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Some I can watch live, others will be DVR material. Feb looks to be a good month and I thought some may appreciate a heads up.

Eric

TCM
Schedule February 2009
All Times Central

6 Friday
1:00 PM Only Angels Have Wings (1939) A team of flyers risks their lives to deliver the mail in a mountainous South American country. Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth. Dir: Howard Hawks. BW-121 mins, TV-PG, CC
3:15 PM Flying Tigers (1942) American flyers help the Chinese fight off Japanese invaders. Cast: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee. Dir: David Miller. BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC
5:00 PM Strategic Air Command (1955) A baseball star takes to the air to help plan the U.S.' aerial defense. Cast: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy. Dir: Anthony Mann. C-114 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
8:45 PM Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1963) A mad United States General orders an air strike against Russia. Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn. Dir: Stanley Kubrick. BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


7 Saturday
3:00 PM Lawrence of Arabia (1962) A British military officer enlists the Arabs for desert warfare in World War I. Cast: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness. Dir: David Lean. C-227 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
8:45 PM Sahara (1943) An international platoon fights off Nazis in World War II Africa. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges. Dir: Zoltan Korda. BW-98 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:30 PM Great Escape, The (1963) Thrown together by the Germans, a group of captive Allied troublemakers plot a daring escape. Cast: James Garner, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough. Dir: John Sturges. C-172 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
1:30 AM Das Boot (1981) The crew of a World War II German U boat finds boredom is its greatest enemy. Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann. Dir: Wolfgang Petersen. C-151 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format

12 Thursday
2:00 PM Dam Busters, The (1955) British flyers try to cripple the Nazis by taking out their dams. Cast: Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Charles Carson. Dir: Michael Anderson. BW-125 mins, , CC
4:15 PM Guns of Navarone, The (1961) A team of Allied saboteurs fight their way behind enemy lines to destroy a pair of Nazi guns. Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn. Dir: J. Lee-Thompson. C-157 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

13 Friday
4:45 PM Guy Named Joe, A (1943) A downed World War II pilot becomes the guardian angel for his successor in love and war. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson. Dir: Victor Fleming. BW-120 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

20 Friday
11:45 AM Above And Beyond (1952) The pilot who helped drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima struggles with the demands of the dangerous mission. Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore. Dir: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama. BW-122 mins, TV-PG, CC
4:30 PM Sergeant York (1941) True story of the farm boy who made the transition from religious pacifist to World War I hero. Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Margaret Wycherly. Dir: Howard Hawks. BW-134 mins, TV-G, CC,

21 Saturday
7:00 AM Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) General Jimmy Doolittle trains American troops for the first airborne attacks on Japan. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-138 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
7:00 PM From Here To Eternity (1953) Enlisted men in Hawaii fight for love and honor on the eve of World War II. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. BW-118 mins, TV-PG, CC
9:15 PM They Were Expendable (1945) A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II. Cast: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed. Dir: John Ford. BW-135 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
11:45 PM Destination Tokyo (1943) A U.S. sub braves enemy waters during World War II. Cast: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale. Dir: Delmer Daves. BW-135 mins, TV-PG, CC
2:15 AM Torpedo Run (1958) A submarine commander is forced to blow up a Japanese prison ship carrying his family. Cast: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Dean Jones. Dir: Joseph Pevney. C-95 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
4:00 AM Bombardier (1943) Military officers compete for the same woman while training pilots for war. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley. Dir: Richard Wallace. BW-99 mins, TV-G

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Thanks for the schedule!

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Ditto! Super viewing.

Rich

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THANK YOU!

This one:

4:00 AM Bombardier (1943) Military officers compete for the same woman while training pilots for war. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley. Dir: Richard Wallace. BW-99 mins, TV-G

I have not seen in 30 years. I believe it was in color with a lot of B-18 action?

Pete

Have they ever made this on DVD

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At the end didnt they have B-17's take off under some type of net that crossed above the runway? If not what movie am I thinking of? I know it had lots of good B-17 action. I am thinking Pacific.

You might be right Nathan. Actually this one is in B/W. I was thinking of the movie Thunder Birds from 1942 which was in technicolor. Same worn out premise of a love triangle set in a state side training airfield, although in Primary trainers. I caught it on Fox Movie Channel last month. Nice Stearman, AT-6 action. Awesome formations!

Someone on You Tube spliced all the best footage together:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsUAovKzWSg

Pete

Alot of that movie was shot at Falcon Field, in Mesa Az, the 2 large hangars are still there and used to house the Champlin Fighter Museum.

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Bombardier is kind of a guilty pleasure for me - sometimes it seems like a self-parody with a lot of comic relief and "WTF?" moments (like the flyer captured by the Japanese who is carried in on a stretcher labeled "Donated by American Red Cross for Earthquake Relief Year 1923"). The B-17s don't show up until the later part of the film, staging a raid on Nagoya from an enigmatic "Island Base" (with a B-17's range, Saipan or Guam?!?). That's where you may remember the "canopy" over the runway, which as I recall was a matte shot; but before that, there's good footage of AT-11s, B-18As and a quick shot of B-23 s/n 39-34. It's the kind of movie that sells a LOT of popcorn!

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I think the canopy shot was an out take from Air Force, 1943.

Thanks for the heads up.

Just a bump but really good stuff on today!

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Whoops sorry for the double thread, I did a search but I guess my eyes failed me.

No worries when you are doing a world class Boy Scout good deed of the day!

By the way I posted to your thread that there is indeed a DVD available. I recorded the movie with my trusty DVD burner but have this on ,y "dad would sure love it" list for my wife and kids.

Eric

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