TCM Schedule for Saturday, October 4 --- PAUL HENREID

[lavenderdiva]

4 Saturday



6:00 AM White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic. Cast: James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo. Dir: Raoul Walsh. BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

8:00 AM Touch Of Evil (1958)
A narcotics agent risks his wife's life to investigate a crooked cop. Cast: Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh. Dir: Orson Welles. BW-111 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

10:00 AM Back From Eternity (1956)
When an airliner crashes in the jungle, the repaired plane can only hold five of the survivors. Cast: Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger. Dir: John Farrow. BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC

11:40 AM Short Film: So You Want To Build A House (1948)
Lovable loser Joe McDoakes is being evicted from his apartment and must find a new house. Along the way he falls for countless scams and bad ideas, always ending up worse than when he started. Cast: George O'Hanlon BW-11 mins,

12:00 PM Mogambo (1953)
In this remake of Red Dust, an African hunter is torn between a lusty showgirl and a married woman. Cast: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly. Dir: John Ford. C-116 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

2:00 PM Nevada Smith (1966)
A part-Indian cowboy avenges his parents' murder. Cast: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith. Dir: Henry Hathaway. C-131 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

4:15 PM A River Runs Through It (1992)
A preacher's sons, one serious, one wild, look out for each other while growing up in rural Montana. Cast: Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer, Tom Skerritt. Dir: Robert Redford. C-124 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

6:30 PM High Noon (1952)
A retired Marshal must defend his town from a revengeful villain. Cast: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. BW-85 mins, TV-PG, CC

What's On Tonight: THE ESSENTIALS: PAUL HENREID

8:00 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

10:15 PM The Spanish Main (1945)
Dutch rebels in the Caribbean turn pirate and kidnap the corrupt Spanish governor's bride-to-be. Cast: Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak. Dir: Frank Borzage. C-101 mins, TV-PG, CC

12:00 AM Of Human Bondage (1946)
A medical student risks his future when he falls for a low-class waitress. Cast: Eleanor Parker, Paul Henreid, Alexis Smith. Dir: Edmund Goulding. BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

2:00 AM Hollow Triumph (1948)
A crook on the lam poses as a psychiatrist. Cast: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Edward Franz. Dir: Steve Sekely. BW-83 mins,

3:30 AM Casablanca (1942)
An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

5:30 AM MGM Parade Show #11 (1955)
Judy Garland and Gene Kelly perform in a clip from "For Me and My Gal"; Susan Hayward introduces a clip from "I'll Cry Tomorrow." Hosted by George Murphy. BW-26 mins, TV-G

[Matilda]

1. Ah ... I wish we'd have a Paul Henreid night.

Not a great actor, and not wildly exciting, but that aura of
intelligence, sophistication, and integrity combined to make a
very attractive package.

I've always been a non-smoker, but if someone like him had lit
two cigarettes and handed me one, I don't know what I'd do ...

And he'd have been my natural choice in Casablanca.

[CBHagman]

2. He had other virtues too.

I remember reading that he was an outspoken liberal and that for a while he was graylisted -- a term I never heard before -- and that he turned to directing.

Here's his New York Times obit:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE4DA1E30F930A35757C0A964958260

[lavenderdiva]

3. thanks for sharing that obit, CBH

I didn't realize that he directed 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents'-- over 80 episodes! And I appreciate that Mr. Hitchcock hired him despite his black-listed status; he gave him a new career.

I must say that like Matilda, I am not a smoker, but that scene in 'Now, Voyager' always gets me! I don't think I would have been able to refuse him!!

[Matilda]

5. He was banned from working for the German studio UFA

in the thirties because it was a condition of employment that he sign a
loyalty oath to Hitler, and he refused.

He was blacklisted (he used that term in his autobiography) for taking
part in the flight to Washington in support of the First Amendment, and
was able only to make a few films, often B grade and for less money than
he'd previously been getting, between 1948 and 1953. (One exception was
"Rope of Sand" with Burt Lancaster and old friends Claude Rains and Peter
Lorre.) Nobody would ever admit that he was blacklisted (hence the term
"graylist"), but deals mysteriously fell through and doors were closed.

[terrya]

4. "Don't ask for the moon, when we can have the stars"

I love "Now, Voyager". I love it.

[CBHagman]

6. I love it too.

I love seeing Claude Rains cast as a wise, nurturing doctor -- overtly tough but a pussycat when he's out of his element. I love when Mary Wickes takes the mickey out of horrible Gladys Cooper, but is a great nurse at the same time. I love that look Henreid gives Bette Davis when he hands her the cigarette, and of course the way both of them give themselves over to creating the happiness of the troubled young Tina.