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Wed Sep 14, 2016, 11:04 PM Sep 2016

TCM Schedule for Friday, September 16, 2016 -- Star of the Month - Gene Hackman

In the daylight hours, TCM is celebrating Lauren Bacall, born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in The Bronx. And in prime time, it's more of September's Star of the Month, the prolific and prolifically talented Gene Hackman, in a selection of his films of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including his first Oscar winning performance in The French Connection (1971). Enjoy!


6:45 AM -- BOGART: THE UNTOLD STORY (1996)
Stephen Bogart hosts this one-hour special on the life and career of his legendary father, Humphrey Bogart.
Dir: Chris Hunt
Cast: Stephen Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Robert Sklar
C-46 mins, CC,

There is some dispute as to how Bogey's lip injury occurred. One story is that when Bogart was in the Navy, a prisoner he was escorting attempted to escape and hit Bogart in the face with his shackles. Bogart, fearing that he would lose his position and be severely punished for letting a prisoner escape, chased down the man and brought him successfully to the Portsmouth Naval Prison. However, because the surgeon who stitched up his face did not do a very good job, Bogart was left with his trademark lisp. Another version has it that he caught a large wood splinter in his lip at the age of 12, but the combat story is more exciting - a legend, indeed.


7:45 AM -- TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944)
A skipper-for-hire's romance with a beautiful drifter is complicated by his growing involvement with the French resistance.
Dir: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall
BW-100 mins, CC,

The most famous scene in the film is undoubtedly the "you know how to whistle" dialog sequence. It was not written by Ernest Hemingway, Jules Furthman or William Faulkner, but by Howard Hawks. He wrote the scene as a screen test for Bacall, with no real intention that it would necessarily end up in the film. The test was shot with Warner Bros. contract player John Ridgely acting opposite Bacall. The Warners staff, of course, agreed to star Bacall in the film based on the test, and Hawks thought the scene was so strong he asked Faulkner to work it into one of his later drafts of the shooting script. At the funeral for her husband, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall put a whistle in his coffin.


9:30 AM -- THE COBWEB (1955)
Inmates and staff at a posh asylum clash over love and lunacy.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer
C-124 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Marks the return of Lillian Gish to MGM after a 22-year absence.


11:45 AM -- BLOOD ALLEY (1955)
An American sailor breaks out of a Chinese jail and dodges Communist agents on the road to Hong Kong.
Dir: William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix
C-115 mins, Letterbox Format

In an interview Lauren Bacall said that she took the role when Robert Mitchum was to be the male lead. When John Wayne took the role after Mitchum was fired she expected to clash with him since she was a left-wing Liberal and he was a right-wing Conservative. She said that he was warm and friendly and they did not discuss politics. She later starred with him again in his last movie 'The Shootist' (1976).


1:49 PM -- THE MISSION TRAIL (1946)
This short film takes the viewer to twenty one Spanish missions that extend five hundred miles in California.
Dir: James A. FitzPatrick
C-10 mins,


2:00 PM -- THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl's involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
BW-114 mins, CC,

The second of four films made by real life couple and later husband and wife Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. This film follows Bacall's debut in To Have and Have Not (1944), during which their romance was first kindled on set. Following this film, the couple teamed up twice more, for Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948).


4:00 PM -- BRIGHT LEAF (1950)
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
Dir: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Neal
BW-111 mins, CC,

This was the last film in Lauren Bacall's seven year contract with Warner Brothers.


6:00 PM -- DESIGNING WOMAN (1957)
A sportswriter and a fashion designer have a lot of adjusting to do when they marry in haste.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray
C-118 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Won an Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen -- George Wells

James Stewart and Grace Kelly were intended to be the co-stars of this movie, but when Kelly became betrothed to Prince Rainier of Monaco, Stewart decided not to do it (a decision he later said he regretted), and the leading roles went to Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall.




TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STAR OF THE MONTH: GENE HACKMAN



8:00 PM -- A COVENANT WITH DEATH (1966)
A lawyer defends a convicted man who killed his hangman before being cleared of the earlier crime.
Dir: Lamont Johnson
Cast: George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado
C-97 mins, CC,

Feature directorial debut of Lamont Johnson and final film of Hank Patterson.


9:48 PM -- SAN SEBASTIAN 1746 IN 1968 (1968)
This short film provides a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of "Guns For San Sebastian&quot 1968) in northern Mexico.
Dir: Floyd L. Peterson
BW-10 mins,


10:00 PM -- THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
Two New York narcotics cops set out to bust a French drug smuggling ring.
Dir: William Friedkin
Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
C-104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Won Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role -- Gene Hackman, Best Director -- William Friedkin, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium -- Ernest Tidyman, Best Film Editing -- Gerald B. Greenberg, and Best Picture

Nominated for Oscars for Best Actor in a Supporting Role -- Roy Scheider, Best Cinematography -- Owen Roizman, and Best Sound -- Theodore Soderberg and Christopher Newman

The scene where Doyle and Russo chase down the dealer near the beginning and Gene Hackman shouts out his famous question "Did you ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" is based on actual "good cop/bad cop" interrogations by the real "French Connection" detectives, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso according to William Friedkin in the DVD commentary. Grosso would gingerly ask a suspect direct questions about his crimes, then Egan would always butt in and yell unusual questions like the Poughkeepsie one. The suspect would get so rattled by Egan's offbeat questioning that he felt more comfortable answering Grosso's, thus, tending to eventually incriminate himself.



12:00 AM -- NIGHT MOVES (1975)
An L.A. private detective puts aside his own marital woes while tracing a topless nymphet to the Florida Keys.
Dir: Arthur Penn
Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
C-100 mins, CC,

The chess game on which the title of the film was based was a real game. The game was K. Emmrich (White) vs Bruno Moritz (Black), played in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany in 1922. In the film, we see the position after White's 26th move. As Moseby showed Paula, Black could have finished the game with a queen sacrifice followed by three knight checks, but he played something else and lost.


1:50 AM -- VIENNA THE YEARS REMEMBERED (1968)
This documentary short provides a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Mayerling" (1968), as well as the actual history that inspired the film.
C-9 mins,


2:00 AM -- THE SPLIT (1968)
A gang of thieves plots to rob the Los Angeles Coliseum box office during a Rams game.
Dir: Gordon Flemyng
Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine
C-90 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

This film was the very first theatrical release to receive an R rating from the then-new MPAA's film rating system.


3:45 AM -- THE KILLING (1956)
A team of specialists plots a daring racetrack robbery, but they don't reckon with human frailty.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
BW-84 mins, CC,

Film debut of Rodney Dangerfield. NOTE: He appears as an extra in the racetrack fight scene. When the fight is shown the first time he is at the end of the bar. A clearer shot of him doing a characteristic double take occurs when two cops come out of the door to the stairwell to the safe room with Sterling Hayden next to it, watching the fight/distraction develop.


5:15 AM -- MGM IS ON THE MOVE! (1964)
This promotional short showcases MGM's upcoming movies of 1964.
C-36 mins, Letterbox Format


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