TCM Schedule for Thurs, Feb 27, 2025: 31 Days of Oscar - Day 27
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7:00 AM | Speedy (1928)
A man helps his girlfriend save the family trolley business.
Dir: Ted Wilde | Cast: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff
8:30 AM | Romance (1930)
An opera singer leaves her wealthy lover for a priest.
Dir: Clarence Brown | Cast: Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Gavin Gordon
10:00 AM | The Informer (1935)
In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.
Dir: John Ford | Cast: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster
12:00 PM | Kitty Foyle (1940)
A girl endures heartbreak when she falls for a high-society boy.
Dir: Sam Wood | Cast: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig
2:00 PM | Random Harvest (1942)
A woman's happiness is threatened by her husband's amnesia.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy | Cast: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn
4:15 PM | The Southerner (1945)
A sharecropper fights the elements to start his own farm.
Dir: Jean Renoir | Cast: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish
6:00 PM | East of Eden (1955)
Film adaptation of Steinbeck's classic about a 1917 California farm family.
Dir: Elia Kazan | Cast: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey
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8:00 PM | Gandhi (1982)
Biographical epic on the life of Mohandas K Gandhi.
Dir: Richard Attenborough | Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud
11:30 PM | The Iron Lady (2011)
Portrait of the first and only female Prime Minster of the United Kingdom.
Dir: Phyllida Lloyd | Cast: Ian Cooper, Peter Hallam, Danny Hambrook
1:30 AM | Quo Vadis (1951)
A Roman commander falls for a Christian slave girl.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy | Cast: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn
4:30 AM | Conquest (1937)
A Polish countess sacrifices her virtue to Napoleon to save her homeland.
Dir: Clarence Brown | Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen