TCM Schedule Saturday Jan. 18: Raging Bull, High Sierra, The Story of Will Rogers, four late-night film noirs

Film poster signed by Jake LaMotta

January 18 At A Glance

- TCM SPOTLIGHT: IT WAS ALL A DREAM?
Artists and Models (1955)
Billy Liar (1963)
Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)
Feminine Touch, The (1941)

- TCM DAYTIME - WEEKEND FEATURES
Story of Will Rogers, The (1952)
MGM Cartoons: Little 'Tinker (1948)
Bermuda Cockleshells (1957) (short)
Believe It or Not #10 (1932) (short)
Smugglers' Cove (1948)
Galloping Ghost Ch. 3: The Master Mind (1931)
(TCM Premiere)
Popeye: Leave Well Enough Alone (1939)
Elephant Stampede (1951)
Roaring Guns (1944) (short)
Say Amen, Somebody (1982) (Musical Matinee)
High Sierra (1941)
Whiplash (1948)
Operation Crossbow (1965)

- TCM PRIMETIME - SCREENWRITER PAUL SCHRADER
Yakuza, The (1974)
Raging Bull (1980)

- NOIR ALLEY
Without Pity (1948)

- TCM LATE NIGHT: DIR. JACK BERNHARD NOIR
Blonde Ice (1948) (TCM Premiere)
Hunted, The (1948)
Decoy (1946)

January 18 Full Day Schedule

11:00 PM Artists and Models (1955)

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Rick Todd is a struggling painter and smooth-talking ladies' man. Rick uses the dreams of his goofy young roommate Eugene Fullstack as the basis for a successful comic book.
Dir: Frank Tashlin Cast: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC:

Oscar nominations:
MUSIC (Song) -- "Whispers In The Dark," Music by Frederick Hollander; Lyrics by Leo Robin

Trivia: Jerry Lewis saw Shirley MacLaine on stage in "The Pajama Game", where she was understudy for Carol Haney, and convinced the producer to use her in this film, thereby launching her career.

1:00 AM Billy Liar (1963)



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An emotionally stunted clerk retreats into his fantasies.
Dir: John Schlesinger Cast: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: This movie made a star of Julie Christie, despite the fact that she's only in it for a total of 12 minutes.


2:45 AM Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)



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A girl accepts three wedding proposals at once and dreams of marriage to each man.
Dir: Garson Kanin Cast: Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
WRITING (Original Screenplay) -- Paul Jarrico

Trivia: During the shooting of this film, Ginger Rogers won the Academy Award® for Best Actress for her previous film, Kitty Foyle (1940). The day after, all of the male cast and crew met her on the set in top hats and tails.


4:15 AM The Feminine Touch (1941)






An author writing a book on jealousy discovers his wife is an expert on the subject.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Don Ameche's first film for MGM. He had made a screen test there in 1935 and was rejected, but was signed the following year by 20th Century-Fox.

6:00 AM The Story of Will Rogers (1952)

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Oklahoma lad grows up to become America's favorite humorist.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Will Rogers Jr., Jane Wyman, Carl Benton Reid
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Eddie Cantor appears as himself in support of Will Rogers, Jr. who portrays his father, a contemporary of Cantor's. The next year Rogers, Jr. would return the favor, again appearing as his father in The Eddie Cantor Story. Both films were made by Warner Brothers.

8:00 AM Cartoon: Little Tinker (1948)



A young skunk is looking for a girlfriend but his odor is too much for most females to handle.
Dir: Tex Avery Cast: Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Walter Craig
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Much fun is poked at Frank Sinatra's ultra-thin appearance. Sinatra, in fact, was known as the skinny kid from Hoboken in his early days, but audiences still swooned at his crooning.

8:10 AM Short: Bermuda Cockleshells (1957)
This short film focuses on sailboat racing in Bermuda.
Dir: Harry W. Smith Cast: Peter Roberts, Herman Fuchs, Earle Luby
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:20 AM Short: Believe It or Not #10 (1932)
This entry features various sights and oddities, such as a golf course made from Civil War trenches and a Native American who can paint upside down. Vitaphone Release 1364.
Dir: null Cast: Leo Donnelly, Robert L Ripley, Alfred J. Goulding
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:30 AM Smugglers' Cove (1948)



The Bowery Boys take on a gang of German smugglers.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell
Runtime: 66 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:40 AM Serial: The Galloping Ghost - Chapter 3, The Master Mind (1931) (TCM Premiere)

A gambling ring is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, who try to eliminate him from playing.
Dir: B. Reeves Eason Cast: Harold "Red" Grange, Dorothy Gulliver, Walter Miller
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: N

10:10 AM Cartoon: Leave Well Enough Alone (1939)
Popeye, saddened by the sight of dogs in a pet shop, buys them and releases them into the streets. Pursued by a dog catcher, the hungry dogs discover freedom isn't so great after all. They gladly follow Popeye back to the pet shop.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel Cast: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:20 AM Elephant Stampede (1951)



Bomba The Jungle Boy fights off elephant poachers to help a missionary.
Dir: Ford Beebe Cast: Johnny Sheffield, Donna Martell, John Kellogg
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: As usual, Bomba wears anachronistic, often visible, dark underwear beneath his loincloth, in order to placate the members of the production code committee who expressed their usual concern over the possibility of undue exposure resulting from what is now referred to as "wardrobe malfunction."


11:35 AM Short: Roaring Guns (1944)
Farmers clash with miners when runoff from water pressure mining destroys their farms.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Robert Shayne, Mark Stevens, Victor Cox
Runtime: 19 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:00 PM Say Amen, Somebody - The Good News Musical (1982)





The lives and music of early gospel artists are documented. Performers who are highlighted include Sallie Martin, the Barrett Sisters, and the O'Neill Brothers, but much of the focus is on the legendary singers Willie Mae Ford Smith and Thomas A. Dorsey.
Dir: George T Nierenberg Cast: Rhodessa Barrett Porter, Edgar O'Neal, Zella Jackson Price
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 PM High Sierra (1941)



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An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: This was the last movie Humphrey Bogart made where he did not receive top billing. The studio thought that Ida Lupino should have top billing because she had been such a big hit in They Drive by Night (1940) (which also featured Bogart), and so her name ended above Bogart's on the title card. Bogart was reportedly unhappy about receiving second billing.


4:00 PM Whiplash (1948)

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An artist becomes a boxer but finds that it may not have been the best career choice.
Dir: Lew Seiler Cast: Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Before becoming an actor, Dane Clark had some experience as a professional boxer. Freddie Steele who portrays Mike's final opponent Duke Carney, was also a professional boxer before his retirement led to him becoming an actor.

5:45 PM Operation Crossbow (1965)







Allied agents go behind enemy lines to destroy a German missile base.
Dir: Michael Anderson Cast: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: As Sophia Loren was blacklisted in Arab countries because of her portrayal of a Jewish woman who survived a concentration camp, in Daniel Mann's Judith (1966), which was shot in Israel, this movie was shown in Beirut, Lebanon with all of the Loren bits removed. The movie poster was changed, and her name removed from the top billing. This movie was shown at the Cinema Strand and the audience never suspected Loren was part of this production.

Trivia: For the scene in which a street is wiped out by a V2, the filmmakers destroyed a row of flats which were slated for demolition.

Trivia: In an interview on WABC Radio in New York in 1965, George Harrison talked about seeing this film on the Beatles flight to the city. The Beatles were in New York to play Shea Stadium.

8:00 PM The Yakuza (1974)





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Harry Kilmer is an ex-soldier who returns to Japan to help his friend George Tanner whose daughter has been kidnapped by the Japanese mafia known as the Yakuza.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: Martin Scorsese wanted to direct after Mean Streets (1973) but the producers wanted Sydney Pollack. Scorsese has gone on record that he would very much have liked to direct the film and was disappointed that he was passed over. However, he got to direct Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) instead after being sought out by Ellen Burstyn. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ended up making more than 20 times it's budget and won Burstyn an academy award while The Yakuza became a box office bomb.


10:00 PM Raging Bull (1980)

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The story of Jake LaMotta, a former middleweight boxing champion, whose reputation for tenacity and success in the ring was offset by his troubled domestic life: full of rage, jealousy, and suspicion--particularly towards his wife and manager/brother--which, in the end, left him destitute, alone, and seeking redemption.
Dir: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
(*WINNER*) ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Robert De Niro {"Jake LaMotta"}
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Joe Pesci {"Joey LaMotta"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Cathy Moriarty {"Vicki LaMotta"}
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Michael Chapman
DIRECTING -- Martin Scorsese
(*WINNER*) FILM EDITING -- Thelma Schoonmaker
BEST PICTURE -- Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers
SOUND -- Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball, Les Lazarowitz

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Trivia: When the real Jake LaMotta saw the movie, he said it made him break down in tears and realize for the first time what a terrible person he had been. He asked the real Vicki LaMotta "Was I really like that?". Vicki replied "You were worse."

Trivia: In preparation for his role, Robert De Niro went through extensive physical training, then entered in three genuine Brooklyn boxing matches and won two of them.

Trivia: In 1978, Martin Scorsese was at an all-time low after his last movie New York, New York (1977) had bombed at the box office, followed by a near-overdose resulting from an addiction to cocaine. Robert De Niro visited him at the hospital, and told him that he had to clean himself up and make this movie about a boxer. De Niro had asked Scorsese many times before, but he had always refused (he didn't like sports movies anyway), but due to De Niro's persistence, he eventually gave in. Scorsese believed that his American career was over anyway, so he wanted to do one final film there, and then move to Europe to make smaller movies. Many (including Scorsese) claim that De Niro saved Scorsese's life by getting him back into work, and that this movie cemented Scorsese's reputation as one of the most important American filmmakers of all time.

12:15 AM Without Pity (1948)





A black American GI decides to remain in Italy than return to a racially divided United States and falls in love with an Italian girl.
Dir: Alberto Lattuada. Cast: Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Giulietta Masina
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N

Trivia: Sister Gertrude (Enza Giovine) was based on a real person. She was a nun who cared for young women in the 5th Pavillion of Livorno Hospital.

Trivia: Because of its unflattering portrait of the US military occupation staff in Italy, the film was not allowed to be shown in either the American or the British sectors of Germany.

2:00 AM Blonde Ice (1948)





A society reporter keeps herself in the headlines by marrying a series of wealthy men, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances.
Dir: Jack Bernhard Cast: Robert Paige, Leslie Brooks, Russ Vincent
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: N


3:30 AM The Hunted (1948)







A police detective investigating a jewel robbery discovers evidence that points to his girlfriend as the culprit, although she claims she was framed.
Dir: Jack Bernhard Cast: Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin
Runtime: 67 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Novelist and screenwriter Steve Fisher was a staple in film noir with his original screenplays as well as a pulp fiction magazine icon. Fisher was one of the most popular writers in Hollywood, penning original stories and adapted screenplays, such as I Wake Up Screaming (1941) and Destination Tokyo (1943), both original stories adapted for the screen and the latter earning Fisher an Academy® Award Nomination for Best Original Story.


5:00 AM Decoy (1946)





A woman saves her gangster boyfriend from the gas chamber to get her hands on his hidden money.
Dir: Jack Bernhard Cast: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Herbert Rudley
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: The following snipe was stapled and pasted on all of the printed material sent to the exhibitors that booked this film: IMPORTANT! The Motion Picture Association's Advisory Council has urgently requested that there be no mention of specific poisons in publicizing "DECOY." Please eliminate all names of poisons (such as cyanide or methylene blue) from the publicity, exploitation and advertising on this picture.

Trivia: The bottle of methylene blue is a real one from the actual firm of Coleman & Bell, Co. of Norwood, Ohio (later Matheson Coleman & Bell) now known as Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.