TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 5 - 31 Days of Oscar continues - Dustin Hoffman night

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12:15 AM Midnight Express (1978)
2h 1m | Drama | TV-MA
On October 6, 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport, American Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is caught attempting to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of the country, the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the person who sold him the hashish. Billy's troubles really begin when after that assistance, he makes a run for it and is recaptured. He is initially sentenced to just over four years for possession, with no time for the more harsh crime of smuggling. The prison environment is inhospitable in every sense, with a sadistic prison guard named Hamidou (Paul L. Smith) ruling the prison, he who relishes the mental and physical torture he inflicts on the prisoners for whatever reason. Told to trust no one, Billy does befriend a few of the other inmates, namely fellow American Jimmy Booth (Randy Quaid) (in for stealing two candlesticks from a mosque), a Swede named Erich (Norbert Weisser), and one of the senior prisoners having already served seven years, an Englishman named Max (Sir John Hurt), the latter two also in for hashish-related charges.
Director Alan Parker
Cast Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt

2:30 AM The Omen (1976)
1h 51m | Horror | TV-14
Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
Director Richard Donner
Cast Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner

4:30 AM Cries and Whispers (1972)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-MA
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
Director Ingmar Bergman
Cast Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Harriet
Andersson

6:30 AM The Good Earth (1937)
2h 18m | Epic | TV-PG
Epic adaptation of the Pearl Buck classic. Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
Director Sidney Franklin
Cast Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly

9:00 AM The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
1h 46m | Adventure | TV-G
After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.
Director Ludwig Berger
Cast Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez

11:00 AM Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
2h 50m | Epic | TV-G
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
Director Michael Anderson
Cast Cantinflas, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley

2:15 PM She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
1h 43m | Western | TV-PG
Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.
Director John Ford
Cast John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar

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4:15 PM Doctor Zhivago (1965)
3h 17m | Epic | TV-PG
Sweeping epic about the life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Director David Lean
Cast Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Tom
Courtenay

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8:00 PM Tootsie (1982)
1h 56m | Comedy | TV-MA
Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor, who, in order to find work and also fund his friend's play, dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama.

Director Sydney Pollack
Cast Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Terry
Garr

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10:15 PM Rain Man (1988)
2h 20m | Drama | TV-MA
After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.
Director Barry Levinson
Cast Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria
Golin