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The small screen plays Heston’s big screen films
Just in case you missed it, here’s my Charlton Heston tribute I penned over the weekend (typed just doesn’t have the same ring to it, ya know?)
Meanwhile, after putting “Charlton Heston” into the TV Guide database, I discovered these films are already on the schedule:
10 p.m. Tuedsay - Major Dundee on TCM: This is apparently something of a rarity, as it’s the extended cut of the Sam Peckinpah Western also starring Richard Harris and James Coburn.
5 p.m. Saturday/1 p.m. Sunday: Any Given Sunday on FX: Heston appears briefly in Oliver Stone’s flawed but intriguing football movie, which, as I recall, showed the Ben-Hur chariot race in one scene.
Multiple airings: Tombstone: Heston appeared as Henry Hooker in this take on the Wyatt Earp story that’s become well-liked over the years.
True to form, TCM has very quickly put together their Heston movie night. Starting this Friday, channel 64 on most local cable lineups will play the following:
2:30 PM Private Screenings: Charlton Heston
3:30 PM The Buccaneer (‘58)
5:30 PM The Hawaiians
8:00 PM Private Screenings: Charlton Heston
9:00 PM Ben-Hur
1:00 AM Khartoum
3:30 AM Major Dundee
Hm. No Touch of Evil. Shame.
So what movies would make the ideal Heston film festival?
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By Bud Norton
April 8, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this
Yes, Touch of Evil. Planet of the Apes, definitely. I’d like to see again one of his early ones — The Naked Jungle. As I recall, not that great of a film from an objective standpoint, but the shots of the ranch being overrun by army ants will give you the heebiejeebies if you don’t like insects. As you note, the debut of the director’s cut of Major Dundee was already on the schedule; just a weird coincidence that it runs a few days after Heston’s death.By Derwood
April 8, 2008 1:20 AM | Link to this
Correct about Any Given Sunday. Pacino was comparing football players to gladiators while the chariot race from BenHur was on screen. Heston had some good lines in that movie too. Especially the one about Cameron Diaz eating her own children. All of this reminds me that I never have bought Soylent Green on DVD.. I need to track that one down.By SRCputt
April 7, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
Ben-Hur on the biggest movie screen possible.