TCM Schedule for Monday July 24, 2023 - Dive In Theater

[rdmtimp]

Lots of moon in the daytime, while everybody goes swimming at night.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am Garden of the Moon (1938)
1h 33m | Comedy | TV-G
A nightclub owner and a bandleader compete for the lead singer's heart.
Director: Busby Berkeley. Cast: Pat O'brien, Margaret Lindsay, John Payne

8:00 am Suicide Squadron (1942)
1h 33m | Drama | TV-PG
A Polish flyer struggles to regain his memory so he can return to the fight against the Nazis.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst. Cast: Anton Walbrook, Sally Gray, Derrick De Marney

10:00 am New Moon (1940)
1h 45m | Musical | TV-PG
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Jeanette Macdonald, Nelson Eddy, Mary Boland

12:00 pm Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
1h 52m | Musical | TV-G
Song-filled look behind the scenes of vaudeville, based on the lives of Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
Director: David Butler. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson

2:00 pm By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
1h 42m | Musical | TV-PG
A small-town girl's love life goes ballistic when her sweetheart returns from World War I..
Director: David Butler. Cast: Doris Day, Gordon Macrae, Leon Ames

3:45 pm The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
2h 3m | Comedy | TV-PG
An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.
Director: Daniel Mann. Cast: Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo

6:00 pm The Stalking Moon (1968)
1h 49m | Western | TV-G
A retired Army scout protects a woman from her son's vicious Native father.
Director: Robert Mulligan. Cast: Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster

8:00 pm Easy to Love (1953)
1h 36m | Musical | TV-G
Two men vie for the heart of a Cypress Gardens swimming star.
Director: Charles Walters. Cast: Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin

10:00 pm Bathing Beauty (1944)
1h 41m | Musical | TV-G
A songwriter enrolls in an all-girl school to court a pretty gym teacher.
Director: George Sidney. Cast: Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone

12:00 am The Swimmer (1968)
1h 34m | Drama | TV-14
A tortured man reflects on past mistakes while "swimming" home through his neighbors' pools.
Director: Frank Perry. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule

2:00 am Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
1h 42m | Adventure | TV-G
Love brings together two families of rival sponge fishers.
Director: Robert D. Webb. Cast: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland

4:00 am You Said a Mouthful (1932)
1h 15m | Comedy | TV-G
To sell his unsinkable bathing suit, an inventor passes himself off as a championship swimmer.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, Preston S. Foster

5:30 am MGM Parade Show #6 (1955)
25m | Documentary | TV-G
Greta Garbo performs in a clip from "Anna Christie"; Robert Taylor introduces a clip from "Quentin Durward". Hosted by George Murphy.
Cast: George Murphy, Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo

[BigmanPigman]

1. I watched The Swimmer about a year ago and it was very confusing.

Even after I read about the film I was still confused. The flashbacks and everything are a time warp of symbolism. I was impressed that Burt Lancaster had to learn how to swim in order to make the film.

"Well-off ad man Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster) is visiting a friend when he notices the abundance of backyard pools that populate their upscale suburb. Ned suddenly decides that he'd like to travel the eight miles back to his own home by simply swimming across every pool in town. Soon, Ned's journey becomes harrowing; at each house, he is somehow confronted with a reminder of his romantic, domestic and economic failures, until a final visit with an old flame (Janice Rule) leaves him devastated."

[Auggie]

2. The plot has always sounded ridiculously contrived to me

Admittedly, I haven't seen the film. One of these days I will ... out of curiosity.