TCM Schedule for Wednesday, November 26: Director George Cukor/Spotlight: Political Thrillers

[CBHagman]

Laugh, cry, bite your nails from the suspense: Today's TCM schedule has something for everyone.

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Star of the Month: Rock Hudson (continued)

12:00 AM Send Me No Flowers (1964)
A man mistakenly thinks he's dying of an illness, so he tries to set up his wife with another man.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 AM Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
A sporting goods salesman who knows nothing about fishing must enter an angling contest.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: N


4:15 AM Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
A young man's first sexual explorations are threatened by a string of murders.
Dir: Roger Vadim Cast: Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC:

TCM Daytime: Director George Cukor

6:00 AM What Price Hollywood? (1932)
A drunken director whose career is fading helps a waitress become a Hollywood star.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

7:45 AM Camille (1937)
In this classic 19th-century romance, a kept woman runs off with a young admirer in search of love and happiness.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

9:45 AM Little Women (1933)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

11:45 AM The Women (1939)
It's all about men! In the eternal battle between the sexes, one side holds an overwhelming advantage: Armed with razor-sharp wit and wielding gossip as a weapon, victory can only go to The Women. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell enter the skirmish as Mary Haines, Crystal Allen and Sylvia Fowler - whose battlegrounds are the beauty parlor and fashion-show runway. The engagement begins when Mary's husband takes up with shop girl Crystal, and scandalmonger Sylvia gives Mary advice that quickly results in divorce - but that is only the opening salvo in this cracklingly sharp, classic comedy.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
Runtime: 132 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

2:15 PM The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Socialite Tracy Lord is getting married, and an honest reporter is there to get the story. It's a dull assignment until Tracy's ex-husband shows up, with a thirst for alcohol and a not-quite extinguished torch for his lovely one-time wife.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

4:15 PM Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
A flirt tries to make her fiance jealous by hiring a gigolo.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, George Sanders
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

6:00 PM A Woman's Face (1941)
Plastic surgery gives a scarred female criminal a new outlook on life.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

TCM Primetime: Spotlight: Political Thrillers

8:00 PM The China Syndrome (1979)
A TV reporter investigates the goings on in a shoddy nuclear power plant and ends up against more than she bargained for.
Dir: James Bridges Cast: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Lewis Arquette
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

10:15 PM All the President's Men (1976)
Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's investigation of a seemingly minor hotel room break-in uncovers the greatest political scandal in United States history and leads to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards Jr.
Runtime: 138 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

12:45 AM No Way Out (1987)
When the young mistress of the Secretary of Defense is found murdered, a young Naval officer, who was her secret lover, must uncover the truth behind the crime before his affair with her is discovered and he becomes the fall guy in what appears to be a high-ranking conspiracy.
Dir: Roger Donaldson Cast: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-MA CC:

3:00 AM Winter Kills (1979)
An assassinated president's brother investigates the unsolved crime.
Dir: William Richert Cast: Jeff Bridges, Anthony Perkins, John Huston
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-MA CC: N

5:00 AM Rollover (1981)
Lee Winters is a former movie star who inherited her husband's multi-million dollar company when he was murdered. Lee is working with her banker to find her husband's killer, and the two become lovers. The couple go to Saudi Arabia to get a loan, and to secure Lee's role as chairman of the company's board. When they arrive in the country, the find out about a Saudi company's plot to destabilize the Western economy by pulling their money out of banks all over the world.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Hume Cronyn
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC:

[Auggie]

1. Excellent lineup