TCM Schedule for Saturday, July 28, 2018 -- What's On Tonight: Kirk Douglas

[Staph]

In the daylight hours, TCM continues their Saturday matinee programming. Then in prime time, tonight's non-essential Essentials features a couple of films by the great Kirk Douglas. Enjoy!



6:15 AM -- IT ALL CAME TRUE (1940)
A gangster hides out in a boardinghouse full of eccentrics.
Dir: Lewis Seiler
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Jeffrey Lynn, Humphrey Bogart
BW-97 mins, CC,

The soundtrack opening tune, "Angel in Disguise," was often used in Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons, since Warners owned the copyright. This was typical Warners policy, lowering production costs by using music the studio owned, instead of paying for newly composed music.


8:00 AM -- CYCLONE ON HORSEBACK (1941)
A young contractor fights off outlaws out to sabotage the telephone line he's building.
Dir: Edward Killy
Cast: Tim Holt, Marjorie Reynolds, Ray Whitley
BW-60 mins,

Film debut of Terry Frost, who continued to work until 1966. He has 238 credits in IMDB!


8:00 AM -- MGM CARTOONS: THE LITTLE WISE QUACKER (1952)
Barney Bear goes duck hunting, but is forbidden by the rule book to shoot the one duck available: a duck that is asleep.
Dir: Dick Lundy
BW-7 mins,


8:00 AM -- FIRST AID (1943)
This short film is a humorous look at basic first aid techniques for mishaps that often occur around the house.
Dir: Will Jason
Cast: Dave O'Brien, Edna Harris,
BW-10 mins,


8:00 AM -- GOOFY MOVIES NUMBER ONE (1933)
This short film provides parodies of newsreel footage and silent movies.
Dir: Jules White
BW-9 mins,

First of ten numbered Goofy Movies.


9:30 AM -- TAILSPIN TOMMY IN THE GREAT AIR MYSTERY: THE CRASH IN THE CLOUDS (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 seven.


10:00 AM -- POPEYE: BE KIND TO 'AMINALS' (1935)
Popeye and Olive can't ignore it when produce vendor Bluto comes by with his overloaded cart, whipping his horse and denying it water.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky (uncredited)
Cast: Floyd Buckley, Mae Questel, Gus Wickie
BW-6 mins, CC,

Floyd Buckley, the voice of Popeye for its radio program, played Popeye in this episode only. This was likely due to the firing of Billy Costello (Popeye's original voice) in 1935 and Fleischer Studio not yet deciding on Jack Mercer as his replacement.


10:00 AM -- TARZAN'S FIGHT FOR LIFE (1958)
The jungle king tries to help a doctor establish a mission.
Dir: Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen
C-86 mins, CC,

During the location shoot, Scott won a bet by capturing and riding a wild giraffe for five minutes. Carter filmed this incident and it was included in the movie, as well as in the feature re-cut from an aborted TV series, Tarzan and the Trappers (1958).


11:45 AM -- SO YOU WANT TO BE A DETECTIVE (1948)
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Vitaphone Release 1636A.
Dir: Richard Bare
Cast: Philo McCullough, Fred Kelsey, Donald Kerr
BW-11 mins,


12:00 PM -- KING KONG (1933)
A film crew discovers the "eighth wonder of the world," a giant prehistoric ape, and brings him back to New York, where he wreaks havoc.
Dir: Merian C. Cooper
Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
BW-104 mins, CC,

Merian C. Cooper's first vision for the film, was of a giant ape on top of the world's tallest building, fighting airplanes. He worked backward from there, to develop the rest of the story.


2:00 PM -- THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY (1950)
Jackie Robinson plays himself in this true story of the man who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier.
Dir: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson
BW-77 mins, CC,

This was Jackie Robinson's only acting role.


3:30 PM -- THE PROFESSIONALS (1966)
A corrupt rancher hires four soldiers of fortune to rescue his wife from kidnappers.
Dir: Richard Brooks
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan
C-118 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Nominee for Oscars for Best Director -- Richard Brooks, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium -- Richard Brooks, and Best Cinematography, Color -- Conrad L. Hall

Despite the principal male actors being in their 50's (except for Lee Marvin, who was only 42), all of them insisted on performing their own stunts. However, only Woody Strode performed all of his stunts as there were no black stuntmen who came close to his height and stature. Burt Lancaster, who was 52 at the time, did most of his own stunts, including being hung upside down in Coyote Pass and running across the top of the moving train car. The studio balked, however, at Lancaster climbing the side of the cliff in the pass to plant the dynamite and a stuntman was substituted. Even though Palance was as tall as Strode, he had to use a stunt double for the scenes where he was wounded and fell off his horse, because falling the wrong way off a horse could lead to serious injuries.


5:45 PM -- THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN (1972)
A self-appointed judge cleans up a corrupt western town twice.
Dir: John Huston
Cast: Paul Newman, Roy Jenson, Gary Combs
C-123 mins, CC,

Nominee for an Oscar for Best Music, Original Song -- Maurice Jarre (music), Alan Bergman (lyrics) and Marilyn Bergman for the song "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey"

John Milius wrote the screenplay with Lee Marvin in mind as Judge Roy Bean. He brought the script to Marvin when he was filming Pocket Money (1972), but Marvin fell asleep after one drink too many. His co-star Paul Newman found the screenplay, read it, loved it and petitioned for the part.



TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: KIRK DOUGLAS



8:00 PM -- PATHS OF GLORY (1958)
A military lawyer comes to question the status quo when he defends three men accused of cowardice.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Fred Bell, John Stein, Harold Benedict
BW-88 mins, CC,

In 1969, Kirk Douglas recalled about the film "There's a picture that will always be good, years from now. I don't have to wait 50 years to know that; I know it now". (It's now been 70 years. Do you all think it is good?)


9:45 PM -- THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER (1982)
In 1880s Australia, after young Jim Craig's father dies, Jim takes a job at the Harrison cattle ranch, where he is forced to become a man.
Dir: John Dixon
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jack Thompson, Tom Burlinson
BW-105 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

"The Man From Snowy River" is a poem, that was written by A.B. "Banjo" Patterson & published by The Bulletin Company, on Saturday, April 26th, 1890. Patterson himself, along with the words of the poem, are immortalized on the Australian $10 note.


12:00 AM -- SCENE OF THE CRIME (1949)
A detective tries to solve a policeman's murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland
Cast: Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria De Haven
BW-94 mins, CC,

This film was a success at the box office for MGM, earning a profit of $151,000 ($1.53M in 2016) according to studio records.


2:00 AM -- THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (1974)
Gunmen hold a New York subway train and its passengers for ransom.
Dir: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
C-104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

In a TVO (Ontario, Canada) interview, the producer said that this film did terrific box office in New York, Toronto, London and Paris--all cities with subways--but was considered a flop in the rest of the world.


4:00 AM -- THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1979)
Three crooks plot to steal a fortune in gold from a moving train.
Dir: Michael Crichton
Cast: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down
C-111 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Michael Crichton once said of this film: "My dream was that the historical world was going to be lovingly recreated, and then I was going to shoot The French Connection (1971) inside it".

[joshdawg]

1. "Paths of Glory"

One of the best anti-war films I've seen.
"King Kong".........all the remakes pale in comparison to the original. Love Fay Wray!

Thanks for posting this list.