March roars in with a grab bag of classics and oddities. There's a Kim Novak festival (hotcha!), a couple of Reefer Madness type ditties, some Driver's Ed films and even a marketing short about the late, lamented Chevy Corvair. What other network wound give you In Vanda's Room AND Thunder Road? Below are my suggestions. As always, your mileage may vary.
3/2
5:45 PM
An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmon , Shirley MacLaine , Fred MacMurray .
BW-125 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
11:15 PM
A young couple from dueling street gangs falls in love.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Natalie Wood , Richard Beymer , Russ Tamblyn .
C-153 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
3/3
12:00 AM
12:00 AM
A Wyoming sheriff tries to protect immigrant farmers from ruthless ranchers.
Dir: Michael Cimino Cast: Kris Kristofferson , Christopher Walken , Isabelle Huppert .
C-219 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
3/4
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
A military officer becomes obsessed with an enlisted man.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Elizabeth Taylor , Marlon Brando , Brian Keith .
C-109 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM
A cold-hearted teacher becomes the school favorite when he's thawed by a beautiful young woman.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Robert Donat , Greer Garson , Terry Kilburn .
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC,
3/5
2:30 AM
2:30 AM
A group of zanies tries to save a pretty girl's sanitarium.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Groucho [Marx] , Chico [Marx] , Harpo [Marx] .
BW-109 mins, TV-G, CC,
3/6
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| KIM NOVAK FESTIVAL! |
9:00 PM
A beautiful witch puts a love spell on an unknowing publisher.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: James Stewart , Kim Novak , Jack Lemmon .
C-102 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
11:00 PM
12:00 AM
A handsome drifter ignites passions at a small-town Labor Day picnic.
Dir: Joshua Logan Cast: William Holden , Kim Novak , Betty Field .
C-113 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 AM
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Frank Sinatra , Eleanor Parker , Kim Novak .
BW-119 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
4:15 AM
A medical student risks his future when he falls for a low-class waitress.
Dir: Ken Hughes Cast: Kim Novak , Laurence Harvey , Robert Morley .
C-100 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
3/8
5:30 AM
A monkey's prank on a turtle demonstrates how to survive a nuclear attack.
BW-9 mins, TV-PG,
3/9
12:30 AM
A friend's death brings together a group of former college activists.
Dir: Lawrence Kasdan Cast: Glenn Close , Tom Berenger , Jeff Goldblum .
C-105 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
3/10
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
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
3:45 AM
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl's involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart , Lauren Bacall , John Ridgely .
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC,
3/13
9:15 PM
9:15 PM
A documentary that chronicles the life of a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
Dir: Lionel Rogosin Cast: Zacharia [Mgabi] , Vinah [Mgabi] , Arnold .
BW-85 mins,
3/14
6:00 AM
6:00 AM
In this silent film, a pampered East Coast lad is sent west to be toughened up.
Dir: Hal Roach Cast: Harold Lloyd ,
BW-24 mins, TV-G,
3/15
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| ROSSELLINI/BERGMAN FESTIVAL! |
8:00 PM
A refugee marries a Sicilian fisherman but can't cope with the harshness of her new life.
Dir: Roberto Rossellini Cast: Ingrid Bergman , Mario Vitale , Renzo Cesana .
BW-107 mins, TV-14, CC,
10:00 PM
When a well-off woman loses her son, her recovery confronts her with the problems of the less fortunate.
Dir: Roberto Rossellini Cast: Ingrid Bergman , Alexander Knox , Ettore Giannini .
BW-110 mins, TV-14,
12:00 AM
A married couple seek insight and direction within their relationship in Italy.
Dir: Roberto Rossellini Cast: Ingrid Bergman , George Sanders ,
BW-86 mins,
1:45 AM
The wife of a prominent scientist is blackmailed after her extramarital affair is discovered.
Dir: Roberto Rossellini Cast: Ingrid Bergman , Mathias Wieman , Kurt Kreuger .
BW-78 mins,
3/16
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Scientists track a prehistoric monster in the South American jungle while it tracks them.
Dir: Jack Arnold Cast: Richard Carlson , Julia Adams , Richard Denning .
BW-79 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
4:30 PM
A Spanish nobleman becomes a masked outlaw by night to battle a local tyrant.
Dir: Rouben Mamoulian Cast: Tyrone Power , Linda Darnell , Basil Rathbone .
C-94 mins, TV-G, CC,
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| DUSTIN HOFFMAN FESTIVAL! |
8:00 PM
An unemployed actor masquerades as a woman to win a soap-opera role.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Dustin Hoffman , Jessica Lange , Dabney Coleman .
C-116 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
An American pioneer raised by Indians ends up fighting alongside General Custer.
Dir: Arthur Penn Cast: Dustin Hoffman , Faye Dunaway , Martin Balsam .
C-140 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
12:30 AM
Two young singles meet at a bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Dustin Hoffman , Mia Farrow , Michael Tolan .
C-92 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
2:15 AM
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
4:15 AM
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
3/17
5:15 AM
Hitler summons the Axis leaders to a secret island meeting with disastrous results.
Dir: Glenn Tryon Cast: Emory Parnell , Jean Porter , Frank Faylen .
BW-43 mins, TV-PG,
3/18
5:15 AM
5:15 AM
An all-star adaptation of Shakespeare's classic about Julius Caesar's assassination and its aftermath.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: John Doucette , George Macready , Michael Pate .
BW-121 mins, TV-PG, CC,
3/19
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Truck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: George Raft , Ann Sheridan , Ida Lupino .
BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC,
8:00 PM
Three returning servicemen fight to adjust to life after World War II.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Myrna Loy , Fredric March , Dana Andrews .
BW-170 mins, TV-PG, CC,
1:15 AM
A young stevedore takes on the mobster who rules the docks.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Marlon Brando , Karl Malden , Lee J. Cobb .
BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
3/20
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
Legendary jazz musician Gene Krupa faces highs and lows along the path of his life.
Dir: Don Weis Cast: Sal Mineo , Susan Kohner , James Darren .
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC,
6:00 PM
A woman falls in love with a musician in a band and learns about life as an orchestra wife.
Dir: Archie Mayo Cast: George Montgomery , Ann Rutherford , Glenn Miller .
BW-98 mins, TV-G,
8:00 PM
Documentary footage traces the progress of the Apollo missions.
Dir: Al Reinert Cast: Charles Duke , Michael Collins ,
C-80 mins,
3/21
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Orson Welles , Diane Varsi , Dean Stockwell .
BW-103 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
A re-make of the 1922 silent film that details the lives of the people in a small Quaker community and the adventures of a whaling ship.
Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Richard Widmark , Lionel Barrymore , Dean Stockwell .
BW-120 mins,
12:15 AM
Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of an orphaned boy who helps the British Army against Indian rebels.
Dir: Victor Saville Cast: Errol Flynn , Dean Stockwell , Paul Lukas .
C-113 mins, TV-PG, CC,
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| The Boy with Green Hair (1948) |
2:15 AM
An orphaned boy mystically acquires green hair and a mission to end war.
Dir: Joseph Losey Cast: Pat O'Brien , Robert Ryan , Barbara Hale .
C-82 mins, TV-G, CC,
3:45 AM
A rich girl and her poor boyfriend flee to Mexico to escape family disapproval.
Dir: Arthur Hiller Cast: Dean Stockwell , Natalie Trundy , John Larch .
BW-73 mins, TV-G,
5:00 AM
An army deserter on the run risks his freedom to protect a beautiful young woman.
Dir: Marcel Carne Cast: Michele Morgan , Jean Gabin , Michel Simon .
BW-91 mins, TV-14,
3/22
5:30 AM
5:30 AM
Driving safety short directed by legendary social guidance film director Sid Davis.
C-10 mins, TV-PG,
5:30 AM
Technicians herald the arrival of a new car that "delivers the goods as no other compact car can."
C-6 mins, TV-G,
3/23
1:45 AM
1:45 AM
Instead of going to jail, a convicted felon is given a new identity and trained as a top secret assassin.
Dir: Luc Besson Cast: Anne Parillaud , Jean-Hugues Anglade , Tcheky Karyo .
C-118 mins, TV-MA,
4:00 AM
A working class woman in occupied France makes ends meet by performing abortions.
Dir: Claude Chabrol Cast: Isabelle Huppert , Frantois Cluzet , Marie Trintignant .
C-108 mins, TV-14,
3/24
4:00 PM
4:00 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,
6:00 PM
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he'd hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland , Grace Kelly , Robert Cummings .
C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2:00 AM
A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Cast: Ryo Ikebe , Keiko Kishi , Chikage Awashima .
BW-144 mins, TV-PG,
3/27
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| Thunder Road (1958) |
1:00 AM
A fast-driving moonshiner locks horns with a Chicago gangster.
Dir: Arthur Ripley Cast: Robert Mitchum , Gene Barry , Jacques Aubochon .
BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC,
3:00 AM
A maverick trucker tries to save a runaway bride and a shipment of contraband beer from a small-town sheriff.
Dir: Hal Needham Cast: Burt Reynolds , Sally Field , Jackie Gleason .
C-96 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
3/29
12:30 AM
12:30 AM
Two soldiers from an unnamed country are caught up in an absurd war.
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Geneviève Galéa , Catherine Ribeiro , Marino Masè .
BW-76 mins, TV-14,
3:30 AM
A manufactured rock group tries to find its own identity in a world gone mad.
Dir: Bob Rafelson Cast: Peter Tork , Davy Jones , Micky Dolenz .
C-86 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
5:00 AM
A juvenile court judge investigates the tragedy of marijuana addiction.
C-10 mins, TV-14,
5:00 AM
A round-up of drug addicts reveals the perils of experimenting with marijuana.
C-21 mins, TV-14,
3/31
3:00 AM
An unflinching view into the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict, in the shanty outskirts of Lisbon.
Dir: Pedro Costa Cast: Vanda Duarte , Zita Duarte , Lena Duarte .
C-170 mins, TV-MA,
3 comments:
Recommend The Big Sleep, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Mark of Zorro, Tootsie, They Drive by Night, Best Years of Our Lives, One the Waterfront, Notorious, and Smokey and the Bandit. There's few I haven't seen that I'd like to, such as The Apartment.
TCM is the only reason I pay a bill every month for television service. Totally worth it!
One gem I recently found that completely satisfied my jones for a real film noir: "Nocturne" starring George Raft. George Raft is one of the most under-appreciated actors in classic film, I think. He really had something.
Also - LOVE Kim Novak!
RH: I've never seen to old classic Fairbanks Zorros, looking forward to it.
Marcheline. I think Kim Novak will be in the studio for the festival. From the few recent pics I've seen she still looks great.
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