TCM Schedule for Thursday, April 18, 2024: Romantic Complications / 30 Years of TCM
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6:00 AM | Three Faces East (1930)
During World War I, a female agent tries to unmask a German spy.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth | Cast: Constance Bennett, Erich Von Stroheim, Anthony Bushell
7:15 AM | The Animal Kingdom (1932)
A publisher can't choose between his society wife and his free-thinking former love.
Dir: Edward H. Griffith | Cast: Ann Harding, Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy
8:45 AM | The Man in Possession (1931)
An out-of-luck heiress falls for the man appointed to dispose of her property.
Dir: Sam Wood | Cast: Robert Montgomery, Charlotte Greenwood, Irene Purcell
10:15 AM | Irene (1940)
An Irish shop girl falls in love with a high-society boy.
Dir: Herbert Wilcox | Cast: Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, Roland Young
12:00 PM | Four's a Crowd (1938)
A publicist falls for his most difficult client's daughter.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Rosalind Russell
1:45 PM | Make Your Own Bed (1944)
Detectives masquerade as a butler and maid to get the goods on a crook.
Dir: Peter Godfrey | Cast: Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Irene Manning
3:15 PM | The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
Dir: Stephen Roberts | Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
4:45 PM | Personal Property (1937)
The bailiff charged with disposing of a financially strapped widow's estate pretends to be her butler.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II | Cast: Jean Harlow, Robert Taylor, Reginald Owen
6:15 PM | Merrily We Live (1938)
A society matron's habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants leads to romance for her daughter.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod | Cast: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray
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8:00 PM | The Thin Man (1934)
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
9:45 PM | Killer's Kiss (1955)
Film Noir crime thriller: a washed-up boxer intervenes between a woman and her jealous, violent lover.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick | Cast: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane
Trivia: Second feature film directed by Stanley Kubrick
11:00 PM | Real Life (1979)
A film crew sets out to record a year in the life of an average family, but things quickly start going wrong.
Dir: Albert Brooks | Cast: Dick Haymes, Albert Brooks, Matthew Tobin
1:00 AM | Zelig (1983)
Leonard Zelig, the "human chameleon", is profiled in this mock-documentary.
Dir: Woody Allen | Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Will Holt
2:30 AM | Simon (1980)
Scientists brainwash a man into believing he's from outer space.
Dir: Marshall Brickman | Cast: Alan Arkin, Madeline Kahn, Austin Pendleton
4:15 AM | Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989)
A series of adventures, mishaps and practical jokes is set in motion when Penn Jillette publicly states he wishes someone would try to kill him in order to add excitement to his life.
Dir: Arthur Penn | Cast: Caitlin Clarke, Eddie Gorodetsky, Avanti Taylor