TCM Schedule Saturday, October 8, 2022 - Double Indemnity, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Westworld.

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TCM Schedule Saturday, October 8, 2022

Highlights: Double Indemnity, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Westworld.

STAR(S) OF THE MONTH: ROBOTS



12:30 AM Klute (1971)




A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.

(Trivia: In the original script Bree's psychiatrist was male, but Jane Fonda felt in rehearsals that the character would never open up to a man, so she requested that the part be changed to a woman. Fonda also requested to shoot the scenes with the shrink at the end of shooting so she would have already fully internalized the character of Bree.)

Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


2:30 AM The Velvet Vampire (1971)
Diane is a popular regular of the nightclub scene and is a vampire. Wearing wide-brimmed hats and sunglasses, she also goes out in the daytime to find many of her victims, including Lee and his wife Susan. The couple are invited to Diane's desert mansion where she first seduces Lee. Susan also falls under Diane's spell, ...
Dir: Stephanie Rothman Cast: Michael Blodgett, Sherry Miles, Celeste Yarnall
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Horror Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


4:00 AM The Hunger (1983)



A centuries-old female vampire falls for a beautiful young research doctor.
Dir: Tony Scott Cast: David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Catherine Deneuve
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


6:00 AM Now, Voyager (1942)





A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man.

(Trivia: Filming went a few weeks over schedule, which in turn caused some conflicts with Casablanca (1942), which also starred Claude Rains and Paul Henreid. Rains finished work on this movie on June 3rd in 1942 and did his first scene on Casablanca (1942) at 10:30 the next morning.)

Dir: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:00 AM Cartoon: The Honduras Hurricane (1938)
A battle between roosters as Captain Katzenjammer must hope his rooster can defeat Long John Silver's rooster, the wild Honduras Hurricane, or lose his house.
Dir: I. Freleng Cast: null
Runtime: 0 mins Genre: Animation Rating: null CC: N


8:09 AM Short: The King Without a Crown (1937)
This short film explores the possibility that Louis XVII escaped death during the French Revolution.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Carey Wilson, Scotty Beckett, Leonard Mudie
Runtime: 0 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:19 AM Short: Through the Colorado Rockies (1943)
This short film takes the viewer across the mountains of Colorado.
Dir: null Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, Nathaniel Finston, James A. Fitzpatrick
Runtime: 0 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:30 AM Dude Cowboy (1941)
A U.S. Treasury agent takes on a band of counterfeiters.
Dir: David Howard Cast: Tim Holt, Marjorie Reynolds, Ray Whitley
Runtime: 59 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: N


9:30 AM The Devil's Noose (1935)
Tarzan goes to Guatemala to find his lost friend and help discover hidden treasure.
Dir: Edward Kull, Wilbur McGaugh Cast: Ula Holt, Edward Kull, Merrill McCormick
Runtime: 0 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-G CC: Y


10:00 AM Cartoon: Popeye: Firemen's Brawl (1953)
Firemen Bluto and Popeye are playing cards when the alarm rings. Olive's house is on fire and the two rivals race there hoping to be the one that saves her. Their fighting gets in the way, however, and it's Olive who winds up eating the spinach and saving the two brawlers.
Dir: null Cast: Jack Mercer, Jackson Beck, Mae Questel
Runtime: 0 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC:


10:08 AM Angels' Alley (1948)
An ex-con cousin of one of the Bowery Boys gets them into trouble with the law.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Benedict
Runtime: 67 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:30 AM A Modern Cinderella (1932)
In this comedic short, a poor shop girl delivers a lavish dress to a snobbish party girl and is mistaken for a rich socialite. Vitaphone Release 1460-1461.
Dir: Roy Mack Cast: Lee Dixon, Ruth Etting, Barbara Child
Runtime: 17 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: N


12:00 PM The Long Night (1947)
A veteran tries to free his former love from a sadistic lover.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:45 PM The Sundowners (1960)
A nomadic family travels across 1930s Australia to pursue their dream of settling into a big farm, along the way they try to win some money.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov
Runtime: 133 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:15 PM Double Indemnity (1944)





An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.

(Trivia: The blonde wig that Barbara Stanwyck is wearing throughout the movie was the idea of Billy Wilder. A month into shooting Wilder suddenly realized how bad it looked, but by then it was too late to re-shoot the earlier scenes. To rationalize this mistake, in later interviews Wilder claimed that the bad-looking wig was intentional. On viewing the film's rushes, production head Buddy G. DeSylva remarked of the wig, "We hired Barbara Stanwyck, and here we get George Washington".)

Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:15 PM The Omega Man (1971)



A scientist who believes he is the only human to survive a worldwide bacteriological war unharmed attempts to save humanity by developing a curative serum from his own blood in this frightening vision of a post-apocalyptic near future.
Dir: Boris Sagal Cast: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

STAR(S) OF THE MONTH: ROBOTS

8:00 PM The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

From TCM.com: "The second night of the series presents The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), the most thoughtful of the first contact films of the 1950s. British actor Michael Rennie makes a striking American film debut as Klaatu, the well-spoken stranger from outer space who lands his flying saucer in Washington D.C. to deliver a message to the world's leaders. Accompanying Klaatu is Gort, a towering, silent robot who serves as his bodyguard and shoots laser beams from his visor when the emissary is attacked. In contrast to the boxy-looking robots that proliferated in movies, comic books and popular culture, the enigmatic Gort is a sleek, smooth, silver sentinel, like a Golem made of metal that bends like rubber when it moves and strikes an imposing figure when he stands statue-like to guard the ship as Klaatu undertakes his mission. The costume was made of latex and worn by Lock Martin, a doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater who stood over seven and a half feet tall. The lanky Martin was a frail man and could only wear the heavy suit for half an hour at a time. A lightweight replica of the suit doubled for the actor in scenes where Gort was still. Bernard Herrmann's distinctive score used electronic violins, an electric bass and a theremin to give the film an otherworldly quality. "Klaatu barada nikto!""







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An alien demands that Earth's leaders choose between peace and destruction.

(Trivia: The Army refused to cooperate after reading the script. The studio then approached the National Guard, which had no qualms about seeing the Army depicted in a less-than-flattering light, and gladly offered their cooperation.)

Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:00 PM Westworld (1973)



From TCM.com: "Old school western adventure gets a science fiction makeover in Westworld (1973), Michael Crichton's thriller of a Wild West amusement park gone out of control. This adult playground reimagines the old west as a rollicking movie fantasy come to life. Robots play the roles of sheriff, gunfighters and dance hall floozies, and Yul Brynner plays off his memorable role in The Magnificent Seven (1960) as the park's resident villain designed to lose every shootout. At least until the master control program malfunctions and the safeguards shut down, transforming the eternal loser into a Frankenstein robot in black hat and cowboy boots on a mission to gun down the greenhorn who last killed him. Crichton, a best-selling author who made his directorial debut on the film, admitted in interviews that he was inspired in part by the automatons at Disneyland, "a machine that has been made to look, talk and act like a person," and then blurred the line between man and machine. As the point of these robots was to pass for human, Brynner wore silver metallic contact lenses to help set him apart and give his gaze a steely intensity. Decades later, Crichton's premise was updated in a brilliant TV series of the same name. "



A high-tech amusement park for adults features three recreated historical environments - Medieval World, Roman World, and West World - populated by highly realistic androids programmed to indulge the whims of every high-paying guest.

(Trivia: Yul Brynner was suffering from financial difficulties by the early 1970s and in desperate need of money. With no other movie work on offer to him at the time he reluctantly agreed to play his role for a knockdown $75,000 which comes out to $485,648.65 in 2022. The robot that Yul Brynner portrays is an homage/spoof of his character Chris from The Magnificent Seven (1960) and also wears the same costume.)

Dir: Michael Crichton Cast: Richard Benjamin, Yul Brynner, James Brolin
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


12:00 AM NOIR ALLEY: The Phenix City Story (1955)


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A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
Dir: Phil Karlson Cast: John Mcintire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


2:00 AM Oleanna (1994)
Based on David Mamet's two character play about sexual harassment, focusing on a male professor accused of harassing a female student.
Dir: David Mamet Cast: William H. Macy, Debra Eisenstadt, Ray Fisher
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: null CC:


3:45 AM Night into Morning (1951)
After a fire kills his family, a college professor sinks into alcoholism.
Dir: Fletcher Markle Cast: Ray Milland, John Hodiak, Nancy Reagan
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


5:30 AM Short: Musical Movieland (1944)



In this short film, a group of tourists are given a studio tour of several locations of famous movie musicals.
Dir: Leroy Prinz Cast: Richard Erdman, Lottie Williams, Harold Miller
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: N