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I've seen this movie only once. I rented it from Blockbuster in, oh, about, 1997 I would say. TCM was around by then, but I don't think I ever watched it until about 2001. The number of pre-1970 movies I'd ever watched at that time was very small. This certainly seems to have been an atypical rental choice for me. Knowing my proclivities, I can only imagine there must have been an image of Janet Landgard in her bikini either in the artwork on the front of the box or in a still on the back of it! I would have only been vaguely aware of who Burt Lancaster was - I would guess Field of Dreams and Atlantic City would have been the only two Lancaster films I would have seen at that point. I was pretty befuddled by the unconventional storyline, though I could tell the movie was probably heading for a really bleak ending. I'd like to check it out again.

I've seen Pat and Mike multiple times. I'm not sure how I could have forgotten Bronson is in it. I will definitely look for him next time I'm watching.

I've often thought Charles Bronson would be easy enough, as TCM shows plenty of his films fairly routinely anyway: The Great Escape, The Sandpiper, Battle of the Bulge, This Property is Condemned, The Dirty Dozen, Once Upon a Time in the West, Breakheart Pass. I'm not terribly familiar with a lot of his resume, but TCM could surely add another four or five films to that list. TCM appears to have never shown the (for better or worse) iconic Death Wish, which was a Paramount release, but maybe they could get it for a one-time airing?

Sounds like a very different role for Knox the same year he got an Oscar nomination for Wilson.

Well, there was Little Orphan Annie and Daddy Warbucks, but he would disappear from the strip for months at a time while Annie was hanging out with Depression victims.

It has aired on TCM, according to the invaluable data base from moviecollectoroh, but the last time was 13 years ago!

Your list trends really modern, which I don't personally have a problem with, but seems pretty unlikely, given SUTS history. You might get one from the list of Hoffman, Redford, Fonda, Keaton, Mason, Bancroft, Nicholson, Kahn, etc., maybe two, but never as many as you want! (I made one of these dream lists years ago on which I included Brad Pitt, and boy, did I get laughed down hard by the denizens of these message boards). William Holden has been a SOTM this year, so very unlikely he'd get a day. Ditto McQueen. Going along with what Jakeem said, it's become pretty standard to include at least one minority actor and one international star every year. Often there's a silent star, too. I'm all in favor of all these actors who largely worked outside the "TCM Library" - Betty Grable, Dorothy Lamour, Tyrone Power, Paulette Godard, Veronica Lake, Marilyn Monroe. I might add Don Ameche, Tony Curtis and Richard Widmark just to get a couple of more men in there. But, like with the modern stars, you're unlikely to get more than one or at best two of these a year. All in all, a lineup I'd definitely watch a lot of!

There's a litany of classic film stars she recites in the song "Vogue", though I'm probably not going to remember them all, but Marilyn, Marlene, Brando, Harlow, Kelly ... others.

Wow, that was a lot of effort! Loved the descriptions of the camera angles and Ben's posture!

Wow, this is a fantastic idea for a thread! I don't stay in hotels often, so I don't have much to contribute, but I can think of twice in the last 10 years I've watched TCM in a hotel room. One night during holiday traveling I watched Remember the Night, and the other trip, The Mummy was on. Don't remember the names of the hotels in either circumstance right now, but I'll see if I can figure it out.

Was the Michael Douglas thing not part of the Festival?

Wow. Disney didn't sue over this thing?

Hmm. Not saying that doesn't happen, but it's certainly not the way of the world between ALL men and women. Okay, he pulled her out of the chorus line and she now gets to enjoy a life of luxury and leisure but all on his terms. Holden's character shows her there's a better life out there for all the reasons explained above by other posters.

This is the second thread in which you've reinterpreted a Broderick Crawford character who is clearly not meant to be the good guy in either films as the good guy. Okay, so he loves her. So what? He's threatening to hit her all the time, manipulating her for his own financial gain and wants to possess her more than be in a relationship with her. How do you defend that?

Well, America has slowly over the decades been decreasing the number of episodes per season of its scripted television shows and in some instances is now getting much closer to the model the UK has pretty much always had of only six or eight episodes per season, especially the shows on premium cable or the streaming services. I remember reading an article in Entertainment Weekly when The Good Wife ended where its creators speculated that it would be the last American scripted drama ever to run as many as 22 or 24 episodes in one season. Even on the broadcast networks, that number is more in the 16-20 range now, while stuff like Westworld and Stranger Things is eight or 10 episodes at the most.

In my defense, since I only saw the first half of the movie, I don't actually KNOW the boat sinks! That was just a guess. So ... watch in suspense!

For the love of God, please stop typing in all caps. That's been considered a rude manner of online communication for 20 years. I have to assume you're new to TCM and that you have no idea the variety with which the Star of the Month format is presented. I feel you're getting angry for no good reason. One time, John Wayne was SOTM, and they showed nothing but John Wayne movies around the clock for like seven days. While usually not that extreme, in other months they bunch together all the SOTM airings in a single week, like they did with Elizabeth Taylor in February. Most months, they space them out to just one or two nights a week spread out over the whole month. The number of movies shown also varies dramatically. One month, when it was Spencer Tracy, they showed 50 movies. One month, when it was Robert Redford, they showed 15. Sometmes, it depends on what they can get. I don't pretend to fully understand the dynamics (somebody always tells me about "licensing agreements" and lets me know I don't know what the hell I'm talking about whenever I suggest there's something like a TCM "library"), but TCM can clearly show movies from MGM, RKO, WB and UA more easily and more cheaply than those from the other major Golden Age studios. Dietrich's early sound career was pretty much all at Paramount, right? So they get what they can get. I thought they did an admirable job with both Dietrich and Holden in showing a number of films not made at the four above-mentioned studios. The 10th is unusually late for the first night devoted to a SOTM (that isn't one of those one-week only deals), but that also is part of the variety. I'm glad they don't do it the exact same way every month.

The ... GOOD guy gets shot in the end???

Daddy Long Legs has aired on TCM a few times, as recently as last August. I distinctly remember intending to see it, as it would be one of the very few Astaire films I haven't seen, but I either forgot or was doing something else that night. Hope someone on these boards will give us all a heads up if it airs again. Though Negulesco was a name I'd heard, I really wasn't familiar with what films were his. I had to check out his imdb page. Looks like he must have been under contract to Fox for a good chunk of his career, which works against his familiarity to TCM fans. I got to watch about half of the Barbara Stanwyck-Clifton Webb version of Titanic when it last aired on TCM, and that looked like it was going to be a very fine movie. I didn't make it to the actual boat-sinking part.

9:45 pm ET last night.

Some of the scenes with the adorable little urchin moppet I found a bit too cute (was getting into Windsor Castle - twice - really that easy?), but every scene with Irene Dunne, virtually unrecognizable under some kind of fat-face latex, or whatever they used in 1950, was terrific. This was her next-to-last film role. She worked in television for 10 years, then completely retired in her mid-60s, though she lived nearly another 30 years. This is one of her best performances ever, and I'm very glad I saw it. Alec Guiness, too, was outstanding. I like the interplay between monarch and prime minister in a nation where the dynamics of that relationship are definitely changing, and both parties are still delicately trying to figure it out. There's some of that in Darkest Hour as well between Churchill and George VI. Looks like this was Guiness' first American film, although it was shot in London. Kudos also to Finlay Currie, an actor I didn't know by name until last night, but after seeing him in this and Great Expectations, also with Guiness, last week, that I made the connection in my head. It is absolutely extraordinary to think there was a time in one of, if not the, most advanced nation in the world, that the care and welfare of children was at best an afterthought. The instinctive repulsion of all the palace staff at the dirtiness of the boy, none of them but Disraeli really stopping to ask themselves WHY he was dirty, was probably a realistic reflection of attitudes of the time. Heartbreaking to see a boy who had scrapped and survived to the age of 10 without ever having seen a fork, learned how to read or been taught enough to understand the difference between London and England. Thanks TCM for premiering fhis film. As it received one Oscar nomination, I hope it will return in a future 31 Days month to add a little variety to the usual MGM overload.

Your link is to worldwide box office. I think the list OP is referring to is domestic box office. We Americans can be pretty insular, but I must confess I'm more interested in that list than what is big in China. Domestically, Black Panther has moved ahead of Titanic and is behind only The Force Awakens and Avatar. Edit: Jakeem beat me, posting while I was typing the final word of the above paragraph.

It's a big deal because it has been heralded as a long-overdue spotlight for a non-white super-hero, finally letting a minority get the lead role in what has become the most successful genre of movies for at least 15 years now, the super-hero film. It was correctly pointed out on these threads that Wesley Snipes already starred in two Marvel movies as Blade, which for whatever reason, did not at that time get any praise from either the public or the media as representing some sort of important breakthrough. I think part of it was that Blade was more of a modern gothic vampire hunter than a traditional costumed super-hero. Also, we are now at a moment in our cultural history since the election of our current president who, rightly or wrongly (I don't really want to get into it), is perceived by most members of minority groups (and by many white liberals in the media) as a racist, and so this movie is also heralded as an important cultural triumph over the hate and divisiveness they feel he foments. Following last year's Wonder Woman, Black Panther is viewed as part of a movement where movies about women and minority super-heroes make more money than ones about white male super-heroes like Spider-Man and Thor, who both also had movies last year. The people in this camp also wanted very much to include A Wrinkle in Time, with a teenage black girl as the hero, as part of this inclusiveness tidal wave. I think it was the L.A. Times that had a review saying Wrinkle really wasn't that great a movie but begged people to go see it anyway, to vote with their dollars that they want big-budget movies that don't have white men as the central characters to keep being made. However, it looks like Wrinkle is going to fall just short of a $100 million domestic gross, well below expectations.

Well, Rayban, great minds think alike! While I was digging around imdb to find a pic to post for my second choice, you posted the exact same film! I watched Forbidden on YouTube a few months ago. It made me think TCM viewers don't really get an appreciation of what a big star Tony Curtis was, as all those films he made for Universal are rarely or never shown. Pretty much all we ever see of Curtis on TCM are Some Like It Hot, The Defiant Ones and The Sweet Smell of Success (Spartacus once in a while).

Just starting with one: Freud, which apparently was in a re-release called The Secret Passion, according to this poster. From 1962, directed by John Huston and one of the last appearances of Montgomery Clift. Also with Susannah York, Larry Parks and Susan Kohner.