TCM Schedule for Friday, Sept. 27, 2024 - Mexico/Politics (Three Days of the Condor, I Am Not Your Negro, & More)
Evening co-hosts:
Maureen Dowd: Three Days of the Condor. Dowd is an American columnist for The New York Times, and an author
Sara Sidner: I Am Not Your Negro. Sidner is an American TV reporter who is a co-anchor of the morning edition of CNN News Central. She anchored Big Picture with Sara Sidner on CNN+, the network's short-lived subscription service.
Melissa Etheridge: The Passion of Joan of Arc. Etheridge is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and guitarist.
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6:00 AM | The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)
An American adventurer competes with the famed Mexican bandit to recover a lost gold shipment.
Dir: George ShermanvCast: Rory Calhoun, Shelley Winters, Gilbert Roland
7:45 AM | Sol Madrid (1968)
An undercover narcotics agent tries to track a Mafia chief.
Dir: Brian G. HuttonvCast: David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Telly Savalas
9:30 AM | The Fugitive (1947)
A revolutionary priest flees a Central American dictatorship.
Dir: John Ford | Cast: Henry Fonda, Pedro Armendariz, J. Carrol Naish
11:30 AM | The Brave One (1956)
A Mexican boy saves his pet bull from death in the bull ring by securing a pardon from the president.
Dir: Irving Rapper | Cast: Michel Ray, Rodolfo Hoyos, Elsa Cardenas
1:15 PM | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Three prospectors fight off bandits and each other after striking it rich in the Mexican mountains.
Dir: John Huston | Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
3:30 PM | The Night of the Iguana (1964)
An ostracized clergyman leads a busload of women on a tour of Mexico and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
Dir: John Huston | Cast: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr
6:00 PM | Under the Volcano (1984)
A day in life of self-destructive British consul on the eve of World War II.
Dir: John Huston | Cast: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews
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8:00 PM | Three Days of the Condor (1975)
A CIA researcher uncovers top secret information and finds himself marked for death.
Dir: Sydney Pollack | Cast: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
10:15 PM | I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, 'Remember This House'.
Dir: Raoul Peck | Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King
12:00 AM | The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927)
Joan of Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy.
Dir: Carl Th. Dreyer | Cast: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Antonin Artaud
1:30 AM | The Last Hurrah (1958)
A political boss faces changing times as he runs for re-election.
Dir: John Ford | Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster
3:45 AM | Night of the Living Dead (1968)
An army of dead bodies comes to life and terrorizes a group of friends trapped inside a rural farmhouse.
Dir: George A. Romero | Cast: Judith O'Dea, Russell Streiner, Duane Jones
5:30 AM | The Tin Drum (1979)
A three-year-old plays a tin drum to help tune out things that annoy him -- even the advent of war.
Dir: Volker Schlöndorff | Cast: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler