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Wouldn't that be a hoot!

Wednesday, September 30 My goodness, there goes September. 8 p.m. Claudine (1980). Diahann Carroll introduces her own film! She was nominated for an Oscar for this one.

And there's the great Swedish documentarian, Arne Sucksdorff (1917-2001). I live in hope of hearing Ben introduce one of his films one day.

Otto Sander, star of Wings of Desire as seen below. And Das Boot to boot.

"I dreamed I killed you and Danny. But I just didn't kill you. I cut you up into little pieces." - Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance telling his wife, Wendy played by Shelley Duvall of the dream he just had in The Shining (1980)

Just watching a bit of Why Be Good? as it is recording. The restoration is stunning. It looks like a first camera print.

I think I caught The Night Has Eyes over in England on the telly. I was incredibly disappointed by the film. But I'm still glad to have seen it.

Tuesday, September 29 6:15 a.m. Consolation Marriage (1931) A Myrna Loy, Irene Dunne I haven’t seen 7:45 a.m. Bachelor Apartment (1931) with Irene Dunne 10:45 a.m. No Other Woman (1933) with Slavko Vorkapitch montages!

Touche Skimpole. This is an 'in my dreams' kind of eclectic schedule that I would love to see on TCM. Thankfully, I have seen a great deal of these films but would dearly like to to record them if they were ever on tv uncut. Of those I have been hoping to see someday are Dovzhenko's Arsenal, aka Frontier; Raj Kapoor's Awaara aka The Vagabond; Ice by the AFI and Wong Kar-Wai's Days of Being Wild. I've long wanted to see the original Jakob the Liar (1977). Richard Burton and Claude Rains are not only great choices but so are the films that you have selected for them. Kinuyo Tanaka would be a fabulous SOTM. Perhaps they would show Her Brother (1960) on another evening. Rene Clair and Bibi Andersson, Valedictory movies and my favourite group is the non-Hollywood musicals. Something I may echo if I do another challenge!

Monday, September 28 Leonard Maltin introduces films that have recently been unearthed in studio vaults. A number of these look interesting. 8 p.m. Why Be Good? (1929) with Colleen Moore. 9:45 p.m. Among the Missing (1934) 11 p.m. Stolen Identity (1953) 12:20 a.m. Five and Ten (1931) I’ve recorded this Marion Davies film before so perhaps this isn't part of the Leonard Maltin vault collection. 3:30 a.m. Three Faces East (1930) I’ve also recorded this Constance Bennett, Erich von Stroheim film on TCM before. 4:45 a.m. Reducing (1931) a Marie Dressler comedy.

If I could substitute for Days of Oscar and SUTS I would certainly add Richard Widmark and Victor Mature to my 2016 list of SOTM.

Somehow I doubt it

Sunday, September 27 Two Lon Chaney’s in the wee hours … 12:15 He Who Gets Slapped (1924) and .. 1:30 a.m. Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) 3 a.m. The Confession (1970). A Costa-Gavras, Yves Montand film that I haven’t seen in 35 years.

My SOTM List is pure selfish fantasy. The picks are based on the desire to see lots of NEW movies on TCM. January - Jean Gabin February - 31 Days of Oscar - I could live without this. March - John Mills April - Simone Signoret May - Max von Sydow June - Peter Lorre July - Fay Wray August - SUTS - I could live without this too. September - Marcello Mastroianni October - Boris Karloff November - Danielle Darrieux December - Tatsuya Nakadai

I was kidding of course. A Mike Myers SNL joke.

Well I just caught Dean in Something For an Empty Briefcase. Kudos to George Stevens, Elia Kazan and Nicolas Ray for if this is any indication of his 'other' work they deserve a lot of credit for his film performances. Susan Douglas blows Dean off the screen in this tv episode. Dean is so OTT it is embarrassing. He has a flash of promise toward the end of the episode but most of it is excruciating to watch. I'm looking forward to the rest of the evening to see his development.

Saturday, September 26 6:30 a.m. Naughty But Nice (1939). Reminds me of a line in Expresso Bongo when Laurence Harvey remarks on a ladies’ glasses, “Kinky, but nice.”

If you have to throw a few Irish films in on English Toffee day what's the difference. Kidding, of course. I do hope hope you have the time to adjust your schedule Sansfin. It will be like having a bonus feature.

Wonderful Schedule Sansfin. You are certainly making a winner very difficult to choose. The week of days is inspired: Peculiar People, National Poetry and Pharmacists Day, etc. But the Holy Feast of Paul the Hermit!? Really good. And wait for it ... yes, there it is! ... Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter with Herman's Hermits. George Zucco, Fu Manchu and what is a week without a few Russian classics. Bravo.

Friday, September 25 5 p.m. The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962). Haven’t seen this Bresson before. It's got a long way to go to come close to the Dreyer film. 8 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. James Dean on tv. I’ll try to tune in for part of this. Has this been on TCM before? I wonder how difficult it was to gather all this together.

"Feets, don't fail me now." -Stepin Fetchit in The Ghost Breakers (1940)

It had long been rumoured that after turning down Animali Pazzi for Titanus, Asta stayed on in Rome and appeared in an 16mm XXX rated film called Asta al Dente. It was said that Asta did all of his own stunt work in the film but that his voice was dubbed by an Italian Spinone. Long considered to be a lost film, VHS copies of Asta al Dente turned up at a trading table at Cruft's in 2012 and quickly sold out to private collectors.

Nice post James, I'm also a fan of Joan in The Macomber Affair (1947). TCM has shown it a few times of late. Not that many years ago I bought a home dubbed VHS copy of it on ebay as it was one of those films that had all but disappeared.

Asta! ... Pussycat, Kill, Kill! Mad dog Asta terrorizes local pussycats.

Thursday, September 24 5 p.m. The Comedians (1967) which was originally on the schedule has been bumped in favour of Out of the Past (1947) at 4:45 PM 8 p.m. The Marriage-Go-Round (1960). Never seen this James Mason film. It doesn't look very promising but what the heck.