TCM Schedule Saturday 5/13 - The Adventures of Robin Hood, Flamingo Road

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Saturday 5/13 AT A GLANCE

(Friday, 10:15 p.m.) Human Comedy, The (1943)
Face in the Crowd, A (1957)
- TCM LATE NIGHT
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor (2018)
Great Lie, The (1941)
Saturday, May 13
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Summer of '42 (1971)
MGM Cartoons: Little Rural Riding Hood (1949)
People on Paper (1945) (short)
Ireland "The Emerald Isle" (1934) (short)
Midnight Alibi (1934)
Batman Ch. 12: Embers of Evil (1943)
(P) Popeye: Spooky Swabs (1957)
Nancy Drew, Reporter (1939)
Luckiest Guy in the World, The (1946) (short)
It's Love Again (1936) (Musical Matinee)
Matinee (1993)
Thing From Another World, The (1951)
Wichita (1955)
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
- TCM PRIMETIME
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS
Stand and Deliver (1988)
Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, The (1982)
- NOIR ALLEY
Flamingo Road (1949)
- TCM LATE NIGHT
Heathers (1988)
Sweetie (1989)

10:15 PM The Human Comedy (1943)
A small-town telegraph boy deals with the strains of growing up during World War II.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar wins:
WRITING (Original Motion Picture Story) -- William Saroyan

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR -- Mickey Rooney {"Homer Macauley"}
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Harry Stradling
DIRECTING -- Clarence Brown
OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

12:30 AM A Face in the Crowd (1957)

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A female television executive turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa
Runtime: 126 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Film debuts of Andy Griffith and Lee Remick.

Trivia: This was Patricia Neal's return to the screen after a four-year absence from Hollywood, an absence that was precipitated by a much-publicized affair with Gary Cooper (who was married at the time) and a subsequent nervous breakdown.

Trivia: Marlon Brando turned down the role of Lonesome Rhodes.

2:45 AM Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor (2018)
A woman has to make a difficult choice after learning her personal diaries have been stolen.
Dir: Alexa Foreman Cast: Alexa Foreman
Runtime: 62 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:00 AM The Great Lie (1941)



Believing her husband to be dead, a flyer's wife bargains with his former love to adopt the woman's baby.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar wins:
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Mary Astor {"Sandra Kovak"}

Trivia: Bette Davis and Mary Astor didn't think the original script was very good. They did massive rewrites on the script themselves.

6:00 AM Summer of '42 (1971)

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A high school student falls in love, for the first time, with a World War II bride.
Dir: Robert Mulligan Cast: Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar wins:
MUSIC (Original Dramatic Score) -- Michel Legrand

Oscar nominations:
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Robert Surtees
FILM EDITING -- Folmar Blangsted
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) -- Herman Raucher

Trivia: Maureen Stapleton is the uncredited off-screen voice of Hermie's mother. Hermie's date for the movies, Aggie, is played by Katherine Allentuck, Stapleton's real-life daughter.

Trivia: A small piece of this movie (the scene where Hermie helps bring home Dorothy's groceries) is seen on the TV in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), simply because Kubrick thought this movie was such a great film.


8:00 AM Cartoon: Little Rural Riding Hood (1949)
A Country Wolf is tempted by Little Rural Riding Hood before visiting his City Wolf cousin and falling for Red Hot Riding Hood. City Wolf tries to sophisticate the Country Wolf but gives up and returns him to the country.
Dir: Tex Avery (Fred) Cast: Imogene Lynn, Daws Butler, Pinto Colvig
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:08 AM Short: People on Paper (1945)
This short film provides a history of comic strips, with clips of various cartoonists at work.
Dir: Herbert Morgan Cast: Bud Fisher, Al Capp, Chester Gould
Runtime: 10 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:20 AM Short: Ireland: The Emerald Isle (1934)
This focuses on the people, land and culture of rural Ireland.
Dir: Ruth Fitzpatrick Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, James A. Fitzpatrick, Nathaniel Shilkret
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:29 AM Midnight Alibi (1934)
An elderly recluse shelters a gambler on the run from bogus murder charges.
Dir: Alan Crosland Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Helen Chandler
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM Serial: Batman - Chapter 12: Embers of Evil (1943)
The Caped Crusader battles a Japanese scientist turning people into zombies.
Dir: Lambert Hillyer. Cast: Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J. Carrol Naish
Runtime: 14 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: N

Trivia: This serial was the first filmed appearance of Batman.

Trivia: Alfred the Butler first appeared in "Batman" #16, a few months before the release of this serial. The story introduced him as new entering Bruce Wayne's employ. However, records indicate that he was created by the writers of the film, and put into the comic book to conform to the film. In his first few appearances, Alfred was drawn as very chubby and clean-shaven. Soon after the release of the film, there was a story where he went to a health spa, lost weight and began to wear a mustache, which made him look quite similar to William Austin. From then on, in the comics (and animated cartoons) Alfred has resembled the Austin image. The comics gave Alfred the surname Beagle in 1945, however, he was renamed Alfred Pennyworth in 1969, whether due to an editor's error or a deliberate revision. In the 1970s he was given a backstory as a military hero, and in the mid-1980s his biography was revised so that he was the Wayne family butler in Bruce's childhood.


10:00 AM Cartoon: Spooky Swabs (1957) (TCM Premiere)
Adrift at sea, Popeye and Olive come upon an old English ghost ship. The ghostly crew resent the intrusion and do everything possible to frighten the pair, with hysterical results.
Dir: Izzy Sparber Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC:


10:09 AM Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)

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A teen-aged sleuth sets out to prove a young girl innocent of murder charges.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frank Thomas Jr.
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: The failure of the last copyright holder, United Artists Television (the successor to Associated Artists Productions), to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film. Warner Bros., having regained the library they had sold to a.a.p. in 1996 (exactly 40 years after the original sale), released a DVD version restored from the original negative in 2007.

Trivia: The high speed car chase with Nancy trying to catch up to another driver who damaged her car was largely filmed on the streets of Burbank, right outside the gates of Warner Brothers' studio, where this film was made.

Trivia: The snotty little boy in the "Jughead" hat who repeatedly sasses Nancy Drew does so by imitating the voice of a then newly introduced cartoon character...Walt Disney's Donald Duck.

11:30 AM Short: The Luckiest Guy in the World (1946)
A man destroys his life through gambling debts and stealing company funds in this short film.
Dir: Joseph Newman Cast: Nolan Leary, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Red Skelton
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 PM It's Love Again (1936)
London tabloid gossip columnist Peter Carlton, desperate for material while on deadline, begins spinning fanciful tales about a remarkable woman just in from India who is sure to become the toast of the city's smart set, 'Mrs. Smythe-Smythe.' As Carlton's invented stories of Mrs. Smythe-Smythe's dangerous hobbies and breathtaking ...
Dir: Victor Saville Cast: Jessie Matthews, Robert Young, Sonnie Hale
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:30 PM Matinee (1993)
A small-time film promoter releases a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Dir: Joe Dante Cast: Kurt Smildsin, Ike Pappas, Jesse Lee
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: For "Mant", the movie-within-the-movie, Joe Dante cast actors who had appeared in 1950s-era science fiction movies. These included Kevin McCarthy, Robert Cornthwaite, and William Schallert.

Trivia: The movie theater used for the exterior shots of the Key West Strand Theater is located in Historic Cocoa Village, Cocoa, Florida. It was built as the Aladdin Theatre in 1924. In the 1940s, it was a movie theatre, known as the State Theatre. It is operating as the Historic Cocoa Village Playhouse and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The large marquee was built just for this film and was later removed.

Trivia: The seat gimmicks used in the film actually were used by William Castle for screenings of The Tingler (1959).

Trivia: The film-within-a-film, "The Shook Up Shopping Cart", was meant to parody Disney films of the time period, where inanimate objects would come to life for one reason or another.

3:15 PM The Thing from Another World (1951)

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The crew of a remote Arctic base fights off a murderous monster from outer space.
Dir: Christian Nyby Cast: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The skeleton crew at the South Pole Telescope station have a tradition every winter-over of watching this movie, and the other two adaptations on the very first night after the departure of the final plane of the season.

Trivia: James Arness reportedly regarded his role as so embarrassing, that he didn't attend the premiere.

Trivia: When one character is asked if he knows how to use a Very pistol, his response was, "I saw Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941)". He then proceeds to lick his finger and run it along the gun sight like York did throughout the film. Sergeant York (1941) was also directed by Howard Hawks.

4:45 PM Wichita (1955)
Wyatt Earp fights to straighten out a crooked cattle town.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:15 PM The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

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The bandit king of Sherwood Forest leads his Merry Men in a battle against the corrupt Prince John.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar wins:
ART DIRECTION -- Carl J. Weyl
FILM EDITING -- Ralph Dawson
MUSIC (Original Score) -- Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Oscar nominations:
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION -- Warner Bros.-First National

Trivia: The archery tournament was shot at the now gone Busch Gardens in Pasadena, CA, which was later used for the Wilkes plantation exteriors in Gone with the Wind (1939), among many other films.

Trivia: Errol Flynn was not happy when Michael Curtiz was assigned to the film, as he didn't care for Curtiz's dictatorial methods and the two clashed often while filming The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), especially over what he--an avid horseman--saw as Curtiz's indifference to the injuries and deaths of many of the horses used in the film.

Trivia: While filming Robin Hood's escape from the castle, Basil Rathbone was knocked down and trampled by extras, causing a spear wound in his right foot that required eight stitches to close.

Trivia: James Cagney was the studio's original choice for Robin Hood. However, when Cagney walked off set, the film's producer Hal B. Wallis made the decision to cast Errol Flynn, against the studio's wishes. It was also Wallis's decision to keep Maid Marian, when the original scriptwriter wanted to dump her character. Wallis felt Marian was an indispensable fixture of a Robin Hood adventure.

8:00 PM Stand and Deliver (1988)

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Based on the true story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High, who refused to write off his inner-city students as losers. Escalante cajoled, pushed, threatened and inspired 18 kids who struggled with fractions to become math wizards.
Dir: Ramon Menendez Cast: Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna Desoto
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Edward James Olmos {"Jaime Escalante"}

Trivia: Edward James Olmos remained close friends with Jaime Escalante until Escalante's death on March 30, 2010. Olmos even led a campaign to help pay for Escalante's medical bills, a campaign which included cast members from the movie and former students of Escalante.

Trivia: According to Edward James Olmos, he wrote most of his dialogue with Jaime Escalante, and much of it was verbatim what Escalante had said in the real-life situations that were depicted in the movie. For example, Olmos said the dialogue in the scene where Escalante confronts the ETS investigators about the cheating allegations was word for word what Escalante told the ETS in real life.

Trivia: The movie was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry in December 2011 as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".


10:00 PM The Ballad Of Gregorio Cortez (1983)
Based on a popular "corrido" depicting the actual events of June 1901. Cortez, a Mexican cowhand working the ranges around San Antonio, kills a sheriff in self-defense as he's about to be arrested in a case of mistaken identity. Thus begins an 11-day manhunt as Cortez flees on horseback from Gonzales to the Mexcian border.
Dir: Robert M Young Cast: Edward James Olmos, James Gammon, Tom Bower
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: The courthouse used in the film was the actual courthouse where the trial for Gregorio Cortez was held. Also, a real judge plays the judge in the trial sequence.

12:00 AM Flamingo Road (1949)

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A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: "Flamingo Road" was originally intended as a vehicle for Ann Sheridan, who turned down the role played by Joan Crawford.

2:00 AM Heathers (1988)
A teenage girl and her outcast boyfriend resort to murder as revenge against their high school's popular crowd.
Dir: Michael Lehmann Cast: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:00 AM Sweetie (1989)
A young woman's life is torn apart by the sudden intrusion of her mentally disturbed sister.
Dir: Jane Campion Cast: Genevifve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y