short
Two fathers try to spend a quiet night despite their raucous offspring.
21
min,
TV-G
, CC
comedy
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D: John Blystone. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Della Lind, Walter Woolf King, Eric Blore, Adia Kuznetzoff, Charles Judels. Contrived romantic story with music tries hard to submerge L&H, but Stan and Ollie's scenes save film, especially when Ollie serenades his true love with Stan playing tuba.
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comedy
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D: Alfred Goulding. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilfred Lucas, Forrester Harvey, James Finlayson, Anita Garvin. So-called feature is more like a series of barely related shorts; film is nearly half over before L&H even get to Oxford. Still quite funny, especially when they settle down in the Dean's quarters. A young Peter Cushing plays one of the boys' tormentors. Also shown in computer-colored version.
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adventure
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D: Richard Wallace. Victor Mature, Louise Platt, Leo Carrillo, Bruce Cabot, Vivienne Osborne, Robert Barrat. OK action film of spunky Platt commandeering her father's ship into war; no messages, just fast-moving narrative. Look for Alan Ladd as a sailor.
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horror
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D: Hal Roach, Hal Roach, Jr. Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Hubbard, Mamo Clark, Jean Porter. Bizarre caveman saga told in flashback is real curio, made on a big scale. Excellent special effects--from prehistoric monsters to an erupting volcano--which have turned up as stock footage in countless cheapies. Longtime rumors that D. W. Griffith directed parts are not true. Remade in 1966 as ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.
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comedy
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D: Gordon Douglas. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Ben Turpin, Richard Cramer, Harry Bernard. L&H comedy is short and sweet: Ollie has breakdown working in horn factory, tries to relax on a small boat with Stan . . . and that's impossible. Cramer is a memorable heavy. Harry Langdon was one of the writers.
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comedy
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D: Hal Roach, Gordon Douglas, Hal Roach, Jr. Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard, Charles Butterworth, Patsy Kelly, George E. Stone. Offbeat comedy of young man, wrongfully committed to an insane asylum, escaping and joining up with traveling carnival; some bright moments in inconsequential film. Co-written by Harry Langdon.
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western
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D: Hal Roach, Jr. Jimmy Rogers, Noah Beery, Jr., Marjorie Woodworth, Paul Hurst, Marjorie Gateson, Russell Gleason, Grady Sutton. A couple of itinerant cowboys move to a dude ranch when one of them falls for a flashy blonde. Pretty dull. Originally one of producer Hal Roach's 46m. ``Streamliner'' featurettes; for TV it's been spliced to its equally dull sequel, CALABOOSE.
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TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT:
TCM MEMORIAL TRIBUTE:
ANDY GRIFFITH
drama
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D: Elia Kazan. Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick, Kay Medford. Perceptive script by Budd Schulberg about homespun hobo (Griffith) discovered by Neal and promoted into successful--and unscrupulous--TV star. Cast gives life to fascinating story. Film debuts of Griffith and Remick. Look for young Rip Torn and Lois Nettleton. Many celebrities also appear as themselves, including Burl Ives, Mike Wallace, Betty Furness, Bennett Cerf, Faye Emerson, and Walter Winchell.
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widescreen
close captioned
comedy
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D: Mervyn LeRoy. Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton, Don Knotts. Funny military comedy based on Ira Levin's Broadway play (which got its start as a 1955 U.S. Steel Hour TV play). Griffith and McCormick repeat roles as hayseed inducted into service and his harried sergeant. Griffith's best comedy, with good support from Adams, and, in a small role as a noncommissioned officer, Knotts. Script by John Lee Mahin. Followed years later by a TV series.
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widescreen
close captioned
12:30 AM
C-
102
min
TV-14
western
comedy
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D: Norman Taurog. Andy Griffith, Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau, Erin O'Brien, Joe Mantell, Ray Danton, James Gregory, Joey Bishop, Roscoe Karns, Claude Akins, Peter Brown, Tige Andrews. Muddled mishmash with Griffith joining the Coast Guard pre-WW2 and becoming a ship's cook. Tries desperately to be a comedy, romance, and drama all at once, with elements of NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS and MISTER ROBERTS, but is only sentimental and silly.
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comedy
A prize is awarded to any married couple who can prove at a public trial that their union has been happy and argument-free for a full year.
C-
80
min,
TV-G
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1930's Rarities
