TCM Schedule for Thurs, Oct 23, 2025: Military Comedies / Angela Lansbury

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6:00 AM | Pillow to Post (1945)
A girl pretends to be a war bride to get a hotel room in Washington.
Dir: Vincent Sherman | Cast: Ida Lupino, Sydney Greenstreet, William Prince

7:45 AM | The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)
During World War II, an inept intelligence officer falls hard for a military nurse.
Dir: Richard Thorpe | Cast: Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Carter

9:30 AM | See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
A green recruit has a series of madcap adventures in the Army.
Dir: Wesley Ruggles | Cast: Robert Walker, Donna Reed, Keenan Wynn

11:15 AM | What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945)
A bumbling soldier and his scheming friend take France by storm.
Dir: Richard Thorpe | Cast: Robert Walker, Keenan Wynn, Jean Porter

1:00 PM | Don't Go Near the Water (1957)
Navy office workers scheme to build a recreation hall on a remote Pacific island.
Dir: Charles Walters | Cast: Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Holliman

3:00 PM | Imitation General (1958)
A sergeant impersonates a slain general at a key moment during World War II.
Dir: George Marshall | Cast: Glenn Ford, Red Buttons, Taina Elg

4:30 PM | Call Out the Marines (1942)
Two old Marine Corps pals re-enlist and end up fighting over the same woman.
Dir: Frank Ryan | Cast: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe

5:45 PM | The Great Dictator (1940)
A Jewish barber takes the place of a war-hungry dictator.
Dir: Charles Chaplin | Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie


PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM | Death on the Nile (1978)
Hercule Poirot solves a murder.
Dir: John Guillermin | Cast: Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Simon MacCorkindale

10:45 PM | The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
British parents try to prepare their Americanized daughter for her social debut.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli | Cast: Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon

12:30 AM | All Fall Down (1962)
A young drifter's romance with an older woman is threatened by his possessive mother.
Dir: John Frankenheimer | Cast: Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden

2:30 AM | The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
After finding religion, a cynical newspaperman tries to help young hoods.
Dir: Norman Taurog | Cast: William Powell, Esther Williams, Angela Lansbury

4:15 AM | Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Story of composer Jerome Kern's rise to the top on Broadway and in Hollywood.
Dir: Richard Whorf | Cast: June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland