TCM Programming Challenge #50 -- "The Hitchcock Challenge"

Sunday 14 June

NEW MEXICO DAY
06:00am     New Mexico (1951). Lew Ayres, Marilyn Maxwell, Andy Devine; dir Irving Reis. Irving Allen Productions. 76 mins. PREMIERE

07:30am     Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973). James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jackel; dir Sam Peckinpah. M-G-M, Estudios Churubusco Azteca S.A. 122 mins. PS

09:45am     The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Eli Wallach, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef; Sergio Leone. Produzioni Europee Associate, Arturo Gonźalez Producciones Cinematográficas, Constantin Film. 161 mins. PS

12:30pm     Shalako (1968). Sean Connery, Birgitte Bardot, Stephen Boyd; Dir Edward Dmytryk. Palomar Pictures, International, Kingston Film Productions Ltd., Central Cinema Company Film. 113 mins. PS

02:30pm     Young Billy Young (1969). Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jr., dir Burt Kennedy. Talbot-Youngstein. 89 mins. PS

04:00pm     Old New Mexico (1940). James A. FitzPatrick, Jimmy Begay. M-G-M. 9 mins. PS

MOROCCO (Challenge No.4)
04:10pm     Glimpses of Morocco and Algiers (1951). James A. FitzPatrick. M-G-M. 8 mins. PS

04:20pm     Love-Tails of Morocco (1931). Zion Myers, Jules White; dir Zion Myers, Jules White. M-G-M. 17 mins. PS

04:45pm     The Steel Lady (1953). Rod Cameron, Tab Hunter, John Dehner; dir Ewald Andre Dupont. Edward Small Productions. 84 mins. PS

06:45pm     Drums of the Desert (1940). Ralph Byrd, Lorna Gray, George Lynn; dir George Waggner. Monogram Pictures. 64 mins. LOCATION EXEMPT

08:00pm     The Wind and the Lion (1975). Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith; dir John Milius. M-G-M. 119 mins. PS

10:00pm     Song of Scheherazade (1947). Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy, Jean-Pierre Aumont; dir Walter Reisch. Universal International Pictures. 105 mins. LOCATION EXEMPT

SILENT SUNDAY NIGHTS
12:00am     The Winding Stair (1925). Alma Rubens, Edmund Lowe, Warner Oland; dir John Griffith Wray. Fox Film Corporation. 60 mins. EXEMPT

01:00am     The Unknown (1915). Lou Tellegen, Theodore Roberts, Dorothy Davenport; dir George Melford. Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. 50 mins. EXEMPT

TCM IMPORTS
02:00am     Baroud (1932). Philippe Moretti, Rosita Garcia, Pierre Batcheff; dir Rex Ingram, Alice Terry. Armour Films, Gaumont British Picture Corporation, Super-Film. 79 mins. EXEMPT

03:30am     Poison Ivy [La môme vert de gris] (1953). Eddie Constantine, Dominique Wilms, Howard Vernon; dir Bernard Borderie. Pathé Consortium Cinéma, Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique, Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma. 97 mins. EXEMPT

04:15am     Morocco (1930). Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou; dir Josef von Sternberg. Paramount Pictures. 92 mins. PS


Monday 15 June
NATIONAL JUGGLING DAY
06:00am     The Juggler (1953). Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Paul Stewart; dir Edward Dmytryk. Stanley Kramer Productions. 84 mins. PS

07:30am     The Juggler of Notre Dame (1970). Jessica Benton, Barry Dennen, Christopher Ellis; dir Milton H. Lehr. Lou Tillman Productions. 80 mins. PREMIERE

09:00am     The Little Hut (1957). Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, David Niven; dir Mark Robson. Herbson S.A., M-G-M. 90 mins. PS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAVID ROSE!
10:30am     Wonder Man (1945). Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen; dir H. Bruce Humberstone. The Samuel Goldwyn Company. 98 mins. PS

11:15am     The Princess and the Pirate (1944). Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan; dir David Butler, Sidney Lanfield. The Samuel Goldwyn Company. 94 mins. PS

01:00pm     Everything I Have Is Yours (1952). Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Dennis O’Keefe; dir Robert Z. Leonard. M-G-M. 90 mins. PS

02:30pm     David Rose and His Orchestra (1954). David Rose, Dolores Starr, Rafael Mendez; dir Will Cowan. Universal International Pictures. 16 mins. PREMIERE

MURDER MOST FOWL
03:00pm     Rooster Cogburn (1975). John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe; dir Stuart Millar. Hal Wallis Productions, Polyphony Digital. 108 mins. PS

05:00pm     Penguin Pool Murder (1932). Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason; dir Geroge Archainbaud. RKO Radio Pictures. 70 mins. PS

06:15pm     The Maltese Falcon (1941). Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George; dir John Huston. Warner Bros. 100 mins. PS

GET A CLUE: CLUEDO WEAPONS (Challenge No. 1)
08:00pm     Cloak and Dagger (1946). Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer; dir Fritz Lang. United States Pictures. 106 mins. TITLE EXEMPT

10:00pm     The Long Rope (1953). Donald Houston, Susan Shaw, Robert Brown; dir Wolf Rilla. Victor Hanbury Productions. 72 mins. TITLE EXEMPT

11:15pm     The Florentine Dagger (1935). Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, C. Aubrey Smith; dir Robert Florey. Warner Bros. 69 mins. PS

12:30am     Candlestick (2014). Andrew Fitch, Isla Ure, Nigel Thomas; dir Christopher Presswell. Workbus. 83 mins. TITLE EXEMPT

02:00am     Revolver (1973). Oliver Reed, Fabio Testi, Paola Pitagora; dir Sergio Sollima. Mega Film, Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie, Dieter Geissler Filmproduktion. 111 mins. PREMIERE

04:00am     Pardon My Wrench (1953). Gil Lamb, Andy Clyde, Carol Hughes; dir Hal Yates. RKO Radio Pictures. 16 mins. PREMIERE

INTERNATIONAL WATERFALL DAY
04:30am     The Honeymoon (1917). Constance Talmadge, Earle Foxe, Maude Turner Gordon; dir Charles Giblyn. Select Pictures Corporation. 50 mins. PREMIERE

05:30am     Niagara Falls (1941). Marjorie Woodworth, Tom Brown, ZaSu Pitts; dir Gordon Douglas. Hal Roach Studios. 43 mins. PS


Tuesday 16 June
06:15am     Niagara (1953). Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters; dir Henry Hathaway. Twentieth Century Fox. 92 mins. PS

ANOTHER FINE MESS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, STANLEY!
08:00am     Utopia [Atoll K] (1950). Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Suzy Delair; dir Léo Joannon, John Berry, Alfred J. Goulding, Tim Whelan. Films EGE, Fortezza Film, Franco London Films, La Société des Films Sirius. 100 mins. PS

09:45am     Saps at Sea (1940). Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson; dir Gordon Douglas. Hal Roach Studios. 56 mins. PS

10:45am     Pardon Us (1931). Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Marlowe; dir James Parrott. Hal Roach Studios. 56 mins. PS

11:45am     Night Owls (1930). Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy; dir James Parrott. Hal Roach Studios. 21 mins. PS

12:15pm     Chickens Come Home (1931). 30 mins. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch; dir James W. Horne. Hal Roach Studios. 30 mins. PS

12:45pm     Below Zero (1930). Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Bobby Burns; dir James Parrott. Hal Roach Studios. 20 mins. PS

01:15pm     The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930). Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Frank Austin; dir James Parrott. Hal Roach Studios. 30 mins. PS

01:45pm     Angora Love (1929). Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard; dir Lewis R. Foster. Hal Roach Studios. 21 mins. PS

ARROZ Y FRIJOLES CON POLLO
02:15pm     Bitter Rice (1949). Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano; fir Giuseppe De Santis. Lux Film. 108 mins. PREMIERE

04:15pm     The Milagro Beanfield War (1988). Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga; dir Robert Redford. Universal Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises. 117 mins. PS

06:15pm     Chicken Every Sunday (1949). Dan Dailey, Celeste Holm, Colleen Townsend; dir George Seaton. Twentieth Century Fox. 94 mins. PS

STAR OF THE MONTH – IAN HUNTER (Challenge No. 2)
08:00pm     Bad Sister (1947). Margaret Lockwood, Joan Greenwood, Ian Hunter; dir Bernard Knowles. Harold Huth Productions. 97 mins. SotM EXEMPT

09:45pm     Bedelia (1946). Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter, Barry K. Barnes; dir Lance Comfort. British National Films, John Corfield Productions. 90 mins. SotM EXEMPT

11:15pm     High Fury (1947). Madeleine Carroll, Ian Hunter, Michael Rennie; dir Harold French. Peak Films. 83 mins. SotM EXEMPT

12:45am     It Started In Paradise (1952). Jane Hylton, Ian Hunter, Terence Morgan; dir Compton Bennett. British Film-Makers. 94 mins. PREMIERE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRANT MITCHELL!
02:30am     The Case of the Howling Dog (1934). Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins; dir Alan Crosland. Warner Bros. 74 mins. PS

03:45am     Our Betters (1933). Constance Bennett, Violet Kemble Cooper, Phoebe Foster; dir George Cukor. RKO Radio Pictures. 83 mins. PS

05:15am     The Star Witness (1931). Walter Huston, Frances Starr, Grant Mitchell; dir William A. Wellmen. Warner Bros. 68 mins. PS


Wednesday 17 June
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RALPH BELLAMY!
06:30am     The Magnificent Lie (1931). Ruth Chatterton, Ralph Bellamy, Stuart Erwin; dir Bethold Viertel. Paramount Pictures. 81 mins. PS

08:00am     Destination Unknown (1933). Pat O’Brien, Ralph Bellamy, Betty Compson; dir Tay Garnett. Universal Pictures. 66 mins. PREMIERE

09:15am     Forbidden (1932). Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy; dir Frank Capra. Columbia Pictures. 85 mins. PS

10:45am     Second Hand Wife (1933). Sally Eilers, Helen Vinson, Ralph Bellamy; dir Hamilton MacFadden. Fox Film Corporation. 70 mins. PREMIERE

“IT’S A HARD WORLD FOR LITTLE THINGS”
12:00pm     The Little Prince (1974). Steven Warner, Joss Ackland, Clive Revill; dir Stanley Donen. Paramount Pictures. 88 mins. PREMIERE

01:30pm     Little Big Shot (1935). Sybil Jason, Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong; dir Michael Curtiz. Warner Bros. 78 mins. PS

03:00pm     Little Fugitive (1953). Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams; dir Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin. Little Fugitive Production Company. 75 mins. PS

04:15pm     The Little Colonel (1935). Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable; David Butler. Fox Film Corporation. 81 mins. PS

05:45pm     Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936). Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith; dir John Cromwell. Selznick International Pictures. 102 mins. PS

07:30pm     The Little Maestro (1937). Jerry Bergen, Billy Gray, Adia Kuznetzoff; dir Joseph Sherman. M-G-M. 11 mins. PS

07:45pm     Little Miss Pinkerton (1943). Robert Blake, Janet Burston, Billy “Froggy” Laughlin; dir Bert Glazer. M-G-M. 10 mins. PS

TCM SPOTLIGHT: BOOKSELLERS
08:00pm     84 Charing Cross Road (1987). Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench; dir David Hugh Jones. Brooks Films, Columbia Pictures. 100 mins. PS

09:45pm     Hugo (2011). Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield; Martin Scorsese. Paramount Pictures, GK Films, Infinitum Nihil, Janimation. 126 mins. PS

12:00am     The Booksellers (2019). Parker Posey, Fran Lebowitz, Gay Talese; dir D.W. Young. Blackletter Films. 99 mins. PREMIERE

01:45am     The Big Sleep (1946). Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely; dir Howard Hawks. Warner Bros. 114 mins. PS

PENNYS
03:45am     Almost Famous (2000). Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson; dir Cameron Crowe. Dreamworks Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Vinyl Films. 122 mins. PS


Thursday 18 June
06:00am     Will Penny (1967). Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence; dir Tom Gries. Paramount Pictures. 108 mins. PS

THE WAR OF 1812
08:00am     The Buccaneer (1938). Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff; dir Cecil B. DeMille. Paramount Pictures. 126 mins. PS

10:15am     Captain Caution (1940). Victor Mature, Louise Platt, Leo Carrillo; dir Richard Wallace. Hal Roach Studios. 86 mins. PS

11:45am     The Song of a Nation (1936). Donald Woods, Claire Dodd, Joseph Crehan; dir Frank McDonald. Warner Bros. 18 mins. PS

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING
12:15pm     Thunderbolt (1929). George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen; dir Josef von Sternberg. Paramount Pictures. 85 mins. PS

01:45pm     Greased Lightning (1977). Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges, Pam Grier; dir Michael Schulz. Third World Cinema, Warner Bros. 96 mins. PS

03:30pm     Thunder Road (1958). Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon; dir Arthur Ripley. D.R.M. Productions. 92 mins. PS

05:15pm     Chain Lightning (1950). Humphrey Bogart, Eleanor Parker, Raymond Massey; dir Stuart Heisler. Warner Bros. 94 mins. PS

07:00pm     Thunderbolt (1947). James Stewart, John K. Cannon, Ira C. Eaker; dir William Wyler, John Sturges. Carl Krueger Productions, U.S. Army Air Corps. 44 mins. PS

GUEST PROGRAMMER: HARRY (Challenge No. 5)
08:00pm     The Trouble with Harry (1955). Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick; dir Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions. 99 mins. PS

09:45pm     The Double MacGuffin (1979). Dion Pride, Greg Hodges, Jeff Nicholson; dir Joe Camp. Mulberry Square Productions. 101 mins. GP EXEMPT

11:30pm     Stand by Me (1986). Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman; dir Rob Reiner. Columbia Pictures, Act III, Act III Communications, The Body. 89 mins. PS

01:00am     The Big Chill (1983). Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum; dir Lawrence Kasdan. Columbia Pictures, Carson Productions, Delphi Films. 105 mins. PS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KEYE LUKE!
02:45am     The Amsterdam Kill (1977). Robert Mitchum, Richard Egan, Leslie Nielsen; dir Robert Clouse. Fantastic Films S.A., Golden Harvest Company. 88 mins. PS

04:15am     The Chairman (1969). Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill; dir J. Lee Thompson. APJAC Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Productions, Twentieth Century Fox. 93 mins. PS


Friday 19 June
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BERNHARD WARKENTIN!
06:00am     City Girl (1930). Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence; dir F.W. Murnau. F.W. Murnau Production, Fox Film Corporation. 87 mins. PREMIERE

07:30am     Abilene Town (1946). Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan; dir Edwin L. Marin. Guild Productions Inc., Jules Levy presents. 89 mins. PREMIERE

09:00am     Fighting Man of the Plains (1949). Randolph Scott, Bill Williams, Victor Jory; dir Edwin L. Marin. Nat Holt Productions. 94 mins. PS

STRAIGHT THROUGH TO THE KEEP
10:45am     Badger’s Green (1934). Valerie Hobson, Bruce Lester, David Horne; dir Adrian Brunel. Paramount British Pictures. 68 mins. PREMIERE

12:00pm     The Final Test (1953). Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph; dir Anthony Asquith. J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Association of Cinema Technicians. 90 mins. PREMIERE

01:30pm     It’s Not Cricket (1949). Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Susan Shaw; dir Roy Rich, Alfred Roome. Gainsborough Pictures. 77 mins. PREMIERE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOU GEHRIG!
03:00pm     The Pride of the Yankees (1942). Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth; dir Sam Wood. The Samuel Goldwyn Company. 128 mins. PS

05:15pm     The Babe Ruth Story (1948). William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford; dir Roy Del Ruth. Roy Del Ruth Productions. 106 mins. PS

07:15pm     The Heckler (1940). Charley Chase, Tom Hanlon, Don Beddoe; dir Del Lord. Columbia Pictures. 20 mins. PREMIERE

07:45pm     Donkey Baseball (1935). Pete Smith, Eddie Baker, Jack “Tiny” Lipson; dir John Waters. M-G-M. 9 mins. PS

DO YOU KNOW THE MacGUFFIN MAN? (Challenge No. 3)
08:00pm     The Third Man (1949). Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles; dir Carol Reed. London Film Productions. 104 mins. PS

09:45pm     Waiting for Guffman (1996). Deborah Theaker, Michael Hitchcock, Scott Williamson; dir Christopher Guest. Castle Rock Entertainment, Pale Morning Dun, All Night Productions, Sony Pictures Classics. 84 mins. PS

11:15pm     Apocalypse Now (1979). Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall; dir Francis Ford Coppola. American Zoetrope, Zoetrope Studios. 147 mins. PS

01:45am     Saving Private Ryan (1998). Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns; dir Steven Spielberg. Dreamworks Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Mutual Film Company, H2L Media Group, Mark Gordon Productions. 169 mins. PS

04:45am     The Glass Wall (1953). Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson; dir Maxwell Shane. Columbia Pictures. 82 mins. PS

Saturday 20 June
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JEAN-PAUL SARTRE!
06:15am     The Proud and the Beautiful [Les orgueilleux] (1953). Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Víctor Manuel Mendoza; dir Yves Allégret, Rafael E. Portas. Compagnie Industrielle et Commercial Cinématographique, Films Chrysaor, Iéna Productions, Reforma Films. 103 mins. PREMIERE

08:00am     No Exit (1962). Viveca Lindfors, Rita Gam, Morgan Sterne; dir Tad Danieleski, Orson Welles. Aries Cinematográfica Argentina. 85 mins. PREMIERE

INA, ONA, and UNA
09:30am     Rebound (1931). Ina Claire, Robert Ames, Myrna Loy; dir Edward H. Griffith. RKO Pathé Pictures. 89 mins. PS

11:00am     Going Wild (1930). Joe E. Brown, Lawrence Gray, Ona Munson; dir William A. Seiter. First National Pictures. 68 mins. PS

12:15pm     The Women in His Life (1933). Otto Kruger, Una Merkel, Ben Lyon; dir George B. Seitz. M-G-M. 75 mins. PS

HEAVEN CAN’T HOLD THEM
01:30pm     Beyond Tomorrow (1940). Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger; dir A. Edward Sutherland. Academy Productions. 84 mins. PS

03:00pm     Topper (1937). Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young; dir Norman Z. McLeod. M-G-M, Hal Roach Studios. 97 mins. PS

04:45pm     The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947). Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders; dir Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Twentieth Century Fox. 104 mins. PS

06:30pm     Things Happen at Night (1948). Gordon Harker, Alfred Drayton, Robertson Hare; dir Francis Searle. Tudor-Alliance. 79 mins. PREMIERE

RAISING “CANES”
THE ESSENTIALS
08:00pm     The Caine Mutiny (1954). Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson; dir Edward Dmytryk. Columbia Pictures. 124 mins. PS

10:15pm     Citizen Kane (1941). Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead; dir Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures, Mercury Productions. 119 mins. PS

NOIR ALLEY
12:15am     Deadfall (1968). Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman; dir Bryan Forbes. Salamander Film Productions. 120 mins. PREMIERE

TCM UNDERGROUND
02:15am     Death Carries a Cane [Passi di danza su una lama di rasoio] (1973). Robert Hoffmann, Nieves Navarro, Jorge Martín; dir Maurizio Pradeaux. 84 mins. UNDERGROUND EXEMPT

03:45am     Some Like It Hot (1959). Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon; dir Billy Wilder. Ashton Productions, The Mirisch Corporation. 121 mins. PS

This is a masterpiece, BunnyWhit! I can't even tell you how brilliant this is. I fell over when I saw the Clue ("Cluedo") section. I wish I thought of that! I have also been singing "Do you know the McGuffin Man?" around the house. Love Ina & Ona & Una, the Little movies, arroz y frijoles con pollo, Grant Mitchell, Raising Canes, Morocco-- lots of great stuff! I would love to have Harry be guest programmer. Poor guy didn't get any lines--let's hear his side of the story!

Knocked it out of the park, Bunny Whit!  Love National Juggling Day (I'm positive nobody has ever done that as a programming segment!,) Murder Most Foul,
SOTM Ian Hunter is one of my favorite unsung actors and Do You Know the MacGuffin Man?  How clever of you to realize that the Macguffin is sometimes a who,
not a what. Thanks the backstory on Cluedo  -- how interesting!  It's a Hard World for Little Things is a super topic where many of the child stars get to rule and
Ina, Ona, Una made me laugh out loud.

Great job!!

Hope we see some more great schedules soon!

Tick tock, tick tock. Challenge ends Sunday but I could be persuaded to let the challenge run a week or 2 longer if we have any folks who would still like to do a schedule. Let me know!