Booze News: TV Schedule August 2008

Turner Classic Movies is dedicating full-day movie marathons to selected stars in August, so there will be some great soused cinema from Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, and Marie Dressler on TV this month. Below is a schedule of firewater-fueled films scheduled on TCM, AMC, and Fox Movie Channel in August. If you know of any other Booze Movies airing in August, please post a comment.

By the way, I'm back from vacation, so the film reviews will resume shortly.

Cheers,
garv


All Times Eastern

1 Friday

8:30 PM Roadhouse (1989) AMC

Patrick Swayze does some barroom bouncin' at the Double Duce. Cast: Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott. Dir: Rowdy Herrington. C-114 mins

2 Saturday

6:15 AM Destry Rides Again (1939) AMC

See what the boys in the backroom will have. Cast: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich. Dir: George Marshall. BW-94 mins

6:30 AM Rounders, The (1914) TCM

Charlie and Fatty ditch their wives to go on a bender. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Minta Durfee. Dir: Charles Chaplin. BW-11 mins

8:15 AM Destry (1954) AMC

Remake of Destry Rides Again. Cast: Audie Murphy, Thomas Mitchell. Dir: George Marshall. C-95 mins

10:15 AM Idle Class, The (1921) TCM

Charlie plays dual roles--the Little Tramp and a rich drunk.. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Mack Swain. Dir: Charles Chaplin. BW-31 mins

10:30 AM My Darling Clementine (1946) AMC

Victor Mature tries his hand at the oft-portrayed alky cynic, Doc Holiday. Cast: Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Linda Darnell. Dir: John Ford. BW-97 mins

4:15 PM City Lights (1931) TCM

The Little Tramp helps a blind flower seller and befriends a millionaire boozehound. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers. Dir: Charles Chaplin. BW-83 mins

3 Sunday

2:00 AM Limelight (1952) TCM

Chaplin plays a washed-up clown who thinks he must drink to be funny in this talkie melodrama. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Buster Keaton. Dir: Charles Chaplin. BW-132 mins

4 Monday

4:00 AM I Walk the Line (1970) TCM

A Southern sheriff risks his life when he falls for a moonshiner's daughter. Cast: Gregory Peck, Tuesday Weld, Estelle Parsons. Dir: John Frankenheimer. C-97 mins

5:15 PM Politics (1931) TCM

Dressler wants to close the speakeasies. Horrors! Cast: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Roscoe Ates. Dir: Charles F. Reisner. BW-73 mins

8:00 PM Dinner At Eight (1933) TCM

Barrymore plays a washed-up alcoholic, a role he was slipping into in real life. Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Jean Harlow. Dir: George Cukor. BW-111 mins

10:00 PM Min And Bill (1930) TCM

A crusty waterfront dame and a drunken fisherman protect their adopted daughter. Cast: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan. Dir: George Hill. BW-66 mins

5 Tuesday

12:30 AM Anna Christie (1930) TCM

"Give me a whiskey with ginger ale on the side, and don't be stingy, baby." Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, Marie Dressler. Dir: Clarence Brown. BW-90 mins

2:15 AM Tugboat Annie (1933) TCM

Dressler and Beery waterfront drunks once again. Cast: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-86 mins

7:00 AM El Dorado (1967) AMC

Semi-remake of Rio Bravo, with Mitchum as a drunken sheriff. Cast: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan. Dir: Howard Hawks. C-126 mins

5:00 PM Rio Bravo (1959) AMC

Dino tries to give up whiskey by drinking beer. Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson. Dir: Howard Hawks. C-141 mins

7 Thursday

6:00 AM Nightmare Alley (1947) FMC

Drunken carnival geeks and noir. Cast: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell. Dir: Edmund Goulding. BW-110 mins.

8 Friday

6:15 PM Hour Of The Gun (1967) TCM

Jason Robards tries his hand at the oft-portrayed alky cynic, Doc Holiday. Cast: James Garner, Jason Robards, Jr., Robert Ryan. Dir: John Sturges. C-101 mins

9 Saturday

1:15 AM Marlowe (1969) TCM

Neo-noir take of Raymond Chandler’s drunky detective. Cast: James Garner, Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno. Dir: Paul Bogart. C-97 mins

3:30 PM Callaway Went Thataway (1951) TCM

A famous movie cowboy turns out to be a boozing womanizer. Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Fred MacMurray, Howard Keel. Dir: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama. BW-82 mins

12 Tuesday

8:30 AM Jeanne Eagels (1957) TCM

The famed actress fights addiction to drugs and booze to build a career and find love. Cast: Kim Novak, Jeff Chandler, Agnes Moorehead. Dir: George Sidney. BW-109 mins

12:00 PM Kiss Me, Stupid (1965) TCM

Dean Martin plays a popular singer named “Dino.” Not exactly a stretch. Cast: Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston. Dir: Billy Wilder. BW-124 mins

5:00 PM Rio Bravo (1959) AMC

(Repeat. See 8/5)

7:00 PM Thunder and Lightning (1977) FMC

A Florida moonshiner challenges the father of his girlfriend to a frantic racing contest. Cast: David Carradine, Roger C. Carmel, Kate Jackson. Dir: Corey Allen. C-95 mins

13 Wednesday

12:00 PM Arsenic And Old Lace (1944) TCM

Don’t drink the wine. Trust me.. Cast: Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-118 mins

8:00 PM Roadhouse (1989) AMC

(Repeat. See 8/1)

16 Saturday

3:30 AM The Rose (1979) FMC

Bette Midler takes the sex, drugs (and booze), and rock n’ roll route. Cast: Bette Midler, Alan Bates. Dir: Mark Rydell. C-125 mins

21 Thursday

1:30 AM The Rose (1979) FMC

(Repeat. See 8/16)

9:00 AM Nightmare Alley (1947) FMC

(Repeat. See 8/7)

10:00 PM On the Beach (1959) TCM

After a nuclear war, survivors drink while waiting for the end of civilization. Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire. Dir: Stanley Kramer. BW-134 mins

22 Friday

12:30 AM Night Of The Iguana, The (1964) TCM

A defrocked alky priest surrenders to the sins of the flesh in a Mexican hotel. Cast: Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner. Dir: John Huston. BW-118 mins

8:00 AM Tales of Manhattan (1942) FMC

An all-star cast appears in a series of vignettes woven together to tell the story of a formal tailcoat that is passed to a collection of owners. Includes excised W.C. Fields segment. Dir: Julien Duvivier. BW-127 mins

2:15 PM Father Goose (1964) TCM

A Scotch-loving drifter finds himself protecting schoolgirls and their teacher during WWII. Cast: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard. Dir: Ralph Nelson. C-116 mins

23 Saturday

6:25 AM Short Film: Blotto (1930) TCM

Stan steals his wife's secret bottle of liquor so he can have a wild night out at the Rainbow club with Ollie. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy BW-26 mins

12:45 PM El Dorado (1967) AMC

(Repeat. See 8/5)

1:50 PM Them Thar Hills (1934) TCM

When the boys go to the mountains for a rest to cure Ollie's gout, they accidentally get high on moonshine dumped into a well. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: Charles Rogers.

BW-20 mins

2:40 PM Short Film: Live Ghost, The (1934) TCM

A drunken sailor falls into a tub of whitewash and gives Stan and Ollie a hard time. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Arthur Housman. Dir: Charles Rogers BW-20 mins

3:05 PM Devil's Brother, The (1933) TCM

"Stanlio, you're drunk !" Cast: Laurel & Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd. Dir: Hal Roach. BW-90 mins

6:45 PM Short Film: Scram! (1932) TCM

Two vagrants ordered out of town take up with a drunken tycoon. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Arthur Housman. Dir: Ray McCarey. BW-20 mins

25 Monday

6:15 PM Casablanca (1942) TCM

“Here’s lookin’ at you, kid.” Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-103 mins

8:00 PM Notorious (1946) TCM

Bergman hits the bottle and does some spying. Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-101 mins

26 Tuesday

8:00 PM Touch Of Evil (1958) TCM

Welles is an overweight, crooked cop with a drinking problem and Heston is a Mexican.

Cast: Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh. Dir: Orson Welles. BW-111 mins

27 Wednesday

8:30 AM M*A*S*H (1970) AMC

Hawkeye and Trapper John drink and joke to deal with the horror of war. Cast: Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt. Dir: Robert Altman. C-116 mins

8:00 PM Some Like It Hot (1959) TCM

Marilyn wonders, “Where’s that bourbon?!” Cast: Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis. Dir: Billy Wilder. BW-121 mins

4:00 AM Paris When It Sizzles (1964) TCM

A Hollywood producer hires a beautiful secretary to keep his drunken screenwriter on

track. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Noel Coward. Dir: Richard Quine. C-110 mins

29 Friday

2:30 PM Guys And Dolls (1955) TCM

A big-city gambler bets that he can seduce a Salvation Army girl (with the help of Bicardi). Cast: Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. C-149 mins

30 Saturday

4:15 PM Philadelphia Story, The (1940) TCM

Jimmy Stewart gets drunk. So does Kate. Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart. Dir: George Cukor. BW-112 mins

10:00 PM African Queen, The (1951) TCM

A gin-swillin’ skipper and a spirited missionary take on the Germans in Africa during World War I. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn. Dir: John Huston. C-105 mins