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

My cable company is now listing Turner Classic Movies HD in their coming soon section. I may never leave the house again!

I saw Swope in '78 on a twinbill w/ Animal House.

(probably '79, actually -- and that was a fairly wide re-release pairing)

Wow! That's a really interesting/unusual (from my vantage point) juxtaposition. Putney Swope is a really packed movie that I've only seen once, but want to have a copy of so I can watch it multiple times.

it's Claudia Cardinale night.

Redd, the Johnny Mercer doc reruns tom'w at 6pm, followed by films w/ Mercer songs.

WTF?

12:00 AM Miss Mend (1926)

Three reporters fight off a capitalist attempt to release deadly bacteria in the USSR. Cast: Boris Banet, Vladimir Fogel, Natalya Glan. Dir: Fyodor Otsep. BW-250 mins, TV-PG

And don't worry if you miss it. Flicker Alley is releasing it on DVD on the 15th

i recorded this and am super excited to watch it!

for those with Minnelli/Tracy blind spots, Father Of The Bride (1950)
and Father's Little Dividend (1951) late tonight.

Silent Ben-Hur tomw at midnight.

both versions of King of Kings tonight

watched double bill of chicken every sunday (never seen, pretty good) and meet me in st. louis (<3 <3 <3) last night, but i couldn't help noticing that robert osborne was not looking well. he's gaunt and was rushing his line readings (pronounced "biopic" to rhyme with myopic) and just sort of seemed not all there. has he been sick?

I saw him introducing Remember the Night and figured he just had a cold.

Sunday midnight:

Sherlock Holmes (1922)
Sherlock Holmes faces off against Professor Moriarty. Cast: John Barrymore, Roland Young, Carol Dempster. Dir: Albert Parker. BW-86 mins

FIELDS on Sunday night!

http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=276107

Jean Simmons triple play Friday eve, incl that late '60s Oscar nomination no one's ever seen.

Then we do Jean Simmons poll.

jeez, Dick Shawn, Bobby Darin and Tina Louise are in that film!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064405/

bumped for Jean S night, esp that Richard Brooks film in about 4 hours.

She was one withering young Estella in Great Expectations. "He is a common labouring boy!"

jeez, Dick Shawn, Bobby Darin and Tina Louise are in that film!
What about Arnold Stang?

So how was The Happy Ending? (p.s. Click the imdb link above and check out Simmons' thumb imdb pic - she looks like Loretta Swit with all the fur engulfing her head.)

Fascinating filmography. I have a copy of the 1981 Valley of the Dolls TV movie in which she takes on the Helen Lawson but haven't watched it yet (if I ever will) due to inhuman length. Totally forgot she was Ophelia in Olivier's Hamlet. Amaaaaaazing job! Best thing in the flick, actually. And then there's the eternal Angel Face, the greatest of many things (Simmons performance, Preminger film, noir, etc.).

I meant to buy a copy of Angel Face but I bought Fallen Angel instead.

The Happy Ending is pretty crap 'honest, adult' 1969 filmmaking -- tries Nichols/Lester-fractured editing and "frank language" to goose up soapy alcoholic-rich-housewife story. (He was still doing the same kinda shtick in Looking for Mr Goodbar.) I kinda threw up my hands when Darin showed up as a gigolo in the Bahamas with a variety-show Italian accent (which is revealed to be fake after 10 mins but Jean fails to laugh). It's also got that Legrand song "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" w/ the typically awful A & M Bergman lyrics ("the north and south and west of your life?"). John Forsythe is as boring as ever, otherwise it mighta been a good-bad movie.

Apparently Brooks (married to Simmons at the time) wrote for her bcz, um, she was a drunk at the time and their marriage was sinking.

Shirley Jones upgraded from whore in Elmer Gantry to serial mistress in this one. V hot.

nice Vincent Canby quote on that film: "a kind of false Faces"

LOVE Shirley Jones in not-perfect mode.

I meant to buy a copy of Angel Face but I bought Fallen Angel instead.

You're doing fine then! Probably my 2nd fave Preminger. The man has precious few crap films to his name.

a highly debatable proposition, much as I like him.

No I'm sorry this is not debatable.

I've set myself up an automated reminder -- I'm NOT going to miss The Magnificent Ambersons again. (3 weeks from Wednesday)

Snowday victim here -- Rita Hayworth in Tonight and Every Night in 2 hours; any good?

WmC, make sure you don't!

have you guys heard that the 31 Days of Oscar twist this year is every film features an actor who appears in the one following it? (guest prog Kevin Bacon)

I hadn't heard it, but I picked up on it when I was reading over the schedule.

Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair with Marlene Dietrich and Jean Arthur -- the perfect farcical Berlin '48 counterweight to Germany Year Zero -- tomorrow morning. Do not miss!

Been wanting to see it for years.

The male lead John Lund is a lightweight, but it hardly matters.

the tcm app for the iphone is pretty great, loved the long post on 'captured!' the other day.

the v/o tease for War and Peace today was "Audrey Hepburn is rushin' around with Henry Fonda..."

The male lead John Lund is a lightweight, but it hardly matters.
Not according to Cameron Crowe.

Anyway, Marlene is great, Millard Mitchell is great and keep your eye out for Frederick Hollander.

the tcm app for the iphone is pretty great

The very first thing I've heard about that might make the iphone appealing to me.

hope you all sang along with the Iowa Song!

The Lady Eve comin' up

I need him like the axe needs the turkey.

So long, Lulu, I'll send you a postcard.

"Let me ask you a hypothermical question..."

The Crowd in about an hour, one of my fave noncomedies of the '20s.

foreign affair was fucking aces btw

Listen my children! and you will hear...!

You buy these goods, and boy these goods are keen

I did a triple play of the more the merrier, foreign exchange and the devil and miss jones and i liked it

Is Charles Coburn in that middle one too?

nope, that's the billy wilder one. They're all jean arthur though.

Amazed this is the first time I've seen 2010 on TV this year. What programmer could resist the temptation?