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

Boy that Ann Savage performance in Detour is something else!

Right? Just A+ hot crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1OM5-kGeDo

Schedule for tomorrow:

Friday, June 19
6:00 AM CORNERED (1945)
7:45 AM CRACK-UP (1946)
9:30 AM GILDA (1946)
11:30 AM THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
1:30 PM THE KILLERS (1946)
3:15 PM NOBODY LIVES FOREVER (1946)
5:00 PM NOCTURNE (1946)
6:30 PM CROSSFIRE (1947)
8:00 PM HOLLOW TRIUMPH (1948)
9:45 PM MYSTERY STREET (1950)
11:30 PM BORDER INCIDENT (1949)
1:15 AM THE PEOPLE AGAINST O'HARA (1951)
3:15 AM GET CARTER (1971)

Big Sleep the obvious classic

Get Carter is spectacular if you've never seen it; looking forward to gilda and taping it all
watched most of danger signal last night; it's an odd relationship anxiety film but it wasn't killing me

i watched crossfire in a jewish identity in film class in undergrad. decent noir starring Robert Mitchum that came out the same year as Gentleman's Agreement.

The novel was about a homophobic murder, so they had to cahnge it to antisemitism.

films about antisemitism in 1947 were still fairly controversial themselves

In another sign of the times, films about Catholic priests in 1947 were very uncontroversial.

yes that is true Mordy, but antigay themes were literally unfilmable since the Production Code was raised against Franklin Pangborn.

Still kind of cheesed off that Thief was removed from tonight's 3:15 slot.

I DVR'd Hollow Triumph just because the title is close to Bitter Victory. I'm sure it won't be as good, though.

Is Border Incident the Anthony Mann movie with Ricardo Montalban?

Yep!

I remember seeing part of it and thinking it was pretty good, meant to follow up later.

I can't believe I watched all 15 chapters of that Batman serial. Or that I'm going to watch the 1949 Batman serial starting next week.

I actually would've done that if they had more than 1 part up per week...

Wouldn't have been possible without a DVR.

watched Gilda, great film throughout but HAYWORTH oh my god
http://38.media.tumblr.com/b973645987e56a353c78511635b37150/tumblr_mg8ad367FO1qaeet6o1_500.gif

http://33.media.tumblr.com/2a8c19623f5fcacb175484054c43687f/tumblr_njowx9kMes1rdfgw4o1_500.gif
http://37.media.tumblr.com/560711b84b32186537673287bf058c1b/tumblr_n08f2yOq321qicfexo2_r1_500.gif
http://24.media.tumblr.com/33c33d15bea71914839d716c0dfd4258/tumblr_n08f2yOq321qicfexo3_r1_500.gif
http://37.media.tumblr.com/715d413b7bc408acafe668fc49fea03a/tumblr_n08f2yOq321qicfexo4_r1_500.gif

i liked her better before she "fixed" her hairline

http://www.demeterclarc.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2010/08/RITA-HAYWORTH-FLOWER.jpg

she's like three scoops of ice cream in a shot glass

o god i need to see that

http://thesouloftheplot.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/hairflip1_gilda.gifhttp://thesouloftheplot.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/hairflip1_gilda.gifhttp://thesouloftheplot.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/hairflip1_gilda.gif

during their marriage, Orson Welles apparently preferred amphetamines and other women.

rly can't believe i haven't seen this. Astaire too? used to be all over Fred&Ginger when i was like 10

no astaire in gilda but plenty of dopeness

first gif was just kinda the way i felt watching her

ahh but isn't that him in the gif above? gee it looks an awful lot like him

xp ohhhh ok

Different film. Is it Flying Down To Rio?

It's not Cover Girl, I don't think.

You Were Never Lovelier?

yep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcyqCTCrpgQ

it's often remarked upon but damn astaire looks so gnomic and weird next to her
good thing he's fred astaire

but he always looked a bit gnomic and weird! i meann...
http://www.movpins.com/big/MV5BMTM2NjE2ODM5N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTA4NTIyNw/still-of-fred-astaire-and-ginger-rogers-in-the-gay-divorcee-(1934).jpg

still looks like a p cool film

sorry so big

as he got older he started looking more like a marionette to me.

always looked about 55 from the '30s thru '50s

yeah but who cared? he was fred astaire.

Can't act, can't sing, bald, can dance a little

that's hilarious tbh

he became an actual marionette-looking puppet in that Rankin-Bass special about Santa Claus, of course.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/lite987.com/files/2012/12/Fred1.jpg

apropos

Friday, June 26
6:00 AM THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
8:00 AM THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME (1947)
9:45 AM THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1947)
11:00 AM LADY IN THE LAKE (1947)
1:00 PM OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
2:45 PM POSSESSED (1947)
4:45 PM ACT OF VIOLENCE (1948)
6:30 PM THE SET-UP (1949)
8:00 PM THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS (1944)
9:45 PM BERLIN EXPRESS (1948)
11:30 PM THE STRANGER (1946)
1:15 AM THE THIRD MAN (1949)
3:00 AM POINT BLANK (1967)

I'm out of DVR space.
The original Postman Always Rings Twice is pretty good stuff. You probably woke up too late to record it.
Gonna try to do Lady in the Lake, hear it's a an interesting experiment.
Out of the Past, obviously all-time great! Same with The Third Man.
Point Blank has a unique place in my heart due to it being remade a million times, semi-sequelized with The Limey, besides already being a cool dark slow boiling revenge journey with Lee Marvin

From the thumbnail summaries, I think I'll record Woman on the Beach, Act of Violence and maybe Berlin Express. I've seen The Stranger, 3rd Man and Point Blank recently enough to skip them this time.

Tomorrow:
6:00 AM JOHNNY BELINDA (1948)
8:00 AM KEY LARGO (1948)
10:00 AM THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1948)
11:30 AM THE BRIBE (1949)
1:15 PM SCENE OF THE CRIME (1949)
3:00 PM THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1949)
4:45 PM THE THREAT (1949)
6:00 PM WHITE HEAT (1949)
8:00 PM THE BIG CLOCK (1948)
9:45 PM THE WINDOW (1949)
11:15 PM SHADOW ON THE WALL (1950)
12:45 AM HIGH WALL (1947)
2:30 AM THE LONG GOODBYE (1973)
4:30 AM MARLOWE (1969)

What's your pleasure?

Lady From Shanghai, total classic.
Not in the same league as Gun Crazy, but I like They Live By Night.

I rewatched Shanghai just a few weeks ago during the Welles Fridays, so I'll pass on that. I've also seen Key Largo, White Heat and The Long Goodbye with in the last few years. I liked Long Goodbye well enough, but don't really grok its classic status, so maybe I should try it again.

white heat and they live by night are the standouts for me