TCM Sked Saturday, April 22: The Exorcist, All the President's Men, Captain Blood

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The day at a glance
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
SEVEN ARTS COMES IN
AS JACK PREPARES TO LEAVE
Firecreek (1968)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER SEEKS ADVENTURE
Captain Blood (1935) (5:45 am ET)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
Master of Ballantrae, The (1953)
Valley of Gwangi, The (1969)
Great Race, The (1965)
Time After Time (1979)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
WARNER EMBRACES A NEW HOLLYWOOD
All the President's Men (1976)
Exorcist, The (1973)
Scarecrow (1973)
Badlands (1973)
Night Moves (1975)

12:00 AM Firecreek (1968)
An aging sheriff, who vows for peaceful resolutions, is put to the test when a gang of hoodlums ride into his town intent on taking it over.
Dir: Vincent McEveety Cast: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

2:00 AM Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

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At a quiet Georgia army base, Major Welden Penderton shows no interest in his wife, Leonora, so she takes a lover - her husband's superior officer, whose neurotic wife barely leaves her sickbed. Meanwhile, the repressed Penderton lusts after handsome Private Williams, a mysterious young man whose secret obsession with Leonora ...
Dir: John Huston Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: Richard Burton and Lee Marvin turned down the role of Major Weldon Penderton before Marlon Brando agreed to do it for $750,000 and 10% of the profits.

Trivia: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor's husband, was none too fond of some of her coworkers on this film. Of director John Huston he opined, "Huston is a simpleton. But believes himself to be a genius. And a self aggrandizing liar." And costume designer Dorothy Jeakins is described as a "...consummate bore...She makes me want to fart in public or pee on the carpet...There are worse people in the world I suppose. Like Jack the Ripper."

Trivia: Francis Ford Coppola did some uncredited writing on the screenplay.

4:00 AM Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)

Two mismatched sets of identical twins mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution.
Dir: Bud Yorkin Cast: Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

5:45 AM Captain Blood (1935)

A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Barbados where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Lionel Atwill
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
DIRECTING -- Michael Curtiz [came in 2nd]
[NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Write-in candidate.]
MUSIC (Scoring) -- Warner Bros.-First National Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold) [came in 3rd]
[NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Write-in candidate.]
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION -- Cosmopolitan [came in 3rd]
SOUND RECORDING -- Warner Bros.-First National Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director [came in 2nd]
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Casey Robinson [came in 3rd]
[NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Write-in candidate.]

Trivia: The first of nine movies made together by Warner Brothers' romantic couple Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn.

Trivia: Basil Rathbone was acknowledged to be the finest fencing actor in Hollywood. He studied fencing in his youth and, during his military service during World War I, twice won the British Army fencing championship. However, since he always played the villain in costume dramas, he generally lost his duels, such as to Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), to Danny Kaye in The Court Jester (1955) and to Tyrone Power in The Mark of Zorro (1940). Rathbone did win his duel with John Barrymore in Romeo and Juliet (1936), his only screen victory and to Eugene Pallette as a friar in "The Mark of Zorro".

Trivia: In his autobiography "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" Errol Flynn, a notorious prankster, states that he played many pranks on Olivia de Havilland. One of them was leaving a dead snake in her underwear. She found it when she went to put them on. After that she lived in of his pranks.

8:00 AM Adventures of Don Juan (1948)

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The legendary lover saves his queen from treason.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar win:
COSTUME DESIGN (Color) -- Leah Rhodes, Travilla, Marjorie Best
Oscar nomination:
ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: Lyle Reifsnider

Trivia: Errol Flynn did not wear a wig and let his naturally curly hair grow for the role. The producers were worried about it becoming unruly during the climactic fight scenes, so it was decided that he wear a bandanna.

10:00 AM Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

The famed 19th-century hero defeats enemy fleets and courts an admiral's widow.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y


12:00 PM The Master of Ballantrae (1953)

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A Scottish lord rebels against the British by taking up piracy.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:30 PM The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
Cowboys discover a lost world populated by dinosaurs.
Dir: Jim O'Connolly Cast: James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


3:15 PM The Great Race (1965)
Mayhem and double-crossing abound as some zany professional racers go up against each other in a 1908 cross-continental road race from New York to Paris.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon
Runtime: 157 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar win:
SOUND EFFECTS -- Tregoweth Brown
Oscar nominations:
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color) -- Russell Harlan
FILM EDITING -- Ralph E. Winters
MUSIC (Song) -- "The Sweetheart Tree," Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
SOUND -- Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director

6:00 PM Time After Time (1979)

When Jack the Ripper steals his time machine, author H.G. Wells travels to modern-day San Francisco to track him down.
Dir: Nicholas Meyer Cast: Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: McDowell and Steenburgen met on set and married the following year. They were together for a decade and had two children.

Trivia: Although the role of Amy Robbins went to Mary Steenburgen, the studio had wanted Sally Field. And director Nicholas Meyer's first choice was his girlfriend, Shelley Hack, but she reportedly didn't want to become famous due to her boyfriend's "help". She did, however, accept a small role as a docent at the museum H.G. Wells transports to.

8:00 PM All The President's Men (1976)

Documentary

Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's investigation of a seemingly minor hotel room break-in uncovers the greatest political scandal in United States history and leads to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards Jr.
Runtime: 138 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar wins:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Jason Robards {"Ben Bradlee"}
ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: George Jenkins; Set Decoration: George Gaines
SOUND -- Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Jim Webb
WRITING (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) -- William Goldman
Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Jane Alexander {"The Bookkeeper"}
DIRECTING -- Alan J. Pakula
FILM EDITING -- Robert L. Wolfe
BEST PICTURE -- Walter Coblenz, Producer

Trivia: Frank Wills, the security guard who discovered the 1972 break-in at the Watergate complex, plays himself. He had been fired from his Watergate job a few days after the break-in, though no reason was given. The one day he spent (in 1975) playing himself in this movie was his first day's work since being fired.

Trivia: To prepare for their roles, Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman hung out in the Washington Post newsroom for several weeks, observing reporters and attending staff meetings. Once, when Redford was standing in a hallway, a group of high school students came through on a tour of the newspaper offices. The students immediately started taking pictures of Redford with their pocket cameras. At that point, Bob Woodward walked by. Redford told the students, "Wait a minute! Here's the real Bob Woodward, the guy I'm playing in the movie! Don't you want to take a picture of him?" The students said no, and walked on. Hoffman also recalled that he had been asked by the paper's science reporter to fetch a new typewriter ribbon. Due to Hoffman's long hair and casual dress, the science reporter had mistaken him for a copy boy. By contrast, Jason Robards only spent one day in the Washington Post newsroom, observing his counterpart, Ben Bradlee. Afterwards, according to Bradlee's widow, Sally Quinn, Robards "left and never came back...but he absolutely *got* Ben!"

Trivia: In real life, Judy Hoback was the bookkeeper from the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CRP, also nicknamed "CREEP&quot who gave Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward crucial information about the White House slush fund payouts. Jane Alexander met with Hoback to prepare for her role in the film. Also, the filmmakers rented out Hoback's former home in Georgetown, D.C., and shot the scenes with Alexander and Dustin Hoffman in the actual living room where Hoback had first met with Bernstein.

Trivia: The telephone number that Robert Redford dials for the White House is the real number of the White House Switchboard: 202-456-1414.

10:30 PM The Exorcist (1973)

When a 12-year old girl is possessed by demons, a young priest takes it upon himself to selflessly save her at the behest of her famous movie-star mother.
Dir: William Friedkin Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar wins:
SOUND -- Robert Knudson, Chris Newman
WRITING (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) -- William Peter Blatty
Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Jason Miller {"Father Damian Karras"}
ACTRESS -- Ellen Burstyn {"Chris MacNeil"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Linda Blair {"Regan MacNeil"}
ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Bill Malley; Set Decoration: Jerry Wunderlich
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Owen Roizman
DIRECTING -- William Friedkin
FILM EDITING -- Jordan Leondopoulos, Bud Smith, Evan Lottman, Norman Gay
BEST PICTURE -- William Peter Blatty, Producer

Trivia: The scene where Regan projectile vomits at Father Karras only required one take. The vomit was intended to hit Jason Miller in the chest, but the plastic tubing misfired, hitting him in the face. His reaction of shock and disgust while wiping away the vomit is genuine, and Miller admitted in an interview that he was very angered by this mistake.

Trivia: Due to death threats against Linda Blair from religious zealots who believed the film "glorified Satan", Warner Bros. had bodyguards protecting her for six months after the film's release.

Trivia: Before Jason Miller landed the role, Jack Nicholson was up for the part of Father Karras but William Friedkin thought he was too unholy to ever play a priest.

12:45 AM Scarecrow (1973)
While traveling to the East Coast to open a car wash, paroled convict Max meets a sailor named Lion who dreams of reuniting with his wife and child after six years. Lion helps Max learn to understand and manage his anger, and Max discovers the fragility of his new friend Lion. But as both learn that they will never realize ...
Dir: Jerry Schatzberg Cast: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


3:00 AM Badlands (1973)
A teenager from a dead-end town decides to join a charming older boy on his shooting spree through Montana's badlands.
Dir: Terrence Malick Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:45 AM Night Moves (1975)
An L.A. private detective puts aside his own marital woes while tracing a topless nymphet to the Florida Keys.
Dir: Arthur Penn Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-MA CC: Y