TCM Schedule for Fri, June 13, 2025: Comedies (Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Lucy & Desi) / Con Artists (Paper Moon & More)
DAYTIME: (EST)
7:00 AM | A Day in the Country (1946)
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country.
Dir: Jean Renoir | Cast: Sylvia Bataille, Jeanne Marken, Georges D'arnoux
8:00 AM | The Passionate Plumber (1932)
A woman hires a plumber to make her lover jealous.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick | Cast: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Polly Moran
9:30 AM | Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Vacationers in a French resort town almost kill themselves trying to relax.
Dir: Jacques Tat | Cast: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla
11:30 AM | Movie Crazy (1932)
A stagestruck young actor accidentally receives someone else's invitation for a Hollywood screen test.
Dir: Clyde Bruckman | Cast: Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson
1:15 PM | Modern Times (1936)
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Dir: Charlie Chaplin | Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman
2:45 PM | The Music Box (1932)
Inept movers navigate a piano up a long flight of steep stairs.
Dir: James Parrott | Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert
3:15 PM | Sons of the Desert (1933)
Two friends hatch a harebrained scheme to attend a lodge convention over their wives' objections.
Dir: William A. Seiter | Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase
4:30 PM | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Hilarity ensues as a city couple remodel an old farm house.
Dir: H. C. Potter | Cast: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas
6:15 PM | The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
A newlywed couple's marriage faces challenges following the purchase of an enormous trailer.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli | Cast: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main
PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING
8:00 PM | Paper Moon (1973)
A fraudulent bible salesman reluctantly adopts a tough little girl who could be his daughter.
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich | Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
10:00 PM | The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
A con artist teams with an army deserter while pursued by a county sheriff.
Dir: Irvin Kershner | Cast: George C Scott, Michael Sarrazin, Harry Morgan
12:00 AM | The Music Man (1962)
A con man, masquerading as a music professor, convinces a small town to form a brass band.
Dir: Morton Dacosta | Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett
2:45 AM | Skin Game (1971)
Two western con artists team with a lady card shark to take on slavers.
Dir: Paul Bogart | Cast: James Garner, Lou Gossett, Susan Clark
4:30 AM | Il bidone (1955)
A trio of swindlers roam the countryside with schemes to bilk poor people out of their money.
Dir: Federico Fellini | Cast: Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Franco Fabrizi