# On TCM Monday, December 18 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2005, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-tcm-monday-december-18/336276 "2005-12-19T09:06:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-tcm-monday-december-18/336276/1 "2005-12-19T09:06:17Z")
Two good movies coming up: 10am Eastern; 7am Pacific _ **The Fugitive** _ **1947 dir: John Ford Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio** A classic of the “outlaw disguised as a priest” genre, based on a novel by Graham Greene. Along with _The Informer_ and _The Long Voyage Home_, one of John Ford’s more self-consciously high-styled movies. Detractors of this film fault the film’s focus on gorgeous cinematography (by Gabriel Figueroa, whose sublime work on Emilio Fernández’s _María Candelaria_, 1944, brought him to Ford’s attention) at the perceived expense of theme and plot. This is hardly a unanimous opinion, however, and either way _The Fugitive_ is worth your time. And– 4:15am Eastern; 1:15am Pacific (technically on the 20th, but TCM’s schedule goes 6am to 6am) **_Cry Terror_ 1958 dir: Andrew L. Stone James Mason, Inger Stevens, Rod Steiger, Angie Dickinson** A taught little family-paranoia thriller. James Mason’s family is kidnapped by Rod Steiger. He’ll kill the little girl unless the mother, Inger Stevens, goes and gets the ransom money. Meanwhile, there’s a subplot involving Angie Dickinson, airliners, and plutonium, and Steiger’s portrayal of a startingly brutal psychopath keeps things moving along pretty briskly. Eye-openingly vicious, if a bit of a stretch suspension-of-disbelief-wise. ---
**Author:** ![AmbushBug](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ambushbug/32/4600_2.png) [@AmbushBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmbushBug)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-tcm-monday-december-18/336276/2 "2005-12-19T09:39:51Z")
Gosh, I didn’t know that TCM scheduled a whole year in advance! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-tcm-monday-december-18/336276/3 "2005-12-19T09:54:06Z")
Oy. Should be December 19. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-tcm-monday-december-18/336276/4 "2005-12-19T15:14:34Z")
Are they hurtin’ that bad in the ratings that they have to relegate the really good stuff to pajama time? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-tcm-monday-december-18/336276/5 "2005-12-19T18:20:55Z")
They tend to put the “features” on in prime time, otherwise the schedule is always pretty mixed. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-tcm-monday-december-18/336276/6 "2005-12-19T23:03:50Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Two good movies coming up: 10am Eastern; 7am Pacific _ **The Fugitive** _ **1947 dir: John Ford Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio** A classic of the “outlaw disguised as a priest” genre, based on a novel by Graham Greene. Along with _The Informer_ and _The Long Voyage Home_, one of John Ford’s more self-consciously high-styled either . Detractors of this film fault the film’s focus on gorgeous cinematography (by Gabriel Figueroa, whose sublime work on Emilio Fernández’s _María Candelaria_, 1944, brought him to Ford’s attention) at the perceived expense of theme and plot. This is hardly a unanimous opinion, however, and either way _The Fugitive_ is worth your time. _The Fugitive_ is interesting not so ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-tcm-monday-december-18/336276/7 "2005-12-19T23:06:18Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] > [@lissener](#): > > _The Fugitive_ is interesting not so 😕 ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-tcm-monday-december-18/336276/8 "2005-12-19T23:07:54Z")
eesh. meant to subtract the opening “quote” tag. Should read: > [@NDP](#): > > \*The Fugitive \*is interesting not so 😕 ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-tcm-monday-december-18/336276/9 "2005-12-19T23:17:29Z")
Ignore my post. I need a new keyboard for x-mas.