TCM: Early SciFi every Tues. night in July ***7/30/19 Movie Blowout***

my 7 year old nephew and I are watch The Day the Earth Stood Still right now.

I love nights like this.

Saw young Leslie Nielsen tonight in Forbidden Planet.

That's so funny because I think of Howard Hawks as a cleancut Carry Grant director.

Tuesday July 16th lineup

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MOON MOVIES ON JULY 16

With the worldwide space race underway amidst geopolitical tension, the moon became a beacon to explorers and creators across nations. See how Hollywood couldn’t resist its gravitational pull before and after the iconic moon landing 50 years ago.

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7PM Destination Moon (1950)

Synopsis: A crusading scientist defies the government to launch an expedition to the moon.

Dir: Irving Pichel
Cast:vJohn Archer , Warner Anderson , Tom Powers

9PM For All Mankind (1989)

Synopsis: Documentary footage traces the progress of the Apollo missions.

Dir: Al Reinert
Cast: Charles Duke , Michael Collins

10:30PM Countdown (1968)

Synopsis: An astronaut takes a one-way voyage to the moon.

Dir: Robert Altman
Cast: James Caan , Joanna Moore , Robert Duvall


12:30AM From The Earth To The Moon (1958)

Synopsis: Lifelong rivals collaborate on a 19th-century moon rocket.

Dir: Byron Haskin
Cast: Joseph Cotten , George Sanders , Debra Paget


2:30PM First Men in the Moon (1964)

Synopsis: A scientist's experimental space craft puts him in the path of an intergalactic invasion.

Dir: Nathan Juran
Cast: Edward Judd , Lionel Jeffries , Martha Hyer


4:18PM Let'S Sing A Song About The Moonlight (1948)

Synopsis: In this short film, four popular songs about moonlight are presented, such as "Moonlight Bay" and "In the Evening by the Moonlight."

Vitaphone Release 1597A.
Dir: Jack Scholl
Cast: Pat McKee

Soundtrack Credits

By the Light of the Silvery Moon
(uncredited)
Music by Gus Edwards
Lyrics by Edward Madden
Sung by The Melody Makers

Moonlight Bay
(uncredited)
Music by Percy Wenrich
Lyrics by Edward Madden
Sung by The Melody Makers

In the Evening by the Moonlight
(uncredited)
Written by James Allen Bland
Sung by The Melody Makers

Shine On, Harvest Moon
(uncredited)
Music by Nora Bayes
Lyrics by Jack Norworth
Sung by Ann Sheridan, then by The Melody Makers

Memories from Memory Lane
(uncredited)
Performed by The Melody Makers at the beginning

4:30PM A Trip to the Moon (1902)

Synopsis:In this silent film, a group of scientists ride to the moon in a cannon shell.

Dir: Georges Méliès
Cast: Georges Méliès , Bleuette Bernon , Victor André

4:46PM Glen Gray And The Casa Loma Orchestra (1941)

Synopsis: In this musical short film, Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra play such popular tunes as "Purple Moonlight" and "Broom Street."

Vitaphone Release 479A.
Dir: Jean Negulesco


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Countdown, from 1968, is the only one I remember seeing. I know I've seen it, but don't remember anything about it, except for Cann in the space suit. This Roger Ebert review makes me think I may have only seen part of it and quit watching.

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July 1, 1977

Some great directors are born; others are made. If we can Judge by Robert Altman's “Countdown,” which plays Friday as part of the Altman festival at the Biograph, he belongs in the second category. It's a movie that's fitfully interesting, often boring, and gives no hint at all of such riches to come as “MASH,” “Nashville,” and “Three Women."

It's the story of a last-minute American attempt to beat the Russians to the moon, and stars such then-unknowns as James Caan, Robert Duvall and Ted Knight (prophetically playing a self-important public relations spokesman for the U.S. space program). The story, such as it is, revolves around the bitterness of Duvall, a trained military pilot, when Caan, a civilian geologist, is picked to man the mission.

But the film seems oddly unfocused, and the first hour is given over to barren stretches of flat, everyday dialog. There's no tension, no real conflict, no humor, no suspense. “Countdown” doesn't feel like a space adventure, but like an oddly low-keyed exercise in corporate infighting. ...

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Wikipedia makes it sound like Warner Bros wouldn't let him do his, "Actors talking over each other" thing.

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Production

Countdown benefited from the cooperation of NASA, lending facilities to enhance the production.[1] Altman was fired as director of the film[citation needed] for delivering footage that featured actors talking over each other. While this went on to be a signature invention of Altman, it was so new that studio executives considered it incompetence rather than an attempt to make scenes more realistic. In the documentary "Altman," the director explains that he was "just trying to get the illusion of reality" but that he was fired for "overlapping dialogue."

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The silent, French movie coming on at 4:30AM CDT, A Trip to the Moon, might be worth DVR'ing.

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At a meeting of the Astronomy Club, its president, Professor Barbenfouillis,[b][c] proposes an expedition to the Moon. After addressing some dissent, five other brave astronomers—Nostradamus,[d] Alcofrisbas,[e] Omega, Micromegas,[f] and Parafaragaramus—agree to the plan. They build a space capsule in the shape of a bullet, and a huge cannon to shoot it into space. The astronomers embark and their capsule is fired from the cannon with the help of "marines", most of whom are played by a bevy of young women in sailors' outfits. The Man in the Moon watches the capsule as it approaches, and it hits him in the eye. ...

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Wikipedia-A Trip to the Moon


The movies on Tuesday July 23rd should be more interesting.

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CREATURE FEATURES ON JULY 17

The world around us is filled with unknowns that have piqued man’s imagination for centuries. Don’t miss this daytime of programming centered around some of sci-fi’s most iconic creatures on film.

The Time Machine (1960)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Five Million Years To Earth (1968)
Marooned (1969)
Twelve to the Moon (1960)

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TCM July Schedule

7:00PM The Time Machine (1960)

Synopsis: A turn-of-the-century inventor sends himself into the future to save humanity.

Dir: George Pal

Writers: David Duncan (screenplay), H.G. Wells (novel)

Cast: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore, Whit Bissell, Doris Lloyd.

9:00PM 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Synopsis: Classic sci-fi epic about a mysterious monolith that seems to play a key role in human evolution.

Dir: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Arthur C. Clarke (screenplay)

Cast: Keir Dullea , Gary Lockwood , William Sylvester.

11:45PM Five Million Years To Earth (1968)

Synopsis: Subway excavations unearth a deadly force from beyond space and time.

Dir: Roy Ward Baker

Writers: Nigel Kneale (original story), Nigel Kneale (screenplay)

Cast: James Donald , Andrew Keir , Barbara Shelley

1:45AM Marooned (1969)

Synopsis: Three U.S. astronauts face a slow death when their rockets fail during a space voyage.

Dir: John Sturges

Writers: Mayo Simon (screenplay), Martin Caidin (novel)

Cast: Gregory Peck , Richard Crenna , David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant, Nancy Kovack, Mariette Hartley.


4:00AM Twelve to the Moon (1960)

Synopsis: An international team embarks on an expedition to the moon in an uncommonly spacious rocketship. There they encounter a faceless alien intelligence who conclude that the human race is too immature and dangerous and must be destroyed.

Dir: David Bradley

Writers: Fred Gebhardt (story), DeWitt Bodeen (screenplay) (as De Witt Bodeen)

Cast: Ken Clark , Michi Kobi , Tom Conway


Info stolen from TCM, and IMDb. Pics from who knows where.

TCM Full schedule

7/30/2019 Listings



7:00PM Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Synopsis: A blue-collar worker's encounter with a UFO leaves him a changed man.

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss , François Truffaut , Terry Garr



9:30PM Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)

Synopsis: Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.

Director: George Lucas

Writer: George Lucas

Cast: Harrison Ford , Carrie Fisher , Mark Hamill




11:45PM Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Synopsis: Captain Kirk leads his crew against an old enemy in the fight to control a world-shattering weapon.

Dir: Nicholas Meyer

Writers: Gene Roddenberry (based on "Star Trek" created by), Harve Bennett (story), Jack B. Soward (story), Jack B. Sowards (screenplay)

Cast: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley

1:44AM Look Into The 23rd Century, A (1976)

Synopsis: This promotional short gives a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the science fiction classic "Logan's Run" (1976).

Dir: Ronald Saland




2:00AM Solaris (1972)

Synopsis: An alien intelligence infiltrates a space mission.

Dir: Andrey Tarkovskiy

Writers: Stanislaw Lem (novel) (as Stanislav Lem), Fridrikh Gorenshteyn (screenplay) (as F. Gorenshteyn)

Cast: Donatas Banionis , Natalia Bondarchuk , N. Grinko]



5:00AM Logan's Run (1975)

Synopsis:A future police officer uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.

Dir: Michael Anderson

Writers: David Zelag Goodman (screenplay by), William F. Nolan (based on the novel "Logan's Run")

Cast: Michael York , Richard Jordan , Jenny Agutter



7:15AM Westworld (1973)

Synopsis: A future fantasy park turns deadly when robot workers go on a killing spree.

Director: Michael Crichton

Writer: Michael Crichton

Cast: Richard Benjamin , Yul Brynner , James Brolin

6:54AM 2010 The Odyssey Continues (1984)

Synopsis: This promotional short for "2010" (1984) shows moviegoers how some of the film's visual effects were created.

Dir: Les Mayfield



9:15AM 2010 (1984)

Synopsis: In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a U.S.-Soviet crew investigates a mysterious monolith orbiting Jupiter.

Director: Peter Hyams

Writers: Arthur C. Clarke (novel), Peter Hyams (screenplay)

Stars: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren

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6:54AM 2010 The Odyssey Continues (1984)
Synopsis: This promotional short for "2010" (1984) shows moviegoers how some of the film's visual effects were created.

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DVRing this for sure.

Love 2010. Perfectly cast. Just wish they'd had time to get into all of the relationships, and the race with the Chinese to the obelisk.

They didn't need to add the schmaltzy world-peace message at the end, but I love the movie.

Is Logan's Run supposed to be good? Or is it supposed to be campy good? Or is it just incredibly bad in retrospect? The whole scene with Box is laughably bad including the hamhanded way they got Jessica naked.

I watched Logan's Run on netflix a few weeks ago. It was pretty good. I couldn't get over Basil Exposition being the lead though.