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Starring Peter Sellers:
Heavens Above!
Sellers' last comedy for the Boulting Brothers was this gentle farce offering him as a prison chaplain mistakenly handed the vicarage of a conservative commnunity that's quicky discomfited with his notions of how to minister to the needy. TCM's passed the collection plate for a generous offering on this enduring charmer, and you can hear its praises sung if you click here.
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Starring Peter Sellers:
The Party
Sellers teamed with his Pink Panther director Blake Edwards for this riotous slapstick homage, as he portrays an Indian star whose on-set presence scuttles a big-budget Hollywood project, and compounds the disaster when he mistakenly believes he's welcome at the wrap celebration. TCM's got your invite to an appreciation of this comic classic, and you can hit the refreshments if you click here.
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Starring Peter Sellers:
Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick's pitch-black farce from the height of the Cold War, featuring Peter in three separate roles, comically chronicles the aftermath once an unhinged American general (Sterling Hayden) authorizes a nuclear airstrike against the Soviets. The AMPAS reognized the picture, Sellers' performance and Kubrick's direction and co-writing with a total of four nominations, and TCM has a few more bombshells to ride down on you if you click here.
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Cult Movie Picks:
The Ghoul
This early British horror film offered Boris Karloff, in his first production in his homeland, as an Egyptologist who actually makes good on his promise to wreak venegeance on any who would defile his grave. TCM's exhumed quite a bit of detail on this long-thought-lost shocker, and you can see all the dirt if you click here.
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Cult Movie Picks:
Brand Upon The Brain!
Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin offered up an unusual cinematic experience, even by his lights, as he employed silent-era narrative devices to craft a bizarre portrait of his troubled and traumatic childhood. This slice of singular storytelling has recently made its DVD debut courtesy of the Criterion Collection, and TCM will share all the particulars if you click here.
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Cult Movie Picks:
What Did You Do In The War, Daddy?
This favorite WWII farce from Blake Edwards offers James Coburn and Dick Shawn as the brass of a occupying unit that has rolled into a Sicilian town, whose fathers have promised no resistance--so long as their annual soccer bacchanalia goes off without a hitch. TCM's rolled out a remarkable recollection on this bit of battlefield bufoonery, and you can head into it if you click here.
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American Politics In The Movies:
The Last Hurrah
John Ford delivered a magnificent adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's telling take on old-school big-city wheeling and dealing, and got masterful work from Spencer Tracy as the longtime incumbent mayor facing an uphill climb in his final reelection bid. TCM's got a straw poll on this gem from Tracy's career twilight, and you cna draw the curtain if you click here.
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American Politics In The Movies:
The Candidate
Little has dated about this trenchant peek into the American political process, which offers producer/star Robert Redford as a legal aid lawyer who finds his integrity tested once he's courted to engage in a long-shot senatorial run. TCM's got the spin on Redford's road to developing this frank foray, and you can be part of the exit poll if you click here.
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American Politics In The Movies:
Advise And Consent
Otto Preminger's all-star adaptation of Allen Drury's blistering Beltway tale followed the backroom backstabbing surrounding the Senate confirmation of cabinet nominee Henry Fonda, and was frank in depicting the pressure placed upon junior senator Don Murray regarding revelation of the activities of his past. TCM's taken roll on the multiple facets of this ever-relevant drama, and you can bring them to the floor if you click here.
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Crime Capers:
Topkapi
Jules Dassin concocted a colorful flipside of his dark heist classic Rififi when he crafted this tale of a mismatched gaggle of crooks, including Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell and Robert Morley, who conspire to pilfer a jeweled dagger from an impenetrable Istanbul museum. TCM's gotten its hands on the blueprint for this charmer, including the reflections of Oscar winner Peter Ustinov, and you can steal a look if you click here.
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Crime Capers:
Odds Against Tomorrow
This riveting tale from the waning days of the film noir cycle offered Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan and Ed Begley as a cabal of losers whose own racial resentments may be the one flaw in their scheme to knock over a small-town bank. TCM offers the recollections of Belafonte, who financed the project, and more backstory on this remarkable thriller if you click here.
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Crime Capers:
Cops And Robbers
Crime novelist Donald Westlake adapted his own work for this effective cult caper effort, which starred Joseph Bologna and Cliff Gorman as NYPD officers who elect to supplement their department pensions by bringing off an audacious heist of bearer bonds. TCM's typed out its report on this oft-overlooked gem, and you can check out the lineup if you click here.
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