HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM

[SansFin]

Five Miles to Midnight (1963) is scheduled for tomorrow morning. I like this movie very much. The pacing is slow but I found it compelling.

[speedracer5]

Sans, 

 

Thanks for the recommendation for Five Miles to Midnight, I probably would have overlooked it, but with your recommendation I will DVR it and give it a shot.  I like Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins.

 

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I may record The Trial as I enjoy Orson Welles' films and I also like Anthony Perkins.

 

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean sounds interesting.  I like John Huston and I enjoy Paul Newman.

 

A Bill of Divorcement sounds interesting.  I believe it is Katharine Hepburn's film debut.

 

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I have seen Green Mansions.  I'm sorry to say that I didn't get it.  I didn't find it very interesting or entertaining, despite liking the cast: Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins.

[GregoryPeckfan]

Five Miles to Midnight (1963) is scheduled for tomorrow morning. I like this movie very much. The pacing is slow but I found it compelling.

 

I watched it because I am a fan of both Loren and Perkins.  I agree with your assessment of it.  I'm glad I saw it.  But it isn't what I would have expected from either star.

[GregoryPeckfan]

Sans, 

 

Thanks for the recommendation for Five Miles to Midnight, I probably would have overlooked it, but with your recommendation I will DVR it and give it a shot.  I like Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins.

 

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I may record The Trial as I enjoy Orson Welles' films and I also like Anthony Perkins.

 

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean sounds interesting.  I like John Huston and I enjoy Paul Newman.

 

A Bill of Divorcement sounds interesting.  I believe it is Katharine Hepburn's film debut.

 

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I have seen Green Mansions.  I'm sorry to say that I didn't get it.  I didn't find it very interesting or entertaining, despite liking the cast: Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins.

 

For sure record The Trial.  As a fan of Perkins, Welles, and suspense and film noir, this film will interest you.

 

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean is quite enjoyable.

 

I did not care for Green Mansions either.  But seeing it crossed off to-see films.

 

Basically tomorrow I am recording movies I have not seen which I will either not be able to watch as they air.

[speedracer5]

Sorry to jump the gun here, but here are my picks for Tuesday.  Hey, in the East Coast, it is Monday, so Tuesday is tomorrow.  It's only 10:15pm Sunday night for me.

 

Tuesday is an all day Gregory Peck tribute for his 100th birthday.

 

I always record Designing Woman each and every time it airs.  I enjoy watching this film so much.  I never tire of it.  The story is fun.  It's directed by Vincente Minnelli.  Lauren Bacall and Peck are excellent and Bacall has the greatest costumes.  This is such a fun film.  I need to get my own copy.  I'll probably record this film again.

 

The Macomber Affair sounds interesting.  I like Joan Bennett and I like adventure films.

 

The Yearling.  I'm going to record this film about a young boy's pet deer but I already have a feeling that it's going to be sad and I'm going to be depressed after watching it.  Animal movies never seem to have a happy ending.

 

On the Beach.  This is the film I'm the most interested in.  I read in Ava Gardner's autobiography that this was one of her favorites of the films she made.  Fred Astaire also mentioned in his autobiography that he enjoyed making this film because it was a change of pace for him.  Of all the films I'm recording, this is the one that I really want to see.

 

Conversations with Gregory Peck.  I love watching interviews.  The anecdotes are always the best part.

 

I already have Cape Fear and To Kill a Mockingbird recorded. 

 

[GregoryPeckfan]

Sorry to jump the gun here, but here are my picks for Tuesday.  Hey, in the East Coast, it is Monday, so Tuesday is tomorrow.  It's only 10:15pm Sunday night for me.

 

Tuesday is an all day Gregory Peck tribute for his 100th birthday.

 

I always record Designing Woman each and every time it airs.  I enjoy watching this film so much.  I never tire of it.  The story is fun.  It's directed by Vincente Minnelli.  Lauren Bacall and Peck are excellent and Bacall has the greatest costumes.  This is such a fun film.  I need to get my own copy.  I'll probably record this film again.

 

The Macomber Affair sounds interesting.  I like Joan Bennett and I like adventure films.

 

The Yearling.  I'm going to record this film about a young boy's pet deer but I already have a feeling that it's going to be sad and I'm going to be depressed after watching it.  Animal movies never seem to have a happy ending.

 

On the Beach.  This is the film I'm the most interested in.  I read in Ava Gardner's autobiography that this was one of her favorites of the films she made.  Fred Astaire also mentioned in his autobiography that he enjoyed making this film because it was a change of pace for him.  Of all the films I'm recording, this is the one that I really want to see.

 

Conversations with Gregory Peck.  I love watching interviews.  The anecdotes are always the best part.

 

I already have Cape Fear and To Kill a Mockingbird recorded. 

 

I'm glad you brought this up instead of me, Speedy.  Of course, me mentioning it first would have been overkill...

 

I'm watching TCM all day Tuesday.  Then I am very dutifully attending rehearsal Tuesday night as I am singing a solo on Sunday morning.....

 

A full day of My Darling Greg.

 

Whatever am I to do...............................

[HoldenIsHere]

 

The Yearling.  I'm going to record this film about a young boy's pet deer but I already have a feeling that it's going to be sad and I'm going to be depressed after watching it.  Animal movies never seem to have a happy ending.

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Ain't that the truth!

Yet somehow I am drawn to those movies.

 

A KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS took a lot out of me.

The last scene of THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN tore out my heart!  

"Pha loves Pa!"

[GregoryPeckfan]

Yes, Speedy, you have to prepare for a sad ending to the Yearling.  Despite my love of Greg, I rarely rewatch the movie.

 

The movie is well made and worth seeing at least once.

 

I've never seen Old Yeller.  You can't make me.

[lydecker]

Monday, April 4

 

Anthony Perkins by day and John Barrymore by night.  Well done.

 

6:15 p.m.  The Trial (1963).  Like a lot of Welles’ films my appreciation of this one increases the more I see it.

 

10 p.m.  A Bill of Divorcement (1932).  I think this one is hard to come by.  It used to be replaced in Canada on a regular basis and when the schedule was originally announced it was replaced with The Mad Genius (1931).  It seems to be back on in Canada now, fingers crossed.

 

2:30 a.m.  Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)

3:45 a.m.  Bulldog Drummond’s Revenge (1937)

4:45 a.m.  Bulldog Drummond’s Peril (1938)  I haven’t seen the last two.

 

Not so crazy about Tony Perkins by day (I have never been much of a fan) but I am thrilled about John Barrymore night.  I'll be taping!

[Bogie56]

Tuesday, April 5

 

A full day with Gregory Peck.  I know one person who should be happy.

 

7:30 a.m.  Man With a Million (1953).  I haven’t seen this one since I was a kid.  My introduction to the delightful, Joyce Grenfel.

 

5:45 p.m.  On the Beach (1959).  The entire cast shines in this post-apocalyptic film including Fred Astaire.

 

[film lover 293]

Tuesday, April 5th/6th: All times E.S.T.:

 

9:15 a.m. "The Macomber Affair" (1947)--Excellent Hemingway adaptation.

 

4:45 a.m. "Captain Horatio Hornblower" (1951)--Haven't seen this since the 1970's, when I stayed up for an episode of "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" (anyone else remember that TV series?) and CHH followed on The CBS Late Movie.

[LawrenceA]

Tuesday, April 5th/6th: All times E.S.T.:

 

9:15 a.m. "The Macomber Affair" (1947)--Excellent Hemingway adaptation.

 

4:45 a.m. "Captain Horatio Hornblower" (1951)--Haven't seen this since the 1970's, when I stayed up for an episode of "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" (anyone else remember that TV series?) and CHH followed on The CBS Late Movie.

 

I love that show. Great 70's precursor to The X-Files. I have the DVD set. 

[Bogie56]

Wednesday, April 6

 

Arturo de Cordova in the evening.  Perhaps they will show his tour-de-force performance in Bunuel’s El (1952) some day?

 

10 p.m.  New Orleans (1947)**

11:45 p.m.  Incendiary Blonde (1945)  … I haven’t seen either of these.

 

** New Orleans has been replaced in Canada with Born to Be Bad, a Robert Ryan film

Edited April 6, 2016 by Bogie56

[film lover 293]

Wed., April 6th--All times E.S.T.:

 

10:00 p.m. "New Orleans" (1947)--Only full-length film with Billie Holiday in a leading role.  I don't know How many other jazz Greats are in this film, but first Half Hour is almost All music.  Last review on TCM's page for N.O. was in 2009.  Plot's nothing much, but the music is Wonderful.

 

 

11:45 p.m. "Incendiary Blonde"--Betty Hutton in  movie biography of Texas Guinan.  Lots of music, and Hutton is somewhat subdued.

[Bogie56]

Thursday, April 7

 

Hurry.  Call up Woody Allen.  It’s Ida Lupino day.  

Here are 3 that I have never seen …

 

2:15 p.m.  Outrage (1950)

3:45 p.m.  Hard, Fast, and Beautiful (1951)

5:15 p.m.  Never Fear (1949)

[Barton_Keyes]

Thursday, April 7:

 

12:15 A.M. S.O.B. (1981)

 

Blake Edwards' answer to the question "what if Sunset Boulevard had been a slapstick comedy?"

[GregoryPeckfan]

 

Wednesday, April 6

 

Arturo de Cordova in the evening.  Perhaps they will show his tour-de-force performance in Bunuel’s El (1952) some day?

 

10 p.m.  New Orleans (1947)**

11:45 p.m.  Incendiary Blonde (1945)  … I haven’t seen either of these.

 

** New Orleans has been replaced in Canada with Born to Be Bad, a Robert Ryan film

 

Yes, I saw the change.  At first I was trying to remember what role Arturo had made and then I remembered that I live in Canada.

[GregoryPeckfan]

Thursday, April 7

 

Hurry.  Call up Woody Allen.  It’s Ida Lupino day.  

Here are 3 that I have never seen …

 

2:15 p.m.  Outrage (1950)

3:45 p.m.  Hard, Fast, and Beautiful (1951)

5:15 p.m.  Never Fear (1949)

Never Fear is the only one of these three I've not seen.  But I'm recording lots of the titles anyway as I love Ida.

[speedracer5]

Yay! I love Ida Lupino.  I believe I recorded a bunch of her films during the Summer of Darkness series and the Women filmmakers series.

 

I RECOMMEND:

 

They Drive By Night, great film.  Lupino gives a tour de force performance in the climactic courtroom scene.

 

High Sierra.  This is regarded Bogart's breakthrough role, but Lupino gives an excellent performance as the femme fatale.

 

I WOULD RECORD HAD I NOT ALREADY RECORDED THEM BEFORE AND STILL HAVEN'T WATCHED YET:

 

Beware, My Lovely

On Dangerous Ground

The Bigamist

The Hitchhiker

 

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Regarding the Blake Edwards' tribute during primetime:

 

Days of Wine and Roses.  This was a great film about a difficult subject: alcoholism.  I thought that Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon gave great performances about a couple's descent into alcoholism and attempts to escape from addiction's clutches.  This was a difficult film to watch with a very bittersweet ending.  I enjoyed this film and like the two lead actors, but this is a one time viewing for me.  I don't think I need to watch this again and again.

 

Breakfast at Tiffany's.  I don't think anyone needs me to review the film.  But this is the ultimate Audrey Hepburn film, the one she is most associated with.  Her image as Holly Golightly is iconic in film and fashion--even if Truman Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe.  I liked the pairing of Hepburn as the eccentric Golightly, and George Peppard as "Fred Baby" aka Paul Varjack.  My favorite scene is the part where Holly and Paul spend the entire day doing things they haven't done before.  I covet Hepburn's orange jacket.  My least favorite part is Mickey Rooney.  His portrayal of Mr. Yunioshi is horrible.

 

Victor/Victoria.  This is a great film.  Julie Andrews and James Garner were excellent and I loved Robert Preston's portrayal. 

 

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I think I'm going to record S.O.B.  This was William Holden's last film and it is the film where Julie Andrews sheds her Mary Poppins image.

 

I'm not recording The Party this time around.  I find Peter Sellers incredibly annoying.  Maybe the next go around he will have redeemed himself, but not right now.

 

 

 

[Bogie56]

Friday, April 8

 

Ella Raines day.  I just watched the 7 a.m. intro, The Second Face (1950) the other day and it is a right stinker.

 

11:30 a.m.  Unfortunately, The Walking Hills (1949) a John Sturges western that I haven’t seen has been yanked from the schedule and replaced by Brute Force (1947).  This change is both in Canada and the U.S.

 

[darkblue]

S.O.B. (1981)

 

Blake Edwards' answer to the question "what if Sunset Boulevard had been a slapstick comedy?"

 

Using only washed-up actors of yesteryear.

[GregoryPeckfan]

Using only washed-up actors of yesteryear.

 

I often wonder if this film would be as  well known as it is if it had not be William Holden's final film.  I certainly can't seem to ever rwatch it without this in mind.

[Barton_Keyes]

Saturday, April 9

 

3:45AM Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

 

William Friedkin's 1973 film of The Exorcist was arguably the seminal horror film of its decade. This follow-up, directed by John Boorman, on the other hand, is an abomination. It is an offensive, irredeemable disaster from start to finish. You've been warned.

[AndreaDoria]

 

 

High Sierra.  This is regarded Bogart's breakthrough role, but Lupino gives an excellent performance as the femme fatale.

 

This one is my favorite Ida Lupino role.  I wouldn't call her a femme fatale in it though, but the faithful girl friend with the soft, loving heart (for both Bogie and the stray dog. The femme fatale was that fake, gold digging farm girl who I really learned to hate.  Bogart did a wonderful job as the naive man who can't see beyond  a woman's surface. It took him a while, but I think he finally learned that all  virginal farm girls aren't good and all  girls who have "been around the block," aren't bad.

[darkblue]

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

 

William Friedkin's 1973 film of The Exorcist was arguably the seminal horror film of its decade. This follow-up, directed by John Boorman, on the other hand, is an abomination. It is an offensive, irredeemable disaster from start to finish. You've been warned.

 

Oh, it's not that bad.

 

But the true Blatty-inspired sequel is Exorcist III with George C. Scott, based on Blatty's follow-up novel 'Legion'. Certainly a better movie - much darker and true to the theme.