Dane Clark Rocks
Posted: September 27th, 2010, 5:35 pm
Hey, let the meeting come to order, please, folks--sit right down front if you are among the silent minority who like Dane Clark! Please speak up, shout out your favorites and those you'd like to see aired, won't you? (I'd like to see Action in the North Atlantic for the umpteenth time). Here's how TCM honored him today with scads of obscure Dane sightings in the following films:
6:30 AM
The Very Thought Of You (1944)
In-law problems threaten a wartime marriage. Cast: Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark. Dir: Delmer Daves. BW-98 mins, TV-G, CC
8:15 AM
God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
A flyer dismissed as too old fights to prove himself against the Japanese. Cast: Dennis Morgan, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale. Dir: Robert Florey. BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:00 AM
Her Kind Of Man (1946)
A singer can't choose between a charismatic gangster and an honest newspaperman. Cast: Dane Clark, Zachary Scott, Janis Paige. Dir: Frederick de Cordova. BW-78 mins, TV-G
11:30 AM
Deep Valley (1947)
A farmer's daughter helps an escaped convict. Cast: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris. Dir: Jean Negulesco. BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC
1:30 PM
That Way With Women (1947)
An elderly millionaire makes a hobby of playing cupid. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Dane Clark, Martha Vickers. Dir: Frederick de Cordova. BW-84 mins, TV-PG
3:00 PM
Embraceable You (1948)
When he accidentally injures a young girl, a gangster risks his freedom to nurse her. Cast: Dance Clark, Geraldine Brooks, S.Z. Sakall. Dir: Felix Jacoves. BW-80 mins, TV-G
4:30 PM
Fort Defiance (1951)
A Civil War veteran returns to his hometown to avenge his brother's death. Cast: Dane Clark, Ben Johnson, Peter Graves. Dir: John Rawlins. C-82 mins, TV-PG
6:00 PM
Never Trust a Gambler (1951)
A small-time gambler goes on the lam from a murder charge. Cast: Dane Clark, Cathy O'Donnell, Tom Drake. Dir: Ralph Murphy. BW-78 mins, TV-14
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My favorite of the bunch is Deep Valley, which I've written about here. Moonrise is a close second, which I blathered about here.
One movie that I'd never seen before but that I got completely sucked into was the lachrymose Embraceable You today, (which seemed to be a shorthand version of Moonrise) but will try to catch up on the others that were shown. I LOVED Embraceable You 'cause it had Dane, Geraldine Brooks, "Cuddles" Sakall being bullied by bad guys, a wedding scene that made me cry when Cuddles performed the traditional breaking of the glasses, and wall to wall Gershwin tunes (so glad that Warners got their money's worth after they bought the rights to George and Ira's songbook for the highly imaginative if rather air-brushed biopic, Rhapsody in Blue). Embraceable You was a "B" movie, but Dane + Geraldine were a good combination. I liked the way she seemed tougher than him as the movie progressed.
Did anyone have a chance to record Her Kind of Man?? I bolloxed up the DVR around then and didn't get to see it.