Bait-n-Switched

[LsDoorMat]

Some of the movies in your list have aired on TCM, and some have not. This is according to the exhaustive database of MovieCollectorOH. Forgive the goofy indentation.

Saint's Vacation (1941)     last shown 11-18
Woman I Stole (1933)        NEVER AIRED
Return From the Ashes (1965)    last show 07-18
Madness of King George (1994)    NEVER AIRED
Palm Springs            NEVER AIRED
Genocide (1969)            NEVER AIRED
X From Outer Space (1968)    last shown 03-17
Through a Glass Darkly (1962)   Scheduled this month; Shown 03-2018 before that
The Silence (1964)        last shown 12-2018
What Price Glory (1926)     Shown 11-2011 - only once
Mary (2005)            NEVER AIRED
Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones    Last aired 01-2013
(1966)
Soul of a Monster (1944)    Shown 10-2007-Shown only once
Spy in Black (1939)        Last shown 01-2019
The Magnificent (1979)         NEVER AIRED
Teen Age Crime Wave (1955)    Last shown 01-2010
Reunion in Vienna (1933)    Shown 01-1995 - Shown only once
                (MGM made this, but I hear the print is terrible)
Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)    NEVER AIRED
Battle Beneath The Earth (1967)    NEVER AIRED
Champagne (1928)        Shown 04-04 - Shown only once
Gizmo (1977)            NEVER AIRED
Eight on the Lam (1967)        Shown 10-18 - Shown only once
Return to Giennascaul (1953)    Shown only twice in March and Sept. 2018
October (1928)            NEVER AIRED

The Saint's Vacation and Spy in Black belong to the WB/MGM/RKO library and are in pretty regular rotation on TCM. Reunion in Vienna has not been on since 1995 for the same reason that Alias French Gertie has not been on in this century. The prints are lousy. But both belong to "The TCM library" or whatever you want to call it.  A couple of these films  (Soul of a Monster for example) are part of the Columbia library of older films that TCM had access to until about 2010. You'll probably never see them on TCM again, because "the new boss" AT&T probably wants to spend the minimum possible on TCM. If they axed Filmstruck for the fun of it with nothing on tap to replace it, then nothing would surprise me.  I'm actually surprised the hosts are still around.

The government broke up the Bell system in 1984 because it had too much power, and now IT'S BACK and it has more power than ever and is just as big a monopoly, and is just as if not even more evil than 35 years ago. 

[slaytonf]

51 minutes ago, calvinnme said:

The government broke up the Bell system in 1984 because it had too much power, and now IT'S BACK and it has more power than ever and is just as big a monopoly, and is just as if not even more evil than 35 years ago. 

I assure you, it is more evil.

[Sgt_Markoff]

Too true

[slaytonf]

I know this from personal experience.  It is the pure distilled essence of evil.

[Sgt_Markoff]

You can't teach your grandma to suck eggs. I've seen it too.

[TikiSoo]

On 2/10/2019 at 1:09 PM, JeanneCrain said:

Woke up this morning believing my recorder captured “The Madness of King George” (1994) only to find “Calamity Jane” (1953).

 

 Duped again.

If you had kept up to date diligently reading this message board, you would have known it beforehand. What thread was it mentioned in? Either "Now I'm Really Mad" (about Canada vs US schedules) or possibly Ohio's "Premieres"?

This board is rather informational about classic movies shown on TCM if you can weed through the snarky arguments.

[Sepiatone]

Well remember TIKI.....

Those snarky arguments are mostly in the "off-topic chit chat" place. 

Sepiatone