Movies on TCM (USA) this week (all times ET)

The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

Cast: Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Darren McGavin, Arnold Stang

Director: Otto Preminger

Synopsis: When Otto Preminger was willing to release his drug-addiction drama Man With the Golden Arm without the sanction of a Production Code seal, it prov... [MORE]

Edge of the City (1957)

Cast: Sidney Poitier, John Cassavetes, Jack Warden, Kathleen Maguire, Ruby Dee

Director: Martin Ritt

Synopsis: Edge of the City is a modern morality play, acted out in the railyards of New York. AWOL soldier John Cassavetes takes a job as a railroad worker, ... [MORE]

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, Eve Arden

Director: Otto Preminger

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Robert Traver (the pseudonym for Michigan Supreme Court justice John D. Voelker), Anatomy of a Murder stars Jame... [MORE]

Indianapolis Speedway (1939)

Cast: Pat O'Brien, John Payne, Ann Sheridan, Gale Page, Frank McHugh

Director: Lloyd Bacon

Synopsis: In this drama, a remake of The Crowd Roars, two auto racing brothers become rivals on the racetrack when the older brother tries to keep his younge... [MORE]

Kidnapped (1948)

Cast: Roddy McDowall, Sue England, Dan O'Herlihy, Roland Winters, Jeff Corey

Director: William Beaudine

Synopsis: For his first independent production, former child star Roddy McDowall selected the tried-and-true Robert Louis Stevenson classic Kidnapped. McDowa... [MORE]

The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963)

Cast: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Joan Freeman

Director: Norman Maurer

Synopsis: This slapstick comedy is a hilarious spoof on "Around The World In 80 Days." The grandson of the celebrated Phinius Fogg makes a bet with his cohor... [MORE]

That Certain Woman (1937)

Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise

Director: Edmund Goulding

Synopsis: Edmund Goulding directed this remake of his own 1929 The Trespasser, which starred Gloria Swanson. Here Bette Davis assumes the lead role of Mary D... [MORE]

Pretty Baby (1950)

Cast: Betsy Drake, Dennis Morgan, Zachary Scott, Edmund Gwenn, William Frawley

Director: Bretaigne Windust

Synopsis: Best known to posterity as the third wife of Cary Grant, Betsy Drake enjoyed a substantial film career during the postwar era. In Pretty Baby, Drak... [MORE]

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe

Director: John Huston

Synopsis: The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, "a lef... [MORE]

The Star (1952)

Cast: Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood, Warner Anderson, Minor Watson

Director: Stuart Heisler

Synopsis: An actress who once knew the heights of fame is forced to confronts the depths of defeat in this show business drama. Margaret Elliot (Bette Davis)... [MORE]

So Big (1953)

Cast: Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Olson, Martha Hyer, Steve Forrest

Director: Robert Wise

Synopsis: This 1953 tear-jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big. Stepping into the role previously essayed by Colleen Moore and Bar... [MORE]

Beyond the Rocks (1922)

Cast: Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis, Robert Bolder

Director: Sam Wood

Father Takes a Wife (1941)

Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Swanson, Desi Arnaz, John Howard, Helen Broderick

Director: Jack Hively

Synopsis: Silent screen queen Gloria Swanson returned to films after a seven-year absence in RKO Radio's Father Takes a Wife. Adolphe Menjou costars as a mid... [MORE]

The Right to Romance (1933)

Cast: Ann Harding, Robert Young, Sari Maritza, Nils Asther, Irving Pichel

Director: Alfred Santell

Synopsis: Overworked and fearing that life is passing her by, eminent plastic surgeon Margaret "Peggy" Simmons (Ann Harding) takes an impromptu trip to Calif... [MORE]

The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (1935)

Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, W.C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore, Edna May Oliver

Director: George Cukor

Synopsis: David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer David O. Selznick's major "literary" fi... [MORE]

The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)

Cast: Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney, Freddie Bartholomew, Ian Hunter

Director: W.S. Van Dyke II

Synopsis: The Devil Is a Sissy deserves an historical footnote as the only film to team three of the biggest child stars of the 1930s: Mickey Rooney, Jackie ... [MORE]

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)

Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello Barrymore, Guy Kibbee, C. Aubrey Smith, Henry Stephenson

Director: John Cromwell

Synopsis: David O. Selznick's first independent production upheld the producer's tradition, established at Paramount, RKO and MGM, of bringing the "classics"... [MORE]

Hot Millions (1968)

Cast: Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart, Robert Morley

Director: Eric Till

Synopsis: This comedy finds a veteran crook turning to modern computer technology to steal money from various companies. Even before he is released from jail... [MORE]

The Man with a Cloak (1951)

Cast: Leslie Caron, Barbara Stanwyck, Joseph Cotten, Louis Calhern, Joe De Santis

Director: Fletcher Markle

Synopsis: Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man i... [MORE]

Confidentially Connie (1953)

Cast: Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern, Gene Lockhart, Walter Slezak

Director: Edward Buzzell