TCM Schedule for Monday May 27, 2024 - Star of the Month: Sessue Hayakawa
Daytime has the end of this year's Memorial Day marathon.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 AM The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
1h 34m | Romance | TV-PG
A Russian woman is tormented by fears that her boyfriend has been killed in World War II.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov. Cast: Tatyana Samoilova, Alexei Batalov, Vasili Merkuriev
7:45 AM Appointment in Tokyo (1946)
55m | Documentary | TV-PG
Military documentary about the U.S.'s recapture of the Philippines.
Director: Maj. Jack Hively. Cast: Col. Emmanuel Cohen, Capt. Jack Handley, Capt. Jesse Lasky Jr.
8:45 AM The McConnell Story (1955)
1h 47m | Drama | TV-PG
The true story of Korean war hero Captain Joseph McConnell, Jr.
Director: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Alan Ladd, June Allyson, James Whitmore
10:45 AM War Nurse (1930)
1h 20m | War | TV-G
A nurse fights to survive when she's caught behind enemy lines during World War I.
Director: Edgar Selwyn. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, June Walker
12:15 PM Cry 'Havoc' (1944)
1h 37m | War | TV-PG
A group of war nurses fight to survive the siege of Bataan.
Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell
2:00 PM Bataan (1943)
1h 54m | War | TV-PG
Thirteen U.S. soldiers risk their lives to hold a bridge against the Japanese.
Director: Tay Garnett. Cast: Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell
4:00 PM The Rack (1956)
1h 40m | Drama | TV-14
A Korean War veteran is accused of cracking under enemy torture.
Director: Arnold Laven. Cast: Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Walter Pidgeon
5:45
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Darby's Rangers Profile Image Darby's Rangers (1958)
2h 1m | War | TV-PG
An Army Major leads his men behind enemy lines during World War II.
Director: William A. Wellman. Cast: James Garner, Etchika Choureau, Jack Warden
8:00 PM Three Came Home (1950)
1h 46m | War | TV-14
A woman fights to survive as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II.
Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond
10:00 PM The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
2h 41m | Epic | TV-PG
The Japanese Army forces World War II POWs to build a strategic bridge in Burma.
Director: David Lean. Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
1:00: AM Assignment in Brittany (1943)
1h 36m | Drama | TV-PG
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
Director: Jack Conway. Cast: Pierre Aumont, Susan Peters, Richard Whorf
3:45 AM Sergeant York (1941)
2h 14m | War | TV-G
True story of the farm boy who made the transition from religious pacifist to World War I hero.
Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie