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One of the lesser-known Rutger Hauer films, 1984's A BREED APART will be shown on THIS TV on Monday, September 9 at 3 AM ET. The film has a distinguished cast that includes Powers Boothe, Kathleen Turner, and Donald Pleasence, and concerns a conservationist and a widow who hire a mountain climber to steal bald-eagle eggs. (That description alone is probably sufficient to explain the film's lack of appearance on a Region 1 DVD.)
One item of note: Aside from SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, A BREED APART is the only film to have dramatic underscore composed by Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees.
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On Friday, September 13th, at 2 PM ET, THIS TV will show the 1986 Gene Wilder-Gilda Radner comedy HAUNTED HONEYMOON. The film was released on DVD back in 2001, but even used copies of that out-of-print disc are going for $40.
HAUNTED HONEYMOON was the fourth and last feature directed by Gene Wilder, and as with the other three, John Morris was his composer. La-La Land released the score in 2010.
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On Thursday, September 12th, at 7:30 AM, Turner Classic Movies will be showing the William Wellman film THE STAR WITNESS. This 1931 feature, which stars Walter Huston (father of director John Huston), has never been available on any video format.
Wellman directed such noted films as PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) and THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY (1954). Screenwriter (and later producer) Lucien Hubbard received an Academy Award nomination for writing the film, which focuses on the pressures faced by a witness to a crime.
Warner Bros. rushed the film into release in response to a gang shooting in Harlem, in which several children were shot and police were unable to get witnesses to talk. The studio turned over the entire proceeds of the first two performances of the film at New York's Winter Garden Theatre to the families of five children who were victims of gang bullets in New York's Little Italy.
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On Saturday, September 14th, at 8 AM ET, Turner Classic Movies will be showing the 1941 version of Jack London's THE SEA WOLF. This Michael Curtiz-directed film stars Edward G. Robinson as "Wolf Larsen" and has a score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, which was released (along with KING'S ROW) on a 2007 FSM CD.
Warner Bros. originally offered Paul Muni the part of "Wolf Larsen," but he refused to consider it unless either Rafael Sabatini, Sidney Howard, or Eugene O'Neill was assigned as the screenwriter. Subsequently, the film was taken out of development. After the success of the 1940 Warner Bros. film THE SEA HAWK, the studio revived the project planning to re-use the $400,000 sets built for THE SEA HAWK. Famed writer-director Robert Rossen (ALL THE KING'S MEN, THE HUSTLER) wrote the screenplay.
The film received two Oscar nominations: Byron Haskin was nominated for Best Photographic Special Effects and Nathan Levinson was nominated for Best Sound Effects. The film's world premiere was the first to be held on a ship and took place aboard the luxury liner America during a trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco. THE SEA WOLF has never had a DVD release.
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TO ARTHUR GRANT-TCM showed the gold tinted version.
Thank you!...Thanks so much...just saw your post. It's the same on all of the DVDs out there I believe. I think they tried to make it more dramatically significant than it was meant to be in many ways including that golden tint gimmick. Love to have a DVD of the technicolor version. I did a little write up on it if anyone is interested here:
http://thecinemacafe.com/the-cinema-treasure-hunter?category=Top%20Ten%20Treasures
(It's #9)
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On Saturday morning, September 14th, at 9:30 AM ET, Turner Classic Movies will be showing the Fred F. Sears sci-fi film THE NIGHT THE WORLD EXPLODED. This low-budget 1957 effort was made available as a Sony on-demand DVD a few years ago, but this is one of its rare television showings.
The film opens with the following voice-over narration: "Those who lived to tell the tale remember that the day began with fragile, breathtaking beauty. The temperature was cool, air mountain pure...A day unreal enough to serve as the setting for the birth of the world or the death of it."
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Sep 17, 2013 - 2:28 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Today at 6:15 PM ET, Turner Classic Movies will be presenting the 1937 film THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY, starring Joan Crawford. This film is the second of four films adapted from the British play of the same name by Frederick Lonsdale. Lonsdale's play, which had a very successful run in London and in New York, where it opened on 9 November 1925, was previously adapted for the screen in 1929 by Sidney Franklin for M-G-M, starring Norma Shearer and Basil Rathbone. Later versions of the story included a 1951 M-G-M picture entitled THE LAW AND THE LADY, directed by Edwin H. Knopf, with Greer Garson and Michael Wilding, and a 1961 German film entitled FRAU CHEYNEY'S ENDE.
Director Richard Boleslawski died at age 47 of a heart attack on 17 January 1937, prior to the completion of the film. George Fitzmaurice was given the assignment to finish the remaining days of shooting after a temporary halt in production, however, Fitzmaurice became ill and Dorothy Arzner was then given the assignment to finish the picture. The extent of Fitzmaurice or Arzner's work that is included in the released film is not known. Dr. William Axt, who scored the film, wrote more than 70 film scores, perhaps the most famous being for King Vidor's 1925 silent epic THE BIG PARADE. Little of his music has ever appeared on record.
A drawing room drama that involves confidence men and jewel thieves, THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY has never been on DVD.
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Without going through 32 pages of responses, let me add 2 that may or may not have already been cited:
Something For Everyone
Sheila Levine Is Dead And Living In New York
and maybe the American release of "The Big Blue" with Bill Conti's glorious music and NOT Eric Serra's!!!!
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i saw this recently. Mcgoohan was excellent, and baker his usual solid self.
supporting cast was a whos who of british 50s film.
fast paced, believable truck driving footage.
Good shout Bob.
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