Quick Preview of TCM in February

It's time for a quick peek ahead at next month's schedule on Turner Classic Movies.

February will be unusual for TCM in that the first half of the month is a "normal" schedule, and then on February 13th the annual 31 Days of Oscar festival begins.

This year 31 Days of Oscar runs through March 15th, the day of the Oscars ceremony.

TCM will show the movies grouped by themes such as "Oscar Goes to a Fantasy World," "Oscar Goes to a Wedding," and "Oscar Goes to Paris." TCM has posted a preview video.

Focusing on the first half of February, the Star of the Month will be...Bugs Bunny!

Bugs Bunny cartoons will be featured on the evenings of February 2nd through 6th, screened in between feature films.

The Noir Alley films for the first two weekends of February will be TALK ABOUT A STRANGER (1952) and VICE SQUAD (1953). I found VICE SQUAD, starring Edward G. Robinson, a lot of fun.

Filmmakers receiving multifilm tributes in the first half of February include John Carradine, Michael Schultz, Kathryn Grayson, Margaret Rutherford, Ernst Lubitsch, and Walter Matthau.

February programming themes will include Bomba the Jungle Boy, pilots, Westerns, schools, and lost loves.

I'll have a more detailed look at the schedule for the first half of February posted here around the end of the month, followed by a separate 31 Days of Oscar post later in February.

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