By
Ed Garea
Our
column will be relatively short and sweet this time around, for there
is little new or interestingly weird on TCM for the rest of October.
It’s just a mix what we’ve seen many times before, so I’ll just
dwell on a few highlights.
THE
MUMMY
October
21: Start with Hammer’s The
Mummy at 8 pm, then
move on to The Curse of the Mummy’s
Tomb at 9:45 and The Pharaoh’s
Curse at 10:45.
At
2:30 am it’s the 1959 French classic, Eyes
Without a Face.
October
28: More Hammer horrors with The
Mummy’s Shroud at 8 pm followed by Blood
From the Mummy’s Tomb at 10 pm.
GERALD
THOMAS
October
19: A night of comedies from English director Gerald Thomas
begins with Carry On Screaming at
8 pm. At 10 pm Juliet Mills is young woman who moves with her
scatterbrain mother (Esma Cannon) to a country village to take up her
first job as District Nurse in Nurses
on Wheels from 1963.
The evening rounds out at 11:45 pm with a group of music students
trying to help each other academically and financially while sharing
quarters in London in the delightful Roommates (1962),
starring Leslie Phillips, Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Paul Massie,
Jennifer Jayne, Jill Ireland and Eric Barker.
BORIS
KARLOFF
October
16: A night of Boris Karloff begins with the James Whale
classic, The Old Dark House,
with Charles Laughton and Ernest Thesiger, at 8 pm.
200
YEARS OF FRANKENSTEIN
October
22: The 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is
celebrated with an original documentary, The
Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein, at 8 pm, followed at
9 pm by Universal’s 1939 production of Son
of Frankenstein. At Midnight. it’s Hammer’s remake
of the classic 1931 film, The Curse
of Frankenstein, followed
by Frankenstein Created Woman at
1:30 and Frankenstein Must Be
Destroyed at 3:15
am.
BELA
LUGOSI
October
24: No October could be complete without a night
dedicated to Bela Lugosi. Begin with the classic White
Zombie at 8 pm. Stick around for the
atmospherish Night Monster from
Universal in 1942 at 10:30, followed by The
Human Monster (1939) at Midnight. Then it’s one
of my favorite Bela’s, The Devil
Bat (1940) a ridiculously enchanting thriller
from PRC, at 1:30 am. followed by his “classic” The
Corpse Vanishes (1942), at 2:45 Spooks
Run Wild (1941) at 4
am, and Bowery at Midnight (1942)
at 5:15 am.
BOWERY
BOYS
October
30: An evening of the Bowery Boys versus various horrors
kicks off with Ghost Chasers (1951)
at 8 pm, followed at 9:30 by The
Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954), Spook
Busters (1946) at 10:45, Spook
Chasers (1957) at 12:15 am, and finally, Master
Minds (1949) at 2:30 am.
VINCENT
PRICE
October
31: An evening of Vincent Price features House
of Wax (1953) at 8 pm, Pit
and the Pendulum (1961)
at 9:45, Masque of the Red
Death (1964) at
11:15 pm, House on Haunted
Hill (1958) at 1 am, Theatre
of Blood (1973) at 2:30 am, and The
Last Man on Earth (1964) at 4:15 am.
NOIR
ALLEY
October
20: Preston Foster, Belita and Charles McGraw take turns
double-crossing each other in 1948’s The
Hunter, at Midnight.
October
27: Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The
Judge.” in Follow Me Quietly,
starring William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick and Jeff Corey
at Midnight.
NOTABLE
PRE-CODE
October
19: A crooked banker and his assistant devise a scheme to
frame an ex-con for their crime in Strange
Justice, from 1932, at 10:15 am, followed by The
Last Mile at 11:30, Edward G. Robinson in Two
Seconds at 12:45 pm, and the 1931 social justice
film, Are These Our Children? at
2 pm.
MOVIES,
BAD MOVIES
October
29: Catch Dana Andrews debasing himself in The
Frozen Dead from 1967 at 4:15 am. Michael Weldon
describes it as “An unheralded wonder of silliness.” A look at
the plot explained why: Dana is a mad Nazi scientist in England
trying to revive Hitler’s too officials, now hanging i uniform in a
freezer. While Dana can get them to walk, their brains don’t
function all that well. His colleague kills a girl and and keeps her
shaved head alive on a table. As in The Brain That Wouldn’t
Die, the head is able to develop telepathy and warns her
American friends about what Dana’s up to. In the finale the two
Nazi scientists are strangled by dismembered arms hanging from the
wall, activated by the telephonic head. Yes, it’s Must See.
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