February may be a short month, but TCM has compensated by cramming it full of classic goodness. Not many obscurities, but a lot of movie-lover essentials. Full schedule can be found HERE.
Below are a few of my picks. All times Eastern.
6:15 PM
The bandit king of Sherwood Forest leads his Merry Men in a battle against the corrupt Prince John.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Errol Flynn , Olivia de Havilland , Basil Rathbone .
C-102 mins, TV-G, CC
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| The Adventures of Robin Hood |
8:00 PM
An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Humphrey Bogart , Ingrid Bergman , Paul Henreid .
BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC,
4:00 AM
Three prospectors fight off bandits and each other after striking-it-rich in the Mexican mountains.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart , Walter Huston , Tim Holt .
BW-126 mins, TV-PG, CC,2/3
12:15 PM
A headstrong girl fights the strictures of the Catholic church in Europe and the Belgian Congo.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Audrey Hepburn , Peter Finch , Dame Edith Evans .
C-152 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
3:00 PM
A naval officer longing for active duty clashes with his vainglorious captain.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Henry Fonda , James Cagney , William Powell .
C-121 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
1:00 PM
A husband and wife fight to conquer alcoholism.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Jack Lemmon , Lee Remick , Charles Bickford .
BW-117 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
3:00 PM
Sexual repression drives a small-town Kansas girl mad during the roaring twenties.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Natalie Wood , Warren Beatty , Pat Hingle .
C-124 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
A free-spirited convict refuses to conform to chain-gang life.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg Cast: Paul Newman , George Kennedy , J. D. Cannon .
C-126 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
12:15 AM
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen , Robert Vaughn , Jacqueline Bisset .
C-114 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
2:15 AM
A group of aging cowboys look for one last score in a corrupt border town.
Dir: Sam Peckinpah Cast: William Holden , Ernest Borgnine , Robert Ryan .
C-144 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
12:30 AM
Two Devil's Island prisoners devote all of their time to hatching escape plans.
Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner Cast: Steve McQueen , Dustin Hoffman , Victor Jory .
C-151 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
3:30 AM
Three vacationing students set out to humiliate an insecure girl.
Dir: Frank Perry Cast: Barbara Hershey , Richard Thomas , Bruce Davison .
C-95 mins, TV-MA, CC,
10:00 AM
Vladimir Nabokov's racy classic focuses on an aging intellectual in love with a teenager.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: James Mason , Sue Lyon , Shelley Winters .
BW-153 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
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| Lolita |
2/7
7:45 AM
On his way to an awards ceremony, a distinguished professor thinks back on his loveless life.
Dir: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Bibi Andersson , Ingrid Thulin , Gunnar Björnstrand .
BW-91 mins, TV-PG,
9:30 AM
A medieval knight seeks revenge when his daughter is murdered.
Dir: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Max von Sydow , Brigitta Pettersson , Birgitta Valberg .
BW-89 mins, TV-14,
11:30 AM
A young boy's life changes the summer he moves in with relatives while his sick mother tries to recover.
Dir: Lasse Hallstrom Cast: Anton Glanzelius , Anki Liden , Manfred Serner .
C-101 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
11:00 PM
Oklahoma farmers dispossessed during the Depression fight for better lives in California.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Henry Fonda , Jane Darwell , John Carradine .
BW-129 mins, TV-G, CC,
4:00 AM
A man on the run joins an embattled film company run by a maniacal director.
Dir: Richard Rush Cast: Peter O'Toole , Barbara Hershey , Steve Railsback .
C-131 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
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| The Stunt Man |
6:15 PM
A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Joseph Cotten , Dolores Costello , Anne Baxter .
BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC,
8:00 PM
The investigation of a publishing tycoon's dying words reveals conflicting stories about his scandalous life.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Joseph Cotten , Dorothy Comingore , Agnes Moorehead .
BW-120 mins, TV-PG, CC,
10:15 PM
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant , Ingrid Bergman , Claude Rains .
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC,2/14
12:00 AM
A young bride is terrorized by the memories of her husband's glamorous first wife.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Laurence Olivier , Joan Fontaine , George Sanders .
BW-130 mins, TV-PG, CC,
12:00 AM
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant , Eva Marie Saint , James Mason .
C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
1:30 AM
A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni Cast: Vanessa Redgrave , Sarah Miles , David Hemmings .
C-111 mins, TV-MA, CC,
3:30 AM
A romantic English lass can't choose among three very different suitors.
Dir: John Schlesinger Cast: Julie Christie , Terence Stamp , Peter Finch .
C-171 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
5:00 AM
A traveling salesman's music-inspired dreams lead to tragedy.
Dir: Herbert Ross Cast: Steve Martin , Bernadette Peters , Jessica Harper .
C-108 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
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| Pennies From Heaven |
4:00 PM
Two American journalists get more than they'd bargained for during an Indonesian revolution.
Dir: Peter Weir Cast: Mel Gibson , Sigourney Weaver , Linda Hunt .
C-115 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
A flamboyant star throws a TV comedy show into chaos.
Dir: Richard Benjamin Cast: Peter O'Toole , Mark Linn-Baker , Jessica Harper .
C-92 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
5:45 PM
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joel McCrea , Laraine Day , Herbert Marshall .
BW-120 mins, TV-PG, CC,
8:00 PM
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Fred MacMurray , Barbara Stanwyck , Edward G. Robinson .
BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC,
10:00 PM
An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Montgomery Clift , Elizabeth Taylor , Shelley Winters .
BW-122 mins, TV-PG, CC,
12:15 AM
A British womanizer refuses to grow up until tragedy strikes.
Dir: Lewis Gilbert Cast: Michael Caine , Shelley Winters , Millicent Martin .
C-114 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
2:15 AM
An American military officer discovers his superiors are planning a military coup.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster , Kirk Douglas , Fredric March .
BW-118 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM
Naval officers begin to suspect their captain of insanity.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Humphrey Bogart , Jose Ferrer , Van Johnson .
C-125 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
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| The Caine Mutiny |
2:30 AM
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
Dir: Dennis Hopper Cast: Peter Fonda , Dennis Hopper , Antonio Mendoza .
C-96 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
4:30 AM
Two shore patrolmen decide to show a prisoner a good time on his way to the brig.
Dir: Hal Ashby Cast: Jack Nicholson , Otis Young , Randy Quaid .
C-104 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
An unemployed actor masquerades as a woman to win a soap-opera role.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Dustin Hoffman , Jessica Lange , Terry Garr .
C-116 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
10:15 PM
When his wife leaves him, an ad exec gets a crash course in parenting.
Dir: Robert Benton Cast: Dustin Hoffman , Meryl Streep , Justin Henry .
C-105 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
12:15 AM
A doctor's experiments bring a group of comatose patients back to consciousness.
Dir: Penny Marshall Cast: Robin Williams , Julie Kavner , Ruth Nelson .
C-121 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
2:30 AM
A young man arrested for drug smuggling fights to survive the horrors of a Turkish prison.
Dir: Alan Parker Cast: Brad Davis , Randy Quaid , John Hurt .
C-121 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
5:30 PM
A blue-collar worker's encounter with a UFO leaves him a changed man.
Dir: Steven Spielberg Cast: Richard Dreyfuss , Terry Garr , François Truffaut .
C-135 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
A tough detective tries to clear a cartoon character charged with murder.
Dir: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Bob Hoskins , Christopher Lloyd , Joanna Cassidy .
C-104 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
An English teacher inspires his students to seize the day with sometimes disastrous results.
Dir: Peter Weir Cast: Robin Williams , Robert Sean Leonard , Ethan Hawke .
C-129 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
12:30 AM
In this true story, a military DJ in Vietnam risks his career to broadcast the truth.
Dir: Barry Levinson Cast: Robin Williams , Forest Whitaker , Tung Thanh Tran .
C-121 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
2:45 AM
An experienced pool shark coaches a young hothead on his way to the top.
Dir: Martin Scorsese Cast: Paul Newman , Tom Cruise , Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio .
C-120 mins, TV-MA, CC,
10:00 PM
A man's investigation of a friend's death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: Joseph Cotten , Alida Valli , Orson Welles .
BW-104 mins, TV-14, CC,
8:00 PM
A recent college graduate has an affair with his neighbor's wife, then falls for their daughter.
Dir: Mike Nichols Cast: Anne Bancroft , Dustin Hoffman , Katharine Ross .
C-106 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
A Broadway producer decides to get rich by creating the biggest flop of his career.
Dir: Mel Brooks Cast: Zero Mostel , Gene Wilder , Dick Shawn .
C-90 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
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| The Producers |
3 comments:
Good night what a month! Several of my all-time favorites!
Robin Hood
Casablanca
TotSM
Bullitt
Grapes of Wrath
The Magnificent Ambersons
Citizen Kane
Notorious
NbNW
Double Indemnity
Tootsie
The Third Man
Several I haven't seen yet but are on my watchlist
Mister Roberts
Blow-Up
A Place in the Sun
A few you couldn't pay me to watch
Close Encounters
Splendor in the Grass
A few I don't know, a couple I'm not too fond of, and the rest are worth watching.
Didn't Awakenings have Robert DeNiro?
Yes, DeNiro and my musical hero Dexter Gordon in a small part just a year or so before he died. It's a pretty good movie.
I am in heaven.
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