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

28 Tuesday
11:15 AM Boeing Boeing (1965)
A playboy uses airline schedules to maintain "exclusive" relationships with three flight attendants at the same time. Cast: Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Thelma Ritter. Dir: John Rich (who???). C-103 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

That is widely regarded as one of Lewis's "straightest" roles.

I want to get a DVR for birthday/xmas, just for time-shifting TCM content. I want to watch The Spiral Staircase, but I ain't getting up at 5 a.m. tomorrow morning.

you know you could probably get a vcr for $3 nowadays

hahaha, I have a cheap VCR, but taped stuff looks so bad.

Yeah, get TiVo, definitely.

So what do people think of the ending of The World's Greatest Sinner? On its IMDb page, "God strikes him dead."

Or "down." Something like that.

the film sucks

and then god struck him dead

I should have recorded it off of TCM since I saw that their print was gorgeous (how???). My version ends with Carey writing in a bedroom lit by a Kiss Me Deadly-style Great Whasit. So yeah, God or some similar sort of ineffable phenomenon gets him in the end.

Oooh boy is this a kooky one!

I've never even heard of this one but it sounds like a great victory movie:

6 Thursday

3:30 PM First a Girl (1935)
An out-of-work actress passes herself off as a female impersonator and becomes a star. Cast: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee. Dir: Victor Saville. BW-92 mins

My version ends with Carey writing in a bedroom

That should be "writhing." I'm only correcting it because I don't want some poor soul to search for a version with Carey writing.

The Trip & Psych-Out late tnite

Miracle of Morgan's Creek on Sunday morning

man i miss having cable every time this thread comes up

ARGH why is Rose McGowan still co-hosting and introducing films on the weekends here?? wtf, please

Van Johnson x 5 tnite

Meet Me in St Lois late Christmas Eve

It still annoys me that they don't move to NY.

robert osborne is looking tired lately. slurring his words, big bags around his eyes. i think they're working him too hard.

cluny brown rules btw.

i'd never known about 'in the good old summertime' until this afternoon, what an abomination, and here i thought tom hanks was the first dope to think of remaking 'shop around the corner'. it may be worse than grace kelly, bing crosby and frank sinatra in 'high society'. margaret sullavan, sigh. one day they will show 'the good fairy'.

oh, it wasn't that bad. van johnson's pretty obviously doing a jimmy stewart impression though.

meet me in st. louis on next! sweet.

DVR-ing meet me in st. louis because i have to get up at 8 tomorrow, def. watching it before dinner

and yeah, cluny brown was awesome

>It still annoys me that they don't move to NY.

'there's no place like home' michael white

how about the movie new to TCM - "the cheaters" did you watch, and what did you think? It's on again at 2aPST xmas day

It still annoys me that they don't move to NY.

I'm confused. What exactly would this achieve?

I conked out at the start of cluny brown; thank god for Tivo.
Rewatching The Shop on the Corner for the zillionth time reminded me how much I adore lubitsch.

what's that Jennifer Jones entrance line in Cluny Brown? something like "Where's the action"

all-SCREWBALL New Years Day!

and Ron Howard night tonight. :/

Excited for both equally, obv.

Are they showing Eat My Dust?

i'd never seen grand theft auto, it was sort of adorable.

(and eat my dust also belongs on the road movie thread...)

maybe I'll finally see Theodora Goes Wild!

tivoing the whole day basically.

wow, 3 Oscar Micheaux features on Friday morning (2 of em silent).

Ride the Wild Surf on right, Now.

Rewatching The Shop on the Corner for the zillionth time reminded me how much I adore lubitsch.

^^^

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