TCM Schedule Saturday 6/1/24 - Guest Programmer Billy Dee Williams, The Producers, Gun Crazy, Cries & Whispers

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JUNE 1 - THE DAY AT A GLANCE

GUEST PROGRAMMER: BILLY DEE WILLIAMS
Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and
Motor Kings, The (1976) (Premiere)
Scott Joplin (1977)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: POWELL & PRESSBURGER
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943)
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Sun Comes Up, The (1949)
MGM Cartoons: Barnyard Babies (1935)
Day of Rest, The (1939) (short)
Glimpses of Florida (1941) (short)
Last Ride, The (1944)
Directors Playhouse: Lincoln's Doctor's Dog (1955)
Popeye: Spinach Roadster, The (1936)
Falcon and the Co-Eds, The (1944)
Alaska Lifeboat (1956) (short)
Producers, The (1967) (Musical Matinee)
Bad Seed, The (1956)
Boy with Green Hair, The (1948)
Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings, The
(1976)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TCM SERIES: TWO FOR ONE
- ETHAN HAWKE
Gunfighter, The (1950)
Gun Crazy (1950)
- NOIR ALLEY
Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: DRAMA
Remains of the Day, The (1993)
Cries and Whispers (1972)

JUNE 1 - FULL DAY'S SCHEDULE

11:00 PM The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976)

A group of black baseball players attempt to make the big time circa 1939.
Dir: John Badham Cast: Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, John McKee
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC:

Trivia: Bingo Long was based slightly on Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the Negro league and Major League Baseball player and pitcher.

1:00 AM Scott Joplin (1977)

The life story of famed ragtime composer and pianist Scott Joplin is told.
Dir: Jeremy Kagan Cast: Billy Dee Williams, David Raynr, Spo De Odee
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Biography Rating: TV-PG CC:

Trivia: Originally a made-for-television movie, but was released to theaters.

3:00 AM The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

In this fascinating epic, Colonel Blimp relished a good fight, but as the atrocities of combat took their toll, he was forced to rethink the sense of it all. Deborah Kerr co-stars playing three different women who touched the colonel's heart over the course of his 40-year career.
Dir: Michael Powell Cast: Deborah Kerr, Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook
Runtime: 163 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Colonel Blimp was a British cartoon character in a then well-known strip. The producers decided to use the name for the movie. Winston Churchill hated the film and wanted it banned. Failing that (for legal reasons), he tried to keep it from being exported because he thought it was a threat to wartime morale, and he also failed at that.

6:00 AM The Sun Comes Up (1949)

Lassie helps an embittered woman find happiness with an orphaned boy.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Jeanette Macdonald, Lloyd Nolan, Claude Jarman Jr.
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Jeanette MacDonald's final film. MacDonald had to be under constant medication because of her severe allergy to dogs. One of the orphans is played by Tommy Rettig who, five years later, starred in the Lassie TV show.

8:00 AM Short: Barnyard Babies (1935)
A baby contest is going on in the barn where all the barnyard animals' children compete in a talent contest but the rooster is left out because his baby is taking too much time to arrive so he tries to hurry the process along.
Dir: Rudolf Ising Cast: Barbara Brewster, Gloria Brewster, Dorothy Compton
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:10 AM Short: The Day of Rest (1939)
In this short film, a family man tries to spend a quiet Sunday at home, but his wife and children have other ideas.
Dir: Basil Wrangell Cast: Hobart Cavanaugh, Robert Benchley, Shirley Coates
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: N

8:20 AM Short: Glimpses of Florida (1941)
This short film takes the viewer to several cities in the state of Florida.
Dir: James A. Fitzpatrick Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, C Bakaleinikoff, Robert Carney
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:30 AM The Last Ride (1944)

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A detective suspects foul play in a series of accidental deaths.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman Cast: Richard Travis, Charles Lang, Eleanor Parker
Runtime: 57 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: N

Trivia: Produced in 1942 but not released until 1944.

9:30 AM Short: Screen Director's Playhouse: Lincoln's Doctor's Dog (1955)

In this episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse television series, a doctor gives President Lincoln a puppy to buoy his spirits during the dark days of the Civil War.
Dir: H.C. Potter Cast: Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Richard Long
Runtime: 30 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:00 AM Cartoon: The Spinach Roadster (1936)
Popeye arrives in a beat up roadster to take Olive Oyl for a ride only to find Bluto there in a sleek new car. She rides off with Popeye but Bluto manages to wreck the sailor's jalopy.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wicke
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:07 AM The Falcon and the Co-eds (1944)

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A society sleuth investigates murder at a girls' school.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Rita Corday
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Most Falcon films end with a teaser previewing his next case. The first time it accurately presaged the sequel's plot was for "The Falcon and the Co-eds."

11:30 AM Short: Alaska Lifeboat (1956)
A medical services ship stops in the native village of Haines, Alaska.
Dir: Herbert Morgan Cast: Ralph Sarlan
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y

12:00 PM The Producers (1967)

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The Producers is a 1967 American satirical black comedy film written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars. The film is about a con artist theater producer and his accountant who scheme to get rich by fraudulently overselling interests in a stage musical purposely designed to fail. They find a script celebrating Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and bring it to the stage. Because of this theme, The Producers was controversial from the start and received mixed reviews. It became a cult film and found a more positive critical reception later.

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
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Gene Wilder {"Leo Bloom"}
(*WINNER*) WRITING (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) -- Mel Brooks

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Trivia: Roger Ebert recounted how he was in an elevator with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft in New York City after the film premiered. A woman got onto the elevator, recognized him and said, "I have to tell you, Mr. Brooks, that your movie is vulgar." Brooks replied, "Lady," he said, "it rose below vulgarity."

1:45 PM The Bad Seed (1956)

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An eight-year-old girl--a quintessential psychopath--kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this "bad seed" to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS -- Nancy Kelly {"Christine Penmark"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Eileen Heckart {"Mrs. Daigle"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Patty McCormack {"Rhoda Penmark"}
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Hal Rosson

Trivia: Alfred Hitchcock turned down the chance to direct this film.

4:15 PM The Boy with Green Hair (1948)

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An orphaned boy mystically acquires green hair and a mission to end war.
Dir: Joseph Losey Cast: Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Unfortunately for the film's director, Joseph Losey, the eccentric, politically conservative Howard Hughes took over RKO while this film was being shot and, hating the film's pacifist message, did his best to sabotage it. Losey, however, managed to protect the integrity of his project. Screenwriter Ben Barzman, who was also later blacklisted along with Losey, would later recall that "Joe shot the picture in such a way that there wasn't much possibility for change. A few lines were stuck in here and there to soften the message, but that was about it." Barzman also remembered that 12-year-old Dean Stockwell was called into Hughes' office, and Hughes told him that when the other children spoke of the horror of war, he should say, "And that's why America has gotta have the biggest army, and the biggest navy, and the biggest air force in the world!" According to Barzman, little Stockwell was so in sympathy with the film's message that he dared to respond, "No, sir!" Even after Hughes started to scream at him, the boy held his ground and refused to do it. Dean Stockwell later played Howard Hughes in "Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)."

5:45 PM The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976)
A group of black baseball players attempt to make the big time circa 1939.
Dir: John Badham Cast: Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, John McKee
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC:
(Repeat)

8:00 PM The Gunfighter (1950)

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Notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo rides into town to find his true love, who doesn't want to see him. He hasn't come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner.
Dir: Henry King Cast: Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
WRITING (Motion Picture Story) -- William Bowers, Andre de Toth

Trivia: The studio hated Gregory Peck's authentic period mustache. In fact, the head of production at Fox, Spyros P. Skouras, was out of town when production began. By the time he got back, so much of the film had been shot that it was too late to order Peck to shave it off and re-shoot. After the film did not do well at the box office, Skouras ran into Peck and he reportedly said, "That mustache cost us millions."

9:45 PM Gun Crazy (1950)

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Gun Crazy (also known as Deadly Is the Female) is a 1950 American crime film noir starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime-spree of a gun-toting husband and wife. It was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and produced by Frank and Maurice King.

The screenplay by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo (credited to Millard Kaufman because of the blacklist) and MacKinlay Kantor was based upon a short story by Kantor published in 1940 in The Saturday Evening Post. In 1998, Gun Crazy was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The bank heist sequence was done entirely in one take, with no one outside the principal actors and people inside the bank aware that a movie was being filmed. When John Dall as Bart Tare says, "I hope we find a parking space," he really meant it, as there was no guarantee that there would be one. In addition, at the end of the sequence someone in the background screams that there's been a bank robbery - this was actually a bystander who saw the filming and assumed the worst.


12:00 AM Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)

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A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released and struggles to adjust to the outside world.
Dir: Felix Feist Cast: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Steve Cochran broke his leg shooting a fight scene with Hugh Sanders during the first week of filming. After a short hospital stay, he wore a cast for two weeks during this production.

2:00 AM The Remains of the Day (1993)

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A proper British butler sacrifices happiness to remain faithful to his position.
Dir: James Ivory Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve
Runtime: 134 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Anthony Hopkins {"Mr. Stevens"}
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Emma Thompson {"Miss Kenton"}
ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Luciana Arrighi; Set Decoration: Ian Whittaker
COSTUME DESIGN -- Jenny Beavan, John Bright
DIRECTING -- James Ivory
MUSIC (Original Score) -- Richard Robbins
BEST PICTURE -- Mike Nichols, John Calley and Ismail Merchant, Producers
WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published) -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Trivia: Sir Anthony Hopkins, as a guest on Inside the Actors Studio (1994), said that he got tips on how to play a butler from real-life butler Cyril Dickman, who served for fifty years at Buckingham Palace. Dickman said "There's nothing to being a butler, really; when you're in the room, it should be even more empty."

4:30 AM Cries and Whispers (1972)

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A woman's impending death leads to painful memories and confrontations for herself and her two sisters.
Dir: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: N

Oscar nominations:
(*WINNER*) CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Sven Nykvist
COSTUME DESIGN -- Marik Vos
DIRECTING -- Ingmar Bergman
BEST PICTURE -- Ingmar Bergman, Producer
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) -- Ingmar Bergman

Trivia: The only Best Picture Oscar nominated film directed by director Ingmar Bergman. Bergman, who produced the film with his own money, could not find an American distributor, as they felt it was far from commercial. Roger Corman, who had just left American-International Pictures to set up his own New World releasing company, was in the market for a prestige picture to give his new operation some class.

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