OT:Harold Lloyd marathon tomorrow on TCM

[Nelson]

Okay comedy fans, if you missed out on the Harold Lloyd festival that aired back in April on Turner Classic Movies, now's your second chance to treat yourself to see a comedy legend in action.Starting tomorrow 9/16/03 at 6am, TCM will present a 14 hour Harold Lloyd marathon, including some of Lloyd's best film work from his silent shorts to his silent and sound feature length films.Here's the complete set list for tomorrow.

FROM HAND TO MOUTH (1919) 6am
ASK FATHER (1919) 6:30am
HIGH AND DIZZY (1920) 7am
I DO (1921) 7:30am
SAFETY LAST (1923) 8am
THE FRESHMAN (1925) 9:15am *Highly Remcomended*
WELCOME DANGER (1929) 10:30am *Lloyd's first sound film*
MOVIE CRAZY (1932) 12:30pm
THE CAT'S PAW (1934) 2:30pm
THE MILKY WAY (1936) 4:30pm
HAROLD LLOYD'S WORLD OF COMEDY (1962) 6pm

All times (est)

The films are fully restored and digitally re-mastered direct from the Harold Lloyd Trust and it's a festival not to miss and don't forget that on Sunday evening 9/28/03, TCM will present an all night Buster Keaton marathon starting at 12am.

Enjoy!
-Nelson ;)

[billyjoelfan]

Humm Harold Lloyd Is He In Anyway Releated to harold zoid lol (Ok ok i know that was pretty lame)

Thx Nelson i'll try to make some time for one of the movies listed

Billy Joel Fan~

[Nelson]

While I'm at it, I know there is a lot of Buster Keaton fans here on this board, so I'll post the listings for the Keaton marathon on Sunday night 9/28/03.

12am SILENT SUNDAY NIGHTS
TCM will air three of Keaton's silent shorts during their weekly Silent Sunday Nights showcase..All Keaton shorts making making their TCM premiere.

COPS (1922) THE BLACKSMITH (1922) and THE BALLOONATIC (1923)

1:30am THE DOUGHBOYS (1930)

3am THE PASSIONATE PLUMBER (1932)

4:30am SPITE MARRIAGE (1929)

All times (est)

[rodney]

I really wanted a copy of Safety Last, and I totally forgot to set the timer on the VCR this morning....dagnabbit!

[Patrick McCart]

The Cat's Paw and The Milky Way were fantastic.

The ending of The Cat's Paw obviously had some Hays editing (The decapitated body is REALLY graphic!) but thankfully was restored for the HL estate print.

[Nelson]

The Cat's Paw and The Milky Way were fantastic.

The ending of The Cat's Paw obviously had some Hays editing (The decapitated body is REALLY graphic!) but thankfully was restored for the HL estate print.

When "The Milky Way" aired back in April, somehow TCM screwed up and showed a very good public domain print instead of using the Trust's fully restored 35mm print from what someone that works for the HL trust told me and today, TCM finally aired the correct print of TML for the marathon.Condsidering that "Welcome Danger" and "The Cat's Paw" are totally politcally incorrect by today's moral standards, those two films are a delight to watch and very funny.Funny you mention that Patrick, about the ending to "The Cat's Paw" that that entire beheading scene did not sit well with the Hays production office back in 1934 and it's a very gory graphic sequence for a 1934 feature, as this was the only Harold Lloyd film that he made from a best selling novel.

I do hope that everyone that managed to tape today's marahton for the one standout Lloyd film "The Freshman" (1925), as it's cleary Lloyd's best work and a brilliant American comedy masterpiece. :)

[cabe624]

I do hope that everyone that managed to tape today's marahton for the one standout Lloyd film "The Freshman" (1925), as it's cleary Lloyd's best work and a brilliant American comedy masterpiece. :)
I did tape "The Freshman", but somehow the rest of the recording schedule for my VCR did not tape, so I missed out on 2 of the films that I really wanted to see - "The Cat's Paw" and "The Milky Way" http://forums.toonzone.net/images/smilies/mad.gif. Still a great marathon, and I'll catch tonight's films.

[mornin' sam]

I do hope that everyone that managed to tape today's marahton for the one standout Lloyd film "The Freshman" (1925), as it's cleary Lloyd's best work and a brilliant American comedy masterpiece. :)

"the Freshman" is great, but I think "the Kid Brother" is Lloyd's best work from among the half-dozen or so of his films I've seen (doesn't include "Safety Last"...yet. I taped it.) It may seem a bit more old-fashioned in its melodramatic aspects, but I think it has incredible gags; unlike Keaton or Chaplin, who (like Wile E. Coyote) were constantly at odds with their physical environment, Lloyd is shown to be an absolute master of his physical space.