Each Tuesday Hunter highlights the best classic films airing in the coming week on TCM.
Perhaps my favorite decade for film was the 1950s. It bridged the Old Hollywood class of the 1930s and 1940s, with the more honest, outspoken, and organic New Hollywood of the 1960s and 1970s. These three films give a strong representation of the cinematic diversity the 1950s displayed.
THIS WEEK’S PICKS
Thursday, May 07 Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper have a May-December romance (well, more like April-November) in Love In The Afternoon, a whimsical, lesser-known film from Billy Wilder.
Friday, May 08
So how great of a director was Orson Welles’? Well, he made a movie with Charlton Heston as a Mexican, and himself as an almost unrecognizable, corpulent, corrupt cop – and the result is Touch of Evil, one of the greatest noirs ever.
<strong>Sunday, May 10</strong>
The late, great Ernest Borgnine won his one and only Oscar as the unlucky in love Marty. This film was written by Paddy Chayefsky, who would go on to write 1976’s Network.
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