TCM Schedule for Thurs., Mar 27, 2025: Barbara Stanwyck / Documentaries / Heists

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6:45 AM | Annie Oakley (1935)
Bio based on the life of the famed sharpshooter.
Dir: George Stevens | Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas

8:30 AM | The Moonlighter (1953)
A former jailbird makes good after the wrong man is accused for his crime.
Dir: Roy Rowland | Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Ward Bond

10:00 AM | Trooper Hook (1957)
A woman returns from Indian captivity to find herself an outcast.
Dir: Charles Marquis Warren | Cast: Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman

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11:30 AM | Black Panthers (1968)
Interviews and protests at a rally to free Huey P. Newton.
Dir: Agnès Varda | Cast: Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, H. Rap Brown

12:00 PM | Hot Pepper (1973)
A documentary about the self-crowned "King" of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier.
Dir: Les Blank | Cast: Clifton Chenier, Les Blank, Les Blank

1:00 PM | Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
A year int eh lives of nearly 200 Kentucky coal-mining families and their battle to unionize.
Dir: Barbara Kopple | Cast: Norman Yarborough, Houston Elmore, Phil Sparks

3:00 PM | Salesman (1969)
Door-to-door salesmen travel from New England to Florida to sell expensive Bibles to working-class Catholics.
Dir: David Maysles | Cast: Paul Brennan

4:45 PM | Grey Gardens (1976)
True story of a woman and her daughter who lived in a world of their own in a decaying mansion.
Dir: Ellen Hovde | Cast: Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers

6:30 PM | The Queen (1968)
A behind-the-scenes look at a 1967 national drag queen contest in New York City.
Dir: Frank Simon | Cast: Bernard Giquel, Jack Doroshow, Jim Dine

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PRIME TIME & LATE NIGHT

8:00 PM | The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
A millionaire stages a multimilion dollar bank heist.
Dir: Norman Jewison | Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke

10:00 PM | Gambit (1966)
A professional thief recruits a nightclub singer for a planned burglary of a statuette owned.
Dir: Ronald Neame | Cast: Shirley Maclaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom

12:00 AM | The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Recently paroled master criminal gathers several crooks together for a heist.
Dir: John Huston | Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
Film Noir at its peak -- Auggie

2:00 AM | 5 Against the House (1955)
Four college buddies plot to rob a Reno casino.
Dir: Phil Karlson | Cast: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith

3:30 AM | They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1969)
A casino blackjack dealer plots to hijack and rob an armored car.
Dir: Antonio Isasi Isasmend | Cast: Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb