Strike up the band

TCM is listing tonight's prime time lineup under the theme "Henry Koster Musicals". All of the movies were directed by Koster, and they all have a reasonable amount of music, but I don't know that I'd call half of them musicals. The night kicks off at 8:00 PM with Stars and Stripes Forever, which is a biopic of composer John Philip Sousa. Happily, TCM's site lists it as now being available on DVD. Immediately following, a little after 9:30 PM, is a short of the Marine Corps Band that Warner Bros. made back in 1942.

TCM lists One Hundred Men and a Girl, airing at 11:30 PM, as not being available for purchase. It's gotten a DVD release, but apparently only overseas. (Specifically, Region 2, which is Europe, Japan, and South Africa.)

The third non-musical is another biopic, The Singing Nun, at 3:00 AM. Once again, there's certainly music, but it's a biopic of her time as a nun. As I mentioned back in January 2009, what happened afterwards isn't pretty. The Singing Nun is on DVD here in North America.