Classic Movie Picks: October

Each month, I scour the Turner Classic Movies Now Playing guide for upcoming films that I can't miss. The highlights are posted here for your reading and viewing pleasure! (All listed times are Eastern Standard, check your local listings or TCM.com for actual air times in your area. Each day's schedule begins at 6:00 a.m.; if a film airs between midnight and 6 a.m. it is listed on the previous day's programming schedule.)

Hammer Horror
10/1: Horror of Dracula (1958), Brides for Dracula (1960), Dracula Prince of Darkness (1966), Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1969)
10/8: The Plague of the Zombies (1966), The Devil's Bride (1968), The Reptile (1966), The Gorgon (1964)
10/15: The Mummy (1959), The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964), The Mummy's Shroud (1967), Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
10/22: X: The Unknown (1956), Five Million Years to Earth (1968), These Are the Damned (1963), The Stranglers of Bombay (1960)
10/29: The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), Frankenstein Created Woman (1966), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Every Friday this month TCM is showing films from the British studio Hammer Films Production, famous for their low-budget horror movies from the late 50s through the early 70s. The earlier films tend to take a slightly more "traditional" approach to well-known monster tales (Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein), while the later films are more campy with increased levels of sex and gore. You can decide for yourself which sounds like more fun. I'll be looking for anything that stars Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
Read more about Hammer and all the featured films on the TCM website.


10/3, 2:30 AM: Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
A Soviet soldier on leave during WWII makes the long journey home to visit his mother one more time before immediately returning to the front lines. Simple, lovely, and touching, this is a story of a very particular place and time, whose emotional impact is universal.


10/6: Two Films by Max Ophuls
2 AM - The Earrings of Madame de... (1954)
4 AM - Lola Montes (1955)
German-born Max Ophuls was a director of unfortunately limited output; however, the four films he made in France during the 1950s are considered masterpieces and tonight, TCM is showing two of these films. They share exciting camerawork, lavish sets and costumes, and stories of the dramatic consequences of love. The Earrings of Madame de... takes an interesting look at infidelity when a socialite commits an indiscretion which leads to a series of betrayals. In Lola Montes, a notorious courtesan has become the center of a circus attraction in which she recounts her colorful life. Anton Walbrook and Peter Ustinov are both exceptional as important men in the life of Lola.


10/17, 2 AM: Infernal Affairs (2002)
This intense drama from Hong Kong, about an undercover cop who must find a mole within the police department, stars the great Tony Leung and was the source material for 2008 Best Picture winner The Departed.


10/18: Starring Miriam Hopkins
6 AM - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
7:45 AM - The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
9:15 AM - Wise Girl (1937)
10:30 AM - The Old Maid (1939)
12:15 PM - Lady with Red Hair (1940)
1:45 PM - Virginia City (1940)
4 PM - The Heiress (1949)
6 PM - The Children's Hour (1961)
10/19, 8 PM: Design for Living (1933)
Three-time co-star of official "Star of the Month" Frederic March, Miriam Hopkins was a popular leading lady during the 1930s, but she hasn't sustained the name-recognition or fanbase of her contemporaries like Bette Davis (Hopkins on- and off-screen foil). I've heard Hopkins described as a blonde terrier and, as the owner of a (canine) blonde terrier, I would consider that description a compliment. Her starring vehicles are not shown that often, so today's line-up is a real treat.
If you can't catch the mini-marathon, don't miss Design for Living the following evening. This film puts Miriam at the vertex of a love triangle with Frederic March and Gary Cooper. It's an unexpectedly "modern" take on an old set-up, directed with a characteristically deft hand by Ernst Lubitsch.
BONUS PICKS: More Miriam!
10/5, 11:45 PM - Old Acquaintance (1943)
8 PM - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)


10/22, 4:15 AM: Night of the Lepus (1972)
I am not a big fan of "scary movies" because, well, I don't like being scared. But, despite my fears, every Halloween I find myself in the mood for monster movies. The ones I like to watch are usually a little cheesy and not too terrifying. A perfect example is tonight's film in which the Lepus of the title is a gang of giant man-eating rabbits. If you enjoy watching bad films that are entertaining for all the wrong reasons, you'll like Night of the Lepus.


10/23, 10 PM: Captain's Paradise (1953)
Alec Guinness plays a ferryboat captain on the Strait of Gibraltar who has a wife on either side of the water. He thinks he has devised the perfect life with each wife fulfilling different sides of his personality; however, his wives each yearn to live outside the roles he has assigned to them. Guinness is very funny as the initially smug captain who grows increasingly frustrated with his "paradise."
BONUS PICKS: 5 More Rounds of Guinness!
8 PM - Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
11:45 PM - Last Holiday (1950)
1:30 AM - The Horse's Mouth (1958)
3:15 AM - The Lavender Hill Gang (1951)
5 AM - The Ladykillers (1955)

From the Vault: Total Recall

There are certain movies that, good or bad, make their foothold in our cinematic consciousness. On the other hand certain movies, good or bad, can slip to the back of our consciousness. Each month I'll be taking a look back at a movie that since it was released has fallen through the cracks, been completely forgotten about, or just hasn't been watched in a while. This month:

Total Recall

Science fiction is a genre that cannot avoid becoming dated sometimes after a decade or two or sometimes after just a couple years. Total Recall was made 20 years ago and it holds up very well. The special effects do not look dated and the overall depiction of the future doesn't feel dated or cheesy. It's fun to go back and watch movies that are set in the future and see what predictions about the future have and haven't come true and which are laughable. Twenty years later several science fiction elements from Total Recall have actually come true, or sort of come true, including: GPS, video phones, and video monitors on heavy machinery.

Early on in the movie Quaid (Schwarzenegger) and his wife Lori (Sharon Stone) sit down to have breakfast and turn on the flat screen TV in their wall to watch the morning news. We have flat screen HD TV's that can be mounted on walls and I don't think it's too much of a stretch to imagine them being built into walls.

Quaid keeps having dreams about being on Mars, dreams he thinks might be memories, so he goes to a company called Rekall that can implant in your mind the manufactured memory of a vacation so you don't have to go through the trouble of an actual vacation. He hopes that having a memory of a vacation to Mars will quell his dreams. Now, of course this doesn't exist, yet. But there is a company called Zero G that will fly you in a jet that flys in parabolic arcs so you can experience true weightlessness. Tickets have already been sold for the first commercial flight into space, though the shuttle for that hasn't even been yet. So vacations in space have sort of come true.

When Quaid walks into a train station he passes through an X-Ray security check point and gets onto a train with TV's playing ads. Later on in the movie when he's being chased he passes through the system and the gun he's carrying sets off alarm. Now I know there's not X-Ray security checkpoints at train stations or even at airports but a type of X-Ray security scanner does exist though it's not in use because instead of showing a skeleton, it only peels back a couple layers of clothing and the image seen is more along the lines of a nude person, and not everyone is okay with that.

There's a scene where Sharon Stone is practicing her tennis stroke by mimicking an instructional hologram. When she gets it's right the hologram lights up. There's no holograms involved with Nintendo Wii, yet, but the similarities are striking.

I haven't even talked about about the movie itself. It's a good, solid, and entertaining movie and it holds up very well. The sci-fi elements that have actually come true now only make this movie more impressive. It's a good action movie but it also deals with perceptions of reality and dreams and memories. If you haven't seen this movie in a while I highly recommend watching it again and if you're in the mood to be overwhelmed with accents then check out the DVD commentary with Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger. As for the Total Recall remake, let's not and say we did.

Not-So-Fresh New Releases #3

As we head towards the fall movie season, historically the time of the year when the most interesting and high-quality films are released, I'm looking forward to going out to the movies again. The films currently in theaters just haven't captured my interest, and according to the Rotten Tomatoes ratings, they haven't impressed the critics either. So I've picked out a few of these not-so-fresh new releases and devised some alternate viewing choices. All the recommended films are available on video, so you can save yourself the price of a movie ticket and support your local video store instead.

The American - 62% freshness rating

• Many aspects of this film starring George Clooney as a solitary assassin, from the poster art to the deliberate pacing, have inspired comparisons to politically-themed thrillers from the 1970s. I know I immediately thought of The Day of the Jackal (1973). Not to be confused with its inferior 1997 remake The Jackal, this methodical thriller follows the man hired to assassinate French president Charles DeGaulle, as well as the policeman on the killer's trail.
• Another obvious point of comparison for The American is the French film Le Samourai (1967), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. An even-more-handsome-than-Clooney Alain Delon stars in this character portrait of a hit man who may have made a fatal mistake. This film is slowly-paced and unafraid of silence, but it is not boring. It elegantly captures the isolation of a lone gunman.

The Virginity Hit - 50% freshness rating

• Finally, the faux-documentary version of American Pie that we've all been asking for! What, you didn't ask for that? Yeah, me neither. The Virginity Hit follows a teenage boy in his increasingly adventurous attempts to lose his virginity; this topic seems especially stale since some guy desperately trying to have sex has been a plot point in nearly every teen comedy since the '80s. So, let's look back to that decade and watch Rob Reiner's film The Sure Thing (1985), a teen comedy that is ostensibly about sex, but is actually a love story in the tradition of It Happened One Night.
• For a more cautionary take on the subject, go back even further to 1961's Splendor in the Grass. Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty star as teens whose lives are ruined by his desire for pre-marital sex - and some seriously questionable fatherly advice.

Going The Distance - 51% freshness rating

• In Going the Distance, Drew Barrymore and Justin Long employ various means of communication to conduct a long-distance relationship. If you want to see a relationship with serious distance issues, just watch the romantic musical

Brigadoon (1954). Gene Kelly lives in New York, Cyd Charisse lives in Scotland...in a village which appears for one day every 100 years. It's going to take more than a plane ticket to keep these two together.

Commercials for Going the Distance have featured scenes of Barrymore and Long attempting some awkward phone-sex. 1959's Pillow Talk makes witty use of double entendre and a split-screen to create sexual tension during Doris Day and Rock Hudson's phone conversations.

Takers - 30% freshness rating

• I love a good heist movie, but, sheesh, even the title of this film is idiotic. It seems like this film wants to be Ocean's Eleven for a slightly younger generation. Steven Soderbergh's 2001 film, starring George Clooney as suave thief Danny Ocean, is stylish, sophisticated, and clever. Takers has Hayden Christensen in a porkpie hat. Which would you rather watch?
• I'd also like to recommend another Melville film starring Alain Delon, Le Cercle Rouge (1970). Look no further for a truly cool, suspenseful heist picture.
  

For more rental recommendations, check out my previous posts: Not-So-Fresh New Releases and Not-So-Fresh New Releases #2.

Classic Movie Picks: September

Each month, I scour the Turner Classic Movies Now Playing guide for upcoming films that I can't miss. The highlights are posted here for your reading and viewing pleasure! (All listed times are Eastern Standard, check your local listings or TCM.com for actual air times in your area. Each day's schedule begins at 6:00 a.m.; if a film airs between midnight and 6 a.m. it is listed on the previous day's programming schedule.)

9/2, 1 AM: The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
Alexandre Dumas's popular revenge tale, The Count of Monte Cristo, has been filmed many times and even inspired a sandwich (unconfirmed). I can remember watching a commercial for the lackluster 2002 fim adaptation, after which my father said, "I have the feeling that no one is excited about this movie." I cannot say the same of the 1934 version airing tonight and featuring Robert Donat as the title character. I'm looking forward to it because I recently read the book and was pleasantly surprised by its quick pace and intricate plotting, and leading man Donat has my undying affection due to Goodbye, Mr. Chips. The film is part of a month-long spotlight on revenge films. Tune in Thursdays for more films in the series.

9/6, 8 PM: Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
After Leo McCarey won the best director Oscar for 1937's classic screwball comedy The Awful Truth, he claimed that the Academy had rewarded him for the wrong film. The "correct" film, according to McCarey, was Make Way for Tomorrow, a drama dealing with the struggles of an older couple during the Depression. If you've seen previous classic pick Tokyo Story, you may recognize similarities between the two films. Due to the current economic climate, Make Way for Tomorrow is newly relevant...and newly out on DVD from Criterion. Make a prudent financial decision tonight by staying in and watching this film on TCM (if you like it, maybe then you can start saving up for the DVD).

9/8, 2 AM: Force of Evil (1949)
Fans of film noir should check out this gem about a mob lawyer, played by John Garfield, who tries to protect his numbers-running brother from a racketeering scheme. It's got all the classic noir characteristics - moral compromise, femme fatale vs. good girl, gritty underworld setting, and a not-so-happy ending.

9/29: Greer Garson Day
When Walter Pidgeon was highlighted during August's "Summer Under the Stars," several of the day's films co-starred his frequent leading lady, Greer Garson. Well, today Garson gets her own mini-marathon of seven of her films, in chronological order, featuring a variety of dashing leading men including Ronald Colman, Errol Flynn, Robert Mitchum, Clark Gable, and, of course, Walter Pidgeon. I usually enjoy Greer Garson's performances; she brings a stately, dignified presence to her roles, but always with a twinkle in her eye. (And she also has my undying affection for her role in Goodbye, Mr. Chips. I've come full circle!)
6:30 AM - Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
8:15 AM - Random Harvest (1942)
10:30 AM - The Youngest Profession (1943)
12 PM - Adventure (1945)
2:15 PM - Desire Me (1947)
4 PM - That Forsyte Woman (1949)
6 PM - The Singing Nun (1966)

From the Vault, Orca: The Killer Whale

There are certain movies that, good or bad, make their foothold in our cinematic consciousness. On the other hand certain movies, good or bad, can slip to the back of our consciousness. Each month I'll be taking a look back at a movie that since it was released has fallen through the cracks, been completely forgotten about, or just hasn't been watched in a while. This month:

Orca: The Killer Whale

My first viewing of Orca: The Killer Whale is inextricably linked with the memory of being sick with a stomach virus when I was about 8 years old, staying home from school, and eating jello. I don't know what spurred me to give it a second viewing, perhaps the recent release of Piranha 3D brought back my memory of another creature feature. I can't speak for Piranha 3D, and I hope I never will, however, Orca is bad enough to be a good bad movie (or "campy" if you prefer).
Richard Harris plays Nolan, a fisherman in Canada who, with his crew, is out shark hunting one day when a killer whale slams the hell out of a Great White Shark, just for hell of it. Nolan then decides to capture an orca and sell it to an aquarium so he can pay off the mortgage on his boat, but it all goes predictably wrong... I mean terribly wrong. Nolan and his crew end up killing the pregnant wife of a very vengeful orca. The orca wreaks havoc on the fishing town: first leaving his dead wife's carcass on the beach by the docks to remind Nolan of what he did, then sinking boats in the harbor to get Nolan to go out on the sea and fight him like a man, or whale. We know this because Charlotte Rampling, playing Rachel, a whale biologist, tells Nolan this information about the vengeful habits of killer whales. This information is confirmed by the stock character of the wise Indian (or Native American, actually he'd be a Canadian American) who literally just shows up at Nolan's house one day.

When Nolan finally decides to go out to sea and fight the whale, Rachel, the whale biologist, admits that she doesn't know what she's been talking about and tries to convince him not to fight the whale. Once they're out at sea not much happens.

This movie was clearly thrown together to cash in on the success of Jaws; which is kind of funny since the boat they use to hunt the shark in Jaws is called the Orca, and in Orca the boat they use to hunt the whale is called The Shark from Jaws... just kidding.

The highlight of the movie is when the whale rams into a seaside natural gas plant, then swims up the coast a bit and rams into a building on stilts where a kerosene lantern is on the edge of a table and a giant explosion results. And to top it off the orca takes a celebratory jump through the air. There's lots of badly used stock footage of sharks and killer whales and bad "day for night" (or as I like to call it, "American Night") shots. Not to mention people dangling their arms and entire bodies off the side of the boat as if they're tempting that vengeful man-killing orca to jump out of the water and bite them.

Orca: The Killer Whale is regrettably not available on Netflix Instant Play; which is a shame because this is the perfect movie for Instant Play, an obscure campy movie you wouldn't normally rent on DVD. If, however, you find yourself in the mood for something campy, or you're home sick, it's not a bad way to kill 90 minutes. You'll have a good time, mostly at the movie's expense. The trailer shows off just how awesomely bad this movie really is. I mean how could you not want to watch this:

You may know her from...

In a recent post I wrote about some of my favorite roles for Anthony Perkins, Sterling Hayden, and Walter Matthau, three actors whose most well-known roles defined their on-screen personas. Now, since I am an equal opportunity blogger, I've chosen some lesser-known, but memorable, performances by three actresses.

Julie Andrews is known to any movie fan as a lovely songbird/nanny/governess/nun, or for the younger generation, a secretly-wished-for grandmother. However, in the musical biography Star! (1968), she plays legendary stage actress Gertrude Lawrence, not a woman to whom you would entrust your children. Her acrobatic musical routine "Jenny," done in a jewel-encrusted jumpsuit (those can't be mere sequins!) on a circus-themed set, is a true highlight. This film is one of the last big-budget studio musical extravaganzas. Unfortunately, it was not a hit at the time of its release and is often cited as one of the expensive failures which bankrupted the Twentieth Century Fox studio. Nevertheless, Julie Andrews will blow you away with her tour de force performance! At nearly three hours, Star! isn't shown on television very often, but it is available on DVD and worth renting (or owning).

In recent years, Shirley MacLaine has specialized in acerbic grandmother roles (Rumor Has It, In Her Shoes). But as a young actress, MacLaine played women who were plucky, yet vulnerable, and often someone who had suffered her share of hard knocks (The Apartment, Some Came Running, Sweet Charity). Her role in the caper comedy Gambit (1966) wasn't really a departure from this type of character, but I'm mentioning it here because I think it's a film that's been largely forgotten. I discovered this film, which also stars Michael Caine, late one night on TCM. I love a good heist film, and this one has a great twist right at the beginning. According to IMDB.com, this film might get remade by the Coen Brothers; hopefully the remake will spur a DVD release of the original.

Sometimes fate is cruel and the role for which you remember an actress isn't exactly her best work. Therefore, I suspect the reason I've never warmed toward Faye Dunaway is that my first memory of her is as the wicked Selena in Supergirl (1984). She was a frightening sorceress who lured men to her lair inside a haunted house in order to have them do her bidding - it was all too scandalous for my young self! So, it is hard for me to be objective no matter what role Dunaway plays. The Thomas Crown Affair? Scary - possibly due to her bizarre late-60s hair and nails. Bonnie and Clyde? She got what she deserved. Network? No surprise, actually sort of evil. Despite a reputation as one of the worst entries in the Superman franchise, Supergirl does have some fans (if the IMDB.com message boards are to be believed) and a double disc DVD was released a few years ago.

Classic Movie Picks: August

Each month, I scour the Turner Classic Movies Now Playing guide for upcoming films that I can't miss. The highlights are posted here for your reading and viewing pleasure! (All listed times are Eastern Standard, check your local listings or TCM.com for actual air times in your area. Each day's schedule begins at 6:00 a.m.; if a film airs between midnight and 6 a.m. it is listed on the previous day's programming schedule.)

August is a special month on TCM, this is now the eighth year of the month-long "Summer Under the Stars" marathon in which each day's programming is devoted to a single actor or actress. In order not to avoid playing favorites with the featured stars, I've chosen one film for each day of the month!

8/1: Basil Rathbone
8 PM - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) - Sherlock Holmes is definitely Rathbone's most iconic role and he is wonderful as the great detective.

8/2: Julie Christie
12 AM - Petulia (1968)

8/3: Steve McQueen
10:15 AM - The Honeymoon Machine (1961) - This is early McQueen, before he earned a reputation as the "essence of cool," in a zany comedy with the always delightful Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss - looks like alot of fun!

8/4: Ethel Barrymore
5:45 PM - The Story of Three Loves (1953)
This anthology film features a great cast, besides Ethel Barrymore who is no slouch herself, as passengers on an ocean liner recalling their great loves. It's a sweet, romantic film which I can't wait to watch again!

8/5: Woody Strode
8 PM - Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
Of all his films, this one was Strode's personal favorite.

8/6: Ingrid Bergman
10 AM - The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
Another anthology film pick, this time the stories are linked by the titular car. The eclectic cast includes Bergman, Shirey MacLaine, Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Art Carney, and George C. Scott.

8/7: Errol Flynn
2:30 PM - The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

8/8: Bob Hope
2:30 AM - Critic's Choice (1963) - In this film, Hope is paired with Lucille Ball as a theater critic and actress who are also husband and wife. These two have great chemistry, so they are always a joy to watch together. In my mind Lucy is second only to Bing Crosby among Bob's co-stars.

8/9: Warren Beatty
4 AM - Ishtar (1987)
Why not? I promise it's not as bad as you've heard.

8/10: Kathryn Grayson
8 PM - Show Boat (1951) - This film exemplifies the glorious Technicolor musical!
4 AM - Lovely to Look At (1952) - And for a bonus, here's another musical pairing lovely Kathryn with her favorite on-screen partner, the handsome Howard Keel.

8/11: Walter Matthau
9:45 AM - Fail-Safe (1964) - After I wrote about Matthau recently, several people suggested I watch Fail-Safe to see the serious/sinister side of an actor known more for comedies.
6 PM - Casey's Shadow (1978) - And we're back to good old irascible Matthau, in this film about a family of horse trainers.

8/12: Norma Shearer
10 PM - Private Lives (1931) - I'll confess that I'm not a particular fan of a Norma Shearer, but she does seem well-cast in this film based on the play of the same name by Noel Coward. I suppose that in the 1930s even a story about a messy divorce could feel like escapism if it takes place on the French Riviera.

8/13: Robert Ryan
1:15 AM - The Wild Bunch (1969)

8/14: Gene Tierney
8 PM - Leave Her To Heaven (1945) - Tierney earned her only Oscar nomination for this film directed by John M. Stahl. It is the height of melodrama, on par with the best of Douglas Sirk, so check your cynicism at the door and enjoy the hysterics.

8/15: Margaret O'Brien
4 AM - Big City (1948) - The plot of this film makes it sound like the original Three Men and a Baby!

8/16: Robert Stack
9:45 PM - The Tarnished Angels (1957)

8/17: Maureen O'Hara
1:45 AM - Our Man in Havana (1960)

8/18: Ann Sheridan
6:15 PM - George Washington Slept Here (1942)
I realize I picked this one last month when it was shown in a series of films starring Terry the terrier. However, I fell asleep while watching it (not the fault of the movie!), so it is on the list again!

8/19: Walter Pidgeon
7:15 AM - The Hot Heiress (1931)
A glance at today's line-up of Walter Pidgeon films revealed several potentially risque film titles (Julia Misbehaves, Man Hunt, Design for Scandal), but The Hot Heiress was by far my favorite.

8/20: Katharine Hepburn
6:15 PM - Keeper of the Flame (1942)

8/21: Paul Newman
5:45 PM - Harper (1966) - Newman is so good here as the titular private eye, it might be my favorite of his performances!
12:30 AM - Rachel, Rachel (1968) - Newman directed this film starring his wife, Joanne Woodward, about the sexual awakening of a shy schoolteacher. Unfortunately for Seinfeld fans, this isn't Rochelle, Rochelle, the immortal tale of a young woman's erotic journey from Moscow to Minsk.

8/22: John Mills
12:15 AM - Hell, Heaven, or Hoboken (1958)
That title...how can I resist?

8/23: Elizabeth Taylor
6 AM - Lassie Come Home (1943)

8/24: John Gilbert
6:30 PM - Downstairs (1932) - "An evil chauffeur seduces and blackmails his way through high society" - why isn't this movie on everyday?
8 PM - The Big Parade (1925) - This film is heralded as one of the greatest films of the silent era, I am really looking forward to it.

8/25: Lauren Bacall
4:30 PM - Designing Woman - (1957)

8/26: Lee Remick
10 AM - Loot (1970)
6 PM - Telefon (1977)
I couldn't decide which one of these sounded stranger, so I picked them both.

8/27: Olivia deHavilland
2 PM - Princess O'Rourke (1943)
Beautiful Olivia as a princess? Perfection.

8/28: Peter O'Toole
10 AM - The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)

8/29: Henry Fonda
1:45 AM - The Lady Eve (1941)

8/30: Thelma Todd
8 PM - Monkey Business (1931)

8/31: Clint Eastwood
2 AM - Escape from Alcatraz (1979)