TCM Schedule for Friday, March 29, 2019 -- What's On Tonight: Keyed Up

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During the daylight hours, TCM is celebrating cat burglars and gentlemen thieves. Then in prime time, TCM has a pair of mysteries, with a key as an important clue! Enjoy!


7:00 AM -- THE PETERVILLE DIAMOND (1942)
A husband's attempt to quiet his nagging wife with jewelry leads to disaster.
Dir: Walter Forde
Cast: Anne Crawford, Donald Stewart, Renee Houston
BW-85 mins, CC,

Remake of Jewel Robbery (1932), starring William Powell and Kay Francis.


8:26 AM -- JAMMIN' THE BLUES (1944)
In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s get together for a rare filming of a jam session. Vitaphone Release 1315A.
Dir: Gjon Mili
Cast: Lester Young, George 'Red' Callender, Harry Edison
BW-10 mins,

Nominee for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-reel -- Gordon Hollingshead

Reportedly, during the filming of this short Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart paid a visit to the set and observed filming (hearing that something great was happening). According to one musician, Bogart came up to him and said "Are you getting paid good money for this? If you aren't, you should strike!"


8:45 AM -- JAZZ BOAT (1960)
A would be cat burglar gets mixed up with more serious thieves.
Dir: Ken Hughes
Cast: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Lionel Jeffries
BW-97 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

In the cabin scene, Anne Aubrey climbs on top of Anthony Newley. During the first take, she jumped up and rushed off the set complaining to Albert R. Broccoli that Anthony was being disgusting. It turns out that, as a joke, he had a Coca Cola bottle in his pants pocket and she had leant on it.


10:30 AM -- THE CAT BURGLAR (1961)
A crook unwittingly steals a briefcase containing a secret scientific formula wanted by enemy agents.
Dir: William Witney
Cast: Jack Hogan, June Kenney, Gregg Palmer
BW-65 mins,

I can't find a single trivia item about this film!


11:45 AM -- THE FAKE (1953)
An American investigator in London discovers that a posh museum's da Vinci is a fake.
Dir: Godfrey Grayson
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams
BW-71 mins,

Film debut of Billie Whitelaw. Her last film before her death in 2014 was Hot Fuzz (2007)!


1:00 PM -- HE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948)
After killing a cop, a burglar fights to evade the police.
Dir: Alfred Werker
Cast: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts
BW-79 mins, CC,

Technical advisor for the film was Sgt. Marty Wynn of the Los Angeles Police Dept. During the course of shooting he fell into conversation with Jack Webb, then the star of radio's "Jeff Regan, Private Investigator", who had a small part in the film. Wynn suggested that Webb do a radio series based on actual police files. Thus was born the idea for "Dragnet," which debuted on NBC radio about four months after this film was released.


2:30 PM -- ARSENE LUPIN (1932)
A gentleman thief risks his life in an attempt to steal the Mona Lisa.
Dir: Jack Conway
Cast: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley
BW-84 mins, CC,

John Gilbert was initially slated to play the title role.


4:00 PM -- JACK OF DIAMONDS (1967)
A glamorous jewel thief tries to go straight.
Dir: Don Taylor
Cast: George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten, Marie Laforêt
C-108 mins, CC,

Written by the committee of Jack DeWitt, Sandy Howard, Howard Joseph and Robert L. Joseph.


6:00 PM -- THE BURGLARS (1971)
A motley group of professional robbers plan a gem heist from the home of an emerald collector.
Dir: Henri Verneuil
Cast: Omar Sharif, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Dyan Cannon
C-114 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

The film was shot in two languages (French and English) with the same cast. In the English version of this movie, the scene when Jean-Paul Belmondo speaks into the loudspeaker calling for Ellain, he can be heard speaking French, English, Italian and Spanish. This scene was not included in the French version, however.



TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: KEYED UP



8:00 PM -- DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he'd hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
C-105 mins, CC,

Sir Alfred Hitchcock had chosen a very expensive robe for Grace Kelly to wear when she answered the phone. Kelly balked, and said that no woman would put on such a robe, just to answer the ringing telephone while she was asleep alone, but would answer it in her nightgown. Hitchcock agreed to do it her way and liked the way the rushes turned out. Hitchcock agreed to allow Kelly to make all costume decisions for her in their subsequent movie together, afterwards.


10:00 PM -- THE KEY (1958)
The key to a woman's apartment may hold bad luck for her lovers.
Dir: Carol Reed
Cast: William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard
BW-126 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

After just a few weeks of filming, Carl Foreman wanted to replace Sophia Loren with Ingrid Bergman but William Holden persuaded Foreman to keep her.


12:15 AM -- THE SECRET GARDEN (1949)
An orphaned girl changes the lives of those she encounters at a remote estate.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox
Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell
C-92 mins, CC,

British writer Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986), author of children's classic "Ballet Shoes", was on an extended vacation to California in 1947 and spent several weeks observing the filming of the movie, paying especial attention to the younger actors. In a magazine serial in 1948 and then as a book the following year, she published "The Painted Garden" (US: "Movie Shoes&quot . It concerns an English girl who reluctantly has to spend the summer in the States where she is spotted as a potential lead for an adaptation of "The Secret Garden", describing the process of film-making from a child's perspective.


2:00 AM -- FINAL EXAM (1981)
A killer wreaks havoc on a college campus.
Dir: Jimmy Huston
Cast: Cecile Bagdadi, Joel S. Rice, Ralph Brown
C-90 mins, CC,

For her audition Cecile Bagdadi was required to give a realistic scream of terror. Her screams were so convincing that not only did she land the role of Courtney, but her screams were dubbed for another actress.


3:31 AM -- THE DROP OUT (1962)
A young man drops out of high school and struggles to find a job in this short "scare" film.
BW-11 mins,

Produced with the cooperation of the Santa Monica Police Department and the Santa Monica Unified School District. Santa Monica is a Los Angeles suburb that at the time this short film was produced (1962) had a population of about 84,000.


4:00 AM -- NIGHT SCHOOL (1981)
A police investigator attempts to solve the murders of two women from a local night school.
Dir: Ken Hughes
Cast: Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward, Drew Snyder
C-89 mins, CC,

The title for the film's French release was "Les Yeux de la terreur}", which translates to "The Eyes of Dread". The Italian title is "Il Killer della notte", meaning "The Killer of the Night".


5:29 AM -- CHANGING (1971)
A young family tries to cope with shifting social values in this short film.
Dir: Hubert Smith
C-28 mins,