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Daytime February 2 Says the theme is Groundhog's Day, apparently in honor of the movie more than the day, as they are essentially the same movies over and over again, as far as I can tell from the plot descriptions. In the morning, it's all movies about being snowed in. Snowed Under (George Brent, Genevieve Tobin) (Warner Bros., 1936) The White Tower (Claude Rains, Glenn Ford) (RKO, 1950) Avalanche Express (Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw) (20th Century Fox, 1979) And then afternoon is all spring break movies: Spring Madness (Margaret O'Sullivan, Lew Ayres) (MGM, 1938) Where the Boys Are (George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux) (MGM, 1960) Palm Springs Weekend (Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens) (Warner Bros., 1963) Ski Party (Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman) (AIP, 1965)

Primetime February 1 Golden Turkeys! The Silver Chalice (Paul Newman, Virginia Mayo) (Warner Bros., 1954) The Conqueror (John Wayne, Susan Hayward) (RKO, 1956) Plan 9 from Outer Space (Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson) (Distributors Corp. of America, 1959) Change of Habit (Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore) (Universal, 1969) Food of the Gods (Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin) (AIP, 1976) The Swarm (Michael Caine, Katharine Ross) (Warner Bros., 1978)

Unsure if I will make it through the whole month like I did last month. If I do, it will be over a longer period of time. But here we go. Daytime February 1 - Birthday Tribute: Clark Gable Forsaking All Others (Clark Gable, Joan Crawford) (MGM, 1934) After Office Hours (Clark Gable, Constance Bennett) (MGM, 1935) San Francisco (Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald) (MGM, 1936) Saratoga (Clark Gable, Jean Harlow) (MGM, 1937) Test Pilot (Clark Gable, Myrna Loy) (MGM, 1938) Strange Cargo (Clark Gable, Joan Crawford) (MGM, 1940) Key to the City (Clark Gable, Loretta Young) (MGM, 1950) Never Let Me Go (Clark Gable, Gene Tierney) (MGM, 1953)

What the hell? You used to not even be able to say the first name of the actors O'Toole and Sellers on the message boards without it being turned into asterisks by the autocensor. Reading the smut you've posted above, I have to assume standards have relaxed!

Ooh, I can already tell by looking at the first two days of the month that is not a 31 Days of Oscar schedule. Is this because the Oscars have been pushed back to March this year? Or has TCM (gasp) done away with 31 days, which would make posters on here celebrate in the streets?

Hooray! No way I can look at this in any depth until this evening, but I'm very excited. Thank you!

I especially like this idea.

I think so, yes. I would have loved a sequel or a series of movies about the continuing adventures of Greenstreet and Lorre looking for the Falcon, but alas, we learn they were very quickly arrested, probably because the Code demanded it. The only false note the ending strikes for me is Sam's odd devotion to Bridget. That he would sit around and wait for her for 20 years and then pick things right back up where they left off because he loves her so much?

I have "Flowers in the Rain" by the Move in my iTunes collection. Great song!

Embarrassed to say I'd never even heard of this service until your announcement that it's weeks away from ending forever, so I missed out, I guess. How did it work, if it wasn't streaming? Did you get discs in the mail, like the original Netflix business model? In my part of the country, there's still been a disc-rental brick-and-mortar chain of stores called Family Video, which works like Blockbuster. I drove past one today and noticed on the marquee they said they were going out of business. I don't know if it's just that location or the entire chain, although the latter certainly wouldn't surprise me. The idea of physical media in the rental model seems to be rapidly vanishing, like having a person standing in a tollbooth that you have to stop and hand some change to (though we still have that at my local airport, I've noticed). I still occasionally buy a used DVD at Half Price Books or Suncoast Video, and I guess there are still outlets for buying new ones like TCM itself. I do miss commentary tracks and bonus extras like deleted scenes and such, though I guess you can read a lot of extra material while watching your Amazon Prime streaming movie, if you want. I'm pretty close to being a Luddite when it comes to changing technology, but even I've almost entirely capitulated to the streaming services (other than still turning on my TV to watch TCM). I don't know that there will really be any place to rent a physical copy of an old movie anymore, except by doing it for free at your local library.

I'm pretty sure I've seen other threads complaining about this over the years. You might just double check to make sure it's turned off? I don't doubt that the problem might be coming from some other source than the remote. I feel thankful this has never happened on my TV. I do recall it happening once some years ago on something I was watching on my parents' TV, and the problem wasn't with the remote. It was so maddening, I just had to stop watching. You have my sympathies. Hope it's not a continuing problem!

I can't speak to the specific airing you're referring to, since I wasn't watching. Probably from the recent Hitchcock marathon. I assume you're asking for DVR'ing purposes. I haven't had a working DVR for a couple of years, so it's like I've gotten in a time machine back to the early '90s where I just try to be home in time for the start of a movie. I have seen other posters on here get very upset about missing parts of a movie due to the disparity between TCM's indication of a running time and reality, although it sounds like from Txfilmfan's post this isn't necessarily as much of a problem as it used to be depending on what means you're using. I can say networks aren't perfect, even in 2020, and sometimes programming doesn't precisely fit the scheduled time. I can't imagine TCM would ever just cut off part of a movie to accommodate the planned schedule. Earlier this week, I turned on my TV at 6:59 pm CT and saw that a Joan Crawford color film was still running. It didn't end until 7:01, but TCM just segued into the next movie, straight into the introduction, without running the Wine Club or Backlot ad they would usually put in that spot.

I actually saw The Great Beauty in the theater. It's well worth watching!

I found a website that indicates the title was invented by Faulkner and was not some previously existing idiom, though there doesn't appear to be any consensus on its meaning. Possibly it means someone recently buried?

Nope, not gonna look THAT one up!

Gone With the Wind was a loan-out, but it was a pretty sweet loan-out for MGM, it looks like. According to Wikipedia: MGM would provide Gable and $1,250,000 for half of the film's budget, and in return, Selznick would have to pay Gable's weekly salary; half the profits would go to MGM while Loew's, Inc—MGM's parent company—would release the film.[5][8]

Somebody on here noted a year or two ago that Glenn Ford has an over-reliance on pointing, and I think a Glenn Ford movie was on that night. And sure enough, he pointed a LOT, and I couldn't stop noticing it.

Well, whatever year the first Austin Powers movie came out was probably the first time most Americans became aware of the British use of the term.

Sorry about that. You're the only person on here I can remember saying they actually paid the new fee! In my memory, maybe at least 15 people on here said they were dropping their cable altogether.

Was it Pan Am?

WOW! Instant Rim Shot, where have you been all my life?!!?

Julie Harris is almost always a hard watch for me. Just my personal tastes.

Since we've been able to see the January schedule, it looks like they're still doing two themes a day on weekdays.

I did note that The Third Man is airing in January as part of the Korda spotlight. It was, I think, kind of a Korda-Selznick co-production? So, TCM is still showing it, at least. But its circumstances may be completely different than the ones listed above.

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