Each Tuesday Hunter highlights the best classic films airing in the coming week on TCM.
You might say this week’s films are “Movies I Always Kinda’, Sorta’ Thought About Seeing, But Never Really Went Out Of My Way To See, So I Guess I Might As Well See Them.”
So yeah, I’d definitely check them out, though if you’d rather just go see Jurassic World again, nobody would blame you.
THIS WEEK’S PICKS
Friday, July 31
Is there any Hitchcock movie more quintessentially Hitchcockian than The Wrong Man? Hell, the title could basically be applied to 57% of his output. Ironic then that this is perhaps one of his lesser efforts, though it’s certainly essential viewing for fans of the Master of the Suspense. It’s also his only collaboration with Henry Fonda, who go on to be part of far scarier scenarios – i.e. being Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda’s dad during the 1960s and 1970s. Shudder.
Sunday, August 02
One of the first color films remains one of the most spectacular. Renowned rapscallion Errol Flynn swashbuckles as the Knight of Sherwood Forest in 1938’s The Adventures of Robin Hood. With a parade of grown men prancing about in technicolor tights, this movie should be cheesier than it is. But amazingly it retains its power to charm, nearly 80 years later.
Sunday, August 02
One of the all-time greats Bette Davis plays a crazed Southern spinster in this strange picture from 1964, Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte. I don’t know what else to say about it, other than (spoiler alert) Bruce Dern gets his hand lopped off with a meat cleaver in a scene that freaked me out as a kid.
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