LAST DAY! ?THE TCM Programming Challenge: Take 5? with PRIZES

[sugarpuss]

This is my contribution to the challenge. I'll post the notes tomorrow, since my brain is still spinning from figuring out the time slots. Thank you filmlover, for letting us "raid" the Columbia, Rank and live action Disney libraries! It certainly made for a much more interesting schedule than I could have ever imagined.

 

For the Week of Sunday March 18-24, 2007:

 

Sunday March 18

 

Harassed by Harry Cohn: the Queens of Columbia

6:00 am - Jean Arthur - The Talk of the Town (1942/Columbia) - 118 min.

8:00 am - Rita Hayworth - Gilda (1946/Columbia) - 110 min.

10:00 am - Judy Holliday - Full of Life (1956/Columbia) - 91 min.

11:45 am - Kim Novak - Middle of the Night (1959/Columbia) - 118 min.

 

1:50 pm - (approx.) - How to Break 90 #2: Position and Back Swing (1933/WB) - Glenda Farrell. 9 min.

 

Go West:

2:00 pm - West Side Story (1961/UA) - Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer - 152 min.

4:45 pm - How the West Was Won (1962/MGM) - James Stewart, John Wayne - 162 min.

 

Cinematography by Charles Lang

7:30 pm - Red Mountain (1951/Paramount/TCM Premiere) - Alan Ladd, Lizabeth Scott - 84 min.

9:00 pm - September Affair (1950/Paramount/TCM Premiere) Joseph Cotten, Joan Fontaine - 91 min.

10:45 pm - She Done Him Wrong (1933/ps/Paramount) Mae West, Cary Grant - 66 min.

 

A Late Night Tribute to Great Directors

Silent Sunday Night: Ernst Lubitsch and Buster Keaton

12:00 am - Lady Windermere's Fan (1925/WB) - Ronald Colman, May McAvoy; directed by Ernst Lubtsch - 89 min.

1:30 am - Daydreams (1922/First National) - Buster Keaton - 18 min.

 

TCM Import: Directed by Federico Fellini

2:00 am - 8 1/2 (1963/Embassy) - Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale - 138 min.

 

The Director as Actor: Erich von Stroheim

4:30 am - The Lost Squadron (1932/RKO) - Richard Dix, Mary Astor - 79 min.

 

Monday March 19

 

Be Seeing You: Patrick McGoohan's 79th Birthday

6:00 am - The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958/J. Arthur Rank) - 107 min.

8:00 am - Zarak (1956/Columbia) - Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg - 99 min.

9:45 am - Hell Drivers (1957/J. Arthur Rank) - 91 min.

11:30 am - Nor the Moon by Night (1958/J. Arthur Rank) - 84 min.

1:00 pm - All Night Long (1962/J. Arthur Rank) - 82 min.

2:30 pm - Life For Ruth (1962/J. Arthur Rank) - 93 min.

4:15 pm - The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964/Disney) - 97 min.

6:00 pm - High Tide at Noon (1957/J. Arthur Rank) - 109 min.

 

RKO: Hollywood Headliners DVD preview

8:00 pm - The RKO Story: Part 1 - 60 min

9:00 pm - The Lusty Men (1952/RKO) - Robert Mitchum, Susan Hayward - 113 min

11:00 pm - In Name Only (1939/RKO) - Carol Lombard, Cary Grant - 94 min.

12:45 am - A Damsel in Distress (1937/RKO) - Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine - 98 min

 

More RKO Classics:

2:30 am - The Enchanted Cottage (1945/RKO) - Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young - 91 min.

4:15 am - Stage Door (1937/RKO) - Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers - 92 min.

 

Tuesday March 20

 

A Lipful of Cotton, but a Whole Lot of Talent: Gloria Grahame

6:00 am - Roughshod (1949/RKO) - Robert Sterling, Martha Hyer - 88 min.

7:30 am - Oklahoma! (1955/ps/Goldwyn) - Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones - 149 min.

10:00 am - It Happened in Brooklyn (1947/MGM) - Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson - 104 min.

11:50 am (approx) - Short: Screen Snapshots Series 27, #1: Hollywood Cowboys (1947/Columbia) - Robert Young - 10 min.

12:00 pm - Crossfire (1947/RKO) - Robert Young, Robert Mitchum - 86 min.

1:30 pm - The Cobweb (1955/MGM) - Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall - 123 min.

 

3:35 pm (approx) - Short: Screen Snapshots: Motion Picture Mothers, Inc. (1949/Columbia) - Jane Powell - 9 min.

 

Redheads:

3:45 pm - Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954/MGM) - Jane Powell, Howard Keel - 102 min.

5:30 pm - Red-Headed Woman (1932/MGM) - Jean Harlow, Lewis Stone - 79 min.

6:49 pm (approx) - Short: Another Romance of Celluloid (1938/MGM) Lewis Stone. 11 min. (MGM)

7:00 pm - Private Screenings: Shirley MacLaine - 60 min.

 

Star of the Month: Melvyn Douglas

Co-Starring Comedic Leading Ladies

8:00 pm - Being There (1979/ps/UA-WB) - Shirley MacLaine - 130 min.

10:15 pm - Theodora Goes Wild (1936/Columbia) - Irene Dunne - 94 min.

12:00 am - They All Kissed The Bride (1942/Columbia) - Joan Crawford - 85 min.

1:30 am - This Thing Called Love (1940/Columbia) - Rosalind Russell - 98 min.

3:15 am - Advance to the Rear (1964/MGM) - Joan Blondell - 100 min.

 

More Joan Blondell:

5:00 am - Central Park (1932/MGM) - Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford - 58 min.

 

Wednesday March 21

 

As Seen on TV: Before They Made it Big on the Little Screen

6:00 am - Blackboard Jungle (1955/MGM) - Vic Morrow, Jamie Farr - 101 min.

7:45 am - Bend of the River (1952/ps/Universal) - Harry Morgan, Frances "Aunt Bee" Bavier - 91 min.

9:30 am - What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966/UA) - Caroll O'Connor - 116 min.

11:30 am - Something Wild (1961/UA) - Jean Stapleton - 112 min.

1:30 pm - Sweet Bird of Youth (1962/MGM) - Shirley Knight, Rip Torn - 120 min.

3:32 pm (approx) - Grand Prix "Challenge of the Champions" featurette (1966/MGM) - 13 min.

3:45 pm - Grand Prix (1966/MGM) - James Garner, Jessica Walter - 179 min

6:47 pm (approx) - Pete Smith: Pedestrian Safety (1952/MGM) - 9 min.

7:00 pm - Private Screenings: James Garner (2001) 55 min.

 

Hollywood Take Five: Big Breaks and Shattered Dreams

8:00 pm - The Muppet Movie (1979/Disney) 97 min.

9:45 pm - Singin' in the Rain (1952/MGM) Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds - 103 min.

11:31 pm (approx) - The Miracle of Sound (1940/MGM) 11 min.

11:45 pm - The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929/MGM) - Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny - 116 min.

1:45 am - The Carpetbaggers (1964/ps/Paramount) - George Pepard, Carrol Baker - 150 min.

4:15 am - Make Me a Star (1932/ps/Paramount) - Joan Blondell - 86 min.

 

5:45 am - Short: The Still Alarm (1930/Vitaphone) - Clifton Webb, Fred Allen - 10 min.

 

Thursday March 22

 

We're In the Money: Cheapskates and Gold Diggers

6:00 am - A Hole in the Head (1959/UA) - Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson - 120 min.

8:15 am - I Love You Again (1940/MGM) - William Powell, Myrna Loy - 99 min.

10:00 am - Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933/WB) - Warren William, Joan Blondell - 96 min.

 

I Don't Feel Like Dancing: Fred Astaire Acts

11:45 am - The Notorious Landlady (1962/Columbia) - Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon - 123 min.

2:00 pm - On the Beach (1959/UA) - Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner - 134 min.

 

But What I Really Want to Do is Direct: Gene Kelly Directs

4:15 pm - The Tunnel of Love (1958/MGM) - Doris Day, Richard Widmark - 98 min.

6:00 pm - The Happy Road (1957/MGM) - Gene Kelly, Barbara Laage - 99 min.

 

7:50 (approx) - Short: Traveltalk: Paris on Parade (1938/MGM) - 9 min.

 

Breaking the Fourth Wall

8:00 pm - The Great Muppet Caper (1981/Disney) - Charles Grodin, Diana Rigg - 95 min.

9:45 pm - The Matchmaker (1958/Paramount) - Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins - 103 min. TCM Premiere

11:45 pm - Horse Feathers (1932/ps/Paramount) - The Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd - 68 min.

1:00 am - Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975/Columbia) - Graham Chapman, John Cleese - 91 min.

2:45 am - Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948/RKO) - Cary Grant, Myrna Loy - 94 min.

4:30 am - Our Town (1940/ps/UA) - William Holden, Martha Scott - 90 min.

 

Friday March 23

 

Bette Davis Seethes: It's Joan Crawford's 102nd Birthday

6:00 am - Sally, Irene and Mary (1925/MGM) - Constance Bennett, Sally O'Neil - 58 min.

7:00 am - Our Dancing Daughters (1928/MGM) - Johnny Mack Brown, Anita Page - 84 min.

8:30 am - Paid (1930/MGM) - Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost - 86 min.

10:00 am - Grand Hotel (1932/MGM) - Greta Garbo, John Barrymore - 112 min

12:00 pm - Laughing Sinners (1931/MGM) - Clark Gable - 72 min.

1:15 pm - Love on the Run (1936/MGM) - Clark Gable - 80 min.

2:45 pm - When Ladies Meet (1941/MGM) - Robert Taylor, Greer Garson - 105 min.

4:30 pm - Mildred Pierce (1945/WB) - Jack Carson, Ann Blyth - 111 min.

6:30 pm - Strait-Jacket (1964/Columbia) - Diane Baker, George Kennedy - 89 min.

 

Lesser Known Remakes

8:00 pm - My Man Godfrey (1957/Universal/TCM Premiere) - David Niven, June Allyson - 92 min.

9:45 pm - M - (1951/Columbia) - David Wayne, Howard DaSilva - 88 min.

11:15 pm - Lost Horizon (1973/Columbia) - Peter Finch, Charles Boyer - 150 min.

 

TCM Underground: Hollywood Trips...and Falls Flat on it's Face

2:00 am - Skidoo (1968/Paramount/TCM Premiere) - Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing - 97 min.

3:45 am - The Big Cube (1969/WB/TCM Premiere) - Lana Turner, Richard Egan - 98 min.

 

5:30 am - Hollywood My Home Town (1965) Lana Turner, Jimmy Durante - 54 min.

 

Saturday March 24

 

Starring Milton Berle, Dorothy Provine and a Cast of Thousands:

6:30 am - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963/UA) Spencer Tracy, Ethel Merman - 182 min.

9:45 am - Who's Minding the Mint? (1967/Columbia) - Jim Hutton, Joey Bishop - 97 min.

 

Cartoon Alley: Screwy Squirrel cartoons (all MGM)

11:30 am - Screwball Squirrel (1944) 7 min.

- Big Heel-Watha (1944) 8 min.

- The Screwy Truant (1945) 7 min.

 

Overcome Your Fear of Flying:

12:00 pm - The High and the Mighty (1957/ps/WB-Paramount) - John Wayne, Robert Stack - 147 min.

2:30 pm - Airport '77 (1977/ps/Universal) - Jack Lemmon, James Stewart - 114 min

4:30 pm - Foreign Correspondent (1940/ps/UA) - Joel McCrea, Laraine Day - 120 min.

6:45 pm - Five Came Back (1939/RKO) - Chester Morris, Lucille Ball - 75 min.

 

Directed by Robert Aldrich

8:00 pm - TCM Essential - The Dirty Dozen (1967/MGM) - Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine - 145 min

10:30 pm - The Flight of the Phoenix (1965/20th Century Fox/TCM Premiere) - James Stewart, Richard Attenborough - 142 min.

1:00 am - Ten Seconds to Hell (1959/UA) - Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler - 93 min

2:45 am - Autumn Leaves (1956/Columbia) - Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson - 107 min.

4:45 am - Big Leaguer (1953/MGM) - Edward G. Robinson, Vera-Ellen - 71 min.

 

TCM Premieres:

Red Mountain

September Affair

The Matchmaker (1958)

My Man Godfrey (1957)

The Flight of the Phoenix

 

RKO Hollywood Headliners DVD Box Set (Five Movies plus One Documentary):

 

Quality Street (1937)

Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone; directed by George Stevens

Extras/Shorts:

- Trailer for "Quality Street"

- Short: The Costume Designer (1950) - Katharine Hepburn - 9 min.

- Bonus Movie: Maid's Night Out (1938) Joan Fontaine - 64 min.

 

A Damsel in Distress (1937)

Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen & Joan Fontaine; directed by George Stevens

Extra/Shorts:

- Trailer for "A Damsel in Distress"

- RKO Screenliner: Laughs of Yesterday (1953) 8 min.

- Information Please No. 4: (1942) Oscar Levant - 10 min.

- Information Please: Series 1, No. 11 (1940) - 10 min.

 

In Name Only (1939)

Cary Grant, Carole Lombard; directed by John Cromwell

Extras/Shorts:

- Trailer for "In Name Only"

- Short: A Tribute to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital (1965) - 3 min.

- Short: Road to Victory (1944) Cary Grant - 10 min.

 

The Lusty Men (1952)

Robert Mitchum, Susan Hayward; directed by Nicholas Ray

Extras/Shorts:

- Trailer for "The Lusty Men"

- Short: RKO Sportscope: Dirt Track Racing (1957) - 8 min.

- Short: Picture People #2: Hollywood Sports (1941) - 9 min.

- Short: Screenliner: Big House Rodeo (1951) - 9 min.

 

Rancho Notorious (1952)

Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy; directed by Fritz Lang

Extras/ Shorts:

- Trailer for "Rancho Notorious"

- Bonus Movie: The Mysterious Desperado (1949) - Tim Holt - 61 min.

 

Hollywood: The Golden Years (1987)

The RKO Story

- 6 one hour parts; 6 hours total

1 double sided disc with 3 parts on each side

[filmlover]

Wow, Sugarpuss, a great schedule! I don't know how you were able to get it done so quickly since you only mentioned a few days ago you wanted to get aboard the new Challenge, but it's an incredible week.

 

Love the "Harassed by Harry Cohn" listing. Very clever.

 

I would never have thought of a tribute to Patrick McGoohan, because he is one of those stars one doesn't normally think of when it comes to movies. But it's a great idea. I would love to see "The Three Lives of Thomasina" again.

 

There is so much to your schedule, all of it praiseworthy, but the best is the RKO DVD boxset. So much detail of what shorts, etc., would be with each film's title. This is exactly the creativity I hoped to inspire by adding an imaginary boxset to the schedule.

 

Fabulous week and boxset, Sugarpuss.

[MattHelm]

What filmlover said, sugarpuss. Great schedule and very creative details and Easter eggs to the DVD box set. Your schedule is the equivalent of comfort food. And I'm glad someone else appreciates "Full of Life." You should read the book by the screenwriter/author, John Fante, if you haven't. Hilarious stuff, and still in print. Nice job!!!

[Dewey1960]

Ditto!! Especially enjoyed your tribute to redheads!

[Kubrickbuff]

Sunday, June 10

 

Buster Keaton Salute

 

6:00 AM The Play House (1922) 22 Min. First National Pictures

6:30 AM The Boat (1922) 25 Min. First National Pictures

7:00 AM The Paleface (1922) 20 Min. First National Pictures

7:30 AM The Blacksmith (1922) 25 Min. First National Pictures

8:00 AM The Frozen North (1922) 17 Min. First National Pictures

8:30 AM The Electric House (1922) 22 Min. First National Pictures

9:00 AM Daydreams (1922) 18 Min. First National Pictures

9:30 AM Our Hospitality (1923) 74 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

11:00 AM Sherlock Jr. (1924) 44 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

12:00 PM The Navigator (1924) 59 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

1:00 PM The General (1927) 75 Min. United Artists

2:30 PM The Cameraman (1928) 75 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

4:00 PM Free and Easy (1930) 92 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

6:00 PM The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) 107 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

 

Technology Gone Awry

 

8:00 PM The Time Machine (1960) 103 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

10:00 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 147 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

1:00 AM Blade Runner: The Director?s Cut (1982) (Premiere) 117 Min. Warner Brothers

3:00 AM The Terminator (1984) (Premiere) 108 Min. Orion Pictures

 

Monday, June 11

 

Action, Adventure

 

5:00 AM To Have and Have Not (1944) 100 Min. Warner Brothers

6:45 AM The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 126 Min. Warner Brothers

9:00 AM The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 161 Min. Columbia Pictures

12:00 PM North by Northwest (1959) 136 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

2:30 PM Ben Hur (1959) 223 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

6:00 PM Gunga Din (1939) 117 Min. RKO Radio Pictures

 

Salute to Actor Donald Pleasence

 

8:00 PM The Great Escape (1963) 172 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

11:00 PM Will Penny (1968) 108 Min. Paramount Pictures

1:00 AM Halloween (1978) (Premiere) 91 Min. Compass International Pictures

2:45 AM Escape From New York (1981) (Premiere) 99 Min. Avco Embassy Pictures

4:30 AM 1984 (1956) (Premiere) 90 Min. Columbia Pictures

 

Tuesday, June 12

 

Salute to Filmmaker Stanley Kramer

 

6:00 AM On the Beach (1959) 134 Min. United Artists

8:30 AM Not as a Stranger (1955) 135 Min. United Artists

11:00 AM The Defiant Ones (1958) 97 Min. United Artists

12:45 PM Guess Who?s Coming to Dinner (1967) 108 Min. Columbia Pictures

2:45 PM Inherit the Wind (1960) 128 Min. United Artists

5:00 PM It?s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) 161 Min. United Artists

 

Salute to Harve Presnell

 

8:00 PM The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) 128 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

10:30 PM The Glory Guys (1965) (Premiere) 112 Min. United Artists

12:30 AM Fargo (1996) 98 Min. Gramercy Pictures

2:00 AM Paint Your Wagon (1969) 164 Min. Paramount Pictures

 

Wednesday, June 13

 

Salute to Filmmaker George Cukor

 

5:00 AM Little Woman (1933) 117 Min. RKO Radio Pictures

7:00 AM Holiday (1938) 95 Min. Columbia Pictures

8:45 AM Pat and Mike (1952) 95 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

10:30 AM Gaslight (1944) 114 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

12:30 PM Born Yesterday (1950) 103 Min. Columbia Pictures

2:15 PM A Star is Born (1954) 154 Min. Warner Brothers

5:00 PM My Fair Lady (1964) 170 Min. Warner Brothers

 

My Woody Allen Picks

 

8:00 PM Love and Death (1975) 85 Min. United Artists

9:30 PM Manhattan (1979) 96 Min. United Artists

11:15 PM Shadows and Fog (1992) 85 Min. Orion Pictures

12:45 AM Interiors (1978) 93 Min. United Artists

2:30 AM Broadway Danny Rose (1984) 84 Min. Orion Pictures

4:00 AM Hannah and her Sisters (1986) 103 Min. Orion Pictures

 

Thursday, June 14 Salute to Frank Capra

 

6:00 AM Meet John Doe (1941) 122 Min, Warner Brothers

8:15 AM Lost Horizon (1937) 118 Min. Columbia Pictures

10:15 AM Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) 115 Min. Columbia Pictures

12:15 PM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 118 Min. Warner Brothers

2:15 PM Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 129 Min. Columbia Pictures

4:30 PM It Happened One Night (1934) 105 Min. Columbia Pictures

6:15 PM Broadway Bill (1934) 104 Min. Paramount Pictures

 

Salute to Film Composer Alfred Newman

 

8:00 PM Heaven Can Wait (1943) 112 Min. 20th Century Fox

10:00 PM The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) 171 Min. 20th Century Fox

1:00 AM The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 128 Min. 20th Century Fox

3:15 AM All About Eve (1950) 138 Min. 20th Century Fox

 

Friday, June 15

 

Salute to the Marx Brothers

 

6:00 AM Duck Soup (1933) 68 Min. Paramount Pictures

7:15 AM A Night at the Opera (1935) 96 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

9:00 AM A Day at the Races (1937) 111 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

11:00 AM Animal Crackers (1930) 97 Min. Paramount Pictures

12:45 PM Monkey Business (1931) 77 Min. Paramount Pictures

2:15 PM Horse Feathers (1932) 68 Min. Paramount Pictures

3:30 PM The Cocoanuts (1929) 96 Min. Paramount Pictures

5:15 PM Room Service (1938) 78 Min. RKO Radio Pictures

6:35 PM Go West (1940) 80 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

 

Troubled Teens

 

8:00 PM The Graduate (1967) 105 Min. Embassy Pictures

10:00 PM Rushmore (1998) (Premiere) 93 Min. Touchstone Pictures

11:45 PM Heavenly Creatures (1994) (Premiere) 108 Min. Miramax Films

1:45 AM A Clockwork Orange (1971) (Premiere) 137 Min. Warner Brothers

4:15 AM Harold and Maude (1971) 91 Min. Paramount Pictures

 

Saturday, June 16

 

Romantic Comedies (Cary Grant)

 

6:00 AM An Affair to Remember (1957) 119 Min. 20th Century Fox

8:00 AM The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947) 95 Min. RKO Radio Pictures

9:45 AM Penny Serenade (1941) 119 Min. Columbia Pictures

11:45 AM Monkey Businesses (1952) 97 Min. 20th Century Fox

1:30 PM To Catch A Thief (1955) 106 Min. Paramount Pictures

3:30 PM Bringing Up Baby (1938) 102 Min. RKO Radio Pictures

5:30 PM The Philadelphia Story (1940) 112 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

 

Things that you don?t see or experience everyday

 

8:00 PM A Guy Named Joe (1943) 120 Min. Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

10:15 PM Ghostbusters (1984) (Premiere) 107 Min. Columbia Pictures

12:15 AM City of Angels (1998) 114 Min. Warner Brothers

2:15 AM Jurassic Park (1993) 127 Min. Universal Pictures

4:30 AM Harvey (1950) 104 Min. Universal Pictures

[Dewey1960]

Nice job! Glad you decided to share your schedule with everyone!!

[Kubrickbuff]

I just wanted to show all of you the schedule that I had, I am still not going to be a part of the challenge because I would be breaking the rules of the challenge if I was. This is the schedule that I belived in and I just wanted to share it with all of you, it's not for the challenge, unless if TCM does look at the schedule and get ideas from it but that will never happen so for now this is just for all of you to look at and see what I had.

[CineSage_jr]

Universal does, indeed, own FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO (one of my very favorite films, on which I collect anything and everything). A DVD has just been released, but in Spain, not France. It's obviously region 2, and quite expensive (about US$30), and I'm on the fence about buying it until I know for certain that the Spanish subtitles can be switched off).

[filmlover]

To everyone:

 

The Challenge continues until March 7th. Come on and be part of it. See the very first post in this thread for the rules and requirement details on completing a schedule and how you may win prizes.

 

filmlover

[Kubrickbuff]

Is the shchedule really that good? I think it is but I figured you would all think that's it's terrible which I can understand because I always get judged for my taste in films, mostly from the art house croud who are obssed with David Lynch and Orsen Wells. Really it is just movies that I love that are on my schedule, some of you may not think that it's creative but I just put movies that I like on the schedule instead of more interesting picks.

[Dewey1960]

What I liked about your schedule was the obsessive passion you invested in its creation. You agonized like mad over what amounts to a hill of beans in this crazy world and that's what I liked about it. And what do you care what other people think of your taste in movies? You have a deep personal attachment to movies that is uniquely your own and you're not afraid to say so in a public forum. That tears it.

[Kubrickbuff]

Thanks for your kind words, I wish that I knew more people like you.

[movieman1957]

To keep from second guessing myself to death, here is mine.

 

Sunday - September 2, 2007

 

It?s About Time

6:00am - Seven Chances - Buster Keaton - 1925 - 57m - MGM

8:00am - Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo - Spencer Tracy - 1945 - 138m - MGM

9:30am - High Noon - Gary Cooper - 1952 - 85m - UA (ps)

11:00am - D.O.A. - Edmond O?Brien - 1950 - 83m - UA (ps)

 

Salute to Garson Kanin

12:30pm - Tom, Dick and Harry - Ginger Rogers - 1941 - 86m - RKO

2:00pm - The Marrying Kind - Judy Holliday - 1952 - 92m - Columbia

3:45pm - A Double Life - Ronald Colman - 1948 - 105m - Uni (ps)

 

Cartoon Alley - Tom and Jerry

5:30pm - Mouse Cleaning - 1948 - 8m - MGM

Heavenly Puss - 1948 - 8m - MGM

The Cat and The Mermouse - 1949 - 8m - MGM

 

Safari, So Goody

6:00pm - Born Free - Bill Travers - 1966 - 96m - Columbia

8:00pm - Tarzan, The Ape Man - Johnny Weismuller - 1932 - MGM

10:00pm - Animal Crackers - Marx Bros - 1930 - 98 m - Paramount (ps)

 

Silent Sunday

12:00am - What Price Glory - Victor McLaglen - 1926 - 125m - Fox - Premiere

 

TCM Import

2:00am - I Accuse - D: Abel Gance - 1938 - 125m - Premiere

 

4:15am - City Lights - C. Chaplin - 1931 - 87m - UA (ps)

 

Monday - September 3, 2007 - Labor Day

 

6:00am - The Garment Jungle - Lee J. Cobb - 1957 - 88m - Columbia

7:30am - Valley of Decision - Gregory Peck - 1945 - 118m - MGM

9:30am - Picnic - William Holden - 1956 - 115m - Columbia

 

Alan Ladd Birthday Tribute

11:30am - The Glass Key - 1942 - 85m - Paramount (ps)

1:00pm - Joan of Paris - 1942 - 93m - RKO

2:45pm - Whispering Smith - 1949 - 88m - Paramount (ps)

4:15pm - The Carpetbaggers - 1964 - 150m - Paramount (ps)

 

7:00pm - Private Screenings - Lemmon and Matthau - 1998 - 60m

 

 

When In Rome?.

8:00pm - Roman Holiday - Gregory Peck - 1953 - Paramount (ps)

10:00pm - Spartacus - Kirk Douglas - 1960 - 195m - Uni - Premiere

1:30am - When In Rome - Van Johnson - 1952 - 78m - MGM

3:00am - A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum - Zero Mostel - 1966 - 99m - UA

 

5:00am - Private Screenings - Charlton Heston - 60m

 

Tuesday -September 4, 2007

 

Thank You For Your "Support" - A Day For Supporting Actors

6:00am - Earl Of Chicago - Edward Arnold - 1940 - 85m - MGM

7:30am - Murder My Sweet - Claire Trevor - 1944 - 95m - RKO

9:30am - Support Your Local Sheriff - W. Brennan, J. Elam - 1969 - 92m - UA

11:15am - The Fighting 69th - Alan Hale - 1939 - 89m - WB

1:00pm - Johnny Guitar - Ward Bond - 1954 - 110m - Republic - (ps)

3:00pm - The Seventh Sin - George Sanders - 1957 - 94m - MGM

5:00pm - Bataan - Thomas Mitchell - 1943 - 114m -

 

Pete Smith Birthday Tribute

7:00pm - How To Hold Your Husband Back - 1941 - 9m

Spots Before Your Eyes - 1940 - 9m

I Love My Mother-In-Law, But! - 1948 - 9M

Calling All Paws - 1942 - 8m

Pest Control - 1942 - 8m

Ice Ages - 1948 - 8m

 

Star of The Month - Olivia de Havilland

8:00pm - My Cousin Rachel - 1952 - 98m - 20th Cent. - Premiere

10:00pm - The Male Animal - 1942 - 101m - WB

12:00am - Alibi Ike - 1935 - 73m - WB

1:30am - Princess O?Rourke - 1943 - 94m - WB

 

3:15am - The Women - Joan Fontaine - 1939 - 133m - MGM

 

5:30am - MGM Parade

 

Wednesday - September 5, 2007

 

School Days

6:00am - A Chump At Oxford - Laurel & Hardy - 1939 - 63m - UA (ps)

7:15am - The Boy With Green Hair - Pat O?Brien - 1948 - 82m - RKO

8:45am - Cheers For Miss Bishop - Martha Scott - 1941 - 95m - UA (ps)

10:30am - The Blackboard Jungle - Glenn Ford - 1955 - 101m - MGM

12:30pm - Horse Feathers - Marx Bros. -1932 - 80m - Paramount (ps)

2:00pm - Hitler?s Children - Tim Holt - 1943 - 83m - 73m - RKO

3:30pm - The Happy Years - Dean Stock well - 1950 - 110m - MGM

5:30pm - The Corn Is Green - Bette Davis - 1945 - 114m - WB

 

7:30 - Festival of Shorts

 

DVD Box Set - Katharine Hepburn at RKO

8:00pm - A Bill of Divorcement - 1932 - 76m

9:30pm - Spitfire - 1834 - 88m

11:00pm - Sylvia Scarlet - 1936 - 94m

 

1:00am - Bad Day At Black Rock - S. Tracy - 1955 - 82m - MGM

2:30am - Little Women - June Allyson - 1949 - 122m - MGM

4:45am - City Limits - Frank Craven - 1934 - 70m - Monogram

 

Thursday - September 6, 2007

 

A Fine Day For Weather

6:00am - The Rainmakers - Bert Wheeler - 1935 - 78m - RKO

7:30am - Hurricane - Dorothy Lamour - 1937 - 110m - Goldwin (ps)

9:30am - Swiss Family Robinson - Thomas Mitchell - 1940 - 93m - RKO

11:15am - It?s Always Fair Weather - Gene Kelly - 1955 - 102m - MGM

 

There?s Gold In Them Thar Movies

1:00pm - Gold Diggers of 1933 - Warren William - 1933 - 96m - WB

2:45pm - Gold Diggers of 1935 - Dick Powell - 1935 - 95m - WB

4:30pm - Gold Diggers of 1937 - Dick Powell - 1936 - 101m - WB

6:30pm - Silver Dollar - Edward G. Robinson - 1932 - 84m - 1st National (WB)

 

Hollywood

8:00pm - The Comic - Dick van Dyke - 1969 - 94m - Columbia

10:00pm - Without Reservations - C. Colbert - 1946 - 107m - RKO

12:00am - In A Lonely Place - H. Bogart - 1956 - 98m - Columbia

2:00am - Lady Killer - James Cagney - 1933 - 73m - WB

3:30am - Bombshell - Jean Harlow - 1933 - 98m - WB

 

5:30am - Robert Benchley Shorts

Nothing But Nerves - 1942 - 10m

How To Figure your Income Tax - 1938 - 9m

 

Friday - September 7, 2007

 

Learning How To Love You

6:00am - Too Many Husbands - Jean Arthur - 1940 - 84m - Columbia

7:30am - Pffft - Jack Lemmon - 1954 - 91m - Columbia

9:15am - I Love You Again - William Powell - 1940 - 97m - MGM

11:00am - Mr. & Mrs. Smith - Carole Lombard - 1941 - 95m - RKO

 

This Place Is A Circus

1:00pm - The Wagons Roll At Night - H. Bogart - 1941 - 84m - WB

2:30pm - Fearless Fagan - Janet Leigh - 1952 - 79m - MGM

4:00pm - You Can?t Cheat An Honest Man - W.C. Fields - 1939 - 79m - Uni (ps)

5:30pm - The Greatest Show On Earth - C. Heston - 1952 - 149m

 

Birthday Tribute to Elia Kazan

8:00pm - Gentleman?s Agreement - Gregory Peck - 1948 - 114m - 20th Cent. -Premiere

10:00pm - Baby Doll - Karl Malden - 1956 - 114m - WB (ps)

12:00pm - On The Waterfront - M. Brando - 1954 - 108m - Columbia

 

TCM Underground

2:00am - It Came From Beneath The Sea - Kenneth Tobey - 1955 - 80m - Columbia

3:30am - The Fall From The House of Usher - V. Price - 1960 - American International (ps)

 

5:00am - Gary Cooper - American Life, American Legend - 1991 - 60m

 

Saturday - September 8, 2007

 

Just Like When I Was A Kid

6:00am - Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd - 1952 - 70m - WB (ps)

7:30am - Blondie - Penny Singleton - 1938 - 70m - Columbia

9:00am - Randy Rides Alone - John Wayne - 1934 - 56m - Monogram

10:00am - The Wolf Man - Lon Chaney, Jr. - 1941 - 70m - Uni (ps)

 

Cartoon Alley - Bugs Bunny

Hot Cross Bunny - 1948 - 7m - WB

Hare Trigger - 1945 - 8m - WB

Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid - 1942 - 7m - WB

 

It?s All Happening At The Fort

12:00pm - Duel At Diablo - James Garner - 1966 - 103m - UA

2:00pm - Allegheny Uprising - John Wayne - 1939 - 81m - RKO

3:30pm - The Indian Fighter - Kirk Douglas - 1955 - 88m - UA (ps)

5:00pm - Indian Uprising - George Montgomery - 1952 - 75m - Columbia

6:30pm - Fort Massacre - Joel Mc Crea - 1958 - 80m - UA (ps)

 

It?s My Party

The Essential - 8:00pm - Dinner At Eight - Jean Harlow - 1933 -MGM

10:00pm - The Party - Peter Sellers - 1968 - 99m - UA

12:00am - Holiday - Cary Grant - 1938 - 93m - RKO

2:00am - After The Thin Man - William Powell - 1936 - 112m - MGM

4:00am - Cocktail Hour - Randolph Scott - 1933 - 74m - Columbia

 

5:30am - MGM Parade

 

Chris

 

Nothing particularly insightful here. Just trying to mix up different movies under the themes. The Saturday morning is just that, movies of that kind shown every weekend.

 

"The Hepburn Box" would additionally include "A Woman Rebels" and "The Little Minister." I liked the idea that they were early in her career and were quite a variety of films.

 

I didn't look at anyone's schedule for fear I would feel compelled to rearrange or update things. Any duplication is strictly accidental.

 

Message was edited by:

Me. Corrections and clarifying a theme heading.

[filmlover]

movieman, another great schedule!

 

I know I would love to see I Accuse, The Garment Jungle, and many more.

 

That Pete Smith short, How to Hold Your Husband Back sounds hilarious.

 

I also enjoy the way you can choose a theme and mix in so many films one normally wouldn't think of on a triple bill: Born Free, Tarzan, and Animal Crackers. The same for the picks under When in Rome... Very clever.

 

Great idea for a boxset, too!

 

Wonderful work!

[nsallieharding]

So far I have been able only to complete one day's worth of my schedule, therefore it will take me the full length of time allotted to us. It takes a lot of effort to do this and I just think that those who are complaining about what TCM has on this month are asking the impossible.

 

TCM has done a great job this month for their salute to the Oscars and the back log of my recorded DVD's to finish up is a testament to their effort. So my wish is that whoever wins this current challenge have us program for either next years 31 Days of Oscars or Summer Under the Stars. This way everyone will see how hard it is to do these two months of programming which TCM gets so much criticism.

 

I thank filmlover for all the time and effort that was required to put this challenge together and I know that this challenge will be the best one yet.

[Kubrickbuff]

I like your attitude and I could not agree with you more. I like what TCM has done for the oscar salute too. Good luck with your schedule, I am sure that whatever you come with, it will be amazing. Take your time, you still have a couple of weeks left.

[filmlover]

I thank filmlover for all the time and effort that was required to put this challenge together and I know that this challenge will be the best one yet.

 

Hi, allie,

 

Thanks very much for the kind words. I wanted to make it one of the best. But it all comes down to the schedules, and we have had fantastic ones entered in the contest.

 

I am looking forward to your schedule!

 

(And anybody else who would like to enter, you still have until March 7th to do so. Instructions are in the very first post for this thread.)

[MattHelm]

movieman, don't be too modest, that's a fantastic schedule, and box set idea.

[Kubrickbuff]

I like his schedule too, I love the Pete Smith birthday tribute.

[Cinemascope]

Well who wouldn't love that, I mean, it's not like a Kubrick b-day tribute, but still....

[movieman1957]

First, thank you all very much for the kind words on my schedule. It was a great deal of fun. I like the part about finding movies you never knew existed and how it gives you more to look for on TCM.

 

Secondly, forgive my late comments on the schedules but everybody has done a great job. Many terrific themes and great selections in those themes. (It seems like "Theodora Goes Wild" is becoming a favorite.)

 

Lastly, this is a great contest. After the last one I was wondering if there would be enough people to participate. Well, we've already exceeded that and it looks like there are still more to enter.

 

Thanks to filmlover for handling this challenge. Having kept an eye on all of them it is a tough job, and like those before, have handled it very well.

 

I, too, encourage everyone who even thinks they'd like to try to join in. It's a good feeling when someone votes for your schedule, so give it a try. Hey, if I can do it....

 

Thanks

Chris

[Dewey1960]

Congrats on a terrific schedule; especially like the Alan Ladd trib and LADY KILLER & IN A LONELY PLACE in your Hollywood slot. Nice!

[Fedya]

Does TCM have the rights to the Laurel and Hardy shorts produced by Hal Roach? I think I need one of them for one of my themes.

 

I seem to recall that TCM has the rights to the Hal Roach movies with Todd/Pitts or Todd/Kelly. (Those are Hal Roach movies, right? Or am I going crazy? This programming challenge is making my head spin at times....)

[hlywdkjk]

Fedya -

 

Yes. There are Laurel and Hardy shorts that are permissible to include in your Challenge. In April 2005, TCM had a festival titled "April Fools" featuring the work of the screen's most memorable comedies and comedians. Laurel and Hardy were a featured part of the festival. Check the page below for the "April Fools" synopsis and a list of many of the films included during that month.

 

http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=92500

 

Some of the Laurel And Hardy titles are for feature films but many are shorts. Having been previously shown on TCM, they are "fair game" to be included on your schedule.

 

One short title that has premiered in the months after April 2005 is Towed In A Hole. That also can be placed on your schedule.

 

Hopefully you can use one of these titles on your schedule. If you had a specific Laurel And Hardy/Hal Roach title in mind that hasn't already been shown on TCM, I don't know how that will fit in under the rules set forth by 'filmlover'. He'll have to adjudicate that for you.

 

Hope this stops your head from spinning for a while.

 

Kyle In Hollywood

[Fedya]

It helps and it doesn't.

 

I was going to plug in one of the shorts to finish up the day before my prime-time feature, because I thought I was half an hour short. But when I was plugging in the feature-length movies, it turned out I was about 90 minutes short!

 

Maybe I'll just program one day by playing "100 Years at the Movies" over and over. Everybody seems to want to get it on DVD; now's their chance.