Stop the presses and/or the tweets! Dorothy Malone is on tonight on Turner Classic Movies.
TCM is showing six movies featuring Dorothy Malone, an actress who should have become a major movie star but inexplicably didn’t. Malone had the right amount of talent, lips, ass, bosom, eyelashes, and Oscar (supporting, for Written on the Wind) — even so, she remained a (however popular) "leading lady." Check her out tonight.
The TCM movies are former Hollywood Ten blacklistee-turned-informer Edward Dmytryk’s Western Warlock (1959), Andrew L. Stone’s disaster movie The Last Voyage (1960), actor-turned-director John Ireland’s crime thriller The Fast and the Furious (1954), Henry Levin’s crime drama Convicted (1950), Charles Marquis Warren’s Western Tension at Table Rock (1956), and Richard Quine’s crime drama Pushover (1954), which also features Kim Novak.
Schedule (PT) and synopses from the TCM website:
5:00pm [Western] Warlock (1959)
A Western town hires a famous gunman to rid it of outlaws.
Cast: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone Dir: Edward Dmytryk C-121 mins7:15pm [Epic] Last Voyage, The (1960)
Passengers and crew fight to escape a sinking ocean liner.
Cast: Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders, Edmond O’Brien Dir: Andrew L. Stone C-91 mins9:00pm [Crime] Fast and the Furious, The (1954)
A wrongly convicted man takes a young woman hostage while fighting to clear his name.
Cast: John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Bruce Carlisle, Iris Adrian Dir: John Ireland BW-74 mins10:30pm [Drama] Convicted (1950)
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Cast: Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Millard Mitchell, Dorothy Malone Dir: Henry Levin BW-91 mins12:15am [Western] Tension at Table Rock (1956)
When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.
Cast: Richard Egan, Dorothy Malone, Cameron Mitchell, Billy Chapin Dir: Charles Marquis Warren C-93 mins2:00am [Crime] Pushover (1954)
A police detective falls for the bank robber’s girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Phil Carey, Kim Novak, Dorothy Malone Dir: Richard Quine BW-88 mins