TCM Schedule for Saturday 9/21: Soylent Green, Jeremiah Johnson, Tarzan's Desert Mystery, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

TCM Schedule for Saturday 9/21: Soylent Green, Jeremiah Johnson, Tarzan's Desert Mystery, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

- TCM PRIMETIME
MAKING CHANGE - POLITICAL FILMS
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Hearts and Minds (1975) (doc.)
Lives of Others, The (2006) (TCM Premiere)
Born in Flames (1983)
Saturday, September 21
- TCM DAYTIME:
MAKING CHANGE - POLITICAL FILMS (cont.)
Bicycle Thief, The (1948)
WEEKEND FEATURES
Popeye: The Farmer and the Belle (1951)
Don't You Believe It (1943) (short)
How to Raise a Baby (1938) (short)
Her Husband's Secretary (1937)
Directors Playhouse: The Sword of Villon (1951)
Popeye: Football Toucher Downer (1940)
Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
Salt Water Daffy (1933) (short)
Deep in My Heart (1954) (Musical Matinee)
Edge of the City (1957)
Soylent Green (1973)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
- TCM PRIMETIME; DIRECTOR CARL FRANKLIN
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
One False Move (1991)
- NOIR ALLEY
Split Second (1953)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: DRAMA, ROMANCE
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Love Affair (1939)



9:45 PM Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)



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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American political comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart, and featuring Claude Rains and Edward Arnold. The film is about a naive, newly appointed United States senator who fights against government corruption, and was written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story "The Gentleman from Montana". The film was controversial when it was first released, but successful at the box office, and it made Stewart a major star. It was also loosely based on the life of Montana U.S. Senator Burton Wheeler, who underwent a similar experience when he was investigating the Warren Harding administration.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, winning Best Original Story. Considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, the film was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1989, for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"

Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y



Trivia: The scenes where James Stewart wanders around in amazement at the Washington monuments were "stolen", since the US Parks Service had denied the studio permission to film near them.

Trivia: According to the New York Times, "the Boy Scouts of America objected to having any part in Mr. Capra's reform movement," and Frank Capra therefore had to use the fictitious name of the Boy Rangers.

12:15 AM Hearts and Minds (1975)

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Hearts and Minds is a 1974 American documentary film about the Vietnam War directed by Peter Davis. The film's title is based on a quote from President Lyndon B. Johnson: "the ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who actually live out there". The movie was chosen as the winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary at the 47th Academy Awards presented in 1975.

Dir: Peter Davis Cast: Daniel Ellsberg, General William Westmoreland, Vo Thi Tu
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-MA CC: N



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Trivia: During his Oscar acceptance speech producer Bert Schneider read a letter from the head of the Viet Cong lauding his film (see above). Bob Hope prompted Oscar host Frank Sinatra to disclaim any political statements that had been made during the show.

2:15 AM The Lives of Others (2006) (TCM Premiere)



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In East Berlin, a secret policeman becomes obsessed with the couple he is ordered to surveil.
Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Cast: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch
Runtime: 137 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: N



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Trivia: All the listening/recording props in the film are actual Stasi equipment on loan from museums and collectors. The props master had spent two years in a Stasi prison, and insisted upon absolute authenticity, down to the machine used to steam-open up to 600 letters per hour.

4:45 AM Born in Flames (1983)



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In a future where a socialist government gains power, a group of women decides to organize and rebel.
Dir: Lizzie Borden Cast: Dee Dee Halleck, Julia Hanlon, Johanna Heer
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: Eric Bogosian made his first screen appearance in this film. He is one of the TV technicians who is forced at gunpoint to play the Women's Army videotape on the air.





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A working man's livelihood is threatened when someone steals his bicycle.
Dir: Vittorio De Sica Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: N



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Trivia: Vittorio De Sica still hadn't found the ideal actor to play Bruno when filming began. It was while he was shooting the scene in which Antonio searches for his friend who can help him locate the bike that fate intervened. "I was telling Maggiorani something," he recalled, "when I turned around in annoyance at the onlookers who were crowding around me, and saw an odd-looking child with a round face, a big funny nose and wonderful lively eyes. Saint Gennaro has sent him to me, I thought. It was proof of the fact that everything was turning out right." And so little Enzo Staiola was hired on the spot to play Bruno.


8:00 AM Cartoon: The Farmer and the Belle (1951)

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You may have seen farmers in your day, but you haven't seen anything like Olive Oyl! Neither have Popeye and Bluto. They see her while driving around the countryside and can't resist rushing over to assist her.
Dir: Seymour Kneitel, Thomas Johnson Cast: Jack Mercer, Jackson Beck, Mae Questel
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:07 AM Short: Don't You Believe It (1943)
This Passing Parade short looks at several historical truths that just aren't so.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn Cast: John Nesbitt, Modest Altschuler, Cran Chamberlin
Runtime: 11 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N



This makes light of raising and taking care of a baby.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Robert Benchley, Rollie Jones, Robbie Jones
Runtime: 10 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N






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A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife's best friend as his secretary.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Jean Muir, Beverly Roberts, Warren Hull
Runtime: 61 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

9:30 AM Short: The Sword of Villon (1956)
The swashbuckling poet Francois Villon fights for love and liberty, in this episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse television series.
Dir: George Waggner Cast: Errol Flynn, Hillary Brooke, Pamela Duncan
Runtime: 26 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:00 AM Cartoon: Football Toucher Downer (1940)

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Swee-Pea is reluctant to eat his spinach, so Popeye tells him about the football game when he was young (against Bluto, with Olive cheering and Wimpy keeping score) and also reluctant to eat his spinach.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wickie
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:07 AM Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)



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The jungle king braves a lost prehistoric world to obtain malaria serum for the Allies.
Dir: William Thiele Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Future Academy Award Best Supporting Actor winner Ben Johnson was Johnny Weissmuller's stunt double in the horse riding scenes.


11:30 AM Short: Salt Water Daffy (1933)
Two men join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.
Dir: Ray Mccarey Cast: Charles Judels, Shemp Howard, Jack Haley
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 PM Deep in My Heart (1954)



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Life story of Sigmund Romberg who grew to become one of Broadway's most prolific composers and producers in the 1920s.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: José Ferrer, Merle Oberon, Helen Traubel
Runtime: 132 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: During the Mr. and Mrs. number José Ferrer was actually singing and dancing with his then-wife Rosemary Clooney, who was pregnant at the time.

Trivia: Gene Kelly's dance partner in the "I Love to go Swimmin' with Wimmen" number is his younger brother, Fred Kelly.

2:30 PM Edge of the City (1957)



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Edge of the City is a 1957 American film-noir drama film directed by Martin Ritt in his directorial debut, and starring John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier. Robert Alan Aurthur's screenplay was expanded from his original script, staged as the final episode of Philco Television Playhouse, A Man Is Ten Feet Tall (1955), also featuring Poitier.

The film was considered unusual for its time because of its portrayal of an interracial friendship, and was praised by representatives of the NAACP, Urban League, American Jewish Committee and Interfaith Council because of its portrayal of racial brotherhood.[2]

In 2023, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Expanded from the 1955 hour-long live television play A Man Is Ten Feet Tall (1955), broadcast on "Philco Television Playhouse (1948)," also with Sidney Poitier in the role of Tommy.

4:00 PM Soylent Green (1973)



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Soylent Green is a 1973 American dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G. Robinson in his final film role. It is loosely based on the 1966 science-fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, with a plot that combines elements of science fiction and a police procedural. The story follows a murder investigation in a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity caused by the greenhouse effect, with the resulting pollution, depleted resources, poverty, and overpopulation.[2][3]

The film was released on April 19, 1973 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and received mostly favorable reviews from critics, while earning $3.6 million at the box office. In 1973, it won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film.

Dir: Richard O. Fleischer Cast: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G. Robinson
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: Knowing that he was dying, Charlton Heston brought Edward G. Robinson a variety of wines and cheeses from all over the world each day Robinson was on set for his scenes, which were all shot first. Robinson died at age 79 on January 26, 1973, four months before the film's release in May 1973.

5:45 PM Jeremiah Johnson (1972)



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A Mexican-American War veteran, Jeremiah Johnson, heads to the mountains to live in isolation. Woefully unequipped for the task at hand, Johnson is fortunate to come across a seasoned mountain man willing to teach him the necessary survival tactics. As life continues in the mountains, Johnson finds himself a native bride ...
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: Many of the locations for the film were shot on or near Robert Redford's property in Utah (he owned approximately 600 acres there at the time), although some locations were as much as 600 miles away.

Trivia: Trapper John Johnston's body was buried in the Veterans Administration cemetery in Los Angeles, CA. After the movie came out, Johnston's body was reburied at Old Trail Town in Cody, WY. Robert Redford was a pallbearer in the reburial ceremony attended by 2,000 people.

8:00 PM Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)



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An African-American man is hired to find a woman, and gets mixed up in a murderous political scandal.
Dir: Carl Franklin Cast: Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: Director Jonathan Demme produced the film under his banner after having worked with Denzel Washington in Philadelphia (1993) years earlier. At one point, Demme considered directing the film himself but elected to defer to Carl Franklin on the strength of his direction on One False Move (1991).

10:00 PM One False Move (1991)



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Prison buddies Ray and Pluto, and Ray's girlfriend Fantasia--all from L.A., commit a series of executions in Los Angeles before heading east to unload a cache of stolen cocaine--only to be apprehended by a gung-ho sheriff in Louisiana.
Dir: Carl Franklin Cast: Cynda Williams, Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: Billy Bob Thornton and Cynda Williams got married after filming was completed. They were divorced before the film was released two years later.

NOIR ALLEY: 12:00 AM Split Second (1953)





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Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that's the target of a nuclear bomb test.
Dir: Dick Powell Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The escaped convict Bart Moore is played by Paul Kelly who himself spent 25 months during the late 1920s in California's San Quentin State Prison. He was convicted of manslaughter for the beating death of actor Ray Raymond, the first husband of actress Dorothy Mackaye, who was having an affair with Kelly and would later marry him. Kelly's next film was Duffy of San Quentin (1954), where he plays the title role - the warden of the prison where he himself did time.

2:00 AM All This, and Heaven Too (1940)




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A French nobleman falls in love with his children's governess.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn
Runtime: 143 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



Trivia: June Lockhart's first credited role (and second film). In addition, out of the four children starring in the movie, she was the only one to continue acting into adulthood.

Trivia: In the 1946 cartoon short Hollywood Daffy (1946), a cartoon version of Bette Davis is seen entering the Warner Bros. studio lot talking to herself: "So, you say I'm mean to you. You say I'm mad, cruel, domineering. Well, you're right. I'm all this--and heaven, too". (see below)



4:30 AM Love Affair (1939)



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Near-tragic misunderstandings threaten a shipboard romance.
Dir: Leo McCarey Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y



Trivia: After this movie was released, restaurants were suddenly bombarded with requests for pink champagne.

Trivia: In 1957 director Leo McCarey remade the movie as An Affair to Remember (1957), starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. (Grant and Irene Dunne had previously co-starred in The Awful Truth (1937), which was also directed by McCarey.) The movie was remade a second time as Love Affair (1994), starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, and Katharine Hepburn, directed by Glenn Gordon Caron.