Reminder: This Weekend on TCM

Updated on October 7, 2010 By Ken Begg 13 Comments

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

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  • Heli

    If I might make a suggestion; adding a hyphen or semicolon or something in between the movie titles and your comments would avoid some confusion, at least for me.

    “Let’s Kill Uncle Hard” does sound kind of interesting, though.

  • The Rev.

    Oooo, The Unknown. I rather enjoyed that the last time they ran it. I think everyone should catch it; not only is it a fun little movie, and not only does it feature some surprisingly gruesome ideas for a movie of that vintage, but it is utterly astounding to see just how many things Chaney taught himself to do with only his feet, which I’m sure he did just for that role. His dedication to his craft was mind-boggling.

  • Good idea, Heli. Thanks!

  • Not-So-Great Cthulhu

    “The Devil’s Bride” (aka “The Devil Rides Out”) is a pretty good flick. One of the seemingly few times that Christopher Lee played the good guy.

  • BeckoningChasm

    Was “The Serpent and the Rainbow” a traditional zombie film? I’ve not seen it so I don’t know. Perhaps it’s naught more than pretentious booshwah.

  • Not-So-Great Cthulhu

    BC – It’s been a while since I’ve seen “The Serpent and the Rainbow”, but if I recall correctly the zombies in the movie were people under the influence of a voodoo drug and not corpses reanimated by voodoo. There were supernatural elements to the voodoo, though.

    So, I suppose that they were traditional zombies in that they were portrayed in a semi-realistic fashion (aside from the whole supernatural overtones, that is).

  • I’d say they’re old school because they are souls trapped under the thumb of an exploiter. That is classic zombieism, as opposed to the flesh-eating walking dead ala Romero.

  • Gamera

    ‘The Gorgon’ is another heroic Christopher Lee as well. Maybe it’s not one of Hammer’s best but I like it for being one of the few films along with ‘Clash of the Titans’ of having a medusa as a villianess.

    Thanks for the reminder on ‘The Serpent and the Rainbow’. I prefer voodoo zombies over the radiation ones but had completly forgotten about this movie after seeing it twenty years ago.

  • Rock Baker

    Well, The Fallen Idol sounds interesting. Anyone know if it ever hit video?

    Recently saw Lee in The Crimson Cult, which turned out much better than I expected. The Gorgon was an interesting movie, one of the frightfully few times that a movie managed to workably mix mythology and science fiction themes. Sometimes I really have to give the Brits a hand. Seems like The Reptile covered similar ground, but I haven’t seen that one in ages.

    I’ll second the good vibe for Plague of the Zombies. Picked up the laserdisc a few years ago and was very impressed. Been a while since I’ve watched it (have to fix that!), but it seems they had one of the best mass-zombies-rising-from-their-graves sequences I’ve ever seen.

  • Criterion released a DVD of Fallen Idol just in the last year or two. Also, Night Trail to Munich and, of course, about a zillion releases of The Third Man. So Carol Reed is well represented there.

    Here’s a third vote for Plague of the Zombies. It’s very good.

  • zombiewhacker

    Never saw Fallen Idol before, but I know it’s from the makers of The Third Man (Greene and Reed). I’m psyched about this one.

  • zombiewhacker

    Great news via TCM’s Robert Osborne: Christopher Lee has a new Hammer Films movie coming out, The Resident, co-starring Hilary Swank.

  • Rock Baker

    When did Hammer reform? I thought they dissolved by the 80s. Maybe I was wrong about that. Either way, a new Hammer flick with Lee? Hot dog! (Its just too bad Cushing is long gone, I was always more a fan of his than of Lee’s.)