TCM Schedule Saturday, January 27 - Holocaust Remembrance Day, The Children's Hour

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Saturday, January 27 At a Glance

TCM PRIMETIME
ELAINE MAY
New Leaf, A (1971)
Mikey and Nicky (1976)
Ishtar (1987)
- TCM LATE NIGHT
Kaleidoscope (1966)
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Village of Daughters (1962)
MGM Cartoons: Hound Hunters (1947)
Believe It or Not #4 (1932) (short)
In Old Amsterdam (1949) (short)
Lawless Valley (1939)
Buck Rogers Ch. 12: War of the Planets (1939)
Popeye: Vim, Vigor & Vitaliky (1936)
Alias a Gentleman (1948)
Heavenly Music (1943) (short)
HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
(P) Shoah (1985) (doc.) - TCM PRIMETIME
HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
(P) Filmmakers for the Prosecution (2021) (doc.)
(9:45 pm ET)
(P) Nuremberg (1948) (doc.)
- NOIR ALLEY
Woman in Hiding (1950)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: TEACHER DRAMA
Children's Hour, The (1961)
Two Loves (1961)

Saturday, January 27 -- full day schedule

10:15 PM A New Leaf (1971)

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Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder. So he intends to marry a rich woman and - murder her.
Dir: Elaine May Cast: Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC:

Trivia: The film as delivered by Elaine May was drastically re-cut and shortened ("butchered", according to some) by Paramount before its release. Sadly, neither the director's cut of the film nor the original shooting script has ever been made publicly available.


12:15 AM Mikey and Nicky (1976)



Nicky is on the run from the mob, and he turns to old pal Mikey for help.
Dir: Elaine May Cast: Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC:

Trivia: Elaine May shot 1,400,000 feet of film for the production. A two hour feature is just under 11,000. This was nearly three times the amount of film that was shot for Gone with the Wind (1939).


2:15 AM Ishtar (1987)



Two bad singers booked by a Moroccan hotel get mixed up in international politics.
Dir: Elaine May Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Paul Standig
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: N

Trivia: Warren Beatty and Elaine May quarreled and argued quite a bit off camera and especially in the editing room. Dustin Hoffman would serve as the mediator between the two of them. Beatty would also take sides against May in disagreements between her and director of photography Vittorio Storaro. At one point, Beatty and May had an argument with May telling Beatty, "You want this scene your way? You shoot it!", and May would abandon the set for long periods of time. Beatty then reported the incident to the Columbia Pictures production representative, who then offered to fire May as director of the film on Beatty's behalf as producer of the film, but Beatty did not want to take on responsibilities of directing the rest of the film himself had May been fired, and did not want to contradict himself as the whole point of the film was to give May the chance she never really had to show her talents as director. Beatty told Columbia, if they were to fire May, he and Hoffman would abandon the film entirely as well. In the end, May stayed on-board and ended up directing the entire film.


4:15 AM Kaleidoscope (1966)



A pretty girl lures a luckless gambler into a dangerous poker game.
Dir: Jack Smight Cast: Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: Sandra Dee was cast as the female lead but was replaced. During pre-production in France, director Jack Smight had doubts she could play the role of the "British girl" the script called for, so she was paid off and Susannah York was cast instead, with the agreement of Jack L. Warner.


6:00 AM Village of Daughters (1962)
A traveling salesman stumbles into the job of matchmaker in a small Italian village.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Eric Sykes, Scilla Gabel, Grégoire Aslan
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:00 AM Cartoon: Hound Hunters (1947)
The hobos George and Junior try to get jobs as dog-catchers but one of them is afraid of dogs.
Dir: Tex Avery (fred) Cast: Tex Avery, Dick Nelson
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:08 AM Short: Believe It or Not #4 (1932)
In this short film, Robert L. Ripley takes a dreaming boy on a tour of Believe-It-or-Not land to see many oddities. Vitaphone Release 1320.
Dir: Arthur Hurley Cast: Sigmund Shuster, Billy Hayes, Tom Green, Robert L Ripley
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:17 AM Short: In Old Amsterdam (1949)
This short film looks at the sights, sounds, people, and art masterpieces in the capital of the Netherlands.
Dir: Ralph F. Donaldson Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, Keith Covey, James A. Fitzpatrick
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:27 AM Lawless Valley (1939)
After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.
Dir: David Howard Cast: George O'Brien, Kay Sutton, Walter Miller
Runtime: 59 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM Serial: Buck Rogers, Chapter 12: War of the Planets (1939)
In the final chapter of Buck Rogers, Buck and his crew make their last stand against Killer Kane.
Dir: Ford Beebe, Ray Trampe Cast: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-G CC: N


10:00 AM Cartoon: Vim, Vigor & Vitaliky (1936)
Popeye, the proprietor of a gymnasium for women, has Olive Oyl as one of his pupils. Rival Bluto disguises himself as a coy flapper and joins the class. Believing Bluto to be a woman, Popeye is very annoyed when Bluto tries to show him up. When he learns of the deception, he calls on his spinach to put Bluto in his place.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wickie
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:08 AM Alias a Gentleman (1948)



An aging convict tries to keep his daughter from following in his footsteps.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, Dorothy Patrick
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: N


11:30 AM Heavenly Music (1943)
In this short film, a bandleader must prove his worth to enter the Hall of Music in heaven.
Dir: Josef Berne Cast: Fred Brady, Lionel Royce, Eric Blore
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


12:00 PM Shoah: First Era (1985)



Part 1 of Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounting the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses: perpetrators, as well as survivors.
Dir: Claude Lanzmann Cast: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl
Runtime: 274 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-MA CC:


04:45 PM Shoah: Second Era (1985)



Part 2 of Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounting the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses.
Dir: Claude Lanzmann Cast: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl
Runtime: 293 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-MA CC:


9:45 PM Filmmakers for the Prosecution (2021)

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The story of how film evidence of Nazi atrocities was located and collected to be used in the Nuremberg trials of 1945. The process is repeated in modern-day Germany to recover additional never-before-seen footage.
Dir: Jean-Christophe Klotz Cast: Victor Barbat, Yves Beigbeder, Axel Fischer
Runtime: 59 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


11:00 PM Nuremberg (1948)
The official U.S. government film about the 1st Nuremberg trial (The Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals) which lasted from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946.
Dir: Stuart Schulberg Cast: Francis Biddle, Karl Dönitz, Hans Frank
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:30 AM Woman in Hiding (1950)



After her father is killed in an accident, mill heiress Deborah Chandler marries the plant manager, Selden Clark, but his motives are suspicious.
Dir: Michael Gordon Cast: Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Pre-production articles in The Hollywood Reporter noted that Ronald Reagan and Bruce Bennett were to star with Lupino in this film.


2:30 AM The Children's Hour (1961)

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When an unruly young girl spreads the rumor that the co-headmistresses at her private, all-girls school are engaging in a lesbian relationship, the townsfolk remove their daughters from the school and charge up a scandal.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley Maclaine, James Garner
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Fay Bainter {"Mrs. Amelia Tilford"}
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Art Direction: Fernando Carrere; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Franz F. Planer
COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White) -- Dorothy Jeakins
SOUND -- Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director

Trivia: The original stage-play was partly inspired by an actual case in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1810. A pupil named Jane Cumming accused her schoolmistresses, Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods, of having an affair. Dame Cumming Gordon, the accuser's influential grandmother, advised her friends to remove their daughters from the boarding school. Within days the school was deserted and the two women had lost their livelihood. Pirie and Woods sued and eventually won, both in court and on appeal, but given the damage done to their lives, their victory was considered hollow.

Trivia: Veronica Cartwright (Rosalie) said in an interview that she and the other children were told not to hang around with Shirley MacLaine on set because she "cursed a lot". They all did, however, because they thought she was "cool" and "very generous". She also became Cartwright's mentor throughout the making of the film.

Trivia: William Wyler cut several scenes hinting at Martha's homosexuality for fear of not receiving the seal of approval from the Motion Picture Production Code. At the time, any story about homosexuality was forbidden by the production code.

4:30 AM Two Loves (1961)



A conservative teacher struggles with her values while teaching natives in New Zealand.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Shirley Maclaine, Laurence Harvey, Jack Hawkins
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Shirley MacLaine chose to do this film instead of Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), something she was known to have regretted later. She did state though that the film wouldn't have been the same without Audrey Hepburn.