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TCM schedule - Saturday May 18 - Jailhouse Rock, Gunga Din, John Wayne, The Murder of Mary Phegan
THE DAY AT A GLANCE
CREATED BY GEORGE STEVENS JR.
Murder of Mary Phagan, The (1988) (TCM premiere)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: DOCUMENTARY
Freedom on My Mind (1994)
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Gunga Din (1939)
MGM Cartoons: Old Smokey (1938)
Believe It or Not #12 (1932) (short)
Natural Wonders of the West (1938) (short)
Devil's Island (1940)
Directors Playhouse: Rookie of the Year (1955)
Popeye: Hold the Wire (1933)
Falcon in Danger, The (1943)
Song of Fame, The (1934) (short)
Great Ziegfeld, The (1936) (Musical Matinee)
FBI Story, The (1959)
Cahill, United States Marshal (1973)
- TCM PRIMETIME - TCM SERIES: TWO FOR ONE
- STEVEN SPIELBERG
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Forty Guns (1957)
- NOIR ALLEY
Take Aim at the Police Van (1960) (TCM Premiere)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: JOHN WAYNE
Cowboys, The (1972)
Chisum (1970)
FULL DAY'S SCHEDULE
11:30 PM The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988)
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The fact-based events surrounding the murder of a young woman at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta in 1913. Originally shown as a TV mini-series.
Dir: William Hale Cast: Richard Jordan, Peter Gallagher, William H. Macy, Jack Lemmon
Runtime: 251 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:
Emmy nominations:
(*WINNER*) Outstanding Miniseries
Outstanding Writing In a Miniseries
(*WINNER*) Outstanding Sound Editing For a Miniseries, Movie or Special - 1988
Outstanding Lead Actor In a Miniseries Or a Movie 1988 - Jack Lemmon
The Murder of Mary Phagan is a 1988 American two-part television miniseries starring Jack Lemmon about the murder of a 13-year-old factory worker and the subsequent trial of her accused murderer Leo Frank. The supporting cast features Richard Jordan, Robert Prosky, Peter Gallagher, Kathryn Walker, Rebecca Miller, Paul Dooley, Charles Dutton, Kevin Spacey, Cynthia Nixon, Dylan Baker and William H. Macy.
4:00 AM Freedom on My Mind (1994)
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The dramatic story of the Mississippi Voter Registration project (1961-64) is told through the eyewitness accounts of several remarkable men and women.
Dir: Connie Field Cast: Endesha Ida Mae Holland, Pam Chude Allen, Marshall Ganz
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Oscar nominations: DOCUMENTARY (Feature) -- Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford
6:00 AM Gunga Din (1939)
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Three British soldiers seek treasure during an uprising in India.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Gunga Din is a 1939 American adventure film from RKO Radio Pictures directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., loosely based on the 1890 poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling combined with elements of his 1888 short story collection Soldiers Three. The film is about three British sergeants and Gunga Din, their native bhisti (water bearer), who fight the Thuggee, an Indian murder cult, in colonial British India.
The supporting cast features Joan Fontaine, Eduardo Ciannelli, and in the title role, Sam Jaffe. The epic film was written by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol from a storyline by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, with uncredited contributions by Lester Cohen, John Colton, William Faulkner, Vincent Lawrence, Dudley Nichols, and Anthony Veiller.
In 1999, Gunga Din was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
The supporting cast features Joan Fontaine, Eduardo Ciannelli, and in the title role, Sam Jaffe. The epic film was written by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol from a storyline by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, with uncredited contributions by Lester Cohen, John Colton, William Faulkner, Vincent Lawrence, Dudley Nichols, and Anthony Veiller.
In 1999, Gunga Din was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Oscar nominations:
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Joseph H. August
[NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Title was on a preliminary list of submissions/nominees from the studios from which the two official nominees (Stagecoach and Wuthering Heights) would be selected.]
Trivia: Sabu was the first choice to play Gunga Din; when it became clear he was unavailable, Sam Jaffe was hired in his place. In an interview years later, Jaffe (a Jewish Russian-American) was asked how he so convincingly played an Indian Hindu. Jaffe replied he kept telling himself to "Think Sabu."
Trivia: This was the second-highest-grossing film of 1939, behind Gone with the Wind (1939).
8:00 AM Short: Old Smokey (1938)
Old Smokey, the faithful fire horse, is in trouble of being replaced by a new engine.
Dir: William Hanna Cast: Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Martha Wentworth
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: N
8:08 AM Short: Believe It or Not #12 (1932)
This short film, part of the "Believe It or Not" series, features such odd sights as a moving house and chickens with tail feathers measuring up to twenty-five feet. Vitaphone Release 1427.
Dir: null Cast: James E. Marvin, Leo Donnelly, Robert L Ripley
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: N
8:17 AM Short: Natural Wonders of the West (1938)
This short film takes the viewer to some of the natural wonders of the western United States.
Dir: James H. Smith Cast: Gutzon Borglum, James A. Fitzpatrick (narrator)
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N
8:27 AM Devil's Island (1940)
A surgeon unjustly sent to Devil's Island fights to survive harsh treatment.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: Boris Karloff, Nedda Harrington, James Stephenson
Runtime: 62 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: When released in 1939, this film caused strong protests from the French government over the depiction of their penal colony. Not wanting to harm their marketing of other films in France or its colonies, Warner Brothers withdrew this film from overseas distribution until the fall of France the following year in World War 2.
Trivia: Rolla Gourvitch, who plays the colonel's daughter, appeared in only two films in her brief career, this and The Life of Emile Zola (1937). Oddly, both are about prisoners on Devil's Island.
9:30 AM Short, Screen Directors Playhouse: Rookie of the Year (1955)
A sportswriter recognizes a young ballplayer as the son of a former baseball hero who was banned for throwing a game, in this episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse television series.
Dir: John Ford. Cast: John Wayne, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Runtime: 29 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
10:00 AM Cartoon: Hold the Wire (1933)
Bluto's sneaky work over the telephone wires leading to Olive's home gets Popeye in trouble with her. As a result, our hero and Bluto get into a dispute on the phone wires high above the city streets.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wicke
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
10:07 AM The Falcon in Danger (1943)
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A society sleuth tracks a lost plane carrying $100,000.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Elaine Shepard
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y
Trivia: Much of the climatic action takes place on RKO's famous Victorian staircase, built for Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). A year before, star Tom Conway made a fateful climb up it in Val Lewton's Cat People (1942).
11:30 AM Short: The Song of Fame (1934)
In this musical short, an aspiring singer visits an impresario who can potentially give her a break. Vitaphone Release 1690-1691.
Dir: Joseph Henabery Cast: Charles La Torre, Zeke Canova, Andy Canova
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N
12:00 PM The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
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The larger-than-life career of stage genius Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. is aptly celebrated in this marvelous musical biography.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
Runtime: 180 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Hunt Stromberg. It stars William Powell as the theatrical impresario Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld Jr., Luise Rainer as Anna Held, and Myrna Loy as Billie Burke.
The film, shot at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Culver City, California in the fall of 1935, is a fictionalized and sanitized tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and a cinematic adaptation of Broadway's Ziegfeld Follies, with highly elaborate costumes, dances and sets. Many of the performers of the theatrical Ziegfeld Follies were cast in the film as themselves, including Fanny Brice and Harriet Hoctor, and the real Billie Burke acted as a supervisor for the film. The "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" set alone was reported to have cost US$220,000 (US$4,830,504 in 2023 dollars[3]),[4] featuring a towering rotating volute of 70 ft (21 m) diameter with 175 spiral steps, weighing 100 tons. The music to the film was provided by Walter Donaldson, Irving Berlin, and lyricist Harold Adamson, with choreographed scenes. The extravagant costumes were designed by Adrian, taking some 250 tailors and seamstresses six months to prepare them using 50 pounds (23 kg) of silver sequins and 12 yards (11 m)[clarify] of white ostrich plumes. Over a thousand people were employed in the production of the film, which required 16 reels of film after the cutting.[citation needed]
One of the biggest successes in film in the 1930s and the pride of MGM at the time, it was acclaimed as the greatest musical biography to be made in Hollywood and still remains a standard in musical film making. It won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture for producer Hunt Stromberg, Best Actress for Luise Rainer, and Best Dance Direction for Seymour Felix, and was nominated for four others.
The film, shot at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Culver City, California in the fall of 1935, is a fictionalized and sanitized tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and a cinematic adaptation of Broadway's Ziegfeld Follies, with highly elaborate costumes, dances and sets. Many of the performers of the theatrical Ziegfeld Follies were cast in the film as themselves, including Fanny Brice and Harriet Hoctor, and the real Billie Burke acted as a supervisor for the film. The "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" set alone was reported to have cost US$220,000 (US$4,830,504 in 2023 dollars[3]),[4] featuring a towering rotating volute of 70 ft (21 m) diameter with 175 spiral steps, weighing 100 tons. The music to the film was provided by Walter Donaldson, Irving Berlin, and lyricist Harold Adamson, with choreographed scenes. The extravagant costumes were designed by Adrian, taking some 250 tailors and seamstresses six months to prepare them using 50 pounds (23 kg) of silver sequins and 12 yards (11 m)[clarify] of white ostrich plumes. Over a thousand people were employed in the production of the film, which required 16 reels of film after the cutting.[citation needed]
One of the biggest successes in film in the 1930s and the pride of MGM at the time, it was acclaimed as the greatest musical biography to be made in Hollywood and still remains a standard in musical film making. It won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture for producer Hunt Stromberg, Best Actress for Luise Rainer, and Best Dance Direction for Seymour Felix, and was nominated for four others.
3:15 PM The FBI Story (1959)
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A dedicated FBI agent thinks back on the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy Cast: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
Runtime: 149 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: J. Edgar Hoover personally chose James Stewart for the role of Chip Hardesty because he felt that Stewart conveyed a positive image. However, he also forced director Mervyn LeRoy to reshoot a scene because he didn't approve of one of the extras.
Trivia: Two FBI agents were on the set at all times.
6:00 PM Cahill, U.S. Marshal (1973)
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After tracking down a gang of outlaws, lawman J.D. Cahill returns to town and discovers that the local bank has been robbed, the sheriff and the deputy have been killed, and four bank robbers are imprisoned in the jail. But Cahill is stunned to find out that one of the bank robbers is his own son.
Dir: Andrew V. Mclaglen Cast: John Wayne, Gary Grimes, George Kennedy
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: John Wayne was sixty-five years old at the time the movie was filmed. He had had a cancerous lung removed in 1964, and was suffering from emphysema in his remaining lung. Wayne was so weakened that he had to use a stepladder to climb onto his horse in the film. In addition to his own declining health, news that his friend and mentor, John Ford, was dying of cancer forced the actor to consider his own mortality. After Ford's death in August, 1973, Wayne told reporters, "I'm pretty much living on borrowed time."
8:00 PM Jailhouse Rock (1957)
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Young Vince Everett goes to prison for accidentally killing a man in a barroom brawl while defending a young woman's honor. After Everett's cellmate teaches him how to play guitar and encourages him to sing, Everett's hip-swiveling, electrifying performance at a jailhouse concert leads to stardom.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
Jailhouse Rock is a 1957 American musical drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughn Taylor and Jennifer Holden. Adapted by Guy Trosper from a story written by Nedrick Young, the film tells the story of Vince Everett (Presley), a convict who learns the guitar while in prison and later becomes a star following his release.
The film's iconic soundtrack was written by songwriters Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber. The dance sequence to the film's title song is often cited as "Presley's greatest moment on screen."
Jailhouse Rock premiered in Memphis, Tennessee on October 17, 1957, and was released nationwide on November 8, 1957. It peaked at #3 on the Variety box-office chart and finished #14 for the year, grossing $4 million. The film initially earned mixed reviews, with much of the negative targeted at Presley. In 2004, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, who deemed it "culturally, aesthetically or historically significant."
The film's iconic soundtrack was written by songwriters Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber. The dance sequence to the film's title song is often cited as "Presley's greatest moment on screen."
Jailhouse Rock premiered in Memphis, Tennessee on October 17, 1957, and was released nationwide on November 8, 1957. It peaked at #3 on the Variety box-office chart and finished #14 for the year, grossing $4 million. The film initially earned mixed reviews, with much of the negative targeted at Presley. In 2004, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, who deemed it "culturally, aesthetically or historically significant."
Trivia: Elvis Presley's band in the film is his real-life band, including Scotty Moore on electric guitar and Bill Black on stand-up bass. Both had been with Presley since his beginning in Memphis at Sun Records.
Trivia: In the recording studio scenes, the piano player is Mike Stoller of the Lieber and Stoller songwriting team, which wrote many of the major-hit rock songs of the 1950s. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller wrote four songs for the film ("Jailhouse Rock", "I Want to Be Free", "Treat Me Nice", and "You're So Square"
in five hours after their music publisher, under deadline, locked them in their hotel room.
Trivia: Judy Tyler never saw the premiere of this movie; she was killed in a traffic accident in Wyoming on July 3, 1957, only three days after the film was completed. Elvis Presley refused to watch this movie because of Tyler's tragic death.
10:00 PM Forty Guns (1957)
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A showdown in Arizona between the Bonnell brothers, U.S. Marshals, and Jessica Drummond, the iron-fisted rancher who controls the territory with her private posse of hired guns.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: N
Trivia: Barbara Stanwyck's stunt woman refused to allow herself to be dragged by a horse, saying that it was too dangerous. Without further ado, Stanwyck did it by herself. She got some bruises and scrapes, but was okay. At that time, Stanwyck was 49 years old.
12:00 AM Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)
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A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.
Dir: Seijun Suzuki Cast: Michitaro Mizushima, Mari Shiraki, Misako Watanabe
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC:
1:45 AM The Cowboys (1972)
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When his crew quits, a veteran cattleman trains schoolboys for the big drive.
Dir: Mark Rydell Cast: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern
Runtime: 128 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
Trivia: Roscoe Lee Browne was urged by his friends not to work with the right-wing John Wayne. He ignored them and the two actors refrained from discussing politics during filming.
4:00 AM Chisum (1970)
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A cattle baron enlists Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid to help him fight a land war.
Dir: Andrew V. Mclaglen Cast: John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: According to the Los Angeles Times, this was John Wayne's 200th starring role in a feature film. It also noted Wayne was in the "Top Ten Money-Making Stars" list for the 20th consecutive year, and for that year he was second only to Paul Newman.
