TCM Schedule for Wednesday, July 12: TCM Spotlight: 50 Years of Hitchcock

[CBHagman]

Now this is going to be intense. With a schedule like that, anyone anywhere going to get anything done tonight?

And speaking of getting things done, TCM's daytime schedule is something of a tribute to 12-step programs...

Wednesday, July 12th, 2017

1:00 AM
THRONE OF BLOOD ( 1957)

Spurred by his wife and a witch's prediction, a samurai murders his lord to steal the throne.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Toshiro Mifune , Isuzu Yamada , Takashi Shimura .
BW- 110 mins,

3:15 AM
CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT ( 1965)

An aging knight uses his wits to survive in war and peace.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Orson Welles , Jeanne Moreau , Margaret Rutherford .
BW- 116 mins,

5:30 AM
TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE ( 1967)

A fortune hunter agrees to wed a temperamental woman so his friend can court her sister.
Dir: Franco Zeffirelli Cast: Elizabeth Taylor , Richard Burton , Cyril Cusack .
C- 122 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:45 AM
HAMLET ( 1948)

The melancholy Dane flirts with insanity while trying to prove his uncle murdered his father.
Dir: Laurence Olivier Cast: Laurence Olivier , Eileen Herlie , Basil Sydney .
BW- 154 mins, CC,

10:30 AM
WAY BACK HOME ( 1932)

A New England preacher shelters a young boy from his alcoholic father.
Dir: William Seiter Cast: Phillips H. Lord , Effie L. Palmer , Frank Albertson .
BW- 81 mins, CC,

12:00 PM
NIGHT INTO MORNING ( 1951)

After a fire kills his family, a college professor sinks into alcoholism.
Dir: Fletcher Markle Cast: Ray Milland , John Hodiak , Nancy Reagan .
BW- 86 mins, CC,

1:30 PM
TOO MUCH, TOO SOON ( 1958)

The daughter of an iconic actor reunites with her father after a ten year estrangement.
Dir: Art Napoleon Cast: Dorothy Malone , Errol Flynn , Efrem Zimbalist Jr. .
BW- 121 mins, CC,

3:45 PM
DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES ( 1962)

A husband and wife fight to conquer alcoholism.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Jack Lemmon , Lee Remick , Charles Bickford .
BW- 117 mins, CC,

6:00 PM
TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN ( 1962)

A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Kirk Douglas , Edward G. Robinson , Cyd Charisse .
C- 107 mins, CC,

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: TCM SPOTLIGHT: 50 YEARS OF HITCHCOCK

8:00 PM
REBECCA ( 1940)

A young bride is terrorized by the memories of her husband's glamorous first wife.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Laurence Olivier , Joan Fontaine , George Sanders .
BW- 130 mins, CC,



10:30 PM
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT ( 1940)

An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joel McCrea , Laraine Day , Herbert Marshall .
BW- 121 mins, CC,



12:45 AM
MR. AND MRS. SMITH ( 1941)

A quarrelsome couple discovers their marriage isn't legal.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Carole Lombard , Robert Montgomery , Gene Raymond .
BW- 95 mins, CC,

2:30 AM
SUSPICION ( 1941)

A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant , Joan Fontaine , Sir Cedric Hardwicke .
BW- 99 mins, CC,



4:15 AM
SABOTEUR ( 1942)

A young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Priscilla Lane , Robert Cummings , Otto Kruger .
BW- 109 mins, CC,

[SummerSnow]

1. Oh my, a Hitchcock festival. Yippee!!!

[PSPS]

2. Regarding SABOTEUR (1942)...

The actor in the iconic Statue of Liberty scene at the end is Norman Lloyd, who is still with us and 102 years old. He was a close collaborator of Hitchcock and worked with him on many projects including his television programs. Lloyd is one of the greats having worked with the likes of Hitchcock, Welles and Houseman.

[CBHagman]

3. I thought about posting about Norman Lloyd...

...including interviews and the like, but I was eager to keep as many details of both Saboteur (and for that matter Foreign Correspondent, which is not a Lloyd film) under wraps.

But I too am delighted that Norman Lloyd is still with us, and I've been looking for the documentary on his career, Who Is Norman Lloyd? I missed it when it was screened on the documentary film circuit, and at present I can't find a rental DVD.

[PSPS]

4. Here's a place to start

Emmy TV Legends has an extensive interview with him here:

http://emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/norman-lloyd

YouTube has a public appearance he made a year ago in 6 parts, beginning here:

[longship]

5. Hitchcock and national monuments.

I think Hitch had a thing about these locations. He used them in two film climaxes, Saboteur at the top of the Statue of Liberty with the incredible sleeve seam ripping apart bit, and North by Northwest on the face of Mount Rushmore, actually literally on the faces of Mount Rushmore.

Interestingly, Hitch wanted to film a scene with Cary Grant hiding in Washington's nostril and have Grant's character go into a sneezing fit. It never made it into film. Too bad.

Love Hitch.

Don't miss Rebecca. A great film.