What to Catch on TCM This Week - September 2 - September 8, 2018

I love TCM because I can turn it on and find something that I never thought to look at or something that I've looked at before, but I can take another look and find something new about a film that I never saw before or find something out about life from a film. What I really love about TCM though is finding film that's obscure or something that a film that I forgot about. Like this week there are a few that I did forget about like The Brothers Karamazov, I forgot that William Shatner and Yul Brynner were in a film together, how I forgot something like that is beyond me.

The Brothers Karamazov - Three brothers fight over their father's estate as they gather so that the father can name his heir. Yul Brynner gives an amazing performance as Dmitri Karamazov, the eldest son who breaks off an engagement and fights with his father over the woman that he wants to marry. Very young William Shatner is also in this film as the youngest brother, Alexei. Sunday morning, September 2nd, 10:00 A.M. MST.

Monkey Business - Absent minded scientist, Dr.Barnaby Fulton, has been trying to create a youth serum for his company Oxly. Turns out it's so easy a monkey can do it, and in fact it does! See the fun that ensues in this comedy starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe and Charles Coburn. It's just a cute and fun comedy, Sunday evening, September 2nd, 6:00 P.M. MST.

Hiroshima, Mon Amore - During conversations while ending their brief affair Her and Him, talk about their failed relationship and the similarity to the bombing of Hiroshima. It's a romantic and plaintively thought provoking film about the tragedy of love. Monday, September 3rd, 12:00 A.M. MST.

The Prince and The Showgirl - Charles, Prince Regent of  Carpathia has fallen for a music hall showgirl named Elsie and finds out that his son is planning to overthrow his reign. Elsie gets the Prince to  show his son genuine love and gets them back together. Marilyn Monroe is wonderful in this movie no matter what the problems were during production they don't show up on film. Monday, September 3rd, 3:15 P.M. MST.

AFI Life Achievement Award : A Tribute to George Clooney - The American Film Institute awards Actor and Humanitarian George Clooney with the Life Achievement Award in film. Clooney, has been in some of the greatest films and directed some of the the best like Good Night, and Good Luck about the conflict between Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy. Monday, September 3rd, 6:00 P.M. MST.

O Brother, Where Art Thou - A trio of convicts escape from their chain gang and set out to retrieve a treasure that one of them buried before the area is flooded. I love the music in this film and that it got interested in American folk music and made us realize how beautiful it is. Monday, September 3rd, 7:30 P.M. MST.

Honeymoon Hotel - Robert Goulet and Robert Morse book a vacation that is usually reserved for Honeymooners. The film mostly focuses on the interracial romance between Nancy Kwan and Robert Goulet's characters. Tuesday, September 4th, 12:15 P.M. MST.

Pinky - Returning home after living in the south to visit her black grandmother, Pinky Johnson admits that she has been passing for white while attending nursing school and has fallen for a white doctor who has no idea that she is black. Based on the book Quality by Cid Ricketts Sumner it was a very diverse subject for it's time and made quite a stir, but it's one of the best books about how not being yourself can sometimes not serve the greater good. Tuesday, September 4th, 9:30 P.M. MST.

The Las Vegas Story -  Jane Russell plays a woman that runs out on her lover while he is gone during World War II and returns with her husband years later. It's one of those rare Vincent Price movies where he wasn't in a horror film, so really you have to see it. Wednesday, September 5th, 4:15 P.M. MST.

Living It Up - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis team up for this buddy comedy about a simple railroad worker that is misdiagnosed by his doctor and given weeks to live and is awarded a trip to New York to fulfill his dream trip. A fun comedy and good acting give this film life, Wednesday, September 5th, 6:00 P.M. MST.

An American Romance - An Immigrant comes to America and becomes the epitome of American success and wealth. Part of the trilogy of war, wheat and steel for director King Vidor, he seemed to always think that it was the downfall of the three because he felt that Brian Donlevy had been miscast. Thursday, September 6th, 2:00 P.M. MST.

A Soldier's Story - Captain Richard Davenport has been sent to investigate the death of a black master sergeant on a segregated Army base in Louisiana during World War II. Denzel Washington gives one of the best breakout performances ever. Thursday, September 6th, 11:00 P.M. MST.

Old New Orleans - A short documentary on the history and beauty of New Orleans.  Friday, September 7th, 7:30 A.M. MST.

New New Orleans - A short documentary about New Orleans in the modern age and how it has blended both modern and old to make an even beautiful city. Friday, September 7th, 12:00 P.M. MST.

A Streetcar Named Desire - Blanche DuBois, leaves her home town under mysterious circumstances to live with her sister Stella and brother in-law Stanley in a New Orleans tenement. Stanley and Blanche get off to a rocky start and it goes down hill from there. Vivian Leigh is amazing as Blanche and, well we all know about Brando's Stanley. This movie is so worth the watch. Friday, September 7th, 1:45 P.M. MST.


Valley of the Sun - John Ware is a court martialed for helping American Indians against their white oppressors and escapes into Desert Center, where he finds Christine who is about to marry one of the crooked Indian Agents. Not the best movie for either James Craig or Lucille Ball, they still try their best in this weak scripted film. Saturday, September 8th, 10:00 A.M. MST.

Robin and Marian - An aging Robin of Nottingham returns to England and tries to start his relationship with Maid Marian but finds her to be an abbess of a Catholic Nunnery. It's a good story about a legendary couple that never give up on their love story. Saturday, September 8th, 6:00 P.M. MST.

The Man Who Would Be King - Journalist Rudyard Kipling is working late in his newspaper office when a beggar shows up and turns out to be an old friend turned adventurer who left years earlier with his best friend to explore India and the remote land of Kafiristan. The beggar tells him their story and leaves, leaving behind a package. Saturday, September 8th, 8:00 P.M. MST.