Each Tuesday Hunter highlights the best classic films airing in the coming week on TCM.
Robots would go screwy. A classic comedy that would be classified as screwball. And a movie based on a play about a screwed up Southern family. It’s a screwy week here on Turner Classic Tuesdays, so go screw yourself, I guess.
THIS WEEK’S PICKS
<b>Tuesday, September 22</b>
On a day featuring both Forbidden Planet and 2001: A Space Odyssey, what could I possibly pick other than those two genre masterpieces? Westworld is the answer. I recommended Michael Crichton’s 1973 robots-run-amok flick back at Episode 17 so now’s your chance to catch up.
<strong>Sunday, September 27</strong>
It’s rare that any two stars who belong on the Mount Rushmore of movies share as much on-screen chemistry as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. That dynamism is on full display in Howard Hawks’ 1938 screwball masterpiece Bringing Up Baby about a ditzy heiress and dweeby paleontologist who fall in love while trying to rescue a leopard in upstate New York. We’ve all been there, right? Fun Fact – Cary Grant’s performance inspired Christopher Reeve’s interpretation of Clark Kent in Superman: The Movie.
<b>Monday, September 28</b>
In a movie perhaps most well remembered for Elizabeth Taylor being smoking hot, Chris will probably be spending the whole time man-crushing on Paul Newman…in any event, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is arguably the best film version of a Tennessee Williams’ play not named A Streetcar Named Desire. Also, if your only experience with Burl Ives is as the Snowman in Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, sit back and watch him steal the show as the Colonel Sanders-esque Big Daddy.
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