TCM Schedule Sat. 9/30/23 - Bogie & Bacall, Rudyard Kipling, The Three Stooges, Godzilla

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9/30 At A Glance
TCM SPOTLIGHT: COMING OF AGE
- REMEMBERING CHILDHOOD
Summer of '42 (1971)
- BASED ON KIPLING
Captains Courageous (1937)
Jungle Book (1942)
- TCM DAYTIME
TCM SPOTLIGHT: COMING OF AGE (cont.)
Kim (1951)
WEEKEND FEATURES
MGM Cartoons: Pipe Dreams (1938)
Canadian Carnival (1955) (short)
Marine Circus (1939) (short)
Meet the Missus (1937)
Batman and Robin Ch. 11: Robin's Ruse (1949)
Popeye: Shoein' Hosses (1934)
Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)
Beer and Pretzels (1933) (short)
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) (Musical Matinee)
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1934)
Dark Passage (1947)
Caged (1950)
- TCM PRIMETIME
PRODUCED BY MOCTESUMA ESPARZA
Ballad of Gregoria Cortez, The (1982)
Milagro Beanfield War, The (1988)
- NOIR ALLEY
Whiplash (1948)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: GODZILLA
Godzilla (1954) 'Gojira'
Godzilla Raids Again (1955)

12:00 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
MUSIC (Original Dramatic Score) -- Michel Legrand (WINNER)
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) -- Herman Raucher

Trivia: Maureen Stapleton is the uncredited off-screen voice of Hermie's mother. Hermie's date for the movies, Aggie, is played by Katherine Allentuck, Stapleton's real-life daughter.

2:00 AM Captains Courageous (1937)

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A spoiled rich boy is lost at sea and rescued by a fishing boat where hard work and responsibility help him become a man.
Dir: Victor Fleming Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations: ACTOR -- Spencer Tracy {"Manuel"} (WINNER)
FILM EDITING -- Elmo Veron
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
WRITING (Screenplay) -- John Lee Mahin, Marc Connelly, Dale Van Every

Trivia: When production finally wrapped in late February 1937, Spencer Tracy was relieved. "Well, I got away with it," he said later. "Want to know why? Because of Freddie, because of that kid's performance, because he sold it 98 per cent. The kid had to believe in Manuel, or Manuel wasn't worth a quarter. The way he would look at me, believe every word I said, made me believe in it myself. I've never said this before, and I'll never say it again. Freddie Bartholomew's acting is so fine and so simple and so true that it's way over people's heads. It'll only be by thinking back two or three years from now that they'll realize how great it was."


4:00 AM Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942)

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A boy raised by wolves adjusts to life among humans.
Dir: Zoltan Korda Cast: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: Vincent Korda; Interior Decoration: Julia Heron
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color) -- W. Howard Greene
MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) -- Miklos Rozsa
SPECIAL EFFECTS -- Photographic Effects by Lawrence Butler; Sound Effects by William H. Wilmarth

Trivia: This was the first film for which original soundtrack recordings were issued. Previously, when record companies released music from a film, they had insisted on re-recording the music in their own studios with their own equipment. The "Jungle Book" records were taken from the same recordings used for the film's soundtrack, and their commercial success paved the way for more original-soundtrack albums.



6:00 AM Kim (1951)

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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
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Errol Flynn was initially excited about going to India, and turned down the studio's offer of the lead in King Solomon's Mines (1950) (which ultimately went to Stewart Granger). However, all of Flynn's scenes in this film were shot in the studio and matched in the editing room with long-shot second-unit footage of his double.


8:00 AM Cartoon: Pipe Dreams (1938)
Three monkeys spend some time exploring a tobacco shop.
Dir: Hugh Harman Cast: Jeanne Dunne, Rudolf Ising, Dick Nelson
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:10 AM Short: Canadian Carnival (1955)
This presents how the city of Quebec celebrates Winter Carnival during Mardi Gras.
Dir: Douglas Sinclair Cast: Peter Roberts
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:19 AM Short: Marine Circus (1939)
This short film takes look at Marineland of Florida, offering various examples of marine life.
Dir: James A. Fitzpatrick Cast: Pete Smith
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:29 AM Meet the Missus (1937)
A woman's mania for entering contests leads her family on a madcap trip to Atlantic City.
Dir: Joseph Santley Cast: Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Anne Shirley
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM Serial: Batman and Robin: Chapter 11: Robin's Ruse (1949)
Batman and Robin plan to lure the Wizard from his secret lair.
Dir: Spencer Gordon Bennet Cast: Robert Lowery, Johnny Duncan, Jane Adams
Runtime: 16 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: N


10:00 AM Cartoon: Shoein' Hosses (1934)
Olive Oyl, the proprietress of a blacksmith shop, fires her assistant Wimpy and advertises for a strong, handsome, willing assistant. Bluto and Popeye apply and try to outperform each other in feats of super-human strength.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky Cast: Charles Carver, William Costello, Charles Lawrence
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:08 AM Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)

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The Bowery Boys try to expose a phony fortune-teller.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan
Runtime: 63 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:30 AM Short: Beer and Pretzels (1933)


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Ted Healy and his Stooges are fired by their theater and try out new jobs as waiters.
Dir: Jack Cummings Cast: Ted Healy, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N

Trivia: The first Three Stooges two-reel short comedy film.


12:00 PM Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)

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True story of composer Jerome Kern's rise to the top on Broadway and in Hollywood.
Dir: Richard Whorf Cast: June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: When M-G-M asked Jerome Kern what he thought about Robert Walker portraying him, Kern said it was fine but wanted to hear his wife's opinion. He phoned her from the studio and she told him to stay there, portray himself and send Walker home to her.


2:30 PM The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

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A British aristocrat's effete facade masks a swashbuckling hero rescuing victims of the French Revolution.
Dir: Harold Young Cast: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America admonished: "There is cleavage in Reel 1. There is cleavage in Reel 4. There is gross cleavage in Reel 8", adding that it was the last film it would pass containing "scenes of offensive cleavage".


4:15 PM Dark Passage (1947)

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A man falsely accused of his wife's murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The actual 1937 Art Deco apartment building used in the film (located at 1360 Montgomery St. in San Francisco) is still standing as of 2023. The apartment (No. 10) is marked by a cardboard cut-out of Humphrey Bogart, which can be seen from the street. The site is visited frequently by fans of vintage film noir. The unit has one bath, one bedroom and 861 square feet, and was last sold in 2016 for $1.5M.


6:15 PM Caged (1950)

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A young innocent fights to survive the harsh life in a women's prison.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS -- Eleanor Parker {"Marie Allen"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Hope Emerson {"Evelyn Harper"}
WRITING (Story and Screenplay) -- Virginia Kellogg, Bernard C. Schoenfeld

Trivia: After I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) led to prison reform in six states, Warners producer Jerry Wald wanted to do the same for women's prisons and sent former newspaper reporter Virginia Kellogg out. She had written a novel that became a Kay Francis film, Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933), about a doctor who bears a child out of wedlock. She had also written well-researched original stories that were the basis for T-Men (1947), about treasury agents, and White Heat (1949), starring James Cagney as a psychotic gangster. She spent months doing research for Caged (1950) at prisons around the country, and was even briefly incarcerated in one of them. Her research is evident in the script with authentic prison slang of the era, and details of prison life, such as the caste system, and the tedium of daily life. Virginia Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld received an Oscar® nomination for Caged (1950)'s story and screenplay.

Trivia: Eleanor Parker allowed her head to be shaved for the sake of reality in the scene where the two prison matrons, played brilliantly by Hope Emerson and Frances Morris, tie her up and shave her head.


8:00 PM The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)

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Based on a popular "corrido" depicting the actual events of June 1901. Cortez, a Mexican cowhand working the ranges around San Antonio, kills a sheriff in self defense as he's about to be arrested in a case of mistaken identity. Thus begins an 11-day manhunt as Cortez flees on horseback from Gonzales to the Mexcian border.
Dir: Robert M. Young Cast: Edward James Olmos, James Gammon, Tom Bower
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: The courthouse used in the film was the actual courthouse that the trial for Gregorio Cortez was held in. Moreover, a real judge plays the judge in the trial sequence.


10:00 PM The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)

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A New Mexican town rallies behind a farmer who unintentionally irrigates his land with the water supply of a rich entrepreneur.
Dir: Robert Redford Cast: Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: In a scene at one of the local Milagro stores where John Heard's lawyer character is dropping off his newspapers, a woman is shopping for Newman's Own salad dressing. The store owner tells her, that's no good, buy something else - an obvious in-joke in which director Robert Redford tweaks his longtime friend and two-time co-star Paul Newman.

12:15 AM Whiplash (1948)

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An artist becomes a boxer but finds that it may not have been the best career choice.
Dir: Lew Seiler Cast: Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Nitrate prints of this film are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archives. Kodak did not stop making nitrate film stock until 1952.


2:00 AM Gojira (1954)

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American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.
Dir: Ishiro Honda Cast: Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: N

Trivia: The sound department tried numerous animal roars for Godzilla but felt they were unsuitable for an animal of such immense size. Akira Ifukube came up with Godzilla's roars by rubbing a coarse, resin-coated leather glove up and down the strings of a contrabass (double bass), and reverberated the recorded sound. Also, Godzilla's thunderous footsteps were made by beating a kettle drum with a knotted rope.


4:00 AM Godzilla Raids Again (AKA Gigantis The Fire Monster) (1955)

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This time around, Godzilla is reawakened by an A-Bomb again, but decides to wreak havoc on Osaka.
Dir: Motoyoshi Oda Cast: Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-G CC: N

Trivia: Special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya wanted the battle between Godzilla and Anguirus filmed in slow motion, but a camera technician accidentally undercranked the camera instead of overcranking it, resulting in the movement appearing faster than reality. Tsuburaya thought it looked interesting and decided to use it in the film.