June has a pretty good selection of films, most of which we have seen before. There are several films each by William Keighley, William Wellman, and William Seiter, all credible craftsmen; I especially like Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road (1933). There are also films by Anthony Mann, whose film noirs and Westerns are among the best in those genres. And there are three films by Chaplin -- The Great Dictator (1940) and Modern Times (1936) on June 3 and Monsieur Verdoux on June 23. Other films I like in June include the following:
June 4: Raoul Walsh's corrosive White Heat (1949)
June 6: Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
June 7: James Whale's superior, pre-code Waterloo Bridge (1931) and Howard Hawks's great Western Rio Bravo (1959)
June 9: Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess (1953) and Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
June 12: Joseph Mankiewicz's romantic The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), with a superb score by Bernard Herrmann.
June 14: Nicholas Ray's The Lusty Men (1952)
June 20: Buster Keaton's lovely The General (1927
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about any film playing on TCM in June.
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