Turner Classic Movies Sept. 2019

Solid month of classic films, including the return of Noir Alley, after a one month hiatus.

Sept. 1 starts the month out well:  Lubitsch's The Merry Widow (1934), Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), Mark Sandrich directing Rogers and Astaire in Top Hat (1935), Fritz Lang's intense and fatalistic Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) and John Ford's The Searchers (1956).

Sept. 4 has King Vidor's Street Scene (1931; see my post of Dec. 1, 2018),Howard Hawks's Scarface (1932), D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossons (1919), Buster Keaton's The General (1927),

Sept. 5 Phil Karlson's corrosive The Phenix City Story (1955), Otto Preminger's widescreen black-and-white Bunny Lake is Missing (1965), Chaplin's The Circus (1928).
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Sept. 9 Charles Walters's charming musical Good News (1947, see my post of Jun. 17, 2018)

Sept. 11 Deborah Kerr in Michael Powell's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940), and Alexander MacKendrick's dark The Sweet Smell of Success (1957).

Sept. 14 Budd Boetticher's austere Western Ride Lonesome (1957)

Sept. 17 Otto Preminger's film noir Angel Face (1953)

Sept. 19  Kay Francis in Robert Florey's The House on 56th St.(1933, see my post of 4/1/19), John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln (1939).

Sept. 21 three bleak masterpieces:  Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953), Otto Preminger's The Man with The Golden Arm (1956, from the Nelson Algren novel), Jean Renoir's Woman on the Beach (1947).

Sept. 24 Phil Karlson's downbeat caper film 5 Against the House (1955)

Sept. 30 Vincente Minnelli's Tea and Sympathy (1956), from the play by Robert Anderson, who went to the same prep school I did, where the play and movie take place.