Programming Note

[Leslie Howard and Kay Francis in British Agent, 1934]

British Agent (1934) to air on TCM Friday, October 28, 10:45 AM EST, 7:45 AM PST [Please check your local listings]

British Agent is a film based on the autobiography of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, a member of the British Secret Service. Lockhart's book, Memoirs of a British Agent, was also said to have inspired one of the

Blow-Up

I like everything British. I hope one day to make it to England, but for now I only have the movies. And one of my favorite British movies will be playing on TCM at 1:30 am PST on Monday, May 9. (Check your listings for the time in your area.) I must mention it because its appearance on the tube here is rare.

Blow-Up, Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 "mod masterpiece" about a fashion photographer who believes he accidentally caught a murder on film, defied the movie industry's Production Code of the time, a code abandoned in favor of the MPAA film rating system in 1968 due largely to the success of this film.

Herbie Hancock scored the movie which was ranked No. 144 in the Sight and Sound magazine greatest films poll. It is definitely at the top of my list. Check it out.

Blow-Up on Wikipedia

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Happy Birthday to Tyrone Power (1914 - 1958)

It would be hard to choose a favorite Ty Power movie, but at the top of the list is Rawhide. Whenever I mention Rawhide people always utter, "What?" It's a great movie with a stellar cast: Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe and the best group of character actors ever assembled in one movie: Edgar Buchanan, Dean Jagger, George Tobias and the brilliant Jack Elam.

[Tyrone Power and Hugh Marlowe
in Rawhide, 1951]

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