Thanks for that heads up, ChiO and kingme.
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In celebration of what would have been the man's 97th birthday, it is wall to wall
Sterling Hayden tomorrow on TCM during the day and
Crime Wave is one of my favorites,* even if Hayden dismissed this and most of his movies with a shrug. Too bad they never seem to show those ol' Paramount movies with a very young Hayden pretending to be an actor instead of the sailor he longed to be. He may have been an even better writer.
As he wrote years later while contemplating the odd voyage he took through Hollywood and longing to run away from it all to sea once again,
"The sun beats down and you pace, you pace and you pace. Your mind flies free and you see yourself as an actor, condemned to a treadmill wherein men and women conspire to breathe life into a screenplay that allegedly depicts life as it was in the old wild West.,,, You see yourself coming awake any one of a thousand mornings between the spring of 1954, and that of 1958 ‑ alone in a double bed in a big white house deep in suburban Sherman Oaks, not far from Hollywood.... "The windows are open wide, and beyond these is the backyard swimming pool inert and green, within a picket fence. You turn and gaze at a pair of desks not far from the double bed. This is your private office, the place that shelters your fondest hopes: these desks so neat, patiently waiting for the day that never comes, the day you'll sit down at last and begin to write...."Why did you never write? Why, instead, did you grovel along, through the endless months and years, as a motion‑picture actor? What held you to it, to something you so vehemently professed to despise? Could it be that you secretly liked it—that the big dough and the big house and the high life meant more than the aura you spun for those around you to see?"
- Excerpts from
Wanderer written by Sterling Hayden in 1963
Here are all the movies on tap tomorrow (all times shown are ET):
6:00 AM
ASPHALT JUNGLE, THE (1950)
A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Sterling Hayden , Louis Calhern , Jean Hagen .
BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC,
8:00 AM
GOLDEN HAWK, THE (1952)
Male and female pirates join forces against a corrupt Caribbean governor.
Dir: Sidney Salkow Cast: Rhonda Fleming , Sterling Hayden , Helena Carter .
C-82 mins, TV-PG,
9:30 AM
SO BIG (1953)
A schoolteacher-turned-farmer fights to save the land and her son.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Jane Wyman , Sterling Hayden , Nancy Olson .
BW-102 mins, TV-PG, CC,
11:15 AM
ARROW IN THE DUST (1954)
A deserter takes on his dead captain's identity to save a wagon train.
Dir: Lesley Selander Cast: Sterling Hayden , Coleen Gray , Keith Larsen .
C-80 mins, TV-PG, CC,
12:45 PM
CRIME WAVE (1954)
A reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
Dir: Andre DeToth Cast: Sterling Hayden , Gene Nelson , Phyllis Kirk .
BW-74 mins, TV-14, CC,
2:00 PM
BATTLE TAXI (1955)
A hotshot jet pilot joins a helicopter rescue team during the Korean War.
Dir: Herbert L. Strock Cast: Sterling Hayden , Arthur Franz , Marshall Thompson .
BW-80 mins, TV-PG,
3:30 PM
FIVE STEPS TO DANGER (1957)
A couple attempts to keep important secrets from Communist spies.
Dir: Henry S. Kesler Cast: Ruth Roman , Sterling Hayden , Werner Klemperer .
BW-80 mins, TV-PG, CC,
5:00 PM
TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN (1958)
A whaler inherits his father's farm but has to fight off a corrupt town boss.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis Cast: Sterling Hayden , Sebastian Cabot , Carol Kelly .
BW-81 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
6:30 PM
CAROL FOR ANOTHER CHRISTMAS, A (1964)
Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Gordon Spencer , Barbara Amteer , Sterling Hayden .
BW-86 mins, TV-G, CC,
*Crime Wave (1954) remains a fave even if Dub Taylor never gets to hear Doris Day finish her song! Love the Dubster, but between the feature film
Dragnet (1953) and this Andre de Toth gem, he must have needed a better agent.