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Arturo,
I don't know about THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR, but MURIETA does come up on the TCM database under the keyword 'immigrant.' I composed my list that way. I have not seen MURIETA, but whether it was based on a true story or not, it seems in description at least a bit like a reworking of Robin Hood and thus a bit Hollywood-ized. Now I am curious to see this film.
I think your comments point up the potentially contentious nature of these race/images series that TCM does each summer. In an earlier post, I commended the programmers for being rather diverse and including many ethnic groups. But as your post indicates, TCM viewers who are among select ethnic groups may find fault with the inclusion or exclusion of certain titles.
This said, I do not think a series about immigrants has to suggest racism, discrimination or stereotypes (though I am sure some of these films contain those elements). My guess is that the programmers would've selected the least offensive, most politically correct films possible. And in those instances where they are screening something potentially controversial, I am sure like before that Mr. Osborne will be interviewing an expert who can discuss the political and cultural ramifications of a particular immigrant group being presented in such a way on film.
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*DEERSLAYER (1943)*
From Agee on November 20, 1943:
This film can be recommended to anyone who would not feel that an eight-year-old boy who gallops up howling 'Wah-wah, I'm an Indian' needs to consult a psychiatrist. I don't feel that most bad pictures are bad enough to be funny; they are just bad enough to be fascinating, not to say depressing as hell. But this defenseless and disarming show is the purest dumb delight I have seen in a long time.
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*GORDON JONES*
NIGHT WAITRESS (1936) with Margot Grahame
THERE GOES MY GIRL (1937) with Gene Raymond & Ann Sothern
CHINA PASSAGE (1937) with Constance Worth
WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE (1937) with Preston Foster & Ann Dvorak
THE BIG SHOT (1937) with Guy Kibbee, Cora Witherspoon & Dorothy Moore
QUICK MONEY (1937) with Fred Stone & Dorothy Moore
THEY WANTED TO MARRY (1937) with Betty Furness
NIGHT SPOT (1938) with Parkyakarkus
I TAKE THIS OATH (1940) with Joyce Compton
THE BLONDE FROM SINGAPORE (1941) with Florence Rice & Leif Erikson
BLACK EAGLE: THE STORY OF A HORSE (1948) with William Bishop & Virginia Patton
SONS OF ADVENTURE (1948) with Lynne Roberts & Russ Hayden
THE ARIZONA COWBOY (1950) with Rex Allen & Teala Loring
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Here are some other films, based on this theme, worth checking out:
- GATEWAY (1938) with Don Ameche, Arleen Whelan, Binnie Barnes & Gilbert Roland. Twentieth-Century Fox. An Irish immigrant (Whalen) meets a returning war correspondent (Ameche) on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amorous advances of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
- G.I. WAR BRIDES (1946) with Anna Lee & James Ellison. Republic. Linda Powell (Lee), an English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join the G.I. (Ellison) she loves. She assumes the identity of an English war bride.
- ROMANCE IN MANHATTAN (1935) with Ginger Rogers & Francis Lederer. RKO. A New York chorus girl (Rogers) helps an illegal immigrant (Lederer) build a new life in the big city.
- THE FACE BEHIND THE MASK (1941) with Peter Lorre & Evelyn Keyes. Columbia. When a fire leaves him hideously scarred, an immigrant (Lorre) turns to crime.
- LITTLE NELLY KELLY (1940) with Judy Garland, George Murphy & Charles Winninger. MGM. The daughter (Garland) of Irish immigrants patches up differences between her father (Murphy) and grandfather (Winninger) and rises to the top on Broadway.
- BORDER INCIDENT (1950) with Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy & Howard Da Silva. MGM. Police try to crack down on the illegal immigration racket.
- DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS (1958) with Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins & Burl Ives. Paramount. A fiery immigrant (Loren) falls in love with her aging husband's brooding young son (Perkins).
- COME LIVE WITH ME (1941) with James Stewart & Hedy Lamarr. MGM. A Viennese refugee (Lamarr) weds a struggling author (Stewart) platonically so she can stay in the U.S.
- A LADY WITHOUT PASSPORT (1950) with Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak & James Craig. MGM. An immigration detective (Hodiak) falls in love with an illegal immigrant (Lamarr).
- A DREAM OF KINGS (1969) with Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas & Inger Stevens. National General Pictures. A Greek-American (Quinn) tries to find money in order to fly his terminally-ill young son to Greece and Mt. Olympus in the hope that it will cure him.
- BELOVED (1934) with John Boles & Gloria Stuart. Universal. A story about four generations in a German family of musicians.
- CRY TOUGH (1959) with John Saxon, Linda Cristal & Joseph Calleia. United Artists. After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal (Saxon) tries to go straight.
- DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI (1938) with Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford & Larry 'Buster' Crabbe. Paramount. A young Chinese woman (Wong) tracks down the smugglers who killed her father.
- DONDI (1961) with David Janssen & Patti Page. Allied Artists. World War II GIs adopt an Italian war orphan.
- FLOWER DRUM SONG (1961) with Nancy Kwan & James Shigeta. Universal. A refugee (Kwan) travels to Chinatown as a mail-order bride.
- FORGED PASSPORT (1939) with Paul Kelly & Lyle Talbot. Republic. A border patrolman (Kelly) on the California-Mexico border tries to bring down a gang of smugglers he believes was responsible for his partner?s death.
- GAMBLING HOUSE (1951) with Victor Mature, Terry Moore & William Bendix. RKO. A gambler (Mature) faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
- GIVE US THIS DAY/CHRIST IN CONCRETE (1949) with Sam Wanamaker. Eagle-Lion. Geremio (Wanamaker) is an Italian immigrant who lies to his girlfriend that he owns his own home and, after they are married, has to rent one for their three-day honeymoon. The years pass and they are unable to save enough money to get out of their slum tenement.
- HOLD BACK THE DAWN (1941) with Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland & Paulette Goddard. Paramount. A gigolo (Boyer) flees Nazi occupation and sets his sights on a shy schoolteacher (de Havilland) who happens to be a US citizen.
- ILLEGAL ENTRY (1949) with Howard Duff, Marta Toren & George Brent. Universal. A federal agent (Brent) is assigned to uncover a smuggling racket.
- IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU (1937) with Alan Baxter & Andrea Leeds. Republic. The story of immigrant brothers; one aspires to become an educator, the other has recently graduated from law school. The lawyer must come to the defense of his sibling, who gets tangled in a web of blackmail and murder.
- IT'S A BIG COUNTRY: AN AMERICAN ANTHOLOGY (1952) with William Powell, Fredric March, Janet Leigh, Ethel Barrymore, etc. MGM. Seven stories celebrate diversity of American life.
- MURIETA (1965) with Jeffrey Hunter & Arthur Kennedy. Warner Bros. A Mexican peasant (Hunter) takes out his vengeance on the men who beat him and killed his wife by forming a gang of outlaws to rob the countryside.
- MY GIRL TISA (1948) with Lilli Palmer, Sam Wanamaker & Akim Tamiroff. Warner Bros. A devoted immigrant girl (Palmer) is working to bring her father to the U. S.
- MY AMERICAN WIFE (1936) with Francis Lederer, Ann Sothern & Billie Burke. Paramount. An American girl (Sothern) gets mixed up with a European Count (Lederer).
- PAY OR DIE (1960) with Ernest Borgnine & Zohra Lampert. Allied Artists. A New York Police lieutenant (Borgnine) tries to rid Little Italy of the Mafia and is killed for it.
- SINS OF MAN (1936) with Jean Hersholt & Don Ameche. Twentieth-Century Fox. An Austrian church bell ringer (Hersholt) loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
- STRANGE WIVES (1934) with Roger Pryor, June Clayworth & Esther Ralston. Universal. When a young man (Pryor) marries a Russian girl (Clayworth), he finds that he has married her entire family.
- SWORD IN THE DESERT (1949) with Dana Andrews, Marta Toren & Stephen McNally. Universal. A freighter captain (Andrews) hopes to take the money and run after helping to smuggle Jewish refugees ashore in pre-Israel Palestine.
- TAXI (1953) with Dan Dailey & Constance Smith. Twentieth-Century Fox. A New York City cab driver (Dailey) tries to help an Irish girl (Smith) find her husband.
- THAT GIRL FROM PARIS (1937) with Lily Pons, Jack Oakie & Gene Raymond. RKO. A French opera star (Pons) flees a wedding and runs to America.
- THE BLACK ORCHID (1959) with Sophia Loren & Anthony Quinn. Paramount. An aging widower (Quinn) fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow (Loren).
- THE PUSHER (1960) with Robert Lansing & Kathy Carlyle. United Artists. A policeman is on the hunt for a heroin dealer, whose drugs have killed some Puerto Rican teens in El Barrio.
- THE VALLEY OF DECISION (1945) with Greer Garson, Gregory Peck & Donald Crisp. MGM. An Irish housemaid's (Garson) romance with the boss's son (Peck) is complicated by labor disputes in the Pittsburgh mills.
- TONIGHT WE SING (1953) with David Wayne, Ezio Pinza & Anne Bancroft. Twentieth-Century Fox. The story of impresario Sol Hurok.
- UP IN CENTRAL PARK (1948) with Deanna Durbin, Dick Haymes & Vincent Price. Universal. An Irish colleen in turn of the century New York City helps expose a corrupt politician (Price).
- GREEN CARD (1990) with Gerard Depardieu & Andie MacDowell. Walt Disney Studios. A French artist (Depardieu) marries a lonely woman (MacDowell) to win U.S. citizenship then falls in love with her.
- WALK LIKE A DRAGON (1960) with Jack Lord, Nobu McCarthy & James Shigeta. Paramount. A cowboy (Lord) experiences trouble when he falls for a Chinese slave girl (McCarthy) in a Western town.
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Okay, thanks.
The FMC schedule currently goes until April 30th. And the Encore schedules also go through April, with many individual titles listed for play in May as well.
TCM is the only channel that seems to allow us to look at the schedule so far ahead.
Up around the bend: we will have the annual summer showing of 1776...plus there is a month of Leslie Howard films in July.
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How sad that nobody mentioned Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everage...!
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calvin,
In the Immigrants Series thread, there are a few more titles you do not have here. You may wish to add them to your list.
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*FROM THIS DAY FORWARD (1946)*
From Agee on April 27, 1946:
I respect the sincerity of FROM THIS DAY FORWARD. It tells a story about young married love up against the worst that a bad economic system can do and send an audience home comfortable. Its message seems to be that in the long run ardor and courage, neither of which is seriously embarrassed by any difficulties, will hold their fort, and better.
Movies so seldom try to be honest or sympathetic about such problems of working-class life. However, I must regret two kinds of miscarriage of sincerity which use up some of the film.
One kind is most fully represented by Joan Fontaine as the wife. Quite aside from her efforts to be at once a serious actress and a fan magazine star, she has for all her good intentions about the understanding of her role that an heiress might have who was advised by her analyst to take up social work in order to work off her guilt about her income.
The other kind is best embodied in bits by a resentful intellectual who slaps some books off a counter, and by the clerk at an orange-drink stand who sharply communicates the meanness and snobbery with which members of the same class treat each other.
Both bits, like an ugly scene in court, are neat and authentic beyond the picture's ability to communicate more pleasant aspects of underprivileged city life; yet all three, I feel, are false in their own way. They supplant the unrealism of most movies with a slick kind of pseudo-realism, rather special to New York, which has been most clearly developed in the less good mannerisms of the Group Theater.
FROM THIS DAY FORWARD is an unusually serious and respectable film, but very little in it is free from one or the other of these kinds of falseness.
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*MICHELINE CHEIREL*
CORNERED (1945) with Dick Powell & Walter Slezak
SO DARK THE NIGHT (1946) with Steven Geray
THE CRIME DOCTOR'S GAMBLE (1947) with Warner Baxter
JEWELS OF BRANDENBURG (1947) with Richard Travis
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>Romance in Manhattan (1934) with Ginger Rogers protecting an illegal immigrant from capture and forced return.
I really like this film, too. It aired when Ginger was SOTM two years ago. Francis Lederer plays the immigrant.
There are some other films I thought could easily have been included. If you go to the TCM database and do a keyword search for the word 'immigrants' you will find over 700 titles that match this criteria.
Many of them are in foreign languages. And some in English with gangster themes were probably not chosen since they do not really point up a positive experience of assimilation.
I do like how the programmers have found films to represent as many ethnic groups as possible.
My one suggestion is that the programmers could've done an evening of documentaries on this subject. The theme lends itself beautifully to non-fiction film.
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You are so right, cody. Thanks for the correction. BOSTON ****'S CHINESE CURSE first hit movie screens in March '49, while TRAPPED BY BOSTON **** was released the previous May.
In June, TCM is reversing the order and showing CHINESE CURSE first, then TRAPPED a week later.
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Tim Holt does such a great job with this part. And I find Anne Baxter the perfect love interest for him. This is a well-cast film.
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I agree, AVALON is a good title. I rather liked it when I saw it some years ago and I should find it and look at it again.
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I consider Dame Judi Dench at the top of the list, ahead of Streep. I am also very partial to Vanessa Redgrave. Dench and Redgrave are in my opinion the best living, working actresses.
Honorable mention goes to Maggie Smith and Emma Thompson. And Helen Mirren. And Kate Winslet.
Yes, the foreign actresses are miles ahead of our domestic crop.
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The theme is immigrants in America, and June will bring many interesting titles to our screen.
_JUNE 6TH_
AMERICA AMERICA
AN AMERICAN ROMANCE
EAT A BOWL OF TEA
THE GLASS WALL
HESTER STREET
_JUNE 11TH_
BLACK HAND
_JUNE 13TH_
HIS FAMILY TREE
WEST SIDE STORY
BLACK LEGION
_JUNE 20TH_
I REMEMBER MAMA
ALL MINE TO GIVE
STRANGERS IN THE CITY
BIG CITY (1937)
_JUNE 22ND_
STREET SCENE
_JUNE 25TH_
THE LONG GRAY LINE
_JUNE 27TH_
PADDY O'DAY
DELICIOUS
POPI
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN
THE IMMIGRANT (1917)
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>Dang! I just renewed my fear of flying...Sepiatone
It has happened too often, unfortunately...we have lost these great talents so early. It's not fair.
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I agree....it's a dream cast. I love how they each have their moments and do not overpower the proceedings. Jeffrey Hunter does not do too badly either.
This is a film I wouldn't mind getting a little extra exposure on TCM.
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MAKE WAY FOR A LADY starring Herbert Marshall will appear on June 25th.
I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER airs on June 17th.
TRAPPED BY BOSTON **** airs on June 9th. It is the last film in that series with Chester Morris.
Edited by: TopBilled on Mar 17, 2012 2:35 PM
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John Denver is another one.
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*WILL ROGERS*
*CAROLE LOMBARD*
*GLENN MILLER*
*ROBERT FRANCIS*
*AUDIE MURPHY*
*VIC MORROW* (helicopter)
*AALIYAH*
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*BUFFALO BILL (1944)*
From Agee on May 13, 1944:
In BUFFALO BILL William Wellman has constructed a Technicolored Indian battle which is fun to watch. In general he makes good use of the plains and the movement of people on them. But most of the picture is boring.
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*AUDIE MURPHY*
BEYOND GLORY (1948) with Alan Ladd & Donna Reed
COLUMN SOUTH (1953) with Joan Evans & Robert Sterling
GUNSMOKE (1953) with Susan Cabot & Paul Kelly
TO HELL AND BACK (1955) with Marshall Thompson & Charles Drake
WORLD IN MY CORNER (1956) with Barbara Rush & Jeff Morrow
WALK THE PROUD LAND (1956) with Anne Bancroft & Pat Crowley
NIGHT PASSAGE (1957) with James Stewart, Dan Duryea & Dianne Foster
JOE BUTTERFLY (1957) with George Nader & Keenan Wynn
THE WILD AND THE INNOCENT (1959) with Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland & Sandra Dee
SEVEN WAYS FROM SUNDOWN (1960) with Barry Sullivan & Venetia Stevenson
POSSE FROM HELL (1961) with John Saxon & Vic Morrow
SIX BLACK HORSES (1962) with Dan Duryea & Joan O'Brien
SHOWDOWN (1963) with Kathleen Crowley & Charles Drake
BULLET FOR A BADMAN (1964) with Darren McGavin & Ruta Lee
A TIME FOR DYING (1971) with Victor Jory
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*Alexis Smith* birthday tribute on June 8th features: THE SMILING GHOST, DIVE BOMBER, THE CONSTANT NYMPH, STALLION ROAD, CONFLICT, THE HORN BLOWS AT MIDNIGHT, OF HUMAN BONDAGE and MONTANA.
*Errol Flynn* birthday tribute on June 20th features: ROCKY MOUNTAIN, THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE and THE WARRIORS.
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JUNE Birthdays include:
1 Andy Griffith, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Morgan, Joan Caulfield
2 Johnny Weissmuller
3 Ellen Corby, Paulette Goddard, Tony Curtis
4 Rosalind Russell
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7 Dean Martin, Jessica Tandy
8 Alexis Smith, Robert Preston
9 Robert Cummings
10 Hattie McDaniel, Judy Garland, June Haver, Sessue Hayakawa
11 Richard Todd
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13 Basil Rathbone, Mary Wickes
14 Dorothy McGuire, Burl Ives, Gene Barry
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16 Stan Laurel
17 Ralph Bellamy
18 Jeanette MacDonald, Keye Luke, Maggie McNamara
19 Charles Coburn, Mildred Natwick, May Whitty, Louis Jourdan, Moe Howard
20 Errol Flynn, Audie Murphy
21 Jane Russell, Judy Holiday
22 Constance Collier
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25 June Lockhart
26 Eleanor Parker, Peter Lorre
27 Moroni Olsen, John McIntire, Donald Crisp
28 Polly Moran
29 Ruth Warrick, Nelson Eddy, Joan Davis, Slim Pickens
30 Susan Hayward, Lena Horne, Glenda Farrell
WANTED: Classic Films Featuring This Classic Artist
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*BILLIE WHITELAW*
BOBBIKINS (1960) with Shirley Jones & Max Bygraves
PAYROLL (1962) with Michael Craig
CHARLIE BUBBLES (1968) with Albert Finney & Liza Minnelli
TWISTED NERVE (1969) with Hayley Mills
LEO THE LAST (1970) with Marcello Mastroianni
START THE REVOLUTION WITHOUT ME (1970) with Gene Wilder & Donald Sutherland
GUMSHOE (1971) with Albert Finney & Janice Rule
EAGLE IN A CAGE (1972) with Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud & Moses Gunn
NIGHTWATCH (1973) with Elizabeth Taylor & Laurence Harvey
THE OMEN (1976) with Gregory Peck, Lee Remick & David Warner