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

i had never seen death race before. never will again, either.

I DVRed The Woman In White a while back during their salute to Eleanor Parker and I am finally peeping it out. I didn't know Robert Burks got his start as a special effects photographer.

There's a familiar-looking UK character actor that I couldn't place for a while, but I just figured it out- he played some kind of Alien Alderman on Star Trek TOS.

John Abbott. Not quite as long a resume as Mr. Atoz, Ian Wolfe, but still kept pretty busy.

Lewton doc should be good. Apparently he wrote pornography.

They should get Robert Osborne and Carrie Fisher to read some of it.

some idiot TV reviewer said it was porn; apparently just pulp. Nice to see Kiyoshi Kurosawa testifying!

Cagney musicals tom'w night include at least two better than the Cohan one: Footlight Parade and Love Me Or Leave Me.

Barbarella in cult slot tonight.

On Monday night, Charles Burnett films led by Killer of Sheep.

very excited for that ^

Sam Fuller's Park Row on Tuesday at 8 p.m. EST.

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=17262

the red shoes on the 22nd

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=87881

http://originalalamo.blogspot.com/2008/01/heavy-metal-director-t-shirts.html

Oscar month again. Effects winners incl Forbidden Planet tomw morning.

Chayefsky 1-2 of Network, The Hospital tonight.

Anything to be alerted about this weekend?

Perhaps it's finally time to catch up with The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao.

A pretty dull weekend slate. I haven't seen Voyage Of The Damned in 31 years...

I think I saw Faye Dunaway's cheekbones in the photo over there. Was that movie promoted with one of those disaster movie posters with a Hollywood Squares grid featuring all the stars at the bottom?

Well---does Apocalypse Now count? 1:15 AM EST

Don't know what to watch during this "Days Of Oscar" thing. If only that one guy where here to guide us.

haha. where=were

Tonight, psychiatry films incl The President's Analyst.

Celebrating Rex Harrison's centennial tom'w with 5 films, leading off w/ The Rake's Progress.

i taped night nurse last night, excited to watch it

I wonder how the censorship doc was (old)?

I watched the 2nd half of that -- not bad. Gable was a real badass. I'm fascinated by pre-Code Hollywood, the racier the better. (xpost)

The Essentials with Robert Osborne and Rose McGowan?!

It's Leslie Banks night!

This Sunday night (the 6th) TCM explores marital turmoil with a double feature of Sunrise and Contempt

Bette Davis all day tomorrow, for her 100th birthday.

They showing the Italian one with Joseph Cotten, Alfredo Sordi and Silvano Mangano?

nope, not even The Whales of August, I don't think

4 Richard Harris films tomw night, incl Peckinpah's Major Dundee with Heston.

extended version?

Alberto Sordi.

http://www.vh1.com/sitewide/promoimages/artists/s/simon_paul/vspot/you_can_call_me_all_v3/320x240.jpg

xp: Their site says 136m for Dundee, which is the length of the restored version.

This Jeopardy! host's programming picks tonight include The Professionals and Lonely Are the Brave

Lonely Are the Brave

woo!

http://www.cookandjones.co.uk/images/Prof1.jpg

Little Big Man on soon. Thomas Berger's novels seem to have been going out of print recently based on my anecdotal evidence. Later Don't Knock The Rock and Go, Johnny, Go!.

It's Hedy Lamarr night!

they showed killer of sheep a few days back. i guess it's a little late to mention that.

HEDLEY

xpost

I love her for her science.

Blacula & sequel tnite. Hitchcocks scattered all day/night tomorrow.

Sunday they kick off their Sinatra Month with a '65 TV special and films including this award-winning short (which drew some insinuations that Frank was A COMMIE):

Short Film: HOUSE I LIVE IN, THE (1945)

Singer Frank Sinatra explains the importance of racial tolerance to a group of tough kids. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Teddy Infuhr, Merrill Rodin. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-10 mins, TV-G

http://www.tcm.com/2008/sinatra/index.jsp

didn't he win a special Oscar for it?

six of em did:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037792/awards

I'm pretty sure the songwriter(s) were blacklisted?

ooooh, the lyricist was Abe Meeropol, who adopted the Rosenbergs' kids.

Just noticed the blog, Movie Morlocks, for the first time. How long has it been there: two weeks, two months, two years?

Friday!

Cold war post-nuclear paranoia flicks:
Five (1951)
The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959, wish it was 1932)
On the Beach (1959)

Supposedly the second one is very loosely based on one of my favorite books, M.P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud.

those are followed by Reefer Madness, Marihuana and Cocaine Fiends.

Friday night, that'd be.