TCM to Present 72-Hour Memorial Day Weekend Marathon, Beginning Saturday, May 24, at 6 a.m. (ET)
Lineup Includes 34 Classics Set During the Civil War, World War I, World War II and the Korean War
As America honors those who have served this nation, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will present a 72-hour Memorial Day Weekend Marathon,
featuring movies about servicemen and women in times of war and peace
and in situations both dramatic and comedic. The marathon, which will
also include touching stories of the families who wait at home, is set
to begin Saturday, May 24, at 6 a.m. (ET).
TCM’s Memorial Day will feature 34 films, ranging from the silent era, with the World War I comedy-drama The Better ’Ole (1926), to the 1970s, with Clint Eastwood heading a group of soldiers during World War II in their plot to pull off a gold robbery behind enemy lines in Kelly’s Heroes (1970). Other conflicts represented are the Civil War, with classics like Friendly Persuasion (1956), and the Korean War, with films like The Steel Helmet (1951).
Among the great wartime dramas are John Huston’s The Red Badge of Courage (1951), starring Audie Murphy as a Union soldier struggling to redeem himself after an act of cowardice, and Howard Hawks’ Sergeant York (1941), with Oscar®-winning Gary Cooper in this biopic of the most decorated hero of WWI.
Delightful wartime comedies include See Here, Private Hargrove (1944), starring Robert Walker in a film of Marion Hargrove’s memoir about his boot-camp adventures during WWII, and No Time for Sergeants (1958), with Andy Griffith in his hilarious, star-making role as a country- bumpkin inductee into the peacetime Air Force.
Representing the home front are such films as Journey for Margaret (1942), featuring Margaret O’Brien in the account of a girl who survives the London blitz of World War II and is adopted by Americans, and The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946), in which WWII vets return home and must readjust to civilian life.
Saturday, May 24
6 a.m. - Journey for Margaret (1942)|
7:30 a.m. - The Shopworn Angel (1938)
9 a.m. - A Guy Named Joe (1943)
11:15 a.m. - Hell to Eternity (1960)
1:45 p.m. - The Steel Helmet (1951)
3:15 p.m. - Objective, Burma! (1945)
5:45 p.m. - The Hill (1965)
8 p.m. - The Dirty Dozen (1967)
10:45 p.m. - Where Eagles Dare (1969)
1:30 a.m. - Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
4 a.m. - Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
5:30 a.m. - The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)
Sunday, May 25
7 a.m. - Imitation General (1958)
8:30 a.m. - See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
10:15 a.m. - What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945)
Noon - Mister Roberts (1955)
2:15 p.m. - Ensign Pulver (1964)
4:15 p.m. - Pillow to Post (1945)
6 p.m. - The Password is Courage (1962)
8 p.m. - No Time for Sergeants (1958)
10:15 p.m. - Onionhead (1958)
12:15 a.m. - The Better ’Ole (1926)
2 a.m. - Carnival in Flanders (1935)
4 a.m. - The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Monday, May 26
6 a.m. - The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
7:30 a.m. - Sergeant York (1941)
10 a.m. - Friendly Persuasion (1956)
12:30 p.m. - The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
3 p.m. - The Young Lions (1958)
6 p.m. - The Fighting Sullivans (1944)
8 p.m. - Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
10:30 p.m. - The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
1:30 a.m. - Pride of the Marines (1945)
3:45 a.m. - Above and Beyond (1952)