The highlight of July on TCM is the 34 movies directed by John Ford, six or seven of them every Friday night. Ford is the greatest of directors and my favorites include The Searchers (1956), How Green Was My Valley (1941) and Sergeant Rutledge (1960); I recommend every Ford film.
Other films in July include:
July 1: Top Hat (1935), directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, songs by Irving Berlin
July 5: Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951) and Jacques Rivette's complex Paris Belongs to Us (1961)
July 7: Samuel Fuller films, including Pickup on South Street (1953)
July 8: Ernst Lubitsch's marvelous Ninotchka (1939), starring Greta Garbo.
July 12: Chaplin's The Idle Class (1921) and The Kid (1921).
July 14:Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai (1967)
July 16: Howard Hawks's musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
July 19: Ingmar Bergman's film of Mozart's The Magic Flute (1975)
July 22: Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
July 25: Michael Curtiz's The Breaking Point (1950), from Hemingway's To Have and Have Not.
July 29: Preston Sturges's brilliantly funny The Lady Eve (1941) and Jacques Tourneur's Western Wichita.
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