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"The Vice Squad is having a bit of a do tonight. Would you like to come along?" - Police Inspector Clarke played by Michel Bates in Bedazzled (1967) as he tries to date potential suicide witness, Margaret Spencer played by Eleanor Bron.

Tuesday, September 8 8:15 a.m. Your Past Is Showing (1957) aka The Naked Truth is a pretty good Peter Sellers film from the UK. Peggy Mount and Joan Sims are particularly good in this. 11:45 a.m. A Carol For Another Christmas (1964) by Joseph Mankiewicz. With Sterling Hayden and Eva Marie Saint. Was this on when Hayden was SOTM? 9:45 p.m. and onward. John Huston WWII documentaries which include (The Battle of) San Pietro (1945) and Let There Be Light (1946). Both are very good.

doh, Buddy Ebsen!

Ditto to what Speedracer says and I don't think you would pick a Heston or a Lemmon as they never really transitioned back to tv anyway. It just has to be a question of balance, I would think.

You know I think you are right! Perhaps that makes it less tasteless, too! Cheers.

**Tasteless Joke Alert** Some of the comments here reminded me of the National Lampoon Magazine headline upon the news of Jack Haley's death ... "The Curse of the Wizard of Oz ... Will Ray Bolger be next?"

I suspect TCM has a deal with Criterion as almost all of the Japanese import films come from that label.

"The conventions of an ordered society have made us lose what Freud calls our urmenschgefuhnaturlichkeit" - Dudley Moore as the Welsh intellectual, Stanley Moon to Eleanor Bron as Margaret Spencer, in Bedazzled (1967) after he has been granted the 'gift of the gab' by the devil played by Peter Cook.

Am I correct in assuming that in Challenge #2 the films though inspired by a Marx Bros. joke do not have to be comedies in themselves? Taking your elephant example, you could use Roots of Heaven?

I just caught the Robert Osborne 2012 TCM interview with Peter O'Toole and thoroughly enjoyed it. O'Toole is a master of storytelling and had his audience enthralled. I thought Osborne did a great job with this interview too. At times I find him a bit of a dry stick in his wrap-around film intros but he really did a bang up professional job with his O'Toole interview. Too bad we Canadians were not privy to one of O'Toole's finest film achievements, The Lion In Winter at 6 a.m. I have no idea as to why not?

"You realize that suicide is a criminal offence. In less enlightened times they would have hung you for it" - Peter Cook to Dudley Moore in Bedazzled (1967)

How did you change my quote like that? Didn't I spell it 'capital'? What, what.

I had already put this in the one-liner thread, but what the heck. It is saucy British humour that may escape some. "My daughter, Cynthia. Works here spindle polishing." - Trade unionist, Fred Kite played by Peter Sellers introducing his blonde bombshell sex-kitten daughter, Cynthia played by Liz Fraser in I'm All Right Jack (1959)

I once had occasion to speak with him on the telephone and he kindly leant his assistance to a good cause which was a tribute to a fellow we both knew. He was as generous as can be I must say. So, yes a great suggestion, Swithin. Are you listening TCM? And maybe he can introduce Captain Blood for us Canadians too. : ) And he edited another film I have been touting today, the great I'm All Right Jack (1959) with Peter Sellers and Ian Carmichael.

Monday, September 7 A great day for film lovers. 6 a.m. The Lion In Winter (1968) O’Toole at his best. This film is surprisingly hard to come by now so set your recorders. Sadly this is not being shown in Canada. It has been replaced by that other great Peter O'Toole film, Captain Blood (1935). This is followed by ... 8:15 a.m. Peter O’Toole TCM Interview. I would also recommend his book, “Loitering With Intent.” 9:15 a.m. Yo Yo (1965) any imdb review that compares a film with Tarkovsky’s Ivan’s Childhood certainly gets my interest. 11 a.m. Billy Wilder Speaks (2006). Lousy title but I'm still there. Makes it sound like a post-stroke interview. 2:30 p.m. Bergman’s Island (2006). Boy, that was a rocky looking place. No swim suit required. 4 p.m. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955). Some great performances in this one. Eva Dahlbeck, Ulla Jacobsson, Harriet Andersson. Can't go wrong. 8 p.m. Of Mice and Men (1939). Featuring Aaron Copland’s brilliant score and great supporting performances by Betty Field and Roman Bohnen. 10 p.m. Fragments (2011). I am glad to see this scheduled so soon after reading about it on the boards. A chance to see the surviving bits of missing films. midnight. THX1138 (1971) Duvall and Lucas. But will it be the director's cut as Holden has asked? 1:45 a.m. The Tin Drum (1979) The Volker Schlondorff film that sparked so much controversy in 1979. 4:15 a.m. China 9, Liberty 37 (1978) by Monte Hellman. With Warren Oates, Jenny Agutter and Fabio Testi. Must catch this one for sure!

So, JamesJazz are you back home in sunny California now? Are you going to entertain us with tales of Vienna and your Third Man tour? Did you buy any Anton Karas cd's? Are you sick of zither music now?

Can we have wholly unrelated and inappropriately themed alternatives for some of the films on the Canadian schedule version? - Just some Canuck humour ... with the superfluous 'u' for Dargo thrown in.

Should you get one of these Challenge threads pinned like the last time, Lydecker? Speak to Speedy, perhaps.

Sorry, Lydecker if I have missed something, but can you tell us a bit more about the rules & regs about TCM premieres and any rules surrounding having to pick films that TCM leans toward: i.e., their own library as opposed to Paramount's. Is there a quota on films one can pick from those external libraries?

"Capital" - old British term for 'jolly good' or 'top notch' that is rarely heard anymore.

"My daughter, Cynthia. Works here spindle polishing." - Trade unionist, Fred Kite played by Peter Sellers introducing his blonde bombshell sex-kitten daughter, Cynthia played by Liz Fraser in I'm All Right Jack (1959)

I'm All Right Jack (1959) by John Boulting would be my pick for a Labour Day Weekend film. Wonderful comedy starring Ian Carmichael as the nincompoop, Stanley Windrush who is given a job at his Uncle's factory. Aiming to please, Windrush begins to outperform the other workers who are died-in-the-wool unionists who will not be hurried. Windrush then comes under fire from the Union leader, Fred Kite superbly played by Peter Sellers. Before long it is ... STRIKE! And not long after that the entire nation is out on a general ... STRIKE! Supporting players include: Terry-Thomas, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Rutherford, Dennis Price, Irene Handle, John Le Muserier and Liz Frazer as the blonde bombshell daughter of Fred Kite.

or Hot Spell

Susan Strasberg was pretty good (and sexy) in a little Canadian film called In Praise of Older Women (1978). It starred a young Tom Berenger and has Karen Black in it too. Too bad TCM did not do something for Karen Black when she passed away. How this got in a Kim Novak thread, I'm not sure, but hey ...

Thanks, TomJH. I have a copy of that that I plan on watching in the coming weeks. Looking forward to seeing Olga and Connie together. Talk about a weird couple! They don't make them like that anymore.