Daily TCM Discussion -- July 2nd, 2024

Hello and welcome to the daily TCM discussion thread! A place to see whatever is airing, recommend favorites, and chat with fellow movie fans about today's films.

British productions air all day. At night, movies that take place out in the sea. Ahoy!

Having a Wild Weekend (1965)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
The Walking Stick (1970)
Hold On! (1966)
Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Tom Jones (1963)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Lifeboat (1944)
The Last Voyage (1960)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)

What are you watching?

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Gorf_the_Magnificent

Lifeboat is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most underrated movies, and in my opinion one of his best. It’s a tense drama that takes place entirely on a small lifeboat. Alfred Hitchcock even manages to make his standard cameo appearance_-_Hitchcock%27s_cameo), even though he’s not one of the lifeboat passengers.

snackcake

Lifeboat is amazing. One thing i had never noticed was there is no score, other than Joe playing the little flute. Another thing i had never noticed, and i'm not really sure what happened exactly, but the scene were they are about to amputate Gus' leg, Kovac (John Hodiak's character) whisper's something in C.J. Rittenhouse's ear, then Rittenhouse moves in front of gus.

Wait, i think i just figured it out. Kovac was telling Rittenhouse to stand in front of Gus so Gus couldn't see them preparing the tools for the amputation. Maybe.

snackcake

Al Magaroulian is a skunk.

Brackens_World

Hitch loved a challenge, and the single boat set of Lifeboat provided him one. They assembled a topnotch bunch of character actors to bring it to life, led by Bankhead, who understood how to sparkle on a single stage with all her years on Broadway, and she brought that knowhow with her. It was not a financial success, but the movie played frequently on TV over the years, so maintained a visibility other Hitchcock films did not. It did earn Hitchcock a Best Director nomination, one of four he earned in his career.

VRGator

Clever cameo in that one!

PristineFault663

I just set a recording for The Walking Stick. Had never heard of it but the description makes it sound like it will be amazing or awful, with nothing in between. Also recorded Lifeboat, because it is terrific and it was right there...

ChrisCinema

It's not one of my favorite Best Picture winners, but Tom Jones is an entertaining comedy. Albert Finney was so young in this film, and pretty likeable. I'll watch Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to compliment it.

Lifeboat is an underrated Alfred Hitchcock film that served as a great parallel to World War II. It's interesting they have The Wreck of the Mary Deare programmed later tonight because Hitchcock wanted to do a film version of the play, but decided to do North by Northwest instead.

Middle_Chain_544

I love those British kitchen sink films

Fathoms77

I don't care much for seafaring adventures but Mutiny on the Bounty is so damn great. Such a fabulous cast, and arguably Franchot Tone's finest role as well.

Overall-Benefit-2810

excited to see lifeboat!!!

VRGator

Watching The Last Voyage, which I have never heard of, and I'm surprised it's just like a 70's disaster movie even though it’s from 1960.