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labels basil rathbone busby berkeley esther williams george sidney musical red skelton saturday may 9 2026 tcm schedule heads up tomorrow is mother s day and as always tcm is running a number of movies that are appropriate for the occasion as usual that includes another showing of mildred pierce at 12 15 pm which seems to be the one constant that shows up every single mother s day another movie that shows up quite a bit is i remember mama indeed it was originally scheduled to be on in prime time tomorrow night unfortunately ted turner died earlier this week and tcm has scheduled one of the quicker memorial tributes out there apparently ted turner s favorite movie was gone with the wind which would also make sense as to why it was the first movie tcm ran when it went on the air back in 1994 so tcm is running gone with the wind at 8 00 pm tomorrow along with a tribute that was given to turner at the tcm classic film festival some years back posted by ted s just a cineast at 3 53 pm 0 comments three more musketeers i ve got a couple of movies from fxm that i hadn t seen before and was planning on blogging about the next time they came up now as it turns out one the lieutenant wore skirts is a movie i did blog about back in about 2018 but i know that i had not seen the 1939 fox version of the three musketeers before this one is getting another airing tomorrow may 10 at 4 45 am so once again now s the time to put up the post about it the movie informs us right from the start that this is a musical comedy version of alexandre dumas famous story don ameche plays d artagnan the adult son of a musketeer in the 1620s france of king louis xiii joseph schildkraut d artagnan lives in gascony in southwestern france but is making his way to paris in order to become one of the king s musketeers along the way he meets a couple of the musketeers who aren t in uniform and pisses them all off to the point that he challenges them to duels in paris so all three of them who just happen to be athos porthos and aramis show up at the appointed place at the same time an inn tavern where the proprietor seems to be off for the night and three dim witted workers played by 1930s comic team the ritz brothers are running the place the musketeers challenge these men whose characters are listed in the closing credits as three lackeys to drink to every king louis that france has had thanks to their incompetence the lackeys spill most of their wine while the musketeers get blackout drunk prompting the lackeys to change into the much nicer musketeer outfits this is also how d artagnan finds the lackeys when he shows up and since d artagnan wanted to be a musketeer himself he joins them or has them join him meanwhile there s that palace intrigue going on that you might recall if you ve seen a more serious movie version of the story cardinal richelieu miles mander is the king s prime minister but is trying to amass more power by having his own private security force that is working on diminishing the power of the musketeers who in richelieu s mind are too prone to random violence there s also the matter of relations with england her majesty the queen anne gloria stuart had been carrying on an affair with the duke of buckingham and gave him a brooch to remember her by when he had to go back to england richelieu is pretty certain of this thanks to his spies among the court such as the milday de winter binnie barnes meanwhile d artagnan and the lackeys meet lady constance pauline moore another of the queen s ladies in waiting who is the one who gets d artagnan involved in retrieving the brooch for the queen since d artagnan is clearly more of a stauch supporter of the royals and not richeliu along the way don ameche gets to sing some songs while the ritz brothers do their slapstick routines this version of the three musketeers is less about the dumas story and more about the songs along with the ritz brothers shtick whether you like the movie is going to depend in good part on what you think of the ritzes who are a decidedly dated sort of comedy it also doesn t help that poor don ameche is saddled with some subpar songs i m reminded of the i love lucy episode where lucy and ethel write a song for a camelot number ricky wants to do and come up with terribly inane lyrics however i think the movie as a whole is just more forgettable than actually bad it s only a brief 72 minutes so more programmer length than ponderous prestige movie and of course some people may actually enjoy the ritz brothers posted by ted s just a cineast at 5 00 am 0 comments labels don ameche friday may 8 2026 another pirate movie some time back i did a post on one of the mgm historical mystery shorts captain kidd s treasure i mentioned at the time that i had a different movie captain kidd on my dvr uncertain whether i had seen it before i watched it and in fact had not seen it so now we get a post on it charles laughton stars as the famed pirate william kidd as the movie opens it s 1699 and kidd is on a ship not far off the coast of madagascar having turned to piracy because his privateer work has come to naught leaving him heavily in debt at least that s the real life william kidd the movie legends play fast and loose with the facts kidd and his men sink a british ship called the twelve apostles and bury the treasure on one of the islands off of madagascar however one of kidd s men chafes a bit under kidd s leadership and gets shot for his trouble simply because kidd is that brutal of a man kidd returns to london with a crew including orange povy john carradine and jose lorenzo gilbert roland kidd s plan is to ingratiate himself with the king william iii in the hopes of getting a new ship and going out ostensibly in the king s service but with the real intention of returning to piracy as well as getting to that island to get the booty from the twelve apostles to that end he needs to pass himself off as a gentleman hiring the valet shadwell reginald owen the king buys kidd s assertion that the captain of the twevle apostles was an actual pirate and grants a commission to kidd kidd goes to various prisons to round up a crew seeing as most other men wouldn t want to go to sea if they could avoid it and condemned prisoners would be more likely to take up the job with the prospect of a pardon coming at the end of the tour at sea they ve got nothing to lose after all however one of the prisoners seems a bit odd adam mercy randolph scott is among other things able to write and doesn t talk like the people of the social classes that make up the rest of the crew out at sea mercy both ingratiates himself to kidd and tries to spy telling kidd when he s caught out that his majesty obviously wanted a representative on board to make certain everything is on the up and up if something were to happen to mercy it could be bad news for kidd how much of that story is true is well something you ll have to watch to the end of the movie to find out meanwhile kidd is already plotting to kill the other men who were with him when they buried the treasure off of madagascar in the indian ocean kidd s men destroy another british ship although this one comes with more booty than just the traditional treasure there s a good looking woman lady anne barbara britton whose father was on board as the ambassador to one of the rajes in india looking to curry favor with king william lady anne has the feeling she s seen mercy before while kidd gets a stronger feeling adam isn t what he seems or has claimed to be now we know that the real life captain kidd was hanged for his crims so he s likely not going to get away with his perfidy here i have no idea how much of this version of captain kidd is real from what i ve read of kidd s life some names from kidd s real life are used here but that seems to be the extent of the basis in reality but regardless of that lack of reality captain kidd is entertaining enough thanks to a production that knows how to get a lot out of a little along with a pretty good cast laughton overacts although that works here because kidd is in many ways a larger than life figure scott isn t exactly british but is ok with what he s asked to do here there are higher quality seafaring movies out there but if you re looking to be entertained captain kidd will fill the bill posted by ted s just a cineast at 11 39 am 0 comments labels charles laughton gilbert roland john carradine movies at sea randolph scott thursday may 7 2026 här har du ditt liv i ve mentioned a couple of times how i have a tendency to record enough foreign films that i don t quite get around to watching all of them until they re just about to expire from my youtube tv cloud dvr one night of tcm imports included a pair of swedish films and i finally watched one of them here is your life from director jan troell the movie opens up around 1916 olof eddie axberg who would appear in troell s later films the emigrants and the new land is a boy of around 14 in northern sweden who has been forced to enter the working world because his father has some sort of terminal illness olof gets a job with a bunch of rather older men in forestry specifically getting logs downstream to the lumber mills it s difficult work and the sort of thing that led to industrial accidents and workers dying olof eventually takes a job in the mill part of forestry and this time one of the workers is even younger a boy named oskar who really shouldn t be doing this work except that a good portion of rural sweden was still poor enough that families had to send their children into work like this poor oskar gets seriously injured when a pile of logs falls on him and he later dies in hospital although we don t see the actual death in any case all of this gets olof to take a new job especially since he s been doing some reading and shows some aptitude for intelligence even though he obviously hasn t had a lot of traditional schooling that job is in a small town at a movie theater although it s not a custom built theater but the sort of space that would have been converted from something else into showing movies olof s job is to put up handbills for the coming attractions as well as take tickets and sell snacks if he s good enough he might even be able to get a promotion to become a projectionist this is also where olof meets his first girl although his love life such as it is isn t going to be straightforward olof also meets a socialist although my reading of the timeline of the movie is that the october revolution of 1917 in russia had not yet taken place olof s next job is indeed as a projectionist although it s not with the theater he started at but with an itinerant theater that sets up shop wherever it can one stop is with a traveling circus and it s there that olof meets the woman who runs the shooting gallery this too is going to be a complicated relationship olof eventually gets another job with swedish railways which is a state owned enterprise that s worth mentioning since olof is getting more heavily into socialism and workers rights railing against capitalism he and his friend at the railway discuss getting the workers to strike as an anti capitalist move even though the railway is technically a socialist outfit olof goes on like this until the movie ultimately ends with no clear resolution then again here is your life isn t a traditionally plotted movie but a coming of age story about one character which is partly why i didn t mention the actors playing the other characters max von sydow does appear although i didn t recognize him axberg does a good job and the cinematography is also quite good however i have to criticize the film for having a very slow pace and a way too long running time at 160 some minutes either the movie should have been written to run into something under two hours or it should have been conceived as something episodic like a tv miniseries the adventures of olof might work as a multiple part miniseries or what would nowadays be a limited series but not as quite so well when it s one movie running close to three hours posted by ted s just a cineast at 8 46 am 0 comments labels foreign wednesday may 6 2026 the day they robbed the bank of england some time back i mentioned how i had recorded the day they robbed the bank of england off a tcm showing unfortunately there was a technical issue with the recording such that the sound was not in sync with the video making it unwatchable it eventually aired again and the dvr picked it up this time there didn t seem to be any issue with the synching so i was able to watch it and write up this post the movie opens with an expository presentation about how the bank of england had some hidebound traditions about guarding the currency and the use of royal guardsmen to accompany the gold bullion that ended up in the vaults we then go back to london at the turn of the century ireland was still controlled in its entirety by the uk government although even at this time there were people advocating for home rule which was a sort of autonomy see the clark gable movie parnell as well as people who might be more willing to engage in violent means to achieve complete irish independence from the uk o shea hugh griffith the leader of one such revolutionary cell has come up with an audacious plan to help the irish independence movement o shea s plan is to rob a bunch of that gold out of the vaults for one thing that gold is worth quite a bit and that would definitely finance the independence movement but there s also the big political statement it would make if irish revolutionaries could steal gold right out from under the government s noses but they need expertise and people who wouldn t be suspected by the british to that end o shea sent iris muldoon elizabeth sellars over to the us to recruit and she s picked up charles norgate aldo ray a mining engineer this is a profession that has multiple advantages one is us an explosives expert while a second is in dealing with tight spaces and the spatial relations of mapping things underneath the bank there s no real way they re getting past the guards so they re going to have to tunnel of course simply tunneling right now isn t good enough norgate begins what is essentially a circa 1900 version of a phishing operation he tries to get information from the bank officers although you couldn t just open up a bank account at the bank of england in those days he also befriends lt finch peter o toole in an early role an officer in the guards who guard the vaults although of course finch doesn t really have a clue of northgate s real intent northgate also passes himself off as an architect to get people to give him information about the construction of the bank and the vaults although the actual plans of the vaults are kept under lock and key to get those plants northgate gets help from walsh kieron moore another member of the cell walsh has a thing for muldoon not realizing th...