TCM Schedule for Monday September 25, 2023 - How To Escape From Nazis

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Plus: daytime has a birthday tribute to Aldo Ray.

(all times Eastern)

6:45 am Inside Out (1976)
1h 37m | Action | TV-PG
30 years after WW2, former soldiers plan to retrieve hidden treasure in East Germany.
Director: Peter Duffell. Cast: Telly Savalas, Robert Culp, James Mason

8:30 am Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
1h 43m | Western | TV-PG
A broken-down sheriff tries to help his town stand against a mysterious outlaw.
Director: Burt Kennedy. Cast: Henry Fonda, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn

10:30 am The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
1h 25m | Crime | TV-G
Turn-of-the-century Irish patriots plan to overthrow the British government.
Director: John Guillermin. Cast: Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O'toole

12:15 pm Battle Cry (1955)
2h 29m | War | TV-PG
A group of Marines eagerly await deployment during World War II.
Director: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman

3:00 pm The Green Berets (1968)
2h 21m | War | TV-14
Story centers around the operations of a Special Forces Unit in Vietnam, their colonel, and a reporter who covers the action.
Director: John Wayne. Cast: John Wayne, David Janssen

5:30 pm The Naked and the Dead (1958)
2h 11m | War | TV-PG
A green lieutenant comes up against incompetent officers and a sadistic sergeant during World War II.
Director: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson, Raymond Massey

8:00 PM Von Ryan's Express (1965)
1h 57m | War | TV-14
An American POW leads a group of mostly British prisoners to attempt an escape from the Germans during WWII.
Director: Mark Robson. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà

10:15 pm The Great Escape (1963)
2h 48m | War | TV-PG
Drama based on Paul Brickhill's factual account of the efforts of Allied prisoners to break out of Stalag Luft North during World War II.
Director: John Sturges. Cast: Robert Graf, Nigel Stock, Angus Lennie

1:15 AM Man Hunt (1941)
1h 45m | War | TV-PG
An Englishman goes behind enemy lines to assassinate Hitler.
Director: Fritz Lang. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders

3:15 am The Password Is Courage (1962)
1h 56m | War | TV-PG
A British officer leads an attempt to escape from a German POW camp.
Director: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Alfred Lynch

5:15 am The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
1h 30m | Adventure | TV-G
Allied POWs fight to survive torture and loss of faith.
Director: Tay Garnett. Cast: Jean Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Sir Cedric Hardwicke

[CBHagman]

1. I see the schedule does not include "The Seventh Cross."

If you haven't seen it, The Seventh Cross is an early Fred Zinnemann movie starring Spencer Tracy and featuring the young Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn. It's a nail-biter of a film.