TCM Schedule for Tuesday, February 16: Star of the Month: John Garfield

[CBHagman]

Bootleggers in the daytime, romance in the nighttime.

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

1:15 am
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
1h 48m | Drama | TV-PG
As the family of a wealthy Southern patriarch informs his children that he is dying of can...
Director:
Richard Brooks
Cast:
Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives

3:15 am
Lord Jim (1965)
2h 34m | Adventure
Jim, a young British merchant seaman who has just completed his apprenticeship to become a...
Director:
Richard Brooks, Roy Stevens
Cast:
Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli W...

6:00 am
Sinner's Holiday (1930)
1h | Drama | TV-PG
A jealous young man frames his sister's boyfriend.
Director:
John G. Adolfi
Cast:
Grant Withers, Evelyn Knapp, James Cagney

7:15 am
Gentleman's Fate (1931)
1h 30m | Crime | TV-PG
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
Director:
Mervyn Leroy
Cast:
John Gilbert, Louis Wolheim, Leila Hyams

9:00 am
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
1h 44m | Crime | TV-G
Three old friends and World War I veterans become involved in bootlegging in New York duri...
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Cast:
James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart

11:00 am
The Secret Six (1931)
1h 23m | Crime | TV-PG
A secret society funds the investigation of a bootlegging gang.
Director:
George Hill
Cast:
Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown

12:30 pm
The Wet Parade (1932)
2h | Drama | TV-G
A crusading politician fights the evils of both drink and prohibition.
Director:
Victor Fleming
Cast:
Dorothy Jordan, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton

2:30 pm
Al Capone (1959)
1h 45m | Crime | TV-PG
Chicago's most notorious gangster rules the city ruthlessly.
Director:
Richard Wilson
Cast:
Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory

4:30 pm
The Purple Gang (1960)
1h 25m | Crime | TV-PG
The story of the infamous gang of bootleggers, hijackers, and killers in 1920's Detroit.
Director:
Frank McDonald
Cast:
Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake, Elaine Edwards

6:00 pm
The Moonshine War (1970)
1h 40m | Action, Comedy, Drama | TV-14
A revenuer tries to destroy a sadistic bootlegger's still.
Director:
Richard Quine
Cast:
Patrick McGoohan, Richard Widmark, Alan Alda

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STAR OF THE MONTH: JOHN GARFIELD

8:00 pm
Humoresque (1946)
2h 3m | Romance | TV-PG
A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy neurotic.
Director:
Jean Negulesco
Cast:
Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant

10:15 pm
Saturday's Children (1940)
1h 41m | Drama | TV-PG
A young inventor's new marriage is jeopardized by financial problems.
Director:
Vincent Sherman
Cast:
John Garfield, Anne Shirley, Claude Rains

12:15 am
Four Daughters (1938)
1h 30m | Romance | TV-G
A small-town family's peaceful life is shattered when one daughter falls for a rebellious ...
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Cast:
Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, John Garfield

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2:00 am
Four Wives (1939)
1h 50m | Drama | TV-G
Three married women play matchmaker for their widowed sister.
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Cast:
Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane

3:45 am
Daughters Courageous (1939)
1h 43m | Romance | TV-G
A father returns to the family he left years earlier and tries to solve their problems.
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Cast:
John Garfield, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn

5:45 am
Tortilla Flat (1942)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
Inhabitants of a Southern California fishing village strive for the simple pleasures of li...
Director:
Victor Fleming
Cast:
Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield

[thucythucy]

1. Rod Steiger as Al Capone is a must see.

And one of my favorite John Prine songs is "The Late John Garfield Blues."

Sample verse:

"Midnight fell on Franklin Street
and the streetlamp bulbs were broke
for the life of me I could not see
but i heard a brand new joke:
Two men were standing upon a bridge
one jumped and screamed 'You lose!"
And just left the odd man holding
Those late John Garfield Blues."

[CBHagman]

2. Oh, I hadn't heard of that song...

...but we lost John Prine too early.

[thucythucy]

3. Yes, and to Covid.

He'd survived cancer, but Covid took him out.

The song is on his second album, "Diamonds in the Rough."

Steve Goodman plays lead acoustic guitar, and David Grissman plays mandolin.

It also has one of Prine's best antiwar songs on it: "Take the Star Out of the Window."

The chorus:

"So it's hello California,
Hello dad and mom.
Ship ahoy your baby boy
is home from Vietnam.
Don't ask me any questions
about the medals on my chest.
Take the star out of the window
and let my conscience take a rest."

My big brother, who was a Vietnam vet., loved that song.

[JenniferJuniper]

4. Prine said once the song wasn't really about Garfield,

It was about how everyone feels late on a sad Sunday night when there's nothing on TV but an old John Garfield movie.

But I'm not sad late on a Sunday night when the Late John Garfield is on TV. I'm always happy to see him.

[thucythucy]

5. The song does an amazing job

evoking that kind of feeling.

"I'm going away to the Last Resort
in a week or two real soon,
where the fish don't bite
but once a night
by the pale light of the moon.
The horses scream
the nightmare's dream
and the dead men all wear shoes
'coz everybody's dancing
those late John Garfield Blues."

Sent chills down my spine the first time I heard it.