TCM Schedule for Fri, Oct. 25, 2024 - Disaster/Political Films (All The Presidents Men, Citizen Kane, & more)

Evening co-hosts, political films:

8:00 PM - All the President’s Men (1976) with director Steven Spielberg.

10:30 PM - Citizen Kane (1941) with Frank Luntz. Luntz is an American political and communications consultant and pollster, best known for developing talking points and other messaging for Republican causes. His work has included assistance with messaging for Newt Gingrich's Contract with America and public relations support for The Israel Project. He advocated use of vocabulary crafted to produce a desired effect, including use of the term death tax instead of estate tax, and climate change instead of global warming.

12:45 AM - Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) with Lizzie Borden. Borden is an American filmmaker, best known for her early independent films Born in Flames (1983) and Working Girls (1986).


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8:15 AM | Transatlantic Tunnel (1935)
Scientists and engineers join forces to build a tunnel beneath the Atlantic Ocean.
Dir: Maurice Elvey | Cast: Richard Dix, Leslie Banks, Madge Evans

10:00 AM | The Crowded Sky (1960)
A passenger jet and a private plane head for a collision.
Dir: Joseph Pevney | Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

12:00 PM | The Last Voyage (1960)
Passengers and crew fight to escape a sinking ocean liner.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone | Cast: Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders

2:00 PM | A Night to Remember (1958)
Recounts the sailing and sinking of the Titanic.
Dir: Roy Ward Baker | Cast: Anthony Bushell, Kenneth More, Honor Blackman

4:15 PM | The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
A blacksmith's rise to power is jeopardized by his son's religion and Vesuvius.
Dir: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Cast: Preston Foster, Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone

6:00 PM | San Francisco (1936)
A saloonkeeper and an impresario fight for the affections of a singer.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke | Cast: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy


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8:00 PM | All the President's Men (1976)
Reporters uncover details that lead to the Watergate scandal.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula | Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards Jr.

10:30 PM | Citizen Kane (1941)
Reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of a publishing tycoon's dying words.
Dir: Orson Welles | Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead

12:45 AM | Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
A widow turns to prostitution to make ends meet.
Dir: Chantal Akerman | Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck

4:15 AM | Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)
Documentary chronicling the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Dir: Leni Riefenstahl | Cast: David Albritton, Arvo Askola, Jack Beresford