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TCM sked. Sat. 11-18-23: Audrey Hepburn, The Monkees, Martin Sheen, Westworld, Invisible Man, D.O.A, Brian DePalma
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TCM schedule Sat. 11-18-23: Audrey Hepburn, The Monkees, Martin Sheen, Westworld, The Invisible Man, D.O.A, Brian DePalma
11-18 At a Glance
TCM PRIMETIME
SPOTLIGHT: AFTER DARK
- THE CITY AT NIGHT
Taxi Driver (1976)
Incident, The (1967)
Alphabet City (1984)
Saturday, November 18
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Green Mansions (1959)
MGM Cartoons: The Stork's Holiday (1943)
Cousin Wilbur (1939) (short)
Life in the Andes (1952) (short)
Hideaway (1937)
Buck Rogers Ch. 3: The Enemy's Stronghold (1939)
Popeye: We Aim to Please (1934)
News Hounds (1947)
One for the Book (1940) (short)
Head (1968) (Musical Matinee)
Westworld (1973)
Macao (1952)
D.O.A. (1950)
Invisible Man, The (1933)
- TCM PRIMETIME
SPECIAL THEME: BRUCE LEE
Enter the Dragon (1973)
(P) Game of Death (1978) - NOIR ALLEY
Strange Bargain (1949)
- TCM LATE NIGHT
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Sisters (1972)
TCM PRIMETIME
SPOTLIGHT: AFTER DARK - THE CITY AT NIGHT
11:45 PM Taxi Driver (1976)
Travis Bickle is a loner, alienated from society, who finds work as a cabbie working the night shift. Inside him grows a morbid fascination and disgust with the seedy side of the city's street life, a fascination that drives him to save a young prostitute and enact a vengeance against those he considers to be the perpetrators ...
Dir: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
Oscar nominations: ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Robert De Niro {"Travis Bickle"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Jodie Foster {"Iris"}
MUSIC (Original Score) -- Bernard Herrmann
BEST PICTURE -- Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, Producers
Trivia: Director Martin Scorsese claims that the most important shot in the movie is when Bickle is on the phone trying to get another date with Betsy. The camera moves to the side slowly and pans down the long, empty hallway next to Bickle, as if to suggest that the phone conversation is too painful and pathetic to bear; this shot also showcases his isolation and loneliness.
2:00 AM The Incident (1967)
Two rowdy teens board a New York City subway and terrorize the passengers.
Dir: Larry Peerce Cast: Matin Sheen, Tony Musante, Beau Bridges
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
Trivia: All scenes in the subway car were filmed in a studio mockup of IRT World's Fair Lo-V #5674. The producers contacted St. Louis Car Co. for original blueprints of the car and painstakingly reproduced it. Lights were mounted along the car exterior and illuminated sequentially to simulate a speed of 30 mph. The NYC Transit Authority refused to grant permission for filming on its property. Subway footage was filmed by concealing the cameras inside bags. Police became suspicious when they heard whirring sounds inside the bags.
4:00 AM Alphabet City (1984)
A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.
Dir: Amos Poe Cast: Vincent Spano, Kate Vernon, Michael Winslow
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: N
- TCM DAYTIME WEEKEND FEATURES
6:00 AM Green Mansions (1959)
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A young adventurer falls in love with a mystical woman in the South American jungle.
Dir: Mel Ferrer Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins, Lee J. Cobb
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: Director Mel Ferrer made a scouting trip to South America with nearly an hour of jungle footage filmed south of Orinoco and in the Parahauri Mountains, much of which was incorporated into the film. Twenty-five acres of back lot were converted to match the previously shot exteriors, incorporating 300 tons of turf, boulders, canoes, grass huts, blowguns, trees, and plants.
8:00 AM Cartoon: The Stork's Holiday (1943)
The stork has problems with anti-aircraft guns when trying to deliver babies in World War II Germany.
Dir: George Gordon Cast: Tex Avery, Pinto Colvig, Jerry Mann
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y
8:09 AM Short: Cousin Wilbur (1939)
In this short, a snooty cousin instantly gets on the bad side of a childhood gang of friends.
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Phillip Hurlic, Joe Levine, Tommy McFarland
Runtime: 10 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: N
8:20 AM Short: Life in the Andes (1952)
This short film takes the viewer to the western side of South America, to the Andes.
Dir: null Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, Keith Covey, James A. Fitzpatrick, Joseph Nussbaum
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N
8:29 AM Hideaway (1937)
A homeless family tries to take over an abandoned house, only to discover it's a gangsters' hideaway.
Dir: Richard Rosson Cast: Fred Stone, Emma Dunn, Marjorie Lord
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: N
9:30 AM Serial: Buck Rogers, Chapter 3: The Enemy's Stronghold (1939)
In Chapter Three of Buck Rogers, the space hero delivers a war treaty to gangster Killer Kane.
Dir: Ford Beebe, Ray Trampe Cast: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-G CC: N
10:00 AM Cartoon: We Aim to Please (1934)
Popeye and Olive open a restaurant and their first customer, Wimpy, enters to prove to Bluto that he can get a hamburger for free. Encouraged by Wimpy's success, Bluto tries the same thing but instead of Popeye trusting him, they end up in quite a battle.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky Cast: William Costello, Mae Questel
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
10:08 AM News Hounds (1947)
When they get newspaper jobs, the Bowery Boys take on a sport-fixing mob.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
11:30 AM Short: One for the Book (1940)
Famous literary figures step out of the pages of books after dark.
Dir: Roy Mack Cast: Betty Hutton, Hal Sherman, Miriam Grahame
Runtime: 18 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N
12:00 PM Head (1968)
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The Monkees take off on a series of psychedelic and zany adventures in their screen debut.
Dir: Bob Rafelson Cast: Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: Co-writer Jack Nicholson actually compiled the film's soundtrack in its final form, with snippets of the film's dialogue between songs, and is so credited on its LP album cover (when he saw Michael Nesmith at work in the studio and asked if he could help, Nesmith let him take over, because he said "I just want to go home."
. Nicholson had unwavering enthusiasm for the film, joining in a stickering campaign to promote its premiere and declaring later that "I saw it, like, 158,000,000 times, man. I loved it!"
Trivia: In one scene, a desert wanderer faces off against an uncooperative soda machine as a jingle plays. Coca-Cola reportedly was not amused and tried to get an injunction against the scene. When the film reappeared on cable and home video in 1986, Coca-Cola owned Columbia Pictures, and the matter was apparently forgotten.
Trivia: The "box" shown in several scenes was inspired by the lounge area built for The Monkees while filming their TV series. They grew bored between takes and wandered around the studio, often getting lost, so the Screen Gems brass added a special room next to the soundstage. They would spend time there smoking (which was forbidden on the set), studying their scripts, composing, and playing music. Colored lights were added to the room to page whoever was needed on the set.
Trivia: Victor Mature agreed to appear in the film after reading the script, admitting none of it made sense to him: "All I know is it makes me laugh." His character, "The Big Victor", is presumed to be a comic jab at RCA Victor, which were the distributors for The Monkees' records, and whose parent company also owned NBC, which aired their TV series.
1:45 PM Westworld (1973)
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A high-tech amusement park for adults features three recreated historical environments - Medieval World, Roman World, and West World - populated by highly realistic androids programmed to indulge the whims of every high-paying guest. The main attraction of West World is the Gunslinger - a robot programmed to start duels ...
Dir: Michael Crichton Cast: Richard Benjamin, Yul Brynner, James Brolin
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
Trivia: The first use of computer digitized images as part of a feature film (not merely monitor graphics) was the Gunslinger's point of view in Westworld. After the process was finally developed enough to produce satisfactory results, it took a mere eight hours to produce each ten seconds of footage for the Gunslinger's pixelated POV.
Trivia: Yul Brynner was suffering from financial difficulties by the early 1970s and in desperate need of money. With no other movie work on offer to him at the time he reluctantly agreed to play his role for a knockdown $75,000 which comes out to $485,648.65 in 2022.
Trivia: Both Richard Benjamin and James Brolin were cast less than 48 hours before filming was due to begin.
3:30 PM Macao (1952)
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
5:00 PM D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Dir: Rudolph Maté Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: N
Trivia: The scene in which Bigelow runs in panic through the streets after learning he has been poisoned was what is considered a 'stolen shot' where the pedestrians along the sidewalk had no idea a movie was being made and no warning that Edmond O'Brien would be plowing through them.
6:30 PM The Invisible Man (1933)
A scientist's experiments with invisibility turn him into a madman.
Dir: James Whale Cast: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: In order to achieve the effect that Claude Rains wasn't there when his character took off the bandages, James Whale had Rains dressed completely in black velvet and filmed him in front of a black velvet background.
- TCM PRIMETIME
SPECIAL THEME: BRUCE LEE
8:00 PM Enter the Dragon (1973)
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Bruce Lee plays a martial-arts expert determined to help capture the narcotics dealer whose gang was responsible for the death of his sister. Lee enters a kung fu competition in an attempt to fight his way to the dealer's headquarters with the help of some friends.
Dir: Robert Clouse Cast: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
Trivia: Bruce Lee actually struck Jackie Chan in the face with one of his fighting sticks. He immediately apologized and insisted that Chan could work on all of his movies after that. Unfortunately, Lee died before he could keep his promise.
10:00 PM Game of Death (1978)
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
Dir: Robert Clouse, Bruce Lee Cast: Bruce Lee, Gig Young, Dean Jagger
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-MA CC:
12:00 AM NOIR ALLEY: Strange Bargain (1949)
A young bookkeeper is framed for his boss's murder.
Dir: Will Price Cast: Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn, Henry Morgan
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
- TCM LATE NIGHT
1:45 AM Dressed To Kill (1980)
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After wife and mother Kate Miller discusses her sexual frustrations with her psychiatrist, she goes to meet her husband at a museum. At the museum, she meets a strange man who she follows to a cab and then has sex with him at his apartment. After the affair, Kate is brutally murdered in the elevator by a blonde woman.
Dir: Brian De Palma Cast: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Horror Rating: TV-14 CC:
Trivia: Angie Dickinson said the scene where her character gets seduced in the back of a taxicab was filmed on-location in New York City, where several gawkers observed the scene and shouted, "Right on, Police Woman!" (referring to her previous television role as the title character on Police Woman (1974)).
4:00 AM Sisters (1972)
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A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Dir: Brian De Palma Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
Trivia: Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt were roommates in Southern California in the early 1970s while they were struggling performers. They held parties for their friends and neighbors who included Paul Schrader, Blythe Danner, Bruce Paltrow and Brian De Palma. One year at Christmas, Kidder and Salt opened separate boxes under their Christmas tree and each one contained the script to this film. This project was De Palma's gift to them.
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