TV Guide: King Vidor

Listing: Street Scene

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:30:00 -0500

Sat Dec 5 08:30 AM TCM

Listing: It's a Great Feeling

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:45:00 -0500

Thu Dec 3 12:45 PM TCM

Video: Our Daily Bread (1934) -- (Movie Clip) We Start Here!

TCM — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

John (Tom Keene) rouses the workers and Chris (John Qualen) breaks the earth as the collective farming begins in King Vidor's Depression drama Our Daily Bread, 1934.

Video: Our Daily Bread (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Chicken

TCM — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Opening sequence from Our Daily Bread, 1934, and introduction of Mary and John (Karen Morley, Tom Keene) who have the same first names as the couple in the director King Vidor's earlier feature The Crowd, 1928.

Video: Our Daily Bread (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Why Pay Rent?

TCM — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Values expressed with road signs in what later became Tarzana, California, as volunteers gather and get interviewed by farmer John (Tom Keene) in King Vidor's self-financed Depression drama Our Daily Bread, 1934.

Video: Our Daily Bread (1934) -- (Movie Clip) You Yoking?

TCM — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

John (Tom Keene) begins work, Mary (Karen Morley) watching, and John Qualen (as "Chris") arrives with farming know-how and an early sample of his famous "Sveedish" accent, in King Vidor's Our Daily Bread, 1934.

Video: Show People (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Various Moods

TCM — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Peggy (Marion Davies) and her dad "The Colonel" (Dell Henderson) arrive at the studio for a de facto audition in King Vidor's 1928 silent comedy hit Show People.

Video: King Vidor on Directing -- (TCM Original)

TCM — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

King Vidor on his approach to directing, from his 1973 interview with Richard Schickel for the documentary series "The Men Who Made the Movies."

Video: King Vidor on "The Crowd" -- (TCM Original)

TCM — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

King Vidor on directing The Crowd 1928, from his 1973 interview with Richard Schickel for the historic "The Men Who Made the Movies" documentary series.

Video: Big Parade, The -- (Movie Clip) Attack

TCM — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Jim (John Gilbert), Slim (Karl Dane) and Bull (Tom O'Brien) see their first action, in this extended battle sequence photographed by John Arnold, from King Vidor's The Big Parade, 1925.

Video: Big Parade, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Rookies

TCM — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500

First assembled in a field then in drills, director King Vidor offers the first of many head-on shots of his doughboy heroes Jim (John Gilbert), Slim (Karl Dane) and Bull (Tom O'Brien) in The Big Parade, 1925.

Video: Big Parade, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Coming Back

TCM — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500

One wonders how King Vidor directed this mayhem, much less how lovers Jim (John Gilbert) and Melisande (Renee Adoree) found each other, as the American troops pull out in The Big Parade, 1925.

Video: Big Parade, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Slim, Bull, Jim

TCM — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Opening title sequence for King Vidor's The Big Parade, 1925, introduces soon-to-be doughboys Slim (Karl Dane), Bull (Tom O'Brien) and Jim (John Gilbert).

Video: Patsy, The (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Sunday

TCM — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Vivek Madala's original music for TCM helps introduce King Vidor's elegant comedy The Patsy, 1928, and it's star Marion Davies as the downtrodden daughter "Pat."

Video: Hallelujah - (Re-issue Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Hallelujah (1929), director King Vidor's early talkie classic, about a black sharecropper who falls for a dancer in a juke joint.

Video: The Fountainhead - (Original Trailer)