TCM movies scheduled 8/99 to Halloween 1999
***** TCM (commercial-free Turner Classic Movies) in August*****
8-4-99: "The Shoes of a Fisherman" (1968), a cold-war thriller in which a Pope is elected from Communist Russia.
8-5-99: the musical-fantasy "Brigadoon" (1954), in which an American (Gene Kelly) falls in love with a Scottish lass whose village only appears once every 100 years.
The end of the world? The last 3 people on Earth are a white woman, a black man, and a white racist (Inger Stevens, Harry Belafonte, Mel Ferrer) in "The World The Flesh & The Devil."
"Lost Horizon" (1937), the 1st fantasy film ever to win an Oscar (for either art/set direction or film editing)
"Here Comes Mr.Jordan" (1941) with Claude Rains.
"The Horn Blows At Midnight" (1945), an angel is sent to signal the end of the world.
"A Guy Named Joe," the 1943 Spencer Tracy movie that Spielberg's "Always" was based on.
Friday the 13th, both TV Land and TCM have Hitchcock marathons (set your VCR, see Hitchcock page for current listings):
"The Birds" (you'll never look at seagulls & black birds the same)
Marnie (also starring Tippi Hedren)
Suspicion, and Dial M For Murder (starring Ray Milland).
That evening, they've got a Japanese film by Kurosawa called
"Throne of Blood" (don't you just hate subtle titles?) about a Samuri over-throwing the King.
8-15-99: the Bowery Boys star in "Ghost Chasers" (1951) followed by 2 other Bowery Boys films that don't meet our format here at Star Base (sci-fi/fantasy, horror, etc.). At 3pm, its the black comedy
"Arsenic & Old Lace," in which Cary Grant finds out about his aunts' hobby: giving gentleman-callers poison & burying them in the basement.
8-16-99: Peter Lorre fans might be interested in "M" (1931), in which both the Mob and the police are looking for a child-killer (I'll give you a hint, Lorre doesn't play good guys)
8-20-99: "The Wild Child" (1970), about a child raised by wolves (French, either dubbed or subtitled, it stars and was directed by Francois Truffaut, who played the French scientist in Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind).
Then Orson Wells directed & stars in "The Stranger" (1946) about a local schoolteacher who just might be a Nazi war criminal...
8-21-99: George Pal's "The Wonderful World of The Brothers Grimm" (1962) followed by
"Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory" (I'm told this one has a bigger cult following of adults than kids. Come to think of it, Gene Wilder's starring role is a little edgy)
8-22-99: William Castle's "Strait-Jacket," about a strange increase in the murder rate after an ax-murderer is released from a mental hospital (it just won't be the same without John Carpenter music). Then some more Bowery Boys films. And just after midnight,
"The Extraordinary Seaman" (1969) about a haunted WW2 ship, directed by John Frankenheimer.
8-24-99: Sci-fi marathon: "Forbidden Planet" (1956)
"The Invisible Boy" (1957, this time Robbie the Robot's not quite so friendly)
"Westworld" (something about a high-tech new themepark where things go wrong and people start getting killed. Sounds kind of like a Spielberg movie), and ending with
"Gog" (1954), a classic drive-in movie in which someone reprograms the new computer-controlled robots at a secret government facility to start killing people (sounds kind of like a Westworld movie)
8-27-99: "Split Second" (1953) in which some people are being held hostage by escaped convicts in a ghost town that just happens to be ground-zero for an a-bomb test. It's followed by
"Nocturne" (1946),
"Nightmare" (Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, about a man hypnotized to kill),
"The Testament of Dr. Mabuse" (a criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to run his empire after death),
"Journey Into Fear" (1942) starring Orson Wells & Joseph Cotten, and
"Bureau of Missing Persons" (1933) about a young bride out to find her husband...or at least his corpse
8-28-99: "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T" based on a dark fantasy by the author of Dr. Seuss books. He was afraid kids would be frightened by this film version and tried to have his name taken off it. It's followed by
"Angels in the Outfield" (1951), the original version of the movie about angels who take pity on an underdog baseball team and give it a little supernatural help.
8-28-99: Ricardo Montalban plays a pathologist on a murder case with nothing but the victim's bones to go on in "Mystery Street"
8-29-99, the Bowery Boys have a couple of super films: "No Holds Barred" in which one of them develops super-human powers and uses them - to try professional wrestling. That's followed by "Jalopy", in which they develop a fuel formula that turns their old wreck into a racecar. Things get serious at with the
1944 version of "Gaslight", in which a villainous Angela Lansbury (her film debute) helps a man drive his wife crazy in their Victorian mansion where her Aunt committed suicide (on the 31st, TCM has the 1940 version of "Gaslight").
"Dr. Strangelove" (I'm sorry Demetri, we didn't mean to launch those missles at Moscow). And then at 11pm it's Hope & Crosby's spoof of spy movies and the space race in
"The Road to Hong Kong" (1962), I'm pretty sure Dorothy Lamour is in this one (it's repeated 9-8)
8-31-99: "Gaslight" (1940 version) and
"Satan Met A Lady" (1936, an early version of "The Maltese Falcon") with Bette Davis (look what's happened to baby Bette)
To see a list of all movies on TCM since September 1999, with descriptions, click here
***** TCM (commercial-free Turner Classic Movies) in Sept.*****
9-2-99, "Freaks" (1932), a movie from the studio that produced all the great 1930s monster movies, but this one was banned in several states...A circus trapeze artist (played by Olga Baclanova) violates the code of the sideshow when she plots to murder her midget husband, so the other sideshow freaks decide to get even. Horror director Tod Browning used real-life freaks for the cast.
"Slight Case of Murder" Gangster Edward G. Robinson tries to go straight but keeps finding corpses in his rented summer house. Remade later as "Stop, You're Killing Me"
9-3-99, Lucille Ball discovers that she has a guardian angel who looks just like James Mason in "Forever Darling",
"The Prisoner of Zenda" (1952 version),
Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" (1958) served as the inspiration for George Lucas to write Star Wars: a young samurai sets out to rescue a feudal lord's royal daughter from bandits
9-4-99: "Gabriel Over The Whitehouse" (1933, a crooked President reforms with help from an angel), followed by the gothic horror/mystery
"The Hound of the Baskervilles (Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing version), then find out
"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" (Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Victor Buono at their psychotic best. A biography of Victor Buono is now on our WildWildWest page below)
9-5-99: Bowery Boys in "Private Eyes" (an ESP spoof),
"Cat People" (a new bride forgot to tell her fiance something; she might turn into a vicious beast due to a family curse...original 1942 version), "King Kong" (1933), and
"Male & Female" (1919 silent), a butler becomes king when rich people are shipwrecked with their servants. Dir: Cecil B. DeMille
9-8-99: the George Pal classic "Tom Thumb" (1958), using both live-action (Russ Tamblyn with giant props) and Pal's patented stop-mation Puppetoons, followed by Hope & Crosby in the space race/spy movie spoof "The Road To Hong Kong". Then:
"The Body Disappears" (1941 comedy) about an invisible man who the police are looking for, dead or alive
9-10-99: "DOA" (1950) followed by Ida Lupino's "The Hitch-Hiker" (1953), then another Kurosawa marathon
9-11-99: "The Great Dictator" (1940), "The Train" (1964, dir. Frankenheimer), "The Narrow Margin" (1952)
9-12-99: "The Bowery Boys Meet The Monsters" with guest star Ellen Corby (she was one of the nasty aliens in "The Invaders" tv series), "Jungle Gents" (King Solomon's Mines spoof), and "Bowery to Baghdad" (they find Alladin's magic lamp)
9-13-99 "Deathtrap" by Agatha Christie (a classic thriller, starring Christopher Reeve & Michael Caine),
"Tomorrow Is Forever" (1946) Orson Wells
9-14-99 "He Who Gets Slapped" (1924 silent), a scientist (Lon Chaney) flees disguised as a circus clown, and then later
"Mr. Hex" (a hypnotist uses mesmorism to turn one of the Bowery Boys into a boxer)
9-17-99 Kurosawa's "The 7 Samuri" (copied in US as The Magnificent 7) and "Throne of Blood"
9-18-99 "Five Million Years To Earth" (1968) Subway excavations unearth some thing in an ancient spaceship, followed by a documentary "100 Years, 100 Movies, Fantastic Flights" about flight movies from Lindbergh to Star Wars
9-19-99: "DOA" repeated at 4:15am, then "The Hitch-Hiker" at 10am, then 3 Bowery Boys movies
9-21-99: "The Time Machine"(1960) Rod Taylor, Alan Young in George Pal's classic version of H.G. Wells' story (repeated Friday)
9-22-99: "Harvey" (Jimmy Stewart said fans considered this his best movie and would ask if the invisible 6' rabbit was with him today), followed by the
Danny Kaye fantasy "The Inspector General" (based on an old Russian story about corrupt town officials in Czarist times)
9-24-99: Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" (this one inspired the Clint Eastwood movies Fistful of Dollars and The Man With No Name)
9-26-99: Bowery Boys movies "Dig That Uranium" (a mine out West), "Crashing Las Vegas" (where else you go with psychic powers?), and "Fighting Trouble" (as crime photographers), then:
"The Eagle" (1925 silent) Rudolph Valentino as a masked avenger in Russia
9-28-99: "Swing Fever" (1943 comedy) Big Bank leader Kay Kyser uses hynotism to turn a boxer into a champ
9-29-99 "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" director Carl Reiner's black & white detective film noir spoof starring Steve Martin opposite 1940s movie stars (using quick edits, clips and movie magic)
9-30-99 "Requiem For A Heavyweight" boxing drama notable as the Hollywood version of a Rod Serling story
October
10-3-99: "Deathtrap" (1982), Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve
"Bedlam" (1946), when an actress tries to investigate an asylum, its keeper (Boris Karloff) has her committed
10-4: George Pal's "Atlantis, the Lost Continent" (1961)
"Tarzan" (1932), Johnny Weissmuller classic
10-6: "Cabin In The Sky" (1943), God & Satan vie for the soul of a wounded gambler: all-black cast inc. Eddie Anderson, Ethel Waters, Lena Horne
"The Boy With Green Hair" (1948), an orphan with green hair says his mission is to end war on planet Earth
10-7: "Larceny Inc" (1942), an ex-con (Edward G. Robinson) and his gang buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank next door but customers keep getting in the way in this black comedy
"Between 2 Worlds" (1944), passengers on a luxery liner realize their ship is enroute to the afterlife
"Slightly Dangerous" (1943), a small-town girl changes her identity to make it in New York, but back home her boyfriend is suspected of doing away with her
10-8: the cold-war thriller "Ice Station Zebra" (1968), Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown
George Pal's "The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao" (1964), an all-time classic fantasy about a circus of immortals visiting a small Western town, some simularities to the more recent (animated) film "Robot Carnival"
"The Unsuspected" (1947), the producer of a network crime show commits the perfect crime, then has to write a script about it for the series
10-9: "Eye of the Devil" (1966), Donald Pleasence
"The Towering Inferno" (1974), one of the all-time great disaster movies
10-10: "The Power" (1967), a scientist discovers a murderous genius with psychic powers
"The Thief of Bagdad" (1924), silent version of the magic-carpet film
10-11 at noon: Charlton Heston interview, 1 hour
at 1pm: "How To Murder Your Wife" (1965), black comedy about a cartoonist (Jack Lemmon) who sobers up to discover he's married, and decides to...
10-15 at 2pm: "The Unholy 3" (1930). A ventriloquist, a strong man and a midget form a criminal alliance. Lon Chaney
10-16 at 1pm: "The Wrong Box" (1966), two brothers plot to kill each other for a fortune. Michael Caine
10-17 at 11:30am: Jules Verne's "Around The World in 80 Days" (1956), David Niven, Shirley MacLain
10-18 at 6am: "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" (1932)
10-19 at 10am: "They Met in Bombay" (1941), Clark Gable, Peter Lorre
at 2pm: "Angels in the Outfield" (1951)
10-20 at 6am: Marx Brothers in "A Night At The Opera" and "A Day At The Races", it doesn't get more surreal
10-21 at 6am: "The Death Kiss" (1933) Bela Lugosi
at 7:15am: "The Perils of Pauline" (1947), spoof of early adventure serials
10-22 at 8am: Hitchcock's "Suspicion" (1941)
at 8pm: "Cape Fear" (1962), original version, Robert Mitchum
10-23 at 7:30am: "A Slight Case of Murder" (1938), black comedy starring Edward G. Robinson
at 5:30pm: "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955), a one-armed man gets off the train in a small town where everyone knows a horrible secret and doesn't like questions
at 11 pm: "Captain Horatio Hornblower" (1951) and
"Moby Dick" (1956), the movies that inspired Captain Kirk's character and The Wrath of Khan
10-24 at 8pm to 4am: a marathon showing of "Les Vampires" (1915/1916), the silent serial about a gang of criminals, filmed in Paris. No blood-suckers but one victim does get beheaded
10-25 at 4am: "Night of Dark Shadows" (1971), newlyweds try to survive a haunted estate in this movie edited from the Dark Shadows vampire tv series
at 2pm: George Pal's "The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao" is repeated (see above)
Monster movie marathons 8pm to 6am start tonight and run to 6am November 1: "White Zombie" (1932), Bela Lugosi
"The Walking Dead" (1936), Boris Karloff
"Mark of the Vampire" (1935), Lugosi
"House of Dark Shadows" (1970), prequel to 4am one above
"The Fearless Vampire Hunters" (1967), Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1919) silent version about a mad doctor who uses a hypnotized sleepwalker to kill
10-26 (8pm to 6am): Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963), Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor
"Cat People" (1942), Simone Simon, Kent Smith
"The Leopard Man" (1943)
"The Son of Kong" (1933), released less than a year after King Kong
"The Devil Bat" (1941), Bela Lugosi
"The Curse of the Cat People" (1944), Simone Simon, Kent Smith
"The Ape" (1940), a mad doctor (Boris Karloff) kills people for his grisley spinal fluid experiments
10-27 at 10am: "Larceny Inc" (1942) repeated from 10-6
at 2pm: "Arsenic & Old Lace" (1944)
8pm to 6am: "The Thing" (1951), the crew of an Arctic base fight off attacks by an adaptive monster from space
"Village of the Damned" (1960), the emotionless, super-mental children of a British village take over, sequel below
"It! The Terror From Beyond Space" (1958), original version of the movie "Alien", about a spaceship crew that discover they have a nasty hitchhiker aboard
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978), Leonard Nimoy's remake
"The Creeping Unknown" (1956), an astronaut is turned into something else after returning to Earth with a strange fungus. Based on BBC tv series "The Quartermass Experiment"
"The Wild Wild Planet" (1965, Italian), female alien kidnaps world's scientists after shrinking them to doll-size
10-28 (10pm to 6am): "M" (1931), Peter Lorre
"Diary of a Madman" (1963), a French magistrate is possessed by the soul of a murderer (Vincent Price)
"Night Must Fall" (1937), a young woman slowly learns the identity of mysterious brutal killer terrorizing the countryside - her houseguest
"Tower of London" (1962), Vincent Price as a hunchback who murders his way to the top
10-29 (8pm to 6am): "The Devil Doll" (1936), murderous slaves are shrunken and given to victims as dolls
"Bedlam" (1946) repeated (see above), Boris Karloff
"Donovan's Brain" (1953), Hollywood version of Orson Wells' radio horror classic
"The Mask of Fu Manchu" (1932), Boris Karloff
"The Testament of Dr. Mabuse" (1933), a criminal uses hypnosis to run his empire after death
"Dr. X" (1932), a medical college suffers a mysterious series of cannibalistic murders
10-30: Halloween marathon at 7pm now continues without a break to November 1 at 6am:
"Universal Horror" documentary-style 2-hour look at the studio that invented monster movies
9pm: "The Haunting" (1963)
"The Woman in White" (1948), Sydney Greenstreet
"Poltergeist" (1982)
"Ghost Ship" (1943)
"The Return of Dr. X" (1939), from the grave... and looking for blood
"Scared to Death" (1947), Bela Lugosi
"Pharoah's Curse" (1957), no mummies, this time it's vampires in 1903 Egypt
"Kongo" (1932), a crippled madman tortures his enemy's daughter in a private African empire, not for the squeamish
"Cat People" (1942) repeated
William Castle's "Strait Jacket" (1964)
"Children of the Damned" (1964), sequel to 1960 film (above)
"Mystery of the Wax Museum" (1933), the director of a wax museum uses living models, at least they used to be alive...
"House of Wax" (1953), Vincent Price remake was his first horror film, watch for Carolyn Jones (Morticia Addams) as an early victim
"Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" (1941), remake of 1932 version you saw on TCM on 10-18-99
"Freaks" (1932)
"Mad Love" (1935), first film version about a murderer's hands being grafted onto someone else by a mad doctor, Peter Lorre
"The Beast With 5 Fingers" (1946), Peter Lorre
"The Phantom of the Opera" (1925), this silent Lon Chaney version is still the creepiest
"The Monster" (1925), Lon Chaney made this one the same year, about a mad doctor who arranges car wrecks so he can experiment on the survivors
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945), a man remains young and handsome while the image in his painted portrait slowly grows older in what you could call the first entry in Night Gallery, and the end of the Halloween marathon on TCM.
11-8-99: "The Hitch-hiker" (1953), dir. by Ida Lupino, followed by "Cry Terror" (1958)
"Beware My Lovely" (1952), an elderly lady (Ida Lupino) discovers that her new handyman has a quirk: he's a dangerous escaped mental patient...
"A Guy Named Joe" (1943), remade by Speilberg as "Always"
"The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970), he becomes involved with a French woman while investigating the Loch Ness monster. Christopher Lee
"A Slight Case of Murder" (1938), black comedy starring Edward G. Robinson
"Lost Horizon" (1937), original & best version of the fantasy about outsiders taken to a hidden valley in Tibet where no one ages, the 1st fantasy ever to win an Oscar (for either art/set direction or film editing)
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