TCM Schedule for Tuesday, February 11: 31 Days of Oscar - Best Writing/Troubled Women

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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

12:15 AM These Three (1936)
Scandal destroys the lives of two small-town schoolteachers.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


2:00 AM Skippy (1931)
Boys from opposite sides of the track try to raise money for a dog license.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:45 AM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight year old girl--a quintessential psychopath--kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this "bad seed" to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

31 Days of Oscar: Daytime: Best Writing

6:00 AM The Seventh Veil (1945)
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
Dir: Compton Bennett Cast: James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

8:00 AM Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Vacationers in a French resort town almost kill themselves trying to relax.
Dir: Jacques Tati Cast: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: N

9:30 AM I Vitelloni (1953)
Five friends struggle to escape the boredom of their provincial hometown in Italy.
Dir: Federico Fellini Cast: Alberto Sordi, Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo Trieste
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N

11:30 AM The 400 Blows (1959)
A 12-year-old boy turns to crime to escape family problems.
Dir: François Truffaut Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Guy Decomble, Claire Maurier
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: N

1:15 PM Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Set in the 1920s, two Midwest teenagers fall in love, are frightened by their physical desires and struggle to navigate their feelings of sexual repression.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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3:30 PM The Candidate (1972)
Without a candidate to run for the senate seat against admired Republican Crocker Jarmon, campaign manager Marvin Lucas recruits leftist lawyer Bill McKay. McKay's appearance piques the public's interest, and gradually Lucas pushes McKay toward a more centrist message. As McKay's original and honest platform gets watered down, his popularity increases so much that he is running even with Jarmon as Election Day approaches.
Dir: Michael Ritchie Cast: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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5:30 PM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Runtime: 136 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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31 Days of Oscar: Primetime: Troubled Women

8:00 PM Jezebel (1938)
Julie Marsden has a place in New Orleans society and a man who adores her, Preston Dillard. But she scandalizes society and her beau when she insists on wearing a stunning red gown to a ball that requires ladies to be dressed in white. Marsden's headstrong action begins a chain of events that will reveal both her raw viciousness and the profound depth of her love and sacrifice for Dillard.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Fay Bainter
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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10:00 PM A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
A fading southern belle tries to build a new life with her sister in New Orleans.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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12:15 AM Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The film adaptation of Edward Albee's Broadway play that rips the façade of civility off the dysfunctional marriage between an alcoholic college professor and his shrew of a wife during a dinner party the two host for a young couple.
Dir: Mike Nichols Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Runtime: 131 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

2:45 AM Johnny Belinda (1948)
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

4:45 AM Possessed (1947)
A married woman's passion for a former love drives her mad.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y