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TCM Schedule for Saturday, December 28 -- The Essentials: Spellbinders
This evening's theme is Spellbinders, and TCM has scheduled some wonderful ones, including Gaslight (1944) and Suspicion (1941). Enjoy!6:15 AM -- Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Fanciful musical biography of wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
Dir: George Sidney
Cast: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern
C-107 mins, TV-G, CC,
Won an Oscar for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture -- Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens\
Nominated for Oscars for Best Cinematography, Color -- Charles Rosher, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color -- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis and Richard Pefferle, and Best Film Editing -- James E. Newcom
Judy Garland and Frank Morgan, who appeared together in The Wizard of Oz (1939), were scheduled to reappear together in this film. Garland was fired because of health problems, and Frank Morgan died shortly after filming began. As a result of this, Betty Hutton took over Judy Garland's role as Annie Oakley, and Louis Calhern succeeded Frank Morgan as Buffalo Bill.
8:15 AM -- Don't Make Waves (1967)
A swimming-pool salesman gets mixed up with beauty queens and bodybuilders when he falls in love.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Sharon Tate
C-97 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
This was billed as Sharon Tate's film debut by producer Martin Ransohoff, who had Sharon under contract. Tate had already appeared in films, including an unbilled bit in Ransohoff's own The Americanization of Emily (1964) and in the 1966 British horror film Eye of the Devil (1966).
9:53 AM -- Alert Today - Alive Tomorrow (1956)
This short film promotes the need for cooperation and neighborliness in the event of a nuclear disaster and associated civil defense procedures.
Dir: Larry O'Reilly
BW-15 mins,
10:15 AM -- Carson on TCM: Tony Curtis (1/10/73) (2013)
TCM presents an interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, with Tony Curtis from 1/10/73.
C-10 mins, TV-PG, CC,
10:30 AM -- Up Goes Maisie (1946)
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks out to steal his ideas.
Dir: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Hillary Brooke
BW-89 mins, TV-G,
The ninth of ten movies starring Ann Sothern as the heroine Maisie Ravier.
12:00 PM -- The Dirty Dozen (1967)
A renegade officer trains a group of misfits for a crucial mission behind enemy lines.
Dir: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
C-150 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
Won an Oscar for Best Effects, Sound Effects -- John Poyner
Nominated for Oscars for Best Actor in a Supporting Role -- John Cassavetes, Best Sound, and Best Film Editing -- Michael Luciano
Production on the film ran for so long that Jim Brown was in danger of missing training camp for the up-coming 1967-68 football season. As training camp and the NFL season approached, the NFL threatened to fine and suspend Brown if he did not leave filming and report to camp immediately. Not one to take threats, Brown simply held a press conference to announce his retirement from football. At the time of his retirement, Brown was considered to be one of the best in the game and even today is considered to be one of the NFL's all-time greats.
2:45 PM -- The Far Country (1955)
Two cowboys on the road to Alaska help a wagon train in trouble.
Dir: Anthony Mann
Cast: James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet
C-97 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
One of James Stewart's favorite stories of his film career concerned his horse, Pie, a sorrel stallion whom Stewart called, "One of the best co-stars I ever had." Pie appeared as Stewart's horse in 17 Westerns, and the actor developed a strong personal bond with the horse. Pie was very intelligent, Stewart recalled, and would often "act for the cameras when they were rolling. He was a ham of a horse." When shooting the climax of "The Far Country," the script called for Stewart's horse to walk down a dark street alone, with no rider in the saddle, to fool the bad guys who were waiting to ambush Stewart. Assistant Director John Sherwood asked Stewart if Pie would be able to do the scene. Stewart replied, "I'll talk to him." Just before the cameras rolled, Stewart took Pie aside and whispered to the horse for several minutes, giving him instructions for the scene. When Stewart let the horse go, Pie walked perfectly down the middle of the street, doing the scene in one take. When Pie died in 1970, Stewart arranged to have the horse buried at his California ranch.
4:30 PM -- The Black Swan (1942)
When he's named governor of Jamaica, a former pirate sets out to clean up the Caribbean.
Dir: Henry King
Cast: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar
C-85 mins, TV-PG, CC,
Won an Oscar for Best Cinematography, Color -- Leon Shamroy
Nominated for Oscars for Best Effects, Special Effects -- Fred Sersen (photographic), Roger Heman Sr. (sound) and George Leverett (sound), and Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture -- Alfred Newman
Although it is supposed to be based on Rafael Sabatini's novel "The Black Swan", in fact the story is completely original, and the only character retained from the original novel is the historical personage Henry Morgan.
6:00 PM -- Jason And The Argonauts (1963)
The legendary hero enlists the help of the gods to steal the golden fleece.
Dir: Don Chaffey
Cast: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond
C-104 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
While filming footage of the Argo off the coast of Italy, shooting was interrupted when a replica of the Golden Hind sailed into view. The British television series Sir Francis Drake (1961) happened to be filming in the same location. Producer Charles H. Schneer shouted, "Get that ship out of here. You're in the wrong century!" at the British crew, dispelling any tensions that arose from both shots being lost.
TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: THE ESSENTIALS: SPELLBINDERS
8:00 PM -- Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor
Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC,
Won Oscars for Best Actress in a Leading Role -- Ingrid Bergman, and Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White -- Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Edwin B. Willis and Paul Huldschinsky
Nominated for Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role -- Charles Boyer, Best Actress in a Supporting Role -- Angela Lansbury, Best Writing, Screenplay -- John L. Balderston, Walter Reisch and John Van Druten, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White -- Joseph Ruttenberg, and Best Picture
Angela Lansbury was only 17 when she made this, her film debut. She had been working at Bullocks Department Store in Los Angeles and when she told her boss that she was leaving, he offered to match the pay at her new job. Expecting it to be in the region of her Bullocks salary of the equivalent of $27 a week, he was somewhat taken aback when she told him she would be earning $500 a week.
10:00 PM -- Suspicion (1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC,
Won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role -- Joan Fontaine
Nominated for Oscars for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture -- Franz Waxman, and Best Picture
In interviews, Alfred Hitchcock said that an RKO executive ordered that all scenes in which Cary Grant appeared menacing be excised from the film. When the cutting was completed, the film ran only fifty-five minutes. The scenes were later restored, Hitchcock said, because he shot each piece of film so that there was only one way to edit them together properly.
12:00 AM -- Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
A beautiful neurotic will stop at nothing to hold onto her husband's love.
Dir: John M. Stahl
Cast: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain
C-110 mins, TV-PG, CC,
Won an Oscar for Best Cinematography, Color -- Leon Shamroy
Nominated for Oscars for Best Actress in a Leading Role -- Gene Tierney, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color -- Lyle R. Wheeler, Maurice Ransford and Thomas Little, and Best Sound, Recording -- Thomas T. Moulton (20th Century-Fox SSD)
The famous (and dramatic) swimming scene that takes place in the lake for Darryl Hickman's character was in water so cold that the young actor caught pneumonia.
2:00 AM -- Mixed Blood (1984)
Brazilian drug dealers in the lower east side of Manhattan start a war with a rival gang.
Dir: Paul Morrissey
Cast: Marilia Pera, Richard Ulacia, Linda Kerridge
C-99 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
John Leguizamo's feature film debut.
3:45 AM -- Alphabet City (1984)
A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.
Dir: Amos Poe
Cast: Vincent Spano, Kate Vernon, Michael Winslow
C-85 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
Director Amos Poe had in mind a different ending which he was not allowed to shoot because it was deemed too "political" by the producers.
5:15 AM -- Distant Drummer: A Movable Scene (1970)
An education film that exposes drug use and drug culture.
Cast: Robert Mitchum,
C-22 mins, TV-14,
5:15 AM -- Distant Drummer: Flowers of Darkness (1972)
Filmmakers trace the history of opium and its role in today's drug trade.
C-22 mins, TV-14
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