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Lorna,
Not sure if you are aware of the "TCM Slumberground" series of YouTube videos where the TCM Underground curator and friends meet to discuss upcoming programming on TCM Underground. Here's one way to find them:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC55WRXRuDkx-mMLhB7B7-KvIH5-dIzxl
Sort of an equivalent of having a semi-regular host for Underground.
(Thanks to MR6666 for posting links for these and calling attention to them.)
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Here are the TCM premieres for July, as determined by MovieCollectorOH’s TCM schedules database.
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- The dates shown are based on a programming day starting at 6 am ET and running past midnight.
- Shorts and cartoons are listed separately.
Feature FilmsJul 3 - The Tall Men (1955)
Jul 3 - Guilty Bystander (1950)
Jul 5 - The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) (also shown on the 25th)
Jul 5 - Blow Out (1981)
Jul 5 - Body Double (1984)
Jul 16 - Body Heat (1981)
Jul 16 - To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Jul 17 - Los Tallos Amargos (1956) (Noir Alley, 2 showings)
Jul 19 - The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 (2016) (doc.)
Jul 19 - The White Stadium (1928) (doc.)
Jul 19 - XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport (1948) (doc.)
Jul 19 - White Vertigo (1956) (doc.)
Jul 19 - Tokyo Olympiad (1965) (doc.)
Jul 19 - Visions of Eight (1973) (doc.)
Jul 19 - Games of the XXI Olympiad (1977) (doc.)
Jul 19 - 16 Days of Glory (1986) (doc.)
Jul 19 - Marathon (1993) (doc.)
Jul 19 - First (2012) (doc.)
Jul 23 - Cutter's Way (1981)
Jul 25 - Ma Vie En Rose (1997)
Jul 30 - Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982)
Jul 30 - Tequila Sunrise (1988)
ShortsJul 18 - Pie, Pie Blackbird (1932)
CartoonsJul 3 - Popeye: I'll Be Skiing Ya (1947)
Jul 10 - Popeye and the Pirates (1947)
Jul 17 - Popeye: Safari So Good (1947)
Jul 24 - MGM: Innertube Antics (1944)
Jul 24 - Popeye: All's Fair at the Fair (1947)
Jul 31 - Popeye: Snow Place Like Home (1948)
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1 hour ago, Bogie56 said:
Monday, June 28
LGVTQ Icons. Which one is it here? Van Johnson … ?
12:30 p.m. Slander (1957).
Yes, it is Van Johnson:
https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programming Article/021345/lgbtq-icons-6-11-and-6-28
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Noir fans have much to look forward to in the coming weeks, as TCM is presenting “Friday Night Neo-Noir” in July.
The lineup is (ET):
July 2
08:00 PM Harper (1966)
10:15 PM Point Blank (1967)
12:00 AM Warning Shot (1967)July 9
08:00 PM Get Carter (1971)
10:00 PM The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
12:00 AM Chinatown (1974)July 16
08:00 PM Pulp (1972)
09:45 PM Body Heat (1981) (a TCM premiere)
12:00 AM To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)July 23
08:00 PM Blood Simple (1984)
10:00 PM Night Moves (1975)
11:45 AM Cutter's Way (1981) (a TCM premiere)July 30
08:00 PM Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982) (a TCM premiere)
10:15 PM Mona Lisa (1986)
12:15 AM Tequila Sunrise (1988) (a TCM premiere)
Plus there is also the regular Sat-Sun Noir Alley schedule:June 26, 27 - Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
July 3 - Guilty Bystander (1950) (a TCM premiere) (no Noir Alley repeat on July 4th)
July 10, 11 - The Bribe (1949)
July 17, 18 - Los Tallos Amargos (1956) (a TCM premiere)
July 24, 25 - Cause for Alarm! (1951)
July 31 - Hollow Triumph (1948) (Summer Under the Stars starts on Aug. 1)
If Eddie has prepared the intros for all of these, he must have been very busy.-
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The limited schedule release so far has confirmed the blanks in speedracer5’s lineup, matching the order of the unassigned actors as they were originally listed:
4 - Louis Armstrong
10 - George Segal
11 - Kathryn Grayson
12 - Ramon Novarro
13 - Jane Fonda
24 - Maurice Chevalier
25 - Jane Wyman
26 - Tony RandallThanks again to speedracer5 for posting the list.
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32 minutes ago, cigarjoe said:
Was wondering what the part of the cocktail that sort of looked like a white corndog sticking out of the top was? Must be something to do with the barspoon Velvet falernum.
I was wondering about that myself - after looking around on the internet, I think those are 'ice cones', apparently used to dress up tropical drinks.
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It appears that TCM does have control over this particular situation, since they are creating a widescreen (16x9) promo which inserts the trailer into their own frame. This gives them the ability to add their own information next to the trailer.
For a widescreen trailer there is no issue, since they can use a widescreen cutout above the text.
For a fullscreen (~4x3) trailer, if they want to use the same layout they have to decide if they want to zoom in (crop) or stretch the trailer to fit into the frame they have chosen. Or they could use a narrower frame for a 4x3 image, but they might feel that this leaves too much empty space in the layout, or the image would be too small to make out the details on a TV. It's entirely up to them.
Somewhere along the line it was decided that stretching the trailer was OK for a promo of this type. As long as that doesn't start creeping into the movies themselves...
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1 hour ago, SansFin said:
https://www.tcm.com/video/1328035/ben-mankiewicz-intro-how-to-steal-a-million-1966
I do not know if that intro is for the next scheduled airing or if it was for when the movie aired in: 2017.
That's from the previous TCM broadcast on Monday, June 19, 2017, when Audrey Hepburn was Star of the Month. (Didn't realize it has been that long since TCM aired the film.) Ben's intro probably won't be a whole lot different this time, but the theme Sunday is "Museum Capers," and the film is paired with Topkapi (1964).
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8 minutes ago, SansFin said:
How to Steal a Million (1966)
A beautiful but slightly klutzy young lady enlists a tall, slim, brutal, mean, terrible man with deep blue eyes to help her steal a statue which belongs to her so that she will not have to go to America.
I consider it one of the great shames of classic Hollywood that Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole appeared together only this once because they have great chemistry and are a truly beautiful couple. That Hugh Griffith is her father does make one wonder about genetics. Fernand Gravey as the director of the museum and Jacques Marin as the head guard of said museum were excellently cast. Moustache as a guard is quite fun. Charles Boyer has a minor role necessary for story purposes and he fills it professionally with no opportunity to become a grandiose caricature. Eli Wallach seems a bit of typecasting as he is supposed to be somewhat irritating.
This is William Wyler at his height and John Williams provided a lively score.
Even the automobiles in this movie are perfect! She drives a sassy little Autobianchi Bianchina Cabriolet while he has a stereotypical but quite lovely Jaguar E-Type 4.2.
9.9/10
I am sorry to say that I could find no streaming service which carries it free. We have the DVD but I purchased it on: Amazon Prime Video because we had earned video credits which were soon to expire and we had no other use for them.
A very timely review! - How to Steal a Million is scheduled to be shown on TCM this coming Sunday evening, June 13 at 8 pm ET.
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Sorry to chime in again, but I'm pleased to say that TCM has also upgraded the quality of the last several Popeye cartoons - they now appear to be restored HD versions with the proper aspect ratio. I hope Saturday morning Popeye fans are happy.
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Another case I noticed, in the recent Now Playing e-mail the TCM Import film Roma (1972) scheduled for late on June 20th is marked as a premiere - according to the records it has been shown 7 times before on TCM (I can confirm the last showing in 2014). So I’m not sure where the Now Playing info is coming from.
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15 hours ago, Allhallowsday said:
Tonight I caught the end of HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL (1958) introduced by BEN MAKIEWICZ and MICHAEL LANDON is prominent there at the end... did I miss it or was he not credited?
Michael Landon does have a significant role in the film - he is credited at the very beginning when they are showing the "Jerry Lee Lewis Music Truck"
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5 hours ago, David Guercio said:
Are they supposed to have Alfred Hitchcock Weekends this month? I thought I saw it in the June On TCM advertisement. If so? I’m really looking forward to it. Because I missed TCM Spotlight On 50 Years Of Hitchcock. Except for his first silent film they showed the first week. I don’t remember who hosted and so far I haven’t seen Alfred Hitchcock Weekends listed in the guide.There's just a single Hitchcock weekend late in the month, on the 26th and 27th. Here's the schedule (ET):
SATURDAY June 26
06:00 AM Sabotage (1936)
07:30 AM The 39 Steps (1935)
09:00 AM The Wrong Man (1956)
11:00 AM Saboteur (1942)
01:00 PM Torn Curtain (1966)
03:15 PM North by Northwest (1959)
05:45 PM Vertigo (1958)
08:00 PM The Birds (1963)
10:15 PM Rear Window (1954)
12:15 AM Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
02:30 AM Strangers on a Train (1951)
04:30 AM Family Plot (1976)SUNDAY June 27
06:30 AM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
08:15 AM Suspicion (1941)
10:00 AM Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
12:15 PM Rope (1948)
01:45 PM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
04:00 PM Dial M for Murder (1954)
06:00 PM The Trouble with Harry (1955)
08:00 PM Psycho (1960)
10:00 PM Marnie (1964)
12:15 AM The Lodger (1927)
02:15 AM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
03:45 AM Frenzy (1972)-
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Just to defend the integrity of our source, Persuasion (1995) is listed as being shown on TCM in November, 2013. I happen to still have a copy of the Now Playing program guide for that month which confirms it.
I have seen other examples in the recent digital Now Playing Guide e-mails with mistaken and/or missing premieres.
But for this message thread it is better to have false positives than to miss premieres that viewers might be interested in, especially for films that are rarely shown, so thanks for pointing it out and creating the nice summary.
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The TCM At-A-Glance schedule for July 2021 is now available at:
http://www.escapepress.com/tcmsched/tcm_overview.html
- On this page, click on the At-A-Glance link for July to view the latest pdf file.- You can then use the Save command in your browser to make a local copy.
- Information for June is also available (updated with latest schedule changes).
The July schedule is very preliminary. The document will be updated as details are provided.-
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At least now we know where the opening image of the Noir Alley introduction comes from. Here's Robert Ryan limping along at the beginning of Act of Violence:
A talented person at TCM turned it into this:
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On 5/13/2021 at 11:04 PM, speedracer5 said:
While July isn't fully posted yet, we know that on 7/1 during the day, there is a birthday tribute to Olivia de Havilland
Just to clarify, 7/1 is Olivia de Havilland's birthday, but her tribute is during the primetime hours on 6/30.
The daytime theme on 7/1 is a birthday tribute to director William Wyler.
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Here are the TCM premieres for June, as determined by MovieCollectorOH’s TCM schedules database.
Notes:
- The dates shown are based on a programming day starting at 6 am ET and running past midnight.
- Cartoons are listed separately.
- Feature FilmsJun 2 - Bloodlust (1961)
Jun 3 - Diary of a High School Bride (1959)
Jun 4 - Street of Sinners (1957)
Jun 4 - Magic (1978)
Jun 6 - Mahler (1974)
Jun 6 - Lisztomania (1976)
Jun 10 - No Time to Be Young (1957)
Jun 17 - Four Boys and a Gun (1957)
Jun 18 - The Stepfather (1987)
Jun 18 - Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Jun 19 - Krush Groove (1985)
Jun 22 - Twilight For the Gods (1958)
Jun 22 - Mark of the Renegade (1951)
Jun 25 - Lunatics: A Love Story (1991)
Jun 28 - Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt (1989) (doc.)
Jun 28 - The Celluloid Closet (1995) (doc.)
Jun 28 - Paragraph 175 (2000) (doc.)
- CartoonsJun 5 - MGM: The Farm of Tomorrow (1954)
Jun 5 - Popeye: Rocket to Mars (1946)
Jun 12 - MGM: Billy Boy (1954)
Jun 12 - Popeye: The Fistic Mystic (1946)
Jun 19 - MGM: Buried Treasure (1938)
Thanks as always to MCOH!-
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We have a thread "TCM Premieres" dedicated to identifying the TCM premieres each month. Go back a few messages and you'll see the list for May. MR6666 was kind enough to post a description for The Trap:
https://forums.tcm.com/topic/48504-tcm-premieres/page/77/#comments
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The TCM programmers work hard to create daytime and primetime themes throughout the week to organize the schedule. This “curation” of the films is one of the prominent ways TCM distinguishes itself from other movie channels. Many of the themes are designed to feature noteworthy guests and/or specific concepts for film appreciation that try to draw viewers to watch the channel.
- Yes, there are the occasional articles at the beginning of the month that will describe a theme for a given day or month, but this in no way covers them all.
- Yes, the monthly electronic program guide lists themes, but this is often incomplete or becomes out of date by the time the programs air. There are often last-minute changes to the schedule that never get reflected anywhere other than the raw list of films.
- The online schedule used to show the primetime themes, but that was lost when the new schedule system was put in place last year. Even then it didn’t make sense to not show both the daytime and primetime themes each day.By refusing to show the daily themes, TCM is missing a major opportunity to promote their brand, entice more viewers to the daily events, and enhance the viewing experience for serious viewers who seek out this information.
Not taking full advantage of the work the programmers do to create the schedules seems crazy. Something this fundamental would certainly be worth any extra work required to update the schedule system for this feature, and it would likely be a one-time change that would require little maintenance from month-to-month.
Perish the thought that TCM would ever do away with these themes, because that’s what makes TCM what it is. Why not shout them out from the highest mountaintop?
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For Noir fans ("Noiristas" as Eddie likes to say), I would feel negligent if I didn't mention that the TCM daytime theme for Wednesday the 19th is Film Noir Road Trip.
Here is the lineup (times are ET):
06:00 AM The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
08:15 AM Hell Drivers (1957)
10:15 AM Jeopardy (1953)
11:45 AM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
01:15 PM Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
03:00 PM Detour (1945)
04:15 PM Gun Crazy (1950)
06:00 PM They Live by Night (1948)The last 5 films have been previously featured on Noir Alley.
Check out the daily schedule on the 19th for more info:
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18 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I don't know why I remember this, but RAY MILLAND has been a STAR OF THE MONTH on TCM, don't remember when, but for some reason I remember it was May.
An impressive memory!
According to an old lzcutter post, Ray Milland was SOTM for April, 2011.
🙂
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5 hours ago, Vautrin said:
I saw Hopscotch last night (which for some unfathomable reason was rated R) and in the outro
Ben said the movie Times Square (1980) was coming up next on TCM Underground. It's about
two runaways who go to NYC. Like most teen runaways they form a punk rock band. According
to my DirecTV on screen schedule Foxes would be next. So Ben or someone else screwed up
because Foxes it was.
TCM Underground was originally scheduled to show Times Square (1980) followed by Foxes (1980). That was later changed to be Foxes (1980) followed by Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975). So as you noted, the outro with Ben for the previous movie was not corrected for the new schedule. Unfortunately these schedule changes happen all the time and TCM is not always able to make everything consistent.
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In the CBS Sunday Morning video (thanks Peebs for posting), Ben M. in a voiceover refers to The Goodbye Girl as “a screen adaptation of a Neil Simon play.”
This must be news to the Academy, since The Goodbye Girl was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay.
I only noticed this because the TCM film festival interview with Richard Dreyfuss was the first I had heard of the details of the production of The Goodbye Girl, including the original title Bogart Slept Here, the De Niro firing, and the exit of Mike Nichols as director.
So I found Ben’s comment confusing based on what I had heard in the intro and after reading about the production on Wikipedia.
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*Complete* TCM 2021 Summer Under the Stars Line-Up
in General Discussions
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Perhaps I am missing something, but Two for the Seesaw is still on the schedule late on Robert Mitchum day at 1:45 AM ET August 7th.
Don't see The Way West listed.