TCM Schedule for Tuesday, October 29: TCM Spotlight: Period Films
Chivalry! Revolution! Scandal! TCM has all three and more in its final installment of Period Films.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
12:00 AM Les Girls (1957)
Three showgirls recall different versions of their time together touring Europe.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:00 AM Designing Woman (1957)
A sportswriter and a fashion designer have a lot of adjusting to do when they marry in haste.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:00 AM Kismet (1955)
In this Arabian Nights musical, the "king of the beggars" infiltrates high society when his daughter is wooed by a handsome prince.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
6:00 AM The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
A British aristocrat's effete facade masks a swashbuckling hero rescuing victims of the French revolution.
Dir: Harold Young Cast: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y
7:45 AM A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
A British lawyer sacrifices himself to save another man from the guillotine.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allen, Edna May Oliver
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
10:00 AM Anthony Adverse (1936)
An orphan runs off to a life of adventure, then returns to France in search of the girl he left behind.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Fredric March, Olivia De Havilland, Donald Woods
Runtime: 136 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-G CC: Y
12:30 PM Beau Brummell (1954)
An English Don Juan courts the Prince of Wales' favor while romancing his way through society.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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2:30 PM Quentin Durward (1955)
A gallant Scots knight falls in love with his uncle's future wife.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:15 PM The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Louis Calhern
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
6:00 PM Ivanhoe (1952)
King Richard the Lion Hearted is being held for ransom by the King of Austria, and his evil brother, John, conspires to take the throne. But while Robin of Locksley fights as Robin Hood, another man, Ivanhoe, risks everything for his king - and for the honor of Rebecca, the woman he loves.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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8:00 PM Knights of the Round Table (1953)
Lancelot, banished from King Arthur's court for loving Queen Guinevere, returns to defeat the evil Mordred.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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10:15 PM The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The bandit king of Sherwood Forest leads his Merry Men in a battle against the corrupt Prince John.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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12:15 AM Forever Amber (1947)
In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene
Runtime: 140 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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2:45 AM The Three Musketeers (1973)
A country boy joins the famed musketeers and fights to protect the queen's name.
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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4:45 AM Hollywood Without Make-Up (1966)
In this special, Ken Murray hosts his own behind-the-scenes home movies of some of Hollywood's greatest stars.
Dir: Rudy Behlmer Cast: Ken Murray
Runtime: 50 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y