I meant to post this morning, but didn't get around to it. I notice that tonight's lineup on TCM is dedicated to some of the earlier days at Universal Studios. In and of itself, that's not a huge deal, although TCM doesn't normally get the rights to run what Universal has in its catalogue from the days before Universal-International. The real reason I wanted to mention it is that there's a new-to-TCM documentary on studio boss Carl Laemmle kicking off the night at 8:00 PM. And as is often the case with a new documentary, it gets a second airing later in the evening for the benefit of the folks out on the west coast. That airing comes 1:45 AM. I haven't seen the documentary, so I can't comment on it futher.
Around the two airings of the documentary are a couple of Universal tent-poles:
The Bela Lugosi version of Dracula at 9:45 PM;
Early Best Picture Oscar-winner All Quiet on the Western Front at 11:15 PM;
The re-release (I presume that's the only version out there) version of The Phanton of the Opera at 3:30 AM; and
the Boris Karloff classic Frankenstein at 5:00 AM.
It would be nice to get more of the lesser-seen pictures from Universal, but as always, it takes two to make a deal.
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