TCM Schedule for Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024 - Real-Life Stories / Future Tech
All times Eastern
6:00 AM | Triple Cross (1966)
A safe-cracker turns double agent during WWII.
Dir: Terence Young | Cast: Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard
8:15 AM | John Paul Jones (1959)
John Paul Jones struggles to convince the English colonies to build a navy during the Revolutionary War, then leads his rag-tag armada in stunning defeats of the vastly superior British fleet.
Dir: John Farrow | Cast: Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn
10:30 AM | Wings and the Woman (1941)
Two real-life aviation pioneers try to find happiness in marriage.
Dir: Herbert Wilcox | Cast: Anna Neagle, Robert Newton, Edward Chapman
12:15 PM | Convicts 4 (1962)
A convicted killer discovers a talent for art while behind bars.
Dir: Millard Kaufman | Cast: Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston
2:15 PM | Dr. Crippen (1963)
The real-life story of a doctor who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife.
Dir: Robert Lynn | Cast: Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne, Samantha Eggar
4:00 PM | Mrs. Soffel (1984)
A prison warden's wife is seduced into helping a notorious killer escape.
Dir: Gillian Armstrong | Cast: Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine
6:00 PM | Marie: A True Story (1985)
Ousted parole-board chairwoman Marie Ragghianti blows the whistle on corruption in 1968 Tennessee.
Dir: Roger Donaldson | Cast: Sissy Spacek, Jeff Daniels, Keith Szarabajka
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8:00 PM | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick | Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
10:45 PM | Alphaville (1965)
A private-eye is rocketed through space into a city run by a dictator scientist, where individuality and love have been suppressed.
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard | Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
12:45 AM | Logan's Run (1975)
A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.
Dir: Michael Anderson | Cast: Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter
3:00 AM | Demon Seed (1977)
A sophisticated computer falls in love with its creator's wife and terrorizes her.
Dir: Donald Cammell | Cast: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerritt Graham
4:45 AM | Brainstorm (1983)
A scientist battles the military for control of a machine that records sensory experiences, including death.
Dir: Douglas Trumbull | Cast: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher