TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 7 --- A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

[lavenderdiva]

7 Saturday



6:00 AM The Edge of the World (1937)
A fisherman fights to prevent changing times from destroying his family. Cast: John Laurie, Belle Chrystall, Eric Berry. Dir: Michael Powell. BW-72 mins, TV-PG

7:15 AM Rain (1932)
A missionary tries to reform a streetwalker trapped on a Pacific island. Cast: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, William Gargan. Dir: Lewis Milestone. BW-94 mins, TV-G

9:00 AM The Golden God (1939)
In the first chapter of Zorro's Fighting Legion, the masked hero fights to save Mexico's gold from a murderous villain. Cast: Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson. Dir: John English, William Witney. BW-27 mins,

9:00 AM Descending Doom (1939)
In the third chapter of Zorro's Fighting Legion, the villain's trap Zorro in a silver mine. Cast: Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson. Dir: John English, William Witney. BW-16 mins,

9:00 AM The Flaming "Z" (1939)
In the second chapter of Zorro's Fighting Legion, the villain lures Zorro's men into a trap. Cast: Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson. Dir: John English, William Witney. BW-16 mins,

10:15 AM The Dark Corner (1946)
A secretary helps her private eye boss when he's framed for murder. Cast: Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, Mark Stevens. Dir: Henry Hathaway. BW-99 mins, TV-PG

12:00 PM The Tall T (1957)
An out-of-luck cowhand falls for a married woman being held hostage. Cast: Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan. Dir: Budd Boetticher. C-78 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

1:30 PM Fort Apache (1948)
An experienced cavalry officer tries to keep his new, by-the-books commander from triggering an Indian war. Cast: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple. Dir: John Ford. BW-128 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

4:00 PM Jubilee Trail (1954)
A pregnant widow ventures West in search of a new life. Cast: Vera Ralston, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker. Dir: Joseph Kane. C-103 mins, TV-G, CC

6:00 PM Johnny Guitar (1954)
A lady saloon owner battles a female rancher out to frame her for murder. Cast: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge. Dir: Nicholas Ray. C-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

What's On Tonight: THE ESSENTIALS: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

8:00 PM A Night at the Opera (1935)
Three zanies turn an operatic performance into chaos in their efforts to promote their protege's romance with the leading lady. Cast: The Marx Brothers, Allan Jones, Kitty Carlisle. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

9:45 PM Wife, Husband, and Friend (1939)
C-80 mins,

Text 11:15 PM Maytime (1937)
An opera star's manager tries to stop her romance with a penniless singer. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-132 mins, TV-G, CC

1:30 AM One Night of Love (1934)
An aspiring opera singer and her mentor fight so much they barely realize they're in love. Cast: Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot. Dir: Victor Schertzinger. BW-84 mins, TV-G

3:00 AM The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
In this silent film, a hideously deformed man haunts the sewers beneath the Paris Opera. Cast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry. Dir: Rupert Julian. BW-90 mins, TV-G

4:32 AM Short Film: Help! (1916)
BW-15 mins,

[Matilda]

1. "Maytime". Sigh.

My favourite Eddy-MacDonald film.

I love:

MacDonald and Eddy
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
The fairground scene and the duet under the tree
John Barrymore
Herman Bing
The Shadow Opera (especially the orgasmic duet)
The wonderful, campy, over-the-top ending
The whold film!!

We don't see it any more here - the contract ran out for some ridiculous
reason.
:(

[lavenderdiva]

2. hey, Matilda!

won't you be able to see it on TCM down under? Do you have a different line-up? :hi:

[Matilda]

3. We have a different line-up.

We see a lot of the same films that you do, and sometimes in the same
week, but we do seem to have a much smaller pool to draw from. With our
daily scheduling, you'll find that three or four films are shown over
and over for a couple of days before the programming changes, and that
doesn't seem to happen with your schedules - you have much more variety.

And some films are only released for a particular contract period, and
are then withdrawn, even though they're still showing in the States, so
they're still around. "Maytime", "Naughty Marietta" and "Girl of the
Golden West" are no longer seen here, although the other MacEddy films
are. I have no idea why this happens; it has nothing to do with their
popularity.

TCM Australia is unfair to classic film fans!

[CBHagman]

4. Okay, I can't let you use such a term as...

...orgasmic duet without begging for some further commentary. Elaboration, please.

[Matilda]

5. I'm assuming you know the film,

so I'm referring to the duet at the end of the shadow opera, where she
has to send him off to his execution. As they're singing, her hands
are all over him, caressing him, and as the music moves up an octave,
their voices are perfectly blended for the finale, which ends in a
passionate kiss of a length that must have exceeded the Hayes office
guidelines. You'd swear that he's going to have his way with her right
there on the stage - it's so powerful that either they were much better
actors than people gave them credit for, or there was truth in the story
that at the time, Jeanette wanted out of her forthcoming marriage to
Gene Raymond in order to marry Nelson, but L.B. Mayer forbade it.

The music, the singing, the onstage and offstage drama in the film, plus
the possibility that it was all being echoed in real life, make it one
of the most intensely passionate love scenes in any film musical. It's
glorious!

[CBHagman]

6. Oh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1rI8hcBgIw

[Matilda]

7. Yes.

Tchaikovsky helped too - his most beautiful symphony, IMHO.