tcm alert thread (Jun '23 - tcm alert: dead)

A John Waters fave on Sunday:

4 Sunday
1:00 PM CST Susan Slade (1961)
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass the baby off as her own. Cast: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire. Dir: Delmer Daves.

Has anyone seen this?

Is this the Sarah Palin story?

6 Graham Greene adaps all night! Brighton Rock almost excuses Richard Attenborough's directorial career.

Susan Slade wasn't so hot. But I'm such a genre freak that I enjoyed its particular variation on (instantiation of?) an ancient story. And there was a downright shocking shot towards the end that I waaaay did not anticipate in its graphicness. Did anyone catch it?

Two rare (are there any other kind?) Borzage films tomorrow: Big City (1937) and No Greater Glory (1934). But I'm too busy with my BRAND NEW MURNAU, BORZAGE, AND FOX BOX SET!!! so someone else please take these in and report. Thanx!

KJB I may fly into Austin in March to steal yr set.

You can fly in (and if you do, lemme know!) but ain't comin' near my set! :)

"Picnic" is on now and in case u forgot, tis hilarious

OH?

The number one movie on my must-see list is on tomorrow morning (Thursday the 15th) @ 6:15am CST:

Downstairs (1932)
An evil chauffeur seduces and blackmails his way through high society. Cast: John Gilbert, Virginia Bruce, Paul Lukas. Dir: Monta Bell. BW-78 mins, TV-G

I've been dying to see it for quite some time. Someone pretty please record it in case one of my helper bees misses it. Thanx!!!!

Fuck, missed tivoing borzage; I will try downstairs

You rock! And I have a copy of No Greater Glory if anyone wants one.

well it's a tivo; I don't even HAVE a working vcr these days; so I'm not sure I can be helpful.

It's kewl. I should be okay. I literally have a three-person backup plan. It's nuts, I know, but I don't want to miss this fucker again.

This reminds me of the episode of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" where she was having marital problems and called her dad for advice and the old man told he was watching some Claudette Colbert movie that he had seen before but had been interrupted watching and, if he didn't get to finish watching it this time, might not live to see it again.

^I am becoming Victor (k*l*an)

late tnite: Terror of Tiny Town, The Unholy Three, Freaks

Ricardo Montalban Day tom'w

R. Osborne interviewing Ernest Borgnine for an hour > Jimmy Carter on TDS

Ernie spilled details on his brief marriages to Ethel Merman AND Katy Jurado!

Gotta see that one

Merman marriage doomed by popularity of "McHale's Navy"

Oh yeah, I think I saw that here

This John Cromwell marathon tonight seems promising.

Albert Brooks' acidic Modern Romance tomw night (btwn Annie Hall & The Apartment)

"You've heard of a no-win situation, haven't you?"

Also, Foleying footstpes.

good lookin' out; that's something I've wanted to see for awhile.

has funniest epilogue crawl of all time

nuclear war threat movies tonight -- anyone seen this one, by the usually comic Boulting Bros?

Seven Days to Noon (1950) A scientist threatens to detonate a nuclear warhead if the nation will not halt arms research. Cast: Barry Jones, Andre Morell, Hugh Cross. Dir: John Boulting, Roy Boulting. BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

also, Alec Baldwin becomes new co-host of The Essentials next month. Hopefully as his Departed character.

does anybody get the TCM magazine? Worth the investment?

I only get it when the Film Forum has then lying on the floor near the pay phones (a month in advance). Look at it to check the schedule, not all that often.

4 Japanese masterworks tnite, leading off w/ Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp

Thanks for the tip! I really need to check the lineup on tcm more often.

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Fact Checking Cuz to TCM!

Reagan succeeding FDR mighta worked, or rlly not been much diff from Truman

Also, what's up with running all Hitchcocks today, except for "Close Encounters" and "Three Faces of Eve"?

Now that Oscar month is over TCM can get back to programming some good movies (a silent prayer for future generations enduring Slumdork on TCM in 2070). Check out Joan Crawford in the second (and much better film staring her titled) Possessed early this morning although, tee-hee, it gave her another nomination for Best Actress which she damn well deserved. Apart from Rain, it's her best performance (her crazed laughter in a supper club scene is her perhaps her finest moment).

Another great thing about Possessed is it's yet another film to pull out when maniacs try to tell you that classical Hollywood was nothing but flowers. It's a really heavy, miserable outing. In fact, Webster's invented the word "unpleasant" just to account for Possessed. Crawford plays a woman obsessed with a man who does not return her attentions. In the first scene, she intones to him "'I love you' is such an inadequate way of saying 'I love you,'" setting off the damn near goth tone. Miss work for it.

Then a few hours later is The Fighting Seabees by Edward Ludwig, one of the few reportedly worthy directors Sarris left out of The American Cinema. I've never seen it or anything by Ludwig. Anyone?

Kev, you know she made TWO films titled Possessed? (I assume this is '47)

i am stumped on Ludwig, but i bet I've seen some of his silent comedy shorts.

From the above:

Check out Joan Crawford in the second (and much better film staring her titled)

d'oh!

Feh. Daisy Kenyon's her best.

One of her (and Otto's) best but not her best (still Female on the Beach in my book).

Then a few hours later is The Fighting Seabees by Edward Ludwig, one of the few reportedly worthy directors Sarris left out of The American Cinema. I've never seen it or anything by Ludwig. Anyone?

It's OK. Straight-up Republic Pictures war melodrama and one of the very few where John Wayne dies.

Fave Ludwig is The Black Scorpion. Track it down

first of the Reagan Wednesdays tonight; fair warning

Where's the rest of them?

ah, the tcm premiere of 'the good fairy'. god i love margaret sullavan.

the Patrick McGoohan 'jazz Othello' is late tnite

5:30 AM Summer of '63 (1963)
Teens on the make spread syphilis among their friends. Cast: Michael Bell narrates. C-21 mins,

The Archers' Tales of Hoffmann at 8am ET.

Sun night: maybe Sellers' 2 funniest films, followed by 2 great Chaplins and the German 1943 Munchausen

late Sun: Garbo in The Mysterious Lady, then Pagnol's Marius

Diner late tonight after two shittier Barry Levinson films