TCM Schedule for Friday, May 24, 2024: Comedies / Memorial Day Weekend Marathon
TCM's salute to those that served, volunteered, and support our military begins tonight at 8 pm EST.
(I salute you, too)
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6:30 AM | A Day at the Races (1937)
A group of zanies tries to save a pretty girl's sanitarium.
Dir: Sam Wood | Cast: The Marx Brothers, Maureen O'Sullivan, Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones
8:30 AM | I Love You Again (1940)
A solid married man discovers he's forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II | Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
10:15 AM | The Loved One (1965)
An Englishman in Hollywood moves into the funeral business.
Dir: Tony Richardson | Cast: Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer
12:15 PM | The Awful Truth (1937)
A divorced couple keeps getting mixed up in each other's love lives.
Dir: Leo Mccarey | Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy
2:00 PM | No Time for Sergeants (1958)
A hillbilly draftee turns the Air Force upside down.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy | Cast: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams
4:15 PM | The Sunshine Boys (1975)
A feuding comedy team reunites for a television comeback.
Dir: Herbert Ross | Cast: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin
6:15 PM | The Producers (1967)
A Broadway producer decides to get rich by creating the biggest flop of his career.
Dir: Mel Brooks | Cast: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn
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8:00 PM | The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Based on the novel by Herman Wouk about a WW II naval mutiny and the court-martial trial that follows.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk | Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson
10:15 PM | Platoon (1986)
A recruit in Vietnam finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil.
Dir: Oliver Stone | Cast: Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker
12:30 AM | Men in War (1957)
Two enemies join forces to save their men during a retreat from the North Koreans.
Dir: Anthony Mann | Cast: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith
2:15 AM | The Steel Helmet (1951)
Americans trapped behind enemy lines fight off Communists during the Korean War.
Dir: Samuel Fuller | Cast: Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards
4:00 AM | Go for Broke! (1951)
The true story of World War II's all Japanese-American unit.
Dir: Robert Pirosh | Cast: Van Johnson, Lane Nakano, George Miki
5:45 AM | The Human Comedy (1943)
A small-town telegraph boy deals with the strains of growing up during World War II.
Dir: Clarence Brown | Cast: Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig