TCM Schedule for Saturday 5/20/23 - 12 Angry Men, Fiddler on the Roof, Mad Mad World, Casablanca(!)

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AT A GLANCE 5/20/23
- SPECIAL THEME: HOMETOWNS - PART 2
Hoosiers (1986)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Her Twelve Men (1954)
= WEEKEND FEATURES
Summer Holiday (1948)
MGM Cartoons: Give and Tyke (1957)
Sea Spiders (1932) (short)
Land of the Incas (1937) (short)
Women Are Trouble (1936)
Batman Ch. 13: Eight Steps Down (1943) (serial)
(P) Popeye: Assault and Flattery (1956)
Nancy Drew...Trouble Shooter (1939)
Once Over Lightly (1938) (short)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971) (Musical Matinee)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
- TCM PRIMETIME
GUEST PROGRAMMER: TOM HANKS
Casablanca (1942)
Jezebel (1938)
- NOIR ALLEY
Dial 1119 (1950)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: MEDICAL THRILLERS
Coma (1978)
Carey Treatment, The (1972)

12:00 AM Hoosiers (1986)

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A basketball coach gets one last chance at redemption at a rural Indiana high school.
Dir: David Anspaugh Cast: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar nominations: ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Dennis Hopper {"Shooter"}
MUSIC (Original Score) -- Jerry Goldsmith

Trivia: Gene Hackman, who during filming had predicted the movie would be a flop, insisted on viewing a rough cut of the film before going in to re-record some of his audio. "Angelo and I knew that if he didn't like the [rough cut], he wouldn't show up at the studio to re-record his dialog," David Anspaugh said. "But he showed up. He walked into the room, took his glasses off, looked me in the eyes, and said, 'How the hell did you do that?'"

Trivia: For the scene where Dennis Hopper stumbles onto the court drunk during the sectional game, Hopper wanted a 10-second notice before the director called action. He spun around for 10 seconds, allowing him to stagger onto the court and appear drunk. He remembered James Dean in Giant (1956) asking George Stevens for 30 seconds so he could spin around to better feel the inebriation.


2:00 AM 12 Angry Men (1957)

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A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations: ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Dennis Hopper {"Shooter"}
MUSIC (Original Score) -- Jerry Goldsmith

Trivia: Director Sidney Lumet had the actors all stay in the same room for several hours on end and do their lines over and over without filming them. This was to give them a real taste of what it would be like to be cooped up in a room with the same people.

Trivia: Because the film failed to make a profit, Henry Fonda never received his deferred salary. But he always regarded this film as one of the three best he ever made -- the others being The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and The Ox-Bow Incident (1943).

4:00 AM Her Twelve Men (1954)
A dedicated teacher turns around the troublesome students at a boys' school.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Greer Garson, Robert Ryan, Barry Sullivan
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:00 AM Summer Holiday (1948)

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A musical remake of Ah, Wilderness! about a small-town boy's struggles with growing up.
Dir: Rouben Mamoulian Cast: Mickey Rooney, Gloria De Haven, Walter Huston
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:00 AM Short: Give and Tyke (1957)
A stray dog tries to steal Spike and Tyke's animal licenses by taking their collars; meanwhile, a dogcatcher is after them all.
Dir: Hanna/Barbera Cast: Daws Butler, Daws Butler
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:08 AM Short: Sea Spiders (1932)
This short film takes a look at the lives of Tahitian boatmen.
Dir: null Cast: Gayne Whitman, William Axt
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:18 AM Short: Land of the Incas (1937)
This focuses on the land and history of the Incas.
Dir: null Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, James A. Fitzpatrick, Winton Hoch
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:28 AM Women Are Trouble (1936)
A small-town news hen goes after a big-city job by investigating a vicious protection racket.
Dir: Errol Taggart Cast: Stuart Erwin, Paul Kelly, Florence Rice
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: N


9:30 AM Serial: Batman: Episode 13: Eight Steps Down (1943)
Dir: Lambert Hillyer Cast: Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J. Carrol Naish
Runtime: 14 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:00 AM Cartoon: Assault and Flattery (1956) (TCM Premiere)
Popeye goes to court to answer Bluto's charge of assault and battery. Judge Wimpy, between bites of his hamburger, listens as each recount various stories of their battles and both claim innocence. When Wimpy rules in Popeye's favor, Bluto socks him and winds up in prison stripes.
Dir: Izzy Sparber Cast: Jack Mercer, Jackson Beck, Additional Voice Actor
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:08 AM Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939)

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A teen-aged sleuth tries to clear one of her father's friends of a murder charge.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Bonita Granville named this film as her favorite of the four Nancy Drew movies she made.

Trivia: This is the first film series from Warner Bros. specifically aimed at the youth market. The studio hoped it would compete with MGM's highly successful "Andy Hardy" series. But, after the fourth and last "Nancy Drew" film, Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939), Bonita Granville would move to MGM where she would play "Kay Wilson", Andy Hardy's college girlfriend in two films of that series: Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944) and Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946).

11:30 AM Short: Once Over Lightly (1938)
This short film spoofs college musicals, a genre popular during the 1930s.
Dir: Will Jason Cast: Will Jason, Richard Goldstone, Phillip Terry
Runtime: 19 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 PM Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

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Before the Russian Revolution, a Jewish milkman tries to marry off his daughters who have plans of their own.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
Runtime: 180 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar wins: CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Oswald Morris
MUSIC (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score) -- Adaptation Score by John Williams
SOUND -- Gordon K. McCallum, David Hildyard

Oscar nominations: ACTOR -- Topol {"Tevye"}
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Leonard Frey {"Motel"}
ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Robert Boyle, Michael Stringer; Set Decoration: Peter Lamont
DIRECTING -- Norman Jewison
BEST PICTURE -- Norman Jewison, Producer

Trivia: Final film of Norma Crane, who was suffering from breast cancer during production, and died less than two years later. She told only director Norman Jewison, co-star Topol and associate producer Patrick J. Palmer, all of whom kept her secret.

Trivia: Zero Mostel, who created the role of Tevye on Broadway, was reportedly bitter he did not play the role in the movie. Years later, when his son Josh Mostel received a phone call offering him the role of Blotto in the TV series Delta House (1979), he reportedly yelled; "tell them to ask Topol's son if he wants the job!"

3:15 PM I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

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When broke, would-be architect James Allen is wrongly arrested and convicted for a small-time holdup, he is sent to prison to work on a chain gang. After enduring years of hard labor that kills many prisoners, Allen escapes and builds a successful new life. But his landlady learns the truth and blackmails Allen into marriage, ...
Dir: Mervyn Le Roy Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations: ACTOR -- Paul Muni {"James Allen"} [came in 2nd]
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION -- Warner Bros.
SOUND RECORDING -- Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director [came in 2nd]

Trivia: After the film was completed, Robert E. Burns disappeared. There was one report that he was captured again and extradited back to Georgia just after the film was released, but all records indicate that he was never caught. However, in 1945, Burns returned to Georgia on the assurance of the state's governor, Ellis Arnall. The Georgia Pardon and Parole Board commuted Burns' sentence and restored his civil rights, but he was refused a full pardon because he had originally admitted his guilt in the holdup. Burns died in 1955.

5:00 PM It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

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A group of greedy clowns tear up the countryside in search of buried treasure.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar
Runtime: 192 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar wins: SOUND EFFECTS -- Walter G. Elliott

Oscar nominations: CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color) -- Ernest Laszlo
FILM EDITING -- Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler, Jr.
MUSIC (Music Score--substantially original) -- Ernest Gold
MUSIC (Song) -- "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," Music by Ernest Gold; Lyrics by Mack David
SOUND -- Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director

Trivia: Jack Benny's cameo role was originally offered to Stan Laurel, but Laurel turned it down. When his best friend and partner Oliver Hardy died in 1957, he pledged never to perform again. He kept that promise for the rest of his life. By the time this happened, a long shot of the character had already been filmed with a stand-in wearing Laurel's trademark bowler hat. This is why Benny is seen wearing a bowler hat despite never having worn one as part of his regular work.

Trivia: Don Rickles reportedly wanted to be in the movie but was never asked. He never let Stanley Kramer live it down, either, even heckling him about it from the stage whenever Kramer came to see Rickles' show.

Trivia: The fictional Santa Rosita State Park was located at Portuguese Bend in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. It was landscaped for the movie. It is off limits to the general public.

8:00 PM Casablanca (1942)

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An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar wins: DIRECTING -- Michael Curtiz
OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE -- Warner Bros.
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch

Oscar nominations: ACTOR -- Humphrey Bogart {"Rick Blane"}
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Claude Rains {"Captain Louis Renault"}
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Arthur Edeson
FILM EDITING -- Owen Marks
MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) -- Max Steiner

Trivia: Rick's Cafe was one of the few original sets built for the film, the rest were all recycled from other Warner Bros. productions due to wartime restrictions on building supplies.

Trivia: During the scene in which the "La Marseillaise" is sung over the German song "Die Wacht am Rhein" ("The Watch on the Rhine&quot , many of the extras had real tears in their eyes as a large number were actual refugees from Nazi persecution in Germany and elsewhere in Europe and were overcome by the emotions the scene brought out. The scene was copied from Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion (1937), in which French soldiers in a German POW camp sing the song as a similar gesture of defiance. In that film the song was led by a prisoner who was in drag for a show the prisoners were putting on. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Rhine Army&quot .

Trivia: The difference in height between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman changes throughout the film. This is because Bergman was actually one to two inches taller than Bogart. To create the illusion that it was vice versa, Michael Curtiz had Bogart stand on boxes and sit on pillows in some shots, or had Bergman slouch down (as when she sits on the couch in the "franc for your thoughts" scene).

Trivia: Dooley Wilson (Sam) was a professional drummer who faked playing the piano. As the music was recorded at the same time as the film, the piano accompaniment was performed live byJean Vincent Plummer, who was situated behind a curtain in a way that that Dooley could watch, and copy, his hand movements.

Trivia: (at around 1h 35 mins) Rick tells Louie to fill in the letters of transit in the names of "Mr. and Mrs. Victor Laszlo." However, the marriage was kept a strict secret, so Ilsa would not have changed her name to Laszlo; she still would have been legally Ilsa Lund.

Trivia: In the mid-2000s, Madonna wanted to remake the film with her as IIsa Lund and Ashton Kutcher as Rick. She pitched the idea to every studio but was unanimously rejected by every studio with one studio executive telling her the "film is deemed untouchable". She eventually scrapped the proposed project.

10:00 PM Jezebel (1938)

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Julie Marsden has a place in New Orleans society and a man who adores her, Preston Dillard. But she scandalizes society and her beau when she insists on wearing a stunning red gown to a ball that requires ladies to be dressed in white. Marsden's headstrong action begins a chain of events that will reveal both her raw viciousness ...
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar wins: ACTRESS -- Bette Davis {"Julie Morrison"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Fay Bainter {"Aunt Belle Massey"}

Oscar nominations: CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Ernest Haller
MUSIC (Scoring) -- Max Steiner
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION -- Warner Bros.

Trivia: Following a quarrel with William Wyler, Bette Davis embarked on an affair with Henry Fonda that greatly increased tensions on the set. After a phone call from Fonda's pregnant wife, she called things off.

Trivia: Bette Davis' Oscar was sold at auction on July 19, 2001 at Christie's for $57,800. The buyer was Steven Spielberg, who then immediately donated it back to the Academy.

12:00 AM Dial 1119 (1950)
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
Dir: Gerald Mayer Cast: Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 AM Coma (1978)
After one of her patients goes into a coma after a routine operation, Dr. Susan Wheeler investigates. She learns that several otherwise healthy patients have met the same fate and then been sent away to a mysterious institute. But when she tells her doctor boyfriend about what she has found, he finds the story hard to believe.
Dir: Michael Crichton Cast: Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Geneviève Bujold
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


4:00 AM The Carey Treatment (1972)

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A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: James Coburn, Jennifer O'Neill, Pat Hingle
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y