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This week on TCM Underground: It’s a Small World (1950)
A dwarf quits life on the farm to hit the big city, where he falls into the hands of a criminal gang. IT’S A SMALL WORLD (1950) Cast: Paul Dale (Harry Musk), Lorraine Miller (Buttons), Will Geer...
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A Troy Donahue Top 10
Troy Donahue is getting the red carpet treatment on TCM tonight with a marathon of movies that feature the tall, blond and blue-eyed heartthrob. Donahue was an object of lust for countless teenagers...
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I Got the Music in Me… Do You?
A Summer Place airs (or “aired” depending on when you read this) this morning on TCM and I have two confessions: First, as famous as it is, I didn’t actually see it until a couple of years ago. Yes,...
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Mermaids in Love
Curtis Harrington’s Night Tide (coming up on TCM on Thursday) is a thing of sunshine and jazz music, set at a seaside amusement park. Instead of assaulting the viewer with gore or violence, Harrington...
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The Joy of the Performance
Later tonight, French Cancan airs on TCM and I have to say, I’ve got a bone to pick with Leonard Maltin (or whichever one of his staff wrote the entry for it – that’s not a knock, that’s simply how his...
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The Misadventures of a Film Fest Fan(atic)
I love attending film festivals. I love the manic dash from theater to theater to catch as many movies as possible; I enjoy comparing notes with complete strangers who become my new best friends as I...
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The Reality Principle: Art of the Real at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Before the start of his heartbreaking rural romance True Heart Susie (1919), D.W. Griffith asks in an intertitle, “Is real life interesting?” He implies that the answer is yes, expecting that you’ll...
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This week on TCM Underground: It’s PSYCHOSATURDAY, with CAT O’NINE TAILS...
TCM Underground’s line-up this week is just as interesting for the pairing of the films being aired as it is for the films themselves. We showed Dario Argento’s CAT O’NINE TAILS (1971) back in...
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Cooking with Sophia Loren
Next Tuesday (April 21st) TCM is celebrating the illustrious career of Sophia Loren with a tribute that includes three important TCM premieres beginning with the first U.S. television screening of...
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The Screen is Alive with the Sound of Music
It was fifty years ago that the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music, debuted on the silver screen. Adapted from the successful stage production, which debuted six years earlier, in...
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50 Shades of Miss Blandish
Tomorrow (Sunday the 19th), TCM will be wallowing in filth. Yup, they’re going to be screening a movie that the Monthly Film Bulletin labeled “the most sickening exhibition of brutality, perversion,...
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Dust Off Your Bippy
Twice in one day I was reminded of one of the strangest lines from one of my favorite television series. It’s not like “You bet your sweet bippy”—which was muttered every week for four seasons on Rowan...
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Organization Man: Odd Man Out (1947)
Odd Man Out has an absence at its center. It stars James Mason as a revolutionary in Northern Ireland, but he is either missing or comatose for the majority of its running time. A scattered group of...
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This week on TCM Underground: Deathdream (1972)
We’re re-running Bob Clark’s DEATHDREAM (aka DEAD OF NIGHT, 1972) on TCM Underground on Saturday night. It’s a good movie to watch anyway, one for which you are encouraged to gather the family around...
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Classic Movie Star Museums: A Travel Guide
Next month marks the grand opening of the John Wayne Birthplace Museum in Winterset, Iowa. During the last 30 years more than one million visitors have reportedly journeyed to Winterset to tour the...
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The One Note Performance
Today TCM airs Being There, the 1979 movie starring Peter Sellers, Melvin Douglas, and Shirley MacLaine that satirizes the culture of political celebrity in America. In it, Sellers plays Chance, the...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Rodan!
When I was a kid, Ted Turner’s Superstation WTBS ran this thing practically every week. It became as comforting as an old blanket, as familiar as my own skin. Eventually, as an adult, I revisited the...
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A Sporting Try
Today on TCM, the 1942 classic Pride of the Yankees runs, the fictionalized account of Lou Gehrig and his all too young departure from this world due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that...
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‘Night Moves’ vs. ‘The Long Goodbye’
TCM airs one of my favorite film noirs, Night Moves, tonight at 12:15am as part the evening’s tribute to production designer George Jenkins. This 1975 film has been on my mind recently because I am...
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Horseplay: Black Midnight (1949)
In June of 1949, Roddy McDowall was twenty years old, and it appeared his acting career was winding down. He had been in the business for over a decade, having first appeared on screen at the age of...
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