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think these are all worth watching or recording. all times pacific

Friday June 5th

@ 9:45am / High Sierra (1941) Humphrey Bogart classic "film noir" robbery movie directed by Raoul Walsh co-stars Ida Lupino. notable as the breakthrough in Bogart's career, transforming him from supporting player to leading man.

@ 11:30am / The Maltese Falcon (1941) another Humphrey Bogart classic "film noir" crime drama directed by John Huston co-stars Mary Astor and launched both Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet as two of the great "menacing villains" of that era

Saturday June 6th

@ 12:30am (just past midnight June 5th) / L.A. Confidential (1997) "neo-noir" "police corruption" crime drama. was a "breakout" film for Australian actors Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe who were relatively unknown in Hollywood at the time. also stars Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito and Kim Basinger, who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, with James Cromwell and David Strathairn. has an unbelievable 99% "Certified Fresh" rating from Rotten Tomatoes and I agree. in addition to Basinger Oscar win and the Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Oscar, was also nominated for Best Picture and Best Director

@ 11:00am / 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 Clopin, King of the Beggars, Edmond O'Brien as the poet and playwright Gringoire and Harry Davenport as King Louis XI. definitely worth watching at least once in your life for the Hugo story and excellent acting by this all-star cast

Sunday June 7th

@ 1:00pm / Gentleman's Agreement (1947) Elia Kazan directed drama about antisemitism stars Gregory Peck with John Garfield and Celeste Holm. Best Picture Oscar along with Best Supporting Actress for Holm and Director for Kazan. nomination for Peck as Best Actor. worth seeing at least once.

@ 5:00pm / Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) the Steven Spielberg directed sci-fi staring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon and Teri Garr has spectacular special effects before the current age of modern CGI. yet again another unbelievable 96% "Certified Fresh" from Rotten Tomatoes and I would agree. a great film for the whole family

@ 7:30pm / The Thing From Another World (1951) the original black & white "The Thing" sci-fi  "B-movie" with  James "Marshal Dillon" Arness as The Thing was later re-made by John Carpenter in 1982 with Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley and Donald Moffat. worth watching for comparison of the two stories

@ 11:30pm / Rashomon (1951) the Akira Kurosawa Japanese classic stars Toshiro Mifune (Kurosawa's best known leading man), Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori and Takashi Shimura tells the story of four different people seeing a crime all from a different perspective and all with different stories for a judge. has been used as a plot line for various plays and films most notably the 1964 Paul Newman film The Outrage

Monday June 8th

@ 3:00am / Dive Bomber (1941) early Technicolor Naval Aviation drama starring Errol Flynn and Fred MacMurray has an interesting aeromedical research plot and some outstanding flying scenes. any Errol Flynn fan will like this one and it's a nice change from his usual "swashbucklers"

@ 7:45am / Gentleman Jim (1942) autobiographical movie about heavyweight boxing champion James J. Corbett with Errol Flynn in the title roll along with  Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, William Frawley, and Ward Bond. good movie for those into boxing history

@ 3:30pm / The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) a relatively unknown and I think under appreciated VERY funny comedy starring Jack Benny with the lovely Alexis Smith and Guy Kibbee. Allyn Joslyn and John Alexander are hilarious as the two "fallen angels" Osidro and Doremus. you want a good hour and 20 minutes of laughs, watch or record this one

@ 9:30pm / Saboteur (1942) early Alfred Hitchcock spy thriller has his signature twisted plot and excellent suspense. stars Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane with Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans and Norman Lloyd as the Saboteurs out to silence them after they discover their plot. IF you like Hitchcock you will like this one

Tuesday June 9th

@ 11:30am / To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) the Nelle Harper Lee novel is a "tour de force" for Gregory Peck in the roll of defense lawyer and single father Atticus Finch with Mary Badham and Phillip Alford and his childern "Scout" and "Jem". early work by Robert Duvall as "Boo" Radley, Brock Peters as accused black rapist Tom Robinson and Frank Overton as Sheriff Heck Tate. Best Actor Oscar for Peck along with the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Supporting Actress for Mary Badham and Best Music Score. API STILL ranks Atticus Finch as the #1 Hero of all time in film.

@ 5:00pm / Going In Style (1979) VERY funny comedy about three old geezers, Joe, Al and Willie played by George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg living in borderline poverty in a New York City cold water flat who decide to do a bank robbery to break their monotony. fast paced 95 minutes with oodles of laughs and a couple interesting "twists" in the plot. WAY under-rated and relatively unknown comedy really worth seeing at least once

@ 8:45pm / Dog Day Afternoon (1975) crime drama based on an actual Brooklyn, NY bank robbery star Al Pacino and John Cazale with Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick and Lance Henriksen. "tour de force" by Pacino and won the Oscar for Original Screenplay and was nominated for  Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Pacino), Best Supporting Actor (Sarandon) and Best Film Editing

@ 11:00pm / Mean Streets (1973) NYC "mob movie" directed by Martin Scorsese with early work by Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro with David Proval, Amy Robinson and Richard Romanus. a "breakthrough" movie for Scorsese, Keitel and De Niro it hold a 98% "Certified Fresh" from Rotten Tomatoes and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1997.

Wednesday June 9th
@ 10:15pm / The Outlaw (1943) the Howard Hughes "boobies western" staring Jane Russell showing off her ample rack. famous for Hughes's fight with the Hollywood Production Code Administration over getting the film released as depicted in the 2004 biographical drama The Aviator staring Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes

ENJOY, Guys & Gals. for more Turner Classic Movies you can check their site @ https://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=PST&sdate=2015-06-04 and just change the date and time zone for your area

OOPS!!! three I overlooked

Saturday June 6th

@ 5:00am / The Wings of Eagles (1957) biographical movie based on the life of early Naval Aviator Frank "Spig" Wead covers the history of U.S. Naval aviation from its inception through World War II. stars John Wayne as Wead and Maureen O'Hara his wife Minnie, or "Min" along with Dan Dailey as his loyal enlisted mechanic "Jughead" Carson and Ward Bond as Hollywood producer-director John Dodge (based on Wayne's good friend director John Ford). has some really funny scenes early of Army vs Navy Avialton rivalry back in the 1920's esp between Wead and Army Air Corps Captain Herb Hazard (based on Jimmy Doolittle and played by Kenneth Tobey). this movie was a favorite of mine when I was a little kid and I can't pass it up when it is on. worth watching IF you are into John Wayne, aviation history ot just enjoy a good "yarn"

@ 5:00pm / The Man Who Would Be King (1975) from the Rudyard Kipling novel about two rogue former British Army NCO's in India out to make a penny or pound with any scheme they can. stars Sean Connery and Michael Caine as Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan the two NCO's with Christopher Plummer as Rudyard Kipling and Saeed Jaffrey as Billy Fish their loyal Gurkha confederate . good action movie with a lot of comic scenes too. worth recording if you like "period pieces". has some spectacular cinematography

@ 7:30pm / The Jungle Book (1942) Technicolor fantasy action-adventure film based on the Rudyard Kipling novel of the same name about a wild boy Mowgli raised by wolves played by Indian actor Sabu who is brought back home but has a hard time re-adjusting after being free in the Jungle. fun adventure that runs a short 1 hour 15 minutes. a good telling of one of  Rudyard Kipling's most famous books.

1941 was a great year for Bogey, that's for sure

Thank You, The Hawk

do NOT think I have EVER seen a "bad" Bogart movie. even his Across the Pacific (1942) WWII spy thriller with Mary Astor as Bogie's love interest and Sydney Greenstreet at his best "menacing villain" self was pretty good BUT a bit "slow". too bad it didn't have Peter Lorre too.

another under-rated Bogie is his last movie The Harder They Fall (1956) about the crookedness and corruption in boxing back in the 1950's with an excellent supporting cast of Rod Steiger, Edward Andrews, Nehemiah Persoff and former boxer Jersey Joe Walcott. it is a definite "must see" for Bogie or boxing fans. the story based on fighter Primo Carnera's "career" actually triggered a Senate investigation into the boxing "racket" back then

Always check on TCM for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and The Bad News Bears....  very rarely catch either of those uncut

The Harder They Fall was one of the first "movies with a message"

Saturday June 13th. two of Steve McQueen's best ever

11:00am / The Sand Pebbles (1966) mid 1920's China aboard the American river gunboat USS San Pablo where independent, rebellious Machinist Mate Jake Holman (McQueen) is Chief Engineer. co-stars Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen and Japanese-American actor Mako. rather long "epic" movie at 3 hours 15 minutes BUT very well acted by all involved esp Mako as Po-han who becomes Jake's student and friend. Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (McQueen) and Best Supporting Actor (Mako). definite "must see" for McQueen fans

5:00pm / Bullitt (1968) probably THE Steve McQueen crime-action movie with one of THE greatest car chase scenes EVER. co-stars Robert Vaughn, Don Gordon, Simon Oakland and Norman Fell. small bit part for Robert Duvall as a cabbie. BUT the REAL stars are Bullitt's "Racing Green" 1968 Ford Mustang GT and the killers Navy Blue 1968 Dodge Charger R/T. was selected for the US National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2007. this movie defintely cemented McQueen's position as '"The King of Cool" in Hollywood.