TCM Schedule for Wednesday, September 9th: Star of the Month: Claude Rains

[CBHagman]

Don't miss Now, Voyager, which is among the Claude Rains offerings tonight! And Claude even teams up with our Classic Films Group patron saint, Robert Montgomery, for Here Comes Mr. Jordan.



Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

12:00 AM Beneath The 12-Mile Reef (1953)
Love brings together two families of rival sponge fishers. Cast: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland. Dir: Robert D. Webb. C-101 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

1:45 AM Short Film: Beach Of Nazare (1957)
BW-8 mins,

2:00 AM Naked And The Dead, The (1958)
A green lieutenant comes up against incompetent officers and a sadistic sergeant during World War II. Cast: Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson, Raymond Massey. Dir: Raoul Walsh. C-131 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:15 AM 3 Worlds of Gulliver, The (1960)
A physician lost at sea discovers lands populated by tiny warriors and giant kings. Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Basil Sydney, Jo Morrow. Dir: Jack Sher. C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

6:00 AM They Live by Night (1949)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape. Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, Howard da Silva. Dir: Nicholas Ray. BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC

7:45 AM Mystery Street (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim's bones to go on. Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester. Dir: John Sturges. BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC

9:30 AM Tension (1950)
A man who had planned to murder his wife's lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it. Cast: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Barry Sullivan. Dir: John Berry. BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC

11:15 AM Dial 1119 (1950)
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage. Cast: Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Sam Levene. Dir: Gerald Mayer. BW-75 mins, TV-G

12:35 PM Short Film: Colorful Holland (1950)
In this "Traveltalk," we learn about the history, culture, and people of Holland. Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick C-9 mins,

12:45 PM Cause For Alarm (1951)
A woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder. Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling. Dir: Tay Garnett. BW-74 mins, TV-PG, CC

2:00 PM No Questions Asked (1951)
A young lawyer's primrose path to success gets him framed for murder. Cast: Barry Sullivan, George Murphy, Arlene Dahl. Dir: Harold F. Kress. BW-81 mins, TV-PG

3:30 PM Narrow Margin, The (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's moll on a tense train ride. Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White. Dir: Richard Fleischer. BW-72 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:45 PM While The City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer. Cast: Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Vincent Price. Dir: Fritz Lang. BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

6:30 PM Nowhere To Go (1958)
A burglar on the run holes up with an innocent English girl. Cast: George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee. Dir: Seth Holt. BW-87 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

What's On Tonight: STAR OF THE MONTH: CLAUDE RAINS



8:00 PM Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
A prizefighter who died before his time is reincarnated as a tycoon with a murderous wife. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains. Dir: Alexander Hall. BW-94 mins, TV-G, CC



9:45 PM Angel On My Shoulder (1946)
The Devil sends a murdered gangster to Earth as a respected judge. Cast: Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains. Dir: Archie Mayo. BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC

11:30 PM Now, Voyager (1942)
A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. Dir: Irving Rapper. BW-118 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS



1:30 AM Deception (1946)
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. Dir: Irving Rapper. BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC



3:30 AM Kings Row (1942)
Small town scandals inspire an idealistic young man to take up psychiatry. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

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5:45 AM Old Yeller (1958)
A frontier boy develops close ties with a yellow dog. Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk. Dir: Robert Stevenson. C-84 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

[Dem2theMax]

1. Oh, to be able to stay home all day and watch TCM. LOL. I LOVE Claude.

Toss in our Saint Montgomery, and, well, sigh. :)


My Dad broke his hip yesterday. :( 89 years old. I think I'm going to be going crazy for weeks and will soon need some R&R - so I am going to DVR a LOT of these movies for some late night viewing. :)


Every single time I watch Now, Voyager, (and I watch it EVERY single time it is on,) I want MORE. If ever there was a movie that should have had a sequel, this was the movie.
(Well, this, and Roman Holiday.) Every time I watch the movie, I LONG for a sequel. I want to see Charlotte and Jerry in wedded bliss. Sigh, oh, SIGH. LOL.
I am a romantic sap when it comes to these two movies. I want a HAPPY ending. A REALLY happy ending. I have to laugh at myself. I keep meaning to come on here and post a topic - 'movies that should have had sequels.' So now I've sort of done it. ;)


And now, I'm heading out to the DVR and getting it set. Thank you, CBHagman. You made a miserable day a little bit better! I needed that. :)

[CBHagman]

2. Oh, you can still do "Movies That Should Have Had Sequels."

I can't count the number of times when my mind was working after seeing a movie/TV show and being either unsettled by or curious about the ending. Frankly that's part of the reason people write fanfiction, creating alternative universes and scenarios that suit their imaginations.

In any event, I wish you a good session of R&R, and of course lots of lovely Claude Rains movies (and others) to enjoy...

[Staph]

3. According to IMDB,

Bette Davis always thought that Charlotte Vale ended up marrying the psychiatrist Dr. Jacquith, not the great romantic love Jerry Durrance.

That's a movie I wish that they had made!!

[Dem2theMax]

4. OMG! I never knew that. I LOVE hearing what Bette had to say about the movie.

I could see Bette's idea happening. Charlotte was very close to Dr. Jacquith. Heck, either man - it would have been SO heavenly to see a sequel.
But I have to give it to Bette. Her idea would have made for a MUCH more interesting film. My way, it would have been just another love story. LOL.

[Matilda]

5. Bette was nothing if not definite in her views,

and of course, that influences our perceptions in ways that aren't always conscious. I always had the feeling that
Charlotte slept with Jerry in the hotel scene - it's really left up to our imagination, and I'm not sure whether
it comes from my mind or hers, but I always felt that they did. The Hayes Code wouldn't have allowed it, of
course, but it's amazing what the imagination can supply.

In one biography I read of Bette, she said that she believed that her character, Henriette deLuzy, in "All This
And Heaven Too", did have an affair with the Duc de Praslin (Charles Boyer), which had always been strongly denied
by his descendants (they would say that, though, wouldn't they?). If she played the role with that in her mind,
it can account for the palpable sexual chemistry between them, even though they didn't exchange so much as a kiss
onscreen.