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Here are the TCM premieres for April (31 Days of Oscar), as determined by MovieCollectorOH’s TCM schedules database.
Note - The dates shown are based on a programming day starting at 6 am ET and running past midnight.
Apr 3 - Carol (2015)
Apr 4 - The End of the Affair (1999)
Apr 14 - Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Apr 17 - Mona Lisa (1986)
Apr 18 - Nebraska (2013)
Apr 20 - Passion Fish (1992)
Apr 29 - The Truman Show (1998)
Apr 29 - Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
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The TCM database page has a fairly detailed synopsis of the film:
https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1528/as-the-earth-turns/#synopsis
- You can also click on the 'credits' tab to see a list of the characters with photos of a few of the actors.
- There's also a trailer for the film if you click on the 'overview' tab.
I normally don't read the synopsis before watching a film to avoid spoilers, but afterwards it can help answer any questions you might have.
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I cannot name the film you are looking for, but here is the schedule for March 17, 2020. Perhaps that will jog your memory.
TCM DAYTIME - ST. PATRICK'S DAY
6:45a war Fighting 69th, The (1940)
8:20a short Ireland "The Emerald Isle" (1934)
8:30a musical Peg O' My Heart (1933)
10:00a drama Flight of the Doves (1971)
11:48a short Morton Downey in "Dublin in Brass" (1935)
12:30p drama Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
2:15p susp Odd Man Out (1947)
4:20p short Roaming Through Northern Ireland (1949)
4:30p comedy Rising of the Moon, The (1957)
6:00p romance Young Cassidy (1965)
7:51p short Sean O'Casey The Spirit of Ireland (1965)
TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: ST. PATRICK'S DAY
8:00p comedy Quiet Man, The (1952)
10:30p musical Finian's Rainbow (1968)
1:15a drama Ryan's Daughter (1970)
4:45a comedy Irish in Us, The (1935)Of course, there can be other shorts that don't get listed on the schedule, but that's the best I can do.
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Sorry to say that My Wild Irish Rose (1947) was actually just shown on TCM on March 11, and is not scheduled for St. Patrick's Day this year. However, for those who have the WatchTCM service, My Wild Irish Rose is listed as being available there for streaming until April 10.
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Anyone who likes TCM-related podcasts might enjoy the Feb. 22nd episode of Leonard Maltin’s Maltin on Movies podcast where Leonard and his daughter Jessie interview Dave Karger:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dave-karger/id935760435?i=1000510145725
Lots of nice information on Dave’s biography and some great stories from his time working in the entertainment industry.
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The TCM premiere of the short film Inner Eye (1972), originally scheduled for 11:30 pm ET Saturday March 6, appears to have been removed from the schedule.
The list of March premieres posted above has been updated.
-- edit
There is currently a fairly good copy of the film available online:
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Just to make sure you don't miss it, Angels in the Outfield is on late in the evening on Friday, March 26. The primetime theme that evening is a tribute to Danny Glover. Here is the lineup (Eastern Time):
8:00 PM Places in the Heart (1984)
10:00 PM To Sleep with Anger (1990)
12:00 AM Angels in the Outfield (1994)Now that March is underway, you can also find this info on the TCM monthly schedule (have to scroll down towards the end of the month):
https://www.tcm.com/schedule-monthly?icid=mainnav7-month-schedule
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The TCM At-A-Glance schedule for April 2021 is now available at:
http://www.escapepress.com/tcmsched/tcm_overview.html
- On this page, click on the At-A-Glance link for April to view the latest pdf file.- You can then use the Save command in your browser to make a local copy.
- Information for March is also available (updated with latest schedule changes).
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Here are the TCM premieres for March, 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.
- On Saturdays, TCM is premiering episodes of The New Adventures of Tarzan serial along with selected cartoons, so these are listed separately.
- Feature FilmsMar 5 - Revolt in the Big House (1958)
Mar 5 - RoboCop 2 (1990)
Mar 12 - Scissors (1991)
Mar 12 - Schizoid (1980)
Mar 14 - Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
Mar 14 - À propos de Nice (1930) (Doc.)
Mar 17 - The Steel Fist (1952)
Mar 21 - Leon Morin, Priest (1961)
Mar 26 - Angels in the Outfield (1994)
Mar 27 - Luther (1974)
Mar 28 - Bianco, Rosso e... (1973)
- ShortsMar 2 - Strictly Unreliable (1932)
Mar 6 - St. Helena and its "Man of Destiny" (1936) (Doc.)
- Saturdays: SerialsMar 6 - The New Adventures of Tarzan Ch. 9: Doom's Brink (1935)
Mar 13 - The New Adventures of Tarzan Ch. 10: Secret Signals (1935)
Mar 20 - The New Adventures of Tarzan Ch. 11: Death's Fireworks (1935)
Mar 27 - The New Adventures of Tarzan Ch. 12: Operator No. 17 (1935)
- Saturdays: CartoonsMar 6 - Popeye: Shape Ahoy (1945)
Mar 13 - MGM Cartoons: Bottles (1936)
Mar 13 - Popeye: For Better or Nurse (1945)
Mar 20 - MGM Cartoons: The Cuckoo Clock (1950)
Mar 20 - Popeye: Mess Production (1945)
Mar 27 - Popeye: House Tricks? (1946)
Thanks as always to MCOH!-
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5 hours ago, MovieCollectorOH said:
Just above some of the chatter here, I noticed back on Sunday that the schedule page actually loads in a different way now, for the better. I can assure you that this change has been made, as it affected my own "new feed" schedule until I fixed it by redirecting to a newer address. In doing so, I noticed there are now separate data feeds for EST, CST, and so forth. This change looks like it happened last Saturday.
Thank you for pointing this out. It looks like along with this change, the schedule will "remember" the time zone you last selected when you go back to the schedule later. (Something we used to have with the previous schedule that has been lost since the new schedule system was implemented.)
Small steps.
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On 2/7/2021 at 10:51 AM, LsDoorMat said:
Question here regarding "Killer That Stalked New York" - When exactly did smallpox vaccinations start being required before starting public school? I was born in 1958, and I was vaccinated in 1964. So in the 1940s this wasn't one of the vaccinations required to enter public school? Because the film makes it sound like the entire city of New York was unvaccinated. Just wondering, since the vaccine for smallpox had been around since the 1800s.
I was curious about that as well. In this article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/nyregion/nyc-smallpox-vaccine.html
it says that "In 1947, most New Yorkers had been inoculated against smallpox. They’d been told the inoculation would protect them for life — but there was no guarantee. In some cases, the vaccine didn’t take" and implies that the carrier Eugene Le Bar had actually been vaccinated before as well. So they apparently undertook the huge task of newly-vaccinating everyone to make sure there would be no epidemic.
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On 2/7/2021 at 7:19 PM, Arbogast said:
Did anyone catch Ben M's outro of the movie that preceded last night's Noir Alley? He said that he wouldn't be watching Noir Alley and/or that he'd never watch Noir Alley. I'm assuming this is an in-joke that's escaped me....does anyone know what that was about?
Ben likes to make ridiculous comments about Eddie and Noir Alley as sort of a running joke, since he’s typically doing the lead-in movie prior to Noir Alley each Saturday.
In this case, he was talking about Young Frankenstein being the third-highest grossing film of 1974 (as compared to Blazing Saddles, also released that year), and said it was “coming up next on Noir Alley.” Then he said something like, “I’m kidding, I’ve never seen Noir Alley, and I never will.”
This is all just dumb humor to give us a laugh before Eddie takes over.
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3 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Why would the title THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK be considered grammatically incorrect by some?
(in re: EDDIE’s intro)
I believe grammatically if the 'killer' was a person, you would say 'The killer who stalked New York', but as Eddie pointed out, in this case the killer was a thing (being the disease), so 'The killer that' is correct.
(I wouldn't have thought about it if Eddie hadn't mentioned it.)
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In my experience TCM usually posts titles to WatchTCM shortly after the film finishes the broadcast on the West Coast feed (3 hours after the finish time of the East Coast feed).
If it doesn’t show up in that time frame, then chances are it will not be added.
Also, the films that are part of TCM’s library (Warner, MGM, RKO) are more likely to be included on WatchTCM.
Unfortunately for the films you mention, Live Flesh and All About My Mother, these were foreign films shown as part of TCM Imports, so it looks like TCM’s arrangement did not include later streaming rights.
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Similar frame grab from Popeye on WatchTCM:
Perhaps Olive Oyl looks OK in the first case because she is normally drawn so extremely thin 🙂.
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The Popeye cartoon has been posted to WatchTCM in the standard 4:3 aspect ratio, so I think the presentation on Saturday morning was just an operator error. I've seen this type of error before, where it looks like there is an 'anamorphic widescreen'-type setting somewhere that is incorrect. I really don't think TCM is normally showing anything (so far) that falls into the 14:9 category. If you ask me, such an alteration of the original presentation aspect ratio would be against their religion. Of course there can be individual cases where the film source is not what they would like, but in general I believe TCM tries to letterbox / pillarbox to preserve the original format as needed.
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In a similar vein, I noticed Popeye looked like this on TCM Saturday morning:
I haven’t been watching the cartoons enough to know if this was a glitch or if they are commonly being stretched. 🙃
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The last 2 cycles of The Essentials have started on the first weekend of May (Ben & Ava DuVernay in 2019 and Ben & Brad Bird in 2020), so we may find out what's up when the May schedule is posted. As you point out, they would probably have to do it over a Zoom call if they go ahead with it.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
I'm sure Change of Habit is NOT a premiere. TCM has shown it several times.
I must respectfully disagree with you, given the MCOH database we use to identify premieres. My own records go back almost 10 years, and I don't see it scheduled on TCM during that period either. Might you be thinking of another channel?
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3 hours ago, LsDoorMat said:
I honestly do not see why "Change of Habit" is considered a Golden Turkey. I haven't seen it since I was a teenager, but I remember it as charming. And Elvis can be good in a film if you give him decent material.
The award was for "Worst Performance as a Clergyman or Nun: Mary Tyler Moore in Change of Habit".
I haven't read the original review describing the award, but it seems like Elvis movies would have been an easy target for reviewers at the time, even if it was not really justified. The IMDB rating for Change of Habit is currently 6.1, which is not bad by any means. In comparison with other films on the schedule tonight, Plan 9 from Outer Space has a rating of 4.0, The Swarm is 4.5, and The Conqueror with John Wayne is 3.7
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The TCM At-A-Glance schedule for March 2021 is now available at:
http://www.escapepress.com/tcmsched/tcm_overview.html
- On this page, click on the At-A-Glance link for March to view the latest pdf file.- You can then use the Save command in your browser to make a local copy.
- Information for February is also available (updated with latest schedule changes).
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Both of these are part of the evening theme of Golden Turkey award-winners.
TCM has an article at
https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programming Article/020915/golden-turkeys-february-1
There’s also a Wikipedia page on the awards at
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3 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I would love for TCM to show Calcutta (1947); this is the only Ladd 40s noir\crime film I haven't seen. Also has the always interesting Gail Russell, and pairs Ladd again with William Bendix.
Calcutta was released on Blu-Ray last year as part of a Noir set, so maybe if we are lucky Eddie will show it some time.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Film-Noir-The-Dark-Side-of-Cinema-IV-Blu-ray/270189/
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4 hours ago, ElCid said:
I have a 39" HD TV and all my DVD's and 90% of TV shows are full screen. However, some shrink with bars on sides or top and bottom or all four.
Last night I watched Journal of A Crime (1934) on TCM On Demand on Spectrum cable. The screen shrank from 39" to 21" with bars on all four sides. What's the reason for this?
I had posted something about this a while back because I have the same issue for the TCM on demand content on my cable system. I will try to summarize:
- on my cable system, the on demand content is separated into 2 categories, HD and SD
- the HD content fills a 16x9 standard HD TV screen as expected
- the SD content is "full screen" which is for older 4:3 content (row 4 of MCOH diagram). There are bars on the side.
- for some reason, all TCM videos are only available as SD content.
- TCM adds 16x9 intros to much of their content, so the default TCM aspect ratio for all videos is 16x9. Classic 4:3 films fit into this frame with bars on the side.
- since the TCM videos are part of the on demand SD directories, this content is shown in the 4:3 frame, which applies a 2nd level of letterboxing.
So I end up with a picture like this:
This may be what is happening for you as well. The other problem with using the SD content format is that it is lower resolution, so even if you are able to zoom in the picture quality will be degraded.
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Noir Alley
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For anyone who is interested in the Pepe le Moko remake, Algiers (1938) happens to be scheduled on TCM this coming Thursday, April 1 at 4:15 pm Eastern time (both U.S. and Canada). Algiers qualifies for 31 Days of Oscar with 4 nominations - actor Charles Boyer, supporting actor Gene Lockhart, cinematography by James Wong Howe, and art direction by Alexander Toluboff.