TCM Schedule for Wednesday, September 30th: Star of the Month: Claude Rains

[CBHagman]

Oops! I'm getting to this a little late.

Okay, DUers, give it up one more time for Mr. Claude Rains.



:applause:

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

12:00 AM Obsession (1976)
A businessman falls in love with a double for his murdered wife. Cast: Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, John Lithgow. Dir: Brian Da Palma. C-98 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

2:00 AM Taxi Driver (1976)
A loner becomes fixated on a teen prostitute. Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd. Dir: Martin Scorsese. C-114 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

4:00 AM Scorsese on Scorsese (2004)
Director Martin Scorsese discusses his career and film clips in an interview. BW-86 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format



5:27 AM Short Film: Film That Was Lost (1942)
BW-10 mins,

6:00 AM All This, And Heaven Too (1940)
A French nobleman falls in love with his children's governess. Cast: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Barbara O'Neil. Dir: Anatole Litvak. BW-143 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

8:30 AM Green Years, The (1946)
An orphaned Irish boy is taken in by his mother's Scottish relations. Cast: Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Dean Stockwell. Dir: Victor Saville. BW-125 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:57 AM Short Film: Mama Loves Papa (1931)
In this "Boy Friends" short, Martha and Brandon's plans to get married are thwarted by their teenage children. Cast: Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman Dir: George Stevens BW-17 mins,

11:15 AM I Remember Mama (1948)
Norwegian immigrants face the trials of family life in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Cast: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka. Dir: George Stevens. BW-134 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

1:30 PM Sea Of Grass, The (1947)
Husband-and-wife ranchers take opposite sides in a range war. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Melvyn Douglas. Dir: Elia Kazan. BW-124 mins, TV-PG, CC



3:45 PM Some Came Running (1958)
A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

6:15 PM Dark Victory (1939)
A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor. Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart. Dir: Edmund Goulding. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS



What's on Tonight: Star of the Month: Claude Rains

8:00 PM They Won't Forget (1937)
Bigotry flares when a Jewish businessman is accused of killing a small-town girl in the South. Cast: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Allyn Joslyn. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-95 mins, TV-G, CC



10:00 PM Twilight Of Honor (1963)
A struggling lawyer takes on a controversial murder case that could make or break him. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Claude Rains, Nick Adams. Dir: Boris Sagal. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

12:00 AM They Made Me A Criminal (1939)
A young boxer flees to farming country when he thinks he's killed an opponent in the ring. Cast: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson. Dir: Busby Berkeley. BW-92 mins, TV-PG, CC



1:45 AM Unsuspected, The (1947)
The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air. Cast: Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Constance Bennett. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC



3:30 AM Where Danger Lives (1950)
A psychopath draws her doctor into her murderous schemes. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains. Dir: John Farrow. BW-80 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:00 AM Private Screenings: Mitchum/Russell (1996)
Co-stars and lifelong friends Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell recall their careers with host Robert Osborne. Cast: Robert Osborne BW-31 mins, TV-G, CC

[Matilda]

1. "The Unsuspected"

is the only one of the Rains films listed that I've seen.

The script is convuluted, clever, and wholly unbelieveable, but Claude Rains turns in such a good performance that
he enables you to suspend your disbelief for the duration. Well worth viewing.