TCM Schedule for Monday June 29 - Great Directors: Sidney Lumet/Cecil B. DeMille

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We're in the homestretch of Great Directors month, with 2 very different helmers - Sidney Lumet in daytime and (ready for my closeup) Cecil B. DeMille at night.

(All times Eastern)

6:00 AM Stage Struck (1958)
A young actress makes all the wrong moves trying to break in on Broadway. Cast: Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda, Christopher Plummer. Dir: Sidney Lumet. C-95 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:00 AM Deadly Affair, The (1966)
A secret agent investigates the tangled affairs surrounding a government official's suicide. Cast: James Mason, Simone Signoret, Maximilian Schell. Dir: Sidney Lumet. C-107 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

10:00 AM Fugitive Kind, The (1960)
A drifter ignites passions among the women of a Mississippi town. Cast: Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward. Dir: Sidney Lumet. BW-121 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

12:15 PM Private Screenings: Sidney Lumet (2005)
Director Sidney Lumet discusses his career with host Robert Osborne. BW-55 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

1:15 PM Hill, The (1965)
Prisoners fight to survive the grueling conditions in a North African military stockade. Cast: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Michael Redgrave. Dir: Sidney Lumet. BW-123 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

3:30 PM Group, The (1966)
Eight friends from a women's college fight for happiness during the Great Depression. Cast: Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman. Dir: Sidney Lumet. C-152 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

6:00 PM Fail Safe (1964)
A failure in the U.S. defense system threatens to start World War III. Cast: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman. Dir: Sidney Lumet. BW-112 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

8:00 PM Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (Part 1) (2004)
Part one of a two-part documentary that looks into the life and career of director Cecil B. DeMille. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Dir: Kevin Brownlow. BW-58 mins, TV-PG, CC

9:00 PM Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (Part 2) (2004)
Part two of a two-part documentary that looks into the life and career of director Cecil B. DeMille. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Dir: Kevin Brownlow. BW-59 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:00 PM Greatest Show on Earth, The (1952)
A circus ringmaster and an egotistical trapeze artist vie for the love of a pretty acrobat. Cast: Betty Hutton, Charlton Heston, James Stewart. Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. C-152 mins, TV-PG, CC

12:45 AM Cleopatra (1934)
The fabled queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Marc Antony astray. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon. Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. BW-101 mins, TV-PG

2:30 AM King of Kings, The (1927)
In this silent film, Cecil B. DeMille directs an epic retelling of the life of Christ. Cast: H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence. Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. BW-112 mins, TV-G

4:30 AM Cheat, The (1915)
In this silent film, a society woman makes a costly bargian to pay off her debts. Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Fannie Ward, Jack Dean. Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. C-59 mins, TV-PG