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

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.

Faye Dunaway tonight, incl the departed Mr Pollack's Three Days of the Condor

Leslie Caron tonight. One film, The L-Shaped Room includes origin of The Queen Is Dead opening sample.

Father Goose seems like it should be awful, but Cary is pretty funny.

Tomorrow night, the not-on-dvd James Donat "The Count of Monte Cristo"

Skidoo! tonight/tomorrow morning on the cult show.

Lee Marvin & Jack Palance in Monte Walsh tom'w night.

all day & night w/ same star every day in August.

Friday: Michael Caine
Saturday: Chaplin

Marie Dressler Day! didnt see that coming

Kim Novak today... I HIGHLY recommend taping Robert Aldrich's nutso The Legend of Lylah Clare at 1:30 a.m. ET.

Cukor's Bhowani Junction on tomorrow night 7pm CST. Never seen it, not on DVD, VHS now pricey, Cukor divine, etc.

Also, Borzage's brutal but gorgeous A Man's Castle on Sunday the 31st at 10:30pm CST. I'm hoping they have a decent print to work from since I've had a hideous bootleg for years.

Second the love for The Legend of Lylah Clare. After Kiss Me Deadly I'd say it's his best.

LAUREL & HARDY for Saturday.

Yeah, Man's Castle is super.

Oh yeah, if I had been paying attention I would have recorded that Aldrich movie. I saw it a few years ago at the Film Forum.

Their on-demand channel (& I assume TCM proper) has / had a pretty good Val Lewton documentary (w/ ponderous / hilarious narration by Scorscese) this month.

I saw that a few months ago. Hilarious??

thanks for the Borzage update, Kev.