Indian films on TCM

wow thanks for the heads up. this looks great. has anybody who has seen some of these care to make some recommendations?

Argh you Americans with your fancy TV stations and good video stores.

Slutsky, can't you just drag a long cable wire from across the border, maybe from somewhere in New Hampshire?

By the way, do a search of TCM's schedule (which is on the Web through July or so) sometime. It's astounding.

Here's what I got searching for films showing on TCM and directed by Raoul Walsh:

Desperate Journey / 1942

CAST: Errol Flynn, Alan Hale, Ronald Reagan.

American pilots stranded in Germany during World War II fight their way to freedom. BW 108m. CC

War. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 06/20/2003 09:30 AM help

Glory Alley / 1952

CAST: Leslie Caron, Ralph Meeker, Kurt Kaszner.

A boxer's drinking problem threatens his career and his love life. BW 79m. CC

Drama. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 07/01/2003 07:30 AM help

High Sierra / 1941

CAST: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Arthur Kennedy.

An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist. BW 100m. CC

Crime. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 07/31/2003 07:30 AM help
PLAYING ON TCM: 08/20/2003 10:00 PM help
PLAYING ON TCM: 07/11/2003 08:00 PM help

Hitting A New High / 1938

CAST: Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, Eric Blore.

A crackpot press agent tries to pass off an aspiring opera singer as a jungle girl. BW 85m.

Musical. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 06/09/2003 07:30 AM help

Manpower / 1941

CAST: Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft.

Power linemen feud over love of a sultry nightclub singer. BW 103m. CC

Drama. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 08/18/2003 11:00 AM help

Northern Pursuit / 1943

CAST: Errol Flynn, Helmut Dantine, Julie Bishop.

A Mountie tracks a downed Nazi flyer through the Canadian wilderness. BW 93m.

Adventure. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 06/24/2003 06:00 AM help

Objective, Burma! / 1945

CAST: Errol Flynn, George Tobias, Henry Hull.

An American platoon parachutes into Burma to take out a strategic Japanese outpost. BW 142m. CC

War. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 06/20/2003 01:30 PM help

Roaring Twenties, The / 1939

CAST: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart.

Three Army buddies during World War I get mixed up with the mob in peacetime. BW 107m. CC

Crime. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 07/12/2003 02:15 AM help
PLAYING ON TCM: 07/25/2003 06:00 PM help

Silver River / 1948

CAST: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell.

A ruthless gambler's rise to power is cut short by character flaws. BW 109m. CC

Western. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 06/20/2003 04:00 PM help

Strawberry Blonde, The / 1941

CAST: James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth.

A man's infatuation with a gold-digging beauty continues after his marriage. BW 99m. CC

Comedy. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 07/14/2003 04:00 AM help

They Died With Their Boots On / 1941

CAST: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy.

Romanticized biography of General George Armstrong Custer and his last stand. BW 140m. CC

Western. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 07/13/2003 11:30 AM help

They Drive by Night / 1940

CAST: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart.

Truck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho. BW 95m. CC

Drama. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 07/14/2003 10:00 AM help

Uncertain Glory / 1944

CAST: Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson.

A French playboy gets serious when his country is threatened during World War II. BW 102m. CC

War. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 06/20/2003 11:30 AM help

White Heat / 1949

CAST: James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo.

A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic. BW 114m. CC DVS

Crime. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 06/12/2003 06:00 PM help
PLAYING ON TCM: 08/07/2003 08:00 PM help

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The problem with this fucking province I live in is there's ridiculous bureaucratic impediments to selling/renting videos and DVDs. Any video product sold or rented in Quebec needs a little sticker of approval from the Régie, which costs money and takes time etc etc. It's incredibly frustrating.

Also, and this isn't country-related, I can't afford any kind of cable at all, so that's that for that.

I love that although AMC (American Movie Classics) has gone completely down the shitter, no one really much cares since TCM has taken up the slack and then some. Although unfortunately TCM doesn't come in as many cable packages as ACM--yet. I get free cable along with free HBO, but I don't watch it much. If I had TCM I'd probably quit my job and sit on my couch all day.

That's what I did, and I don't even have cable!

(by the way, do those stations have that annoying black bar at the bottom like other Turner stations I've seen?)

Actually, they just add a scene to every movie where the principals do a little jig to the TCM theme tune.

Yes, yes, yes, totally true. TCM is the best TV channel. Ever. I'd like to think of TCM as being Ted Turner's apology for being an advocate of the colorization of b/w movies. (You just want to shake these people, and scream out, "You just...don't...get it!!"). When TCM does an actor or director retrospective, MY GOD, they do a retrospective.

And what did happen to AMC? It seems like overnight, they went from wonderful to crappy (oh, memories of their Hitchcock marathons...)

They stay on too late! I'll never make it halfway through Bombay.

I want to like TCM, but there's this theory that he's just making it badass to annihilate AMC, and then when they're finally gone he'll whip out the crayons. You've been warned.

Turner actually isn't directly involved in TCM's programming, also word has it that he is a fan. But TCM's parent company thankfully sees TCM not as a money-maker but as a prestige asset. Thus they're free to program whatever they want (and the programming is wonderful) as long as they don't actually *lose* money, which so far they definitely haven't.

Rock on TCM.

OMG this was posted during my Ilxhiatus, but one of you should have still emailed me to let me know you were going to be threading this topic!

So...what did ya'll think? I've seen most of these before, and didn't re-catch all of them during the broadcasts as I was busy, but I was indescribably excited about this event, and pretty pleased w/ the selections. Which made up for the fact that the inarticulate-and-inaccurate-as-ever Ismail Merchant was co-hosting. Pakeezah and Pyaasa are some of my fav films of all time, but I've never been mich for ranking (cn't say if it's "top 5" or "top 50" when it comes to films; don't know why, but I've always given into listmania when it comes to music, but not movies).

And yes, AMC is now complete and utter shite, but it's really a very funny joke if you care to see it that way. I mean, they've totally revamped their programming, they've slimmed out the selections from pre-1970, they've added the most inane choices to their schedulings -> but they think they've improved! Yes the THIRD Smokey and the Bandit film really is an American Movie CLASSIC that we're screening right after Young Guns tonite!! Stay tuned!!!! Never mind the fact that we've already aired Young Guns 17 times this month!!!! Movies for "Movie PEOPLE."

One of my friends dad works pretty high up in the industry, and he was so incensed last year when he realized AMC's altered its basic programming, that he called them up to ask whatever for and why. The response: "we're broadening things...reaching out to more people." Are their revenues so down since 2001 that they've been duped into thinking that these movies really will appeal to a wider demographic? It's just sad, cuz I remember as a teenager AMC used to be one of my fav channels. An escape into a mesmerizing, glamorous, black&white world, with the occasional forays into TechniColor.

Now my friend''s dad has started his own personal boycotting of AMC by ONLY watching TCM when he gets the urge to watch classics on cable. I'm very glad that I get TCM here in LA as well (since Amateurist is right about its limited availability -Adelphia didn't carry it in Pittsburgh); it satisfies a LOT of my classic Hollywood needs.