a huge roundup of full-month previews and picks! Learn about the month ahead here…
Spencer Tracy is TCM’s star of the month, with 52 showings (his films plus documentaries) there are some great documentaries to embiggen your brain on the subjects of Cinerama, political movies and A History of Disability in Film, and naturally there will be various & sundry spooks and horrors. In lieu of the lost joy of perusing and marking up a print TV guide, here now is your roundup of select bloggers’ looks at OCTOBER:
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear goes into much more detail breaking down each theme of the month, hilites Walter Matthau’s birthday, great character actor James Gleason, OCT 21 is Fleischer Studios & UPA animation day, Harryhausen on the 28th
Immortal Ephemera the usual richly illustrated post wherein Cliff has a two faced classic as his pick of the month, plus THE LETTER 1929 version, OCT 11 Lew Landers RKO B-movie heaven, OCT 18 Miriam Hopkins day
Laura’s Misc Musings for TCM, for FOX MC ( & her previous quick looks posts) – she likes PARTY GIRL, as do I, the UNINVITED with Ray Milland is a must-see. Haven’t seen SHADOW OF A WOMAN, looking forward to that
Journeys in Classic Film includes another vote for THE UNINVITED, & the William Castle documentary in her hilites (which is where I got the lead Castle pic up there)
Hollywood Revue director Robert Aldrich on the 11th, Jackie Coogan on the 26th, the 24th is LITERALLY a great movie day
celluloid club does weekly TCM alert posts
caftan woman picks you a good one for OCT
this post will be updated as more bloggers make their picks, and pinned all month to the sidebar so check back all month, and stay tuned for my own picks as they get closer, via my new “Must See” posts.
Great wrap-up of the month to come on TCM. I’m a huge Spencer Tracy fan (though I really dislike Kate Hepburn). Tracy’s earlier work is absolutely wonderful and riveting. Should be an excellent opportunity to see some of his films for the first time and a chance to see some of his best again.
thanks for reading, yes lots of great Tracy movies on! and just checked out your blog! glad to add a new one to the “collection”! (agree on CURSE OF THE DEMON btw)
I love this phrase: “embiggen your brain”.
And there you go, your brain is duly embiggened, :) thanks