TCM Schedule for Sunday, February 24 - 31 Days of Oscar: Columbia Pictures [View all]

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You may want to go to a local movie house and buy a huge bag of popcorn for today. A lot of epic movies this Sunday!


6:30 AM
The Guns of Navarone (1961)

A team of Allied saboteurs fight their way behind enemy lines to destroy a pair of Nazi guns.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn.
C-157 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


9:30 AM
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)

The Japanese Army forces World War II POWs to build a strategic bridge in Burma.
Dir: David Lean
Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins.
C-161 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


12:30 PM
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

A British military officer enlists the Arabs for desert warfare in World War I.
Dir: David Lean
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn.
C-227 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


4:30 PM
Gandhi (1982)

The legendary Indian leader uses peaceful means to free his homeland from British rule.
Dir: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud.
C-191 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


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31 DAYS OF OSCAR – COLUMBIA PICTURES

8:00 PM
Tootsie (1982)

An unemployed actor masquerades as a woman to win a soap-opera role.
Dir: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Dabney Coleman.
C-116 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format


10:15 PM
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

When his wife leaves him, an ad exec gets a crash course in parenting.
Dir: Robert Benton
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry.
C-105 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format


12:15 AM
Awakenings (1990)

A doctor's experiments bring a group of comatose patients back to consciousness.
Dir: Penny Marshall
Cast: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner.
C-121 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format


2:30 AM
Midnight Express (1978)

A young man arrested for drug smuggling fights to survive the horrors of a Turkish prison.
Dir: Alan Parker
Cast: Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, Bo Hopkins.
C-121 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format


4:45 AM
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)

A modern married couple attempts to lure their best friends into an exploration of the liberated lifetsyles of the late 60s.
Dir: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould.
C-105 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format