TCM Schedule for Monday September 2, 2024 -Star of the Month: Lauren Bacall
Plus: daytime is all about life at the crowbar hotel.
(all times Eastern)
6:15 AM His Greatest Gamble (1934)
1h 12m | Drama | TV-G
A convicted killer breaks out of jail to help his mother-dominated daughter.
Director: John Robertson. Cast: Richard Dix, Dorothy Wilson, Bruce Cabot
7:30 AM Red Hot Tires (1935)
1h 1m | Drama | TV-G
A race-car driver wrongly convicted of murder escapes prison to prove his innocence.
Director: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Lyle Talbot, Mary Astor, Roscoe Karns
8:45 AM Bad Guy (1937)
1h 9m | Drama | TV-G
A man convinces his brother to bust him out of prison.
Director: Edward Cahn. Cast: Bruce Cabot, Virginia Grey, Edward Norris
10:00 AM Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
1h 28m | Crime | TV-G
A young misfit lands on a prison chain gang and falls for the foreman's daughter.
Director: Lewis Seiler. Cast: John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale
11:30 AM They Live by Night (1948)
1h 35m | Crime | TV-PG
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Director: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
1:15 PM Brute Force (1947)
1h 38m | Crime | TV-14
Tough, disgruntled prisoners plan a daring, possibly bloody escape while on a drain pipe detail.
Director: Jules Dassin. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
3:00 PM The Big House (1930)
1h 20m | Crime | TV-PG
An attempted prison break leads to a riot.
Director: George Hill. Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
4:30 PM Public Hero No. 1 (1935)
1h 29m | Drama | TV-G
An undercover G-man helps with a jailbreak to learn the mob's secrets.
Director: J. Walter Ruben. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris
6:15 PM Each Dawn I Die (1939)
1h 32m | Crime | TV-PG
A crusading reporter becomes a hardened convict when he's framed.
Director: William Keighley. Cast: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
8:00 PM Woman's World (1954)
1h 34m | Drama | TV-G
An executive plans to fill a high-ranking position by interviewing the candidates' wives.
Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Cornel Wilde
10:00 PM How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
1h 35m | Comedy | TV-G
Three models of modest means rent an expensive Manhattan penthouse apartment and pose as women of wealth as part of an elaborate scheme to snare rich husbands.
Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall
12:00 AM Designing Woman (1957)
1h 58m | Comedy | TV-G
A sportswriter and a fashion designer have a lot of adjusting to do when they marry in haste.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray
2:15 AM Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
1h 54m | Comedy | TV-PG
A nosy smut magazine editor wishes to find out whether a novelist has based her erotic novel on fact or fiction.
Director: Richard Quine. Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda
4:15 AM Young Man with a Horn (1950)
1h 52m | Romance | TV-PG
A young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a manipulative heiress.
Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day