TCM Schedule for Monday March 9 - BOB'S PICKS

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Doctor Kildare is on call in daytime, while Robert Osborne chooses some favorites in prime time, including an early 70's cult classic.

(all times Eastern)



6:00 AM Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
A medical school graduate must choose between a small-town practice and a big-city internship. Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Nat Pendleton. Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC

7:30 AM Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
A young doctor treats a gangster and falls for the man's kid sister. Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lana Turner. Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. BW-87 mins, TV-G

9:00 AM Secret Of Dr. Kildare, The (1939)
A young doctor tries to help a woman suffering from psychosomatic blindness. Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day. Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. BW-85 mins, TV-G

10:30 AM Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)
A young doctor uses pioneering methods to treat a mental patient. Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day. Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. BW-77 mins, TV-G, CC

12:00 PM Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic. Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day. Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. BW-79 mins, TV-G, CC

1:30 PM Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940)
A young doctor's marriage could be called off when the bride's brother is diagnosed with epilepsy. Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Young. Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. BW-75 mins, TV-G, CC

3:00 PM People Vs. Dr. Kildare, The (1941)
An ice skater sues a young doctor for malpractice. Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Bonita Granville. Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC

4:30 PM Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941)
A young doctor's wedding turns into a tragic event. Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Red Skelton. Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. BW-83 mins, TV-G, CC

6:00 PM Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)
A young doctor with a broken heart succumbs to the lure of a socialite. Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Ann Ayars. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. BW-93 mins, TV-G, CC

8:00 PM Lured (1947)
A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend. Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Boris Karloff. Dir: Douglas Sirk. BW-103 mins, TV-G

10:00 PM On Our Merry Way (1948)
An aspiring reporter interviews people about the child that changed their lives. Cast: Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, James Stewart. Dir: Leslie Fenton, King Vidor. BW-98 mins, TV-G

11:45 PM Harold and Maude (1971)
A suicidal young man gets a new lease on life when he falls for an 80-year-old woman. Cast: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles. Dir: Hal Ashby. C-91 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

1:30 AM Man in the Iron Mask, The (1939)
The Three Musketeers rescue the king's unjustly imprisoned twin. Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William. Dir: James Whale. BW-112 mins, TV-G

3:30 AM Three Musketeers, The (1948)
Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France. Cast: Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson. Dir: George Sidney. C-126 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

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1. Harold and Maude--

truly a classic!! I cannot believe that its 38 years since it was made! Man, I must be getting old, it seems just like yesterday that I saw it for the first time. I have always been in love with the story, and especially the sound track. Cat Stevens doing the sound track was brilliant! The story and its actors are such quirky and loveable ones-- Bud Cort as the lead character is wonderful.

here's some Harold & Maude trivia:

http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/5862/harold.htm

snip:
The freeze frame of the Jaguar hearse in midair in the final sequence is the result of an accident. The single camera capturing the action did not start filming until well after the car had careened off the cliff, and since only one hearse had been prepared for the film, it was impossible to reshoot the shot.

The Chasen family mansion is actually the Rose Court Mansion in Hillsborough, California, south of San Francisco. The butler in the film (Henry Dieckoff) was the actual butler of the house -- the original script called for him to drop the lemonade tray after "Sunshine" does her Juliet imitation, but the butler thought it unbutler-like, and so Vivian Pickles had to do it!

Cat Stevens, the composer and performer of the original music for the movie can be seen in one of the funeral scenes. He is the person behind which Maude hides after she tries to get Harold's attention by hissing.

The hitch hiker that Harold and Maude pass on the road (I think when they are saving the tree) is Cat Stevens.

Most people probably don't know this: During the first funeral scene in the church when Harold and Maude first meet, she says: "...at 85 you're just marking time." Then they walk out the church door and the marching band is going by. The leader of the marching band (whatever he/she is called) blows on the whistle 3 or 4 times - that is called "marking time".