I mentioned at the beginning of the month in regards to Robert Mitchum being the Star of the Month on TCM that there was an open slot on the last night of the spotlight and wondering which of his movies would be in it. Also, at the time, I was surprised that I didn't see the movie The Friends of Eddie Coyle in the lineup. I may not have been paying close enough attention, as it looks like there were two empty spots, and The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which will be on at midnight tonight (so late in the evening of Jan. 30 in the west, and technically the beginning of Jan. 31 in the Eastern Time Zone). The other movie is one I'm not certain I've heard of before, The Grass is Greener, an all-star comedy with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr as well. Considering how Cary Grant has been Star of the Month multiple times, you'd think a movie like this might have shown up before, but it's a British movie, which might explain why it hasn't shown up much and why there'd be a blank spot in the TCM schedule if they were trying to get the rights to this.
The full lineup for tonight into tomorrow afternoon includes eight of Mitchum's movies from the 1960s and 1970s:
8:00 PM The Grass Is Greener, with Mitchum coming between Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr;
10:00 PM Cape Fear (1962), with Mitchum at his most villainous terrorizing Gregory Peck and his family;
12:00 AM The Friends of Eddie Coyle, in which Mitchum plays an aging gangster;
2:00 AM Farewell, My Lovely, another version of the Philip Marlowe detective story;
3:45 AM Ryan's Daughter, a movie about the Irish Revolution that I had on my old DVR but never got around to watching before the big move;
7:15 AM The Yakuza, with Mitchum in Japan dealing with the Japanese Mob;
9:15 AM Going Home sees Mitchum come home from prison to an estranged son; and
11:00 AM The Wrath of God has Mitchum south of the border in one of those "westerns" set in the early 20th century.
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