March 2008
Saturday March 1
3:30 AM The Dresser (Yates, 1983) - C-118 mins. - Am I the only person in the world who thinks Peter Yates is an underrated director? Bullitt, The Hot Rock, The Friends of Eddie Coyle (rumored to be coming from Criterion later in the year), and Breaking Away should be enough to give Yates a little credit, not to mention this film. Starring Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney (a twosome worthy of a recommendation by themselves), The Dresser is about an actor in a production of King Lear and his dresser, circa WWII. TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar is still in effect here, and Yates’ film was well rewarded in nominations, including nods for director, Courtenay and Finney in lead actor, Ronald Harwood’s screenplay, and the film in the main Best Picture category. The Dresser is available on DVD from Sony/Columbia in R1 and R2.
Monday March 3
4:00 PM Jamaica Inn (Hitchcock, 1939) - BW-99 mins. - By most accounts not one of Hitchcock’s best, but it was the last film he made before going to Hollywood for Rebecca. Plus it has Charles Laughton and pirates. In R1, I believe all the DVD releases are pretty dismal so it might be worth watching to see what TCM’s print quality is like.
9:30 PM Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008) - BW-70 mins. - To coincide with Warner Bros.’ Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 2, TCM presents a new documentary included in the DVD set, as well as all five pre-code films found therein. What self-respecting classic movie fan doesn’t enjoy a selection of early 1930s goodness? This will also air later in the night, at 2:30 AM.
Tuesday March 4
12:00 PM Nobody Lives Forever (Negulesco, 1946) - BW-100 mins. - John Garfield in a film noir with screenplay and novel by W.R. Burnett, writer of, among others, The Asphalt Jungle, Little Caesar, and co-author of the screenplay for This Gun for Hire. He plays an ex-GI con who falls for a widow he’s trying to fleece. Garfield is really one of the great noir actors, in my opinion, and TCM is showing eight of his films throughout the day, when he would have turned 95 years old. Nobody Lives Forever is unavailable on DVD, with rights owned by Warner Bros.
5:00 PM He Ran All the Way (Berry, 1951) - BW-78 mins. - Another little Garfield noir, this time with Shelley Winters co-starring. It also aired last November and was among my picks then as well. Garfield’s last role before succumbing to heart problems at only 39 years of age. Here he’s a fugitive who hides out with a reluctant Winters. No DVD, with MGM controlling the rights from United Artists. Those interested in Garfield might want to make a point of checking out Force of Evil, arguably his best film and airing right after this one, at 6:30 PM.
Wednesday March 5
3:00 AM The Happy Thieves (Marshall, 1962) - BW-90 mins. - Let’s gather a little information here. This was based on a novel by Richard Condon, well-known for writing The Manchurian Candidate, Prizzi’s Honor, and Winter Kills. It stars Rex Harrison and Rita Hayworth, plus Alida Valli, and concerns an art thief who is implicated in a murder. The director George Marshall was a bit of a hack, but he did make Destry Rides Again and The Blue Dahlia. I think this is another MGM property, released theatrically by United Artists, and it’s not on DVD.
Thursday March 6
12:15 PM Babbitt (Keighley, 1934) - BW-74 mins. - Even though I’ve not seen this, I can say with a reasonable amount of certainty that it pales next to the source novel by Sinclair Lewis. As an ardent fan of Lewis, I think this is one of the great American novels and I’m sure that Keighley couldn’t possibly have done it justice in only 74 minutes. Still, I’d be willing to give it a chance and see how Guy Kibbee does playing Babbitt. Aline MacMahon plays the equally delusional Mrs. Babbitt. A Warner Bros./First National picture, the film is unavailable on DVD.
5:15 PM High Pressure (LeRoy, 1932) - BW-74 mins. - William Powell as a con artist trying to sell investors on a synthetic rubber company? Sold! Warner Bros. and no DVD yet. A French version was also made simultaneously, entitled Le Bluffeur, with a different director and actors. It’s not available on DVD either.
Friday March 7
10:45 AM The Great Sinner - (Siodmak, 1949) - BW-110 mins. - Based on the Dostoyevsky novel, Siodmak’s film stars Gregory Peck as a writer who travels to Paris and Monte Carlo, only to lose everything as a result of his gambling addiction. I’ll watch anything Siodmak did from the 1940s, and this reunites him with Ava Gardner so there’s another huge plus. With a great supporting cast that also includes Walter Huston, Melvyn Douglas, Ethel Barrymore, and Agnes Moorehead, The Great Sinner somehow remains unreleased on DVD. It was made for MGM, and Warner Bros. now have the rights.
6:15 PM A Rage to Live (Grauman, 1965) -BW-102 mins. - The late Suzanne Pleshette stars as a “woman whose insatiable sex drive destroys her life.” The film was based on a John O’Hara novel and most likely intended to capitalize on the success of his Butterfield 8, which won Elizabeth Taylor an Oscar five years earlier. Nymphomania or not, it was 1965 so it’s hard to imagine the movie being anything but silly (and relatively safe). Ben Gazzara co-stars. It was made for the Mirisch Corporation and distributed by United Artists, leaving the DVD rights currently with MGM.
Saturday March 8
8:00 PM The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) - BW-126 mins. - I’m mentioning Billy Wilder’s deservedly beloved classic not because it’s unavailable (a recent DVD even improves on the prior release, and I’ll be reviewing it for DVD Times soon) or rarely shown, but because it’s being included in “The Essentials,” TCM’s weekly showing of a canonized film with chat between Robert Osborne and a co-host before and after the airing. Tonight begins a new season and ushers in a new host, the unlikely choice of Rose McGowan. I’m interested in what she has to say and it certainly can’t be any worse than Carrie Fisher’s stint.
Sunday March 9
10:00 AM Wild Is the Wind (Cukor, 1957) - BW-114 mins. - I was surprised to find out this film isn’t on DVD (thanks Paramount). TCM also included it in their 31 Days of Oscar last month because both Anna Magnani and Anthony Quinn earned lead acting nominations. It doesn’t really sound like the kind of film I like, but the two leads are intriguing. The plot involves Quinn marrying Magnani, who is the sister of his dead wife, only to have her fall for Quinn’s son, played by Anthony Franciosa. Worth mentioning, at least.
Monday March 10
8:00 PM Macbeth (Welles, 1948) - BW-107 mins. - Officially, this was the fifth film Orson Welles directed, just after The Lady from Shanghai, and his first cinematic stab at Shakespeare. Welles himself also played Macbeth and Jeanette Nolan (who, five years later, would be memorable as the conniving widow of a suicidal cop in The Big Heat) made her film debut as Lady Macbeth. I don’t see a DVD release in R1 for this, but Second Sight did put it out in R2 (no idea on the quality). The IMDb company credits are a mess. They have Criterion as putting a DVD out in 2004, but this is inaccurate. Maybe they will in the future, but they’d have to license it from, I believe, Lions Gate, who control the Republic Pictures library save for It’s a Wonderful Life.
Tuesday March 11
11:00 AM Three Strangers (Negulesco, 1946) - BW-93 mins. - Here’s another one of the unavailable-on-DVD Sydney Greenstreet-Peter Lorre pictures that Warner Bros. made following the success of, first, The Maltese Falcon and, then, Casablanca. Geraldine Fitzgerald is the third person of the title and, together, all three are in search of a mysterious fortune that has something to do with a Chinese goddess. If you need another excuse to make time for this one, John Huston is credited as co-screenwriter. For whatever reason, TCM is stingy with showing these Greenstreet-Lorre teamings and there’s been no official indication that DVDs are in the works (though they seem to beg for a TCM Archives set).
8:00 PM High Wall (Bernhardt, 1947) - BW-100 mins. - TCM has crafted a monthlong theme of films dealing with psychotherapy and most are at least of mild interest. (After The Cobweb, Robert Rossen’s Lilith airs, but it’s on DVD from Sony) A solid cast, including Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter and Herbert Marshall, highlight this story of a brain-damaged pilot who confesses to murdering his wife. After being committed, the man’s psychiatrist (Totter) starts to believe he’s innocent. It’s supposed to be more film noir than melodrama. Made for MGM, the film is not on DVD and rights are held by Warner Bros.
10:00 PM The Cobweb (Minnelli, 1955) - C-124 mins. - I can say with confidence that The Cobweb is a mile away from being a good movie, but it’s too silly to be boring and the cast reads like the best episode never made of The Love Boat. I had some fun writing about the movie last year and I plan to at least check out the print TCM airs. With Richard Widmark, Gloria Grahame, Lauren Bacall, Lillian Gish, and Charles Boyer in a film literally about drapes at a mental institution, I think I found my version of camp. MGM distributed the picture originally and Warner Bros. currently have the rights, but there’s no DVD release yet.
Wednesday March 12
4:00 PM Pickup Alley (Gilling, 1957) - BW-92 mins. - IMDb lists this movie as Interpol and claims the tag line was “This Is A Picture About DOPE!” Does one need any more recommendation than that? In case you do, I can also add that it stars Victor Mature as a narcotics agent on the trail of international drug smuggler Trevor Howard via Anita Ekberg. Albert Broccoli, of James Bond fame, was a co-producer and, coincidentally, the screenwriter for this film was John Paxton, who also adapted William Gibson’s book for The Cobweb. Another film from the same period (1956) with Anita Ekberg, Man in the Vault, airs earlier in the day, at 11:00 AM. Pickup Alley, aka Interpol, is not on DVD and was made for Columbia, but Sony is so terrible about releasing their back catalog that I’d advise catching it now instead of waiting.
6:00 PM Underworld U.S.A. (Fuller, 1961) - BW-99 mins. - After showing Park Row a couple of months ago, TCM is dusting off another Sam Fuller film otherwise unavailable. It’s also an unreleased Sony/Columbia property, but, right now, another airing is scheduled for May, as well. The film focuses squarely on revenge, with Cliff Robertson playing a man who saw his father murdered as a child and, years later, wants vengeance. So he’s basically a more well-adjusted Batman. Not exactly, but what I wouldn’t have given to see Fuller tackle a Batman film. Anyway, this was the last film Fuller made during his run at Columbia and, wouldn’t you know it, Sony hasn’t released any of ‘em on DVD. Verboten! and The Crimson Kimono are the other two, though I know for certain the former has aired on TCM in the past.
Thursday March 13
6:00 AM Flight - (Capra, 1929) - BW-112 mins. - A very early talkie directed and co-written by Frank Capra about two pilots who fall for the same woman. I really don’t know a lot more, but Capra’s involvement caught my eye. It does seem kind of lengthy though. This is yet another Columbia film not available on DVD that Sony is likely keeping stashed away for no apparent reason.
Friday March 14
8:30 AM All My Sons (Reis, 1948) - BW-94 mins. - Edward G. Robinson plays a successful businessman who knowingly sold planes that were inadequate and caused soldiers’ deaths during WWII and Burt Lancaster is the son who learns the truth in this adaptation of Arthur Miller’s play. This isn’t on DVD and was made for Universal. My unofficial eleventh pick of the week would be Kirk Douglas in Lonely Are the Brave, airing at 12:00 PM, but I’ll mention it again next month when it comes on again.
Saturday March 15
8:30 AM Berlin Express (Tourneur, 1948) - BW-87 mins. - Right after directing the prototypical noir Out of the Past, Jacques Tourneur took a train to post-war Germany with this film about a group of multinational passengers traveling from Paris to Berlin. Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan and Paul Lukas lead the cast. Curt Siodmak is credited with the story and Lucien Ballard was the cinematographer. Made for RKO, the film isn’t on R1 DVD, but can be found in an Editions Montparnesse release from France.
Sunday March 16
12:00 PM His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940) - BW-92 mins. - I don’t think there’s any need to make an excuse for mentioning one of the funniest movies ever made, despite its easy availability on DVD. Out of all the great movies Howard Hawks directed, this is unquestionably my favorite. I just read the other day about some of the pranks Rosalind Russell played on Cary Grant during filming and it reminded me how endlessly watchable and fun the film remains. Every classic film fan has a few unwatched skeletons in their backlog closet. If this is yours, it’s time for a spring cleaning.
Monday March 17
11:00 AM Pot o’ Gold (Marshall, 1941) - BW-86 mins. - This is, of course, St. Patrick’s Day and TCM can never resist an opportunity for a theme so here we have several Irish-related movies lined up. This is one of the very few Jimmy Stewart movies I haven’t seen, mostly because I’ve always been under the impression it wasn’t much. Keeping that in mind, the film’s public domain status has prevented it from getting any kind of definitive DVD release so watching it on television seems like a reasonable idea. Stewart co-stars with Paulette Goddard and plays a small town guy who strikes up a friendship with a family of Irish musicians, much to the dismay of his uncle. It was one of Stewart’s last films before joining the military and fighting in World War II.
6:00 PM Young Cassidy (Cardiff, 1965) - C-110 mins. - Ace cinematographer Jack Cardiff took over directing duties from John Ford to make this biographical drama about Irish playwright Sean O’Casey. Rod Taylor stars in the O’Casey role, changed to John Cassidy for the film, and is supported by an excellent cast that includes Maggie Smith, Edith Evans, Michael Redgrave, and Julie Christie. It’s an MGM-distributed film, with Warner Bros. controlling the rights, and not yet released on DVD.
4:15 AM Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson, 1970) - C-96 mins. - It’s worth mentioning that TCM scheduled a night of what it’s calling “counter culture classics,” lead off by Nicholas Ray’s They Live by Night and originally scheduled to include Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point, which isn’t on DVD in the U.S. or UK. At some point, the Antonioni film was cut in favor of Arthur Penn’s Alice’s Restaurant, which now airs at 2:15 AM. The Bob Rafelson-directed film Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson as a gifted piano player who has abandoned his past for a ponderous life working in oil fields, is on DVD from Sony/Columbia, but it’s been a good while since I’ve seen it and I need a fresh viewing for my 1970’s list. Nicholson in the ’70s rivals Bogart in the ’40s for strongest decade ever for a Hollywood movie star.
Tuesday March 18
11:00 AM Possessed (Brown, 1931) - BW-76 mins. - I saw this title and that Joan Crawford was the star, and I assumed it was the on-DVD 1947 film. Turns out she made two films called Possessed and this pre-Code one co-stars Clark Gable. It doesn’t have anything to do with the later film. She’s a factory worker and he’s a wealthy businessman. He wants a mistress, but she wants a husband. Made for MGM, the DVD rights reside with Warner Bros.
3:30 AM Three on a Couch (Lewis, 1966) - C-109 mins. - The Tuesday night psychiatry theme continues with Jerry Lewis directing and playing multiple characters. Janet Leigh is his fiancee, a psychiatrist who will only marry him after her patients are cured of their dislike for men. This causes Lewis to attempt to cure the women himself, by pretending to be a different person for each of the patients. Released by Columbia, I’m assuming this would be a Sony property. It’s not on DVD.
Wednesday March 19
7:00 AM The Strange Woman (Ulmer, 1946) - BW-100 mins. - Hedy Lamarr isn’t Star of the Month until April, but here’s an apparent preview. She’s a femme fatale-ish seducer who lands a wealthy husband in 1820’s Bangor, Maine and promptly has affairs with the man’s son and George Sanders’ woodsman. Shoestring director Edgar G. Ulmer adds some flair. TCM is repeating The Strange Woman on March 25 at 10:00 AM and as part of Lamarr’s monthlong spotlight on April 24. It can be tracked down on DVD as part of Image’s Edgar G. Ulmer: Archive set.
Thursday March 20
9:15 AM Rafter Romance (Seiter, 1933) - BW-73 mins. - I mentioned this back in December, but I neglected to watch it even though I really wanted to. Ginger Rogers shares an apartment with a night watchman and unwittingly falls in love with him, without realizing he’s her absentee roommate. I saw Bachelor Mother not too long ago so I’m ready for more Ginger and reminding myself to set the machine this time. The plot of Rafter Romance also sounds a little like that story idea Joe Gillis was telling Betty Schaeffer in Sunset Blvd. It’s Warner Bros. property via RKO and not on DVD.
Friday March 21
12:00 PM The Prizefighter and the Lady (Van Dyke, 1933) - BW-102 mins. - Myrna Loy sort of seems like the perfect wife, doesn’t she? I was watching Love Me Tonight recently and I think my enjoyment was impaired by the idea that Maurice Chevalier would go after Jeanette MacDonald over Myrna Loy. Anyway, before she was Nora Charles, Loy was directed by her future Thin Man helmer W.S. Van Dyke in this boxing romance starring real-life fighter Max Baer as her love interest. Boxers Jack Dempsey and Primo Carnera are also in the cast, as is Walter Huston. Frances Marion’s original story earned an Oscar nod and Howard Hawks apparently did some uncredited directing on the picture. It’s not on DVD, with the rights held by Warner Bros. via MGM.
Sunday March 23
6:00 AM Stars in My Crown (Tourneur, 1950) - BW-90 mins. - Two weeks in a row picking a Jacques Tourneur film, but he is generally underrepresented on DVD. This one stars the great Joel McCrea as a Civil War veteran minister who brings peace to a small Tennessee town. Anything Tennessee-related is a good bet to show up here (speaking of which, where’s Wild River?) and both Tourneur and McCrea are favorites. Also starring Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, and several other recognizable faces like Alan Hale and Ed Begley Srs., the film was made for MGM and is unavailable on DVD, with Warner Bros. controlling the rights.
Monday March 24
8:15 AM The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (Boleslawski, 1937) - BW-99 mins. - Joan Crawford would have been 103 (or 100, depending on who you want to believe) on the 23rd and TCM is devoting a full 24 hours to her films. This one interested me because of Boleslawski, whose Theodora Goes Wild I enjoyed, and for the presence of William Powell and Robert Montgomery, possibly my two favorite ’30s actors. I haven’t seen a plot summary that seems entirely coherent, but I’ve gathered that high society jewel thievery is involved. It’s also a remake of a film made only eight years earlier, with Norma Shearer in Crawford’s role. Both were made for MGM and Warner Bros. hasn’t released either on DVD.
Tuesday March 25
6:00 AM The Dark Angel (Franklin, 1935) - BW-107 mins. - Coincidentally, the earlier version of Mrs. Cheyney was helmed by Sidney Franklin, who also directed this picture, from a screenplay co-written by Lillian Hellman. Notwithstanding Jessica Alba, the title here brings to mind some great noir possibilities, but unfortunately it’s all for nothing. Instead we have a romantic drama with Merle Oberon Oscar-nominated for playing a woman who grew up with best friends Fredric March and Herbert Marshall. Despite having affection for both, she chooses to marry March just before WWI, but both men join the military and Marshall finds himself sending March into battle. The film was made for the Samuel Goldwyn Company, and I believe MGM controls the home video rights.
2:00 PM The Slender Thread (Pollack, 1965) - BW-99 mins. - I see this on almost every other month or three, but I always find something else to pick (and watch) instead. Sidney Poitier is one of my favorite actors and I generally like Sydney Pollack’s earlier films so I’ll give it a chance this time out. Poitier is a college student (he was in his mid-thirties in real life) working a crisis hot line who gets a call from suicidal Anne Bancroft and the film goes from there. Telly Savalas co-stars as a doctor. It was Pollack’s film debut, after cutting his teeth on episodic television. This just seems like a natural film to be released on DVD given the star power in front of and behind the camera, but it’s surprisingly unavailable. Paramount owns the rights. They’ve seemingly given up on releasing their back catalog.
8:00 PM The Dark Past (Maté, 1948) - BW-75 mins. - It’s pretty well-documented that William Holden’s leading man career was on life support before Billy Wilder cast him in Sunset Blvd. After hitting it big with Golden Boy in 1939, Holden struggled to find another hit. He actually did 20 movies in those eleven years, including this one. He co-stars with Lee J. Cobb and Cobb actually gets the good guy role, with Holden playing a criminal who takes a psychologist hostage. Rudolph Maté is not that well-known of a director, but he also made D.O.A. with Edmond O’Brien and was an ace cinematographer of things like Gilda, Foreign Correspondent, Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be, and, most famously, Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc and Vampyr. The Dark Past was made for Columbia, but it’s not on DVD. Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart in The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse follows at 9:30 PM.
Wednesday March 26
2:15 AM Madeleine (Lean, 1950) - BW-115 mins. - Compensating for those last two lengthy write-ups: David Lean. Woman on trial in 1857 Glasgow, Scotland for poisoning her lover. True story. No R1 DVD. MGM announced at one point, but canceled before release.
Thursday March 27
10:30 AM Between Two Worlds (Blatt, 1944) - BW-113 mins. - John Garfield leads an ensemble cast in a film about people who gradually realize they’re between life and death (heaven or hell). Obviously a fascinating concept, the movie was based on a play called Outward Bound, which had a revival directed on Broadway by Otto Preminger. The cast members, including Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, Edmund Gwenn and a young, beautiful Eleanor Parker, awaken on a strange luxury liner that is actually in the afterlife. This version was updated for a World War II setting. It was director Edward A. Blatt’s first time behind the camera, but he’d only make two more films. The original Outward Bound from 1930, starring Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., airs just before, at 9:00 AM. Both are Warner Bros. and neither is on DVD.
4:45 AM The October Man (Baker, 1947) - BW-96 mins. - Another directorial debut, this time for Roy Ward Baker, who’d go on to make the Titanic-set drama A Night to Remember and the Richard Widmark-Marilyn Monroe thriller Don’t Bother to Knock. This one stars John Mills as a survivor of a bus crash who then becomes a murder suspect. It’s not available on R1 DVD, but is in the R2 John Mills Centenary Collection (though it cannot be purchased individually). A look at IMDb provides a somewhat cloudy rights situation because it was released by Eagle-Lion Films, so I couldn’t say for certain who controls R1 rights. From reading, my guess is that United Artists/MGM would be the owner.
Friday March 28
11:15 AM A Woman’s Secret (Ray, 1949) - BW-85 mins. - Nicholas Ray’s worst film, in my opinion, but nonetheless worth seeing once. It stars Maureen O’Hara as a would-be singer and Melvyn Douglas as a songwriter. Gloria Grahame, who met the director and soon married him, comes along as O’Hara’s protegée and makes a mess of everything. Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz recycled his Citizen Kane flashback structure somewhat, but the result is far from successful. Still, it was Ray’s first released film and there’s a scene or two of interest. Plus it’s not on DVD yet, aside from a French Editions Montparnasse release. Made for RKO, Warner Bros. controls the rights.
12:45 PM Toys in the Attic (Hill, 1963) - BW-91 mins. - Dean Martin getting to act, with co-stars Geraldine Page, Wendy Hiller and Gene Tierney in one of her very last performances. Dino returns to New Orleans with young bride Yvette Mimieux and drama ensues among his sisters, played by Page and Hiller. It was also directed by George Roy Hill, who made the two Newman-Redford pictures (and only 14 films total), and based on a Lillian Hellman play. Sounds interesting for a rainy day. A Mirisch Corporation/United Artists production, the DVD rights sit with MGM.
Saturday March 29
3:00 AM Love with the Proper Stranger (Mulligan, 1964) - BW-101 mins. - Several Steve McQueen films are on tap for this evening, with this one finishing things off. McQueen gets Natalie Wood pregnant after a one-night stand and the two are faced with some difficult decisions. From a viewing several years ago, I remember the acting as quite good and the entire thing handled very delicately. Of course, the two leads were incredibly charismatic, attractive movie stars who both died much too young. The film earned five Oscar nods, including one for Wood. TCM shows it quite a bit, but there’s surprisingly no DVD yet. Paramount has the rights.
Sunday March 30
8:15 AM Comrade X (Vidor, 1940) - BW-90 mins. - This sounds quite a bit like Ninotchka. Clark Gable plays an American reporter who thaws out Hedy Lamarr while she’s trying to leave her native Soviet Union. It’s based on a story by Walter Reisch, who not coincidentally worked on the Ninotchka screenplay. A re-airing, as part of TCM’s monthlong tribute to Lamarr, comes later in the week on April 3 at 10:15 PM. Made for MGM, the film isn’t on DVD and Warner Bros. should control.
2:15 AM Mafioso (Lattuada, 1962) - BW-105 mins. - Criterion just released this on DVD last week, but I haven’t had the chance to pick it up yet. The Italian language film stars Alberto Sordi, who I really liked in Fellini’s I, Vitelloni, and, also, The White Sheik, as a family man who returns to the Sicily he grew up in only to be inadvertently connected to the Mafia. It errs on the side of comedy, I believe. I plan to get the DVD so I think I’ll be sitting this one out, but it’s nice of TCM to coincide the showing with the Criterion release.
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