TCM March Schedule

Post by **silentfilm** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:55 pm

http://www.tcm.com/schedule/month/?cid= ... d=3/1/2010

7 Sunday
12:15 AM Show People (1928)
In this silent film, a small-town girl tries to make it in Hollywood. Cast: Marion Davies, William Haines, Polly Moran. Dir: King Vidor. BW-79 mins, TV-G

8 Monday
9:45 PM Jazz Singer, The (1927)
A cantor's son breaks with family tradition to go into show business. Cast: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland. Dir: Alan Crosland. BW-89 mins, TV-G, DVS

14 Sunday
12:00 AM Magician, The (1926)
A devil worshiper tries to seduce a young innocent. Cast: Paul Wegener, Ivan Petrovitch, Alice Terry. Dir: Rex Ingram. BW-80 mins,

21 Sunday
12:15 AM Our Hospitality (1923)
In this silent film, a man returns home to the old South and gets caught between feuding families. Cast: Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Roberts. Dir: John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton. BW-73 mins, TV-G

28 Sunday
2:00 PM Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star. Cast: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim. Dir: Billy Wilder. BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

12:00 AM Sherlock Jr. (1924)
In this silent film, a movie projectionist dreams himself into a mystery movie. Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane. Dir: Buster Keaton. BW-44 mins, TV-G
1:00 AM Navigator, The (1924)
In this silent film, two members of the idle rich have to move fast when they're stranded on an abandoned luxury liner. Cast: Buster Keaton, Frederick Vroom, Kathryn McGuire. Dir: Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton. BW-60 mins, TV-G

radiotelefonia · Post by **radiotelefonia** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:18 pm

For the non initiated in silents this is a good selection. For others it is between acceptable and good.

... let's hope I can capture Filmoteca tonight since I'm feeling tired again.

Post by **Mike Gebert** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:25 pm

Wait, isn't that the month of 31 days of Oscar, and shouldn't we be panicking that they're not showing any silents?

colbyco82 · Post by **colbyco82** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:41 pm

They appear to have moved 31 days of Oscar to February and the first 3 days of March.

Post by **Mike Gebert** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:56 am

Oh my God I just saw the schedule for February and TCM isn't showing any silents they're turning into AMC start a petition write Ted Turner write Jane Fonda we must prevent this--

oh. Never mind.

Richard P. May · Post by **Richard P. May** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:48 am

With February being 31 days of Oscar, there are hardly any silents to pick from. Sorry to say, some of the few silents in the first year of the awards are lost.
Write Ted and Jane? I presume you are being humorous?
Neither of them (especially Jane) have anything to do with TCM any more.

FrankFay · Post by **FrankFay** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:49 am

Richard P. May wrote:With February being 31 days of Oscar, there are hardly any silents to pick from. Sorry to say, some of the few silents in the first year of the awards are lost.
Write Ted and Jane? I presume you are being humorous?
Neither of them (especially Jane) have anything to do with TCM any more.

Richard you obviously haven't been through this on here before. When the March TCM schedule came out there was invariably (INVARIABLY) a flood of concerned posts about "What Happened To The Silents On The Schedule?" and we had to explain that every year TCM does a month of Oscar-related programming (Films that either won or were nominated for something)

Don't worry, next year you can sit back and smirk at the newcomers.

Post by **Mike Gebert** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:27 am

Yeah, it was pretty much an alt.movies.silent injoke, even (not sure if it ever actually happened here). Although oddly TCM doesn't seem to show the few Oscar silents they do have very much (one year, I remember The Racket and Two Arabian Knights were shown a couple of weeks after, when they would have been perfect 31 Days of Oscar material).

radiotelefonia · Post by **radiotelefonia** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:24 pm

I happily no longer care for the Oscars nor the waste of time that the show is.

Post by **Christopher Jacobs** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:50 pm

Well at least they're showing THE RACKET and THE CROWD during their February Oscar month this time, and in reasonably prime time for a change.

However, I've always wondered why they don't program more of the silent Oscar nominees in their library specifically during that month, leaving the rest of the year for new discoveries on non-Oscar-month Silent Sundays. In the past they've run WINGS, SUNRISE, TWO ARABIAN KNIGHTS, THE CIRCUS, CHANG, THE JAZZ SINGER, and WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOUTH SEAS, but again usually outside of the Oscar month. They could certainly run THE PATENT LEATHER KID, and it would be nice to see SEVENTH HEAVEN or THE LAST COMMAND if they can get them in their leasing packages. There are plenty of Oscar-winning or nominated silents that deserve the extra exposure the Oscar month theme can give them.

--Christopher Jacobs
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