"Lost" RKOs airing in April

[Mysterious_Mose]

Does anyone know if these will be airing on Canadian TCM? A friend of mine has recently got TCM and is noticing the lack of RKO films that get aired there. Will this affect the recently restored film too?

[MGMWBRKO]

they will be ... TCM owns these 6 RKO titles worldwide.

[Mysterious_Mose]

Thank you so much! My friend will be elated at the news.

[brian34]

Good to hear.

Although, I can't say that there's any "lack" of RKO films being shown on TCM Canada.

Lots of them on all the time.

[BustedSony]

The problem is the Hal Roach/Hallmark films, not RKO. My mistake. (I'm the "friend.").For instance, I very much wanted to get the 45-minute Frances Langford musical "All-American Coed" 7:15 am Feb 9th, but it and the following film "Flying with Music" were replaced by "The Sandpiper" on TCM Canada. We are just not getting the newly-resurrected Hal Roach films, which I've never seen. Some of the shorts, the Taxi Boys etc. have also been dropped, but some of those DO air, thankfully. Another huge loss was "Merrily We Live," an MGM film, which M-Mose and I both wanted in the good quality I'm getting from digital cable, but it was not carried. I am glad about the lost RKOs airing though. Good news!

[MGMWBRKO]

here's a poster gallery for the 6 lost RKO titles:

 

http://www.filmforum.org/films/rko/gallery/

[MGMWBRKO]

here is a link to an article on a terrific BLOG that provides an overview of the RKO Lost & Found film series (with still frame images of TCM's newly restored prints):

 

http://mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com/2007/02/rko-lost-and-found-at-film-forum.html

[BIRDY]

MGM - those websites were awesome! I can't wait - 6 new RKOs and spring thaw!

[Cinemascope]

We're getting closer... day by day, we are getting closer!

[Redsweaterhardy5]

Thank you for the link to look at the movie posters. Did you look at the one for Rafter Romance? What is his hand doing anyway?

[BIRDY]

I wondered the same thing - am almost afraid to look to closely! Guess we'll have to wait and see!

[Cinemascope]

By the way, does anyone know if there are any plans to release these movies on DVD after they've aired on TCM?

[MGMWBRKO]

as far as a DVD release ....

we are working on it ...

[Cinemascope]

> as far as a DVD release ....

> we are working on it ...

 

Awesome good news, would love to add this set to my collection... even better if it has extras, but even no extras is fine with a treasure like this!

[pandorainmay]

"Marriage is a business, at least a woman's business."

 

The above comment by Ann Harding's character in Double Harness is an example of the kind of mask her character attempts to wear in the interest of finding a niche for herself in a pre-code world. Is she perceptive or as full of illusions as her love-besotted sister? When "innocent" playboy William Powell presents her with a gardenia he explains that the flower reminded him of her: "Coolly virginal, yet exquisitely inviting." Little does Bill know that she has plans for him to be the fly, while she's decided to try to be just a little spidery around the edges.

It might be of interest to those of you who haven't had a chance to see this film that the "lost" RKO feature that has resurfaced within the last year on TCM is now available in its entirety at the TCM media room, found here.

Starring Ann Harding & William Powell and directed by John Cromwell, I enjoyed the interplay between Ann & Bill as well as some of the points about how not to conduct a liaison, (that is, until the script nearly falls into an episode of "wife knows best").

 

If you go to the TCM link above, look on the left side of the screen. You'll find Double Harness perched between the trailers for Closely Watched Trains & The Heavenly Body.