TCM Schedule for Wednesday, February 26: 31 Days of Oscar - Best Sound/Nuns and Priests

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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

12:30 AM Lili (1953)
A French orphan gets a job with a carnival puppet show.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean Pierre Aumont
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 AM The Broadway Melody (1929)
Love and success break up a vaudeville sister act.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:45 AM The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
The larger-than-life career of stage genius Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. is aptly celebrated in this marvelous musical biography.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
Runtime: 180 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:45 AM The Sunshine Boys (1975)
A feuding comedy team reunites for a television comeback.
Dir: Herbert Ross Cast: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

31 Days of Oscar - Best Sound

8:45 AM Topper Returns (1941)
A beautiful ghost enlists a henpecked husband to track down her killer.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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10:15 AM The Gay Divorcee (1934)
A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

12:15 PM San Francisco (1936)
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the big earthquake.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-G CC: Y

2:15 PM Grand Prix (1966)
Story follows the loves and lives of various auto racers as they make their way around the European racing circuit.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand
Runtime: 179 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

5:15 PM The Great Race (1965)
Mayhem and double-crossing abound as some zany professional racers go up against each other in a 1908 cross-continental road race from New York to Paris.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon
Runtime: 160 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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31 Days of Oscar - Nuns and Priests

8:00 PM Going My Way (1944)
A young priest revitalizes a failing parish and brings new life to the elder priest.
Dir: Leo McCarey Cast: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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10:15 PM Dead Man Walking (1995)
A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.
Dir: Tim Robbins Cast: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC:

12:30 AM On the Waterfront (1954)
An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims. Based on a series of Pulitzer prize-winning newspaper articles.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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2:30 AM Boys Town (1938)
True story of Father Flanagan's fight to build a home for orphaned boys.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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4:15 AM The Nun's Story (1959)
A young nun is sent to do nursing work in the Belgian Congo, but soon begins to doubt her vows and question a life with the Convent, and instead joins the underground resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Dame Edith Evans
Runtime: 149 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y