TCM Schedule for Friday, Dec 13, 2024: 1930s Women in Trouble / Gregory Peck
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7:00 AM | Numbered Men (1930)
A convict learns that a fellow prisoner has been messing with his woman.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy | Cast: Conrad Nagel, Bernice Claire, Raymond Hackett
8:15 AM | Scarlet Pages (1930)
A female attorney makes a startling discovery about the woman she's defending from murder charges.
Dir: Ray Enright | Cast: Elsie Ferguson, John Halliday, Marion Nixon
9:30 AM | Playing Around (1930)
A tenement girl falls for a smooth con artist.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy | Cast: Alice White, Chester Morris, William Bakewell
10:45 AM | Night Waitress (1936)
A girl just out of prison gets mixed up in murder at the restaurant where she works.
Dir: Lew Landers | Cast: Margot Grahame, Gordon Jones, Vinton Haworth
12:00 PM | Paid (1930)
A young innocent plots revenge after being sent to prison unjustly.
Dir: Sam Wood | Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost
1:30 PM | The Widow From Chicago (1930)
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
Dir: Edward Cline | Cast: Alice White, Neil Hamilton, Edward G. Robinson
2:45 PM | Alias French Gertie (1930)
A female thief poses as a maid to bilk her high-society employers.
Dir: George Archainbaud | Cast: Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Robert Emmett O'Connor
4:00 PM | The Woman Racket (1930)
A policeman must rescue his wife from gangsters.
Dir: Robert Ober | Cast: Tom Moore, Blanche Sweet
5:30 PM | Framed (1930)
A nightclub hostess seeks revenge against a police inspector, yet falls in love with his son.
Dir: George Archainbaud | Cast: Evelyn Brent, Regis Toomey, Ralf Harolde
6:45 PM | Three on a Match (1932)
A woman's childhood friends try to rescue her from gangsters.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy | Cast: Virginia Davis, Joan Blondell, Dawn O'Day
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8:00 PM | MacArthur (1977)
A biography of General Douglas MacArthur.
Dir: Joseph Sargent | Cast: Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ed Flanders
10:30 PM | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
In 1932 Alabama, a widowed lawyer defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Dir: Robert Mulligan | Cast: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton
12:45 AM | Cape Fear (1962)
A released convict wreaks havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson | Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
2:45 AM | Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
The famed 19th century hero defeats enemy fleets and courts an admiral's widow.
Dir: Raoul Walsh | Cast: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty
5:00 AM | The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
As he fights a deadly jungle fever, a hunter remembers his lost loves.
Dir: Henry King | Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner