TCM Schedule for Tuesday, March 28: 31 Days of Oscar: Prison

[CBHagman]

Get your cinematic passport stamped during daytime with TCM's Oscars theme (Travel Movies).

But at night, you will go to jail, go directly to jail. You will not pass Go. But you will collect memorable movie moments.

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

12:00 AM The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
An age-resisting private girls-school teacher grows eccentric and vicarious through her young students. Set in 1930s Edinburgh.
Dir: Ronald Neame Cast: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

2:15 AM Blackboard Jungle (1955)
An idealistic teacher confronts the realities of juvenile delinquency.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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4:00 AM Fame (1980)
Five outstandingly gifted students at New York's High School of Performing Arts are followed as they prepare for careers in show business. A budding singer, two actors, a dancer and a musician polish their crafts as they struggle to excel academically in the demanding school.
Dir: Alan Parker Cast: Irene Cara, Eddie Barth, Lee Curreri
Runtime: 134 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

6:30 AM Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)
A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Jane Powell, Danielle Darrieux, Wendell Corey
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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8:30 AM Romance on the High Seas (1948)
A man hires a private eye to watch his wife on a cruise, but the wife sends an impostor.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don Defore
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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10:30 AM Travels with My Aunt (1972)
A stodgy young man gets caught up in his free-living aunt's shady schemes.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Lou Gossett
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

12:30 PM Royal Wedding (1951)
A brother-and-sister musical team find romance when they tour London for Elizabeth II's wedding.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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2:30 PM Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Vacationers in a French resort town almost kill themselves trying to relax.
Dir: Jacques Tati Cast: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: N

4:00 PM The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
A fading stage star gets caught up in the decadent life of modern Rome when she hires a male companion.
Dir: José Quintero Cast: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:00 PM A Little Romance (1979)
Teenagers elope with the help of an aging pickpocket.
Dir: George Roy Hill Cast: Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, John Pepper
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: PRISON

8:00 PM Cool Hand Luke (1967)
A brooding loner is sentenced to a prison chain-gang, stands up to the Nazi-like guards, and eventually becomes the leader of his fellow prisoners.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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10:15 PM The Big House (1930)
An attempted prison break leads to a riot.
Dir: George Hill Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

12:00 AM Papillon (1973)
Two Devil's Island prisoners devote all of their time to hatching escape plans.
Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory
Runtime: 150 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-MA CC: N

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2:45 AM Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
True life story of Robert Stroud, who spent fifty-three years in Alcartaz prison and became a world-famous ornithologist.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter
Runtime: 143 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

5:15 AM Caged (1950)
A young innocent fights to survive the harsh life in a women's prison.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y