TCM Schedule for Tuesday, April 29th: Director Fred Zinnemann

[CBHagman]

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

We've got fighting men, dancing ladies, and a birthday salute to the versatile director Fred Zinnemann. The pleasure is ours on TCM this day.



12:00 AM Dancing Lady (1933) A musical star is torn between a millionaire playboy and her stage manager. Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-92 mins, TV-G, CC

1:36 AM Short Film: Let'S Dance (1936) BW-8 mins,

1:50 AM Short Film: Dancing On The Ceiling (1937) BW-9 mins,

2:00 AM Private Screenings: Ann Miller (1997) The screen's fastest-tapping lady dancer shares memories of her career. Hosted by Robert Osborne. Cast: Robert Osborne C-48 mins, TV-G, CC



3:00 AM That's Dancing! (1985) Gene Kelly, Liza Minnelli and Mikhail Baryshnikov host this compilation of some of the greatest dance numbers in movie history. Dir: Jack Haley, Jr. BW-105 mins, TV-G, CC

4:46 AM Short Film: Cavalcade Of Dance (1943) BW-11 mins,

5:00 AM Private Screenings: Leslie Caron (1999) Robert Osborne hosts this TCM original series featuring an intimate interview with the exquisite actress Leslie Caron. C-47 mins, TV-G, CC



6:00 AM It's Showtime (1976) Film clips trace the careers of the screen's most popular animal actors. Cast: Asta, Rin Tin Tin, Trigger. Dir: Alan Myerson. BW-86 mins, TV-G

7:30 AM Seventh Cross, The (1944) Seven men escape from a concentration camp and fight their way to freedom. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC



Spencer Tracy is the star, but it's a good chance to see an early pairing of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, playing (What else?) husband and wife.

9:30 AM Little Mister Jim (1946) After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking. Cast: Jackie "Butch" Jenkins, James Craig, Frances Gifford. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. BW-92 mins, TV-G

11:15 AM Member of the Wedding, The (1952) When her brother marries, a 12-year-old girl faces the awkward pains of adolescence. Cast: Julie Harris, Ethel Waters, Brandon de Wilde. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. BW-89 mins, TV-G, CC



1:00 PM Behold a Pale Horse (1964)A Spanish bandit returns from exile to visit his dying mother. Cast: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. BW-121 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

3:15 PM Man for All Seasons, A (1966) A devout scholar gets caught in the middle of Henry VIII's plans to break with the Catholic Church. Cast: Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller. Dir: Fred Zinnemann.. C-120 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format



Robert Shaw with Paul Scofield

5:17 PM Short Film: Man Who Makes The Difference, The (1968) C-7 mins,

5:30 PM Festival of Shorts #20 (1999) Animals in movies are the focus of these shorts, which include Famous Movie Dogs, Hollywood Scout and The Horse With the Human Mind. BW-27 mins, , CC

6:00 PM Have I the Right to Kill (1963) An army deserter takes on terrorists to rescue a beautiful woman. Cast: Alain Delon, Lea Massari, Maurice Garrel. Dir: Alain Cavalier. BW-102 mins, TV-PG

7:48 PM Short Film: Egypt Speaks (1951)C-8 mins,

8:00 PM Khartoum (1966) Epic story of the British general who fell to the Arabs in 1885. Cast: Charlton Heston, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson. Dir: Basil Dearden. C-136 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

10:15 PM Zulu (1964) Although outnumbered, British soldiers make an heroic stand against revolting Zulu warriors. Cast: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Michael Caine. Dir: Cy Endfield. C-138 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

12:37 AM Short Film: Statue For The Sandpiper, A (1965)BW-4 mins,

1:00 AM Glory (1989) A green officer is assigned to lead an all-black unit in the Civil War. Cast: Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington. Dir: Edward Zwick. C-122 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format



3:15 AM Battle Of Britain, The (1969) England defends itself against the Nazi Blitz. Cast: Sir Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer. Dir: Guy Hamilton. C-132 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

5:28 AM Short Film: Lionpower From Mgm (1967) C-27 mins,

[lavenderdiva]

1. those are great pictures with your post today, CBH!

thank you for sharing them with us!! :hi:

[Matilda]

2. Zinneman is such a well-known name,

but I was surprised to find that the only one of those films I've seen is "A Man For All Seasons".
My filmic education is lacking.

I'm not watching anything much at the moment, because we've had problems with Foxtel for over a
month. At first, one group of the channels was going pixilated and freezing, now we can't get
anything at all but free to air. We've had a technician down three times, and it all works for a
day, then starts playing up again. Now we can't even get the maintenance department on the phone -
just a recorded voice directing you to their website, which tells you to send an email about your
problem. Like they're going to reply. I guess the wild weather we've been having here has put so
many connections out of action, they've just given up and gone to ground, but it's so annoying -
I'm paying $100 a month for nothing. I'd suspend the account, but because we've in a bit of a
valley, we can only get free-to-air through the cable, so I have to keep it going. So Mr Murdoch
gets my money, and I get channels that shouldn't cost anything.

The only positive is that I'm catching up on a lot of reading.

[CBHagman]

3. Murdoch's evil spreads far and wide.

I'm sorry for your troubles! Unfortunately, the creature is multinational, and you are not safe from his tentacle-like reach even on other continents.

Getting to a pleasanter topic, Fred Zinnemann, what I love about him, aside from the fact that he was part of that immigrant crowd that so enriched American filmmaking, is that he didn't focus on one genre. Look at his credits and prepare for your jaw to drop:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003593/

That said, I haven't by any stretch of the imagination seen most of his movies. I only saw The Seventh Cross when I stumbled on it in a local video store (an independent one, by the way). Naturally Oklahoma!, From Here to Eternity, and A Man for All Seasons are acknowledged classics and turn up on TV often enough.

[Matilda]

4. I didn't know he was the director on "Oklahoma!" either.

I first saw it as a teen, and I think I've only watched it once on television. It's just not my
favourite musical (although I do have a CD of Nelson Eddy doing the full production - his voice was
perfectly suited to it. In fact, he was the first to record it after the Broadway opening).

I don't know any of his early films, including "The Seventh Cross". The first one I recognised was
"High Noon" I think it's probably the only Western that I like. "Julia" I thought was a superb
film, I liked the cast and it was very well made.