TCM Schedule for Tuesday, March 11: The Great Buster/Remembering Quincy Jones

The great Buster Keaton! The great Quincy Jones!

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

12:00 AM Born Yesterday (1950)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman's girlfriend.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:00 AM Pat and Mike (1952)
A promoter falls for a gym teacher he bills as the world's top woman athlete.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:00 AM Some Kind of a Nut (1969)
A banker who's lost his job for growing a beard embraces the cultural revolution.
Dir: Garson Kanin Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Angie Dickinson, Rosemary Forsyth
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

TCM Daytime: The Great Buster

6:00 AM Three Ages (1923)
Men in three different ages each face off against a burly villain for love of a woman.
Dir: Buster Keaton Cast: Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy
Runtime: 63 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC: N



7:30 AM Our Hospitality (1923)
In this silent film, a man returns home to the old South and gets caught between feuding families.
Dir: Buster Keaton Cast: Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC:


9:00 AM Sherlock Jr. (1924)
A gag-filled comedy which revolves around a film projectionist, unjustly accused of stealing a watch, who dreams of being a great detective.
Dir: Buster Keaton Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane
Runtime: 51 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC: N



10:00 AM The Navigator (1924)
In this silent film, two members of the idle rich have to move fast when they're stranded on an abandoned luxury liner.
Dir: Donald Crisp Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Frederick Vroom
Runtime: 66 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC: N



11:15 AM Seven Chances (1925)
To inherit a fortune, a man races to find a bride by 7 p.m.
Dir: Buster Keaton Cast: Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards
Runtime: 45 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC: N



12:15 PM Battling Butler (1926)
To win the heart of a mountain girl, a milquetoast pretends to be a boxing champion.
Dir: Buster Keaton Cast: Buster Keaton, Sally O'Neil, Snitz Edwards
Runtime: 77 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC: N



1:45 PM The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)
The life and filmmaking career of iconic comedian Buster Keaton is celebrated in this documentary. Starting life in show business as a toddler in his family's vaudeville act, Keaton rose to fame in his visionary silent comedies of the 1920s. The later years of his career (which were filled with personal and professional ...difficulties) are also chronicled. However, the film returns to highlights from his brilliantly productive period to showcase the creativity, fearlessness and physical talents that made Keaton a comedy legend.
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich Cast: Paul Dooley, French Stewart, Bill Irwin
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:30 PM The General (1927)
A Confederate engineer fights to save his train and his girlfriend from the Union army.
Dir: Buster Keaton Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC: N



5:00 PM Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
In this slapstick silent comedy classic, a student takes over his father's Mississippi steamboat.
Dir: Charles F. Reisner Cast: Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC: N



6:15 PM The Cameraman (1928)
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a movie queen.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick Cast: Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC: Y



TCM Prime Time: Remembering Quincy Jones

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8:00 PM In the Heat of the Night (1967)
A black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town in the South. Over time, they begin to find respect for one another.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


10:00 PM In Cold Blood (1967)
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
Runtime: 134 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


12:30 AM The Getaway (1972)
Steve McQueen stars as "Doc" McCoy - a convict who makes a deal to split his hidden loot with a corrupt politician in exchange for early release from prison--in this fast-paced tale of greed and betrayal. Once free, McCoy tries to uphold his part of the agreement, but he quickly learns there is no one he can trust as he tries to get to the Mexican border alive.
Dir: Sam Peckinpah Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali Macgraw, Ben Johnson
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:45 AM The Anderson Tapes (1971)
After ten years in prison, a thief tries to adjust to improved surveillance methods.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:45 AM The Split (1968)
A gang of thieves plots to rob the Los Angeles Coliseum box office during a Rams game.
Dir: Gordon Flemyng Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y