TCM Schedule for Tuesday, December 31: The Thin Man Series/New Year's Eve in the Story

[CBHagman]

May the last day of 2024 be kind to you and yours.

If you want to put on sophisticated clothes, sip cocktails, and trade quips like Nick and Nora, have at it, but get home safely. If you want to play cards with your new love, do so. If you want to put on a bathrobe and drink hot cocoa and watch movies, that's fine, too.

Happy New Year!

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

12:15 AM The Rules of the Game (1939)
Aviator Roland Toutain addresses a radio audience from the tarmac, lamenting the absence of his lover, to whom he dedicated his flight. Unfortunately she's Nora Gregor, wife of Marquis Marcel Dalio, who's got mistress troubles of his own.
Dir: Jean Renoir Cast: Roland Toutain, Marcel Dalio, Jean Renoir
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: N

2:15 AM Ten Little Indians (1966)
Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

4:00 AM House on Haunted Hill (1958)
The owner of a supposedly haunted mansion offers $10,000 to anyone dumb enough to attempt to spend the night there.
Dir: William Castle Cast: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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5:30 AM The Exterminating Angel (1962)
High society guests find themselves unable to leave the dining room after a posh dinner party.
Dir: Luis Buñuel Cast: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N

7:15 AM Judex (1963)
Remake of a silent serial concerning the adventures of a mysterious, pulp avenger.
Dir: Georges Franju Cast: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: N

9:15 AM The Thin Man (1934)
In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

11:00 AM After the Thin Man (1936)
Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora's cousin of a murder charge.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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1:00 PM Another Thin Man (1939)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

2:45 PM Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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4:30 PM The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:15 PM Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Dir: Edward Buzzell Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

What's on Tonight: New Year's Eve in the Story

8:00 PM The Apartment (1960)
An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:15 PM Bundle of Joy (1956)
A recently fired shop girl is mistaken for a single mother when she finds an abandoned baby.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

12:15 AM Repeat Performance (1947)
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
Dir: Alfred Werker Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

2:00 AM Trading Places (1983)
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Dir: John Landis Cast: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC:

4:15 AM Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N

[Bobstandard]

1. My wife an I tried going drink for drink with Nick and Nora

It didn’t work out well.

[elleng]

2. 2:00 AM Trading Places (1983) !!!

A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Dir: John Landis Cast: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: