Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Today on TCM:
Bad Day at Black Rock, reviewed here, is 1955's modern-day take on the American Western. This exceptional suspense-thriller is also a former entry in Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley and will occur Thursday, February 20 at 9:20 am PST.
(From left) Russell Collins, Walter Brennan, Spencer Tracy (seated), Dean Jagger, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) has Humphrey Bogart portraying perhaps his darkest and most psychologically troubled character. Watching his slow transformation from an honest and idealistic adventurer to a tormented, paranoid psychotic is one of the art's most stunning, dramatically forceful experiences, perfectly matched to a magnificent and fatalistically ironic conclusion. My further thoughts on this film are here. This cinematic treasure can be discovered Thursday, February 20 at 2:45 pm PST.
(From left) Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt
One of director John Frankenheimer’s more accomplished films is Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), reviewed here as part of our “Dish of the Day” series, and arriving at TCM Thursday, February 20 at 5 pm PST.
Burt Lancaster, “little runt” (sparrow)
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