TCM Schedule Saturday 7/20/24: Guest programmer Ryan Reynolds, two TCM premieres, The Sting, How To Succeed In Business

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- SPECIAL THEME: FILMS OF THE 1970's
Harold and Maude (1971)
Shaft (1971)
Ritz, The (1976)
Saturday, July 20
- TCM DAYTIME: WEEKEND FEATURES
Say Amen, Somebody - The Good News Musical
(1982)
MGM Cartoons: Field and Scream (1955)
Headpin Hints (1955) (short)
To the Coast of Devon (1950) (short)
Big Shakedown, The (1934)
Directors Playhouse: Cry Justice (1956)
Popeye: Morning, Noon, and Night Club (1937)
Grand Central Murder (1942)
March On, America! (1942) (short)
How to Succeed in Business Without
Really Trying (1967) (Musical Matinee)
Two Guys from Texas (1948)
Far Country, The (1955)
Sting, The (1973)
- TCM PRIMETIME: GUEST PROGRAMMER: RYAN REYNOLDS
(TCM PREMIERE) Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
(TCM PREMIERE) Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
- NOIR ALLEY
Red Light (1949)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: DRAMA, ROMANCE
French Lieutenant's Woman, The (1981)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

11:45 PM Harold and Maude (1971)

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Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
Dir: Hal Ashby Cast: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC:

Trivia: In all shots of Ruth Gordon (Maude) driving the hearse it is being towed because she never learned how to drive a car.

1:45 AM Shaft (1971)

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A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Dir: Gordon Parks Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar nominations (wins one):
MUSIC (Original Dramatic Score) -- Isaac Hayes
(*WINNER*) MUSIC (Song--Original for the Picture) -- "Theme From Shaft," Music and Lyrics by Isaac Hayes

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Trivia: Isaac Hayes was the first African-American to win the Academy Award for Best Song. Hayes took his grandmother with him as his plus-one for the Academy Awards. Hayes had auditioned for the title role. Producers cast Richard Roundtree, but were so impressed with Hayes that they asked him to write the now legendary score to the film.

4:00 AM The Ritz (1976)

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Heterosexual Cleveland businessman Gaetano Proclo is hiding from his murderous mobster brother-in-law in a gay bathhouse in Manhattan. There, Gaetano meets a colorful variety of characters, including aspiring entertainer Googie Gomez. Googie thinks that Gaetano is a famous producer, he thinks that she is a man in drag. ...
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: Rita Moreno, Ben Aris, Paul B Price
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: The closing credits song, "Liberated Man," is sung by C.T. Wilkinson, better known as Colm Wilkinson. He later played Jean Valjean in both the London and Broadway productions of Les Miserables; he also appeared as the Bishop in Les Misérables (2012).

6:00 AM Say Amen, Somebody - The Good News Musical (1982)

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The lives and music of early gospel artists are documented. Performers who are highlighted include Sallie Martin, the Barrett Sisters, and the O'Neill Brothers, but much of the focus is on the legendary singers Willie Mae Ford Smith and Thomas A. Dorsey.
Dir: George T Nierenberg Cast: Rhodessa Barrett Porter, Edgar O'Neal, Zella Jackson Price
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:00 AM Cartoon: Field and Scream (1955)
A man tries to have a peaceful day of fishing, but when that does not go right he decides to give hunting a try.
Dir: Tex Avery (fred) Cast: Additional Voice Actor
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:08 AM Short: Headpin Hints (1955)
In this short film, professional bowlers Lee Jouglard and Sylvia Wene give some tips and show off their skill.
Dir: William Deeke Cast: Sylvia Wene, Fred Wolf, Lee Jouglard
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:17 AM Short: To the Coast of Devon (1950)
This short film focuses on the history, culture, and people of Bath, England.
Dir: null Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, Nathaniel Finston, James A. Fitzpatrick, Hone Glendinning
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:26 AM The Big Shakedown (1934)

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A racketeer breaks into black-market medicine.
Dir: John Francis Dillon Cast: Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez
Runtime: 64 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM Short: Screen Directors Playhouse: Cry Justice (1956)
A man plots revenge on the friend who framed him for his own murder, in this episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse television series.
Dir: George Sherman. Cast: Macdonald Carey, James Dunn, Dick Haymes
Runtime: 26 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:00 AM Cartoon: Morning, Noon, and Night Club (1937)
Sailors Popeye and his rival Bluto are in a Latin American port vying with each other for the attentions of Olivia Oylia, a conga-loving Latino.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky Cast: Lou Fleischer, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:08 AM Grand Central Murder (1942)

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A detective investigates an actress's murder in a train car.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Cecilia Parker
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:30 AM Short: March On, America! (1942)
This was aimed at boosting American morale during WWII by providing an overview of American history.
Dir: Richard Whorf Cast: Carleton Young, Charles P Boyle, Owen Crompton
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


12:00 PM How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)

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A hapless window washer becomes head of a corporation in a matter of days through a series of wacky promotions. Then, everybody else tries to plot his downfall.
Dir: David Swift Cast: Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The scene featuring Robert Morse skipping & dancing down the street on his way to work (immediately after the "Old Ivy" fight song duet with Rudy Vallee) was filmed on location in New York City using hidden cameras and a small earpiece to cue Morse on his timing. The various amused & astonished passersby were not extras, but rather were New Yorkers reacting genuinely to someone dancing to his own tune.

2:15 PM Two Guys from Texas (1948)

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Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Dorothy Malone
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Thanks to director Friz Freleng, this was the first feature film appearance of Warner Bros.' most famous cartoon character, Bugs Bunny.

3:45 PM The Far Country (1955)

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Two cowboys on the road to Alaska help a wagon train in trouble.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


5:30 PM The Sting (1973)

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The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936, involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw).[2] The film was directed by George Roy Hill,[3] who had previously directed Newman and Redford in the Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and written by screenwriter David S. Ward, inspired by real-life cons perpetrated by brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff and documented by David Maurer in his 1940 book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man.

The film plays out in distinct sections with old-fashioned title cards drawn by artist Jaroslav "Jerry" Gebr in a style reminiscent of the Saturday Evening Post. It is noted for its use of ragtime, particularly the melody "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin, which was adapted (along with other Joplin pieces) for the film by Marvin Hamlisch (and a top-ten chart single for Hamlisch when released as a single from the film's soundtrack). The film's success created a resurgence of interest in Joplin's work.[4]

Released on Christmas of 1973, The Sting was a massive critical and commercial success and hugely successful at the 46th Academy Awards, nominated for ten Oscars and winning seven, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Original Screenplay; Redford was also nominated for Best Actor. The film rekindled Newman's career after a series of big-screen flops. Regarded as having one of the best screenplays ever written, The Sting was selected in 2005 for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It was followed by a sequel, The Sting II, in 1983.


Dir: George Roy Hill Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations (wins seven):
ACTOR -- Robert Redford {"Johnny Hooker"}
(*WINNER*) ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: James Payne
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Robert Surtees
(*WINNER*) COSTUME DESIGN -- Edith Head
(*WINNER*) DIRECTING -- George Roy Hill
(*WINNER*) FILM EDITING -- William Reynolds
(*WINNER*) MUSIC (Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation -or- Scoring: Adaptation) -- Adaptation Score by Marvin Hamlisch
(*WINNER*) BEST PICTURE -- Tony Bill, Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, Producers
SOUND -- Ronald K. Pierce, Robert Bertrand
(*WINNER*) WRITING (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) -- David S. Ward

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- TCM PRIMETIME: GUEST PROGRAMMER: RYAN REYNOLDS

8:00 PM Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) (TCM PREMIERE)

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A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.
Dir: John Hughes Cast: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC:

Trivia: John Hughes, in an interview on the "Those Aren't Pillows" DVD, said he was inspired to write the film's story after an actual flight he was on from New York to Chicago. The flight was diverted to Wichita, Kansas, taking him five days to get home.

Trivia: The exterior of their aircraft in flight is a re-use of the 707 flying through the storm from the movie Airplane! (1980), also released by Paramount Pictures.

10:00 PM Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) (TCM PREMIERE)

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Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.
Dir: George Armitage Cast: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC:

Trivia: In one version of the scene where Martin walks into Debi's radio booth for the first time, Minnie Driver decided to let her character put all the cards on the table and just kiss John Cusack. George Armitage said, "It was just wonderful, completely out of the blue. You should have seen the smile on Johnny's face afterwards."

12:00 AM Red Light (1949)

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An embezzler's revenge on the businessman who turned him in leads to a bloody vendetta.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The sharp-looking car Johnny is driving when he gives the cops the slip by having one of his trucks block them in is a 1948 Packard Custom Eight Convertible. The cops who are after him are driving a 1941 Ford Sedan. No contest.

Trivia: The story was written by actor Donald 'Red' Barry. He played Red Ryder in Republic serials, where he got the nickname Red. He was busy actor in westerns and playing other tough guys.

Trivia: Composer Dimitri Tiomkin reused some of his scoring from It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - when George Bailey comes back renewed from being shown a vision of if he'd never been born - for the denouement of this film.


1:45 AM The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

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A 1970's movie crew shoots a film about a 19th-century Englishwoman, named Sara, who is ruined by an affair with a French lieutenant, and then enters into another ill-fated relationship with a principled young man.
Dir: Karel Reisz Cast: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar nominations (no wins):
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Meryl Streep {"Sara Woodruff/Anna"}
ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Assheton Gorton; Set Decoration: Ann Mollo
COSTUME DESIGN -- Tom Rand
FILM EDITING -- John Bloom
WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) -- Harold Pinter

Trivia: Meryl Streep had daily lessons with a voice-coach to develop an English accent and arrived in England three months prior to the start of principal photography for her Victorian vocal training.

4:00 AM Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

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A factory worker lives for the chance to have fun on the weekends.
Dir: Karel Reisz Cast: Albert Finney, Shirley Field, Rachel Roberts
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: The censors were not too keen on the scene in which Arthur wakes up on Sunday morning in bed with his mistress. It directly implies extra-marital sex, a notable first for British cinema.