TCM Schedule for Saturday, January 5, 2019 -- What's On Tonight: Gunfights

[Staph]

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In the daylight hours, TCM has the usual Saturday matinee lineup of films and shorts. Then tonight, TCM's non-essential Essentials are all about shootouts in the Old West. Enjoy!




6:00 AM -- MADE FOR EACH OTHER (1939)
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
Dir: John Cromwell
Cast: Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Charles Coburn
BW-93 mins, CC,

David O. Selznick's experience of trying to have life-saving serum flown in for his critically ill brother was the basis for the flying sequences ending the movie.


8:00 AM -- MGM CARTOONS: WAGS TO RICHES (1949)
A millionaire leaves his fortune to Droopy with the stipulation that should he be killed the entire fortune will revert to Spike.
Dir: Tex Avery
Cast: Bill Thompson, William Hanna, Don Messick
BW-7 mins, CC,

This short was remade in widescreen as Millionaire Droopy (1956) seven years after it was released.


8:09 AM -- LIONS ON THE LOOSE (1941)
In this short film, two lion cubs escape from the zoo and go on an adventure.
Dir: Marjorie Freeman
Cast: Pete Smith, Marjorie Freeman
BW-9 mins,


8:18 AM -- GOODBYE, MISS TURLOCK (1947)
This Oscar-winning short film has an adult looking back at his childhood where he was taught by a stern teacher in a one-room school.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn
Cast: Nana Bryant, Norman Ollestad,
BW-10 mins, CC,

Winner of an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-reel -- Herbert Moulton


8:29 AM -- SOMEWHERE IN SONORA (1933)
A young cowhand gets roped into the outlaw's life when he's falsely accused of a crime.
Dir: Mack V. Wright
Cast: John Wayne, Duke, Henry B. Walthall
BW-58 mins, CC,

Using the name "Monte Black" as the villain was something of an in-joke at Warners, where Monte Blue was a star during the silent era. After sound came in, he was relegated to minor supporting roles at the studio, albeit in some very good films like Casablanca (1942) and Key Largo (1948).


9:30 AM -- MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN: THE REWARD OF TREACHERY (1939)
The twelfth episode.
BW-19 mins,


10:00 AM -- POPEYE: NEVER KICK A WOMAN (1933)
Popeye teaches Olive the art of self-defense, which comes in handy when a woman boxer flirts with him.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel (uncredited)
Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
BW-7 mins, CC,

This was the first Popeye cartoon in which he doesn't eat spinach (Olive eats it instead).


10:08 AM -- THE PLOT THICKENS (1936)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers suspects a deadly link between two seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Ben Holmes
Cast: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Owen Davis Jr.
BW-69 mins, CC,

In the previous series entry "Murder on the Bridle Path" Louise Latimer and Owen Davis Jr. play Barbara Foley and Eddie Fay, a couple hoping to elope. In this episode they reappear, and although Hildegarde recognizes them, their names have inexplicably changed to Alice Stevens and Robert Wilkins.


11:30 AM -- PLANE NUTS (1933)
Ted Healy and His Stooges perform several comedic skits in this musical short.
Dir: Jack Cummings
Cast: Ted Healy, Larry Fine, Moe Howard
BW-20 mins,

The Stooges were to appear in a segment where they fly around the world backwards, but it was cut from the final version. This footage is discussed, with production photos, in Leonard Maltin's television documentary The Lost Stooges (1990).


12:00 PM -- THE SPY IN BLACK (1939)
A German sub tries to sink the British fleet during World War I.
Dir: Michael Powell
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson
BW-82 mins,

The password that Hardt is to use for his contact is the opening line of Heine's poem Die Lorelei, in which a beautiful woman, who lures sailors on the rocks, is used as a symbol of homesickness. When his crew joke about him spouting love poetry to a woman in the dark, they miss half of the point.


1:30 PM -- BLUE GARDENIA (1953)
A telephone operator kills in self-defense but can't remember the details of the encounter.
Dir: Fritz Lang
Cast: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern
BW-88 mins, CC,

Director Fritz Lang and cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca developed a revolutionary dolly for the camera that allowed for sustained tracking shots and intimate close-ups while shooting this film. Lang preferred the practice of tracking into a close-up shot of an actor as opposed to cutting to a close-up in editing. He believed the tracking close-up captured more of the actors' intimacy and emotions.


3:15 PM -- THE LONGEST DAY (1962)
The Allied forces launch the D-Day invasion of German-occupied France.
Dir: Andrew Marton
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda
BW-178 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Winner of Oscars for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White -- Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz, and Best Effects, Special Effects -- R.A. MacDonald (visual) and Jacques Maumont (audible)

Nominee for Oscars for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White -- Ted Haworth, Léon Barsacq, Vincent Korda and Gabriel Béchir, Best Film Editing -- Samuel E. Beetley, and Best Picture

While clearing a section of the Normandy beach near Ponte du Hoc, the film's crew unearthed a tank that had been buried in the sand since the original invasion. Mechanics cleaned it off, fixed it up and it was used in the film as part of the British tank regiment.


6:30 PM -- THE SHOOTING (1967)
A mysterious woman engages two bounty hunters to help her seek revenge.
Dir: Monte Hellman
Cast: Warren Oates, Will Hutchins, B. J. Merholz
C-81 mins, Letterbox Format

Monte Hellman got the idea to cast Millie Perkins, Warren Oates, and Will Hutchins in the lead roles while shopping in a Los Angeles book store.



TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: GUNFIGHTS



8:00 PM -- GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL (1957)
Dramatization of the legendary battle between Wyatt Earp and the Clanton Gang.
Dir: John Sturges
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
C-123 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Nominee for Oscars for Best Sound, Recording -- George Dutton (Paramount SSD), and Best Film Editing -- Warren Low

The actual gunfight took place on October 26, 1881 and lasted thirty seconds, resulting in three dead men after an exchange of thirty-four bullets. The fictionalized gunfight in this movie took four days to film, and produced an on-screen bloodbath that lasted five minutes.


10:15 PM -- GUNFIGHT AT COMANCHE CREEK (1964)
In 1875 a murderous outlaw gang breaks criminals from jail, and then kills them for the reward.
Dir: Frank McDonald
Cast: Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, Colleen Miller
BW-93 mins, CC,

This is a remake of The Last of the Badmen (1957).


12:00 AM -- HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951)
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
Dir: John Farrow
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
BW-120 mins, CC,

In later interviews, Robert Mitchum admitted that much of the script was made up as they went along.


2:15 AM -- MODERN TIMES (1936)
The Tramp struggles to live in a modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Dir: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman
BW-87 mins, CC,

Supposedly was to be Charles Chaplin's first full sound film, but instead, sound is used in a unique way: we hear spoken voices only when they come from mechanical devices, a symbol of the film's theme of technology and dehumanization. Specifically, voices are heard from:
* The videophones used by the factory president
* The phonographic Mechanical Salesman
* The radio in the prison warden's office


4:00 AM -- AN IDEAL HUSBAND (1947)
An upstanding politician is haunted by his past when a blackmailer threatens to reveal a youthful indiscretion.
Dir: Alexander Korda
Cast: Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding, Constance Collier
C-93 mins, CC,

The original Broadway production of "An Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde opened at the Lyceum Theatre on March 12, 1895. Broadway revivals were produced in 1918 and 1996. The play was also filmed as Ein idealer Gatte (1935 - German but filmed in London), Un marido ideal (1947 - filmed in Spanish in Argentina), An Ideal Husband (1958) (TV Movie - German and filmed in West Germany), An Ideal Husband (1965) (TV Movie - yet again another West German production!), An Ideal Husband (1966) (TV Movie - wow! the Germans really love this story - West Germany again), BBC Play of the Month: An Ideal Husband (1969) (TV Episode - the Brits at last!), Au théâtre ce soir: Un mari idéal (1972) (TV Episode - the French), Idealnyy muzh (1981 - filmed in the Soviet Union - an interesting choice for the Communists), An Ideal Husband (1999 - the second British theatrical version), An Ideal Husband (1999 - Hollywood's first try, with a British, American and Australian cast), and An Ideal Husband (2002) (TV Movie - from the Czech Republic!).

[Sherman A1]

1. Thanks for posting

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