TCM Schedule for Friday, April 20, 2018 -- What's On Tonight: Adventures in Advertising

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In the daylight hours, TCM is celebrating the birth of Harold Lloyd, born on April 20, 1893, in Burchard, Nebraska. Lloyd made more than 200 films, most of them silent films. Fun fact: He was the visual inspiration for the original illustrations of the superhero Superman/Clark Kent (created in 1938). Lloyd was 45 years old at the time, and he was modeled for the Clark Kent's identity (Superman's identity was modeled after Douglas Fairbanks). Lloyd's "Glasses character" was the inspiration because like that character, Lloyd found that he could hide his identity simply by taking off the glasses.




Then in prime time, TCM goes all "Mad Men"! Enjoy!



7:15 AM -- FROM HAND TO MOUTH (1919)
In this silent film, a young burglar tries to save an heiress from kidnappers.
Dir: Alf Goulding
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Snub Pollard
BW-22 mins,

First pairing of Harold Lloyd and his future wife Mildred Davis.


7:45 AM -- HAUNTED SPOOKS (1920)
In this silent short, a woman must marry and live in a seemingly haunted house to collect her inheritance.
Dir: Alf Goulding
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Wallace Howe
BW-25 mins,

Filming was interrupted when Harold Lloyd, posing for publicity photos, had a prop bomb explode in his hand. He lost two fingers, his face was badly burned and he was temporarily blinded. In subsequent films, he is always seen wearing a prosthetic glove on his injured hand.


8:15 AM -- AMONG THOSE PRESENT (1921)
In this silent film, an ambitious young man poses as an English lord.
Dir: Fred Newmeyer
Cast: Harold Lloyd, James T. Kelley, Mildred Davis
BW-35 mins,

Referenced in Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) -- In both movies the hero tries to hide inside a doghouse, but they quickly get out, because there's a dog in it that bites.


9:00 AM -- GRANDMA'S BOY (1922)
In this silent film, a young coward thinks a magical charm can make him a hero.
Dir: Fred Newmeyer
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Townsend
BW-56 mins,

Originally intended as a serious movie, this film was altered by Harold Lloyd into a comedy by adding the gag scenes later on. The flashback scenes set in the Civil War are actually the original short around which this movie was built.


10:00 AM -- GIRL SHY (1924)
In this silent film, a small-town boy raises a ruckus when he writes a book about how to handle women.
Dir: Fred Newmeyer
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels
BW-80 mins,

Many of the exterior shots were filmed at Holmby House, the massive estate owned by Arthur Letts, owner of the Bullocks Departments Store. Harold Lloyd did not move into his Green Acres estate in Beverly Hills until 1929, five years after Girl Shy was released.


11:30 AM -- THE KID BROTHER (1927)
In this silent film, the weakling in a family of he-men tries to prove his mettle.
Dir: Ted Wilde
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James
BW-83 mins,

For the scene where Harold Lloyd climbs a tree to spy on his beloved, an elevator was specially constructed to allow for the camera's rising move. This was the first time a production unit had gone to such elaborate lengths just to procure one shot.


1:00 PM -- MOVIE CRAZY (1932)
A stagestruck young actor accidentally receives somebody else's invitation to test in Hollywood.
Dir: Clyde Bruckman
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson
BW-96 mins,

This was the first film that Harold Lloyd worked with a full script of prepared dialogue.


2:45 PM -- THE MILKY WAY (1936)
A mild-mannered milkman stumbles onto a career in the boxing ring.
Dir: Leo McCarey
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale
BW-88 mins, CC,

When producer Samuel Goldwyn bought the rights to the property in the mid-'40s for his remake, The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) (with Danny Kaye in the lead role), he also bought the original negative and almost all existing prints, and destroyed them. After that time the copyright was not renewed, and the title apparently fell into public domain, and, as a result, numerous VHS and DVD dealers, not having access to original material, included it in their inventories, offering vastly inferior copies. Harold Lloyd, however, had preserved his own original nitrate release print, which became the source for the new digital video transfer used by TCM and subsequent DVD releases.


4:30 PM -- THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK (1947)
When he loses his job, a middle-aged bookkeeper goes out on the town.
Dir: Preston Sturges
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn
BW-90 mins, CC,

Last appearance of Harold Lloyd in a film.


6:15 PM -- FUNNY SIDE OF LIFE (1963)
Compilation of clips selected by Harold Lloyd that highlight his career.
BW-99 mins,

Features footage from Safety Last! (1923), Why Worry? (1923), Girl Shy (1924), Hot Water (1924), The Freshman (1925), For Heaven's Sake (1926), The Kid Brother (1927), Speedy (1928), Feet First (1930), Movie Crazy (1932), The Milky Way (1936), and Professor Beware (1938),



TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: ADVENTURES IN ADVERTISING



8:00 PM -- THE THRILL OF IT ALL (1963)
A doctor tries to cope with his wife's newfound stardom as an advertising pitch woman.
Dir: Norman Jewison
Cast: Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis
C-108 mins, CC,

The ad agency's viewing room has both color and black-and-white TVs side by side. This was common at ad agencies in the 1960s to confirm that color commercials would also be acceptable on black-and-white sets.


10:00 PM -- GOOD NEIGHBOR SAM (1964)
A man poses as husband to his wife's best friend for one day that could turn into a lifetime.
Dir: David Swift
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Dorothy Provine
C-130 mins, CC,

The name of the advertising firm for which Sam Bissel works, Burke & Hare, is clearly a reference to William Burke and William Hare, two Irish laborers living in 18th century Edinburgh, Scotland who became notorious as history's most famous "body snatchers" who, until they were discovered by the British authorities, killed at least 16 travellers and then sold their corpses to medical schools for dissection.


12:30 AM -- I MARRIED A WOMAN (1958)
A neglected wife sets out to make her adman exec husband jealous.
Dir: Hal Kanter
Cast: George Gobel, Diana Dors, Adolphe Menjou
C-84 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

The film which George Gobel and Diana Dors are watching in the cinema is a Technicolor film 'Forever and Forever and Forever" starring John Wayne and Angie Dickinson.


2:00 AM -- RED SONJA (1985)
A woman seeks revenge on the evil queen by stealing her magic orb.
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman
C-89 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Maria Shriver said in a TV interview that at the premiere of this film she remarked to her then-husband Arnold Schwarzenegger, "If this doesn't kill your career, nothing will".


3:45 AM -- HERCULES (1983)
Hercules tries to rescue a princess from the clutches of her villainous kidnappers.
Dir: Luigi Cozzi
Cast: Lou Ferrigno, Mirella D'Angelo, Sybil Danning
C-100 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

At one point, Lou Ferrigno walked into Menahem Golan's office after reading the original script which was filled with more violence and gratuitous sex and told him that the script was a "piece of shit" and threw into the garbage. Ferrigno wanted a more family oriented fantasy version which is what was finally released against Golan's wishes.


5:30 AM -- THE CORVAIR IN ACTION! (1960)
Technicians herald the arrival of a new car that "delivers the goods as no other compact car can" in this short advertisement.
C-6 mins,

Produced by Chevrolet and filmed in Lakeville, Connecticut.


5:30 AM -- BOYS BEWARE (1961)
This anti-homosexual, social "scare" short film focuses on the dangers of young boys talking to strangers.
Cast: Sid Davis,
BW-10 mins,

Filmed on location in Inglewood, California.


5:30 AM -- WILD AT THE WHEEL (1970)
This short film looks at the importance of traffic rules to avoid serious automobile accidents.
Dir: Bob Ellis
C-10 mins,

[Auggie]

1. No Putney Swope?

Putney Swope is a 1969 satirical comedy film, written and directed by Robert Downey Sr. and starring Arnold Johnson as Swope, about the advertising world, the portrayal of race in Hollywood films, the white power structure, and the nature of corporate corruption.

In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putney_Swope