TCM Bob Schedule for November

Not a lot of Bob offered up on TCM for November, but they are showing a Joel & Garda mini-marathon. For those who don't know, Joel & Garda Sloane are similar to Nick & Nora Charles in their detective ways, but there's less booze and no dog. Can you say DVD box set?

Check your local listings for your time zone.

November 29
3 p.m. Fast Company (1938)
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller . Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice, Louis Calhern. Dir: Edward Buzzell

4:30 p.m. Fast And Loose (1939)
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane investigate the killing of a noted collector. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Reginald Owen. Dir: Edwin L. Marin

6 p.m. Fast And Furious (1939)
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane get mixed up with murder during a beauty pageant . Cast: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey. Dir: Busby Berkeley

Photo Friday - Quick Starts and Fast Flow

Only in marketing can you have engine performance, oil, movies, and Robert Taylor come together. This particular handout came from Elsmer A. Guse's Standard Oil Dealership in Mayville, WI. Thank you, Elsmer.

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Ride The Pink Horse - Radio Style

Hop aboard the rickety merry go round with this Lux Radio Theater presentation of Ride The Pink Horse from Dec. 8, 1947. The film is one of my favorites and this radio version is just as good. Carrying over from the film version is Robert Montgomery as Lucky Gagin, Wanda Hendrix as Pila, and Thomas Gomez as Pancho.

27 MB MP3 - 1 hour

And if you think you hear a touch of Fred Flintstone in Frank Hugo's voice, you're not far off. Hugo is played by Alan Reed, voice of the lovable Fred.

Photo Friday: Lovers Courageous

Some marriage proposals are made over a romantic dinner. In this case, Mary (Madge Evans) busts into Willie's bedroom and proposes right there in this scene from 1932's Lovers Courageous.

"If you say another word I'll pop into that bed right now"

TCM 2.0

TCM.com has joined the social networking bandwagon (aka web 2.0). The site is now accepting images, video, comments, and reviews from visitors for their massive movie database.

Of note, there's additional content up now for Robert Montgomery: behind-the scenes photos for They Were Expendable and Private Lives, trailers, film clips, and a few misc. photos the size of a postage stamp. I particularly enjoyed the Private Lives pics, but could do without the phantom watermarks.