January 2, Thursday
08:00pm The Unknown (1927)
09:00pm Our Dancing
Daughters (1928)
10:30pm Our Modern
Maidens (1929)
12:00am Our Blushing
Brides (1930)
01:45am Lady of the
Night (1924)
03:00am The Boob
(1926)
04:15am Spring Fever
(1927)
05:45am Across to
Singapore (1928)
January 3, Friday
07:15am West Point
(1928)
09:00am The Hollywood
Revue (1929)
11:00am Untamed
(1929)
12:30pm Montana Moon
(1930)
02:00pm Paid
(1930)
03:30pm Dance, Fools,
Dance (1931)
05:00pm Laughing
Sinners (1931)
06:15pm Possessed
(1931)
January 9, Thursday
08:00pm Grand Hotel
(1932)
10:00pm Rain
(1932)
11:45pm Dancing Lady
(1933)
01:30am Forsaking All
Others (1934)
03:00am This Modern
Age (1931)
04:30am Today We Live
(1933)
January 10, Friday
06:30am Chained (1934)
08:00am Sadie McKee
(1934)
09:45am I Live My
Life (1935)
11:30am No More
Ladies (1935)
01:00pm The Gorgeous
Hussy (1936)
03:00pm Love On the
Run (1936)
04:30pm The Bride
Wore Red (1937)
06:15pm The Last of
Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
January 16, Thursday
08:00pm The Women
(1939)
10:30pm When Ladies
Meet (1941)
12:30am A Woman's
Face (1941)
02:30am They All
Kissed the Bride (1942)
04:15am Mannequin
(1937)
January 17, Friday
06:00am The Shining
Hour (1938)
07:30am The Ice
Follies of 1939 (1939)
09:15am Strange Cargo
(1940)
11:15am Susan and God
(1940)
01:30pm Reunion in
France (1942)
03:30pm Above
Suspicion (1943)
05:15pm Hollywood
Canteen (1944)
January 23, Thursday
08:00pm Mildred
Pierce (1945)
10:00pm Humoresque
(1946)
12:15am Flamingo Road
(1949)
02:00am The Damned
Don't Cry (1950)
03:45am Possessed
(1947)
05:45am It's a Great
Feeling (1949)
January 24, Friday
07:15am Harriet Craig
(1950)
09:00am Goodbye, My
Fancy (1951)
11:00am This Woman Is
Dangerous (1952)
12:45pm Torch Song
(1953)
02:30pm Queen Bee
(1955)
04:15pm Autumn Leaves
(1956)
06:15pm The Story of
Esther Costello (1957)
January 30, Thursday
08:00pm The Best of
Everything (1959)
10:15pm What Ever
Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
12:45am Della
(1964)
02:00am Trog
(1970)
03:45am The Karate
Killers (1967)
05:30am The
Caretakers (1963)
January 31, Friday
07:30am Berserk!
(1967)
January 3, Friday
08:00pm Madame Curie
(1943)
10:15pm A Beautiful
Mind (2001)
12:45am For All
Mankind (1989)
02:15am Countdown
(1968)
04:15am Marooned
(1969)
January 10, Friday
08:00pm Bride of
Frankenstein (1935)
09:30pm Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde (1941)
11:30pm The Thing
From Another World (1951; also January 4 @6:30pm)
01:15am Forbidden
Planet (1956)
03:00am Solaris
(1972)
January 17, Friday
08:00pm The Spirit of
St. Louis (1957)
10:30pm Gallant
Journey (1946)
12:00am Silkwood (1983)
02:15am The Beginning
or the End (1947)
04:15am These Are the
Damned (1962)
January 24, Friday
08:00pm Edison, the
Man (1940)
10:00pm The Magic Box
(1951)
12:00am It Happens
Every Spring (1949)
01:45am The Man in
the White Suit (1951)
03:15am Bye Bye
Birdie (1963)
January 31, Friday
08:00pm First Men in
the Moon (1964)
10:00pm The Time
Machine (1960)
12:00am The Story of
Louis Pasteur (1936)
01:45am Dr. Ehrlich's
Magic Bullet (1940)
03:45am Charly
(1968)
So much for the E-ticket items on the channel’s
schedule—let’s take a look at some other delights that will be set before us in
the month of January:
January 2, Thursday – Several days on the channel’s schedule
feature a fistful of pre-Code films…and this is one of them. It’s The
Ship from Shanghai (1929) at 6:30am, followed by Call of the Flesh (1930; 7:45am), The Great Meadow (1931; 9:30am), Sporting Blood (1931; 11am), New
Morals for Old (1932; 12:30pm), Washington
Masquerade (1932; 2pm), Day Of
Reckoning (1933; 3:30pm), The Secret
of Madame Blanche (1933; 4:45pm)
and Stage Mother (1933; 6:15pm).
The primetime schedule kicks off with the first edition of TCM
Essentials for the new year; Uncle Bobby Osbo and his faithful Indian
companion Drew Barrymore introduce The
Bad and the Beautiful (1952) at 8pm.
Design for Scandal (1941)
follows at 10:15pm and then That Forsyte
Woman (1949) at midnight, continuing the evening’s Walter Pidgeon theme.
The following week (January 12) it’s Fatty’s New Role (1915), Mabel
and Fatty’s Wash Day (1915), Mabel
and Fatty’s Married Life (1915), Fatty’s
Faithful Fido (1915), Fatty’s Plucky
Pup (1915) and Fatty’s Tintype
Tangle (1915).
January 6, Monday – The daylight hours feature a number of
first-rate films noir…and though it’s getting to be an annoying habit, I will
remind you that The Reckless Moment
(1949) is on the schedule again at 4:30pm; you should see it if you haven’t
done so (I may plan a pop quiz later).
January 7, Tuesday – Here’s something a little more interesting that it being all about Osborne; TCM will commemorate the 90th anniversary of Columbia Pictures with a 24-hour salute to some of the studio’s best films. (It’s not listed on the schedule now but the tentative lineup originally had Charley Chase’s classic 1940 two-reel comedy The Heckler scheduled for 9am—sad to see it yanked.)
07:00am Lady for a
Day (1933)
08:45am It Happened
One Night (1934)
10:30am The Whole
Town's Talking (1935)
12:15pm His Girl
Friday (1940)
02:00pm Cover Girl
(1944)
04:00pm Gilda
(1946)
06:00pm From Here to
Eternity (1953)
08:00pm On the
Waterfront (1954)
10:00pm The Way We
Were (1973)
12:15am Gandhi (1982)
03:45am The Remains
of the Day (1993)
Come primetime—a salute to “the poor man’s John Garfield” as
an evening of films starring Dane Clark unfurls with Gunman in the Streets (1950) at 8pm. That’s followed by Embraceable You (1947; 9:45pm), That Way with Women (1947; 11:15pm), Outlaw’s Son (1957; 1am), Whiplash
(1948; 2:45am) and Backfire (1950;
4:30am)—this last one I just recently acquired after receiving a replacement Film
Noir Classics: Volume 5 set that someone decided to help themselves to
during Christmas (by surgically removing it from its envelope with a x-acto
knife).
January 11, Saturday – If by some chance you missed It Happened One Night (1934) on Tuesday
(perhaps you were at work?) you can catch it again at 8pm on The
Essentials as Osbo and Drewbo feature it along with Lady for a Day (1933; 12:15am), which
was also in the Columbia 90th anniversary spotlight. In between the two films is Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) (a Frank
Capra tribute, as you’ve no doubt guessed by now) at 10pm—a film that has quite
a great deal of love among classic film fans despite the fact that the chief
asset of the stage play is not in the
movie. (Boris Karloff, as you’ve no
doubt guessed by now.)
January 12, Sunday – In the primetime spotlight: the two films
that won Ingrid Bergman two Best Actress Oscar statuettes—Anastasia (1956) at 8pm, followed by Gaslight (1944) at 10. And
after the Arbuckle shorts on Silent Sunday Nights, a pair of
foreign film classics in Cleo from 5 to
7 (1962; 2am) and My Life to Live
(1962; 3:45am).
January 15, Wednesday – I’m really dreading this day because
the former child star referred to as She Who Must Not Be Named on the
blog (I dare not speak her name for fear of summoning forth a powerful demon)
turns 77. It’s not so much her movies
that chill my marrow; I can avoid the lineup of Little Women (1949; 6:15am), Glory
(1956; 10:15am), Bad Bascomb (1946;
12noon), Music for Millions (1944;
2pm), The Canterville Ghost (1944;
4pm) and Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
(1945; 6pm) that day. But I’ll probably
have to write something nice about her for the ClassicFlix Facebook/Twitter
posts, and I will demand hazard pay.
In the evening hours, the theme is The Long Arm of the
Law—with my favorite Jean Arthur film, The
Talk of the Town (1942) getting things started at 8pm, then The Paper Chase (1973; 10:15pm), Philadelphia (1993; 12:15am), 12 Angry Men (1957; 2:30am) and State’s Attorney (1932; 4:15am)
January 18, Saturday – It promises to be a big night for my
BBFF Stacia, because Tallulah Bankhead is
in the primetime spotlight with a TCM Essentials scheduling of Lifeboat (1944) at 8pm and Faithless (1932) following at 10. But the real fun starts with the delightfully
demented Die! Die! My Darling!
(1965) at 11:30pm; I saw this movie when I was a lot younger and I have a
feeling it might have done a lot to warp me at that impressionable age.
The all-time Stacia fave Skidoo (1969) is in the lead-off slot on TCM Underground at 2am,
and coupled with that is The Big Cube
(1969; 3:45am), which earned quite a few rave reviews on Facebook recently…if
one defines “rave” as “What the…front yard?”
I kind of like the concept of a small subversive corner of Turner
Classic Movies…I only wish they’d follow through with that Central High thing.
January 20, Monday – To commemorate the Martin Luther King, Jr.
holiday, the channel schedules a daylong festival of films spotlighting
African-American actors and directors: The
Joe Louis Story (1953; 6am), The
Jackie Robinson Story (1950; 7:30am), The
Learning Tree (1969; 9am), Intruder
in the Dust (1949; 11am), Sergeant
Rutledge (1960; 12:30pm), Duel at
Diablo (1966; 2:30pm), Lilies of the
Field (1963; 4:15pm) and In the Heat
of the Night (1967; 6pm). Come
nightfall, the cinematic oeuvre of singer-activist Harry Belafonte is on
display with Bright Road (1953;
8pm), The World, the Flesh, and the
Devil (1959; 9:15pm), Buck and the
Preacher (1972; 11pm), Odds Against
Tomorrow (1959; 1am) and The Angel
Levine (1970; 3am).
January 22, Wednesday – The woman whom I knew growing up as
Josephine the Plumber in the Comet TV commercials will be in the primetime
spotlight this evening—she’s Jane Withers, the popular child star in the 1930s
and 1940s who could drink Shirley Temple’s milkshake any day of the week. (I’ll just wait for Page’s response in the
comments.) Jane and Shirl appear in Bright Eyes (1934), the movie that kicks
off the festivities at 8pm, and then it’s all Jane in Paddy O'Day (1935; 9:30pm), High
School (1940; 11pm), The North Star
(1943; 12:30am) and Giant (1956;
2:30am—I always forget she’s in this movie!).
January 25, Saturday – I don’t have to tell you how much of a
kick mi madre has been getting out of seeing “the fish movie”—a.k.a. Jaws (1975) on the channel of late;
she’ll get to see it again when it’s featured on The Essentials as part of
a “70’s Thrills” theme that begins at 8pm.
Following Jaws is a movie
that scared the snot out of me when I first saw it (and I’m glad it was on cable,
where I had access to a change of underwear), Alien (1979; 10:15pm)…and then another HBO goodie (I lost count how
many times I watched this one…and to this day I’ll defend George Segal’s
performance as outclassing the final product), Rollercoaster (1977) at 12:15am.
The evening concludes with a TCM Underground “infant” double
feature: The Baby (1973) at 2:30am,
then Spider Baby (1964) at
4:30. (Yowsah!)
January 27, Monday – You’ve heard me mention radio’s Lum
& Abner (Chester Lauck and Norris Goff) on the blog on occasion—the
channel is going to show two of the feature films that the comic duo did for
independent movie producer Jack Votion today, beginning with The Bashful Bachelor (1942) at
6am. I really enjoy this one of the two
being offered; Lauck and Goff contributed the story, and it features a grand
performance from TDOY fave ZaSu Pitts
and bulls-eye comic relief from Grady Sutton as Cedric Weehunt. (And the actress who plays “Agatha Abernathy”
is none other than Marni Nixon!) Two Weeks to Live (1943) will run at
10:30am and while it has a funny moment or two I wouldn’t compare it to the
charming Bachelor. (Franklin Pangborn has a funny contribution,
and you’ll spot favorites like Charles Middleton and Tim Ryan, too.)
Come nightfall, actor Michael Caine “gets a dinner” with an
evening devoted to some of his movies: Gambit
(1966; 8pm), Get Carter (1971;
10pm), Pulp (1972; 12mid), X, Y & Zee (1972; 2am) and The Wrong Box (1966; 4am).
January 29, Wednesday – In a preview of what you’ll see on
Oscar night…oh, wait—they don’t hand out these awards at the Oscars anymore, do
they? Well, Angela Lansbury, Steve
Martin and Piero Tosi all received Honorary Awards at the 5th Annual Governor
Awards this past November 16th…and for unexplained reasons, the channel is just
now getting around to handing out some recognition in their primetime lineup
this evening. Lansbury, of course, plays
the silver screen’s most diabolical mom in The
Manchurian Candidate (1962), which will air at 8pm…and a second Lansbury
vehicle from her MGM days, The Harvey
Girls (1946), follows at 10:15pm. A
pair of Steve Martin films, Pennies from
Heaven (1981; 12:15am) and Father of
the Bride (1991; 2:15am) follow, and the evening is wrapped up with I Compagni (1964; 4:15am) and La Notti Bianche (1957; 6:30am), two
movies featuring the costume design of Piero Tosi. (As for Angelina Jolie—the winner of the Jean
Hersholt Humanitarian Award…well, TCM’s audience may not be ready for a showing
of Lookin’ to Get Out.)
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