April 2005 – Errol Flynn

April 2005 – Errol Flynn

Friday April 1 – April Fools

6:00 AM MGM’s Big Parade Of Comedy (1964) – I’ve not seen this but it promises to be fun. It features clips from MGM films which highlight funny scenes & dozens of (comic) stars

A selection of Laurel & Hardy films including:

7:30 AM Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) – a TCM premiere!

8:45 AM The Devil’s Brother (1933) – a 3 star film!

10:15 AM Beau Hunks (1931) – a TCM premiere!

10:45 AM The Bohemian Girl (1936) – a 3 star film & a TCM premiere!

12:00 PM Them Thar Hills (1934) – a TCM premiere!

12:30 PM Tit For Tat (1935) – a TCM premiere!

2:30 PM Chickens Come Home (1931) – a TCM premiere!

5:30 PM A Chump at Oxford (1940) – a TCM premiere!

6:45 PM Swiss Miss (1938) – a TCM premiere!

8:00 PM Way Out West (1937) – highly rated this is also a TCM premiere!

9:15 PM Sons of the Desert (1933) – ditto!

10:30 PM The Music Box (1932) – not only a TCM premiere but also featured in the 100 Years at the Movies (1994) short.

11:15 PM Block-Heads (1938) – a 3 star film & a TCM premiere!

12:30 AM Pardon Us (1931) – a TCM premiere!

1:30 AM Blotto (1930) – a TCM premiere!

2:00 AM Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

4:00 AM Forever Ealing (2002) – a terrific documentary about this studio which produced so many memorable comedies.

Saturday April 2 – Movies with Great Auction scenes

6:00 AM The Fugitive (1947) – this film by director John Ford stars Henry Fonda as a priest an outlawed profession in Mexico trying to survive and avoid capture while trying to serve the Christians in the country.

10:00 AM The Badlanders (1958) – an obscure film for which I’ve written a review!

2:00 PM Sounder (1972)

4:00 PM National Velvet (1944)

8:00 PM North By Northwest (1959) – a TCM Essential!

12:30 AM Oklahoma! (1955)

Sunday April 3

6:00 AM Test Pilot (1938) – an all new capsule review!

8:00 AM King Kong (1933)

4:00 PM To Catch a Thief (1955)

6:00 PM North By Northwest (1959) – this week’s TCM Essential is repeated

6:00 PM Destination Hitchcock: The Making of North by Northwest (2000) – a most interesting documentary about what I believe is the great director’s best film

9:00 PM Patton (1970) – a TCM premiere!

12:00 AM The Wind (1928) – A terrific Lillian Gish silent film about a girl who fights the elements and the rough nature of the culture in the wild West. Added to the National Film Registry in 1993.

1:30 AM Oliver! (1968)

Monday April 4 – April Fools

A selection of Charley Chase films including:

6:00 AM April Fool (1924) – a TCM premiere!

6:15 AM Fraidy Cat (1924) – a TCM premiere!

6:30 AM Bad Boy (1925) – a TCM premiere!

7:00 AM Isn’t Life Terrible (1925) – a TCM premiere!

7:30 AM Caretaker’s Daughter The (1925) – a TCM premiere!

8:00 AM The Uneasy Three (1925) – a TCM premiere!

8:30 AM What Price Goofy? (1925) – a TCM premiere!

9:00 AM Innocent Husbands (1925) – a TCM premiere!

9:30 AM Long Fliv the King (1926) – a TCM premiere!

10:00 AM Mighty Like a Moose (1926) – a TCM premiere!

10:30 AM Bromo and Juliet (1926) – a TCM premiere!

11:00 AM Be Your Age (1926) – a TCM premiere!

11:30 AM Mama Behave (1926) – a TCM premiere!

12:00 PM Mums the Word (1926) – a TCM premiere!

12:30 PM Dog Shy (1926) – a TCM premiere!

A selection of Fatty Arbuckle films including:

1:00 PM Fatty Joins the Force (1913) – a TCM premiere!

1:15 PM A Flirt’s Mistake (1914) – a TCM premiere!

1:30 PM The Knockout (1914) – a TCM premiere!

2:00 PM The Rounders (1914) – a TCM premiere!

2:15 PM Leading Lizzie Astray (1914) – a TCM premiere!

2:30 PM Mabel and Fatty’s Wash Day (1915) – a TCM premiere!

2:45 PM Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915) – a TCM premiere!

3:00 PM Wished on Mabel (1915) – a TCM premiere!

3:15 PM Fatty’s Tintype Tangle (1915) – a TCM premiere!

3:45 PM He Did and He Didn’t (1916) – a TCM premiere!

4:15 PM The Waiters’ Ball (1916) – a TCM premiere!

4:45 PM Coney Island (1917) – a TCM premiere!

5:15 PM Love (1919) – a TCM premiere!

5:45 PM Leap Year (1921) – a TCM premiere!

6:45 PM Seven Years Bad Luck (1921) – a TCM premiere featuring Max Linder!

A selection of Harold Lloyd films including:

8:00 PM The Kid Brother (1927) – a four star silent with Lloyd playing the youngest a “goof ball” born of April 1st in a respected family of lawmen. When the Lloyd character’s father the Sheriff is suspected of stealing the town’s treasury which was to be used for the new dam it’s up to the young fool to save the day.

9:30 PM Safety Last! (1923) – featuring perhaps the comedian’s most famous scene climbing a skyscraper clinging to a clock as he hangs out over traffic. Added to the National Film Registry in 1994.

11:00 PM The Freshman (1925) – an all new capsule review!

12:15 AM Speedy (1928) – which earned director Ted Wilde a nomination for Best Director Comedy Picture in the only year this Oscar category existed losing to Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)) and the Howard Hughes produced Two Arabian Nights (1927). Lloyd is an obsessed baseball fan whose love for the game prevents him from keeping a job. Great scenes of Coney Island NY (that must have been a fun place to visit!) a Babe Ruth cameo a funny street fight copied many times over and a perilous chase through the city make this a silent classic not to missed.

1:45 AM Get Out and Get Under (1920) – a TCM premiere!

4:15 AM Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy (1962) – an excellent compilation of the great comedian’s work put together by the man himself

Tuesday April 5 – TCM’s Star of the Month Errol Flynn

8:30 AM Of Human Bondage (1934) – an all new capsule review!

10:00 AM Bordertown (1935) – all new full review!

3:30 PM All This And Heaven Too (1940)

6:00 PM In This Our Life (1942)

8:00 PM & 11:30 PM The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005) – an OUTSTANDING all new TCM feature!

9:30 PM The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) – updated capsule review!

1:00 AM Captain Blood (1935)

Wednesday April 6 – Screwball Comedy Classics Preston Sturges & Frank Capra

6:00 AM Libeled Lady (1936)

8:00 AM It’s A Wonderful World (1939)

9:30 AM It’s Love I’m After (1937) – an all new capsule review!

1:15 PM Midnight (1939)

3:00 PM My Favorite Wife (1940)

4:30 PM The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer (1947) – Sydney Sheldon (I Dream of Jeannie‘s creator) won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar on his only nomination for this love triangle comedy between a high schooler (Shirley Temple) her older sister (a judge played by Myrna Loy) and Cary Grant.

6:15 PM The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)

8:00 PM Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

9:45 PM The Lady Eve (1941)

11:30 PM The Palm Beach Story (1942)

1:15 AM Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

3:15 AM It Happened One Night (1934)

Thursday April 7Guest Programmer: Hugh Hefner

6:00 AM The Children’s Hour (1961) – though not quite as good as These Three (1936) this remake does restore the Lillian Hellman’s original plot-line and features great acting by Audrey Hepburn Shirley MacLaine James Garner Miriam Hopkins and Fay Bainter. Directed by William Wyler.

7:00 PM Private Screenings: James Garner (2001) – these Robert Osborne interviews with film clips are always worth watching

8:00 PM Casablanca (1942)

10:00 PM To Have And Have Not (1944)

12:00 AM The Maltese Falcon (1941) – read my new essay comparing all three versions!

2:00 AM The Big Sleep (1946)

4:00 AM Dark Passage (1947) – one of the four great Bogie & Bacall pairings. This film noir has Bogart as a man falsely accused of murdering his wife he escapes and searches for the real killer with help from Bacall and trouble from Agnes Moorehead.

Friday April 8 – April Fools (The Marx Brothers)

4:15 PM A Day At The Races (1937) – Chico and Harpo Marx “enlist” Groucho a horse doctor to help a young woman (Maureen O’Sullivan) save a sanitarium from bankruptcy by winning a stakes race at the track. #59 on AFI’s 100 Funniest Movies list

6:15 PM A Night at the Opera (1935) – classic comedy from the Marx Brothers added to the National Film Registry in 1993. Groucho and Sig Ruman compete for Margaret Dumont’s affections by trying to sign the best singing talent for their operas. Allan Jones is one of the tenors; Kitty Carlisle (known to many of us younger fans as Miss “To Tell the Truth”) also appears.

8:00 PM Duck Soup (1933) – another Marx Brothers classic (the last one with Zeppo) perhaps their best has Groucho playing Rufus T. Firefly the new president of Freedonia so appointed by the richest woman (played by Margaret Dumont of course) in the small country. He declares war on a large neighboring country that of Louis Calhern and spy Raquel Torres (looking an awful lot like Dolores del Rio). Many of the gags and/or lines are classics which have survived and become part of our culture. Directed by Leo McCarey the film was added to the National Film Registry in 1990. #85 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Movies list. #5 on AFI’s 100 Funniest Movies list.

10:30 PM Monkey Business (1931) – not quite as funny as the previous films I’ve included as selections for today but still a pretty good Marx Brothers film featuring a few classic scenes. The four brothers are traveling to America as stowaways on a cruise ship during which they become involved with competing “gangsters”. Groucho falls for one of their molls played by Thelma Todd.

2:00 AM The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

Saturday April 9 – Starring Ralph Bellamy

10:00 AM Ride The High Country (1962) – all new capsule review!

12:00 PM The Uninvited (1944)

2:00 PM Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

8:00 PM His Girl Friday (1940) – all new capsule review; this week’s TCM Essential!

10:00 PM Carefree (1938) – all new capsule review!

Sunday April 10 – Starring Charlton Heston

8:00 AM The Secret Garden (1949) – all new full review!

10:00 AM Top Hat (1935)

4:00 PM Desk Set (1957) – recently added capsule review!

6:00 PM His Girl Friday (1940) – this week’s TCM Essential is repeated

8:00 PM The War Lord (1965) – a TCM premiere!

10:15 PM Touch Of Evil (1958)

1:15 AM The Paper Chase (1973) – a great college law school film featuring John Houseman’s Academy Award winning (Supporting) acting performance. Also stars Timothy Bottoms Lindsay Wagner James Naughton and Edward Hermann.

3:15 AM Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light (2000) – I saw this the last time it aired it’s pretty good

4:15 AM Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Monday April 11 – April Fools (Charlie Chaplin then Buster Keaton)

7:45 AM The Kid (1921) – one of Chaplin’s very best films features Jackie Coogan in the title role. The tramp (Chaplin) finds an abandoned baby cares for it and raises it. Now a youngster (Coogan) the boy helps the tramp survive in poverty in the creative ways of his “parent”. One day however the kid is taken from his “adoptive” father to be returned to the now successful woman (Edna Purviance) who abandoned him. Some classic comic scenes with tear-jerking moments.

10:00 AM A Woman of Paris (1923) – Though this film doesn’t feature the actor Chaplin (though he does appear in a very brief unrecognizable cameo) it is a pretty good film featuring Edna Purviance as a presumably jilted woman who goes to Paris to sew her oats as Adolphe Menjou’s lover. When her former fiancé Jean (Carl Miller) returns she learns that there was a misunderstanding regarding their failed elopement and can’t decide what to do … neither can Jean who’s influenced by his mother. Not a comedy!

12:45 PM City Lights (1931) – this Charlie Chaplin silent is a masterpiece and its ending is a real tearjerker! Befriended by a drunk millionaire (Harry Myers) the tramp (Chaplin) tries to help a blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) who has mistaken him as a wealthy man get an operation so that she can see. When the millionaire is sober he doesn’t know the tramp and has his butler (Allan Garcia) throw him out. #76 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Movies list. #38 on AFI’s 100 Funniest Movies list. #10 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Love Stories list.

4:30 PM Modern Times (1936) – Chaplin goes against the grain by making a silent film with sound effects many years after the advent of “talkies”. The movie is an allegory about how man has become too dependent and/or obsessed with machines and technology in general as the tramp struggles to survive in “modern times”. Paulette Goddard plays the girl in this one. The skating scene in the department store is unforgettable. #81 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Movies list. #33 on AFI’s 100 Funniest Movies list.

6:00 PM The Great Dictator (1940) – Charlie Chaplin spoofs Adolf Hitler! Nominated for five Oscars including Best Picture Best Actor (Chaplin) & Writing (also Chaplin) and Supporting Actor (Jack Oakie). Added to the National Film Registry in 1997. #37 on AFI’s 100 Funniest Movies list.

8:00 PM The Paleface (1922) – this Buster Keaton classic is a TCM premiere! Keaton is at first chased then befriended by Native Americans whose land is being stolen by oil barons.

9:45 PM Cops (1922) – highly rated added to the National Film Registry in 1997. The title is the plot; Buster Keaton accidentally gets himself in trouble and must escape the entire San Francisco police force … on foot!

10:15 PM Our Hospitality (1923) – this four star silent is a TCM premiere! Buster Keaton is a McKay whose family is feuding with the Canfields in a rural community until he saves the day. Authentic steam engine driven over odd tracks and bicycle as well as harrowing river escapades mark this comedy.

11:45 PM Sherlock Jr. (1924) – highly rated added to the National Film Registry in 1991 & a TCM premiere! Buster Keaton is a projectionist in a movie theater who “enters” the film he’s showing to solve a crime in which he is the accused. Some stunning cinematography and stunt-work including a scene (water tower) in which the comedian unknowingly broke his own neck!

12:45 AM The Navigator (1924) – a TCM premiere! Buster Keaton and his would-be fiance are on an ocean liner alone which is adrift at sea. Various gags which eventually lead to the two having to escape from cannibals!

2:00 AM The Scarecrow (1920) – a TCM premiere! Buster Keaton and his roommate compete for the same girl lots of great gags which hold up today. Guess who gets the girl?

2:30 AM The Cameraman (1928) – Keaton in the title role as a man who wants to impress a lady (Sally Richards) that works for a news organization so he attempts to become a newsreel photographer. Classic scenes include the comedian racing down staircases in his apartment building (e.g. to answer the phone) filming a street gang war and competing (for the lady) against a boorish man (Harold Goodwin) who works in her office. This film was added to the National Film Registry in 2005.

Tuesday April 12 – TCM’s Star of the Month: Errol Flynn

8:00 AM Kiss Me Kate (1953) – all new capsule review!

4:00 PM Desperate Journey (1942) – all new capsule review!

6:00 PM San Antonio (1945) – all new full review!

8:00 PM The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1936) – Directed by Michael Curtiz this film features a Michael Jacoby (who co-wrote the screenplay) original story that was based on Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem. It stars Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland David Niven Patric Knowles Henry Stephenson Nigel Bruce Donald Crisp C. Henry Gordon (as the leading villain) and Spring Byington in a movie whose plot I don’t remember enough to distinguish it from The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) other than its classic titled scene. It won an Oscar for Assistant Director Jack Sullivan and was nominated for its Musical Score and Sound Recording.

10:00 PM The Dawn Patrol (1938)

Wednesday April 13 – April Fools (Stage to Screen George Cukor Leo McCarey)

8:15 AM The Male Animal (1942) – all new capsule review!

10:00 AM The Man Who Came To Dinner (1941)

12:00 PM The Front Page (1931)

2:00 PM The Farmer’s Daughter (1947)

3:45 PM Dinner At Eight (1933)

5:45 PM The Women (1939)

8:00 PM Men Who Made the Movies The: George Cukor (1973) – these Richard Schickel interviews with film clips are really good

9:00 PM Holiday (1938) – all new capsule review!

11:00 PM The Philadelphia Story (1940)

1:00 AM Pat And Mike (1952) – all new capsule review!

2:45 AM Love Affair (1939)

Thursday April 14Filmed in 3D

5:00 PM Becky Sharp (1935) – the first full length Technicolor film!

8:00 PM House Of Wax (1953) – Warner Bros. first 3-D film is an above average horror film starring Vincent Price as a museum curator who’s discovered a special way to make incredibly realistic wax figures for his newest museum after arson destroyed his first creations. Don’t miss Charles Bronson in one of his early films before he’d changed his name.

10:00 PM It Came From Outer Space (1953) – it’s been so long since I’ve seen this one that I hardly remember it; but it’s pretty good as I recall

11:30 PM Kiss Me Kate (1953)

Friday April 15 – April Fools & TAX DAY!

7:30 AM So This Is Washington (1943) – an obscure film I’ve reviewed!

2:15 PM Africa Screams (1949) – a TCM premiere!

11:00 PM Buck Privates (1941) – an Abbott & Costello classic!

12:30 AM The Time Of Their Lives (1946) – an all new full review!

2:00 AM The Ladykillers (1955)

Saturday April 16 – Directed by Jean Renoir

6:00 AM The Roaring Twenties (1939)

10:00 AM Destry Rides Again (1939)

1:30 PM Brute Force (1947)

3:30 PM The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

6:00 PM High Sierra (1941)

8:00 PM The Grand Illusion (1937) – this week’s TCM Essential is a classic World War I P.O.W. film by director Jean Renoir. It was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and stars among others Jean Gabin & Erich von Stroheim (also known for his writing and directing films such as Greed (1924)). The scenes of the French prisoners trying to escape their German captors have been copied such that they’ve become staples in films like The Great Escape (1963).

1:15 AM The River (1951) – a four star film which though it sounds familiar I don’t think I’ve seen

3:00 AM Rules of the Game (1939) – another classic by director Jean Renoir explores the caste system and the commonplace infidelity in France. A famous aviator who’s in love with an aristocrat’s wife is invited by her husband who’s involved with still another woman to a hunting party weekend at their estate. The director himself plays an advisor to the aviator.

5:00 AM Bon Voyage (1944) – a short film by director Alfred Hitchcock!

Sunday April 17 – Military Justice

10:00 AM Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)

2:15 PM The Lady Eve (1941)

4:00 PM Wuthering Heights (1939)

6:00 PM The Grand Illusion (1937) – this week’s TCM Essential is repeated see my April 16 comments

8:00 PM The Caine Mutiny (1954) – an all new capsule review!

10:15 PM The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)

Monday April 18 – April Fools

1:00 PM A Southern Yankee (1948) – an obscure film I’ve reviewed!

8:00 PM The Bank Dick (1940) – A W.C. Fields classic! Fields plays a self unemployed family man whose family: wife – Cora Witherspoon Mother in Law – Jessie Ralph daughter – Una Merkel barely tolerate his presence. He literally falls into a job at a bank as a security guard where he quickly gets his prospective son-in-law (Grady Sutton) to embezzle some money to buy a seemingly worthless investment. Enter the bank examiner (Franklin Pangborn) who must be distracted before the money can be returned. Directed by Edward Cline.

9:15 PM Never Give A Sucker An Even Break (1941) – a W.C. Fields classic in which the comedian is trying to have a film made featuring himself and his niece singer Gloria Jean. He describes his idea to producer Franklin Pangborn (Mona Barrie plays his wife) who’s really not interested. In the movie within the movie Marx Brothers actress Margaret Dumont appears. Irving Bacon appears as a soda jerk. It ends with a wacky automobile chase complete with a fire engine ladder truck.

10:30 PM Don’t Give Up The Ship (1959) – a TCM premiere!

12:15 AM The Bellboy (1960) – a TCM premiere!

Tuesday April 19 – TCM’s Star of the Month – Errol Flynn

8:00 AM Three Comrades (1938)

8:00 PM Adventures of Don Juan (1949) – though I haven’t seen this I was intrigued by the references to it in the documentary which follows it

10:00 PM The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005) – a first class documentary about this dashing actor

11:30 PM Gentleman Jim (1942)

1:30 AM Objective Burma! (1945)

4:00 AM Kim (1950) – an all new capsule review!

Wednesday April 20 – April Fools

9:15 AM A Slight Case Of Murder (1938) – all new capsule review!

10:45 AM Larceny Inc. (1942) – an obscure film I’ve reviewed a pretty good one too!

12:30 PM Arsenic And Old Lace (1944)

2:30 PM Lady For A Day (1933)

4:15 PM The Thin Man (1934)

6:00 PM The Pink Panther (1964) – this first film with Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau is a comedy classic by director Blake Edwards. With David Niven Robert Wagner and Capucine (before Madonna I guess;-) it features the great theme music by Henry Mancini as well as introducing the famous “Pink Panther” cartoon even though the film’s title actually refers to a famous diamond.

10:00 PM Men Who Made the Movies The: Howard Hawks (1973) – these Richard Schickel interviews with film clips are always good

11:00 PM His Girl Friday (1940) – recently written capsule review!

12:45 AM Bringing Up Baby (1938)

2:30 AM My Man Godfrey (1936)

4:15 AM Stage Door (1937)

Thursday April 21Robert Osborne’s Picks

1:00 PM Private Screenings: Anthony Quinn (1999) – it’s always worth watching these Robert Osborne interviews with film clips

2:00 PM La Strada (1954)

4:00 PM Lust For Life (1956)

8:00 PM The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer (1935)

10:00 PM The Sundowners (1960) – all new capsule review!

2:00 AM No Way Out (1950) – I’ve still not seen this Joseph Mankiewiez directed film which marks Sidney Poitier’s film debut. It also stars Richard Widmark and Linda Darnell.

Friday April 22 – April Fools

Some Wheeler & Woolsey and Ritz Brothers films of which I’m not familiar and five of Hope & Crosby’s “road” pictures including:

6:30 PM Road to Morocco (1942) – one of the better Bing Crosby-Bob Hope “Road” films Best Writing Oscar nomination with Dorothy Lamour & Anthony Quinn. Added to the National Film Registry in 1996.

10:00 PM The Road to Utopia (1946) – another of their better pictures (3 stars); nominated for a Best Writing Original Screenplay Oscar

Saturday April 23 – Starring Kirk Douglas

6:00 AM One For The Book (1947) – all new capsule review!

2:00 PM So Proudly We Hail (1943) – full review!

6:15 PM Hell is for Heroes (1962) – all new full review!

8:00 PM Out of the Past (1947) – this week’s TCM Essential

3:15 AM The Devil’s Disciple (1959) – all new capsule review!

Sunday April 24 – Elementary

6:00 AM Waterloo Bridge (1940) – I haven’t actually seen this notorious tearjerker so I’m looking forward to it. It stars Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor among others and was directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

2:00 PM The Children’s Hour (1961) – though not quite as good as These Three (1936) this remake does restore Lillian Hellman’s original plot-line and features great acting by Audrey Hepburn Shirley MacLaine James Garner Miriam Hopkins and Fay Bainter. Like the original it was directed by William Wyler.

4:00 PM Father Goose (1964) – all new capsule review!

6:00 PM Out of the Past (1947) – this week’s TCM Essential is repeated

10:15 PM The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) – a TCM premiere!

12:15 AM Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) – great early (silent) film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story. John Barrymore stars in this title role of this one.

Monday April 25 – April Fools

6:00 AM Show People (1928) – a highly rated silent film by director King Vidor and starring Marian Davies. Davies plays a girl from Georgia who wants to be an actress that goes to Hollywood. Though she first finds work as the fall girl in slapstick comedies she longs to be a dramatic actress and eventually gets a chance. However prompted by her co-star a John Gilbert wannabe she gets too full of herself and almost ruins her career. There’s also a love (side) story with the comedian who helps her out initially.

7:30 AM Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (2001) – A terrific documentary which attempts to dispel all the myths about the actress (e.g. that she wasn’t a good actress that she left W.R. Hearst to die alone etc.) most of which were created by Orson Welles and his film Citizen Kane (1941).

1:45 PM Nothing Sacred (1937)

3:00 PM Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)

4:45 PM Adam’s Rib (1949)

8:00 PM She Done Him Wrong (1933) – all new capsule review!

10:45 PM The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) – full review!

2:30 AM Bombshell (1933)

Tuesday April 26 – TCM’s Star of the Month – Errol Flynn

6:00 AM The Mortal Storm (1940)

8:00 AM City For Conquest (1940) – all new full review!

10:00 AM The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005) – an excellent all new documentary about the actor

4:00 PM Green Light (1937) – Though Maltin’s guide gives this film only 2 ½ stars I found myself watching it on TCM some time ago and was rather entertained. Errol Flynn plays a doctor! Other than that I don’t remember a lot about this drama besides its great cast which includes Margaret Lindsay Cedric Hardwicke Anita Louise Walter Abel Henry O’Neill and Spring Byington even Granville Bates. Directed by Frank Borzage ((Seventh Heaven (1927) & Bad Girl (1931)).

8:00 PM The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) – all new capsule review!

10:00 PM The Sisters (1938) – this is another one I watched too long ago to remember too well other than that I enjoyed it. It too has a fabulous cast including Bette Davis Anita Louise and Jane Bryan as the titled “sisters” with Henry Travers and Beulah Bondi as their parents. Errol Flynn Dick Foran and Alan Hale play their suitors. Lots of melodrama I do remember that including Flynn marrying Davis and taking her away (to San Francisco?) where his drinking and gallivanting lifestyle lead to tragedy for their (expected) baby. Louise marries an older gentleman Hale; Foran gets to marry Bryan who then has a baby. The cast also includes Ian Hunter Donald Crisp Patric Knowles who I think pursues Louise Lee Patrick Harry Davenport and more (like Susan Hayward uncredited). Directed by Anatole Litvak.

5:00 AM Don’t Bet on Blondes (1935) – all new full review!

Wednesday April 27 – April Fools

8:00 AM The Human Comedy (1943) – full review!

10:00 AM A Family Affair (1936) – the first Andy Hardy picture: starring Lionel Barrymore Spring Byington and Mickey Rooney.

12:45 PM Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) – a terrific comedy with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy poorly remade in the 80’s as The Money Pit about a businessman who dreams about having a house in the country. It includes an unforgettable sequence with Ms. Loy and the local painters. Support provided by Melvyn Douglas. #72 on AFI’s 100 Funniest Movies list.

2:30 PM You Can’t Take It With You (1938)

4:45 PM Father Of The Bride (1950)

8:00 PM The Shop Around The Corner (1940)

10:00 PM The Merry Widow (1934)

12:00 AM Ninotchka (1939)

2:00 AM The Major and the Minor (1942)

Thursday April 28Titles Designed by Stephen Frankfurt

6:00 AM A Free Soul (1931) – full review!

10:00 AM Grand Hotel (1932) – newly updated capsule review!

12:00 PM David Copperfield (1935)

2:30 PM On Borrowed Time (1939) – I’ve only heard great things about this one starring Lionel Barrymore Cedric Hardwicke and Beulah Bondi among others

8:00 PM The Front (1976) – it’s been ages since I saw this highly regarded Woody Allen film with Zero Mostel which earned a Best Writing Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Oscar nomination. It was directed by Martin Ritt.

12:30 AM Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

2:30 AM To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) – newly updated capsule review!

Friday April 29 – April Fools (Martin & Lewis)

6:15 PM At War With The Army (1950) – a TCM premiere!

8:00 PM Sailor Beware (1951) – a TCM premiere!

10:00 PM The Caddy (1953) – a TCM premiere!

12:00 AM Living It Up (1954) – a TCM premiere!

Saturday April 30 – Singing and Dancing Gamblers

6:00 AM Gunga Din (1939) – newly updated capsule review!

8:00 AM Ride The Pink Horse (1947)

12:00 PM Man Of The West (1958) – pretty good Anthony Mann Western starring Gary Cooper as a reformed outlaw who must seek assistance from his old gang now run by Lee J. Cobb. Julie London Arthur O’Connell Jack Lord and Royal Dano also appear as does Emory Parnell uncredited.

2:00 PM D.O.A. (1950) – newly updated capsule review!

5:00 PM Patton (1970) – newly updated capsule review!

8:00 PM Swing Time (1936) – this week’s TCM Essential

10:00 PM Show Boat (1951) – Although “Ol’ Man River” (#24 on AFI’s 100 Top Movie Songs of All Time) is not sung by the great Paul Robeson in this one the other songs may be done better than in the 1936 version of this famous musical especially “Make Believe”. Starring Howard Keel as Gaylord Ravenal and Kathryn Grayson as Magnolia the scene at the end (including Ava Gardner) should make you cry. And don’t overlook Joe E. Brown and Agnes Morehead as the parents of Ms. Grayson’s character. Directed by George Sidney this film’s Score and Color Cinematography were nominated for Oscars.

12:00 AM Guys And Dolls (1955)

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