TCM Schedule for Fri, Feb 27, 2026: 31 Days of Oscar (At Sea / Courtrooms)
AT SEA (TIMES EST)
6:30 AM Captains Courageous (1937)
A spoiled rich boy, lost at sea and rescued by a fishing boat, matures through hard work and responsibility.
Dir: Victor Fleming Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore
8:30 AM One Way Passage (1932)
An ocean voyage leads to romance for a dying heiress and a condemned criminal.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: William Powell, Kay Francis, Aline MacMahon
9:45 AM Romance on the High Seas (1948)
A man hires a private eye to watch his wife on a cruise, but the wife sends an impostor.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Doris Day, Don Defore
11:30 AM Now, Voyager (1942)
A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man.
Dir: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
1:30 PM The Last Voyage (1960)
Passengers and crew fight to escape a sinking ocean liner.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders
3:15 PM Billy Budd (1962)
Herman Melville's classic tale of a ship's captain caught between an innocent young sailor and an evil officer.
Dir: Peter Ustinov Cast: Terence Stamp, Peter Ustinov, Robert Ryan
5:30 PM Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against Captain Bligh in this seafaring adventure based on a true story.
Dir: Frank Lloyd Cast: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
COURTROOMS
8:00 PM 12 Angry Men (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
9:45 PM Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
A British lawyer gets caught up in a couple's tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
12:00 AM Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
3:15 AM Adam's Rib (1949)
A couple strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same court case.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday