I stumbled across “The Great Caruso” on TCM while having lunch today. Not a great movie, but how often can you see Mario Lanza canoodling with Ann Blyth while you’re knocking down a bowl chicken soup?
It’s part of the network’s fabulous annual 31 Days of Oscar. All the usual suspects in the TCM library --“2001” “Citizen Kane” “Lawrence of Arabia”-- are on the docket. But what makes this festival so enjoyable are some of the seldom seen chestnuts that they pull out of the vaults. To qualify, a film simply needs to have earned at least one Oscar nomination. This provides much-deserved airtime for several rather obscure chestnuts. But it also has it drawbacks. Do we really need to see “Yes, Giorgio” ever again?
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