Tonight sees the third night of the Powell and Pressburger programming salute, and that brings several movies I have to record. First up, at 11:30 PM, is Hour of Glory, aka, The Small Back Room a movie about the men in Britain defusing World War II-era bombs that never went off. I saw this one on a previous TCM showing many years ago, having briefly mentioned it in a post at the end of 2017. However, not having done a full-length post on it, I'm planning to record it again. I'm pretty certain I haven't seen the last two movies of the night: Tales of Hoffman at 1:30 AM and The Lion Has Wings at 4:00 AM.
It's only earlier this year that I did a post on Rome Adventure, which introduced Suzanne Pleshette to the world. The story isn't the greatest, but there's some nice Italian scenery. The movie shows up on TCM at 11:45 AM on Friday, Nov. 22.
As for the final movie I want to mention coming up TCM, it's a short that's airing as part of the Saturday matinee block: Hot News Margie, which I first mentioned in 2013. It's a short about a lady reporter trying to get a story, which isn't much since it's a just a one-reeler. But it has a very surprising for the early 1930s punchline. It comes up in the 8:00 AM half hour on Nov. 23.
Thankfully, as of this writing, nobody has died to merit mention in a briefs post, and certainly not a post of their own. Why do I always get the feeling that that's going to change once I post something like this?
No comments:
Post a Comment