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WHAT?! No love for Walter here as the drunk bar patron in Earthquake ??? (...I'll bet it's the clothes, ain't it)

The Moonshine War (1970) TCM 4/10 During Prohibition, a corrupt G man (Patrick McGoohan) wants to take a whiskey stash from some hillbillies. A weird mix of comedy and violence, this seems to want to be another Bonnie And Clyde but fails miserably. It is barely tolerable due to the cast. Richard Widmark plays a sadistic gangster who poses as a doctor as he is hired by McGoohan to take the booze. Alan Alda plays the young moonshiner who is the only one who knows where it is. Character actors Will Geer, John Schuck and Bo Hopkins plays some other hillbillies. It's kind of fun to hear McGoohan, Widmark and Alda using some really exaggerated Southern accents. There is a pretty good ending if you can last that long.

THE AMAZING MR WILLIAMS

It (1927) Why Be Good? (1929) The Cat's Meow (2001) So This is Paris (1926)...this is kind of fun..first choreographed dance scene, and some interesting camera work, for the time (the whole scene is on youtube.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7koNdKRVI&t=17s .

This is an interesting topic, although I have to admit that I don't usually think in terms of "brave" performances. But would Cary Grant's performance in None But the Lonely Heart, where he departed from his usual comedic/suave/sophisticated roles to play a working-class drifter, qualify as "brave"? Grant reportedly related to the character because of his own modest background, but felt discouraged from taking other adventurous roles when the movie didn't do well at the box office. How about Greta Garbo in Ninotchka? Comedy was a stretch for her, although she did quite well and the movie is well-regarded. What about John Wayne in The Shootist, playing a gunman dying of cancer? Not exactly the usual strong hero (or anti-hero, as in The Searchers) that Wayne usually played. I could imagine that Wayne might have been hesitant about a character who didn't triumph in the end -- although maybe I'm wrong, maybe he relished taking on an unusual role that reflected his own health problems. (What I hear about Wayne sometimes surprises me. While I have little use for his political views, I was pleasantly surprised to hear Katharine Hepburn talk about what a nice guy he seemed to be. And Dick Cavett reported that Wayne expressed admiration for the work of Noel Coward -- not at all what I'd expect.)

CHICAGO, which is a remake of ROXIE HART SOME LIKE IT HOT (they're even Jazz musicians) ROBIN AND THE SEVEN HOODS THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (1947)

MERRY ANDREW 1958

12 Lemmon solo movies I would schedule for a full day of programming: Three for the Show (Columbia, 1955) - A widowed singer (Betty Grable) marries her late husband's songwriting partner (Gower Champion), which leads to trouble when her first husband (Lemmon) turns up very much alive. TCM Airings: 3 Operation Mad Ball (Columbia, 1957) - At an army hospital in post-World War II France, a private (Lemmon) and a captain (Ernie Kovacs) try to outwit one another on such issues as wooing pretty nurses, accounting for missing medical supplies, organizing unauthorized dances and influencing their CO (Arthur O'Connell). TCM Airings: 7 Bell, Book and Candle (Columbia, 1958) - A modern-day witch (Kim Novak) likes her neighbor (James Stewart) but despises his fiancee (Janice Rule) and so enchants him to love her instead. Lemmon plays Novak's warlock brother. TCM Airings: 59 The Apartment (United Artists, 1960) - An insurance adjuster (Lemmon) tries to rise in his company by letting executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. TCM Airings: 73 The Wackiest Ship in the Army (Columbia, 1960) - During World War II, a Naval lieutenant who was a yachtsman before the war (Lemmon) takes command of a sailing ship that's been under Army command while in port for a secret mission in waters patrolled by Japanese warships. TCM Airings: 13 Good Neighbor Sam (Columbia, 1964) - To help his divorced neighbor (Romy Schneider) claim a substantial inheritance, a family man (Lemmon) poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, where his recent promotion depended largely on his wholesome and moral appearance. TCM Airings: 10 The Great Race (Warner Bros., 1965) - In the early 1900s, two rivals, one heroic (Tony Curtis), one despicable (Lemmon), compete in an epic auto race from New York City to Paris. TCM Airings: 44 The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Warner Bros., 1975) - A suddenly unemployed business executive (Lemmon) suffers a nervous breakdown, and his supportive wife (Anne Bancroft) tries everything to console him and pick up the financial slack. TCM Airings: 11 Macaroni (Dist. in the US by Paramount, 1985) - A businessman from the United States (Lemmon) returns to Italy for the first time in 40 years only to discover that old friends have involved him in a massive hoax. TCM Airings: 0 Glengarry Glen Ross (New Line, 1992) - An examination of machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Lemmon is one of the agents in an all-star ensemble. TCM Airings: 0 Getting Away with Murder (Savoy, 1996) - A moral college ethics professor (Dan Akyroyd) plots to kill his neighbor (Lemmon) who may have been a Nazi death camp commander. TCM Airings: 0 Hamlet (Columbia, 1996) - Hamlet, the prince of Denmark (Kenneth Branagh), returns home to find his father (Brian Blessed) has been murdered and that his mother (Julie Christie) is marrying his uncle (Derek Jacobi), who's the murderer. Lemmon is one of many celebrity cameos, appearing early as Marcellus, one of the two guards who sees the ghost of Hamlet's father. TCM Airings: 1

PHILADELPHIA (1993) I didn't think he'd be convincing as that character, but he was! Next: lots of road scenes

Our Dancing Daughters (1928) The Roaring Twenties (1939) Singin' in the Rain (1952)

MR HOBBS TAKES A VACATION

BAD SISTER

Susie Steps Out (1946)

El Inconveniente (One Careful Owner). 2020. Bernabé Rico. Spain. Comedy, drama. A no-nonsense businesswoman (Juana Acosta) buys an apartment as an investment, but she cannot move in until the no-nonsense old woman (Kiti Mánver) who owns the apartment dies. Very good movie. Bernabé Rico's direction is smart and witty, finding depth in even the silliest situations. Rico and Juan Carlos Rubio wrote the screenplay based on Rubio's successful stage play 100 sq. m, and the adaptation is excellent. The performances are good throughout the movie. Kiti Mánver and Juana Acosta give excellent performances, fleshing out the humanity in their characters and not turning them into clichés. José Sacristán makes the most of his very brief appearance, and Carlos Areces is hilarious as the hapless salesman who jumps from one job to another.

My favorite Walter Matthau movie is: Hopscotch (1980). My favorite Jack Lemmon movie is: Avanti! (1972) My favorite with the two of them is: The Fortune Cookie (1966)

MovieCollectorOH's excellent database lists these movies as having appeared on TCM: The Four Musketeers (1974) Joy in the Morning (1965) The Last Wave (1977) The Music Lovers (1970) Petulia (1968) The Slipper and the Rose (1976) The Three Musketeers (1973) Twilight of Honor (1963)

Guy Madison was in a few very good production but only as a supporting actor. For me his best lead roles are in Till The End of Time (with Mitchum and Dorothy McGuire ), and 5 Against The House with Kim Novak and Brian Keith. He was in a handful of westerns and other films, but frankly I don't recall any of them, except Bullwhip but that was more for Rhonda Fleming. He did go to Europe where he had a bigger career in Italian adventure films. As for his looks; When I first saw him I felt for sure he was the brother of the Professor from Gilligan's Island.

BOOTS MALONE (1952)

A HARP IN HOCK

STRAWBERRY ROAN

So, are you saying here Ari that some of the scenes that were left on the editing room floor and that they're gonna recreate with animation in Orson flick will contain ballons, a Korean kid and dogs that can fly airplanes??? And maybe even a scene in which Agnes Moorehead yells, "SQUIRREL!" ? (...hey, I'd be, ahem, up for that, dude...and especially because I've always found The Magnificent Ambersons kind'a boring otherwise)

HERE COMES MR. JORDAN (1941)

I loved Track of the Cat (1954) and would love to see it on the big screen. Director William Wellman and cinematographer William H. Clothier know how to use Cinemascope and successfully carry out Wellman's idea to make a "black and white in color" film. Snowy landscapes, black and white inside and out with splashes of color like Robert Mitchum's red coat. This was a pet project of Wellman's, based on a novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, who also wrote another novel Wellman had filmed, The Ox-Bow Incident. It's easy to see why some of the early audience expected something else. It's a western! Yes, it's set in the Old West, but it isn't a conventional western. It's a Robert Mitchum film! Yes, Robert Mitchum has top billing, but he isn't a hero, nor is the film about his villainy, as in Night of the Hunter, and the actor with the most lines and the most screen time is probably Beulah Bondi. So what's going on here? Is it a domestic melodrama about a toxic family with that favorite 1950s villain, a possessive Mom, but set in the Old West, with some heavy but mysterious and somehow appropriate symbolism about an unseen panther, possibly a black panther? Yes, that's exactly what it is, and if this had been made by an Italian director in the 1960s or by Ingmar Bergman on a Swedish island after he'd been dropping acid, the critics would have gone wild for it. Add that when Ma Bridges (Bondi) starts talking about the gal (Diana Lynn) her baby boy (Tab Hunter) has brought home, she sounds like the father in Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming, and the critics would have gone even wilder. So, The Silver Cord meets Day of the Outlaw, and I was loving it. Beulah Bondi's deployment of exquisite whining, passive aggressiveness, and sour decayed Puritanism was just as effective as Katina Paxinou's over-the-top ranting in Rocco and His Brothers in the dominate-the-sons-at-all-costs sweepstakes. This is one of the most negative portrayals of devout believers in the Code era. It's not coincidence that the bitter, frequently hysterical sister (Teresa Wright) is named Grace. Poor weak alcoholic Dad (Philip Tonge) provides both creepiness and comic relief, and the filmmakers use something they remember from The Lost Weekend. Casting William Hopper and Tab Hunter as brothers makes so much sense, and Hopper's masculine gentleness is the perfect foil to Mitchum's toxic brand of machismo. The visual delights of the film include doors that open back into rooms further away from our point of view, not to mention the unusual point of view chosen to show a burial scene! If you can accept the premise that Wellman sets up for us, this is a very satisfying film. A few more details about the back stories of the two young women and a clearer definition of Tab Hunter's growth to rebellion might have made it even better. Oh, I forgot to mention Carl Switzer as Joe Sam, an Indian who claims to be about a hundred years old, but Joe Sam seemed to belong with the rest of this crazy family.

1974 The Man Who Sleeps (1974) Bernard Queysanne, France This film certainly will not be to all tastes. It is essentially a series of shots about a man in a city who ponders the question ‘what is the point of doing anything.’ The camerawork is very good and it is accompanied by narration such as “to walk down a street, or not to walk down a street.” It might as well be Hamlet. But this film has absolutely no drama. It won the Prix Jean Vigo in 1974. and I’ve also seen … Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974) Leonid Bykov, Russia. My main problem with this film is that for tis subject it lacked scope. I suspect it may have been done on a shoestring. It is about a fighter squadron on the Eastern Front. Just about the entire film takes place in a farmhouse and one country field and the characters are tightly shot as to not reveal much background. The battle footage is taken from stock shots. When the planes are not idling in the fields the men are back at the farmhouse singing folk songs with their ensemble band!

THE HANGING TREE

THE WAR AGAINST MRS. HADLEY (1942)

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band -Dec 1970 Lennon gives us one of the most raw and powerful albums of all time. He was undergoing Primal Scream therapy at the time and this is one of the most intimate portraits a major artist has ever allowed the public to see. The instruments are very spare but effective, John on guitar and sometimes piano, Ringo Starr on drums and their old friend from Germany Klaus Voormann on bass. The first song "Mother' is a gut wrenching experience, as John talks of rejection and abandonment by his parents, his screams at the end are chilling. "Hold On John" is a more hopeful tune telling himself, Yoko and the world to hold on, it's gonna be alright. "I Found Out" is John lashing out at everybody who has ever disappointed him. My favorite track is "Working Class Hero" , it has the most ominous sounding acoustic guitar playing and some of John's most bitter and powerful lyrics. "Isolation" is a gentle sounding tune about exactly what the title says. "Remember" opens Side 2 with a pounding piano riff and John talking about remembering things the way they were and how he now sees them. It ends with "Remember the fifth of November!" and an explosion. "Love" is the most beautiful song on the album with simple but still profound lyrics. Producer Phil Spector plays piano. "Well Well Well" has some stinging guitar playing and more unnerving primal screams. "Look At Me" is a tender love song. "God" is John giving us a list of things he does not believe in with a litany of statements about Jesus, Kennedy, Buddha, Mantra, Elvis, Dylan (called Zimmerman here) and finally spits out "I don't believe in Beatles". He tells us the dream is over and we need to carry on. Billy Preston provides some gospel sounding piano on this one. The final song is a chilling demo called "My Mummy's Dead". This album is a musical masterpiece, even if sometimes painful, but that's what the truth sometimes is.

REUNION IN VIENNA 1933

Murder, She Wrote

It Never Rains But When It Pours - Judy Garland - Love Finds Andy Hardy another song sung by a character in their teens

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)

Someone to Watch Over Me from Young at Heart next--character singing is in their teens

A lot of people talk about certain scenes in THE ROARING 20S, such as the big speakeasy scene with "Wild About Harry" getting sung as Cagney and Bogart share a table or the ending with Gladys George's tearful delivery of the film's famous last line. And you're right, the shootout in the restaurant is excitingly staged by director Raoul Walsh. But, on a minor note, I just like the way that gangster Paul Kelly slurps down a plate of spaghetti.

KID GALAHAD (1962)

The Long, Long Trailer Next: another movie with a real life couple

TAKE ONE FALSE STEP

George Montgomery

The Satin Girl (1923)

Justice, James Robertson

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (1971) Of course he would have been very miscast! Next: lots of swinging from vines

LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (1955)

Ginglebusher, Louise - Deanna Durbin in I'll Be Yours

my favorite Jack Lemmon comedies are THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS + THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE. "I apologize for my husband!" a crazed jack lemmon mugs sly.

More Paramount silents. From skimming that Films of the 1920s list above, movies jumping out at me are "The Sheik", "Miss Lulu Bett", "Moran of the Lady Letty", "When Knighthood Was In Flower", "The Covered Wagon", "The Ten Commandments", "Sally of the Sawdust", "So's Your Old Man", "Stark Love", "Chang", "The Last Command", "The Docks of New York", "The Wedding March", and "The Four Feathers" (which apparently was the last silent film released by a major studio and which co-starred William Powell and Fay Wray).

Vivien Leigh's character in THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE (1961).

Hat Check Honey (1944)

1971 and I’ve also seen … Nausicaa (1971) Agnes Varda, France Docudrama about Greek political refugees in France. At times it could easily be mistaken for a Godard film. For me it was all a bit dated and not that engaging. Gerard Depardieu has an interesting cameo as a hippie petty thief.