TCM Schedule Saturday, Sept. 7 - Fail Safe, All the King's Men, Tarzan and the Mermaids, 4 For Texas, Cabaret, Bullitt

TCM Schedule for Saturday, Sept. 7 - Fail Safe, All the King's Men, Tarzan and the Mermaids, 4 For Texas, Cabaret, Bullitt

MAKING CHANGE - POLITICAL FILMS
All the King's Men (1949)
Great Dictator, The (1940)
Fail Safe (1964)
Ivan the Terrible (Part 2) (1958)
Salt of the Earth (1954)
WEEKEND FEATURES
MGM Cartoons: Busybody Bear (1952)
Bone Crushers (1933) (short)
How to Be a Detective (1936) (short)
Bandit Ranger (1943)
Directors Playhouse: One Against Many (1956)
Popeye: I Never Changes My Altitude (1937)
Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)
Trial by Trigger (1944) (short)
That Night in Rio (1941) (Musical Matinee)
Girl Happy (1965)
4 for Texas (1963)
Bullitt (1968)
- TCM PRIMETIME: LIZA MINELLI
Arthur (1981)
Cabaret (1972)
- NOIR ALLEY
Out of the Past (1947)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: BROTHERS
Brothers Karamazov, The (1958)
Falcon's Brother, The (1942)



10:15 PM All the King's Men (1949)



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All the King's Men is a 1949 American political drama film written, produced, and directed by Robert Rossen. It is based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning[2] 1946 novel of the same name. It stars Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, and Joanne Dru. The film centers on the rise and fall of an idealistic-but-ruthless politician in the American South,[3] patterned after Louisiana Governor Huey Long.[4]

Released by Columbia Pictures on November 8, 1949, the film received widespread acclaim from critics, and was a commercial success. At the 22nd Academy Awards the film was nominated for seven Oscars and won three; Best Picture, Best Actor for Crawford, and Best Supporting Actress for McCambridge, making an impressive film debut. The film also won five Golden Globes, and was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

In 2001, All the King's Men was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.[5]

Dir: Robert Rossen Cast: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



Trivia: Nobody in the cast had a script; director Robert Rossen let the actors read it once and took it away from them. According to Broderick Crawford, "We really had to stay on our toes."

12:15 AM The Great Dictator (1940)



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The Great Dictator is a 1940 American anti-war, political satire, and black comedy film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other films. Having been the only Hollywood filmmaker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, Chaplin made this his first true sound film.

Chaplin's film advanced a stirring condemnation of the German and Italian dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, as well as fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis. At the time of its first release, the United States was still at peace with Nazi Germany and neutral during what were the early days of World War II. Chaplin plays both leading roles: a ruthless fascist dictator and a persecuted Jewish barber.

The Great Dictator was popular with audiences, becoming Chaplin's most commercially successful film.[4] Modern critics have praised it as a historically significant film, one of the greatest comedy films ever made and an important work of satire. In 1997, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Great Dictator was nominated for five Academy Awards – Outstanding Production, Best Actor, Best Writing (Original Screenplay), Best Supporting Actor for Jack Oakie, and Best Music (Original Score).

In his 1964 autobiography, Chaplin stated that he could not have made the film if he had known about the true extent of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at that time.
Dir: Charles Chaplin Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



Trivia: Adolf Hitler banned the film in Germany and all Nazi-occupied countries. Curiosity got the best of him, and he had a print brought in through Portugal. History records that he screened it twice, in private, but not his reaction. Charles Chaplin said, "I'd give anything to know what he thought of it." West Germany finally lifted the ban in 1958.

2:30 AM Fail Safe (1964)



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A failure in the U.S. defense system threatens to start World War III.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: Columbia Pictures produced both this movie and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) in the period after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when people became much more sensitive to the threat of nuclear war. Director Stanley Kubrick insisted his movie be released first, and it was, in January 1964. When Fail-Safe was released, it garnered excellent reviews but audiences found it unintentionally funny because of "Strangelove," and stayed away. Henry Fonda later said he would never have made this movie if he had seen "Strangelove" first, because he would have laughed, too.

4:30 AM Ivan the Terrible (Part 2) (1958)



The Russian czar sinks to ever more bloodthirsty means of consolidating power.
Dir: Sergei M. Eisenstein Cast: Nikolay Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: N

Trivia: This film was withheld by Soviet authorities by order of Joseph Stalin, since this film, dealing with Ivan's slide into madness and the tyranny of the Oprichnina, did not properly mythologize Ivan IV Grozny to Stalin's satisfaction. It was not finally released until 10 years after the deaths of director Sergei Eisenstein and Stalin.

6:00 AM Salt of the Earth (1954)



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Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they continue to fight for better working conditions.
Dir: Herbert J. Biberman Cast: Will Geer, David Wolfe, David Sarvis
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Because the producers feared both sabotage and destruction of the film, the exposed footage had to be developed in secret, at night, by a sympathetic lab technician, with the film delivered in unmarked canisters.

8:00 AM Cartoon: Busybody Bear (1952)
Barney Bear and Buck Beaver team up to build a beaver dam.
Dir: Dick Lundy Cast: Paul Frees
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:07 AM Short: Bone Crushers (1933)
This short film showcases professional wrestling.
Dir: Ward Wing Cast: Paul Gerard Smith, Alex Aberg, Tony Felice
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:16 AM Short: How to Be a Detective (1936)
Robert Benchley attempts to teach the audience what it takes to be a successful detective.
Dir: Felix E. Feist Cast: Robert Benchley, Dewey Robinson, Arthur Hoyt
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:25 AM Bandit Ranger (1943)



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A cowboy takes on a band of cattle rustlers single-handedly.
Dir: Lesley Selander Cast: Tim Holt, Cliff "ukulele Ike" Edwards, Joan Barclay
Runtime: 64 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: This was the first of six movies hurriedly made by RKO between May 1942 and July 1942, before 'Tim Holt' went into military service.


9:30 AM Screen Director's Playhouse: One Against Many (1956)

A scientist chooses between his ideals and public health, in this episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse television series.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Lew Ayres, Wallace Ford, Chick Chandler
Runtime: 26 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:00 AM Cartoon: I Never Changes My Altitude (1937)
Olive elopes with Bluto in his plane only to realize she still loves Popeye. Bluto is disgusted with her and throws her out as Popeye comes to her rescue.
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 Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)



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Tarzan and Jane try to keep a woman from being forced to marry a con artist.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, George Zucco
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The same year this film was released, Johnny Weissmuller made his initial appearance as Jungle Jim, his other best-known character. Although he is now remembered more for portraying Tarzan, Weissmuller starred as Edgar Rice Burroughs' Ape Man in only 11 films, but played Jungle Jim in 13 feature films and a 1950s TV series.

Trivia: The absence of the Johnny Sheffield character "Boy" from this film is explained with the the claim that Boy is "away at school." In truth, Sheffield's RKO contract had not been renewed, and the actor then signed a deal with "Poverty Row" studio Monogram Pictures to make a series of movies as "Bomba," a character clearly intended to evoke memories of Sheffield's many appearances in Tarzan films.


11:30 AM Trial by Trigger (1944)
A logger must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by an unscrupulous logging company owner.
Dir: William McGann Cast: Jack Tornek, Tex Phelps, Tom Wilson
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Sixth episode in Warner Bros. Santa Fe Trail series of 2-reel Westerns


12:00 PM That Night in Rio (1941)



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A nightclub entertainer pretends to be a noted financier, only to fall for the man's wife.
Dir: Irving Cummings Cast: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: The sixth and final teaming of Don Ameche and Alice Faye.

Trivia: A reprise of "Chica-Chica-Boom Chic" sung by Alice Faye and Don Ameche was cut from the film.

1:45 PM Girl Happy (1965)



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A Chicago mobster hires a rock'n'roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Dir: Boris Sagal Cast: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Harold J. Stone
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Even though the film is set in Fort Lauderdale, Elvis did not film any scenes in the city (as was common practice in later Presley films). Primary shooting was done at the MGM studios in Hollywood, while the beach scenes were filmed in southern California. Only second unit filming was done in Fort Lauderdale.

Trivia: Shelley Fabares is the only woman who was Elvis Presley's love interest in three different films.

Trivia: As influenced by Beatlemania and The British Invasion of 1964, rock groups were the latest trend, putting many solo performers at a disadvantage. With the box-office success of A Hard Day's Night (1964) and the expected success of Help! (1965), three band member buddies--played by Gary Crosby, Jimmy Hawkins and Joby Baker--were added to the plot in order to enhance the film's appeal to a "newer' generation of rock fans and "teenyboppers".

3:30 PM 4 for Texas (1963)



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Double-crossing outlaws go straight and become rival saloon owners.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, The Three Stooges
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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Trivia: Anita Ekberg and Ursula Andress did nude screentests, Hollywood's first. However, the Hays Board removed all nudity from the finished film.

Trivia: Sophia Loren turned down a paycheck of $1 million for four weeks work.

Trivia: Ursula Andress, who played Dean Martin's romantic interest in this movie, dated his son, Ricci Martin, in real life.

Trivia: The only Frank Sinatra-Dean Martin movie in which their characters are adversaries for most of the film.

Trivia: Early in the film, Frank Sinatra says to Dean Martin, "They tell me them boots ain't built for walkin'." Sinatra's daughter Nancy, like Frank, was also a singer. Frank asked singer/songwriter Lee Hazelwood to manage/mentor Nancy's career. Hazelwood wrote a song titled "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", which was inspired by the line in the film. Hazelwood intended to record the song himself, but Nancy Sinatra talked him into giving it to her. She released the recording in 1965 and it went to #1 on the charts.

5:45 PM Bullitt (1968)



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Bullitt is a 1968 American action thriller film directed by Peter Yates and produced by Philip D'Antoni. The picture stars Steve McQueen as the title character, San Francisco police detective Frank Bullitt, who pursues a group of mobsters after they kill the witness he's been assigned to protect. The cast also features Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland and Norman Fell.[6] The screenplay by Alan R. Trustman and Harry Kleiner was based on the 1963 novel Mute Witness by Robert L. Fish, under the pseudonym Robert L. Pike. The film was made by McQueen's Solar Productions company, with his partner Robert Relyea as executive producer. Lalo Schifrin wrote the original jazz-inspired score.

Released by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts on October 17, 1968, the film was a critical and box-office success, later winning the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Frank P. Keller) and receiving a nomination for Best Sound. Writers Trustman and Kleiner won a 1969 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. Bullitt is famous for its car chase scene through the streets of San Francisco, which is regarded as one of the most influential in film history.

In 2007, Bullitt was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y





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Trivia: Several items of clothing worn by Steve McQueen received a boost in popularity thanks to the film: desert boots, a trench coat, a blue turtleneck sweater and, most famously, a brown tweed jacket with elbow patches.

Trivia: Although Steve McQueen was credited with the driving during the chase sequence, it was actually shared by McQueen and Bud Ekins, one of Hollywood's best stunt drivers. From the interior shots looking forward inside the Mustang, it's easy to see which one is driving. When McQueen is driving, the rear view mirror is down reflecting his face. When Ekins is driving it is up, so his face is hidden.

Trivia: Bullitt's reverse burnout during the chase scene actually wasn't in the script; Steve McQueen had mistakenly missed the turn. The footage was still kept, though.

8:00 PM Arthur (1981)



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A childlike millionaire must choose between keeping his fortune and marrying a girl from the wrong side of the tracks.
Dir: Steven Gordon Cast: Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y



Trivia: Dudley Moore was said to have based his performance partly on Peter Cook, whose excessive drinking had soured his and Moore's comedic partnership in the 1970s.

Trivia: At one point during the production, Liza Minnelli was supposed to board a bus in front of Bergdorf's on Fifth Avenue. When a real bus came along, she boarded it thinking it was the "movie bus". Not until she was halfway down the block did she realize her blunder when she looked back and saw the whole crew cracking up.


9:45 PM Cabaret (1972)



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Cabaret is a 1972 American musical period drama film directed by Bob Fosse from a screenplay by Jay Allen, based on the stage musical of the same name by John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff,[3] which in turn was based on the 1951 play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten and the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood.[3][4] It stars Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, and Joel Grey. Multiple numbers from the stage score were used for the film, which also featured three other songs by Kander and Ebb, including two written for the adaptation.

In the traditional manner of musical theater, most major characters in the stage version sing to express their emotions and advance the plot; in the film, however, the musical numbers are almost entirely diegetic and take place inside the club, with the exception of "Tomorrow Belongs to Me", which is not performed in the club or by the club characters, but is still diegetic, a nationalistic song sung by a Nazi youth and the German crowd.

Cabaret was released in the United States on February 13, 1972, by Allied Artists. The film received critical acclaim and eventually earned more than $42 million in the box office against a production budget of $4.6 million. It won Best Picture citations from the National Board of Review and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and took Best Supporting Actor honors for Grey from the National Board of Review, the Hollywood Foreign Press, and the National Society of Film Critics. At the 45th Academy Awards, the film won Best Director (Fosse), Best Actress (Minnelli), Best Supporting Actor (Grey), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Song Score, Best Art Direction, and Best Sound, holding the record for most Oscars earned by a film not honored for Best Picture. In 1995, Cabaret was the twelfth live-action musical film selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Dir: Bob Fosse Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



Trivia: The film won 8 Oscars, though not the Academy Award for Best Picture. It lost Best Picture as well as Best Adapted Screenplay to The Godfather (1972). As of 2022, this picture still held the record for winning the most Oscars without winning Best Picture.

12:00 AM Out of the Past (1947)



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Out of the Past (billed in the United Kingdom as Build My Gallows High) is a 1947 American film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring (using the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes) from his 1946 novel Build My Gallows High (also written as Homes), with uncredited revisions by Frank Fenton and James M. Cain.

Its complex, fatalistic storyline, dark cinematography, and classic femme fatale garnered the film critical acclaim and cult status.[1] In 1991, the National Film Preservation Board at the Library of Congress added Out of the Past to the United States National Film Registry of “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” films.

Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Robert Mitchum told Roger Ebert he smoked so much that when the camera was rolling and Kirk Douglas offered him a pack and asked, "Cigarette?" Mitchum, realizing he'd carried a cigarette into the scene, held up his fingers and replied, "Smoking." His improvisation saved the take and they kept it in the movie.

1:45 AM The Brothers Karamazov (1958)



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Four brothers fight to adjust to the death of their domineering father.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom
Runtime: 146 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



Trivia: The presence of Philip G. Epstein in the writing credits indicates that this film had been a project long in the works in Hollywood - Epstein had died six years before the film appeared. Director Richard Brooks had wanted to make the film in Russia, something quite impossible, of course, in the darkest days of the Cold War. MGM had insisted very firmly that the film made at their studios in Culver City, and several familiar standing sets from other MGM films appear in the movie.


4:30 AM The Falcon's Brother (1942)



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A gentlemanly detective calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
Dir: Stanley Logan Cast: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
Runtime: 63 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: At the fashion show it is mentioned that the garments conform to government wartime regulations. The U.S. War Production Board had just issued Limitation Order L-85 that restricted the amount of textiles used in women's clothing. Pleats, ruffles, patch pockets, attached hoods and shawls, and full-length sleeves were prohibited. Hems and belts could be no wider than two inches. There were exemptions for bridal and maternity wear and for religious vestments.