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> Wouldn't you know it? A perfectly wonderful tragedy spoiled by Hollywood's compulsion for happy endings and a reluctant necessity to follow the barest outlines of history (Lenin wasn't assassinated).
Apparently you haven't heard of Fanni Kaplan:
(I knew about the assassination attempt, although I had to look up the name.)
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It comes not long after Tomlin and Fonda meet Parton at the bar and learn that she's just as fed up with Coleman as they are. The three then go to (I think) Tomlin's house, where they smoke, get the giggles, and talk about what they would do to their boss.
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> The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has given it an 'R' because of its crude sexual content, unclean language and the presence of drug material. Again, I don't remember NINE TO FIVE needing these to tell a good story.
You don't recall the marijuana scene in *Nine to Five* ?
(That's not a rhetorical question; there is such a scene.)
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I just realized today's the last day for voting!
After some consideration, I think I'll vote for *traceyk*, in part because I think Charles Boyer has never been Star of the Month before, and I'd think is more than well-known enough to deserve the honor. (And nowhere near as irritating as Maurice Chevalier, who comes across as a dirty old man in *Gigi*.)
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Ritter wasn't nominated for *Rear Window*.
She was nominated for:
1950: *All About Eve* (I don't think she deserved to win that year; Hope Emerson in *Caged* is better as is actual winner Josephine Hull in *Harvey* )
1951: *The Mating Season* (the one she really deserved to win; she lost to Kim Hunter in *A Streetcar Named Desire* )
1952: *With a Song in My Heart* (a relatively weak role; Gloria Grahame won for *The Bad and the Beautiful* )
1953: *Pickup on South Street* (another excellent performance, but Donna Reed is just as good in *From Here to Eternity*. Gloria Grahame would have been worthy of another nomination for *The Big Heat*, but wasn't nominated)
1959: *Pillow Talk* (Shelley Winters won for *The Diary of Anne Frank*, although the other three nominations are probably better: Susan Kohner and Juanita Moore in *Imitation of Life*, and Hermione Baddeley in *Room at the Top* )
1962: *The Birdman of Alcatraz* (Patty Duke won for *The Miracle Worker* in another example of how juvenile Oscars should still be awarded separately. However, Angela Lansbury is just as good cast against type in *The Manchurian Candidate*.)
The five nominations for 1954:
Nina Foch -- *Executive Suite* {"Erica Martin"}
Katy Jurado -- *Broken Lance* {"Senora Devereaux"}
Eva Marie Saint -- *On the Waterfront* {"Edie Doyle"}
Jan Sterling -- *The High and the Mighty* {"Sally McKee"}
Claire Trevor -- *The High and the Mighty* {"Mary Holst"}
Eva Marie Saint probably won for the scene where Marlon Brando tells her the truth about his involvement in her brother's killing, where Karl Malden is watching from a distance. There's a steam whistle that goes off, so we only see Brando's mouth moving and Eva Marie Saint responding in horror. I think she pulls off that scene quite well.
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*Philadelphia* makes *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* look subtle.
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I like that within the past few weeks, we've had one poster complain that TCM is showing movies with the intention of adding the Warner Archive advertising bit at the end, and another poster claim that TCM won't show a movie because they want to get you to buy it.
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> And, just to overlap a couple of threads, *49th Parallel* is all about Canada !
But would a Canadian director have made the movie that well? I can't imagine a Canadian having the Nazis appeal to Quebec nationalism, the way Eric Portman does to Laurence Olivier and his ridiculous accent.
I'd think Anglo Canadians would have acted as though relations between them and Quebec were all peaches and cream, an illusion which to them would only have been punctured with the Richard riots (to bring in a Canadian from the other thread). Vancouverites may enjoy a riot, but I don't know that they've got anything on the French Canadians. :-)
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Moira Shearer also shows up in Powell's *Peeping Tom*.
I'm partial to *49th Parallel*. Filmmakers of today could do well to watch it and see how to make your political points without making the movie suffer.
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> I think the story of LARRY CROWNE will resonate with viewers. Tom plays a man who has been laid off from his job, because he does not have a college degree. As a result he goes back to school and meets a professor (Roberts) that changes his life. He changes her life, too.
So they've remade Loretta Young's *Mother is a Freshman* and switched the gender roles?
I think it would be a more interesting movie if the parent and professor both discovered they were gay. Oh, and if there were a gay son competing for the professor's attention. :-)
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"When they said 'Canada', I thought it was up in the mountains somewhere." -- Marilyn Monroe
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> Who resembles the Monopoly Man more than Charles Coburn? I couldn't think of anyone.
Guy Kibbee in a top hat? Raymond Walbourn? ;-)
Actually, speaking of Kibbee, he and your SOTM Glenda Farrell are in one of my favorite pre-Codes, *Girl Missing*. She plays one of a pair of gold diggers who gets stiffed by Kibbee in Palm Beach and left a "dear Jane" note:
"Yep, it's addressed to us all right: 'To the GD sisters'. I wonder if he means 'gold diggers'... or that other well-known word."
I nearly fell out of my chair when I heard that line. Even though it was a pre-Code, I still couldn't believe it got through. Farrell also uses the word "jailbait" later in the film.
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Yes, that would be it. I don't know why it didn't occur to me to try a keyword search on "riveter".
I think I would have seen it during a TCM birthday salute to Walter Pidgeon.
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I'm looking for the title of a movie I think I saw on TCM some time back about a construction worker working on a high-rise who meets the young woman living in the building across from where he's working. I think they fall in love, but he's all wrong for her because she's rich and obviously he, being a construction worker, isn't.
I think it dates to the early 30s, but a search on IMDb didn't yield any suitable movies.
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They're insects, not monsters, but the creatures in *The Hellstrom Chronicle* win.
It's not on DVD, as far as I know, but it is on Youtube:
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Or perhaps the teleprompter read "29", and Osborne misspoke, with nobody noticing it. I read the newscasts for my college radio station, so I know how easy it is to misspeak even when you're reading copy.
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NOTES ON A SCHEDULE
Every December, TCM wows us all with a video parade of the dead, TCM-style: all the actors and behind the camera types who died in the past year get honored. Well, there was a lot more that went on in 2011 than just people dying, and TCM could probably spend a whole month looking back at the year that was. (Obviously, since I had to come up with this schedule by the end of June, I could only look back at the first half of the year; by the time of the next Programming Challenge, TCM will most likely have already released the December 2011 schedule. The other weeks of the month can look at some of the events that happen in the second half of the year.)
There are a lot of movie people who died, and I probably could have come up with the majority of the schedule just by honoring the people who left us in 2011. But I didn't want to take the boring step of simply doing obituary after obituary, and eventually came up with the idea of honoring a different person every day in December with one of that person's films (with a possible exception on December 25 for *Death Takes a Holiday*).
I'm sure you can't forget how New York Congressman Anthony Weiner got himself into trouble by putting photos that clearly showed his naughty bits on the internet, thinking he was sending them to one individual. TCM remembers this first by showing Karlheinz B?hm filming something sex-related in *Peeping Tom*; Gary Cooper a politician who has a dalliance with a college-aged kid in *Ten North Frederick*; and Loretta Young giving a letter to a mailman she wishes she could get back in *Cause For Alarm*
Back in March, Mickey Rooney testified before congress about the dangers of elder abuse. TCM shows a "Crime Does Not Pay" short about bilking seniors, followed by increasingly frivolous portrayals of elders getting abused.
On Sunday night, TCM looks at some non-movie types who died in 2011. Jack Kevorkian advocated euthanasia, and the one movie I could think of that shows euthanasia clearly and in a non-propagandistic light is *Soylent Green*. Dorothy Young was one of Houdini's assistants, although she doesn't show up (at least not by name) in the Tony Curtis version of *Houdini*.
On Monday, TCM starts off by looking at some of the arts happenings. You might recall Lars von Trier's pro-Nazi comments at the Cannes Film Festival. Well, he's not the only person who did something he wished he could take back, and we remember what poor Lee Tracy did on the set of *Viva Villa*.
TCM announced a classic movie cruise to be held in December, and we mark that by showing three movies with couples who fell in love on a boat trip (where did Bette Davis meet Paul Henried?)
On Monday night, I have the first of the three "Easy as 1-2-3" sets. ABC announced the cancellation of two of its soap operas, so an obvious choice was to show three of the overblown soap operas that Hollywood put out in the late 1950s. That's followed by Oliver Stone's *Nixon*, which is an ahistorical homage to All My Children creator Agnes Nixon.
Hollywood has always made remakes and relied on source material from other media to make movies. I don't think they've had an ounce of originality since Fred Ott sneezed. On Tuesday, TCM shows seven movies that inspired some of the big movies of 2011. (Surely you all remember the green light from *The Great Gatsby*.)
I knew that when I came up with the idea for a "TCM Remembers" schedule, the Star of the Month was going to have to be somebody who died in 2011, so I selected Ann Francis, if only to avoid the more famous people like Elizabeth Taylor.
In May, IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn allegedly tried to rape a hotel maid, and then flee the country by taking a plane to France. TCM remembers this by showing five movies with characters who try to make an escape by plane, although some of them get foiled before even getting on the plane.
I haven't watched a minute of the trashy circus known as the Casey Anthony trial, although as I understand she stands accused of murdering her child. I couldn't think offhand of too many mothers kiling their children in Hollywood movies, but the next closest thing is Bette Davis standing accused of killing one of the kids in her charge. Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk was also on trial in 2011, so a movie about the search for a Nazi is an appropriate choice.
Wednesday evening brings 2011 in science and technology. In mid-2010, Russia began a simulated voyage to Mars, as research into how cosmonauts would react during several months aboard a cramped spaceship. (There was no deception involved by the Russians.) It was announced in February that the simulation was to the point where, if it were a real mission, the cosmonauts would be landing on Mars. There's an obvious choice of what movie to select to mark this. The four selections weren't enough for an entire night, so I concluded the night by remembering Harold Camping's failed attempt to calculate the date of the Rapture as coming in late May.
Thursday is a mish-mash of stories. Greece may or may not default on its debts; I selected two movies about countries (Freedonia and Grand Fenwick respectively) that have severe financial problems of their own. If you remember the circus in Madison, Wisconsin, you'll know that the only movie that could do such labor strife justice is *I'm All Right Jack*. The short is there in honor of the British royal wedding in April. Several people around the country have created controversy by filming cops in the process of doing things that are abuses of power at best and illegal at worst. (The specific case I mention occured in Rochester, NY, although there's another notorious case in Miami , and a bunch of botched SWAT raids, such as that of Jose Guerena in Tucson.) *Detective Story* shows that such behavior has probably always been endemic amongst cops; it's just that we can capture them on cheap video cameras now.
Thursday night is the second of the "Easy as 1-2-3" sets: the movies of Sidney Lumet, who died in 2011. I picked three movies that as far as I remember didn't get shown in TCM's salute to Lumet.
In April, there was an erroneous report that the world's last typewriter factory had shut down. I selected three movies in which the police (well, in *The Glass Key* it's Alan Ladd and not the police) analyzing typewriters, and a fourth movie in which the typewriter is used rather more forcefully. That's followed on Friday afternoon by three movies about weather disasters.
Friday night is the third and last night of "Easy as 1-2-3": all-star disaster movies of the 1970s. I tied the three movies to a train crash , an update on a plane crash, and a boat sinking. That's followed by two TCM Underground films from Japan about the results of science gone wrong. (I don't think *The Human Vapour* resulted from radiation, but it's one I've wanted to see again.)
On Saturday morning and afternoon, we look back at the sporting events of 2011. OK, *The Star Packer* has nothing to do with the Green Bay Packers; it's just the title. The short following it, however, is one made with some of the Green Bay Packers of the 1930s. Our Canadian readers will remember how hockey fans in Vancouver went nuts when their Canucks choked badly and lost the Stanley Cup final. The closest I could think of to Canadiand making mischief is Robert Montgomery and company in *Petticoat Fever* (although it's technically set in what was not part of Canada at the time). That, and a Traveltalks look at the Canadian wilderness.
Finally, on Saturday night, we remember the killing of Osama bin Laden by showing a series of movies about conspiracies to kill various political figures. This starts of with the TCM Essential, *Rasputin and the Empress*, in which the dead guy is Rasputin. It's followed by movies about Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Reinhard Heydrich, and Abraham Lincoln.
Synopsis:
I think I have 11 premieres, although I think I might have seen *Wild River* on the September schedule:
*Ten North Frederick*
*Brigham Young*
*Nixon*
*The Great Gatsby*
*Lydia Bailey*
*The 7th Dawn*
*To the Shores of Tripoli*
*The Blazing Forest*
*Wild River*
*The Poseidon Adventure*
*Nine Hours to Rama*
Star of the MOnth: Anne Francis
Easy as 1-2-3:
1950s soap operas
1970s all-star disaster movies
Sidney Lumet
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TCM REMEMBERS 2001: Week of December 4-10, 2011
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2011
TCM remembers Miriam Seegar, 1907-2011
0600 *Seven Keys to Baldpate* (1929, RKO, 72 min)
TCM remembers Idiot Congressmen posting photos of themselves in various states of undress to the Internet
0715 *Peeping Tom* (1960, 101 min, p/s)
0900 *Ten North Frederick* (1958, Fox, 102 min) PREMIERE #1
1045 *Cause For Alarm* (1951, MGM, 74 min)
TCM remembers Mickey Rooney's testimony before Congress on elder abuse
Short: Crime Does Not Pay #31: Soak the Old (1940, MGM, 20 min)
1230 *Make Way For Tomorrow* (1937, Paramount, 91 min, p/s)
1415 *If I Had a Million* (1932, Paramount, 88 min, p/s)
1600 *Logan's Run* (1976, MGM, 119 min)
1815 *Kiss of Death* (1947, Fox, 98 min)
TCM remembers non-Hollywood people who died in 2011
2000 *Soylent Green* (1973, MGM, 97 min) Jack Kevorkian
Short *How to Break 90 #1* (1933, WB, 9 min) (Seve Ballesteros)
2200 *Houdini* (1953, Paramount, 106 min, p/s) (Dorothy Young)
Short *How to Break 90 #2* (1933, WB)
Silent Sunday Nights
0000 *What Price Glory* (1926, Fox, 116 min) (last known WWI veteran dies)
TCM Imports
0200 *I Am Curious (Yellow)* (1967, Sandrews, 121 min) (Lena Nyman)
0415 *Them!* (1954, WB, 93 min) Milton Levine, ant-farm inventor
MONDAY DECEMBER 5
TCM Remembers Farley Granger, 1925-2011
0600 *Side Street* (1950, MGM, 82 min)
Arts:
0730 *Bombshell* (1933, MGM, 96 min) Lee Tracy probably wished he could take back peeing on Mexican soldiers just like Lars von Trier probably wishes he could take back his comments at Cannes
0915 *Becky Sharp* (1935, Pioneer, 84 min, p/s) 200th anniversary of birth of William Makepeace Thackeray
1045 *Christmas in Connecticut* (1945, WB, 102 min) Controversy over Three Cups of Tea
Short: An Optical Poem (1937, MGM, 6 min) 200th anniversary of birth of Franz Liszt
1245 *Brigham Young* (1940, Fox, 113 min) PREMIERE #2 The Book of Mormon wins at the Tony Awards
TCM announces the TCM Cruise
1445 *The African Queen* (1951, MGM, 105 min)
1630 *Now, Voyager* (1942, WB, 117 min)
1830 *Love Affair* (1939, RKO, 88 min)
Night #1 Easy as 1-2-3: 1950s overblown soap operas
ABC cancels All My Children and One Life to Live
2000 *Peyton Place* (1957, Fox, 157 min, p/s)
2245 *Written On the Wind* (1956, Universal, 99 min, p/s)
0030 *A Summer Place* (1959, WB, 130 min, p/s)
0245 *Nixon* (1995, Cinergi, 192 min) PREMIERE #3
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6
TCM Remembers Jackie Cooper, 1922-2011
0600 *Divorce in the Family* (1932, MGM, 81 min)
Short: *Love Business* (1931, Hal Roach, 19 min, p/s)
Hollywood's stunning lack of originality: Special effects blockbusters galore were released in 2001
0745 *The Fast and the Furious* (1955, 73 min, p/s) ( *Fast Five* )
0900 *The Vikings* (1958, UA, 116 min, p/s) ( *Thor* )
1100 *John Paul Jones* (1959, Bronston, 126 min, p/s) ( *Captain America: The First Avenger* )
1315 *The Great Gatsby* (1949, Paramount, 91 min) PREMIERE #4 ( *The Green Lantern* )
1500 *The Mystery of Mr. X* (1934, MGM, 84 min) ( *X-Men First Class* )
1630 *The Man Who Came to Dinner* (1942, WB, 112 min) ( *Mr. Popper's Penguins* )
1830 *It Should Happen to You* (1954, Columbia, 86 min, p/s) ( *Super 8* )
TCM REMEMBERS STAR OF THE MONTH ANNE FRANCIS, 1930-2011
2000 *Forbidden Planet* (1956, MGM, 98 min)
2145 *Summer Holiday* (1948, MGM, 93 min)
2330 *Susan Slept Here* (1954, RKO, 98 min)
0115 *The Scarlet Coat* (1955, MGM, 101 min)
0300 *Lydia Bailey* (1952, Fox, 89 min) PREMIERE #5
0430 *Portrait of Jennie* (1948, Vanguard, 86 min, p/s)
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7
TCM Remembers Michael Gough, 1915-2011
0600 *Trog* (1970, 93 min, p/s)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrested as he tries to fly out of the country
0745 *The October Man* (1947, Two Cities, 98 min, p/s)
0930 *Parachute Jumper* (1933, WB, 65 min)
1045 *Foreign Correspondent* (1940, UA, 120 min, p/s)
1300 *The Killing* (1956, UA, 85 min, p/s)
1430 *Bullitt* (1968, WB, 114 min, p/s)
Casey Anthony murder trial
1630 *The Nanny* (1965, Associated British, 93 min, p/s)
1815 *The Stranger* (1946, International, 96 min, p/s) (Conviction of John Demjanjuk)
2000 *From the Earth to the Moon* (1958, RKO, 101 min) Last Space Shuttle flight
2145 *Capricorn One* (1978, Associated General, 123 min, p/s) Russia's simulated mission to Mars
0000 *Madame Curie* (1943, MGM, 124 min) International Year of Chemistry
0215 *Bells Are Ringing* (1960, MGM, 126 min) WHO report on cell phones/cancer
0430 *World Without End* (1956, Allied Artists, 80 min, p/s) Harold Camping "miscalculates" the date of the Rapture
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8
TCM Remembers Susannah York, 1939-2011
0600 *The 7th Dawn* (1963, UA, 123 min) PREMIERE #6
Greek financial problems could lead to default
0815 *Duck Soup* (1933, Paramount, 68 min, p/s)
0930 *The Mouse That Roared* (1959, Columbia, 83 min, p/s)
Battle over public employee's work rules in Wisconsin shuts down a government
1100 *I'm All Right Jack* (1959, Charter, 105 min, p/s)
Short: Wedding Worries (1941, MGM, 10 min)
Anti-government uprisings in the Muslim world
1300 *The Year of Living Dangerously* (1982, MGM/UA, 115 min, p/s)
US/NATO attacks on Libya
1500 *To the Shores of Tripoli* (1942, Fox, 86 min) PREMIERE #7
1630 *Detective Story* (1951, Paramount, 103 min, p/s) Emily Good and other people who get on the wrong side of the police by documenting police misconduct
1815 *Crisis* (1950, MGM, 95 min) (Hugo Chavez taken to Venezuela for medical care)
Night #3 TCM Remembers Sidney Lumet
2000 *Murder on the Orient Express* (1974, EMI, 128 min, p/s)
2215 *Fail-Safe* (1964, Columbia, 112 min, p/s)
0015 *Serpico* (1973, Paramount, 130 min, p/s)
Saab threatened by bankruptcy over unpaid wages
0230 *Dodsworth* (1936, Goldwyn, 101 min, p/s)
Wal-Mart class action case
0415 *The First Traveling Saleslady* (1956, RKO, 92 min)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9
TCM Remembers John Barry, 1933-2011
0600 *The Ipcress File* (1965, Rank, 109 min, p/s)
Erroneous reports about the closure of the last typewriter factory
0800 *Witness to Murder* (1954, UA, 83 min, p/s)
0930 *Lured* (1947, Mark Hellinger, 102 min, p/s)
1115 *Autumn Leaves* (1956, Columbia, 107 min, p/s)
1315 *The Glass Key* (1942, Paramount, 85 min, p/s)
1445 *The Blazing Forest* (1952, Paramount, 90 min) PREMIERE #8 (Massive wildfire hits Arizona)
1615 *Wild River* (1960, Fox, 110 min) PREMIERE #9 (Flooding all along the Mississippi River)
1815 *Cabin in the Sky* (1943, MGM, 98 min) Tornados strike Alabama in April and Joplin, MO in May
Night #3 Easy as 1-2-3: All-Star Disaster Movies
Commuter train crash in Soweto injures 700
2000 *The Cassandra Crossing* (1976, International Cine, 129 min, p/s)
Flight recorder of Air France Flight 487 recovered
2215 *Airport* (1970, Universal, 137 min, p/s)
Yet another ferry capsizes in Bangladesh, killing dozens
0045 *The Poseidon Adventure* (1972, Fox, 117 min) PREMIERE #10
TCM Underground: Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown
0300 Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964, Toho, 89 min)
0430 The Human Vapour (1960, Toho, 81 min)
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10
TCM REMEMBERS William Campbell, 1923-2011
0600 *Man in the Vault* (1956, Batjac, 73 min, p/s)
TCM remebers the sporting events of 2011
0715 *This Sporting Life* (1963, Rank, 134 min, p/s) (Rugby World Cup)
0930 *The Strongest Man in the World* (1975, Disney, 92 min) (Barry Bonds steroid trial concludes)
1115 *Take Me Out to the Ball Game* (1949, MGM, 93 min) (The McCourts' divorce leads to an ownership change for a professional baseball team)
1300 *The Absent-Minded Professor* (1961, Disney, 92 min, p/s) (Dorky-looking white guy leads team to basketball championship)
Short: Basketball Headliners (1956, RKO/Path?, 15 min)
1500 *The Star Packer* (1934, Lone Star Productions, 53 min)
Short: Pigskin Champions (1937, MGM, 7 min) Green Bay Packers win the Super Bowl
1615 *Trouble Along the Way* (1953, WB, 110 min, p/s) Jim Tressel
1815 *Petticoat Fever* (1936, MGM, 80 min) (Canadians Gone Wild after Vancouver Canucks lose Stanley Cup final)
Short: Jasper National Park (1942, MGM, 8 min)
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
2000 *Rasputin and the Empress* (1932, MGM, 121 min)
2215 *Nine Hours to Rama* (1963, Fox, 124 min) PREMIERE #11
0030 *The Eagle Has Landed* (1976, Associated General, 131 min, p/s)
0245 *Hitler's Madman* (1943, PRC/MGM, 84 min, p/s)
0415 *The Prisoner of Shark Island* (1936, Fox, 96 min, p/s)
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T**s are like martinis. One is not enough and three are too many.
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I've got about three days fully programmed and timed out properly.
I've got lots of themes for the other four days, but getting mornings to start at the right time and prime time to start at 8:00 PM is a dickens.
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They might show the Andy Hardy movie where he goes on a killing spree. ;-)
As for the other part of your argument, some people argue that *The Outlaw* doesn't have much of a plot, and that it's just an excuse to show Jane Russell's assets. And clearly, *The French Line* was an excuse to show those assets in 3-D.
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The trailer TCM shows when *Love Affair* (1939) is on the schedule doesn't have any moving footage at all; just stills, which seems really odd to me.
For those movies in color, the color in the trailers TCM shows is often quite lousy. I have no idea if the trailers were that faded back in the day.
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> I believe Americans forget the options of the time. Hitler had wrested Germany from imminent take-over by communists. To be anti-Nazi was to be pro-communism and pro-English.
Only until August 1939. When the Molotov-von Ribbentrop Pact was signed, America's Communists immediately did a 180 on orders from their paymasters in Moscow. I wish I could remember where I read it, but when the Soviets invaded Finland in late 1939, Hollywood liberal Melvyn Douglas wanted the rest of his Hollywood colleagues to condemn it, but the Communist-dominated parts of Hollywood got the unions to block this. (One obscure movie, *Ski Patrol*, was made by Universal in 1940 about the Winter War.) This obviously changed in June 1941, when the Nazis invaded the USSR, and the American Communists did another backflip.
There were actually congressional hearings into Hollywood's making anti-Nazi movies like *Confessions of a Nazi Spy*, although the hearings wound up being scuttled by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The paper here: points out that the people going after Hollywood were a bipartisan lot, and the people supporting Hollywood were also bipartisan: the lawyer defending Hollywood was Wendell Willkie.
British Agent-Kay Francis almost makes communism appealing
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> Omigod! Something in a Hollywood film was historically accurate!
To Hollywood's credit, I think they have yet to make a film about the Titanic in which it doesn't hit the iceberg.