Friday, January 24, 2014

TCM for February 2014



February is short on days but long on great classics! My picks below. Full schedule HERE. All times Eastern.

2/1

10:00 AM
A coldhearted Soviet agent is warmed up by a trip to Paris and a night of love.
BW-110 mins, TV-G, CC,

2:00 PM
A group of disparate passengers battle personal demons and each other while racing through Indian country.
BW-96 mins, TV-G, CC,

Gone With The Wind  Everybody should see it once. I guess.


10:00 PM
Classic tale of Scarlett O'Hara's battle to save her beloved Tara and find love during the Civil War.
C-233 mins, TV-PG, CC,

2/2

10:00 AM

A free-living New Yorker fights to maintain custody of his nephew.
BW-118 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

12:15 PM
A small town teacher tries to overcome her shyness.
C-101 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

2:15 PM
Naval officers begin to suspect their captain of insanity.
C-125 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

Spellbound is overrated, but worth seeing.


2:15 AM
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC,

2/3


2:30 PM
A simple country girl is torn between the honest farmer who loves her and a corrupt nobleman.
C-171 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
In 12th-century Japan, a heroic officer pursues a married woman.
C-86 mins, TV-PG,


2/4


6:45 AM

A traveling strongman buys a peasant girl to be his wife and co-star.
BW-108 mins, TV-PG,

8:45 AM
A Japanese musician keeps up the spirits of his fellow soldiers as they flee Burma during World War II.
BW-116 mins, TV-PG,

The Virgin Spring is a light, breezy comedy. Not.


10:45 AM
A medieval knight seeks revenge when his daughter is murdered.
BW-89 mins, TV-14,

12:15 PM
A bumbling railroad dispatcher joins the resistance in World War II to impress the girls.
C-93 mins, TV-14,

1:45 PM
Algiers revolts against the French Foreign Legion.
BW-121 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
3:45 PM

A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
C-127 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

6:00 PM
A French refugee in Denmark transforms the lives of the elderly women for whom she works.
C-103 mins, TV-PG,

2/5

Jim Brown about to kick some Nazi ass in The Dirty Dozen

1:00 PM
A renegade officer trains a group of misfits for a crucial mission behind enemy lines.
C-150 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

3:30 PM
A young man comes of age when he stows away in his grandfather's stolen car.
C-111 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

5:30 PM
An American pioneer raised by Indians ends up fighting alongside General Custer.
C-140 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 PM
Three returning servicemen fight to adjust to life after World War II.
BW-170 mins, TV-PG, CC,


2/6


8:00 PM

An academic couple reveal their deepest secret to a pair of newcomers during an all-night booze fest.
BW-131 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

10:30 PM
A misfit fights for happiness in the world of swinging London.
BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC,

12:30 AM
 n eccentric artist wages an all-out campaign to stop his ex-wife from remarrying.
BW-97 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

A Man and a Woman. Don't try to walk down Champs-Élysées today. You'll get run over.

2:15 AM
A widow and a widower find a special bond at their childrens' boarding school.
C-103 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format


2/8


10:30 AM
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC,

12:15 PM
Three generations of pioneers take part in the forging of the American West.
C-165 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

3:15 PM
A naval officer longing for active duty clashes with his vainglorious captain.
C-121 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


2/9


6:45 AM

A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC,

Like Downton Abbey? You'll love Remains of the Day.

2:30 PM
A proper British butler sacrifices happiness to remain faithful to his position.
C-134 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM
A false rape charge threatens British-Indian relations.
C-164 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


2/12


11:15 AM

A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.
C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

1:45 PM
Two mothers, one white, one black, face problems with their rebellious daughters.
C-125 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:00 PM
A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill by the enemy.
BW-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 AM
The friendship between distant cousins makes their spouses jealous.
C-96 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format

Autumn Sonata gets better with every viewing.

2/13


1:30 PM

A concert pianist faces the daughters she's neglected for years.
C-93 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format


10:00 PM
A British family struggles to survive the first days of World War II.
BW-134 mins, TV-G, CC,

2/18


8:00 AM

A young French couple is separated by the war in Algiers.
C-91 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

12:00 AM
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

2:30 AM
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
BW-161 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:30 AM
A headstrong girl fights the strictures of the Catholic church in Europe and the Belgian Congo.
C-152 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


Peter O'Toole at his best in The Stunt Man

2/20

3:00 AM
A man on the run joins an embattled film company run by a maniacal director.
C-131 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format

5:15 AM
A flamboyant star throws a TV comedy show into chaos.
C-92 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


2/22

3:30 AM
Three prospectors fight off bandits and each other after striking-it-rich in the Mexican mountains.
BW-126 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2/24

10:15 AM
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
BW-134 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

Great vistas of Monument Valley in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

12:30 PM
An aging Cavalry officer tries to prevent an Indian war in the last days before his retirement.
C-104 mins, TV-PG, CC,

2:45 AM
Changing times take their toll on high schoolers growing up in a small Western town.
BW-126 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

4:45 AM
A hairdresser expresses his fear of commitment by seducing his female clients.
C-110 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format


2/26

6:00 PM
Two American journalists get more than they'd bargained for during an Indonesian revolution.
C-115 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

Butterfield 8 Liz always looked her best in a slip carrying a cocktail.
2/27

2:00 PM
A party girl ruins her life when she falls for a married man.
C-109 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:00 PM
A widow tries to get her daughter to safety in World War II Italy.
BW-96 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

6:00 PM
A headstrong young teacher in a private school ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable charges with her world view.
C-116 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


TCM for February 2014



February is short on days but long on great classics! My picks below. Full schedule HERE. All times Eastern.

2/1

10:00 AM
A coldhearted Soviet agent is warmed up by a trip to Paris and a night of love.
BW-110 mins, TV-G, CC,

2:00 PM
A group of disparate passengers battle personal demons and each other while racing through Indian country.
BW-96 mins, TV-G, CC,

Gone With The Wind  Everybody should see it once. I guess.


10:00 PM
Classic tale of Scarlett O'Hara's battle to save her beloved Tara and find love during the Civil War.
C-233 mins, TV-PG, CC,

2/2

10:00 AM

A free-living New Yorker fights to maintain custody of his nephew.
BW-118 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

12:15 PM
A small town teacher tries to overcome her shyness.
C-101 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

2:15 PM
Naval officers begin to suspect their captain of insanity.
C-125 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

Spellbound is overrated, but worth seeing.


2:15 AM
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC,

2/3


2:30 PM
A simple country girl is torn between the honest farmer who loves her and a corrupt nobleman.
C-171 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
In 12th-century Japan, a heroic officer pursues a married woman.
C-86 mins, TV-PG,


2/4


6:45 AM

A traveling strongman buys a peasant girl to be his wife and co-star.
BW-108 mins, TV-PG,

8:45 AM
A Japanese musician keeps up the spirits of his fellow soldiers as they flee Burma during World War II.
BW-116 mins, TV-PG,

The Virgin Spring is a light, breezy comedy. Not.


10:45 AM
A medieval knight seeks revenge when his daughter is murdered.
BW-89 mins, TV-14,

12:15 PM
A bumbling railroad dispatcher joins the resistance in World War II to impress the girls.
C-93 mins, TV-14,

1:45 PM
Algiers revolts against the French Foreign Legion.
BW-121 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
3:45 PM

A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
C-127 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

6:00 PM
A French refugee in Denmark transforms the lives of the elderly women for whom she works.
C-103 mins, TV-PG,

2/5

Jim Brown about to kick some Nazi ass in The Dirty Dozen

1:00 PM
A renegade officer trains a group of misfits for a crucial mission behind enemy lines.
C-150 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

3:30 PM
A young man comes of age when he stows away in his grandfather's stolen car.
C-111 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

5:30 PM
An American pioneer raised by Indians ends up fighting alongside General Custer.
C-140 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 PM
Three returning servicemen fight to adjust to life after World War II.
BW-170 mins, TV-PG, CC,


2/6


8:00 PM

An academic couple reveal their deepest secret to a pair of newcomers during an all-night booze fest.
BW-131 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

10:30 PM
A misfit fights for happiness in the world of swinging London.
BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC,

12:30 AM
 n eccentric artist wages an all-out campaign to stop his ex-wife from remarrying.
BW-97 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

A Man and a Woman. Don't try to walk down Champs-Élysées today. You'll get run over.

2:15 AM
A widow and a widower find a special bond at their childrens' boarding school.
C-103 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format


2/8


10:30 AM
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC,

12:15 PM
Three generations of pioneers take part in the forging of the American West.
C-165 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

3:15 PM
A naval officer longing for active duty clashes with his vainglorious captain.
C-121 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


2/9


6:45 AM

A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC,

Like Downton Abbey? You'll love Remains of the Day.

2:30 PM
A proper British butler sacrifices happiness to remain faithful to his position.
C-134 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM
A false rape charge threatens British-Indian relations.
C-164 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


2/12


11:15 AM

A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.
C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

1:45 PM
Two mothers, one white, one black, face problems with their rebellious daughters.
C-125 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:00 PM
A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill by the enemy.
BW-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 AM
The friendship between distant cousins makes their spouses jealous.
C-96 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format

Autumn Sonata gets better with every viewing.

2/13


1:30 PM

A concert pianist faces the daughters she's neglected for years.
C-93 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format


10:00 PM
A British family struggles to survive the first days of World War II.
BW-134 mins, TV-G, CC,

2/18


8:00 AM

A young French couple is separated by the war in Algiers.
C-91 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

12:00 AM
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

2:30 AM
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
BW-161 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:30 AM
A headstrong girl fights the strictures of the Catholic church in Europe and the Belgian Congo.
C-152 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


Peter O'Toole at his best in The Stunt Man

2/20

3:00 AM
A man on the run joins an embattled film company run by a maniacal director.
C-131 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format

5:15 AM
A flamboyant star throws a TV comedy show into chaos.
C-92 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


2/22

3:30 AM
Three prospectors fight off bandits and each other after striking-it-rich in the Mexican mountains.
BW-126 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2/24

10:15 AM
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
BW-134 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

Great vistas of Monument Valley in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

12:30 PM
An aging Cavalry officer tries to prevent an Indian war in the last days before his retirement.
C-104 mins, TV-PG, CC,

2:45 AM
Changing times take their toll on high schoolers growing up in a small Western town.
BW-126 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

4:45 AM
A hairdresser expresses his fear of commitment by seducing his female clients.
C-110 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format


2/26

6:00 PM
Two American journalists get more than they'd bargained for during an Indonesian revolution.
C-115 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

Butterfield 8 Liz always looked her best in a slip carrying a cocktail.
2/27

2:00 PM
A party girl ruins her life when she falls for a married man.
C-109 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:00 PM
A widow tries to get her daughter to safety in World War II Italy.
BW-96 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

6:00 PM
A headstrong young teacher in a private school ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable charges with her world view.
C-116 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


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