TCM Saturday 4/29/23 - Super Fly, No Time For Sergeants, What's Up, Doc?

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The day at a glance

-- TCM LATE NIGHT --
WARNER VENTURES INTO BLAXPLOITATION
Super Fly (1972)
Black Belt Jones (1974)
Cleopatra Jones (1973)
Black Samson (1974)
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER HAS SOME FUN
Slight Case of Murder, A (1938) (6:30 am ET)
Horn Blows at Midnight, The (1945)
Man Who Came to Dinner, The (1942)
No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Auntie Mame (1958)
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
In-Laws, The (1979)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
INTIMATE STORIES BREAK THROUGH
Local Hero (1983)
Crossing Delancey (1988)
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
Running on Empty (1988)
Great Santini, The (1979)

-- TCM LATE NIGHT
WARNER VENTURES INTO BLAXPLOITATION

12:00 AM Super Fly (1972)
Charismatic, big-time Harlem cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest drives expensive cars and plans one last big score to escape his life of violence. When corrupt cops working for the Mob learn of his plan, they try to make Priest a partner rather than arrest him. Now, can Priest outwit the street, the mob, and the cops to win ...
Dir: Gordon Parks Jr. Cast: Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Julius Harris
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: One of a few films with a soundtrack that grossed more than the film itself.


2:00 AM Black Belt Jones (1974)
Unfortunately for Pops, his karate studio is in a section of downtown that is targeted for redevelopment. The Mafia decides to buy his business, and thugs arrive to pressure him into selling, but in the process, they accidentally kill the elderly man. His heartbroken students call on kung-fu expert Black Belt Jones to help ...
Dir: Robert Clouse Cast: Jim Kelly, Gloria Hendry, Scatman Crothers
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: N


3:30 AM Cleopatra Jones (1973)
A Turkish poppy field is torched - and a U.S. drug trafficker known as "Mommy" is feeling pretty burned. She phones the local cops she owns and orders a retaliatory strike on an inner-city anti-drug headquarters. Mommy's next call should be to 911. For now she'll have to mess with Cleopatra Jones. Mommy is relentless in ...
Dir: Jack Starrett Cast: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


5:00 AM Black Samson (1974)
Samson is a nightclub owner who does all he can to keep his neighborhood free of drugs and crime. When mobster Johnny Nappa tries to cut in on his territory, Samson uses his martial arts skills and his pet lion to fight back.
Dir: Chuck Bail Cast: Rockne Tarkington, Connie Strickland, Michael Payne
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER HAS SOME FUN

6:30 AM A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
A gangster finds the straight life isn't so simple.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:00 AM The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's the angel Athanael. The beautiful angel Elizabeth delivers Athanael to the head of heaven's orchestra, where he's told to return to earth and blow his trumpet at midnight, thus marking the end of the world. When he fails his assignment, ...
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:30 AM No Time for Sergeants (1958)

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A hillbilly draftee turns the Air Force upside down.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy Cast: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Andy Griffith played the role of Private Will Stockdale for the third time in this film. He played the role in the Broadway production and was nominated for the 1956 Tony Award for Distinguished Supporting or Featured Dramatic Actor. He also played the part in the March 1955 live television production on "The United States Steel Hour", the first adaptation of the 1954 novel.

Trivia: This was Don Knotts' film debut. He met Andy Griffith when he played the same part in Broadway's "No Time For Sergeants". The two formed a lifelong friendship. After Knotts left Andy Griffith Show, he later made guest appearances on it and another Andy Griffith television series, Matlock (1986). In 2006, Griffith broke the news of Knotts' passing to the media.


1:45 PM Auntie Mame (1958)

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An eccentric heiress raises her nephew to be a free spirit.
Dir: Morton Dacosta Cast: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne
Runtime: 143 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS -- Rosalind Russell {"Auntie Mame Dennis"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Peggy Cass {"Agnes Gooch"}
ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Malcolm Bert; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color) -- Harry Stradling, Sr.
FILM EDITING -- William Ziegler
BEST MOTION PICTURE -- Warner Bros.

Trivia: Rosalind Russell was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress, but lost to Susan Hayward for I Want to Live! (1958). After the awards ceremony, Russell reportedly said, "Well, I have to admit that nobody deserved it more than Hayward. If it had to be somebody else, I'm glad it was Susie."

Trivia: Rosalind Russell broke her ankle in the first take of the scene where she comes flying down the stairs in the gown with the capri pants.

Trivia: Peggy Cass won the 1957 Tony Award (New York City) for Best Featured Actress in a Drama for "Auntie Mame" and recreated her role in the film version.

4:15 PM What's Up, Doc? (1972)

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The accidental mix up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: N

Trivia: First American film to credit the stunt people in the credits. The first British film to do so was the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker.

Trivia: The final chase scene, a spoof of the one from the then recent movie Bullitt (1968) which was also filmed in San Francisco, cost $1 million to shoot (a quarter of the total budget), 19 days to shoot requiring 32 stuntmen resulting in 11 minutes of screen time. The segment with the giant pane of glass alone took four or five days to film. The plate glass bit was filmed at the junction of Balboa and 23rd Avenue in San Francisco's Richmond District.

Trivia: Ryan O'Neal parodies one of his earlier performances. At the end of the movie, Judy Maxwell says, "Love means never having to say you're sorry," (a line from Love Story (1970)), to which O'Neal's character, Howard Bannister, replies, "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard." They added a pause cross cut because the laugh was so loud after Judy's line that Howard's line could not be heard.


6:00 PM The In-Laws (1979)

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The father of the groom drags the bride's father into a series of madcap adventures.
Dir: Arthur Hiller Cast: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: Fran Drescher was originally cast as the daughter, Barbara Kornpett, but was fired shortly after filming began and was replaced by Penny Peyser. In an April 2020 interview with Nina Metz in the Chicago Tribune, Drescher recalled that after the firing she was "absolutely devastated. I couldn't get out of my bathrobe for two weeks. It was about a year later, I was at a party and the casting director for the movie was there and she said, 'If it's any consolation, the stars of the movie thought you were too funny.' It made me feel vindicated that they were threatened by my comedic skills.'"

-- TCM PRIMETIME --
INTIMATE STORIES BREAK THROUGH

8:00 PM Local Hero (1983)

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When Texan oil developers try to buy up a small Scottish fishing village for their North Sea oil base, the canny residents give the Americans more than they bargained for.
Dir: Bill Forsyth Cast: Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: N


10:00 PM Crossing Delancey (1988)
Romantic drama about a single New York City woman and her quest to find the right man, but then a matchmaker introduces the upscale intellectual to a pickle salesman.
Dir: Joan Micklin Silver Cast: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbe
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:00 AM Running on Empty (1988)

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The '60s are past, and the Vietnam War they struggled against is long over, but the Popes have been on the run from the FBI for fifteen years, choosing to live as family of fugitives rather than be separated. Now 17-year-old musical prodigy Danny Pope must decide whether to accept a scholarship to Julliard or deny his talent ...
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, River Phoenix
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- River Phoenix {"Danny Pope"}
WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) -- Naomi Foner


2:15 AM The Great Santini (1979)

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A marine has problems adjusting to domestic life during peacetime.
Dir: Lewis John Carlino Cast: Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Robert Duvall {"Bull Meechum"}
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Michael O'Keefe {"Ben Meechum"}

Trivia: According to Pat Conroy, Lieutenant Colonel "Bull" Meecham is based entirely on his own father, Donald Conroy, a Marine fighter pilot who referred to himself in the third person as "The Great Santini." After the novel was published, Donald Conroy would often accompany his son to book signings, and would autograph his son's novels with, "Donald Conroy - The Great Santini."


4:15 AM Straight Time (1978)

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An ex-con struggles to go straight despite his malevolent parole officer.
Dir: Ulu Grosbard Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

[ggma]

1. Auntie Mame will always be a favorite of mine!

Definitely a classic. She was so cool and ahead of her time!

gg