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TCM Genre movies schedule...

Tangentially related, but I thought I would mention that 633 Squadron, the other main movie influence (besides The Dam Busters) on the climactic battle in Star Wars, is on TCM Thursday, April 14, 1:00 AM Eastern. The RAF Mosquitoes run up a narrow fjord to bomb a German rocket fuel plant, very similar to the Death Star trench run. A pretty good yarn, with some real flying "Wooden Wonders," though the fact that an American leads the British mission is a box-office ploy that's a little hard to swallow. They don't run this one very often, it's on for a George Chakiris night.
 
Oh, damn, I forgot to post a schedule again. Lately there hasn't seemed to be as much point, because they just keep showing the same movies over and over. But I'll try to catch up:

WED 4/13-THU 4/14
11:30 PM: Nosferatu ('22)
1:15 AM: Faust ('26)
3:15 AM: The Adventures of Prince Achmed ('27)

SAT 4/16
3:45 PM: Helen of Troy ('56): Robert Wise epic.

SAT 4/16-SUN 4/17: Horror marathon, with three spoofs followed by two straight horror films.
8:00 PM: Young Frankenstein ('74)
10:00 PM: The Fearless Vampire Killers ('66): Directed by Roman Polanski, and starring Polanski and his future wife -- and future Manson Family murder victim -- Sharon Tate.
Midnight: Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('53): With Karloff.
2:00 AM: The House by the Cemetery ('84): Pretty graphic Italian film.
3:30 AM: Burnt Offerings ('76):Haunted-house film from Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis, with an all-star cast.

MON 4/18: Val Lewton marathon:
7:45 AM: Bedlam ('46)
9:15 AM: The Body Snatcher ('45)
10:45 AM: I Walked With a Zombie ('43)
Noon: Isle of the Dead ('45)
1:15 PM: The Ghost Ship ('43)
2:30 PM: The Seventh Victim ('43)
3:45 PM: The Leopard Man ('43)
5:00 PM: Cat People ('42)
6:15 PM: The Curse of the Cat People ('44)

TUE 4/19
8:00 AM: Captain Nemo and the Underwater City ('70)
4:30 PM: Around the World Under the Sea ('65): Loosely Verne-influenced sci-fi submarine movie with Lloyd Bridges, David McCallum, and Keenan Wynn. (I wonder, did they plan to make a sequel called 20,000 Leagues in 80 Days?)

THU 4/21
3:00 AM: Metropolis ('26)

SUN 4/24
2:00 AM: Possession ('81)

WED 4/27
10:15 AM: Tom Thumb ('58)

SAT 4/30
4:30 AM: Gay Purr-ee ('62): Animated UPA musical co-written by Chuck Jones and directed by his protege Abe Levitow.
Noon: The Fly ('58)
2:00 PM: Soylent Green ('73)
4:00 PM: Five Million Years to Earth ('68) (aka Quatermass and the Pit)
6:00 PM: Countdown ('68): Robert Altman astronaut pic with James Caan and Robert Duvall.
8:00 PM: The Uninvited ('44): Supernaural thriller with Ray Milland and Alan Napier.
 
Okay, this time I'm getting the schedule done on time...

May 2016:

SUN 5/1
2:15 AM: God Told Me To ('76): Supernatural/SF thriller directed by Larry Cohen. As a trivia note, it features the film debut of Andy Kaufman in a small role as a cop.
3:45 AM: It Lives Again ('78): Another Cohen film.

WED 5/4
1:45 AM: Mad Love ('35): Peter Lorre and Colin Clive in a Hands of Orlac adaptation.
Noon: Robin and Marian ('76): Richard Lester's take on the aging Robin Hood, with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn. (Not SF/fantasy, but myth-based, so what the hey.)

THU 5/5
9:30 PM: The Beast With a Million Eyes ('55): Roger Corman alien-invader film.
11:00 PM: A Bucket of Blood ('59): Corman wax-museum horror classic starring Dick Miller.

FRI 5/6
1:45 AM: Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow ('59): Teen hot-rodder comedy in a haunted house -- I'm not clear whether the title creature is real or Scooby-Doo-style, but here it is.
3:00 AM: Attack of the Puppet People ('58): Bert I. Gordon's miniaturization-themed B-movie, with John Hoyt and John Agar.
4:30 AM: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold ('66): James Bond-ish Tarzan adventure with Mike Henry as Tarzan. Also stars Nancy Kovack and David Opatoshu before their Star Trek turns.

SAT 5/7
4:30 PM: Them! ('54)
6:15 PM: The Day the Earth Stood Still ('51)

WED 5/11
4:30 AM: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('41): Ugh, the inferior version again.
5:45 PM: The Jungle Book ('42): Not the Disney version.

THU 5/12-FRI 5/13: American International Pictures marathon.
8:00 PM: Pit and the Pendulum ('61): Roger Corman directs Vincent Price.
9:30 PM: "X" -- The Man With the X-Ray Eyes ('63): Corman directs Ray Milland.
11:00 PM: Dementia 13 ('63): Corman produces, Coppola directs (his first mainstream film), William Campbell stars.
12:30 AM: Black Sabbath ('64): Italian horror trilogy hosted by Boris Karloff. Originally titled I tre volti della paura (The Three Faces of Fear).
2:30 AM: The Comedy of Terrors ('64): Jacques Tourneur directs Price, Lorre, Karloff, and Basil Rathbone!
4:15 AM: Master of the World ('61): Vincent Price does Jules Verne. Who cares who directs? (It's William Witney.)

SAT 5/14
12:15 AM: The Boy With Green Hair ('48): Mainly an allegory about war orphans, but has a borderline fantasy element. Dean Stockwell is the title boy, and this movie is extensively referenced in Battlestar Galactica: The Plan.

MON 5/16
2:15 PM: Bell, Book and Candle ('58)

TUE 5/17
12:30 AM: Twice-Told Tales ('63): Vincent Price plays four roles (including the narrator) in a Nathaniel Hawthorne horror anthology.
4:30 AM: Spirits of the Dead ('68): Another horror anthology with Price narrating, this time based on Poe, but made in Europe and directed by Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, and Frederico Fellini. Cast includes Jane and Peter Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, and Terence Stamp.
2:45 PM: Tarzan Escapes ('36): Third Johnny Weissmuller/Maureen O'Sullivan Tarzan.

WED 5/18
6:15 PM: Eyes Without a Face ('59): Face-stealing horror.

THU 5/19
2:00 PM: Once Upon a Time ('44): Sounds odd... Cary Grant as a producer promoting a dancing caterpillar. A possible influence on One Froggy Evening?

FRI 5/20
5:00 AM: Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine ('65): Vincent Price slumming in a Frankie Avalon beach movie.

SAT 5/21
2:30 AM: Captain Nemo and the Underwater City ('70): With Robert Ryan and Chuck Connors. Co-written by Pip and Jane Baker, which might make old-school Doctor Who fans want to stay away.

SUN 5/22
2:00 PM: Close Encounters of the Third Kind ('77)
4:30 PM: Forbidden Planet ('56)
6:15 PM: Village of the Damned ('61)
9:30 PM: Of Stars and Men ('61): An animated documentary adapted from the book by the great astronomer Harlow Shapley (the guy the center of the galaxy is named after).
10:45 PM: For All Mankind ('89): Live-action documentary about the Apollo program.

TUE 5/24-WED 5/25: Marathon whose nominal theme is "time travel," but it's mostly misnamed...
8:00 PM: Sleeper ('73): I still have this unwatched on my DVR from last time they showed it. I'm unsure whether I could still find Woody Allen funny.
9:45 PM: The Ghost Goes West ('36): With Robert Donat as a millionaire and his ghostly ancestor.
11:30 PM: I Married a Witch ('42): Proto-Bewitched comedy with a reincarnated Salem victim.
1:00 AM: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ('49)
3:00 AM: The Man Who Could Work Miracles ('36): H.G. Wells fantasy of ordinary man gaining limitless power.
4:30 AM: The Horn Blows at Midnight ('45): Perennial Jack Benny fantasy (though it's all a dream).

THU 5/26
8:00 PM: The Abominable Dr. Phibes ('71): Starring Vincent Price.

FRI 5/27
3:45 AM: Blacula ('72): Need I say more?
8:30 AM: The Most Dangerous Game ('32): Spoiler: It's people.
 
Some changes made to my cable set up means I get TCM again, so hopefully I might be able to watch some of these. I've been wanting to see Soylent Green for a while now, but I have to work Saturday so I won't be able to see the whole thing. I might start it and then just get the DVD or Blu-Ray from Netlfix to finish it. Sadly I've known the big twist for ages, but I'm curious to see what the context is.
 
^^ Don't get your hopes up. It's worth watching because of its status, but it's pretty low rent.

I've never heard of Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow. Sounds like it might be fun. I don't think I've ever seen Spirits of the Dead, either.
 
JD said:
Some changes made to my cable set up means I get TCM again, so hopefully I might be able to watch some of these. I've been wanting to see Soylent Green for a while now, but I have to work Saturday so I won't be able to see the whole thing. I might start it and then just get the DVD or Blu-Ray from Netlfix to finish it. Sadly I've known the big twist for ages, but I'm curious to see what the context is.
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Soylent Green has a number of things going for it besides that final one-liner. The poignancy of Edward G. Robinson giving his final performance is certainly a major part of its appeal.
 
Thanks for posting the list, Christopher, and also thank you for pointing out that Jacques Tourneur directed the Comedy of Terrors. I love Tourneur and would've completely missed this film had you not mentioned this fact.
 
Not in the genre but on May 7 @ 7AM TCM is showing Only Angels Have Wings which I've been curious about seeing since it's supposed to be the progenitor of Tales of the Gold Monkey and Talespin.
 
Or.... prisoner transfer from cell block 11811. ;)

Mr. Adventure said:
11811, why aren't you at your post?
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Despite not reflecting final dialog in SW77 (since it was TK-421), it's still a nice double entendre with respect to what happens to the character in Metropolis (since 11811 leaves his post, at Freder's bidding).
 
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Okay, this where I'm obliged to point out that The Pit and the Pendulum, The Comedy of Terrors, and Master of the World were all scripted by Richard Matheson. (You saw that coming, didn't you?)

A quibble: Bucket of Blood is great, but it's not actually about a wax museum. It's a black comedy about a beatnik artist who creates "realistic" sculptures by coating dead bodies in clay. Yes, it's your basic "House of Wax" approach to sculpting, but there's no actual wax or wax museums involved; just hip art galleries and coffee shops in Greenwich Village.

As for "Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow," I remember being disappointed by it as a kid, but mostly because I liked my monster movies straight back then, not contaminated by teen comedy antics. I suspect I might like it better these days now that I have a better idea of what to expect. At the time, I held the fact that it wasn't a classic Universal or Hammer flick against it.

Meanwhile, my memory is fuzzy, but I dimly recall that we're in Scooby-Doo territory here . . . maybe.
 
^^ You are the champion of Richard Matheson as always, and we appreciate it. You should write the ultimate compendium of his work.

Mr. Adventure said:
Not in the genre but on May 7 @ 7AM TCM is showing Only Angels Have Wings which I've been curious about seeing since it's supposed to be the progenitor of Tales of the Gold Monkey and Talespin.
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Thank you. Tales of the Gold Monkey is an all-time fave of mine, so I'll want to catch that if I can.
 
RJDiogenes said:
I wish they'd schedule more of the Hammer films. I haven't seen most of them in decades.
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I love Horror Express and Isle of Terror (the second of which isn't a Hammer but a Planet Film Productions movie, But hell it has Cushing and that's the main thing.)


The Man Who Could Work Miracles sounds kind of cool. A little Emperor Jokerish.
 
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I checked TV Guide and it turns out Soylent Green is on earlier for me, so I will be able to watch the whole thing.
 
RJDiogenes said:
^^ You are the champion of Richard Matheson as always, and we appreciate it. You should write the ultimate compendium of his work..
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Thanks. For the record, though, my friend Matthew Bradley has already written the definitive book on Matheson and the movies: Richard Matheson on Screen. Trust me, it's exhaustive, insightful, and thoroughly researched.
 
^^ Thanks for the recommendation. The print edition's a bit steep, so I might get it for the Kindle. Definitely looks like a handy resource.

For those of you with TCM On Demand, they are now showing a true classic called Sex Kittens Go To College. This is of interest to genre fans for the presence of both a robot and Vampira. It's... uh... riveting. Oh, and Martin Milner is in it, too.
 
Vandervecken said:
I love Horror Express and Isle of Terror (the second of which isn't a Hammer but a Planet Film Productions movie, But hell it has Cushing and that's the main thing.)
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Just to nitpick: HORROR EXPRESS isn't a Hammer flick either, despite having both Lee and Cushing. Cool old movie, though.
 
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