romance
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D: Robert Z. Leonard. Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Hersholt, John Miljan, Alan Hale. A young woman flees from her loutish father--who wants to marry her off--and finds refuge with Gable, but circumstances keep them apart until the final clinch. Contrived melodrama made compelling by the ever-mesmerizing Garbo.
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romance
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D: Edmund Goulding. Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Cora Witherspoon, Henry Travers. Definitive Davis performance as spoiled socialite whose life is ending; Brent as brain surgeon husband, Fitzgerald as devoted friend register in good soaper. Bogart as Irish stable master seems out of place. Remade as STOLEN HOURS, and for TV in 1976 with Elizabeth Montgomery and Anthony Hopkins. Also shown in computer-colored version.
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12:00 PM
C-
113
min
TV-PG
comedy
widescreen
close captioned
epic
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D: Richard Thorpe. Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine, Elizabeth Taylor, Emlyn Williams, George Sanders, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer, Francis de Wolff, Guy Rolfe, Norman Wooland, Basil Sydney. Almost a classic spectacular, marred by draggy scripting of Walter Scott's epic of England in Middle Ages, in days of chivalrous knights; beautifully photographed on location in Great Britain. Remade as a TVM in 1982.
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suspense
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D: Alfred Hitchcock. Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Nehemiah Persoff, Peggy Webber. Unusual Hitchcock film done as semi-documentary, using true story of N.Y.C. musician (Fonda) falsely accused of robbery. Miles is excellent as wife who cracks under strain; offbeat and compelling. Written by Maxwell Anderson and Angus MacPhail.
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widescreen
close captioned
western
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D: John Ford. John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr., Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick, George O'Brien, Arthur Shields, Francis Ford, Noble Johnson, Tom Tyler. Director Ford's stock company in fine form. Wayne excellent as cavalry officer about to retire, unwilling to walk out on impending war with Indians. Beautifully filmed in color by Oscar-winning Winton C. Hoch, but a bit top-heavy with climaxes. Second of Ford's cavalry trilogy; followed by RIO GRANDE.
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TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT:
JAMES STEWART
silent
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D: Cecil B. DeMille. Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean, James Neill. Once audacious melodrama remains an engrossing curio about a proper, upper-class Long Island lady (Ward) who is exploited by a licentious Asian (Hayakawa). Watch this, and you'll see why Hayakawa was one of the most popular screen actors of the time. Remade in 1923, 1931, and 1937 (in France as FORFAITURE).
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drama
Life of Oharu, The (1952)
drama
Life of Oharu, The (1952)
A middle-aged prostitute reflects on her past.
136
min,
TV-14
drama
Confession (1937)
A glamorous singer commits murder to protect her daughter's virtue.
87
min,
TV-PG
, CC
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