TCM Schedule for Monday November 18, 2024 - Greta Garbo
Daytime showcases films with Cold War themes.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 AM The Whip Hand (1951)
1h 22m | Adventure | TV-PG
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
Director: William Cameron Menzies. Cast: Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier
7:30 AM The Journey (1959)
2h 3m | Drama | TV-PG
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
Director: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards Jr.
10:00 AM The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
2h 42m | Epic | TV-PG
A Russian man, released from a Siberian prison after 20 years, takes a strong religious stance against the world's problems, including nuclear war, and becomes elected Pope.
Director: Michael Anderson. Cast: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner
1:00 PM Ice Station Zebra (1968)
2h 28m | Adventure | TV-PG
A sub commander on a perilous mission must ferret out a Soviet agent on his ship.
Director: John Sturges. Cast: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan
3:30 PM Seven Days in May (1964)
1h 58m | Drama | TV-14
In the near future, the President of the United States discovers a miltary coup is being plotted by one of his Joint Chiefs and must find a way to dismantle it.
Director: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
5:30 PM The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)
2h 6m | Comedy | TV-G
When a Russian sub runs aground in New England, it creates a local panic.
Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin
8:00 PM Garbo (2005)
1h 25m | Documentary | TV-PG
Documentary that explores the life and career of screen legend Greta Garbo.
Director: Christopher Bird, Kevin Brownlow. Cast: Julie Christie, Greta Garbo, Charles Busch
9:45 PM Grand Hotel (1932)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
The lives of the denizens of the Grand Hotel intertwine: a lonely ballerina, a noble thief, an ambitious stenographer, a dying man on a last fling and a ruthless industrialist.
Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
11:45 PM Ninotchka (1939)
1h 50m | Comedy | TV-G
A coldhearted Soviet agent is warmed up by a trip to Paris and a night of love.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire
1:45 AM A Woman of Affairs (1928)
1h 30m | Silent | TV-PG
Prejudice keeps a free spirit from the man she loves, triggering a series of tragedies.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone
3:30 AM Camille (1937)
1h 48m | Romance | TV-PG
In this classic 19th-century romance, a kept woman runs off with a young admirer in search of love and happiness.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
5:30 AM Anna Christie (1930)
1h 29m | Drama | TV-PG
Eugene O'Neill's classic about a romantic prostitute trying to run away from her past.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion