Tonight on TCM: Night of the Hunter, A Face in the Crowd, Westworld, 2001: A Space Odyssey

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A Face in the Crowd - 12:45am C

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That movie is quite strange.

It's a little strange. Ahead of its time. Plot elements similar to All the King's Men, with kind of Coen-esque techniques.

Captures a lot of important mid-century themes from urbanization to the growing power of mass media and populist appeals.

The tagline of "A Face in the Crowd" according to IMDb:

"POWER! He loved it! He took it raw in big gulpfuls...he liked the taste, the way it mixed with the bourbon and the sin in his blood!"


That...that just might be the single greatest tagline in the history of cinema.

It's Griffith's beat acting performance ever... By a mile. Dude should've gotten an Oscar nomination. He was a Legitimately terrifying figure by the end of the movie after he had been corrupted and wrangled by media attention and power.

Without A Face In The Crowd, Network does not exist. It set the template.

Everyone should see the film.

TCM's schedule is loaded this week.

Double Indemnity come on tonight

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Westworld

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I still haven't seen this but the Simpsons parody used to scare me as a kid.

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Rustler's Rhapsody is a favorite from my childhood and nobody ever knows what I'm talking about when I bring it up, awesome movie.

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I quite enjoyed it. Definitely on the list of "How come I'd never heard of it before?" when my father-in-law insisted we watch it with him. I wonder if part of the problem is that, like "Young Frankenstein", it becomes exponentially funnier if you're familiar with the source material it's parodying? Both are funny in their own right, but both are chock-full of jokes that reference some very specific moments in older films. Westerns and Western tropes aren't as familiar to people nowadays as they would have been in the '80s.