Tonight is the night where most of us in the US move our clocks one hour forward. The big thing if you will in terms of a movie blog like this is that it means our favorite channel TCM has a prime time lineup which needs to be one hour shorter than normal, even for the people in Arizona who don't move their clocks ahead.
My reading of tonight's TCM lineup is that TCM does have a set of movies that fit the nine hours between 8:00 PM and 6:00 AM, but, there's still an issue with the timing:
8:00 PM The Flight of the Phoenix (142 min), in which James Stewart and others try to fix their plane stranded in the Sahara;
10:30 PM the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty (185 min), starring Marlon Brando as Fletcher Christian;
1:45 AM the 1936 version of The Last of the Mohicans (91 minutes); and
3:30 AM The Flame and the Arrow (88 min), a medieval Robin Hood-type story, and not the "Roman Rebels fight against barbarians" plot the TCM synopsis gives.
Now, there are several problems on the TCM page. Unfortunately, they switched their schedule some time back to not giving the actual running time of each movie, but the length of the time slot. And somehow the TCM schedule page still lists The Last of the Mohicans as "2 HRS" even though it's clearly in a shorter time slot. Worse, the TCM page does say "1:45 AM EST" and "3:30 AM EDT", when the latter would clearly be 4:30 AM. For some reason, the TCM schedule page still lists the 1951 The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story as coming on at 5:00 AM, which it seems to me is pretty clearly the movie that's not going to be shown tonight.
One other thing that might be an issue for some is the box guides. The last time I checked, the YouTube TV guide lists The Last of the Mohicans as running from 1:45 AM to 3:30 AM and The Flame and the Arrow as running from 3:30 AM to 6:00 AM. In a grid view, this means that The Last of the Mohicans is currently in a 45-minute slot.
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