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TCM Diary

TCM Diary: They Were Expendable

By Sheila O'Malley
June 6, 2019
World on fire: in an increasingly dire situation, John Ford’s characters look to the skies or out to sea, hoping for intervention

TCM Diary: The Color of Ototo

By Bruce Bennett
May 2, 2019
Shades of spring: Kon Ichikawa’s 1960 Ototo cools the typically overheated genre of juvenile delinquent drama

TCM Diary: The Decks Ran Red

By Justin Stewart
March 26, 2019
Red skies at dawn: Dorothy Dandridge and James Mason star in a tale of bloody mutiny on the high seas

TCM Diary: Man of Aran

By Sheila O'Malley
March 6, 2019
Truth in fiction: Robert Flaherty's 1934 "documentary" remains an astounding depiction of a landscape that still shocks and stuns

TCM Diary: Sounder

By Sheila O'Malley
February 12, 2019
Dirt roads and green fields: remarkable performances by Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson punctuate Martin Ritt's 1972 family classic

TCM Diary: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

By Justin Stewart
January 15, 2019
Illegal guardian: Susan Tyrrell plays an uncomfortably possessive aunt in a 1981 cocktail of familial perversity and slasher thrills

TCM Diary: Borzage’s Strange Cargo

By Justin Stewart
December 14, 2018
Carrying on: Frank Borzage's allegorical film stars Joan Crawford as cabaret singer and Clark Gable as a thief

TCM Diary: Glenda Farrell

By Justin Stewart
November 5, 2018
Fast track: the actress brought a thoughtful swing to the genre-hopping newspaper milieu of Hi, Nellie!

TCM Diary: The Canterville Ghost

By Sheila O'Malley
October 16, 2018
Speaking of spooky: Charles Laughton excels in a superior adaptation of an Oscar Wilde yarn, American style

TCM Diary: The Wild Boys of Wellman

By Justin Stewart
September 11, 2018
The long way home: William A. Wellman shows his mettle with the young hobo heroes of Wild Boys of the Road