TCM Schedule for Saturday, September 15, 2018 -- What's On Tonight - Contagious!

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Break out the face masks and hand sanitizers -- tonight's non-Essentials Essentials are all about contagions. Enjoy!



6:00 AM -- THE INSPECTOR GENERAL (1949)
A perpetual student is mistaken for a government official in a small Eastern European village.
Dir: Henry Koster
Cast: Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates
C-102 mins, CC,

Near the beginning of the movie Leza (Barbara Bates) is tightening the corset of Maria (Elsa Lanchester). Maria demands that Leza tighten the corset more and Leza explains that it's already tight. After Maria leaves, another character comments that Leza was correct and the corset was too tight: "it makes her eyes bug out." This was an inside joke, since Elsa Lanchester's eyes were somewhat protuberant.


8:00 AM -- MGM CARTOONS: HENPECKED HOBOES (1946)
George and Junior are two hungry bears who try to make a meal out of a not too bright barnyard chicken.
Dir: Tex Avery
Cast: Tex Avery, Dick Nelson
BW-8 mins, CC,

First appearance of George and Junior.


8:09 AM -- BELIEVE IT OR NOT #3 (1931)
In this short film, Robert L. Ripley shares with reporters the various sights and oddities he has seen through his world travels, such as a baseball team made up of nine brothers. Vitaphone Release 1304.
Cast: James Dunn,
BW-7 mins,


8:17 AM -- HOW TO RAISE A BABY (1938)
This comedic short makes light of raising and taking care of a baby.
Dir: Roy Rowland
Cast: Robert Benchley, Ricardo Lord Cezon, Paul Clark
BW-9 mins,


8:27 AM -- SIX-GUN GOLD (1941)
Three cowboys find that a U.S. Marshal relative is an impostor.
Dir: David Howard
Cast: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Jan Clayton
BW-57 mins,

Filmed at the Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth, CA, the Ray Corrigan Ranch and the Burro Flats in Simi Valley, CA.


9:30 AM -- TAILSPIN TOMMY IN THE GREAT AIR MYSTERY: THE DUNGEON OF DOOM (1935)
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island's oil reserves.
Director: Ray Taylor
Stars: Clark Williams, Jean Rogers, Noah Beery Jr.
BW-19 mins,

Part nine.


10:00 AM -- POPEYE: FOR BETTER OR WORSER (1933)
Popeye's failures in the kitchen send him on a quest for a wife.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel (uncredited)
Cast: William Costello, Mae Questel, Gus Wickie
BW-8 mins, CC,

This was the last Popeye cartoon produced with William Costello as the voice of the eponymous sailor. He became increasingly difficult to work with, and was fired for asking for a vacation in the middle of production.


10:08 AM -- TARZAN, THE APE MAN (1959)
Tarzan swings to the rescue of his beloved Jane in this remake.
Dir: Joseph Newman
Cast: Denny Miller, Cesare Danova, Joanna Barnes
C-82 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Directly steals story points, footage, and sound from 1950's King Solomon's Mines.


11:30 AM -- OUT WHERE THE STARS BEGIN (1938)
This musical short spoofs the production of Hollywood movies.
Dir: Bobby Connolly
Cast: Jack George, Armida, Jack Mower
C-19 mins,

The soundtrack includes Hooray for Hollywood with music by Richard A. Whiting, You Oughta Be in Pictures with music by Dana Suesse, Studio Tour with music by M.K. Jerome and lyrics by Jack Schol, You're Lovely as You Are with music by M.K. Jerome and lyrics by Jack Scholl, Two Hearts in the Moonlight with music by M.K. Jerome and lyrics by Jack Scholl, and She'd Rather Dance Than Love with music by M.K. Jerome and lyrics by Jack Scholl.


12:00 PM -- THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER (1937)
Rousing adaptation of the Mark Twain tale of a 16th-century prince who trades places with a lookalike peasant.
Dir: William Keighley
Cast: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Henry Stephenson
BW-118 mins, CC,

Freddie Bartholomew was originally considered by MGM for the central dual role. However, real-life twins Billy Mauch and Robert J. Mauch were already under contract with Warner Bros who used them for the Prince and the Pauper when the film was finally shot.


2:15 PM -- THE LONG VOYAGE HOME (1940)
A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.
Dir: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter
BW-106 mins, CC,

Nominee for Oscars for Best Writing, Screenplay -- Dudley Nichols, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White -- Gregg Toland, Best Film Editing -- Sherman Todd, Best Effects, Special Effects -- R.T. Layton (photographic), Ray Binger (photographic) and Thomas T. Moulton (sound), Best Music, Original Score -- Richard Hageman, and Best Picture

John Wayne once told biographer Maurice Zolotow: "Usually it would be Mr. Ford [John Ford] who helped the cinematographer get his compositions for maximum effect . . . but in this case it was Gregg Toland who helped Mr. Ford. 'Long Voyage' is about as beautifully photographed a movie as there ever has been."


4:15 PM -- THE BEST MAN (1964)
Two presidential hopefuls get caught up in the dirty side of politics.
Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams
BW-102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Nominee for an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role -- Lee Tracy

United Artists had originally selected Frank Capra to direct, which would have been his first film since 1961's Pocketful of Miracles. Gore Vidal, from whose play the motion picture was adapted, was not happy with the selection of Capra, whose idealism and sentimentality Vidal thought were ill-suited to his cynical script. One idea that Capra proposed, for example, was to add a scene in which Henry Fonda's character would dress up as Abe Lincoln for an appearance before the convention delegates (as a nod to Fonda's role in 1939's Young Mr. Lincoln). Ultimately, Vidal succeeded in convincing United Artists to replace Capra with Franklin J. Schaffner. Although Capra lived another 27 years, dying at 94 in 1991, he never directed another film.


6:15 PM -- GOING HOME (1971)
An ex-convict who killed his wife while drunk tries to re-build his relationship with his son.
Dir: Herbert B. Leonard
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Brenda Vaccaro, Jan-Michael Vincent
C-97 mins, CC,

In his 2017 bio of Harlan Ellison, Nat Segaloff states that the story for this film was inspired by Ellison's 1956 short story, "No Fourth Commandment".



TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: CONTAGIOUS!



8:00 PM -- PANIC IN THE STREETS (1950)
A killer evades the police not knowing he has a deadly plague.
Dir: Elia Kazan
Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
BW-96 mins,

Winner of an Oscar for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story -- Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt

In the scene where Palance hits Widmark on the head with a gun, the actors rehearsed it with a rubber gun, but when the cameras rolled, Palance substituted a real gun. Widmark, who wasn't expecting it was out for twenty minutes. According to Widmark "Why did he switch? Who knows?" In a 1986 interview Widmark also recalled how Palance got into the mood of his character by beating on flunky Zero Mostel off-screen. A black and blue Mostel had to go to the hospital after his first week on the movie. "They had to soak him in epsom pads."


10:00 PM -- THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK (1950)
Married jewel thieves struggle with infidelity, federal agents and the deadly smallpox virus.
Dir: Earl McEvoy
Cast: Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop
BW-76 mins, CC,

Film debut of Beverly Washburn.


11:30 PM -- SUMMER OF '63 (1963)
In this social guidance short film, teens on the make spread syphilis among their friends.
Cast: Mory Schoolhouse, Charlotte Stewart, Michael Bell
C-21 mins,

The original movie V.D. from 1961 was incorporated into this film as a flashback from the original character Monk (Michael Bell), who is now a doctor.


12:00 AM -- ANGEL FACE (1953)
An unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
Dir: Otto Preminger
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
BW-91 mins, CC,

When Robert Mitchum got fed up with repeated re-takes in which director Otto Preminger ordered him to slap Jean Simmons across the face, he turned around and slapped Preminger, asking whether it was this way he wanted it. Preminger immediately demanded of producer Howard Hughes that Mitchum be replaced. Hughes refused.


2:00 AM -- SUMMER OF '42 (1971)
A high school student falls in love, for the first time, with a World War II bride.
Dir: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser
C-104 mins, CC,

Winner of an Oscar for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score -- Michel Legrand

Nominee for Oscars for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced -- Herman Raucher, Best Cinematography -- Robert Surtees, and Best Film Editing -- Folmar Blangsted

During an interview on The Mike Douglas Show (1961), Herman Raucher said that after the novel and movie were released, several women wrote letters to him claiming to be Dorothy. One of the letters was indeed from the real Dorothy, who wanted to know if she had psychologically damaged Raucher, and also informed him that had been happily remarried and was now a grandmother. It was the last time that Raucher, by that time married with children, heard from Dorothy.


4:00 AM -- CLASS OF '44 (1973)
The sequel to Summer of '42 (1971) reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school.
Dir: Paul Bogart
Cast: Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant
BW-95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

The film is noted for being the feature film debut of John Candy in a very brief uncredited appearance at the beginning as a high school graduate who interacts with Hermie and Oscy.