TCM Schedule for Monday March 27, 2023 - 31 Days of Oscar: School Movies

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Daytime is loaded with thrillers; at night films set in schools.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am Night Must Fall (1937)
1h 57m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman's household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, Dame May Whitty

8:00 am The Stranger (1946)
1h 35m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles

10:00 am Gaslight (1944)
1h 54m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten

12:00 pm Wait Until Dark (1967)
1h 48m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who've invaded her home.
Director: Terence Young. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna

2:00 pm Suspicion (1941)
1h 39m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke

4:00 pm Strangers on a Train (1951)
1h 36m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker

5:45 pm The Bad Seed (1956)
2h 9m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden

8:00 pm Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
1h 54m | Drama | TV-PG
A cold-hearted teacher becomes the school favorite when he's thawed by a beautiful young woman.
Director: Sam Wood. Cast: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn

10:00 pm The Paper Chase (1973)
1h 51m | Drama | TV-MA
A law student discovers that his girlfriend is the daughter of his toughest professor.
Director: James Bridges. Cast: John Houseman, Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner

12:00 am The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
1h 56m | Comedy | TV-14
A headstrong young teacher in a private school ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable charges with her world view.
Director: Ronald Neame. Cast: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin

2:15 am Blackboard Jungle (1955)
1h 41m | Drama | TV-14
An idealistic teacher confronts the realities of juvenile delinquency.
Director: Richard Brooks. Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern

4:00 am Fame (1980)
2h 14m | Musical | TV-MA
Students at a performing arts high school struggle with personal problems.
Director: Alan Parker. Cast: Irene Cara, Eddie Barth, Lee Curreri