TCM Late Night…

Updated on April 6, 2012 By Ken Begg 9 Comments

TCM’s Friday late night cult movie slot has some interesting stuff tonight.

I’ve especially interested in The Gamma People (1:15 AM CST), as it’s a comparatively rare ’50s sci-fi flick I’ve never seen. Plot sounds similar to that of Bride of the Monster; mad scientist attempts to turn people into super-beings, although the process mostly results in them becoming imbeciles.

This is followed by the incredibly awesome Wild Wild Planet, imported from Italy and one of the series of Gamma 1 space station movies that ended with The Green Slime. This is maybe the craziest of the bunch, so give it a look.

Saturday:

8:15 AM Invisible Man Really one of the two or three best of the Universal classics.
9:45 Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood Another in the cheesy but fun BB series about an ex-safecracker who can never quite convince the cops that he’s gone straight
12:15 PM Larceny Inc. Comic gangster fun in which Edward G. Robinson stars as a mug who starts a luggage shop so he can pull off a bank heist. Great supporting cast, as you’d expect.
2:00 The Great Escape Can you ever see that too much?
Sunday

Religious themed films, as you expect, running all day:
Godspell, Song of Bernadette, Silver Chalice (Paul Newman’s first film and the one he always considered his worst), Barabbas, Easter Parade, King of Kings.

Enjoy!

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  • I’ll have to watch it again, but a few years ago I tracked down the VHS of THE GAMMA PEOPLE that I recall taunting me from the video shelves at the local WalMart in my youth. Seems like it might have been a bit draggy in spots, but wasn’t bad or anything. It seemed to fit well with the Quatermass/British science fiction pictures of the period. And Paul Douglas was a novel lead for a science fiction piece. I’ll have to pull out my tape and give it another go….

  • Gamera977

    The Gamera People???

    I have to second ‘Wild, Wild, Planet’- one of the most amazing, insane, totally bat-guano crazy movies I’ve ever seen. I need to pull out my DVD and watch it again.

  • The Rev.

    I caught it the last time TCM played it, probably around Hallowe’en.  My feelings are similar; not bad, but nothing great.  I did like the protagonist duo of the two-fisted American reporter and his prim and proper English reporter buddy, even though the latter was the comic relief (although I recall him not being odious, so there’s that.)

    I’ll need to catch WWP, apparently…

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I’m sorry, that still looks like “DEVO: The Early Years.”   Before they decided Pete Best looked too much like Ultraman.

  • zombiewhacker

    I’m miffed that I forgot to watch Raw Meat on TCM a few weeks back.  I’ve been wanting to catch that movie for, like, twenty years.

  • The Rev.

    That’s the second time they’ve played it on TCM Underground.  Perhaps they’ll play it again, although it could be a while.

    Not 20 years, mind…

  • zombiewhacker

    Have you seen it?  Was it any good?

  •  If you have Netflix, Raw Meat is on the instant service.

  • The Rev.

    No, it’s still sitting in my DVR along with many other things that I would like to get to someday.