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Thu May 26, 2016, 11:52 PM May 2016

TCM Schedule for Friday, May 27, 2016 -- What's On Tonight: Star of the Month - Robert Ryan

In the daylight hours, TCM has films with a soundtrack by Max Steiner, as well as films starring Mary Boland (and a few with both). And in prime time, there's the last of Star of the Month Robert Ryan. Enjoy!



7:15 AM -- Chang (1927)
In this silent film family of Thai rice-growers fight wild animals and the elements to survive.
Dir: Merian Cooper
Cast: Kru, Chantui, Nah
BW-69 mins,

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production

As filming took longer than anticipated, the budget rose from $70,000 to $95,000 with directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack covering the shortfall themselves until Paramount agreed to pay the difference. (Paramount was well rewarded - the film was one of the biggest hits of the year.)



8:30 AM -- The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
A big game hunter decides to stalk human prey.
Dir: Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong
BW-63 mins, CC,

The actor playing "Ivan the Cossack" was Noble Johnson, a multi-talented African-American who was a childhood friend of Lon Chaney. This is the earliest known instance of a black actor working in "whiteface" to play a Caucasian character.


9:45 AM -- One Man's Journey (1933)
Father and son doctors disagree over the son's materialistic goals.
Dir: John Robertson
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, May Robson, Dorothy Jordan
BW-72 mins, CC,

Remade in 1938 as A Man To Remember.


11:00 AM -- Double Harness (1933)
After tricking a playboy into marriage woman sets out to win his love honestly.
Dir: John Cromwell
Cast: Ann Harding, William Powell, Lucile Browne
BW-69 mins, CC,

This film hadn't been shown for decades and was found in a Merian C. Cooper collection that had been used for television. A 2-1/2-minute sequence that had been cut from the print was located in a French negative discovered in the National Center for Cinematography in France and restored to the print. The brief segment had been cut for television because it indicated that the characters of "Joan Colby" and "John Fletcher" were having pre-marital sex.


12:15 PM -- Rafter Romance (1933)
A salesgirl falls for a night worker without realizing they share the same apartment.
Dir: William Seiter
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, George Sidney
BW-73 mins, CC,

Ginger Rogers and Norman Foster replaced Dorothy Wilson and Joel McCrea in the lead roles.


1:30 PM -- Stingaree (1934)
An Australian bandit kidnaps an opera singer and falls in love with her.
Dir: William Wellman
Cast: Irene Dunne, Richard Dix, Mary Boland
BW-76 mins, CC,

In the original version, as released in May 1934, stenciled color was used to enhance lamp and fireside effects, but was generally criticized at the time as being of an earlier, bygone era of filmaking.


3:00 PM -- The Solitaire Man (1933)
Crooks double cross each other during a tense flight from Paris to London.
Dir: Jack Conway
Cast: Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, Lionel Atwill
BW-67 mins,

The original play, by Bella Spewack and Sam Spewack, opened in Boston, Massachusetts, USA on 6 June 1927.


4:15 PM -- Down to Their Last Yacht (1934)
A society family gone bust uses their yacht for charter tours.
Dir: Paul Sloane
Cast: Mary Boland, Polly Moran, Ned Sparks
BW-64 mins,

Retakes in August 1934 reportedly re-shot about 25 percent of the movie. Sam White directed the retakes while producer Lou Brock supervised.


5:30 PM -- Marry The Girl (1937)
Brother-and-sister news tycoons try to save their niece from marrying the wrong man.
Dir: William McGann
Cast: Mary Boland, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert
BW-68 mins,

Based on a novel by Edward Hope.


6:45 PM -- Nothing but Trouble (1944)
A pair of dimwits get jobs as servants to a boy king whose life is in danger.
Dir: Sam Taylor
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Boland
BW-69 mins, CC,

Spoofs an earlier Harold Lloyd film, Feet First (1930).



TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STAR OF THE MONTH: ROBERT RYAN



8:00 PM -- Battle Of The Bulge (1965)
A crack Nazi unit holds off the Allies during World War II.
Dir: Ken Annakin
Cast: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan
C-170 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

This film was denounced by former President (and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WW2) Dwight D. Eisenhower soon after its release in a press conference due to its glaring historical inaccuracies.


11:00 PM -- The Longest Day (1962)
The Allied forces launch the D-Day invasion of German-occupied France.
Dir: Andrew Marton
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda
BW-178 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Won Oscars for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White -- Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz, and Best Effects, Special Effects -- R.A. MacDonald (visual) and Jacques Maumont (audible)

Nominated for Oscars for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White -- Ted Haworth, Léon Barsacq, Vincent Korda and Gabriel Béchir, Best Film Editing -- Samuel E. Beetley, and Best Picture

While clearing a section of the Normandy beach near Ponte du Hoc, the film's crew unearthed a tank that had been buried in the sand since the original invasion. Mechanics cleaned it off, fixed it up and it was used in the film as part of the British tank regiment.



2:00 AM -- The Dirty Dozen (1967)
A renegade officer trains a group of misfits for a crucial mission behind enemy lines.
Dir: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
C-150 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Won an Oscar for Best Effects, Sound Effects -- John Poyner

Nominated for Oscars for Best Actor in a Supporting Role -- John Cassavetes, Best Sound, and Best Film Editing -- Michael Luciano

Production on the film ran for so long that Jim Brown was in danger of missing training camp for the up-coming 1967-68 football season. As training camp and the NFL season approached, the NFL threatened to fine and suspend Brown if he did not leave filming and report to camp immediately. Not one to take threats, Brown simply held a press conference to announce his retirement from football. At the time of his retirement, Brown was considered to be one of the best in the game and even today is considered to be one of the NFL's all-time greats.



4:30 AM -- Men In War (1957)
Two enemies join forces to save their men during a retreat from the North Koreans.
Dir: Anthony Mann
Cast: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith
BW-98 mins,

The men wear the patches of the 24th infantry division, which did in fact see combat in the early part of the Korean War.

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