Briefs for August 8-9, 2016

Among the movies I watched over the weekend, only one of them, Running on Empty, seems to be in print on DVD, so I'll probably be getting to a full-length post on the movie sometime later this week.

A movie showing up again on FXM Retro after an absence is Beloved Infidel, which for some reason I thought I had done a full-length post on. You can catch it tomorrow at 3:30 AM and 12:55 PM. The movie is a fictionalization of the romance between writer F. Scott Fitzgerald when he was doing movie screenplays, and Hollywood gossip columnist Sheilah Graham.

Tomorrow on TCM, there's going to be a full day of Tim Holt movies as part of Summer Under the Stars. I remember him from Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but TCM is spending all morning and afternoon with the B westerns that made up the bulk of Holt's career, and about which I have to admit not knowing all that much.

Last week when I blogged about Fay Wray's day, I mentioned a bus-themed movie that I was convinced wasn't the same one that TCM was showing. It turns out the movie I was thinking of is one called Busses Roar, which was indeed made over at Warner Bros. and deals with a bus line that gets involved in foiling some sabotage in the early days of World War II. Busses Roar has a supporting role from a very young Eleanor Parker at the beginning of her career. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be available on DVD, and it's the sort of movie that TCM shows very infrequently.