TCM Schedule for Tuesday, November 11th: Veterans' Day.

[CBHagman]

:patriot:

12:15 AM Jamaica Inn (1939)
A young woman on the British coast stumbles onto a ring of bloodthirsty scavengers. Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Hay Petrie. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC



2:00 AM Captain Kidd (1945)
An infamous pirate tries to double cross the King of England. Cast: Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, John Carradine. Dir: Rowland V. Lee. BW-81 mins, TV-G

3:30 AM Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
Two waiters stumble on a treasure map and land in hot water with pirates. Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Laughton. Dir: Charles Lamont. BW-70 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:45 AM Spooks Run Wild (1941)
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Bela Lugosi, Angelo Rossitto. Dir: Phil Rosen. BW-63 mins, TV-PG

6:00 AM Beachhead (1954)
U.S. soldiers invade a Pacific Island during World War II to catch an informer. Cast: Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy. Dir: Stuart Heisler. C-90 mins, TV-PG

7:30 AM Destroyer (1943)
The crew of a torpedoed ship fights to take out an enemy sub. Cast: Edward Robinson, Glenn Ford, Marguerite Chapman. Dir: William A. Seiter. BW-99 mins, TV-G

9:15 AM Bridges At Toko-Ri, The (1954)
Two jet pilots forge a lasting friendship while fighting the Korean War. Cast: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Mickey Rooney. Dir: Mark Robson. C-103 mins, TV-PG, CC

11:00 AM Pork Chop Hill (1959)
Americans take a vital hill in Korea but have trouble holding it. Cast: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Woody Strode. Dir: Lewis Milestone. BW-98 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

12:45 PM Guns of Navarone, The (1961)
A team of Allied saboteurs fight their way behind enemy lines to destroy a pair of Nazi guns. Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn. Dir: J. Lee-Thompson. C-157 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format



3:30 PM Battleground (1949)
American soldiers in France fight to survive a Nazi siege just before the Battle of the Bulge. Cast: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-119 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

5:30 PM Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
General Jimmy Doolittle trains American troops for the first airborne attacks on Japan. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-138 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

What's On Tonight: TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: VETERANS' DAY

8:00 PM Warner at War (2008)
Documentary highlighting Warner Bros. contribution to the war effort. BW-47 mins, , CC

8:57 PM Short Film: Gangster Film Festival (Lbx) (2000)
C-2 mins,

9:00 PM This Is the Army (1943)
A song-and-dance man's son stages a big show starring World War II soldiers. Cast: George Murphy, Joan Leslie, Ronald Reagan. Dir: Michael Curtiz. C-125 mins, , CC

11:15 PM Hollywood Canteen (1944)
A serviceman and a starlet find love at the star-staffed serviceman's center. Cast: Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Dane Clark. Dir: Delmer Daves. BW-124 mins, TV-G, CC



1:30 AM Stage Door Canteen (1943)
A USO girl defies the rules when she falls for a soldier visiting the star-studded Stage Door Canteen. Cast: Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Katharine Hepburn. Dir: Frank Borzage. BW-131 mins, TV-G

3:45 AM Thousands Cheer (1943)
An egotistical acrobat joins the Army and falls in love with his commander's daughter. Cast: Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Judy Garland. Dir: George Sidney. C-125 mins, TV-G, CC

[Matilda]

1. We call it "Remembrance Day" here,

but you'd hardly know it from the TCM programs. Nothing.

But Fox Classics is screening a film called "The Bridge at Remagen" - I don't know it, but it sounds
like a war film. And Ovation is playing my favourite, "Oh, What A Lovely War", quite brilliantly
directed by Richard Attenborough, and featuring a wonderful line-up of British stars.

A scene with Corin Redgrave ("Goodbye-ee"):
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=e8aCnmBVtQ4&NR=1

And a wonderful parody of "What A Friend We Have in Jesus"; from the church parade sequence, one of
my favourites:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=0wfIhl5mn5s&feature=related


I have this film on tape, but I'll be watching it anyway; best anti-war film ever made, IMO.

[CBHagman]

2. I think...

...my father, a World War II vet, and a pious one at that, would nevertheless have loved the "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" segment. I'm sure he and all the other guys were more than ready to get back into civvies by the end of it all.

I had heard the term Remembrance Day before, and not only because I lived near the Canadian border for so long. For all that the term Veterans' Day is more inclusive, I rather like calling it Remembrance Day, as I remember November as the month the guns went silent in what was once called the Great War.

This is not classic film, but it is appropriate. Here's to Grandpa and all who came home, and to the many who didn't.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=z3V698JzqC0&feature=related

[Matilda]

3. A note about November ...

The reason for November 11th is that the Armistice was signed on the 11th hour, of the 11th
day of the 11th month, so that has always been the traditional hour of commemoration. Is that what
you do?

When I was a child, we had to stand in silence by our desks for two minutes at 11:00 a.m, and the
traffic in the streets all came to a stop. By the time I was in high school, that had all stopped -
I guess people were becoming just too busy to stop for a moment. But this being the 90th
anniversary, there was something of a return to how it used to be yesterday. I have ABC Radio on
all the time in my office, and at 11:00, they played "The Last Post", recited The Ode (part of
Laurence Binyon's poem *"For the Fallen"), then silence, and lastly they played "Reveille". It took
me back to my childhood, and how things used to be done.

*They shall grow not old
As we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them
Nor the years condemn.
At the going-down of the sun
And in the morning,
We will remember them."