TCM Schedule for Saturday April 6 - Early Billy Wilder, Bogart, Willie Nelson, Beat Street, Summer of '42

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Saturday April 6 - Early Billy Wilder, Bogart, Willie Nelson, Beat Street, Summer of '42



At a Glance

EARLY BILLY WILDER
(P) (1934) Mauvaise Graine / The Bad Seed
Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
- TCM LATE NIGHT
(P) Rumble Fish (1983)
Alice in Movieland (1940) (short)
Saturday, April 6
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Tunnel of Love, The (1958)
MGM Cartoons: Abdul the Bulbul Ameer (1941)
Believe it or Not #6 (1932) (short)
Along the Cactus Trail (1944) (short)
Fargo Kid, The (1941)
Directors Playhouse: Arroyo (1955)
Popeye: Bridge Ahoy! (1936)
Babbitt (1934)
Money to Loan (1939) (short)
Beat Street (1984) (Musical Matinee)
Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
Ride Lonesome (1959)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TCM SERIES: TWO FOR ONE - MARTIN SCORSESE
Blood on the Moon (1948)
(P) One Touch of Venus (1948)
- NOIR ALLEY
Violence (1947)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: COMING OF AGE
Summer of '42 (1971)
Class of '44 (1973))
Roof Tops of Manhattan (1935) (short)

Full schedule

12:00 AM Mauvaise Graine (The Bad Seed) (1934)

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After his father sells his car, Henri "borrows" a stranger's car in order to make a date with a young woman. This act sees him fall foul of a gang of car thieves but after some discussion he joins their gang.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Mingand, Raymond Galle
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:

Trivia: First film directed by Billy Wilder.


1:30 AM Five Graves to Cairo (1943)

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In the North African campaign of WWII, a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may have an even better use.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Thriller Rating: TV-PG CC: N

Oscar nominations: ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte; Interior Decoration: Bertram Granger
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- John Seitz
FILM EDITING -- Doane Harrison

Trivia: On the first day director Billy Wilder's hero Erich von Stroheim, arrived on set, Wilder ran to the wardrobe department to welcome him. He said, "This is a very big moment in my life . . . that I should now be directing the great Stroheim. Your problem, I guess, was that you were ten years ahead of your time." Von Stroheim replied, "Twenty."


3:30 AM Rumble Fish (1983)

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Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC:

Trivia: The sound technicians on the film had a hard time hearing Mickey Rourke's dialogue on set, often asking him to speak louder. As a result, the sound crew referred to the production as "Mumble Fish".


5:30 AM Short: Alice in Movieland (1940)
When a beauty queen tries to make it in Hollywood, she learns stardom comes at a price.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Joan Leslie, Nana Bryant, Jack Mower
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:00 AM The Tunnel of Love (1958)

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A married couple endures endless red tape when they try to adopt a child.
Dir: Gene Kelly Cast: Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Gig Young
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Director Gene Kelly says that he accepted this assignment as a way of fulfilling the final obligation of his long-term contract with M-G-M, but studio executives stipulated he had to shoot it in black-and-white, using only one main set, with a production schedule of only three weeks, and with a strict budget of just $500,000. The studio was delighted when Kelly was able to honor all those provisos, but the film proved to be a box office disappointment.

Trivia: Doris Day wrote that her manager/husband Martin Melcher was terribly concerned over the box-office failure of this film and It Happened to Jane (1959). Their failures caused Day to drop out of the Top Ten Box Office Stars. Day and Melcher had words about him hustling her into almost any film for the money instead of waiting to find good scripts that would have produced better results. While this film proved to be a dud, Doris Day's other 1958 release Teacher's Pet (1958), in which she co-starred with Clark Gable and Gig Young, was a big hit. As a result, Day tumbled from the Top Ten Box Office Stars list, but landed in 15th place for the year.


8:00 AM Cartoon: Abdul the Bulbul Ameer (1941)
Taken from a famous folk song recounting the fight between Abdul & Ivan Skivinsky Skivar.
Dir: Robert Allen Cast: Leon Belasco, Hans Conreid, Cliff Nazarro
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:09 AM Short: Believe It or Not #6 (1932)
In this short film, Robert Ripley presents a series of oddities, such as a wooden flower garden and a sands spider attacking a lizard. Vitaphone Release 1346.
Dir: null Cast: Robert L Ripley, Roy Mack
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:16 AM Short: Along the Cactus Trail (1944)
This takes the viewer from Riverside, California to Phoenix, Arizona.
Dir: James A. Fitzpatrick Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, Penrhyn Stanlaws, Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:26 AM The Fargo Kid (1941)

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When a lawman is mistaken for a killer, he turns the mistake to his advantage.
Dir: Edward Killy Cast: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Emmett Lynn
Runtime: 63 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM Short: Arroyo (1955)
A young woman stumbles into a Western town claiming she's the survivor of an Indian attack, in this episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse television series.
Dir: George Waggner Cast: Jack Carson, Lynn Bari, Lola Albright
Runtime: 30 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:00 AM Cartoon: Bridge Ahoy! (1936)
Popeye becomes angry with Bluto for throwing Wimpy into the water because he hasn't got his ferry fare. Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy build a bridge which will be free to all. Bluto does everything possible to stop the progress of the bridge.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel. Cast: Lou Fleischer, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:08 AM Babbitt (1934)
A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Aline Macmahon, Guy Kibbee, Claire Dodd
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:30 AM Short: Money to Loan (1939)
This looks at the criminal lengths that loan sharks go to get individuals to pay back their loans.
Dir: Joseph Newman Cast: Lester Dorr, Alan Dinehart, Warren Mccollum
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 PM Beat Street (1984)

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Some teens from the Bronx find their outlets in "breakdancing".
Dir: Stan Lathan Cast: Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis, Morgan Richardson
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: Most of the graffiti art that was displayed all throughout the film was not done by real graffiti artists - it was airbrushed by set decorators, however, two grafitti artists were hired as creative consultants for the film, including Bill Cordero - aka "Blast", and Lonny Wood - aka "Phase II", (who is also referenced in the movie, during the subway graffiti scene)

2:00 PM Honeysuckle Rose (1980)

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Country singer and songwriter Buck Bonham has a solid following in his home state of Texas and in the West, but has not had a hit that would give him national fame. As he and his band are on the road, his wife and son miss him, and Buck is beginning to wonder if he should continue with his musical career or quit. Just as ...
Dir: Jerry Schatzberg Cast: Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, Amy Irving
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
MUSIC (Original Song) -- "On The Road Again," Music and Lyric by Willie Nelson

Trivia: The song "On the Road Again" sung by Willie Nelson from this film went to No. #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 whilst the "Honeysuckle Rose" album went to No. #11 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart but chart-topped to the No. #1 spot on Billboard's top country albums. The song "On the Road Again" got Oscar nominated and won a Grammy Award for Best Country Song. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine scored the song at the No. #471 rank on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time whilst in 2011, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The tune was Nelson's his sixth No. #1 hit as a solo performer and his ninth No. #1 Country & Western hit overall. The track has frequently been used on various soundtracks for films and television series and is considered a music classic. It's also Willie Nelson's musical trademark.

Trivia: Actresses Amy Irving and Dyan Cannon did their own singing and can be heard on the movie's soundtrack.

Trivia: Amy Irving and Willie Nelson started a relationship on set (despite his marriage). Irving later left Nelson for director Steven Spielberg.

4:15 PM Ride Lonesome (1959)

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A bounty hunter tries to bring a murderer to justice through perilous territory.
Dir: Budd Boetticher Cast: Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Film debut of James Coburn.

Trivia: The "pointy bra" Karen Steele wears throughout the movie was the fashion in the late 1950s.

5:45 PM The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

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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
Runtime: 126 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
(*WINNER*) ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Walter Huston {"Howard"}
(*WINNER*) DIRECTING -- John Huston
BEST MOTION PICTURE -- Warner Bros.
(*WINNER*) WRITING (Screenplay) -- John Huston

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Trivia: Walter Huston, father of director John Huston, won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. John won for Best Director. This was the first father/son win. In his Oscar acceptance speech, Walter Huston said, "Many, many years ago, I brought up a boy and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime'. Well, by cracky, that's what he did!"

8:00 PM Blood on the Moon (1948)

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A gunslinger hired to drive off a rancher falls in love with the man's daughter.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Walter Brennan, an Old West aficionado and historian, saw Robert Mitchum walk onto the set in costume and said, "That is the god-damnedest realest cowboy I've ever seen!"

9:45 PM One Touch of Venus (1948)

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A young window dresser kisses a statue of Venus, which then comes to life. Problems begin when Venus falls in love with him.
Dir: William A. Seiter, Gregory La Cava Cast: Robert Walker, Ava Gardner, Eve Arden
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC:

Trivia: MGM loaned Ava Gardner to Universal Studios to make this movie. Universal sent her to sculptor Joseph Nicolosi to make a proper life-size statue of the goddess. Nicolosi's first statue was entirely nude, and the studio told the sculptor to go back and make a more modest goddess. Universal sent members of the press a small souvenir knockoff of the second statue as a promotional item. According to author Lee Server in his biography "Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing", Robert Walker was so infatuated with his co-star that when he found rival Howard Duff in her dressing room, he slapped Ava. She left the studio and filming ended.

Trivia: The original plans for filming this property in 1945 for United Artists included Mary Martin (from the original cast) with Frank Sinatra, Clifton Webb and Bert Lahr, with Sam Coslow producing for Mary Pickford. Pickford felt that only Webb had any box-office pull and was hesitant to commit $2 million of her own money to the production. After much indecision she finally sold the rights to Lester Cowan at Universal.


NOIR ALLEY: 12:00 AM Violence (1947)



A female reporter goes undercover within a Neo-Nazi group, then loses her memory.
Dir: Jack Bernhard Cast: Nancy Coleman, Michael O'shea, Sheldon Leonard
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: According to a contemporary article in The Hollywood Reporter, the "United Defenders" was modeled after the "Columbians" of Atlanta, Georgia - a white supremacist, anti-Semitic hate group that operated from 1946 to 1947.

Trivia: The fllm debut of Frank Cady, aka Mr. Drucker on "Green Acres”.

1:45 AM Summer of '42 (1971)

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A high school student falls in love, for the first time, with a World War II bride.
Dir: Robert Mulligan Cast: Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Robert Surtees
FILM EDITING -- Folmar Blangsted
(*WINNER*) MUSIC (Original Dramatic Score) -- Michel Legrand
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) -- Herman Raucher

Trivia: In a 2002 Scripps Treasure Coast Publishing interview, Herman Raucher mentions that this movie was written first; not the book. When this film was in post-production, someone told him to write the book about Summer of '42 to help publicize the picture. Raucher wrote the book in about 3 or 4 weeks.

3:45 AM Class of '44 (1973)

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During the last years of World War II, Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie are coming of age. When they graduate from high school in 1944, they go their separate ways. Benjie joins the Marines as Hermie and Oscy enter college. There, Hermie falls head over heels for another freshman named Julie.
Dir: Paul Bogart Cast: Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Unlike its prequel Summer of '42 (1971), Class of '44 is more of a fictional work. There are several fictional elements in this film. One of them was that this film was supposed to be based on the boys facing army service in the Korean War. But it was changed to World War 2.

Trivia: Film debut of John Candy in a brief but uncredited appearance as a high school graduate who interacts with Hermie and Oscy.

5:30 AM Short: Rooftops of Manhattan (1935)
This presents several musical performances set in a rooftop nightclub in Manhattan.
Dir: Joseph Henabery Cast: Edith Helena, Bob Burns, Jack Conway
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The only known film appearance of Edith Helena. She was an American-born opera star who had a four-octave range and could imitate a violin, and also performed in the Vaudeville era. She was born in Brooklyn New York in 1876 as Edith Helen Seymour and took the stage name of Edith Helena. It was said she was Theodore Roosevelt's favorite singer. During the first decade of the 20th Century, she and her manager/press agent husband toured Europe and the U.S.