TCM Schedule for Tuesday, June 30th: Great Directors: Anthony Mann

[CBHagman]

The director featured during the daytime is Robert Z. Leonard. You may not know the name, but if you're any kind of classic movie buff, you've seen the work, somewhere, somehow.

It's also a great day for character actors (e.g., Edna May Oliver, S.Z. Sakall) and leading ladies, and we've got a Nelson Eddy/Jeanette MacDonald feature, plus a Robert Montgomery sighting.

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009


12:45 AM Cleopatra (1934)
The fabled queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Marc Antony astray. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon. Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. BW-101 mins, TV-PG

2:30 AM King of Kings, The (1927)
In this silent film, Cecil B. DeMille directs an epic retelling of the life of Christ. Cast: H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence. Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. BW-112 mins, TV-G

4:30 AM Cheat, The (1915)
In this silent film, a society woman makes a costly bargian to pay off her debts. Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Fannie Ward, Jack Dean. Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. C-59 mins, TV-PG

6:00 AM Great Ziegfeld, The (1936)
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. C-185 mins, TV-G, CC

9:15 AM Divorcee, The (1930)
The double standard destroys a liberal couple's marriage. Cast: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Robert Montgomery. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC



10:41 AM Short Film: Hotel Anchovy, The (1934)
BW-18 mins,

11:00 AM Weekend at the Waldorf (1945)
In this remake of Grand Hotel, guests at a New York hotel fight to survive personal tragedy. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Lana Turner. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-130 mins, TV-G, CC

1:30 PM Maytime (1937)
An opera star's manager tries to stop her romance with a penniless singer. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-132 mins, TV-G, CC



3:43 PM Short Film: Another Romance Of Celluloid (1938)
A look at the movie making process and tour of studio stages. Cast: Tyrone Power, Norma Shearer BW-11 mins,

4:00 PM In The Good Old Summertime (1949)
In this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals. Cast: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. C-103 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

6:00 PM Pride And Prejudice (1940)
Jane Austen's comic classic about five sisters out to nab husbands in 19th-century England. Cast: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Edna May Oliver. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-118 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS



What's On Tonight: GREAT DIRECTORS: ANTHONY MANN

8:00 PM Man From Laramie, The (1955)
A wandering cowboy gets caught in the rivalry between an aging rancher's sons. Cast: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp. Dir: Anthony Mann. C-102 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

9:49 PM Short Film: U.S. Army Air Force Band (1942)
A patriotic wartime short showcasing the U.S. Army Air Force Band and famous military and patriotic songs played by the band interspersed with wartime footage of the Army Air Force. BW-10 mins,

10:00 PM Strategic Air Command (1955)
A baseball star takes to the air to help plan the U.S.' aerial defense. Cast: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy. Dir: Anthony Mann. C-114 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

12:00 AM Man Of The West (1958)
A reformed outlaw is among the hostages when his former colleagues rob a train. Cast: Gary Cooper, Lee J. Cobb, Julie London. Dir: Anthony Mann. C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

1:45 AM Cimarron (1960)
A pioneer couple plays a major role in the settling of Oklahoma. Cast: Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter. Dir: Anthony Mann. C-148 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format



4:15 AM Last Frontier, The (1956)
A backwoodsman signs on as scout for a remote Army fort. Cast: Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston. Dir: Anthony Mann. C-98 mins, , CC, Letterbox Format

[Matilda]

1. I like your choice of photos - you know which ones I mean!

Even though I'm a Colin Firth fan, I do think Olivier was the perfect Darcy - so right in every way. The film made
mincemeat of the story, yet I love it regardless.

And "Maytime" would be my desert island musical film.

I noticed "Cheat" on the morning list - 1915! I checked it on IMDb, and apparently it's been restored and is
available on Kino. I'd love to see it.

[CBHagman]

2. I've seen the 1940 P&P more times than I can count.

I didn't know it until the 1990s, when a friend and I found it in a video rental store and took it home for viewing. In time I got my own copies (VHS and eventually DVD), and there are many times I've used it to unwind. At this point I know every musical cue and most of the dialogue.

One of the big pluses of the film is the array of character actors -- Edmund Gwenn, Mary Boland, Melville Cooper, and of course Edna May Oliver, who, it must be noted, died in the '40s and yet remains a presence today, thanks to performances in several classics.



As for Olivier, he gives Darcy a nice touch of vulnerability. It works very well, both for the story and the production. I've seen my fair share of Darcys (David Rintoul is probably the chilliest). One wonders what a young Alan Rickman would have made of the role. Or I could see him in various other roles in Austen adaptations -- officers and clergymen and fathers too. But at least he got to be Colonel Brandon in Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility.

[Matilda]

3. Aahh!

He could have done it, couldn't he? The right mix of arrogance and sexiness. We can only dream ....