MORE outstanding movies on TCM (July Edition)

Turner Classic Movies (all times pacific)

Tuesday July 1st
8:00 pm The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
the Victor Hugo classic stars Charles Laughton as Quasimodo, Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the evil Frollo and Maureen O'Hara as Esmeralda with Edmond O'Brien as the poet Gringoire, Thomas Mitchell "King of the Beggars" and Harry Davenport as King Louis XI. "tour de force" by Laughton and well acted by all involved

10:15 pm How Green Was My Valley (1941)
this depiction of the hard life of Welsh coal mining families stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara and Donald Crisp. early work by child star Roddy McDowall. two of the more interesting characters in the story are Rhys Williams as the Boxer Dai Bando and Barry Fitzgerald as his "trainer" Cyfartha. excellent drama worth watching for the acting. is somewhat a "tour de force" for McDowell as the young Huw Morgan

Friday July 4th
8:00 pm Sergeant York (1941)
story of the life of WWI hero Alvin York from eastern Tennessee stars Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan with Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Ward Bond and Noah Beery, Jr. Best Actor Oscar for Cooper and Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for Walter Brennan

10:30 pm The Fighting 69th (1940)
based on the true life exploits of New York City's mostly Irish 69th Infantry Regiment stars James Cagney and Pat O'Brien with George Brent and Alan Hale.

Saturday July 5th
12:15 am Dawn Patrol (1938)
WWI flying movie stars Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone and David Niven with Donald Crisp and Barry Fitzgerald. pretty "sappy" in spots but his excellent flying scenes

2:15 am Wings (1927)
the Howard Hughes WWI aviation silent classic staring William A. Clara Bow, Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen. one of Gary Cooper's early film rolls. first ever winner of the Best Picture Oscar. kind of "sappy" BUT worth watching for the flying scenes

3:00 pm Guys And Dolls (1955)
not usually as Broadway musical fan BUT Frank Loesser's music with Damon Runyon's New York mob characters has oodles of great tunes. stars Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra with Vivian Blaine and Stubby Kaye. I think most gamblers will enjoy it.

8:00 pm Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
10:30 pm The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
two excellent Elizabeth Taylor and Richard movies, one serious drama the other light comedy. they are both worth watching for Taylor & Burton fans

Tuesday July 8th
6:15 am Little Caesar (1930)
one of the first ever "gangster" movies  that made Edward G. Robinson a star playing Enrico Bandello. one of the three "must see" movies of the genre along with James Cagney's The Public Enemy (1931) and Paul Muni's Scarface (1932)

Friday July 11th
four of the BEST "anti-war" movies of all time
8:00 pm Paths Of Glory (1957)
stars Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou and George Macready with Ralph Meeker and Wayne Morris. plot is based on an actual incident within the French Army during WWI. powerful acting by all involved
 
9:45 pm All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
this film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's pacifist novel staring Lew Ayres as Paul Baumer, Louis Wolheim as "Kat" Katczinsky and John Wray as Corporal Himmelstoss is considered by many to be THE best anti-war movie of all time

Saturday July 12th
3:00 am Westfront 1918 (1930)
German film of life and death in the WWI trenches is very similar to All Quiet On The Western Front. many of it's scenes are even more disturbing than the classic

4:45 am Kameradschaft (aka Comradeship) (1931) depicts German miners trying to save French miners trapped and in danger from a fire in the French side of a mine seperated by the German-French post WWI border. strong anti-nationalist message that ALL workers need to help each other regardless of country
 
1:30 pm The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
stars Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden, Ann-Margret and Tuesday Weld with Joan Blondell, Rip Torn and Cab Calloway. definately one of the GREAT poker themed gambling movies of all time
 
5:15 pm Bound For Glory (1976)
biographical movie about the life of country-folk singer and social activist Woody Guthrie stars David Carradine as Guthrie and Ronny Cox as "Ozark Bule" (based on the real life folk singer-activist Pete Seeger) with Melinda Dillon as Guthrie's singing partner Memphis Sue and Randy Quaid as farm worker organizer Luther Johnson. well acted by all and an excellent telling of Guthrie's story   

Monday July 14th
2:00 am Throne of Blood (1957)
Akira Kurosawa's telling of the Macbeth story set in feudal Japan. stars Toshiro Mifune as Samurai commander Washizu (Macbeth) and Isuzu Yamada as his wife Asaji (Lady Macbeth). one of Kurosawa's and Mifune's best along with Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961). definate "must see" for Kurosawa and Mifune fans. Kurosawa's  cinematography is still studied by film students

(all times pacific) correction on the times. SHOULD be all times Eastern

THIS time all times PACIFIC

Tuesday July 15th

5:45 am The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) biography of the great  French scientist's battle to establish modern medical methods staring Paul Muni in the title roll

12:00 noon A Dispatch From Reuters (1940) biography of Paul Reuter who started and built famous worldwide news agency staring  Edward G. Robinson as Reuter

Thursday July 17th

9:00 pm Scarface (1932) it's Paul Muni as Italian Tony Camonte peddling bootleg booze during "The Roaring 20's" instead of Al Pacino as Cuban Tony Montana smuggling drugs during the "Coked Up 80's" with Ann Dvorak, George Raft, and Boris Karloff. the movie was a thinly veiled biography of Al Capone (who liked it so much he had his own personal copy). worth recording for comparison to the 1983 version. was one of the three movies including Edward G. Robinson's Little Caesar (1930) and James Cagney's The Public Enemy (1931) that launched the "Gangster" genre in Hollywood.

it is immediately followed by the 1983 Pacino version @ 11:00 pm pacific

Friday July 18th "WWI themed movies night"

5:00 pm Lawrence of Arabia (1962) biography of British officer T. E. Lawrence, played by Peter O'Toole,  adventures during WWI in Arabia with Alec Guinness,  Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif and Jose Ferrer. rated one of the great "epic" films of all time. won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography Oscars with a Best Actor nomination for O'Toole and Best Supporting Actor nomination for Sharif

9:00 pm Gallipoli (1981) Australian movie about the disastrous British invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula during WWI using mostly Australian and New Zealand "ANZAC" troops in an attempt to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war. early work by Mel Gibson as one of the Australian sprinters used as message runners during the battle. along with Breaker Morant (1980) about Australian troopers in the Boer War, it is one of the best Australian war movies ever.

Saturday July 19th

2:45 pm Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) with Gregory Peck in the title roll. I read all the C. S. Forester Hornblower novels when I was a kid so naturally this movie is a personal favorite. it is a great British naval adventure in the age of Lord Nelson well acted by all involved.

Sunday July 20th

3:00 am Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) movie about the planning and execution of the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April 1942. stars Spencer Tracy as LtCol James "Jimmy" Doolittle with Van Johnson and Robert Mitchum as two of the "Tokyo Raider" pilots. obviously a very inspirational patriotic film at that time. the raid didn't do much damage to the Japanese BUT their over-reaction in trying to attack and invade Midway Island in June of 1942 and their defeat in that battle changed the tide of the War in the Pacific.

Tuesday July 22nd

8:30 pm McLintock! (1963) comedy western with John Wayne as cattle baron and all around "wild man" "G.W." McLintock and Maureen O'Hara as his long suffering wife Katie. fun movie with plenty of laughs and something different from the usual John Wayne western

Wednesday July 23rd

12:30 am The Wings of Eagles (1957) more John Wayne as early Naval Aviator Frank "Spig" Wead who became a movie and play writer after being paralyzed in a freak accident. all star cast with Maureen O'Hara as his wife Min along with Dan Dailey and Ward Bond. it is a pretty good depiction of early history of Naval Aviation and there is a lot of comedy in the early Army vs Navy fights to see which service would be THE military aviation branch of the Armed Services.

2:30 am The Long Gray Line (1955) somewhat fictionalized of the life of long time Irish immigrant enlisted man Marty Maher who spent 50 years in service at the Military Academy at West Point. stars Tyrone Power as Maher and Maureen O'Hara as his wife Mary O'Donnell with Donald Crisp as "Himself", Martin's father and Ward Bond as Captain Koehler the USMA "Master of the Sword" (athletic director). has Peter Graves in an early roll as Corporal Rudy Heinz who is somewhat of rival of Maher's. was well acted by all involved and a very patriotic "recruiting poster" for West Point

5:00 pm Lawrence of Arabia (1962) biography of British officer T. E. Lawrence, played by Peter O'Toole,  adventures during WWI in Arabia with Alec Guinness,  Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif and Jose Ferrer. rated one of the great "epic" films of all time. won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography Oscars with a Best Actor nomination for O'Toole and Best Supporting Actor nomination for Sharif

9:00 pm Gallipoli (1981) Australian movie about the disastrous British invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula during WWI using mostly Australian and New Zealand "ANZAC" troops in an attempt to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war. early work by Mel Gibson as one of the Australian sprinters used as message runners during the battle. along with Breaker Morant (1980) about Australian troopers in the Boer War, it is one of the best Australian war movies ever.

Thanks Rink. Great calls.

.....Gallipoli drove Churchil to drink....obvious reasons.

He made up for that call.

recently watched The World Wars mini-series on The History Channel about how WWI and the period between the wars effected Hitler, Stalin, FDR and Churchill as WWII leaders. everyone thought Churchill was dead in British politics after the Gallipoli disaster

think it is BRILLIANT for TCM to show the 1932 Paul Muni Scarface immediately followed by the 1983 Al Pacino version.

wish they had done that with the 1930 All Quiet On The Western Front followed by the 1979 Richard Thomas as Paul Baumer, Ernest Borgnine as "Kat" Katczinsky and Ian Holm as Himmelstoss version which in some ways is better and even more terrifying than the original. Holm greatly expands the part of Himmelstoss when he finally arrives at the front and how he is transformed from the stiff martinet into a pretty good soldatin

Saturday July 19th @     
missed listing Spencer Tracy's Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) . excellent action-thriller with Robert Ryan, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. good guy Tracy vs nasty baztards Ryan, Borgnine and Marvin. Best  Actor Oscar for Tracy. plays @ 1:15 pm pacific

Sunday July 20th
The Night Of The Hunter (1955) listed as one of most suspenseful movies ever it stars Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. "tour de force" by Mitchum as serial killer Reverend Harry Powell. his character is still listed @ #29 on the AFI Top 50 Villians list. one really scary azz movie.  plays @ 3:00 pm pacific

Wednesday July 23rd
Bullitt (1968) the Steve McQueen classic crime-action movie with one of the greatest car chase scenes ever also stars Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset featuring Don Gordon as Bullitt's partner Delgetti along with Paul Genge and Bill Hickman as the two hit men. probably McQueen's most famous movie roll. plays @ 5:00 pm pacific

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) one of Humphrey Bogart's best as down on his luck American in Mexico Fred C. Dobbs who along with partner Curtin played by Tim Holt team up with an old  prospector Howard played by Walter Huston to look for a legendary lost gold mine in the Sierra Madre mountains. famous for it's "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' Badges!" line which is #36 on AFI's Top 100 Movie Quotes. plays @ 7:15 pm pacific

somehow missed this one in the last update >>>

Tuesday July 22nd @ 12:30 am pacific time
Witness For The Prosecution (1958) staring Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Marlene Dietrich and Tyrone Power. great courtroom mystery-drama from the Agatha Christie hit play with a crazy "twist" at the end. pretty much a "tour de force" by Laughton. listed @ #6 in AFI's Top 10 courtroom dramas and a definite "must see" for fans of that genre

all times pacific

Saturday July 26th
Julius Caesar (1953) excellent film adaptation of the Shakespeare play with Marlon Brando as Mark Antony, James Mason as Brutus, John Gielgud as Cassius, Louis Calhern as Julius Caesar and Edmond O'Brien as Casca. Brando, who was notorious as "The Mumbler" in other works, actually enunciates quite clearly as Anthony. good introduction to Shakespeare. plays @ 3:00 am

Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang's silent epic science-fiction classic is STILL one of the all time great movies of that genre. the FX is outstanding esp the scene where the robot or "maschinenmensch" is transformed into a double of the heroine Maria. the old German silent actors like Alfred Abel as Industrialist Joh Fredersen, Gustav Frohlich as his son Freder, Brigitte Helm as Maria. Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Rotwang, the scientist and inventor of the robot, Heinrich George as Grot the foreman and Theodor Loos as Josaphat the fired executive really knew how to act for effect before the age of sound. well worth watching to see what REAL SciFi with an actuasl plot is about compared to some of the recent tripe playing. plays @ 5:00 pm

The Mummy (1932) classic horror staring Boris Karloff as the re-animated Egyptian priest Imhotep infatuated with Zita Johann who he believes to be the reincarnation of his lover the Princess Ankh-es-en-Amon. one of the three great horror movies of the early 1930's along with Karloff's Frankenstein and Bela Lugosi's Dracula. plays @ 9:45 pm

Sunday July 27th
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) the James Dean classic with Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Nick Adams and Dennis Hopper. one of the three movies along with East of Eden (1955) and Giant (1956) that made Dean a Hollywood film legend. plays @ 1:00 pm

Monday July 28th
with the recent passing to James Garner, TCM is playing 12 of his movies in a row starting with Toward The Unknown (1956) @ 3:00 am and ending with Marlowe (1969) @ 1:30 am Tuesday July 28th. #5 is a personal favorite The Wheeler Dealers (1963) with Garner as Texas oil man ("wheeler dealer")  Henry Tyroon, Lee Remick as his love interest stockbroker Molly Thatcher, Jim Backus as Molly's sexist boss. Phil Harris, Chill Wills and Charles Watts as Henry's three Texan partners Ray Jay, Jay Ray and J.R. with Louis Nye as Stanislas the "art wrangler" and John Astin as SEC regulator Vanson who is trying to nail Tyroon for stock fraud. a VERY funny "screwball" comedy and definately worth recording. plays @ 11:15 am