TCM in October Part 2

Updated on September 29, 2010 By Ken Begg 3 Comments

All times CENTRAL standard time

Oct 8th Friday
5:00 AM The Criminal Code Early prison movie starring Walter Huston, and co-starring a pre-Frankenstein Boris Karloff.
7:00 PM Plague of the Zombies One of the last gasps of the tradition zombies, and a pretty good flick
8:45 The Devil’s Bride
10:30 The Reptile
12:15 AM The Gorgon
1:45 Let’s Kill Uncle Hard to see suspenser from William Castle
3:30 13 Frightened Girls Ditto to the above, only this one’s on DVD at least. Stars Murray Hamilton, the Mayor in Jaws, as the romantic lead.

Oct 10th Sunday
7:00 AM The Fallen Idol Neat Carol “The Third Man” Reed suspenser about a butler suspected of murder due a lad who hero-worships him.
11:00 AM Notorious One of the great Hitchcocks, with Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains.
1:00 PM Dr. Strangelove One of the 100 greatest movies ever
3:00 Sleeper Rare still-funny early Woody Allen movie
11:00 The Unknown Silent film with Lon Chaney as a killer hiding in a sideshow.
12:15 Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces A documentary on the great star

Oct 11th Monday
7:00 PM The Big Sleep Bogart’s other great detective movie

Oct 12th Tuesday
9:00 PM The Best Years of Our Lives Still one of the great movies about soldiers returning home after a war.

Oct 13th Wednesday
7:00 The General Simply marvelous Keaton silent film, featuring some of the greatest stunts ever

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  • BeckoningChasm

    I wonder how well Sleeper hold up. I mean, I haven’t seen it since (cough) it was in theatres, so I wonder how “70’s” it is.

    I still half-remember a great line from it, two doctors discussing Woody’s job as a health food store owner. “People back then thought that chocolate, steak and other such foods were bad for you–exactly the opposite of what we now know to be true.”

  • Reed

    Bogart is my favorite actor, and The Big Sleep is my favorite movie of his. It helps that Raymond Chandler is one of my top 5 favorite authors. Most of my friends (OK, both of them that will watch old movies) prefer The Maltese Falcon, but I think that The Big Sleep is the superior movie. I also find it endlessly fascinating as a reminder of what American views on pornography used to be like.

  • The Rev.

    Kind of a tangent, but recently TCM played What’s Up, Tiger Lily? I had never seen it, but was surprised to find it has held up pretty well; I laughed quite a few times during it. I will say that the scenes of Woody (real and animated) checking out young Asian women took on a patina of skeevyness that wouldn’t have been present back then, but that’s hardly the movie’s fault. I was also pleasantly surprised to see that several actors recognizable from Toho’s sci-fi films were in the original movie. Naturally, I was then pissed that they’d presented the movie as having a “no-star cast” or somesuch…

    Anyway, I think I will probably check out Sleeper now because of this; maybe it too held up well.