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Staph

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Thu May 3, 2018, 04:43 PM May 2018

TCM Schedule for Saturday, May 5, 2018 -- What's On Tonight: Western Justice

There's another daylight schedule looking like an old-time movie house's Saturday matinee. Then in prime time, TCM is taking a hard look at justice in the Old West. Enjoy!



6:00 AM -- I Dood It (1943)
A tailor nurses an unrequited crush on a stage star.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Richard Ainley
BW-103 mins,

The title of the film is from a catchphrase used by Red Skelton on his radio show when he was in character as the "Mean Widdle Kid".


8:00 AM -- The Film That Was Lost (1942)
This short film provides a look at the problems of film preservation efforts in the 1930s and 1940s.
Dir: Sammy Lee
Cast: Emmett Vogan,
BW-10 mins, CC

Includes archive footage of William Jennings Bryan, John Nesbitt, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas A. Edison, Woodrow Wilson, Queen Victoria, King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II, Grigory Rasputin, V.I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, and Tsarina Alexandra.


8:00 AM -- MGM Cartoons: Chips Off the Old Block (1942)
Butch the cat deals with a basket of kittens left on his doorstep.
Dir: Robert Allen
Cast: Harry Lang
BW-8 mins,

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Leo, the Lion's roar is uniquely different in these two MGM shorts, Chips Off the Old Block (1942) & Blitz Wolf (1942). Background Music: "The Tiger Rag" same background music & introduction. Rudolf Ising's Chips Off the Old Block (1942) was second, on Saturday, September 12th, 1942 following Tex Avery's Blitz Wolf (1942) was first, on Saturday, August 22nd, 1942. In Chips Off the Old Block, the four quick roars were to Butch's four new kittens. In Blitz Wolf, the four quick roars were to the three pigs and Adolf Wolf.


8:00 AM -- California Mail (1936)
A singing cowboy has to fight some crooked characters to win a pony express contract.
Dir: Noel Smith
Cast: Dick Foran, Linda Perry, Smoke the Wonder Horse
BW-56 mins, CC

Based on an original story by Harold Buckey.


8:00 AM -- Glimpses of Morocco and Algiers (1951)
This short film visits the city of Algiers in Algeria, and the cities of Casablanca, Rabat, and Marrakesh in Morocco.
Cast: James A FitzPatrick
C-8 mins,

Filmed in Algiers, Algeria, and in Casablanca, Marrakech and Rabat, Morocco.


9:30 AM -- Red Barry: Between Two Fires (1938)
The ninth chapter in the Red Barry serial. An undercover detective must uncover the truth and figure out who stole two million dollars in bonds.
BW-20 mins,

Four more episodes to go!


10:00 AM -- Popeye: Man on the Flying Trapeze (1933)
Popeye comes to ask Olive out, but finds she's gone off with the title character.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky (uncredited)
Cast: William Costello, William Pennell, Mae Questel
BW-7 mins,

"The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze" did have a name, contrary to popular belief: Jules Leotard. He was a former law student who ran away from home and joined a circus as an adolescent. Young Jules was the first performer to wear the skin-tight suit of clothes that would later be named after him; he died of tuberculosis aged only twenty-eight, and the man in the cartoon is obviously modeled on him. In the song, a young man is bemoaning the fact that Jules has just run off with his fiancée.


10:00 AM -- Tarzan And The Amazons (1945)
Archaeologists trick Boy into helping them find a hidden valley ruled by women.
Dir: Kurt Neumann
Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield
BW-76 mins, CC

First appearance of the second Jane, Brenda Joyce, who later appeared as Jane with Lex Barker as Tarzan.


11:30 AM -- Buyer Beware (1940)
This short film deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.
Dir: Joseph Newman
Cast: Emmett Vogan, Charles Wagenheim, Lee Phelps
BW-21 mins, CC

Episode number 30 in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series.


12:00 PM -- Warlock (1959)
A Western town hires a famous gunman to rid it of outlaws.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn
C-121 mins,

DeForest Kelley rather famously told an anecdote about the filming of this movie in his later years on the Star Trek convention circuit, about the time Princess Sofia of Greece was visiting the set and Kelley flubbed a scene by falling over a chair onto his backside and saying "Oh, shit," in front of the princess. Henry Fonda told him the following Monday not to worry about it because he had danced with the princess over the weekend and ascertained that she had no idea what "shit" meant. This did not stop Kelley from getting a standing ovation at the commissary when the cast and crew broke for lunch.


2:15 PM -- Giant (1956)
A Texas ranching family fights to survive changing times.
Dir: George Stevens
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean
BW-201 mins, CC

Winner of an Oscar for Best Director -- George Stevens

Nominee for Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role -- James Dean (This was James Dean's second consecutive posthumous nomination.), Best Actor in a Leading Role -- Rock Hudson, Best Actress in a Supporting Role -- Mercedes McCambridge, Best Writing, Best Screenplay - Adapted -- Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color -- Boris Leven and Ralph S. Hurst, Best Costume Design, Color -- Moss Mabry and Marjorie Best, Best Film Editing -- William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson and Fred Bohanan, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture -- Dimitri Tiomkin, and Best Picture

Gary Cooper happened to be at Warner Bros. the day Mercedes McCambridge was doing hair and makeup tests. When he got a look at the brand new Stetson she was supposed to wear in the film, he said, "You mean to sit there and tell me that a Texan woman who spends most of her waking hours in the middle of hundreds of head of cattle would be caught dead in that stupid store hat?" He called a wardrobe man he had worked with, and gave McCambridge an old hat he had worn in other films. It even had his name in the band. When McCambridge noticed the water stains, she asked if it had been rained on. "Nope," he replied. "Peed on a lot! That's what makes it such a fine Texas hat. No self-respecting rancher wears a hat that his horse hasn't peed on!" She wrote in her memoirs that James Dean tried to steal it.



5:45 PM -- The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Seven American gunmen hire themselves out to protect a Mexican village from bandits.
Dir: John Sturges
Cast: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen
C-128 mins, Letterbox, CC

Nominee for an Oscar for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture -- Elmer Bernstein

Although the film received only mixed reviews, John Sturges got a rave from the one source that really mattered to him. After seeing the picture, Akira Kurosawa was so impressed, he sent the American director a ceremonial sword as a gift.




TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: WESTERN JUSTICE



8:00 PM -- Hang 'Em High (1968)
A mysterious drifter survives a lynching then goes back for revenge.
Dir: Ted Post
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley
C-115 mins, Letterbox, CC

The character of Judge Adam Fenton (Pat Hingle) was based in part on Judge Isaac Parker whose federal court in Fort Smith, Arkansas had jurisdiction over the Oklahoma and Indian Territories.


10:15 PM -- The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
A loner gets caught up in a posse's drive to find and hang three suspected rustlers.
Dir: William A. Wellman
Cast: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes
BW-76 mins, CC

Nominee for an Oscar for Best Picture

Henry Fonda's commitment to this film was partly due to his having witnessed, at age 14, the lynching of Will Brown in Omaha, NE, on September 28, 1919.



12:00 AM -- The Narrow Margin (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's moll on a tense train ride.
Dir: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
BW-71 mins, CC

Nominee for an Oscar for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story -- Martin Goldsmith and Jack Leonard

Filmed in 1950, not released until 1952. According to director Richard Fleischer, when the film was finished, RKO Pictures owner Howard Hughes heard good things about it and ordered that a copy of it be delivered to him so he could screen it in his private projection room. The film stayed in the projection room for more than a year, apparently because the eccentric Hughes forgot about it.



1:30 AM -- A Few Good Men (1992)
When a Marine dies on a US Navy base, two fellow Marines stand trial for murder.
Dir: Rob Reiner
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore
C-138 mins, Letterbox, CC

Nominee for Oscars for Best Actor in a Supporting Role -- Jack Nicholson, Best Sound -- Kevin O'Connell, Rick Kline and Robert Eber, Best Film Editing -- Robert Leighton, and Best Picture

An unnamed executive gave Aaron Sorkin a note: "If Tom Cruise and Demi Moore aren't going to sleep with each other, why is Demi Moore a woman?" He responded, "I said the obvious answer: Women have purposes other than to sleep with Tom Cruise." He claimed the incident was his worst experience as a screenwriter.



4:00 AM -- Twilight of Honor (1963)
A struggling lawyer takes on a controversial murder case that could make or break him.
Dir: Boris Sagal
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Joey Heatherton, Nick Adams
BW-104 mins, Letterbox, CC

Nominee for Oscars for Best Actor in a Supporting Role -- Nick Adams, and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White -- George W. Davis, Paul Groesse, Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt

First feature film roles for Linda Evans and Joey Heatherton.



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