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MORE outstanding movies on Turner Classic Movies - August Edition (all time Pacific)
Saturday August 23rd
10:00 am
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) western "film noir" crime drama staring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan with Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. Best Actor Oscar for Tracy. well acted by all involved and early work by both Borgnine and Marvin as Ryan's "henchmen"
10:30 pm
The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam Peckinpah's classic "ultra-violent" western staring William Holden, Robert Ryan and Ernest Borgnine with Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, Edmond O'Brien and Strother Martin. a "must see" for action-adventure fans. "oddles of ordnance"
Sunday August 24th
3:00 pm
The Roaring Twenties (1939) Prohibition era crime-drama staring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. a good addition to the "gangster" genre along with Cagney's The Public Enemy (1931), Edward G. Robinson's Little Caesar (1931) and Paul Muni's Scarface (1932) which are the big "three" of early "gangster"
5:00 pm
The Maltese Falcon (1941) classic "film noir" mystery staring Humphrey Bogart as private eye Sam Spade "taking up" with Mary Astor and being menaced by Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. important enough movie to be preserved in the Library of Congress National Film Registry it is still one of Bogey's best
Wednesday August 27th
3:00 am
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) the Victor Hugo classic staring Charles Laughton as Quasimodo and Maureen O'Hara as Esmeralda with Cedric Hardwicke as the evil Frollo, Thomas Mitchell as "King of Theives" Trouillefou, Edmond O'Brien as the writer Gringoire and Harry Davenport as King Louis XI. "tour de force" by Laughton and well acted by all involved
3:00 pm
White Heat (1949) more James Cagney "gangster" drama this time as the psychotic Cody Jarrett with Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. definate must for Cagney fans. "Made it, Ma! Top of the World!" end scene #18 on the AFI's Top 100 movie quotes
8:15 pm
Seven Days in May (1964) cold war era suspense drama stars Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Fredric March, with Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam, John Houseman and Hugh Marlowe. excellent political thriller well acted by all involved. Lancaster's character of General James Mattoon Scott was said to be based on right-wing Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay or the reactionary retired Army General Edwin A. Walker (or some of both)
Saturday August 23rd
10:00 am
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) western "film noir" crime drama staring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan with Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. Best Actor Oscar for Tracy. well acted by all involved and early work by both Borgnine and Marvin as Ryan's "henchmen"
10:30 pm
The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam Peckinpah's classic "ultra-violent" western staring William Holden, Robert Ryan and Ernest Borgnine with Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, Edmond O'Brien and Strother Martin. a "must see" for action-adventure fans. "oddles of ordnance"
Sunday August 24th
3:00 pm
The Roaring Twenties (1939) Prohibition era crime-drama staring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. a good addition to the "gangster" genre along with Cagney's The Public Enemy (1931), Edward G. Robinson's Little Caesar (1931) and Paul Muni's Scarface (1932) which are the big "three" of early "gangster"
5:00 pm
The Maltese Falcon (1941) classic "film noir" mystery staring Humphrey Bogart as private eye Sam Spade "taking up" with Mary Astor and being menaced by Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. important enough movie to be preserved in the Library of Congress National Film Registry it is still one of Bogey's best
Wednesday August 27th
3:00 am
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) the Victor Hugo classic staring Charles Laughton as Quasimodo and Maureen O'Hara as Esmeralda with Cedric Hardwicke as the evil Frollo, Thomas Mitchell as "King of Theives" Trouillefou, Edmond O'Brien as the writer Gringoire and Harry Davenport as King Louis XI. "tour de force" by Laughton and well acted by all involved
3:00 pm
White Heat (1949) more James Cagney "gangster" drama this time as the psychotic Cody Jarrett with Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. definate must for Cagney fans. "Made it, Ma! Top of the World!" end scene #18 on the AFI's Top 100 movie quotes
8:15 pm
Seven Days in May (1964) cold war era suspense drama stars Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Fredric March, with Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam, John Houseman and Hugh Marlowe. excellent political thriller well acted by all involved. Lancaster's character of General James Mattoon Scott was said to be based on right-wing Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay or the reactionary retired Army General Edwin A. Walker (or some of both)
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