TCM Schedule for Saturday, November 3, 2018 -- What's On Tonight: Cattle Drives

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Tonight's non-Essentials Essentials is headed for a big round-up! Enjoy!



6:00 AM -- The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
A frontier scout rescues the daughters of a British colonial commander from renegades.
Dir: George B. Seitz
Cast: Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon
BW-92 mins

Nominee for an Oscar for Best Assistant Director -- Clem Beauchamp

This movie features two alumni from the film, King Kong (1933), actor Bruce Cabot, who plays Magua, (and played John Driscoll in King Kong) and parts of the King Kong music score by Max Steiner, which can most easily be heard during the action sequences.


8:00 AM -- MGM Cartoons: Barney Bear's Victory Garden (1942)
Barney Bear grows a victory garden that a gopher is only too happy to gobble up.
Dir: Rudolf Ising
Cast: Gayne Whitman
BW-8 mins, CC


8:09 AM -- So You Want an Apartment (1948)
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes apartment hunting. Vitaphone Release 1613A.
Dir: Richard Bare
Cast: Jane Harker, Clifton Young, Mike Lally
BW-11 mins, CC


8:20 AM -- Mighty Niagara (1943)
This short film provides the viewer with breathtaking images of Niagara Falls.
Narrator: James A. FitzPatrick
C-9 mins


8:30 AM -- The Gunman (1952)
A Texas lawman tries to break up a New Mexico outlaw gang and bring the leader of the gang to trial back in Texas.
Dir: Lewis Collins
Cast: Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight, Rand Brooks
BW-52 mins

Based on a story by Fred Myton.


9:30 AM -- Mandrake, the Magician: Devil's Playmate (1939)
A 12-episode serial, with Mandrake the Magician taking on the masked crime lord known as the Wasp.
Dir: Norman Deming, Sam Nelson
Cast: Warren Hull, Doris Weston, Al Kikume
BW-17 mins,


10:00 AM -- Popeye: A Clean Shaven Man (1936)
Olive Oyl wants a clean shaven man, but the barber is unavailable.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel
Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wickie
BW-6 mins

George W. Geezil, the bearded East European salesman from the Thimble Theatre comic strip makes a rare appearance as Olive Oyl's new boyfriend at the end of this cartoon.


10:07 AM -- The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar's efforts to deliver a fortune in rare stamps are complicated by murder.
Dir: Jack Hively
Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle
BW-66 mins

This is the third of the five George Sanders "Saint" movies in which Wendy Barrie plays a different character.


11:30 AM -- The Backyard Broadcast (1936)
In this short film, a boy holds a talent show in his back yard by and for his adolescent friends. Vitaphone Release 2007-2008.
Dir: Joseph Henabery
Cast: Arnold Stone, Janet Dempsey, Yuyita Concheiro
BW-22 mins, CC

A part of the Broadway Brevities series.


12:00 PM -- Panic in the Streets (1950)
A killer evades the police not knowing he has a deadly plague.
Dir: Elia Kazan
Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
BW-96 mins

Winner of an Oscar for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story -- Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt

In the scene where Palance hits Widmark on the head with a gun, the actors rehearsed it with a rubber gun, but when the cameras rolled, Palance substituted a real gun. Widmark, who wasn't expecting it was out for twenty minutes. According to Widmark "Why did he switch? Who knows?" In a 1986 interview Widmark also recalled how Palance got into the mood of his character by beating on flunky Zero Mostel off-screen. A black and blue Mostel had to go to the hospital after his first week on the movie. "They had to soak him in epsom pads."


1:45 PM -- The Fly (1958)
A scientist's experiments with teleportation produce a deadly hybrid.
Dir: Kurt Neumann
Cast: Al Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price
C-94 mins, Letterbox

This became the biggest box-office of director Kurt Neumann's career, but he never knew it. He died a month after the premiere, and only a week before it went into general release.


3:30 PM -- 55 Days at Peking (1963)
An American major leads the defense against Chinese revolutionaries in 1900 Peking.
Dir: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven
C-154 mins, CC, Letterbox

Nominee for Oscars for Best Music, Original Song -- Dimitri Tiomkin (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) for the song "So Little Time", and Best Music, Score - Substantially Original -- Dimitri Tiomki

In China, at the time working as a professional mining engineer, future President of the United States, Herbert Hoover and his wife were civilians under siege at the foreign legations' compound. The future first Lady, Louise "Lou" Henry Hoover, collected shrapnel from Boxer artillery that is on display at the Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa. The Hoovers picked up Mandarin Chinese while in China and used it at the White House when they didn't want to be overheard.



6:15 PM -- When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1971)
Set in the ancient past when humans and dinosaurs lived together, a small tribe tries to survive by sacrificing a woman to their god in return for protection from the creatures that prey on them.
Dir: Val Guest
Cast: Victoria Vetri, Robin Hawdon, Patrick Allen
BW-100 mins, CC

A 27-word "caveman language" was devised for this movie, supposedly drawing on Phoenician, Latin, and Sanskrit sources. Some of the key words in this language are: "neecha" is "stop" or "come back"; "zak" is "gone" or "left"; "akita" is "look" or "see"; "neecro" is "bad" or "evil"; "m'kan" is "kill" or "killed"; "mata" is "dead"; "yo kita" is "go".



TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: CATTLE DRIVES



8:00 PM -- Red River (1948)
A young cowhand rebels against his rancher stepfather during a perilous cattle drive.
Dir: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
BW-133 mins, CC

Nominee for Oscars for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story -- Borden Chase, and Best Film Editing -- Christian Nyby

After seeing John Wayne's performance in the film, directed by rival director Howard Hawks, John Ford is quoted as saying, "I never knew the big son of a bitch could act." This led to Ford casting Wayne in more complex, multi-layered, and dramatic roles in films like She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), The Searchers (1956), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).


10:30 PM -- Cowboy (1958)
Real-life writer Frank Harris signs on as a ranch hand and learns the ropes from an experienced cowboy.
Dir: Delmer Daves
Cast: Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi
C-92 mins, CC

Nominee for an Oscar for Best Film Editing -- William A. Lyon and Al Clark

The typical cowboy in the Old West died at age 21 from a fall off his horse.


12:15 AM -- The Sniper (1952)
An unhappy man goes on a killing spree.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr
BW-88 mins, CC

Nominee for an Oscar for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story -- Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt

This movie marked director Edward Dmytryk's return to directing after being blacklisted and serving time in prison for contempt of court, when he refused to name names of his Communist associates to the House Un-American Activities Committee. As "punishment" for his earlier association with Communist groups, Dmytryk was assigned to direct Adolphe Menjou, who had been one of the most fervent supporters of HUAC in Hollywood. Despite their history of political differences, the two got along fairly well during filming.


2:00 AM -- Valmont (1989)
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.
Dir: Milos Forman
Cast: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly
BW-117 mins, CC

Nominee for an Oscar for Best Costume Design -- Theodor Pistek

Michelle Pfeiffer was offered the role of the Marquise de Merteuil at the same time she was offered the role as Madame de Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons (1988). The role in this film was given instead to Annette Bening.


4:15 AM -- Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer.
Dir: Robert Bresson
Cast: Maria Casarès, Elina Labourdette, Lucienne Bogaert
BW-86 mins

It is a modern adaptation of a section of Denis Diderot's Jacques the Fatalist (1796).


4:15 AM -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1950)
A collection of MGM previews with an introduction by Lionel Barrymore.
Dir: Herman Hoffman
C-57 mins