TCM Schedule for Friday, October 26, 2018 -- What's On Tonight -- Moonshine

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In the daylight hours, TCM is showing films based on some pretty great literature. Then in prime time, TCM is getting chased by revenooers! Enjoy!



6:00 AM -- DODSWORTH (1936)
A husband whose wife left him looks for new love in Europe.
Dir: William Wyler
Cast: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas
BW-101 mins, CC,

Winner of an Oscar for Best Art Direction -- Richard Day

Nominee for Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role -- Walter Huston, Best Actress in a Supporting Role -- Maria Ouspenskaya, Best Director -- William Wyler, Best Writing, Screenplay -- Sidney Howard, Best Sound, Recording -- Oscar Lagerstrom (United Artists SSD), and Best Picture

At the time of filming, Mary Astor was going through a very public and very scandalous divorce from her husband, who used Astor's diary to prove that she had been having an affair with playwright George S. Kaufman. With the press constantly stalking her, she sometimes slept on the set to avoid confrontation. Many people involved in the production sided with Astor throughout the ordeal, including William Wyler, Samuel Goldwyn and Ruth Chatterton, who appeared as a character witness on Astor's behalf.

Based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis


8:00 AM -- A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1988)
Sir Thomas More must decide whether to support King Henry VIII's divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
Dir: Charlton Heston
Cast: Charlton Heston, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud
BW-149 mins, CC,

More was tried for High Treason for opposing the King's desire to be named head of the Church in England. Charges of treason were used to silence opposition to the King. When the Founding Fathers drafted the U.S. Constitution, cases such as More's led them to define treason in narrow terms, that is, "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court."

Based on the play by Robert Bolt.


10:45 AM -- ANNA KARENINA (1948)
Adaptation of Tolstoy's classic tale of a woman who deserts her family for an illicit love.
Dir: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore
BW-113 mins, CC,

Closing credits: "And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating those pages that had been dark, then flickered, grew dim, and went out forever".

Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy.


12:45 PM -- ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1934)
A young orphan goes to stay with elderly relatives in the country.
Dir: George Nicholls Jr.
Cast: Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, O. P. Heggie
BW-78 mins, CC,

Katharine Hepburn wanted the part of Anne, and was always disappointed that she'd never gotten to play that part. Over 50 years later when Kevin Sullivan was producing a television adaptation of the same story she contacted him and had her grand-niece, Schuyler Grant read for the role. Schuyler did not get the part of Anne, (as the producers insisted on a Canadian actress) but she did get cast as Anne's best friend, Diana, in Anne of Green Gables (1985).

Based on the novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery.


2:15 PM -- LITTLE WOMEN (1933)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Dir: George Cukor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
BW-115 mins, CC,

Winner of an Oscar for Best Writing, Adaptation -- Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason

Nominee for Oscars for Best Director -- George Cukor, and Best Picture

Uncredited producer David O. Selznick had a difficult time convincing RKO executives to produce this film. There was a belief in Hollywood at the time that films based on historic novels were not popular, particularly one that centered on women during the Civil War. Selznick persisted, and the film was a commercial success. Because of this, later in the decade Selznick produced Gone with the Wind (1939) through his own production company, Selznick International Pictures, from the novel by Margaret Mitchell.

Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott.


4:30 PM -- QUALITY STREET (1937)
A woman masquerades as her own niece to get back at a neglectful suitor.
Dir: George Stevens
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, Eric Blore
BW-83 mins, CC,

Nominee for an Oscar for Best Music, Score -- Roy Webb (musical director)

The original Broadway play starred legendary actress Maude Adams. It opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York on November 11, 1901 and ran for 64 performances.

Based on the novel by J. M. Barrie.


6:04 PM -- MAID FOR A DAY (1936)
In this musical short, a fading Broadway entertainer takes a job as a maid. Vitaphone Release 1973-1974.
Dir: Joseph Henabery
Cast: Grace Hayes, Peter Lind Hayes, Frank Jaquet
BW-21 mins,

Grace Hayes and Peter Lind Hayes, who play mother and son in this short, were mother and son in real life.


6:30 PM -- KATHARINE HEPBURN: ALL ABOUT ME (1993)
In a rare interview, Katharine Hepburn shares her memories and memorabilia.
Dir: David Heeley
Cast: Katharine Hepburn,
C-69 mins, CC,

Hepburn was nominated 12 times for the Academy Award, all as Best Actress, and won four times. Jack Nicholson also has 12 nominations (8 as Best Actor and 4 Best Supporting Actor nominations) and three wins (two Best Actor trophies and one Best Supporting Actor gong). Hepburn beat out previous acting nomination record holder Bette Davis (a double winner who was nominated 10 times for an Academy Award, all of them Best Actress nods, and who had also received a write-in nomination in 1934, which was unofficial) with her 11th nod and 3rd win for The Lion in Winter (1968) (a record she extended with her 12 nomination and fourth win for On Golden Pond (1981). Hepburn herself was surpassed by Meryl Streep, with 21 nods (17 in the Best Actress category, 4 in the Best Supporting Actress category) and three wins (two in the Best Actress category and one Best supporting actress award). While it is possible that Nicholson and Streep might equal her four Oscar acting wins, it is improbable that her record of four wins in the top category will ever be surpassed.



TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: MOONSHINE



8:00 PM -- WHITE LIGHTNING (1973)
A convicted moonshiner helps police track down the bayou bad guys who killed his brother.
Dir: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jennifer Billingsley
C-101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

This was the first of the car stunt movies set in the American South that Burt Reynolds made during the 1970s and involved some kind of battle with a sheriff or official. This group of movies includes the Smokey and the Bandit films and this movie's sequel, Gator (1976).


9:45 PM -- THE MOONSHINE WAR (FEATURETTE) (1970)
This humorous promotional short offers a behind-the-scenes look at the production of "The Moonshine War" (1970).
BW-7 mins,


10:00 PM -- THE MOONSHINE WAR (1970)
A revenuer tries to destroy a sadistic bootlegger's still.
Dir: Richard Quine
Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Richard Widmark, Alan Alda
C-100 mins, CC,

The September 3, 1969, issue of VARIETY reports that Claude Johnson took over the small role of "young man" from actor Tex Barnum (credited as Charles Akins) when Barnum declined to do the nudity required for the role.


12:00 AM -- THE DEVIL'S EIGHT (1968)
A federal agent rounds up eight convicts to help fight a vicious moonshine gang.
Dir: Burt Topper
Cast: Christopher George, Ralph Meeker, Fabian
BW-98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Based on a story by Larry Gordan.


2:00 AM -- THE HAND (1981)
A comic book artist loses his hand, which in turn takes on a murderous life of its own.
Dir: Oliver Stone
Cast: Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie Mcenroe
BW-104 mins, CC,

One of Michael Caine's notorious "paycheck pictures" alongside Ashanti (1979), The Swarm (1978), Jaws: The Revenge (1987), The Island (1980), Blame It on Rio (1984), and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979).


4:00 AM -- THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS (1946)
After a famous pianist's murder, his hand returns to wreak vengeance.
Dir: Robert Florey
Cast: Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
BW-88 mins, CC,

The piece of piano music played by Francis Ingram (Victor Francen) and later, his disembodied left hand, is the "Bach Chaconne in D Minor", as arranged to be played by the left hand alone by Johannes Brahms. It was selected by Max Steiner because the story required a piece of music that could be performed by a pianist with only his left hand, and Steiner, who was born in Vienna and whose family were friendly with Brahms, rather than composing his own original piece, immediately recognized its potential in underscoring such a grim tale. Legendary Hungarian-American pianist Ervin Nyiregyhazi performed the music played by the severed hand.


5:30 AM -- DELICIOUS DISHES (1950)
Experts demonstrate such innovative kitchen gadgets as the cheese slicer and the melon baller in this short film.
Cast: Arnold Morris,
BW-13 mins,


5:30 AM -- MOVIE TRAILER (1950)
This is a short compilation reel of local movie theater trailers for upcoming events, such as a "Bug-o-Rama" festival and a "Marathon of Fright."
BW-16 mins,