TCM Schedule for Monday December 12, 2022 - Directors' Final Films

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The day starts with some stars behind bars, before more directorial swan songs.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am San Quentin (1946)
1h 6m | Drama | TV-PG
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners.
Director: Gordon M. Douglas. Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Marian Carr, Barton Maclane

7:15 am Cool Hand Luke (1967)
2h 9m | Drama | TV-14
A free-spirited convict refuses to conform to chain-gang life.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg. Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon

9:30 am Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
2h 23m | Drama | TV-PG
True story of Robert Stroud, the prison lifer who became an expert on birds.
Director: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter

12:00 pm Miracles for Sale (1939)
1h 11m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
A magician turns detective to investigate murder and a phony seance.
Director: Tod Browning. Cast: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven

1:45 pm Lola Montes (1955)
2h 20m | Romance | TV-14
When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves
Director: Max Ophuls. Cast: Martine Carol, Anton Walbrook, Peter Ustinov

4:00 pm Five Days One Summer (1982)
1h 48m | Drama
In 1932, a middle-aged Scottish doctor named Douglas goes on a mountain climbing excursion with the lovely, young Kate, whom he introduces as his wife. In fact, Kate is the doctor's niece, and has been in love with him since she was a little girl.
Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Sean Connery, Betsy Brantley, Lambert Wilson

6:00 pm Confidentially Yours (1983)
1h 51m | Adaptation | TV-PG
An accused man's secretary tries to find the real killer.
Director: Francois Truffault. Cast: Fanny Ardant, Jean-louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach

8:00 pm A Passage to India (1984)
2h 43m | Epic | TV-PG
A false rape charge threatens British-Indian relations.
Director: David Lean. Cast: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft

11:00 pm Blue Sky (1994)
1h 41m | Drama | TV-MA
A military family is forced to transfer to a new military base where they become the victims of a nuclear bomb testing cover-up.
Director: Tony Richardson. Cast: Jessica lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe

1:00 am A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
1h 47m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A double agent has to take out an enemy spy who's really himself.
Director: Jimmy Komisarjevsky. Cast: Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow

3:00 am That Lady in Ermine (1948)
1h 29m | Comedy | TV-G
A newlywed countess falls for a Hungarian invader.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks, Cesar Romero

4:45 am The Human Factor (1980)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-14
A diplomat is suspected of being a double agent.
Director: Otto Preminger. Cast: Nicol Williamson, Richard Attenborough, Derek Jacobi