TCM Schedule for Monday December 20 - Guest Programmer: Eli Wallach

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Still going strong at age 95 (!), the one and only Eli Wallach joins Robert Osborne for an evening of favorite films.

(all times Eastern)

5:18 AM Short Film: Home Movies (1940) BW-7 mins,

6:45 AM Hole in the Head, A (1959)
A single father's bohemian lifestyle could cost him custody of his son. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker. Dir: Frank Capra. C-120 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

8:46 AM Short Film: House I Live In, The (1945)
Singer Frank Sinatra explains the importance of racial tolerance to a group of tough kids. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Teddy Infuhr, Merrill Rodin. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-10 mins, TV-G

9:00 AM Foul Play (1978)
An innocent woman stumbles onto a plot to murder the pope. Cast: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore. Dir: Colin Higgins. C-116 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 AM Shot In The Dark, A (1964)
Inspector Clouseau tries to clear a beautiful woman accused of shooting her husband. Cast: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders. Dir: Blake Edwards. C-102 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

1:00 PM It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
A group of greedy clowns tears up the countryside in search of buried treasure. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar. Dir: Stanley Kramer. C-159 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

3:53 PM Short Film: Mighty Manhattan, New York'S Wonder City (1949)
This Fitzpatrick travel short visits Manhattan, exploring its history, culture, architecture, and people. The short also pays special visits to come of Manhattan's more famous neighborhoods and landmarks. Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick C-20 mins,

4:15 PM Out-of-Towners, The (1969)
A man's New York job interview turns into a non-stop nightmare. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Anne Meara. Dir: Arthur Hiller. C-97 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

6:00 PM Odd Couple, The (1968)
A divorced neat freak moves in with his sloppy best friend. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Herb Edelman. Dir: Gene Saks. C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 PM Baby Doll (1956)
A child bride holds her husband at bay while flirting with a sexy Italian farmer. Cast: Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach. Dir: Elia Kazan. BW-115 mins, TV-14, CC

10:00 PM Shop Around The Corner, The (1940)
Feuding co-workers don't realize they're secret romantic pen pals. Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan. Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. BW-99 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

11:45 PM Great Dictator, The (1940)
A Jewish barber takes the place of a war-hungry dictator. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie. Dir: Charles Chaplin. BW-125 mins, TV-PG, CC

2:00 AM 8 1/2 (1963)
A world-famous film director juggles his romantic relationships while trying to come up with an idea for his next picture. Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee. Dir: Federico Fellini. BW-138 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

4:30 AM Alex In Wonderland (1970)
A hot young film director can't decide on his next project. Cast: Donald Sutherland, Ellen Burstyn, Jeanne Moreau. Dir: Paul Mazursky. C-112 mins, TV-MA

[CBHagman]

1. Profile of guest programmer Eli Wallach.

From the TCM site:

http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=353600

In 1967, Wallach traveled to Italy to film the third in a trilogy of operatically violent Westerns for director Sergio Leone; his performance as Tuco in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" was arguably his best turn on screen; one that allowed him to work with his full and formidable acting palette. Over the course of Leone's three-hours-plus masterpiece, we were shown all sides of Tuco - from the duplicitous creep who would abandon his own partner in crime (Clint Eastwood) in the middle of the blazing desert, to the loyal friend who rescues Eastwood from the same fate, to the wronged brother who lashes out against his sanctimonious priest brother, to the sympathetic victim of a cruel sadist (Lee Van Cleef) who will go to any length to discover a cache of hidden gold. Wallach tackled each of these emotions with a vigor and humor that was positively riveting in every scene. His performance was a key element in the film's worldwide success.

Despite being nearly killed on three occasions during the making of the iconic film :wow:(due to faulty and lax production issues), Wallach acknowledged the movie's impact on his career on numerous occasions after its release. He even named his 2005 autobiography The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage and in 2003, he and Eastwood re-dubbed 18 minutes of footage that had been excised from the film before its 1967 release in America.

His choice of movies:

Featured Films

Baby Doll

The Shop Around The Corner

The Great Dictator

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A few years back Peter Riegert directed a movie, King of the Corner, in which Wallach played his father. While promoting the movie Riegert told a funny story about a formality that the actors had to go through, getting checked out by a physician to prove they were fit to work on the movie. Apparently Eli Wallach is downright indestructible.

[lavenderdiva]

2. indestructible is right!

like a cat with nine lives- :hi:

[Matilda]

3. Saw him recently in "Ghost Writer".

Good film with lots of good peoople.