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3 hours ago, TopBilled said:
"Old" threads that haven't had any activity in awhile now have this message on them:
I have mixed feelings about that. On one hand, I'm opposed to oppression of expression. On the other hand, I would usually be like "What the heck?" when I realized someone had added a comment to a thread no one had posted in 12 years.
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5 minutes ago, LsDoorMat said:
How could this person have TCM since 1985?
I assume he/she is getting TCM and AMC confused.
I did find these posts interesting, looking at the TCM FB page for the first time ever. They're complaining about the same things! And maybe TCM even pays attention to the people there!
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There was a point when some of us on here (myself included) would be borderline panicky when the future month schedule lag time started shrinking. "Wait, it's eight weeks until December, and the schedule hasn't been posted yet!" Now, it appears the "new normal" is going to be "It's April 30, and the May schedule hasn't been posted yet!"
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3 hours ago, MovieCollectorOH said:
TCM STAFF - PUT THE FUTURE SCHEDULES BACK
This is indeed troubling. One of my great pleasures around here is when a future month's schedule is released, and I can start planning ahead what I'm going to watch. Are we not going to know who the Star of the Month will be anymore until the first of every month? Yuck.
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Dec. 8 daytime programming is all Grace Kelly movies.
Mogambo (Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly) (MGM, 1953)
Dial M for Murder (Ray Milland, Grace Kelly) (Warner Bros., 1954)
Rear Window (James Stewart, Grace Kelly) (Paramount, 1954)
Green Fire (Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly) (MGM, 1955)
The Swan (Grace Kelly, Alec Guiness) (MGM, 1956)
High Society (Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly) (MGM, 1956)
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I can't find any connecting theme to the Dec. 7 morning programming, other than maybe they all have to do with the workplace. The afternoon is devoted entirely to shorts. mostly silent. It appears all of them feature Laurel & Hardy, so their SOTM run is starting around noon.
Then primetime is all Laurel & Hardy talkie features:
Pardon Us (MGM, 1931)
Pack Up Your Troubles ( MGM, 1932)
Sons of the Desert (MGM, 1933)
The Devil's Brother (MGM, 1933)
Babes in Toyland (MGM, 1934)
Hollywood Party (also with Jimmy Durante) (MGM, 1934)
The Bohemian Girl (MGM, 1936)
Movie Madness is quite correct. There will be no Pearl Harbor films on Pearl Harbor Day this year.
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More random programming on Sunday Dec. 6 in the daytime. A couple of TCM Christmas standards late in the day with Holiday Affair and Christmas in Connecticut (I assume most of these Christmas movies will get a primetime airing later in the month).
The primetime theme is Marilyn Monroe, but don't get too excited. It's only two movies and no rarities.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe) (20th Century Fox, 1953)
The Seven-Year Itch (Marilyn Monroe, Tommy Ewell) (20th Century Fox, 1955)
Then Silent Sunday Night and TCM Imports.
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Dec. 5 is a Saturday. Morning is a mix of Popeye, a 58-minute Bulldog Drummond movie, The Incredible Mr. Limpit and some MGM cartoons and shorts. I think the afternoon lineup is totally random, but there are several A-list big-star films among them, also the first Christmas movie I've noticed, a personal favorite, It Happened on Fifth Avenue.
The primetime lineup is Dashiell Hammett adaptations:
The Thin Man (William Powell, Myrna Loy) (MGM, 1934)
The Maltese Falcon (Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor) (Warner Bros., 1941) This is the Essentials selection.
Then, it's Noir Alley, the whole schedule of which has already been listed on this thread, and a late night and early morning slate of MGM romantic comedies until Noir Alley rolls around again.
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Could you explain what a Soundy is?
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Well, with that encouragement, let's look at primetime for Dec. 4. Movies about hunting for diamonds!
Smugglers' Cove (The Bowery Boys) (Monogram, 1948)
Africa Screams (Abbott & Costello) (United Artists, 1949)
King Solomon's Mines (Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger) (MGM, 1950)
Moonfleet (Stewart Granger, George Sanders) (MGM, 1955)
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I've only gotten through the first four days and am surprised I haven't found any Christmas movies yet. But I'm sure they're coming ...
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The afternoon movies on Dec. 4 are wedding-related comedies:
Wise Girls (Elliot Nugent, Norma Lee) (MGM, 1929)
They Wanted to Marry (Betty Furness, Gordon Jones) (RKO, 1937)
Marry the Girl (Mary Boland, Frank McHugh) (Warner Bros., 1937)
There Goes the Groom (Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith) (RKO, 1937)
Wallflower (Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds) (Warner Bros., 1948)
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2 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I see the usual Thin Man/That's Entertainment programming is present for New Years Eve. I feel like an evening of disaster films would be more appropriate.
Ha ha ha ha ha
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The morning movies on Dec. 4 are all musicals, although if there is a connecting theme beyond that, I don't know what it is.
Two Girls on Broadway (Lana Turner, Joan Blondell) (MGM, 1940) Looks like a remake of The Broadway Melody. I can totally see Blondell in the Bessie Love role.
Two Girls and a Sailor (June Allyson, Van Johnson) (MGM, 1944)
George White's Scandals (Joan Davis, Jack Haley) (RKO, 1945)
Because You're Mine (Mario Lanza, James Whitmore) (MGM, 1952)
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Unsure what the theme is for the morning movies of Dec. 3, but the afternoon is all sci fi/monster movies.
Godzilla (Akira Takarada, Momoko Tochi) (I don't have the distributor information - it's a Japanese movie, obviously, 1954)
Them! (James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn) (Warner Bros., 1954)
It Came from Beneath the Sea (Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue) (Columbia, 1955)
World without End (Hugh Marlowe, Rod Taylor) (Allied Artists, 1956)
Attack of the 50-Foot Woman (Allison Hayes, William Hudson) (Allied Artists, 1958) Someone wake up Nipkow!
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(I'm just really bored, so I'm posting these little lists. Don't expect me to have the concentration to do the entire month!)
Primetime Dec. 2 is Bernard Herrman scores:
The Devil and Daniel Webster (aka All That Money Can Buy) (Edward Arnold, Walter Huston) (RKO, 1941)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten) (RKO, 1941)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Joesph Cotten, Dolores Costello (RKO, 1942)
Jane Eyre (Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine) (20th Century Fox, 1944)
The Snows of Kiliminjaro (Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward) (20th Century Fox, 1952)
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The Women Direct Films series, the primetime theme for Dec. 1 continues on through midday Dec. 2, but then that afternoon the theme is aviation combat.
Ace of Aces (Richard Dix, Ralph Bellamy) (RKO, 1933)
The Dawn Patrol (Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone) (Warner Bros., 1938)
Flight Command (Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey) (MGM, 1940)
Fighter Squadron (Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack) (Warner Bros., 1948)
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The day theme for December 1 immediately jumped out at me. It's Dana Andrews movies! We've got:
Night Song (with Merle Oberon) (RKO, 1948)
Sealed Cargo (with Claude Rains) (RKO, 1951)
While the City Sleeps (with Rhonda Fleming) (RK0, 1956)
Strange Lady in Town (with Greer Garson) (Warner Bros., 1957)
Zero Hour! (with Linda Darnell) (Paramount, 1957)
Enchanted Island (with Jane Powell) (Warner Bros., 1958)
The Crowded Sky (with Rhonda Fleming) (Warner Bros., 1960)
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Somebody report back if The Hospital actually aired tonight. I will be unable to check. It's been yanked from the schedule more than once in recent years.
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1991 It looks like an opera box, so I'm going to say Night at the Opera. Yes.
1993 A Guy Named Joe. Yes.
1998 Black Sunday. No.
1999 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Yes.
2000 Always, the remake of 1993. No.
Looks like I've only seen three.
This group was much harder for than the first! I estimated I'd seen maybe 550-580 of the first 1,000 movies. This group, much less, maybe fewer than 300. Thanks for putting the effort into that. Gave me something to look forward to every day during these tumultuous times.
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Was helping family most of the day, just now getting to look at this. Let's see, I think if I had been here first, I would have been able to identify 1981, 1989 and 1990. Though I've seen Reds multiple times, I don't know if I would have been able to identify it from that pic.
I've seen The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Reds, The Goonies and Goodfellas. So, four.
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1 hour ago, LsDoorMat said:
Too inane for adults with too many complex themes for children. What WAS the writer thinking???
OK, I looked THAT one up for the credits and it turns out Brad Bird was the writer.
That explains a lot!Ha ha, well, I guess he wouldn't have been your choice for The Essentials lineup-picker if TCM had left it up to you!
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I have also seen Elevator to the Gallows, so I've seen three. I've seen parts of Brother Orchid, but not the whole thing.
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A number of the earlier ones look familiar, but I'm probably going to have to wait for them to be identified.
1976 is The Americanization of Emily. Yes.
1978 I want to say Cocoon, but I don't remember this scene. It could something else I haven't seen.
1979 is The Grifters. Yes.
And 1980 is obviously The Hunchback of Notre Dame or whatever title they gave this animated version. I haven't seen it.
So, only two I'm absolutely sure I've seen.
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VOTE: Like the NEW Schedules/TCMDB Layouts/Like the OLD Schedules/TCMDB Layouts
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This is probably a funny joke. The others were funny. But it's too obscure for me.