August is not a bad month at TCM --a number of good melodramas-- but not much new or unusual.
Aug. 1 has two terrific melodramas with Frank Sinatra: Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running (1956), from a novel by James Jones, and Otto Preminger's The Man With the Golden Arm, from a novel by Nelson Algren. Both films have great scores by Elmer Bernstein.
Aug. 4th has Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) and Don Siegel's Coogan's Bluff (1968).
Aug. 8 has Lubitsch' s The Merry Widow (1934).
Aug. 10 has two melodramas by Douglas Sirk: Tarnished Angels (1958, from a Faulkner novel) and Written on the Wind (1957).
Aug. 16 has Lubitsch's elegant and funny Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Aug. 18 has John Ford's Mogambo (1953).
Aug. 20th has Fritz Lang's mythopoeic Moonfleet (1955).
Aug. 21 has John Ford's wonderful film with Will Rogers, Judge Priest (1934).
Aug. 22 has two superb films noir by Otto Preminger, Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) and Fallen Angel (1945).
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