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TCM Morning & Afternoon Movies: Lost Generation Authors
TCM, Beginning at 5:30 a.m.
This morning and afternoon, Turner Classic Movies presents a number of films based on novels by authors from the so-called “Lost Generation” — a group of writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations during the 1920s. Up first, Robert Taylor, Best Actress Oscar nominee Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone and Robert Young star in the 1938 drama Three Comrades (pictured). Set during Germany’s post-World War I Weimar Republic, the film is based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, with a screenplay co-written by F. Scott Fitzgerald (with Edward E. Paramore Jr.). Next are two films based on works by one of the most famous Lost Generation writers, Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea (1958), led by Best Actor Oscar nominee Spencer Tracy, and To Have and Have Not (1944), starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, with its screenplay adaptation co-written by famed author William Faulkner (with Jules Furthman). Faulkner was also an uncredited screenwriter on today’s next film, Flesh (1932), a drama directed by John Ford and starring Wallace Beery. After that are two adaptations of John Steinbeck novels: Tortilla Flat (1942), a romantic comedy starring Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield and Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Frank Morgan; and East of Eden (1955), Best Director Oscar nominee Elia Kazan’s acclaimed drama led by Best Actor nominee James Dean. The lineup concludes with The Maltese Falcon (1941), director John Huston’s classic film noir starring Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter
Lorre and Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Sydney Greenstreet. Huston earned an Oscar nomination for his adaptation of the novel by Dashiell Hammett, a pioneering author of hardboiled detective fiction.