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
Tuesday, September 22
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.
Sunday, September 27
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.
Monday, September 28
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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