TCM Schedule for Thurs, Mar 5, 2026: 31 Days of Oscar (Trains / Southern Locations)
This is an awesome line-up today with a little something for everyone: comedy, drama, noir, war, history ...
DAYTIME (listings EST)
6:00 AM The Narrow Margin (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's moll on a tense train ride.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
7:30 AM Union Pacific (1939)
A crooked politician tries to stop construction of the first intercontinental railroad.
Dir: Cecil B. DeMille Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff
10:00 AM Closely Watched Trains (1966)
A bumbling railroad dispatcher joins the resistance in World War II to impress the girls.
Dir: Jirí Menzel Cast: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský
11:45 AM The Train (1964)
French resistance fighters try to stop the Nazis from stealing a trainload of stolen art.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
2:15 PM Travels with My Aunt (1972)
A stodgy young man gets caught up in his free-living aunt's shady schemes.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Lou Gossett
4:15 PM Brief Encounter (1945)
Two married strangers meet in a train station and fall in love.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
5:45 PM Some Like It Hot (1959)
A pair of bumbling musicians disguise themselves as women to escape mobsters.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
PRIME TIME. LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING
8:00 PM A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
A southern belle tries to build a new life with her sister in New Orleans.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter
10:15 PM Selma (2014)
Docudrama of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
Dir: Ava Duvernay Cast: Charles Black, Clay Chappell, Greg Chandler Maness
12:30 AM To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
A widowed lawyer with two small children defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Dir: Robert Mulligan Cast: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton
2:45 AM Jezebel (1938)
A free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé over vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
4:30 AM The Great Santini (1979)
A marine has problems adjusting to domestic life in peacetime.
Dir: Lewis John Carlino Cast: Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe