TCM celebrates this holiday month with a wide variety of film festivals to suit all tastes. With everything from Ma and Pa Kettle to Eric Rohmer in the mix, they'll be no airing of grievances this Festivus! My picks below. All times Eastern. Full schedule Here.
1 Tuesday
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| The great Percy Kilbride and Marjorie Main in Ma and Pa Kettle. |
8:00 PM
On the verge of eviction, the hillbilly family wins a slogan contest and moves into an automated home.
Dir: Charles Lamont Cast: Marjorie Main , Percy Kilbride , Richard Long .
BW-76 mins,
9:30 PM
The hillbilly farmers win a contest and take off for New York City.
Dir: Charles Lamont Cast: Marjorie Main , Percy Kilbride , Richard Long .
BW-79 mins,
11:00 PM
The hillbilly farmers take off in search of uranium.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick Cast: Marjorie Main , Percy Kilbride , Richard Long .
BW-81 mins,
12:30 AM
The Ozark farmers try to clean up their act to help their son win a college scholarship.
Dir: Charles Lamont Cast: Marjorie Main , Percy Kilbride , Alan Mowbray .
BW-80 mins,
2 Wednesday
5:30 PM
A beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Ann Todd , Norman Woland , Ivan Desny .
BW-115 mins, CC,
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| Sinatra does it his way in this TV special from 1965. |
8:00 PM
Frank Sinatra performs many of his classics for a TV audience.
Dir: Dwight Hemion
C-52 mins,
4 Friday
12:30 AM
12:30 AM
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.
Dir: George Roy Hill Cast: Tony Franciosa , Jane Fonda , Jim Hutton .
BW-111 mins, CC,
5 Saturday
5:45 AM
5:45 AM
A juvenile court judge investigates the tragedy of marijuana addiction in this short film.
C-10 mins,
6 Sunday
2:00 AM
A liberal Japanese family pays for its opposition to World War II.
BW-81 mins,
3:30 AM
A schoolteacher struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world and their place in it, despite the fact that she knows of the oncoming war.
Dir: Keisuke Kinoshita Cast: Hideki Goko , Itsuo Wantanabe , Makoto Miyagawa .
BW-156 mins,
7 Monday
6:30 PM
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| Gregg Toland takes the director's chair for December 7th. |
After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. fights to survive the early days of World War II.
Dir: Gregg Toland Cast: Walter Huston , Harry Davenport , Dana Andrews .
BW-82 mins,
11:45 PM
When her mother tries to end her closest friendship, a high school girl plots her murder.
Dir: Peter Jackson Cast: Melanie Lynskey , Kate Winslet , Sarah Peirse .
C-99 mins,
12 Saturday
4:45 AM
4:45 AM
In this short documentary, police officers are trained in the assistance and management of mentally ill and confused persons.
Dir: George C Stoney
BW-32 mins,
4:45 AM
In this short film, a drug dealer seduces a high-school student into drug addiction.
Dir: Mel Marshall Cast: Kevin Tighe , Gerald LeRoy , Julie Conners .
C-29 mins,
13 Sunday
2:30 AM
A young boy comes of age at Christmas in rural Quebec.
Dir: Claude Jutra Cast: Jacques Gagnon , Lyne Champagne , Jean Duceppe .
C-105 mins, Letterbox Format
17 Thursday
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| An early version of the iPhone in Babes in Toyland. |
10:00 PM
The town miser plots to force Mary Quite Contrary to marry him.
Dir: Jack Donohue Cast: Ray Bolger , Tommy Sands , Annette .
C-106 mins,
12:00 AM
A government researcher fights to survive when he's marooned in the Canadian wilderness.
Dir: Carroll Ballard Cast: Charles Martin Smith , Brian Dennehy , Zachary Ittimangnaq .
C-105 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 AM
Walt Disney's photographers capture the wildlife of the Arctic.
Dir: James Algar Cast: Winston Hibler ,
C-72 mins,
3:30 AM
Donald and Goofy are trappers in Antarctica with different approaches.
Dir: Ben Sharpsteen
C-8 mins,
19 Saturday
2:00 AM
In search of his missing wife, a man uncovers a deadly motive for her behavior.
Dir: Andrzej ^D:Zulawski Cast: Isabelle Adjani , Sam Neill , Margit Carstensen .
C-127 mins,
4:15 AM
To escape a war between men and women, a young girl moves into a fantasy world.
Dir: Louis Malle Cast: Cathryn Harrison , Therese Giehse , Joe Dallesandro .
BW-100 mins, Letterbox Format
20 Sunday
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| A Rohmer mini festival on the 20th |
2:30 AM
A young man is snowed in with his best friend's amorous mistress.
Dir: Eric Rohmer Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant , Françoise Fabian , Marie-Christine Barrault .
BW-106 mins,
4:30 AM
A self-absorbed young man fights his attraction to a woman notorious for collecting men.
Dir: Eric Rohmer Cast: Patrick Bauchau , Haydée Politoff , Daniel Pommereulle .
C-82 mins,
21 Monday
11:30 PM
11:30 PM
A young photographer fights to build her career while coping with her best friend's marriage.
Dir: Claudia Weill Cast: Melanie Mayron , Bob Balaban , Eli Wallach .
C-88 mins, CC,
1:30 AM
A young working woman in New York vies with her flighty roommate for a doctor's heart.
Dir: Sidney J. Furie Cast: Jeannie Berlin , Roy Scheider , Rebecca Dianna Smith .
C-113 mins,
3:30 AM
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| DeNiro is electric in Mean Streets. |
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
Dir: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro , Harvey Keitel , David Proval .
C-112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
22 Tuesday
6:00 AM
6:00 AM
A quarrelsome couple discovers their marriage isn't legal.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Carole Lombard , Robert Montgomery , Gene Raymond .
BW-95 mins, CC,
7:45 AM
Newly arrived in Australia, a man discovers his childhood love is now an alcoholic.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid Bergman , Joseph Cotten , Michael Wilding .
C-117 mins, CC,
9:45 AM
An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Jane Wyman , Marlene Dietrich , Michael Wilding .
BW-110 mins, CC,
11:45 AM
A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger , Ruth Roman , Robert Walker .
BW-101 mins, CC,
1:30 PM
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he'd hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland , Grace Kelly , Robert Cummings .
C-105 mins, CC,
3:30 PM
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Henry Fonda , Vera Miles , Anthony Quayle .
BW-105 mins, CC,
5:30 PM
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant , Eva Marie Saint , James Mason .
C-136 mins, CC,
27 Sunday
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
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| Recover from Christmas with classic Sci-Fi on the 27th. |
An alien demands that Earth's leaders choose between peace and destruction.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Michael Rennie , Patricia Neal , Hugh Marlowe .
BW-92 mins, CC,
5:30 PM
England's Henry II and his estranged queen battle over the choice of an heir.
Dir: Anthony Harvey Cast: Peter O'Toole , Katharine Hepburn , Jane Merrow .
C-134 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
2:45 AM
A widowed actress and her children suffer hardships when she mistakenly marries a conservative church leader.
Dir: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Pernilla Allwin , Bertil Guve , Gunn Wallgren .
C-189 mins, Letterbox Format
29 Tuesday
6:30 AM
6:30 AM
A giant octopus attacks San Francisco.
Dir: Robert Gordon Cast: Kenneth Tobey , Faith Domergue , Donald Curtis .
BW-79 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 AM
A crashed spaceship unleashes a rapidly growing monster from Venus.
Dir: Nathan Juran Cast: William Hopper , Joan Taylor , Frank Puglia .
BW-83 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
9:45 AM
Cowboys discover a lost world populated by dinosaurs.
Dir: Jim O'Connolly Cast: James Franciscus , Gila Golan , Richard Carlson .
C-95 mins, Letterbox Format
11:30 AM
A rebellious caveman leaves his tribe in search of a better life.
Dir: Don Chaffey Cast: Raquel Welch , John Richardson , Percy Herbert .
C-100 mins, CC,
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| Chicken riding is a popular sport on Mysterious Island. |
1:15 PM
Escaped Civil War POWs end up on an island populated by giant animals.
Dir: Cy Endfield Cast: Michael Craig , Joan Greenwood , Michael Callan .
C-101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
3:00 PM
Space invaders attack the nation's capital.
Dir: Fred F. Sears Cast: Hugh Marlowe , Joan Taylor , Donald Curtis .
BW-84 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
4:30 PM
Sinbad hunts for a roc's egg to save his love from an evil sorcerer.
Dir: Nathan Juran Cast: Kerwin Mathews , Kathryn Grant , Richard Eyer .
C-88 mins, CC,
31 Thursday
8:15 AM
8:15 AM
While running a hotel in Florida, three clowns get caught up in the search for stolen jewels.
Dir: Joseph Santley Cast: Groucho Marx , Harpo Marx , Chico Marx .
BW-93 mins,
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| Say goodbye to 2015 with a Marx Brothers festival on New Years Eve. |
10:00 AM
A group of zanies tries to save a pretty girl's sanitarium.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Groucho [Marx] , Chico [Marx] , Harpo [Marx] .
BW-109 mins, CC,
12:00 PM
Three zanies turn an operatic performance into chaos in their efforts to promote their protege's romance with the leading lady.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Groucho Marx , Chico Marx , Harpo Marx .
BW-91 mins, CC,
2:00 PM
Three zanies try to recover a stolen painting during a madcap house party.
Dir: Victor Heerman Cast: Groucho Marx , Harpo Marx , Chico Marx .
BW-97 mins, CC,
4:00 PM
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
Dir: Norman McLeod Cast: Groucho Marx , Harpo Marx , Chico Marx .
BW-78 mins, CC,
5:30 PM
In an effort to beef up his school's football team, a college president mistakenly recruits two loonies.
Dir: Norman McLeod Cast: Groucho Marx , Harpo Marx , Chico Marx .
BW-67 mins, CC,
6:45 PM
When he's named dictator of Freedonia, a con artist declares war on the neighboring kingdom.
Dir: Leo McCarey Cast: Groucho Marx , Harpo Marx , Chico Marx .
BW-69 mins, CC,
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