Showing Next on Turner Classic Movies

I have started this thread for posters to announce upcoming movies that they value to be aired on TCM, Turner Classic Movies, which airs uncut vintage cinematic classics and occasional documentaries.

Ted Keer

Post 1

Sunday, September 9, 2007 - 9:08pm

The Third Man

Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles

This classic, perhaps one of the greatest films ever directed, will air 12:15AM-2:15 September 11th. From the TCM Schedule: Third Man, The (1949) A man's investigation of a friend's death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli. Dir: Carol Reed. C-104 mins, TV-14, CC

Read the Criterion Edition Review

Ted Keer

Post 2

Monday, September 10, 2007 - 8:46am

An amazing movie. I just got the soundtrack.

Post 3

Monday, September 10, 2007 - 5:29pm

Reminder - Set Your DVR!

This movie is so good on so many levels - of course the soundtrack, which grabs you from the opening bar, the unquestionably Wellesian cinematography, the amazing cast; with Alida Valli, Joseph Cotten, and Orson Welles each on his own enough to make the film a must-see, the wonderful Viennese setting; the secondary cast including the ever wonderful Trevor Howard playing the British commander, the Austrian hotel-porter who spoke no English and memorized his lines phonetically, the other ne'er do wells such as the demonically visaged Kurtz. Oh, such a film!

Ted Keer

(Edited by Ted Keer on 9/11, 1:10pm)

Post 4

Monday, September 10, 2007 - 6:34pm

Gee.. I keep trying to sanction and being reminded I've already done so. Don't miss this classic everybody ! heh..

Post 5

Monday, September 10, 2007 - 6:58pm

Anton Karas plays the theme to The Third Man

Ted Keer

Post 6

Monday, September 10, 2007 - 7:08pm

The Trailer (dubbed & a bit cheesy, compared to the film)

Ted Keer

Post 7

Saturday, September 15, 2007 - 2:19pm

Dark Passage, Bogart, Bacall 1947 Sun 8AM-10AM

This is a tight, well done film noir, although most of the action is set in daytime San Francisco. Boggart is convicted of murder and breaks jail, Bacall picks him up hitchhiking. Definitely worth watching. Also co-starring Agnes Moorehead.

The trailer:

Ted Keer

(Edited by Ted Keer on 9/15, 2:24pm)

Post 8

Saturday, September 15, 2007 - 2:30pm

The Lady from Shanghai, Hayworth, Welles, Mon 430AM-6AM

This visually striking film noir has many twists and turns, and perhaps just one too many, but it is a classic and a must see. One of Hayworth's best roles, she was directed by and co-starred with her soon-to-be ex-husband Orson Welles.

The trailer:

Ted Keer

Post 9

Saturday, September 15, 2007 - 2:38pm

The Miracle Worker, Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Mon 10:15-12:15 AM

Rand's praise for this 1962 classic dramatization of Hellen Keller's salvation form a life of deaf- dumb- and blindnessness, is effusive.

Ted Keer

Post 10

Monday, September 17, 2007 - 4:31pm

Fountainhead, Neal Documentary Weds 1:45AM

"The Fountainhead" shows Weds 9/19 1:45-3:45AM
"Private Screenings: Patricia Neal" shows 9/19 3:45-4:30AM

Ted Keer
(Edited by Ted Keer on 9/17, 4:33pm)

Post 11

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 5:00pm

Gilda Friday 4:15-6:15PM TCM

"Hate can be a very exciting emotion"

This wonderful movie is perfect on every level, plot, characterization, theme, suspense, acting - it deserves the reputation that Casablanca unfairly holds as the movie of the 1940's. The sexual tension is seismic. The hero does not achieve greatness through sacrifice. This movie alone will ensure Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth's immortality.

Clips

Ted Keer

Post 12

Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 5:12pm

Brief Encounter, Friday 9/28 8AM

My apologies for the brief notice. This David Lean adaptation of a Noel Coward play is an exquisite must-see, Starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. Here is the amazon review.

Ted Keer

Post 13

Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 6:57pm

Two 1940's Classics: Brief Encounter, & His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday, one of the wittiest screwball comedies ever filmed four times, is showing tonight 12AM Friday in its best adaptation. Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell can't live together and can't live apart. The dialog is dense and brilliantly funny, the film bears repeated watching, set your DVR to record now!

Brief Encounter, reviewed here, airs 2:00AM Saturday.

Ted Keer

Post 14

Tuesday, December 25, 2007 - 10:22pm

The Third Man 12/27 6PM

This classic, with Kira Argounova and Charles Foster Kane, described in posts 1-6 above, airs again on TCM at 6PM on Thursday the 27th. Don't miss it!

Ted Keer

Post 15

Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 6:07am

The best line in the movie was an ad lib by Orson Welles himself:

Harry Lime: Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.

I love it!

Bob Kolker

Post 16

Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 4:00pm

Here on RoR that quote has attracted some discussion.

http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Quotes/0732.shtml
My own #0 and #14

Also posted independently by Bob Palin as
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Quotes/1130.shtml
in which discussion, it was noted:

Also, from Wikipedia: This quote was not originally in the screenplay by Graham Greene but put in the film by Orson Welles who copied it from the Italian dictator Bentio Mussolini.

To the fascists, it was "better to live one day as a lion than a lifetime as a sheep." The fascist man of action does not think, but instinctively carries out the Idea of history.

With a lifetime of public (or parochial) education in our heads, it can be difficult to perceive a problem and then to think it through from several angles. That bashing and crashing kind of heroism might sound exhilarating (especially to a boy), but, actually, Herakles (for instance) completed each of his Twelve Labors by cleverly thinking through the problem before employing his strength. We do not learn the stories that way.

Even here among nominal "capitalists", if you read the discussions of this quote, you will see that many are trapped by mystical ideas that "war brings progress" or that "the military invented the computer" and so on.

Post 17

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 6:07pm

Joseph Cotten Triple Play, AM Thurs May 15, TCM

Citizen Cane 8:30-10:45 AM

Welles, Cotten, Four Stars, The investigation of a publishing tycoon's dying words reveals conflicting stories about his scandalous life. Perhaps the most acclaimed movie ever.

Journey into Fear 10:45-12:00 Noon

Welles, Cotten, Three Stars, A munitions expert gets mixed up with gunrunners in Turkey. Cotten Pictured

Shadow of a Doubt Noon-2:00PM

Cotten, Hitchcock, Four Stars, A young girl fears her favorite uncle may be a killer. Trailer Below.

Post 18

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 3:17pm

The Mysterious Island

May 31 4:00-6:00AM

I have had a hard time finding Rand's reference to this story, so I am not sure if it is this one or the Jules Verne story that she likes. In any case, a 1929 film of the non-Verne story is airing 4:00 AM May 31 - Set your DVR May 30!

From TCM:

In the Kingdom of Hetvia, in 1850, Count Dakkar devotes his life and fortune to probing the mysteries of the ocean depths by constructing two submarines on his island off the mainland. Falon, a nobleman, is anxious to overthrow the throne by revolution and seeks the inventor's aid; failing, he captures Dakkar and his crew while his assistant, Nikolai, is testing one of the sea craft; but Dakkar's men rescue him from torture. Falon's men damage the submarine, which descends to the ocean floor, where Dakkar's party observe an underground city populated by strange creatures whose gratitude they win by slaying a dragon with torpedoes. Sonia, Dakkar's sister, wrecks the other submarine in a battle with Falon's men, and Falon's blood incites the underwater creatures to divert an octopus that mortally wounds Dakkar. After the island is recaptured, Dakkar willingly chooses burial in his submarine.

Post 19

Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 6:35pm