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Staph

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Tue Jul 10, 2018, 12:14 AM Jul 2018

TCM Schedule for Saturday, July 14, 2018 -- What's On Tonight: Maximillian Schell

In the daylight hours, TCM has more Saturday matinee programming. Then in prime time, TCM has a pair of films starring the amazing Maximillian Schell. A couple of great quotes from IMDB: 'When asked by journalists in Vienna (his family's home) what I enjoy most about living and working in North America, I answered, "Freedom." The reporters told me, "We're sorry, Mr. Schell; but it needs to be something else, because we can't print that." So I rest my case.' And: 'I am America's number-one fan. I like your food. Especially corn flakes.' Enjoy!



6:15 AM -- LADY OF THE TROPICS (1939)
An American playboy in Saigon has to fight to get his Eurasian wife out of the country.
Dir: Jack Conway
Cast: Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Schildkraut
BW-92 mins, CC,

Nominee for an Oscar for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White -- Norbert Brodine

The distance Bill (Robert Taylor) and Manon (Hedy Lamarr) traveled by boat from Saigon to Angkor Wat in Cambodia was approximately 300 miles.



8:00 AM -- MGM CARTOONS: BATTY BASEBALL (1944)
A series of visual gags about baseball.
Dir: Tex Avery
Cast: Pinto Colvig, Wally Maher, Jack Mather
BW-6 mins, CC,

This is the only cartoon from MGM that doesn't open with the MGM lion. It is also the only MGM cartoon that gives the credits at two separate times - the title, which credits director Tex Avery like most of MGM's shorts do, at the beginning, and the rest after about 35 seconds.


8:00 AM -- ALONG THE RIO GRANDE (1941)
Two cowboys go undercover to catch a rustler on his way to Mexico.
Dir: Edward Killy
Cast: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Betty Jane Rhodes
BW-64 mins, CC,

At one point Tim Holt looks straight into Betty Jane Rhodes eyes and says, 'You've got a pretty face, a nice voice, and beautiful eyes--and to top it off, brains". Complimenting a woman on her intelligence was an extremely unusual thing for a hero to do to his leading lady in 1940s westerns--or most non-westerns, for that matter--where looks and the ability to ride a horse were usually a woman's most important attributes.


8:00 AM -- SONG OF REVOLT (1937)
This short film tells the story of how France's "Le Marseillaise" came to be written during the French Revolution.
Dir: Roy Rowland
Cast: Leon Ames, Karl Hackett, Harry Cording
BW-11 mins,


9:30 AM -- TAILSPIN TOMMY IN THE GREAT AIR MYSTERY: THE TORRENT (1935)
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island's oil reserves.
Director: Ray Taylor
Stars: Clark Williams, Jean Rogers, Noah Beery Jr.
BW-20 mins,

Part five.


10:00 AM -- POPEYE: WE AIM TO PLEASE (1934)
Olive Oyl and Popeye open up a diner, but have to deal with Wimpy and Bluto being deadbeat customers.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky (uncredited)
Cast: William Costello, Mae Questel
BW-7 mins,

Popeye hands Bluto six sandwiches. Bluto spreads them out on his arm and there are nine. He flips them over, moves his arm, and there are eight. He tosses them in the air and eats all seven of them. Then again, math was never Bluto's strong subject.


10:00 AM -- TARZAN'S HIDDEN JUNGLE (1955)
Hunters drive animals out of a sanctuary so they can shoot them.
Dir: Harold Schuster
Cast: Gordon Scott, Vera Miles, Peter Van Eyck
BW-73 mins, CC,

This was the first of six times Gordon Scott would play Tarzan. In the 1960s, he migrated to Europe and appeared in several Italian "swords and sandals" movies.


11:30 AM -- THE ROYAL RODEO (1939)
In this short film, a young monarch invites a traveling rodeo show to perform at his palace. Vitaphone Release 9539-9540.
Dir: George Amy
Cast: Boyd Irwin, Stuart Holmes, Cliff Edwards
C-15 mins,

Previously made as The Royal Rider (1929), starring Ken Maynard, Olive Hasbrouck and Philippe De Lacy.


12:00 PM -- THE HARDER THEY FALL (1956)
A cynical press agent exposes inhuman conditions in the boxing game.
Dir: Mark Robson
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling
BW-109 mins, CC,

Nominee for an Oscar for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White -- Burnett Guffey

Humphrey Bogart's last film.



2:00 PM -- ROBIN AND THE 7 HOODS (1964)
A Chicago gangster stumbles into philanthropic work during a gang war.
Dir: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.
C-123 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Nominee for Oscars for Best Music, Original Song -- Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics) for the song "My Kind of Town", and Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment -- Nelson Riddle

Making this film should have been fun. Instead, by more than one account, it was a waking nightmare for all involved. John F. Kennedy was assassinated soon after filming started, casting a pall over the entire set. Not long after that, Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped from his dressing room at Lake Tahoe, Nevada (Upon payment of a large ransom, he was released, unharmed, a few days later). Victor Buono, who played Deputy Sheriff Alvin Potts, later observed that it was a minor miracle that filming was completed at all.



4:15 PM -- POINT BLANK (1967)
A gangster plots an elaborate revenge on the wife and partner who did him dirty.
Dir: John Boorman
Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
C-92 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

This was the first major picture to film on location at Alcatraz Island after the closure of the federal prison in 1963.


6:00 PM -- THE FIRST DEADLY SIN (1980)
A police detective nearing retirement tries to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, James Whitmore
C-112 mins, CC,

Final leading role in a cinema movie of star actor-singer Frank Sinatra.



TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: MAXIMILIAN SCHELL



8:00 PM -- THE ODESSA FILE (1974)
A journalist discovers a strange link between his family and a cabal of fugitive Nazis.
Dir: Ronald Neame
Cast: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell
C-129 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Publicity for the picture stated, and it was not generally known, the character of Eduard Roschmann in Frederick Forsyth's story, played here by Maximilian Schell, were taken from real-life. What wasn't well-known at the time was there was a real, functioning ODESSA organization during the 1960s when the action of this movie takes place. To add to the verisimilitude of the film, the world's leading authority on Nazi war criminals, Simon Wiesenthal, was a Special Advisor to the producers on the facts behind the suspenseful story. Wiesenthal is a character in the film, and his part is played by a noted Israeli actor Shmuel Rodensky, who was the star of "Fiddler on the Roof" in its long-running German stage production.


10:15 PM -- RETURN FROM THE ASHES (1965)
A gigolo marries a wealthy widow, seduces her stepdaughter and plots to kill them both.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Samantha Eggar, Ingrid Thulin
BW-108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

The Ingrid Thulin part was originally offered to Gina Lollobrigida.


12:15 AM -- ROADBLOCK (1951)
An insurance agent's greedy wife leads him to a life of crime.
Dir: Harold Daniels
Cast: Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore
BW-73 mins, CC,

Based on a story by Richard Landau and Geoffrey Homes.


2:00 AM -- DON'T LOOK BACK (1967)
D.A. Pennebaker follows Bob Dylan on his 1965 tour of England.
Dir: D. A. Pennebaker
Cast: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Alan Price
BW-96 mins, CC,

Several scenes in this film were parodied, shot for shot, in the Tim Robbins film Bob Roberts (1992). These include the "Wife of the Sheriff of Nottingham" scene, and the segment in which Joan Baez is singing "Percy's Song" while Dylan composes on a typewriter in the background. In Bob Roberts (1992), Tim Robbins is updating his investment portfolio on his computer while his lover sings about "Marching For Ourselves". Other unmistakable references include the "Subterranean Homesick Blues" parody and the motorcycle 'accident'.


4:00 AM -- FESTIVAL (1967)
Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966.
Dir: Murray Lerner
Cast: Joan Baez, Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers
BW-98 mins, CC,

Nominee for an Oscar for Best Documentary, Features -- Murray Lerner

First of the theatrical documentaries on counter-culture music festivals, preceding Monterey Pop (1968) and Woodstock (1970).



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