Aviation movies on TCM for May 2013

[The Inspector]

May starts out slow but gets galloping towrds the end, times shown are EDT so make your own time zone corrections-
May 10 10:15 P.M. Above and Beyond, Robert Taylor plays Paul Tibbets
May 15 5 P.M. Forbidden planet, one more chance to appreciate Anne Francis
May 17 1:30 P.M. Mission over Korea, John Hodiak and a bunch of L-5 Stinsons
May 20 2:30 P.M. Flight of the Phoenix the 1965 version
May 25 3 A.M. until 3 P.M. submarines! several sewer pipe movies in a row.
May 26 10:00 A.M. They were Expendable,
3P.M. Flying Leathernecks,
5 P.M. the best parade ground marching ever, attached to the best squad movie ever
BATTLEGROUND

May 27 2 P.M. 'Best Years of our Lives,
5 P.M. Air Force
7:15 P.M. Command Decision
9:15 God is my Co-Pilot
11 P.M. DIVE BOMBER
May 29 1 A.M. The Crowded Sky (there ya go Chris B. )
May 30 1:30 P.M. Five Came Back followed by the 1956 remake Back From Eternity

Check times close to shown dates/times as Turner does insert things or change times.

[Mark Allen M]

Thanks Bill for the great 'heads up' each month. Recorder ready to go ... BTW you must know some big people in high places

[Matt Gunsch]

I'm still waiting for them to show The Lady takes a flyer....

[The Inspector]

Thanks Bill for the great 'heads up' each month. Recorder ready to go ... BTW you must know some big people in high places

I've been accused of having low friends in high places..........................

[Chris Brame]

I'm still waiting for them to show The Lady Takes a Flyer....

And Sunday Dinner for a Soldier as well, for those Florida trainer B-17s. I need to get stills from both for aerovin's B-17 movie page.

Good news about Crowded Sky as well - it'll give me an excuse to finally sit down and finish the novel. Also want to get stills of the cars for the IMCDB... Efrem Zimbalist Jr. drives an Edsel; there's your first sign things aren't going to go well for him!

[The Inspector]

I'm still waiting for them to show The Lady Takes a Flyer....

And Sunday Dinner for a Soldier as well, for those Florida trainer B-17s. I need to get stills from both for aerovin's B-17 movie page.

Good news about Crowded Sky as well - it'll give me an excuse to finally sit down and finish the novel. Also want to get stills of the cars for the IMCDB... Efrem Zimbalist Jr. drives an Edsel; there's your first sign things aren't going to go well for him!

Because he traded in his De SOTO for it?

[tom d. friedman]

"the Hanoi Hilton" will be on the military channel Saturday may 4th 8pm eastern time. never have seen it, i'll be their!!

[Rajay]

I'm still waiting for them to show The Lady Takes a Flyer....

And Sunday Dinner for a Soldier as well, for those Florida trainer B-17s. I need to get stills from both for aerovin's B-17 movie page.

Good news about Crowded Sky as well - it'll give me an excuse to finally sit down and finish the novel. Also want to get stills of the cars for the IMCDB... Efrem Zimbalist Jr. drives an Edsel; there's your first sign things aren't going to go well for him!

Oh yeah, isn't Crowded Sky the one about the mid-air collision over Texas between EZJ in the eastbound T-33 (or was it an F-94?) and Dana Andrews (and crew) in the westbound bomber? I remember reading some stuff once about the "irony" of their later reversal of roles in Airport 75.

[Kdmoo]

May 15 5 P.M. Forbidden planet, one more chance to appreciate Anne Francis

Anne Francis...hubba hubba hubba!

[Chris Brame]

Oh yeah, isn't Crowded Sky the one about the mid-air collision over Texas between EZJ in the eastbound T-33 (or was it an F-94?) and Dana Andrews (and crew) in the westbound bomber? I remember reading some stuff once about the "irony" of their later reversal of roles in Airport 75.

Close. EZJ's plane in the story was a TV-2, but played by the first civilian T-Bird N233Y, an RT-33 that had been built up from several wrecks in the late fifties. This RT has a more squared nose, and the photo ports are faired over. It wears hi-viz orange and NMF but very pointedly does not say "Navy" anywhere; I guess the USN refused to assist with the movie. Its call sign is "8255" (which does not correspond to any TV-2s; in the novel it's 113255 which doesn't either).
Andrews and crew (including Anne Francis again!) are in a National Airlines DC-6 repainted in fictitious Trans-States Airlines markings; in the novel it's a "Pacific Central Airlines" DC-7.

[HPDCapt]

Thanks Inspector for the heads up for the movies this month. My DVR is going to get a workout!

[Dave Downs]

'Misson Over Korea' is a new one for me, so I DVR'd it and watched about half of it last night....

Horrible, corny 'B' movie plot and dialog.....but......looping an L-5 AROUND another L-5 that is in level flight...
OK - it was probably not directly 'around' the one in level flight but it sure looked good!

And what about the 'North Korean' enemy aircraft (P-51's painted flat black or green with a big 'commie' star on them)...the film is dated 1953 so the P-51's were still an active aircraft..... I gotta check the credits...

Will watch the second half tonight .. but .. I will fast forward through some (most?) of the dialog.......

[Rajay]

That's probably not as bad as what I saw in "Charlie Wilson's War" the other day. Over all, I liked the movie but after the insurgents shoot down their first three Hind-D helicopters with shoulder-launched missiles supplied by the US, the movie goes on to show them shooting down several "Soviet fixed wing aircraft" as well - except that the so-called "Soviet fixed-wing aircraft" that they showed were really an A-6 Intruder and an F-4 Phantom!!!!

I don't remember looking too closely at the Hind-D helicopters, so I don't remember if they were "real" or not; even as far back as the original "Red Dawn" the "Hind-D" Soviet helicopters were really heavily modified (and quite well done) Sikorsky S-61/H-3 types.

[Chris Brame]

Red alert! Sky Commando (1953) will be on Antenna TV on May 28 at 1:30 AM and 7:00 AM CDT. The IMDB reviews make it sound like a mishmosh of mismatched stock footage. It uses a B-26 Marauder cockpit and fuselage for the inflight shots - maybe the future Tallichet pieces?


And you gotta love a trailer with blurbs like this:


Cool, man, cool...

[Rajay]

Red alert! Sky Commando (1953) will be on Antenna TV on May 28 at 1:30 AM and 7:00 AM CDT. The IMDB reviews make it sound like a mishmosh of mismatched stock footage. It uses a B-26 Marauder cockpit and fuselage for the inflight shots - maybe the future Tallichet pieces?

Cool, man, cool...

Just which channel on my DISH Network satellite here in NC is "Antenna TV" exactly?

That sounds like it might be available only to your own local area...in which case it's hardly worth even mentioning here!