TCM Schedule for Monday November 25, 2024 - Before They Were Stars

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Daytime features 50's blondes, while prime time has early roles from the likes of Sean Penn, Tom Cruise, and Julia Roberts.

(all times Eastern)

6:15 AM The Naked and the Dead (1958)
2h 11m | War | TV-PG
A green lieutenant comes up against incompetent officers and a sadistic sergeant during World War II.
Director: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson, Raymond Massey

8:45 AM The Unholy Wife (1957)
1h 34m | Crime | TV-PG
An ambitious beauty marries a vintner, then falls for one of his workers.
Director: John Farrow. Cast: Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon

10:30 AM Born Reckless (1959)
1h 20m | Drama | TV-PG
A saloon singer falls in love with a free roaming rider and tries to change his lifestyle.
Director: Howard W. Koch. Cast: Mamie Van Doren, Jeff Richards, Arthur Hunnicutt

12:00 PM Illegal (1955)
1h 28m | Crime | TV-PG
A DA falls apart when his machinations send an innocent man to the chair.
Director: Lewis Allen. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe

1:45 PM Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
1h 59m | Drama | TV-PG
A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.
Director: Charles Martin. Cast: George Sanders, Yvonne De Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor

4:00 PM And God Created Woman (1956)
1h 30m | Drama | TV-PG
A young woman loves one brother but marries the other.
Director: Roger Vadim. Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Curt Jurgens

5:45 PM Some Like It Hot (1959)
2h | Comedy | TV-PG
Two musicians on the run from gangsters masquerade as members of an all-girl band.
Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

8:00 PM Taps (1981)
2h 6m | Drama | TV-14
The young cadets at a military academy stage an uprising and seige control of the campus, when they find out their treasured school is to be closed down and sold off to developers.
Director: Harold Becker. Cast: George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, Sean Penn

10:15 PM Mystic Pizza (1988)
1h 44m | Comedy | TV-MA
Three waitresses develop romantic relationships, which help them better understand their own friendships with each other.
Director: Donald Petrie. Cast: Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor

12:15 AM Dead Calm (1989)
1h 36m | Thriller | TV-14
After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae are spending some time isolated at sea, when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.
Director: Phillip Noyce. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane

2:00 AM Splendor in the Grass (1961)
2h 4m | Drama | TV-14
Set in the 1920s, two Midwest teenagers fall in love, are frightened by their physical desires and struggle to navigate their feelings of sexual repression.
Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle

4:15 AM Gaslight (1944)
1h 54m | Suspense | TV-PG
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten

[CBHagman]

1. Mystic Pizza is always watchable.

I like the story of women friends who find there are no easy answers as life comes at them, and I think the ensemble works, especially Conchata Ferrell as the queen of the pizza parlor and Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio as Lili Taylor's fisherman on-again/off-again fiance.