Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
True story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Dir: Robert Wise | Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane
4:45 PM | Purple Noon (1961)
Crime thriller, loosely based on the 1955 novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Dir: René Clément | Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt
6:45 PM | Indiscretion of an American Wife aka Terminal Station/Stazione Termini (1954)
While visiting her sister in Rome, an American housewife has a month-long affair with an Italian academic.
Dir: Vittorio De Sica | Cast: Montgomery Clift, Jennifer Jones, Gino Cervi
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8:00 PM | Bullets or Ballots (1936)
A maverick police detective infiltrates a crime gang
Dir: William Keighley | Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart
9:30 PM | The Sea Hawk (1940)
A British buccaneer holds the Spanish fleet at bay with the covert approval of Elizabeth I.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
11:45 PM | The Music Man (1962)
A con man, masquerading as a music professor, convinces a small town to form a brass band.
Dir: Morton Dacosta | Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett
2:30 AM | Kings Row (1942)
The dark side of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood.
Dir: Sam Wood | Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
4:45 AM | It's a Great Feeling (1949)
A waitress thinks her big break into pictures may have arrived when two actors agree to help.
Dir: David Butler | Cast: Dennis Morgan, Doris Day, Jack Carson