Here’s some TCM stuff to munch on while I’m down in Texas hobnobbing with the hoi polloi. All times CST.
Consider this also an open thread.
Today, Wednesday March 21st
2:00 PM The Sandpiper Yay! Bad Liz & Dick! Dick is a priest who had an affair with Liz, thus shamelessly riding on the coattails of the couple’s affair during the making of Cleopatra.
4:15 AM Meteor As reviewed here!
Thursday, March 22nd
8:15 AM Godzilla, King of the Monsters
9:45 Magnetic Monster
11:15 Giant Behemoth (As opposed to…?)
12:45 PM X the Unknown (Neato-keen Brit blob movie)
2:15 The H-Man
3:45 Die, Monster, Die!
5:15 Them!
Friday, March 23rd
9:00 AM Anatomy of a Murder The greatest courtroom drama ever, featuring perhaps the greatest performance by America’s greatest screen actor, James Stewart.
11:45 North by Northwest One of those essential classics you just can’t see enough. Features the famous scene of Cary Grant being buzzed by a crop duster.
1:00 AM Horror Express Yay!
2:45 Raw Meat Sort of a CHUD in a subway.
Saturday, March 24th
9:45 AM Confessions of Boston Blackie TCM runs old detective movies every Saturday morning. This is the second of the Boston Blackie movies, programmers I’m rather fond of.
12:30 PM Baron of Arizona Vincent Price is a conman trying to grab control of the entire state of Arizona in this period western. Directed by Samuel Fuller (!).
1:00 AM Sweet November Not the gawdawful remake as reviewed here, but the gawdawful original from 1968, with 500% more hippie!
Sunday March 25th
7:00 PM Night and the City Classic film noir starring Richard Widmark.
9:00 Brute Force Terrific, hard-hitting prison flick starring Burt Lancaster. A classic of the genre.
Monday March 26th
7:15 AM The Star Hilarious Bette Davis show business soap with Ms. Davis as a fading star.
1:45 PM Zero Hour The disaster film Airplane! was based on.
4:45 Dr. Strangelove See this every single time you can.
Tuesday March 27th
7:00 PM Cape Fear The far superior original, starring Gregory Peck and an incredibly menacing Robert Mitchum.
11:00 Night of the Hunter Robert Mitchum’s greatest movie, and one of the screen’s great villains.
