TCM Schedule for Sunday, January 20 -- TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: OLE!

[Longhorn]

4:45am Blossoms In The Dust (1941)
True-life story of Edna Gladney, who fought for orphans' rights in Texas.
Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Marsha Hunt. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. C-100 mins, TV-G

6:30am Smashing The Money Ring (1939)
The Secret Service investigates a fleet of gambling ships.
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Eddie Foy, Jr., Margot Stevenson. Dir: Terry Morse. BW-57 mins, TV-G

7:30am Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
A British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland.
Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Loore. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-75 mins, TV-PG

9:00am Private Screenings: Patricia Neal (2004)
Patricia Neal discusses her career with TCM host Robert Osborne.
BW-40 mins, TV-PG

9:42am Short Film: From The Vaults: Pat Neal Is Back (1968)
C-8 mins

10:00am Fountainhead, The (1949)
An idealistic architect battles corrupt business interests and his love for a married woman.
Cast: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey. Dir: King Vidor. BW-113 mins, TV-PG

12:00pm Face In The Crowd, A (1957)
A female television executive turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau. Dir: Elia Kazan. BW-126 mins, TV-PG

2:15pm Indiscreet (1958)
A tycoon pretends to be married while courting a beautiful actress.
Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker. Dir: Stanley Donen. C-100 mins, TV-PG

4:00pm Father Goose (1964)
A WWII drifter finds himself protecting schoolgirls and their beautiful teacher.
Cast: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard. Dir: Ralph Nelson. C-116 mins, TV-G

6:00pm Love With The Proper Stranger (1964)
When a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a musician and a young girl try to resolve the issue together.
Cast: Steve McQueen, Natalie Wood, Tom Bosley. Dir: Robert Mulligan. BW-100 mins, TV-PG

7:51pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Seeing Spain (1953)
C-8 mins

What's On Tonight: TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: OLE!

8:00pm Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
An American takes up bullfighting to impress the ladies but learns to respect the sport.
Cast: Robert Stack, Joy Page, Gilbert Roland. Dir: Budd Boettcher. BW-125 mins, TV-G

10:15pm Fiesta (1947)
A Mexican beauty replaces her toreador brother in the bull ring so he can pursue his musical career.
Cast: Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Charisse. Dir: Richard Thorpe. C-102 mins, TV-PG

12:15am Sea Hawk, The (1924)
In this silent film, an English noble sold into slavery escapes and turns himself into a pirate king.
Cast: Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Wallace Beery. Dir: Frank Lloyd. BW-124 mins, TV-G

2:30am Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
A plantation owner's mail-order bride turns out to be a beautiful woman with murder on her mind.
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet. Dir: Francois Truffaut. C-123 mins, TV-14

4:45am Emperor Jones, The (1933)
When his subjects revolt, a Caribbean dictator looks back on the path that led to his downfall.
Cast: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Fredi Washington. Dir: Dudley Murphy. BW-76 mins, TV-14

[Longhorn]

1. Sorry this is late!

I don't know how many times I came to the board yesterday to post this and got distracted, usually by something on the board! :)

[Longhorn]

2. Father Goose (1964)

Suave, dapper Cary Grant, who had wanted for some time to play against type, had considered taking on the role of the aging poker player in The Cincinnati Kid (1965) that was eventually played by Edward G. Robinson. Instead Grant settled on Universal's Father Goose (1964) for his change of image, playing what screenwriter Peter Stone described as "a drunk, disgusting, irascible, misanthropic character." Grant himself elaborated: "I was a bum. I was all broken down, in jeans and a beard. It was me. After dressing so carefully for my films for so many years, I wanted to do the opposite."

The film is set during World War II on a remote South Sea Island, where Grant's character is coerced into becoming a lookout for the Australian Navy and taking on a pretty teacher (Leslie Caron) and her seven young female charges. Stone, who rewrote a script by Frank Tarloff (from a story by S. H. Barnett called A Place of Dragons), did not meet his fellow writer until the 1965 Academy Awards, when the team won Oscars for Best Original Screenplay. In his acceptance speech Stone said, "I want to thank Cary Grant, who keeps winning these things for other people." The movie also was nominated for Best Sound and Film Editing. Although ignored by Oscar, the film's theme song, "Pass Me By," with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, became a hit for Peggy Lee. Coleman has said that he based the song's tempo on Grant's jaunty walk.

Grant originally wanted Audrey Hepburn, his costar from Charade (1963), to play the comely schoolteacher. Caron, happy to be second choice, said of her costar: "Cary kept you on your toes. He electrified the set; You had to be as bright and brilliant as possible." Trevor Howard, playing a naval commander in the film, also was inspired by the star, even though the plot required that most of their communication be through radio. "Grant was always there on the set," Howard recalled. "If a line of comedy didn't work he'd immediately call up his writers to polish it up, and, consequently, I think I played some of my best comedy scenes in Father Goose."

Father Goose opened at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, where it broke a box office record established by Grant's Charade.

Producer: Robert Arthur
Director: Ralph Nelson
Screenplay: Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff, from story by S.H. Barnett
Art Direction: Henry Bumstead, Alexander Golitzen
Cinematography: Charles B. Lang
Costume Design: Ray Aghayan
Editing: Ted Kent
Original Music: Cy Coleman
Principal Cast: Cary Grand (Walter Eckland), Leslie Caron (Catherine Freneau), Trevor Howard (Commander Frank Houghton), Jack Good (Lieutenant Stebbins), Sharyl Locke (Jenny), Dickie Moore (Joseph Meister).
C-117m. Letterboxed. Closed captioning.

by Roger Fristoe

[Matilda]

3. I've never seen the original version of "The Man Who Knew Too Much".

Very early Hitchcock, and Peter Lorre's first film outside Germany. I wish they'd screen it here;
it's often interesting to see the early work of great directors, when they were still finding their
feet. And I'm a great fan of Peter Lorre.