TCM Schedule Saturday Jan. 11: Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, Footlight Parade, Ice Station Zebra, Judy Holliday

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Jan. 11 At a Glance

- TCM SPOTLIGHT: IT WAS ALL A DREAM?
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
My Dream Is Yours (1949)
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
Carefree (1938)
- TCM DAYTIME: WEEKEND FEATURES
Purple Gang, The (1960) (6:30 am ET)
MGM Cartoons: The Hound and the Rabbit (1937)
Tale of a Trotter (1956) (short)
Believe It or Not #9 (1932) (short)
Fighting Fools (1949)
Galloping Ghost Ch. 2: Port of Peril (1931) (TCM Premiere)
Popeye: Customers Wanted (1939)
Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
Private Lessons (1934) (short)
Footlight Parade (1933) (Musical Matinee)
Jeopardy (1953)
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Law and Jake Wade, The (1958)
- TCM PRIMETIME: JUDY HOLLIDAY
Born Yesterday (1950)
Solid Gold Cadillac, The (1956)
- NOIR ALLEY
Deadline at Dawn (1946)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: JAMES COBURN
Carey Treatment, The (1972)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

The day's schedule

11:45 PM Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)

A baby-sitter dreams himself and his best friend into the famous fairy tale. Jack and the Beanstalk is a 1952 American family comedy film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello and featuring Buddy Baer, Dorothy Ford and Barbara Brown. It is a comic retelling of the "Jack and the Beanstalk" fairy tale, produced by Abbott and Costello and distributed by Warner Bros.

Dir: Jean Yarbrough Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buddy Baer
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello made an independent, two-picture deal in which they agreed that this was to be "Lou's film" and the next to be "Bud's". They retained individual ownership of the respective films.

1:15 AM My Dream Is Yours (1949)

A talent scout turns a young unknown into a radio singing star.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Jack Carson, Doris Day, Lee Bowman
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Doris Day's billing in this film is indicative of her meteoric rise from top-selling recording artist to top box-office movie star. This was only Day's second screen role, yet she's billed second only to established Warner star Jack Carson. By her fifth film, Tea for Two (1950), Day had top billing (over Gordon MacRae) and soon found herself among the 10 most popular movie stars in America. Only Fox contract player Marilyn Monroe, who came to public notice half a decade later, had a faster rise from supporting player to superstar than Day did.

Trivia: Final film for Edgar Kennedy, who had already passed away in 1948 by the time the film was released in 1949.

3:15 AM Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)



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A nightclub's coatroom attendant who's in love with the club's singer accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream he's French King Louis XV, courting the infamous Madame Du Barry.

Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: MGM hairstylist Sydney Guilaroff dyed Lucille Ball's hair flame red for this film, the color that she kept for the rest of her life and became her trademark.

5:00 AM Carefree (1938)

When lovely singer Amanda Cooper has trouble accepting the marriage proposals of her beau, Stephen Arden, he calls upon his psychiatrist friend Dr. Tony Flagg to analyze her. Though Tony initially tries to maintain a typical doctor/patient relationship, it's not long before he's falling for Amanda. After a session of hypnosis, ...
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ART DIRECTION -- Van Nest Polglase
MUSIC (Scoring) -- Victor Baravalle
MUSIC (Song) -- "Change Partners," Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin

Trivia: This was the first Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film to lose money on its initial release. It lost $68,000 (~ $1.48M in 2024) for RKO according to studio records.

6:30 AM The Purple Gang (1960)



The story of the infamous gang of bootleggers, hijackers, and killers in 1920's Detroit.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake, Elaine Edwards
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The ubiquitous theme song, "Runnin' Wild" was written in 1922 and featured in a host of movies. A memorable rendition was in another 1959 release, "Some Like It Hot" performed by Marilyn Monroe with a ukulele accompaniment.

8:00 AM Cartoon: The Hound and the Rabbit (1937)
A playful hound befriends a rabbit, joins him and his fellow bunnies for some football, and protects them from a cunning fox.
Dir: Rudolf Ising Cast: Billy Bletcher, Melvin J. Gibby, Leone Le Doux
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:08 AM Short: Tale of a Trotter (1956)
Follow the life of Spunky, a trotter or standard bred racehorse used for harness racing with sulkies.
Dir: null Cast: Peter Roberts, Marty Glickman, Spunky
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:17 AM Short: Believe It or Not #9 (1932)
Robert L. Ripley presents various oddities, such as a one cent restaurant. Vitaphone Release 1363.
Dir: null Cast: Leo Donnelly, Robert L Ripley, Alfred J. Goulding
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:25 AM Fighting Fools (1949)

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At a New York City boxing arena, the Bowery Boys are stunned when their friend, up-and-coming young boxer Jimmy Higgins, is killed during his fight. Slip Mahoney and his best pal, Sach, track down Jimmy's older brother, Johnny, an alcoholic ex-boxer hounded by his past.

Dir: Reginald Le Borg Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell
Runtime: 69 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


9:35 AM Serial: The Galloping Ghosts: Chapter 2, Port of Peril (1931) (TCM Premiere)
A gambling ring is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, who try to eliminate him from playing.
Dir: B. Reeves Eason Cast: Harold "Red" Grange, Dorothy Gulliver, Walter Miller
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: N


10:05 AM Cartoon: Customers Wanted (1939)
Popeye tries to lure customers into his penny arcade at Coney Island. His chief competitor is Bluto. When Wimpy wanders along, both men compete for his business. Wimpy sells tickets to their dispute by advertising it as the Battle of the Century. Boxing fans pour into the place and pay Wimpy big money.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky, Seymour Kneitel Cast: Pinto Colvig, Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:15 AM Tarzan Triumphs (1943)



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The jungle king helps the princess of a lost civilization fight off Nazi invaders.
Dir: William Thiele Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Johnny Sheffield, Frances Gifford
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: M-G-M was unwilling to let RKO use their recording of Johnny Weissmuller's signature "Tarzan yell," which had accompanied the character as he swung through the jungle clinging to vines in every Metro Tarzan film. The one heard here is a much shorter, less robust rendition, and clearly not the original version.

Trivia: Jane's absence was explained in a letter saying that she was visiting relatives in England. Maureen O'Sullivan was sick of playing Jane, but her absence probably had more to do with the fact that the franchise had switched from MGM to RKO, and O'Sullivan was an MGM contract player.

Trivia: Produced during the war, the plot was very anti-German. The film was directed by Austrian born Wilhelm Thiele, credited as William Thiele. Sig Ruman (this film's bumbling German sergeant) experienced a career resurgence during World War II, frequently cast as a comic relief Nazi like the one he plays here.

11:35 AM Short: Private Lessons (1934)

A shoes salesman is hired by a dancer to give private lessons.
Dir: Roy Mack Cast: Dawn O'Day, Dorothy Dare, Kirk Alyn
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 PM Footlight Parade (1933)

A producer fights labor problems, financiers and his greedy ex-wife to put on a show.

Footlight Parade is a 1933 American musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon, with songs written by Harry Warren (music), Al Dubin (lyrics), Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics). The film's numbers were staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It starred James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell, with featured appearances by Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, and Ruth Donnelly. The film's screenplay was written by Manuel Seff and James Seymour, based on a story by Robert Lord and Peter Milne.

In 1992, Footlight Parade was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: First film where James Cagney dances - showing off his vaudeville and stage experience as a song-and-dance man. Cagney lobbied Warner Bros. to play this role. He would show off these talents to their fullest in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).

2:00 PM Jeopardy (1953)

A woman desperately seeks help to prevent her trapped husband from drowning.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker
Runtime: 69 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Jeopardy was Barbara Stanwyck's first film after taking a year off from her screen career. Her original intention had been to retire after Clash by Night (filmed in 1951 but not released until 1952) but after spending some time in Europe, she said, "I simply didn't know what to do with myself, so I went back to work."


3:30 PM Ice Station Zebra (1968)

Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 American espionage thriller film directed by John Sturges and starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, and Jim Brown. The screenplay is by Douglas Heyes, Harry Julian Fink, and W. R. Burnett, loosely based on Alistair MacLean's 1963 novel. Both have parallels to real-life events that took place in 1959.[clarification needed] The film concerns a US nuclear submarine that must rush to the North Pole to rescue the members of the Ice Station Zebra.

The film was shot in Super Panavision 70 and presented in 70 mm Cinerama in premiere engagements. The original music score is by Michel Legrand. It was released on October 23, 1968, to mixed reviews, and it was not a box office success, earning only $4.6 million over its $8–10 million budget.

Dir: John Sturges Cast: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan
Runtime: 148 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Daniel L. Fapp
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS -- Hal Millar, J. McMillan Johnson

Trivia: In one scene Patrick McGoohan was supposed to dive into the flooded torpedo room of the nuclear sub to rescue a trapped naval officer. Being a strong swimmer, he insisted on doing the scene himself rather than use a stuntman. A change was made to the script so allowing Olympic swimming champion Murray Rose, who'd been cast in another role, to do the scene with him in case anything happened. It was only after the scene was completed that Rose revealed that whilst he and McGoohan were standing up to their necks in the rising water just before the cameras rolled, McGoohan had whispered to him "Now I've done it, my foot's stuck". Rose dived down and freed his foot which had become wedged tight in the torpedo rack.


6:15 PM The Law and Jake Wade (1958)

An outlaw forces his reformed buddy to lead him to buried loot.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The film was shot on location in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, Lone Pine and Death Valley.

8:00 PM Born Yesterday (1950)

Born Yesterday is a 1950 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor, based on the 1946 stage play of the same name by Garson Kanin. The screenplay was credited to Albert Mannheimer. According to Kanin's autobiography, Cukor did not like Mannheimer's work, believing it lacked much of the play's value, so he approached Kanin about adapting a screenplay from his own play. Because of legal entanglements, Kanin did not receive screen credit.

The film tells the story of an uneducated young woman, Billie Dawn (played by Judy Holliday, in an Oscar-winning performance) and an uncouth, older, wealthy junkyard tycoon, Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford) who comes to Washington to try to "buy" a congressman. When Billie embarrasses him socially, Harry hires journalist Paul Verrall (William Holden) to educate her. In the process, Billie learns how corrupt Harry is, and eventually falls in love with Paul.

The film was produced and released by Columbia Pictures. Kanin frequently stated that Harry Brock was modeled on Columbia production chief Harry Cohn, with whom Kanin had a long and testy relationship. According to Cohn biographer Bob Thomas, Cohn knew of Kanin's attribution but didn't care about it. In 2012, Born Yesterday was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Dir: George Cukor Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
(*WINNER*) ACTRESS -- Judy Holliday {"Billie Dawn"}
COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White) -- Jean Louis
DIRECTING -- George Cukor
BEST MOTION PICTURE -- Columbia
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Albert Mannheimer

Trivia: To help build up Judy Holliday's image, particularly in the eyes of Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn, Katharine Hepburn deliberately leaked stories to the gossip columns suggesting that her performance in Adam's Rib (1949) was so good that it had stolen the spotlight from Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. This got Cohn's attention and Holliday won the part in Born Yesterday (1950).

10:00 PM The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)

A small-time investor takes on the management of a major corporation.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Art Direction: Ross Bellah; Set Decoration: William R. Kiernan, Louis Diage
(*WINNER*) COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White) -- Jean Louis

Trivia: The final sequence was filmed in color, to better show off the supposedly solid gold Cadillac driven by Laura (Judy Holliday) and McKeever (Paul Douglas). The sequence was shot on location in Rockefeller Center in New York City. When prints of the film subsequently were struck for television broadcast, the color was not reproduced satisfactorily; so as to save on expenses, for several decades, this sequence was seen on television only in black and white. The original color print finally was restored for home video in the 1990s and is now also shown on cable television as originally filmed.

NOIR ALLEY: 12:00 AM Deadline at Dawn (1946)

An aspiring actress risks her life to clear a sailor charged with murder.
Dir: Harold Clurman Cast: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Joe Sawyer's character of washed-up baseball player Babe Dooley was based on Chicago Cubs hitting great Hack Wilson whose alcoholism led to his steep professional and personal decline.

1:45 AM The Carey Treatment (1972)

A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: James Coburn, Jennifer O'Neill, Pat Hingle
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: Based on a novel entitled 'A Case of Need', published in 1968 and credited to Jeffrey Hudson. Decades later, Hudson was revealed to be a pseudonym for Michael Crichton.


3:30 AM Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)



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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a 1973 American revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, written by Rudy Wurlitzer, and starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Barry Sullivan, Jason Robards, Slim Pickens and Bob Dylan. The film is about an aging Pat Garrett (Coburn), hired as a lawman by a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid (Kristofferson).

Dylan composed the score and songs for the film, most prominently "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", which were released on its soundtrack album the same year and nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of Best Original Score (Dylan). The movie was filmed on location in Durango, Mexico, and was nominated for two BAFTA Awards for Film Music (Dylan) and Most Promising Newcomer (Kristofferson).

The film was noted for behind-the-scenes battles between Peckinpah and the studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Soon after completion, the film was taken away from the director and substantially re-edited, resulting in a truncated version released to theaters and largely disowned by cast and crew members. Peckinpah's preview version[a] was released on video in 1988, leading to a re-evaluation, with many critics hailing it as a mistreated classic and one of the era's best films. It is ranked 126th on Empire magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.

Dir: Sam Peckinpah Cast: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: While making this film, Sam Peckinpah's alcoholism was so advanced that he would have to start the day with a large tumbler of vodka to stop shaking. He would be drinking grenadine by mid-afternoon. After that, he was too drunk to work. James Coburn recalled that Peckinpah was only coherent for four hours a day.

Trivia: Al Pacino told a German interviewer in 2014 that he was offered the role of Billy the Kid, but it didn't work out because he couldn't ride a horse. He was also wary of Sam Peckinpah's hard-living reputation.

Trivia: Kris Kristofferson and Sam Peckinpah had several heated arguments while making the film, and others on the set often thought they would fight physically. Peckinpah, always very confrontational, wanted to fight Kristofferson, but said he feared Kristofferson, a former Army Airborne Ranger, would "kill him". Kristofferson answered, "Yeah, Sam, I think you're right". In spite of this, Peckinpah referred to Kristofferson as a "fucking great guy" and said that working with him was "one of the greatest experiences of my life".

Trivia: Bob Dylan had never done a feature film score before and Sam Peckinpah's usual composer, Jerry Fielding, was unhappy with being relegated to a minor role in the scoring process. Sam Peckinpah had Roger Miller (singer of "King of the Road&quot originally in mind for the soundtrack, but it was Kris Kristofferson who suggested Bob Dylan.