This Week on TCM…

Updated on March 21, 2012 By Ken Begg 4 Comments

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.

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  • The Rev.

    Crap, I missed The Sandpiper and no one’s home (or can get home) to record it.  Ah well, not like my DVR isn’t already stuffed…

    Anyone who hasn’t caught X the Unknown should make an effort to do so.  Good stuff.  (I’m assuming we’ve all seen Godzilla and Them!, and probably several times each.)

  • Capt Nemo

    Oh, YEAH!!!

    I’m all over watching ZERO HOUR.

    Some of the things I’ve read about the movie suggest that there were scenes that the Zucker Brothers SHOULD have lambasted but didn’t. Like a creepy guy with a hand puppet.

  • ZERO HOUR was a great little movie, I just wish I could scrub the memory of AIRPLANE! from my mind whenever I sit down to enjoy the Dana Andrews classic. That’s not to say that AIRPLANE! isn’t a certified classic and brilliant, but I think it has crippled ZERO HOUR, which is a fine little epic on it’s own. Fortunately, the earlier film retains enough of its own power that the last half is usually just as tense and dramatic as intended. I just wish I could watch the first half without comparing the two versions in my head.

    NORTH BY NORTHWEST, well, there you go.

    I’d champion THE MAGNETIC MONSTER, despite it’s obscurity. Good premise, straight science fiction piece, and featuring the magnificent voice of Richard Carlson. Yes, it plays like a feature compiled from a failed teleseries, but a dandy flick just the same.

    X THE UNKNOWN, also gets my vote. The Brits really outdid themselves with that one, would make a nice double feature with ENEMY FROM SPACE.

    I seem to be in the minority on STRANGELOVE, being more of a FAIL-SAFE! guy. Every time I watch DR. STRANGELOVE, all I can see is a sadly missed opportunity to make a really scary drama. I keep wishing I could edit the film into a straight shocker about an hour or so long. Oh, well, at least there IS an alternative in the form of FAIL-SAFE! to enjoy.

  • Monoceros4

    Anatomy of a Murder might be one of the least sentimental courtroom movies around. It does lapse a couple times into the sort of misty-eyed idealism about the justice system that affects many such movies, but for the most part it’s cynical as all hell: there’s never any doubt about who’s guilty, just about whether Jimmy Stewart’s clever enough to make his shaky insanity defense stick.