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TCM On Demand for May 30, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Act of Violence (1948) -- Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter, Berry Kroeger, Taylor Holmes, Harry Antrim, Connie Gilchrist, Will Wright. Directed by Fred Zinnemann ("From Here to Eternity," "A Man for All Seasons"), this post-World War revenge tale stars Ryan as Joe Parkson, an American survivor of a German prisoner-of-war camp. He arrives in a small California town, determined to even a score with Frank Enley (Heflin), another POW at the German camp. Leigh co-stars as Enley's perplexed wife Edith. Expires June 5, 2015. 2. Tomorrow Is Forever (1946) -- Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long, Natalie Wood. Directed by Irving Pichel ("Destination Moon"), this drama is about the impact of two world wars on a Baltimore woman played by Colbert. At the end of World War I, she is told that her beloved husband (Welles) was killed six days before the armistice. Two decades later, as World War II is about to begin in Europe, the husband that was presumed dead arrives in town with a new name, a new face and a German orphan in tow. This was the film debut for Long, who plays the adult son of the characters played by Colbert and Welles. It also was the first major movie role for child actress Wood, who plays the orphan Margaret Ludwig. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw7EiDMZbbU Memorable dialogue: Elizabeth Hamilton (Colbert): "Won't you tell me the truth?" John Andrew MacDonald (Welles): "This is the truth. If you want to stop living in the present, you can reach into the past -- but you'll never get back what you lost. You only lose what you have." Expires June 5, 2015.

Surely, you've seen him in "Gunga Din" (1939) with Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Joan Fontaine, or in the 1937 version of "The Prisoner of Zenda" with Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, David Niven and Mary Astor.

Seems like an every other year thing for New Trier products. Ann-Margret this year. Charlton Heston in 2013. Ralph Bellamy in 2011. It's like the San Francisco Giants winning World Series in even-numbered years!

"It's a hell of a thing killin' a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have." -- William Munny (Clint Eastwood) to the Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) in "Unforgiven" (1992).

I don't think so. But there's also these two from the same movie. 1. "You complete me." -- Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise). 2. "You had me at 'hello.' " -- Dorothy Boyd (Renée Zellweger).

"The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good." -- Corporate raider Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) in "Wall Street" (1987).

"That's the press, baby. The press. And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!" -- Ed Hutcheson (Humphrey Bogart), editor of the New York newspaper The Day, to the menacing mobster Tomas Rienzi (Martin Gabel) in "Deadline U.S.A." (1952).

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" -- UBS Evening News anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) in "Network" (1976).

"Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinkin' palm tree overboard. Now what's all this crud about no movie tonight?" -- Ensign Frank Pulver (Jack Lemmon) to the captain of the USS Reluctant (James Cagney) in "Mister Roberts" (1955).

It would have been a nice selection for Robert Walker Day, too. But it's not being shown then, either.

"You never got me down, Ray!" -- Boxer Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro) to Sugar Ray Robinson (Johnny Barnes) in "Raging Bull" (1980), after their sixth and final fight on February 14, 1951. The world middleweight championship bout became known as "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" because of Robinson's pummeling of LaMotta. Although Robinson won the title via a technical knockout, the deposed champion LaMotta managed to stay on his feet.

Apparently not. The schedule for August 27th features: "Live, Love And Learn" (1937), "Everybody Sing" (1938), "Three Comrades" (1938), "Lord Jeff" (1938), "Young Dr. Kildare" (1938), "Dancing Co-Ed" (1939), "Night and Day" (1946), "Kismet" (1955), "Holy Matrimony" (1943), "Molly and Me" (1945), "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1941), "The Bishop's Wife" (1947) and "The Girl of the Golden West" (1938).

TCM On Demand for May 29, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. La Jetée (1962) -- Jean Négroni (narrator), Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, André Heinrich, Jacques Branchu, Pierre Joffroy, Étienne Becker, Philbert von Lifchitz, Ligia Borowczyk, Janine Klein, Bill Klein, Germano Facetti. This haunting French film short about time travel -- its title means "The Pier" in English -- was the inspiration for Terry Gilliam's acclaimed 1995 sci-fi picture "12 Monkeys," which starred Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt and Madeleine Stowe. Directed by Chris Marker (1921-2012), the black-and-wife effort is a 28-minute compilation of mostly still photos and a story told through narration. Set in the Paris of an unspecified future, the tale stars Hanich as a survivor of World War III and its aftermath. Living underground as a prisoner with other survivors, he becomes part of a scientific time travel experiment. He is successfully sent back to the early 1960s, where he gets a chance to relive a childhood memory of a woman (Chatelain) he once saw at Orly Airport. Thanks to time travel, he gets an opportunity to meet and develop a romantic relationship with her. This was one of six movies about time travel that Turner Classic Movies aired beginning in prime time on Thursday, May 28, 2015 and carrying over into the early morning hours of Friday, May 29. Expires June 4, 2015. 2. World Without End (1956) -- Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh, Rod Taylor, Shirley Patterson (billed as Shawn Smith), Lisa Montell, Christopher Dark, Booth Colman, Everett Glass, Stanley Fraser. Uncredited: Herb Vigran, Paul Brinegar. Written and directed by Edward Bernds ("Queen of Outer Space," "Return of the Fly"), this Technicolor sci-fi film is about four astronauts returning to Earth from a mission to Mars. Trouble ensues when a time warp propels them to the Earth of the 26th century, a post-apocalyptic era when the planet is populated by mutants. Dark, Marlowe, Leigh and Taylor play American astronauts who are out of time Taylor died on January 7, 2015, four days before what would have been his 85th birthday. Four years after this movie was released, he starred as another time traveler in "The Time Machine," director George Pal's Oscar-winning adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic story. Expires June 4, 2015.

"Mother-m-mother, uh, what is the phrase? She isn't quite herself today." -- Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), proprietor of the Bates Motel in Sir Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960).

Rex Ingram was one of the few actors who played both God and the Devil in films, so it's nice that Turner Classic Movies is showing "The Green Pastures" (1936) and "Cabin in the Sky" (1943) back to back on August 11th. But how could they show only two of the three Harry Palmer movies on Sir Michael Caine's day (August 6th) and telecast them out of order? "Billion Dollar Brain" (1967), the third film in the trilogy, airs at 9:45 a.m. Meanwhile, the first film in the series -- "The Ipcress File" (1965) -- will begin 12 hours later, at 10 p.m. The second film, "Funeral in Berlin" (1966), isn't being shown at all.

"We are the Pros from Dover and we figure to crack this kid's chest and get out to the golf course before it gets dark." -- Army surgeon Trapper John McIntyre (Elliott Gould) in "M*A*S*H" (1970).

"Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives, and when he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?" -- Angel Second Class Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers) to George Bailey (James Stewart) in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946).

"It's good to be the king!" -- King Lous XVI of France (Mel Brooks) in "Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part I" (1981).

Not bad! There are six people who were born in August (Mitchum, Bergman, Winters, Clarke, Wooley and Massey) and four who died during that month (Bergman, Groucho, Neal and Walker). Plus De Havilland gets a tribute a month after her 99th birthday on July 1st.

Just be very, very quiet. A stampede could start at any moment.

It isn't one line, but Sepiatone's entry reminded me of this gem from Matthau as Oscar Madison in "The Odd Couple": "Told you 158 times I cannot stand little notes on my pillow! 'We are all out of cornflakes, F.U.' Took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Unger!"

“Your mother sews socks that smell!” -- This was the edited-for-television version of what the demon-possessed Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) said at one point in William Friedkin's "The Exorcist" (1973). The actual line simply can't be used here. Academy Award winner Mercedes McCambridge ("All the King's Men") provided the demon's voice.

"From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee; for hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee." -- Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban), quoting Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" as he has his revenge on the crew of the USS Enterprise in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982).

"Not hardly!" -- Rancher Jacob McCandles (John Wayne) in "Big Jake" (1971), whenever someone mistakenly assumes the onetime gunfighter was dead.

TCM On Demand for May 28, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. The Long Goodbye (1973) -- Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, Henry Gibson, David Arkin, Jim Bouton, Warren Berlinger, Jo Ann Brody, Stephen Coit, Jack Knight, Pepe Callahan, Vincent Palmieri, Pancho Córdova, Enrique Lucero, Rutanya Alda, Jack Riley. Uncredited: Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Carradine, Danny Goldman, Carl Gottlieb, Kate Murtagh, George Wyner. Director Robert Altman's 1970s take on the film noir genre stars Gould as the durable private detective Philip Marlowe. The movie's eclectic cast includes: a headliner from a notorious international hoax; a onetime major league pitcher turned controversial author; an accomplished director making a return to acting; and an Austrian bodybuilding champion who became an action-film superstar and then governor of the most populous American state. The film was derived from the 1953 novel by the great Raymond Chandler, who created Marlowe in the late 1930s. The screenplay was adapted by Leigh Brackett, who co-wrote the 1946 film version of Chandler's "The Big Sleep," which starred Humphrey Bogart as Marlowe. Set in the Southern California of the early 1970s, the offbeat drama follows Marlowe's connection to an apparent murder-suicide case involving a longtime friend Terry Lennox (played by former New York Yankees pitcher Bouton). The detective also is hired by Eileen Wade (Van Pallandt), the elegant-looking wife of a missing author (Hayden) who has been suffering from writer's block. Meanwhile, Marlowe is menaced by an impulsive mobster named Mickey Augustine (Rydell), who believes the detective knows the whereabouts of a large sum of money. The detective: Gould, who had worked with Altman in the hit 1970 black comedy "M*A*S*H," became one of several actors who played Marlowe onscreen. Among the others: Bogart, Dick Powell ("Murder, My Sweet," 1944), Robert Montgomery ("Lady in the Lake," 1947), George Montgomery ("The Brasher Doubloon," 1947) and James Garner ("Marlowe," 1969). After this film was released, Robert Mitchum played the detective twice -- in "Farewell, My Lovely" (a 1975 remake of "Murder, My Sweet") and a 1978 remake of "The Big Sleep." The femme fatale: The Danish-born Van Pallandt became part of a cause célèbre in 1972 when her lover Clifford Irving emerged with an autobiography of Howard Hughes purportedly written with the cooperation of the reclusive billionaire. Hughes and his minions declared that the story wasn't true. When the ruse was exposed, the February 21, 1972 issue of Time magazine featured a portrait of Irving by the infamous art forger Elmyr de Hory with the caption "Con Man of the Year." Van Pallandt helped expose the hoax by revealing that Irving was with her in Mexico during the time of his supposed collaboration with Hughes. She became a celebrity and went on to appear in several other films, including the Altman films "A Wedding" (1978) and "Quintet" (1979). She also appeared in "American Gigolo," (1980) "Cutter's Way" (1981) and "The Sword and the Sorcerer" (1982). The murder suspect: Bouton played with the Yankees from 1962 to 1968 and was a member of three World Series teams. In 1970, he caused a stir with the publication of his book "Ball Four," a tell-all chronicle of his career with the Yankees and a tumultuous 1969 season as a member of the Seattle Pilots expansion team (now the Milwaukee Brewers). The book might seem tame today. In fact, it is now considered to be one of the great sports tome of all time. But Bouton's revelations about high profile teammates such as Mickey Mantle and Joe Pepitone made him persona non grata in many baseball circles. For instance, he was not invited to participate in an Old Timers' Day ceremony at Yankee Stadium until 1998, when he was 59 years old. After his appearance in Altman's film, Bouton starred as Jim Barton in "Ball Four," a fictionalized 1976 CBS comedy based on his book. It lasted only five episodes. The mobster: This was the first acting role in years for Rydell, who had turned to directing such feature films as "The Fox" (1967), "The Reivers" (1969) and "The Cowboys" (1972). His film "Cinderella Liberty," which received three Academy Award nominations, was released eight months after Altman's film. Rydell went on to direct Gould in "Harry and Walter Go to New York" (1976) and Bette Midler in her Oscar-nominated performances in "The Rose" (1979) and "For the Boys" (1991). His greatest achievement as a filmmaker was "On Golden Pond" (1981), which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. It won Oscars for Henry Fonda (Best Actor), Katharine Hepburn (Best Actress) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ernest Thompson, from his 1978 play). The henchman: This was only the second screen appearance by Schwarzenegger, uncredited as one of Augustine's henchman. He had co-starred with comic actor Arnold Stang in a 1970 low-budget feature film titled "Hercules in New York." He was billed as "Arnold Strong." Schwarzenegger had gained a following through his prowess as a bodybuilder (he was Mr. Olympia seven times between 1970 and 1980). But he continued to appear in films, including "Stay Hungry" (1976), "The Villain" (1979) and "Conan the Barbarian" (1981) and its 1984 sequel "Conan the Destroyer." He attained superstardom in the 1984 sci-fi sleeper hit "The Terminator" which spawned four sequels. Schwarzenegger has appeared in three: "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991), "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" (2003) and the upcoming "Terminator Genisys" (2015). From November 17, 2003 to January 3, 2011, Schwarzenegger put his acting career on hold after his election as California's 38th governor. He was elected as a Republican in a 2003 recall action that unseated the previous governor, Democrat Gray Davis. This was one of 21 films that Turner Classic Movies aired in honor of Hayden (1916-1986), the cable channel's Star of the Month for May 2015. Expires June 3, 2015. 2. The Star (1952) -- Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood, Warner Anderson, Minor Watson, June Travis, Paul Frees, Robert Warwick, Barbara Lawrence (as herself), Fay Baker, Herb Vigran. Uncredited: Byron Foulger, Marcia Mae Jones. Davis received a Best Actress nomination for her performance as Margaret "Maggie" Elliot, an Academy Award-winning actress who comes close to losing everything when her career goes south. Hayden is Jim Johannsen, the former co-star who provides moral support when she stages a comeback. In one of her last juvenile roles, Wood appears as Maggie's daughter Gretchen Drew. The drama was directed by Stuart Heisler ("The Glass Key," "Storm Warning") from a screenplay by Katherine Albert and Dale Eunson. Expires June 3, 2015.