Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on TCM: Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne Movies
Basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will join Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne to present four of his favorite films in TCM’s "Guest Programmer" series on Monday, March 22.
Most "Guest Programmer" evenings are devoted to the best-known old classics, and Abdul-Jabbar (and Raquel Welch’s on April 1) will be no exception. Abdul-Jabbar’s tough-guy flicks consist of two of Humphrey Bogart’s and two of John Wayne’s best-remembered vehicles, respectively, The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon; and The Shootist and Stagecoach. Who knows? Perhaps if you watch The Big Sleep a tenth time you’ll be able to figure out what actually takes place in that movie.
The following is a schedule for Abdul-Jabbar’s Monday, March 22, [...]
by Andre Soares | March 4, 2010
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Tags: Classic Movies, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Robert Osborne, Stagecoach, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, The Shootist, Turner Classic Movies
Best Films – 1941
Orson Welles in Citizen Kane
FILM
Cheers for Miss Bishop
d: Tay Garnett; scr: Sheridan Gibney, Adelaide Heilbron
Citizen Kane
d: Orson Welles; scr: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
The Devil and Miss Jones
d: Sam Wood; scr: Norman Krasna
Dumbo
d: Ben Sharpsteen; scr: Joe Grant, Dick Huemer and others
The Great Lie
d: Edmund Goulding; scr: Lenore J. Coffee
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
d: Alexander Hall; scr: Seton I. Miller, Sidney Buchman
The Lady Eve
d, scr: Preston Sturges
The Little Foxes
d: William Wyler; scr: Lillian Hellman
Manpower
d: Raoul Walsh; scr: Richard Macauley, Jerry Wald
The Sea Wolf
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Robert Rossen
Sara Allgood, Roddy McDowall in How Green Was My Valley
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La Fille du puisatier / The Well-Digger’s Daughter
d, scr: Marcel Pagnol
How Green Was My Valley
d: John Ford; scr: Philip Dunne
Meet John Doe
d: [...]
by Andre Soares | April 4, 2009
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Tags: A Woman's Face, Alexander Hall, All That Money Can Buy, Ann Sheridan, Barbara Stanwyck, Bernard Herrmann, Best Films, Bette Davis, Blood and Sand, Carl Benton Reid, Charles Dingle, Cheers for Miss Bishop, Citizen Kane, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, Constance Bennett, Dumbo, Edmund Goulding, Edward G. Robinson, Edward Ward, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Ernest Haller, Ernest Palmer, Gary Cooper, Greer Garson, Gregg Toland, Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Herman J. Mankiewicz, How Green Was My Valley, Jean Arthur, Jerry Wald, Joan Crawford, John Ford, John Huston, Lillian Hellman, Major Barbara, Manpower, Marie Lohr, Martha Scott, Mary Astor, Michael Curtiz, Norman Krasna, Orson Welles, Patricia Collinge, Peter Lorre, Philip Dunne, Preston Sturges, Raimu, Ray June, Ray Rennahan, Reginald Gardiner, Richard Macaulay, Rita Hayworth, Robert Montgomery, Robert Morley, Robert Planck, Robert Rossen, Seton I. Miller, Simone Simon, Sol Polito, Spring Byington, Sydney Greenstreet, Tay Garnett, Teresa Wright, The Great Lie, The Lady Eve, The Letter, The Little Foxes, The Maltese Falcon, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Sea Wolf, Thomas Mitchell, Tony Gaudio, Two-Faced Woman, Vivien Leigh, Walter Lang, William Wyler
Best Films – 1931
Willi Fritsch and Lilian Harvey in Congress Dances
FILM
À nous la liberté / Liberty for Us
d, scr: René Clair
City Streets
d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Max Marcin, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Dashiell Hammett
Daybreak
d: Jacques Feyder; scr: Ruth Cummings, Cyril Hume, Zelda Sears
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath
Five Star Final
d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: Robert Lord, Byron Morgan
Der Kongreß tanzt / Congress Dances
d: Erik Charell; scr: Norbert Falk, Robert Liebmann
The Maltese Falcon / Dangerous Female
d: Roy del Ruth; scr: Maude Fulton, Lucien Hubbard, Brown Holmes
The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
d: Sam Wood; scr: Charles MacArthur
The Public Enemy
d: William A. Wellman; scr: Kubec F. Glasmon, [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: A nous la liberte, Alfred E. Green, Aline MacMahon, Barney McGill, Bartlett Cormack, Best Films, Boris Karloff, Brown Holmes, Byron Morgan, Carl Hoffman, Carl-Heinz Schroth, Charles Lederer, Charpin, Cimarron, City Streets, Classic Movies, Congress Dances, Cuban Love Song, Cyril Hume, Dashiell Hammett, Daybreak, Der Kongress tanzt, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Dudley Digges, Edmund Lowe, Edna May Oliver, Edward G. Robinson, Ernest Torrence, Ernest Vajda, Ernst Lubitsch, Five Star Final, Francis Edward Faragoh, Garrett Fort, Gary Cooper, George J. Folsey, Greta Garbo, Guy Bolton, Guy Kibbee, Harvey Thew, Helen Chandler, J. Grubb Alexander, Jacques Feyder, James Whale, James Wong Howe, Janie Mareze, John Barrymore, John L. Balderston, Joseph Jackson, Karl Freund, Karl Struss, La Chienne, Lee Garmes, Lewis Milestone, Lilian Harvey, Little Caesar, Louise Fazenda, Lucien Hubbard, Lyn Harling, Marius, Marlene Dietrich, Mata Hari, Maude Fulton, Max Marcin, Merritt B. Gerstad, Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz, Michel Simon, Miriam Hopkins, Ona Munson, Otto Matieson, Paul Lukas, Percy Heath, Raimu, Ramon Novarro, René Clair, Ricardo Cortez, Robert Lord, Robert N. Lee, Rouben Mamoulian, Roy Del Ruth, Ruth Cummings, Sam Wood, Samson Raphaelson, Samuel Hoffenstein, Smart Money, Sylvia Sidney, The Bitch, The Hot Heiress, The Mad Genius, The Maltese Falcon, The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, The Public Enemy, The Smiling Lieutenant, Transatlantic, Willi Fritsch, William A. Wellman, William H. Daniels, William Haines, William K. Howard, Zelda Sears