Guest Programmer: John Singleton - (TCM Promo)

Gunga Din - (Re-issue Trailer)

Three British soldiers seek treasure during an uprising in India in Gunga Din (1939) starring Cary Grant.

Psycho - (Original Trailer)

Alfred Hitchcock takes you on a personal tour of the set of Psycho (1960).

High Noon - (Original Trailer)

A retired marshall (Gary Cooper) must defend his town from a vengeful ex-con in High Noon (1952), directed by Fred Zinnemann.

Meet John Doe -- (Original Trailer)

A reporter's fraudulent story turns a tramp into a national hero and makes him a pawn of big business in Meet John Doe (1941), directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper.

Lassie Come Home - (Original Trailer)

A faithful collie undertakes an arduous journey to return to his lost family in Lassie Come Home (1943) starring Roddy McDowall.

Meet John Doe -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Streamlined

Opening titles followed by a searing exercise in newsroom house-cleaning, featuring Ann (Barbara Stanwyck) pleading with Connell (James Gleason) in Frank Capra's Meet John Doe, 1941.

Meet John Doe (1941) -- (Movie Clip) It's Worth Living For!

Significant SPOILER here, as “John Doe” (Gary Cooper) contemplates jumping after all, power broker Norton (Edward Arnold) and his men offering cynical advice, and Ann (Barbara Stanwyck) breaks down in a desperate last attempt, nearing the climax of Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe, 1941.

Gunga Din (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Rise And Kill!

Din (Sam Jaffe) and Cutter (Cary Grant) in the temple of the Indian "Thugges" murder cult, hiding in the shadows as the guru (Eduardo Ciannelli) exhorts his assassins, in Gunga Din, 1939, directed by George Stevens.

Barbara Stanwyck -- (Movie Promo) by Laura Dern

Actress Laura Dern offers this personal appreciation of TCM's December, 2012 Star Of The Month, Barbara Stanwyck.

Psycho (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Of Course I'm Glad To See You!

We had little idea Marion (Janet Leigh) would make off with the $40,000 cash her boss gave her for safe keeping, imagining what her debt-ridden lover (John Gavin) will say, and she didn’t expect to see the boss (Vaughn Tyler) as she departs Phoenix, early in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, 1960.

Meet John Doe (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Matter of Principle!

Vagrant Gary Cooper, having agreed to become the fictional and suicidal "John Doe," dines with pal "The Colonel" (Walter Brennan) as journalists Ann (Barbara Stanwyck) and Connell (James Gleason) plan their campaign, in Frank Capra's Meet John Doe, 1941.

High Noon -- (Movie Clip) Have You Forgotten?

New wife Amy (Grace Kelly) and Judge Mettrick (Otto Kruger) do not rally around Marshal Will Kane (Gary Cooper) as he prepares for a showdown with "Frank Miller" in Fred Zinnemann's High Noon, 1952.

Lassie Come Home (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Apply Yourself

Prologue about the author, introduction of the famous collie and his young master Joe (Roddy McDowall), distracted in school, from MGM's hit Lassie Come Home, 1943, featuring Elizabeth Taylor.

Gunga Din (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Children Are Looking Bonnie!

Cutter (Cary Grant) and MacChesney (Victor McLaglen) enter a seemingly abandoned Indian village, where comrade Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks) discovers mysterious Chota (Abner Biberman), early in George Stevens' Gunga Din, 1939.

Psycho (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Cabin Number One

Following the murder (in the shower) of Marion (Janet Leigh, not seen), evidently by his crazed elderly mother, lonely motel manager Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) gets busy hiding the evidence, not noticing her stolen cash in the newspaper, in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, 1960.

Psycho (1960) -- (Movie Clip) These Extended Lunch Hours

Producer-Director Alfred Hitchcock letting designer Saul Bass and composer Bernard Hermann drive, the opening to Psycho, 1960, then introducing already-disrobed Janet Leigh as Marion and John Gavin as her lover Sam, in a cheap Phoenix hotel room.

Meet John Doe (1941) -- (Movie Clip) What Does He Do All Day?

Not yet revealed to the public, ex-minor leaguer Willoughby (Gary Cooper), a.k.a. “John Doe,” killing time on the newspaper’s dime, with pal “the colonel” (Walter Brennan), reporter Beany (Irving Bacon) playing along, and infiltrator Mike (Pat Flaherty) sowing doubt, in Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe, 1941.

Meet John Doe (1941) -- (Movie Clip) The Greed, The Lust, The Hate, The Fear

Staff-slashing editor Connell (James Gleason) doesn’t know that Ann (Barbara Stanwyck), whom he fired the day before, invented “John Doe,” whose suicidal letter she featured in her final column, and she offers a blinding pitch to launch the stunt and win back her job, in Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe, 1941.

Lassie Come Home (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Bid Her Stay

Father and Joe (Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall) return the star to the duke (Nigel Bruce) after a second escape, the trainer (J. Patrick O’Malley) scolded before Priscilla (Elizabeth Taylor) offers reassurance, in her first on-screen meeting with her lifelong friend (McDowall), in Lassie Come Home, 1943.

Lassie Come Home (1943) -- (Movie Clip) I Only Want Lassie

Young Yorkshireman Joe (Roddy McDowall) had no warning whatever that his cash-strapped parents (Donald Crisp, Elsa Lanchester) had plans to sell the collie, rushing home after school for a difficult explanation, early in the MGM hit that launched the popular series, Lassie Come Home, 1943.

High Noon -- (Movie Clip) All For Nothing

Former sheriff Martin Howe (Lon Chaney Jr.) presents a bleak outlook to the current sheriff Will Kane (Gary Cooper) in Fred Zinnemann's High Noon, 1952.

High Noon (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin'

Outlaws Colby (Lee Van Cleef), Ben Miller (Sheb Wooley) and Pierce (Robert Wilke) gather as Tex Ritter sings "Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin'" in the opening of Fred Zinnemann's High Noon, 1952.

High Noon (1952) -- (Movie Clip) I Need Deputies!

Marshal Kane (Gary Cooper) is starting to lose his cool as he pops the bartender (Lucien Prival) in his search for deputies to face down "Frank Miller," in High Noon, 1952.

Gunga Din (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Very Regimental!

Famous scene in which Cutter (Cary Grant) supports Sam Jaffe (title character), the humble native water carrier, in his regular-army fantasy, in George Stevens' Gunga Din, based on the Rudyard Kipling poem.

High Noon (1952) -- (Movie Clip) They're Making Me Run

Ex-Marshal Kane (Gary Cooper) is riding out of Hadleyville, ahead of the return of outlaw Frank Miller, and just married to young Quaker Amy (Grace Kelly), when he has a change of heart, early in Fred Zinneman's High Noon, 1952.

Gunga Din (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Pebble In Me Left Boot

Engagement party for Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and his new bride (Joan Fontaine), his replacement Higginbotham (Robert Coote) is eliminated by means of spiked punch by Cutter (Cary Grant) and MacChesney (Victor McLaglen), in Gunga Din, 1939.

Psycho (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Nobody Ever Stops Here

Panicked because she’s stolen $40,000 from her employer, Marion (Janet Leigh) has wandered off the main road in a rainstorm and found the Bates Motel, where Norman (Anthony Perkins, his first scene) explains that’s the only way they get any business, in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, 1960.

Psycho (1960) -- (Movie Clip) We All Go A Little Mad

Having fallen into an intense impromptu discussion, especially about institutionalizing his disturbed mother, nervous Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) has inadvertently persuaded rare motel guest Marion (Janet Leigh) that she needs to return the money she stole, in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, 1960.

Meet John Doe (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Tear Down All The Fences!

"John Doe" (Gary Cooper) delivers his first radio address, written by Ann (Barbara Stanwyck), who invented his persona, to an audience including his pal "the colonel" (Walter Brennan), editor Connell (James Gleason) and evil magnate Norton (Edward Arnold) in Frank Capra's Meet John Doe, 1941.

Lassie Come Home (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Was She Worth Waiting For?

First appearance of young Priscilla (Elizabeth Taylor), with grandfather the Duke (Nigel Bruce), meeting his new collie, and the iffy trainer Hynes (J. Patrick O'Malley), in MGM's Lassie Come Home, 1943.

Gunga Din (1939) -- (Movie Clip) We Were Swindled

First appearance by India corps sergeants MacChesney (Victor McLaglen), Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and Cutter (Cary Grant), summoned to commander Weed (Montagu Love), in George Stevens' Gunga Din, 1939.