TCM Schedule for Tuesday, December 24: Christmas Marathon

[CBHagman]

Time for the Christmas Marathon, and TCM has plenty of favorites plus less familiar holiday fare.

Whatever and however you're celebrating, may the season be peaceful for you.

Now, on with the movies!

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

2:00 AM The Thin Man (1934)
In New York, 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
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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3:45 AM Cover Up (1949)
An insurance investigator smells something wrong when he looks into a small-town suicide.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: William Bendix, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Britton
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

5:15 AM A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:45 AM Three Godfathers (1936)
Three fugitives risk their lives to bring a newborn baby out of the desert to safety.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski Cast: Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y

8:15 AM Big Business (1929)
A quarrel between two Christmas tree salesmen and a potential customer leads to a wave of destruction.
Dir: James W. Horne, Leo McCarey Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
Runtime: 19 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:45 AM Christmas Eve (1947)
To save her fortune, an aging woman must reunite her three adopted sons.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:30 AM Bundle of Joy (1956)
A recently fired shop girl is mistaken for a single mother when she finds an abandoned baby.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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12:15 PM Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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2:15 PM It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Don Defore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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4:15 PM Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:15 PM The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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8:00 PM The Bishop's Wife (1948)
An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
Dir: Henry Koster Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


10:00 PM Room for One More (1952)
New Jersey couple Anna and Poppy Rose adopt several kids born into less fortunate circumstances, including a desperately unhappy 13-year-old girl and a physically handicapped boy with a penchant for getting into serious trouble.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

12:00 AM A Christmas Carol (1938)
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart
Runtime: 69 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

1:30 AM Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
A ghost tries to smooth the way for two young lovers he knew during his lifetime.
Dir: A. Edward Sutherland Cast: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

3:00 AM Hell's Heroes (1930)
Three cowboys risk their lives to get an abandoned baby to civilization.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler
Runtime: 65 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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4:30 AM Kind Lady (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y