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"Say hello to my little friend." -- Miami drug kingpin Tony Montana (Al Pacino), holding off invaders at his mansion in "Scarface" (1983).

TCM On Demand for June 10, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. Mean Streets (1973) -- Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova, Vic Argo, George Memmoli, Lenny Scaletta, Jeannie Bell, Murray Moston, David Carradine, Robert Carradine, Lois Walden, Harry Northup, Dino Seragusa, D'Mitch Davis, Peter Fain, Juli Andelman, Robert Wilder, Ken Sinclair, Jaime Alba, Ken Konstantin, Nicki 'Ack' Aquilino, B. Mitchel Reed. Uncredited: Catherine Scorsese. Set in New York's Little Italy section, this crime drama put Martin Scorsese on the map as a filmmaking force to be reckoned with. It also was an early dramatic teaming of De Niro and Keitel, who became two of the director's favorite collaborators. Expires June 16, 2015.

Mara Corday was in "Two Tickets to Broadway" (1951) with Janet Leigh. Janet Leigh was in "Harper" (1966) with Paul Newman. Next: Pamela Anderson.

"I want to be alone." -- The Russian ballerina Grusinskaya (Greta Garbo) in "Grand Hotel" (1932).

"My father taught me many things here. He taught me in this room. He taught me: Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." -- Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) to Frankie Pentangeli (Michael V. Gazzo) in "The Godfather Part II" (1974).

"Oh, face it, Mama. I was the **** of all time." -- Gloria Wandrous (Elizabeth Taylor) to her mother (Mildred Dunnock) in "BUtterfield 8" (1960).

"Madness...Madness." -- Major Clipton (James Donald), the British medical officer in a Japanese POW camp in Burma in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957).

"I haven't seen Berlin yet, from the ground or from the air, and I plan on doing both before the war is over." -- U.S. Army Air Force Captain Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen) -- "The Cooler King" -- in "The Great Escape" (1963), after being caught too close to a German POW camp's wire fence.

"That'll do, pig. That'll do." -- Farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell) in "Babe" (1995), after his plucky little "sheep-pig" wins a British sheep-herding competition.

"As if!" -- High school student Cherilyn "Cher" Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone), expressing distaste for the antics of a classmate in "Clueless" (1995).

"Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." -- Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) to Ilsa Lund Lazlo (Ingrid Bergman) in "Casablanca" (1942).

James Whitmore was in "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994) with Tim Robbins. Tim Robbins was in "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994) with Paul Newman. Next: Lesley-Anne Down.

TCM On Demand for June 9, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: I See a Dark Stranger (1946) -- Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard, Norman Shelley, Liam Redmond, Brefni O'Rorke, James Harcourt, George Woodbridge, Garry Marsh, Olga Lindo, Tom Macaulay, David Ward, Harry Hutchinson, Harry Webster, David Tomlinson, Torin Thatcher, Katie Johnson. Uncredited actor: Patricia Laffan. This British-made production is headlined by Deborah Kerr, who appeared in it just before she became an MGM star in America. She plays Bridie Quilty, a headstrong, patriotic Irish woman who heads to Dublin after her 21st birthday hoping to join the Irish Republican Army. She instead becomes involved in anti-British activities as a spy for the Germans during World War II. Expires June 15, 2015.

No problem! We all know how different TCM On Demand can be on various cable systems. I just wanted to make sure everyone knew how many of the Summer of Darkness selections were available on Watch TCM. They should be accessible until the next round of film noir presentations on Friday, June 12th.

"What are you gonna do? Bleed on me?" -- King Arthur (Graham Chapman), after getting the best of The Black Knight (John Cleese) in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975).

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." -- Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) to daughter Scout (Mary Badham) in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962).

The list refers to the Movies On Demand feature of Watch TCM, which is located on the TCM.com site -- not TV cable offerings.

"He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?" -- Tanya (Marlene Dietrich) in "Touch of Evil" (1958), referring to Police Captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles).

TCM On Demand for June 8, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. A Little Romance (1979) -- Sir Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard, Arthur Hill, Sally Kellerman, Broderick Crawford, David Dukes, Andrew Duncan, Claudette Sutherland, Graham Fletcher-Cook, Ashby Semple, Claude Brosset, Jacques Maury, Anna Massey, Peter Maloney. This charming romantic comedy was the film debut of the promising young actress Lane, who went on to become an Academy Award nominee (Best Actress of 2002 for "Unfaithful") and one of the screen's great beauties. The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who teamed with Paul Newman and Robert Redford for the buddy Western "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) and the Oscar-winning comedy caper "The Sting" (1973). He also directed "The World of Henry Orient," the 1964 comedy about New York City schoolgirls (Tippy Walker, Merrie Spaeth) obssessed with a concert pianist (Peter Sellers). Filmed in France and Italy, this story is about teenagers, too. It stars Lane as Lauren King, a brilliant American girl living in Paris with her mother (Kellerman) and businessman stepfather (Arthur Hill). She becomes fast friends with Daniel Michon (played by first-time actor Bernard), an opinionated French teen who loves American movies. When they meet an elderly pickpocket named Julius Edmond Santorin (Olivier), he leads them to believe he is an accomplished diplomat. He also inspires them to make an impromptu trip to Venice to test the veracity of a romantic legend involving the Bridge of Sighs and a gondola at sunset (or so he says). French composer Georges Delerue, a frequent collaborator with director François Truffaut, won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Allan Burns, a multi-Emmy Award winner whose credits include Mary Tyler Moore's 1970s comedy series, received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film concludes with a freeze-frame shot, a style that Hill also used at the end of "Butch Cassidy" and "The World According to Garp" (1982). Cover Credit: JOHN G. ZIMMERMAN Lane, the daughter of drama coach/agent Burt Lane and Playboy Playmate Colleen Farrington (Miss October 1957), began acting in stage productions in New York City when she was 6 years old. She was 13 when she made her debut film, which led to her being featured at age 14 on the August 13, 1979 cover of Time magazine. In addition to Lane, the cover story focused on other young Hollywood stars of the day, including Brooke Shields, Mariel Hemingway, Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol and Linda Manz. Although she has taken occasional breaks from acting through the years, Lane, who observed her 51st birthday in January, appeared in the 2016 superhero film "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice." She reprised her 2013 "Man of Steel" role as Martha Kent, the foster mother of Superman (Henry Cavill). In October 2016, Lane starred in a Broadway revival of Anton Chekhov's “The Cherry Orchard." She played the main character Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya. In 1977, Lane appeared in a Broadway production of the play as a preteen with a cast that also featured Irene Worth (as Ranevskaya), Raul Julia and Meryl Streep. Memorable dialogue: Broderick Crawford (as himself, after Daniel punches an obnoxious film director played by Dukes): Helluva right hand there, kid. Daniel: Like when you hit Ward Bond in "Sin Town." Crawford: Who? Daniel: Ward Bond. Crawford: In what? Daniel: "Sin Town." Don't you remember? Crawford: Ward Bond..."Sin Town"... (walks away) (Later) Crawford: Hey, kid! Are you sure that wasn't Richard Widmark I belted? Daniel: No. You never made a picture with Widmark. Crawford: I didn't? Expires June 14, 2015.

"Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still -- real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then." -- Huw Morgan (Roddy McDowall, actor; Irving Pichel, adult voiceover) remembering father Gwilym Morgan (Donald Crisp) in "How Green Was My Valley" (1941).

TCM On Demand for June 8, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. Rashômon (1950) --Toshirô Mifune (Tajômaru), Machiko Kyô (Masako Kanazawa), Masayuki Mori (Takehiro Kanazawa), Takashi Shimura (Woodcutter), Minoru Chiaki (Priest), Kichijirô Ueda (Commoner), Noriko Honma (Medium), Daisuke Katô (Policeman). The title of Japanese director Akira Kurasawa's groundbreaking film has become a dictionary definition for an effect involving contradictory viewpoints about the same event. The title actually refers to a city gate in Kyoto. Set in Japan during the 12th century, the story provides several versions of the death of a samurai (Mori) in a dense forest and the sexual assault of his wife (Kyô). Meanwhile, a woodcutter (Shimura) contends that he witnessed the entire episode. The lone suspect in the case is a bandit (Mifune), but it remains to be seen if authorities can determine the truth by sifting through the differing accounts of his actions. The drama received an honorary 1951 Academy Award as the outstanding foreign-language film released in the United States. A year later it received a 1952 Oscar nomination in the category of Best Black-and-White Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Takashi Matsuyama, H. Motsumoto). The film was remade in 1964 as "The Outrage," an American Western directed by Martin Ritt ("Hud," "Sounder") and starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G, Robinson and William Shatner. Expires June 14, 2015.

"Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm gonna be right behind you, holding on tight. And away we're gonna go, go, go! -- Ethel Thayer (Katharine Hepburn) to her aging husband Norman (Henry Fonda) in "On Golden Pond" (1981).

"Over? Did you say 'over'? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!" -- "Bluto" Blutarsky (John Belushi) in "National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978).

"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." -- Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) to Jeremiah "Jerry" Durrance in "Now, Voyager" (1942).

"What a dump!" -- Rosa Moline (Bette Davis) to Dr. Louis Moline (Joseph Cotten) in "Beyond the Forest" (1949).