TCM Schedule for Saturday, September 20 -- THE ESSENTIALS: BARRISTERS

[Longhorn]

For lavenderdiva, who is still without power. :hug:

5:15am Festival of Shorts #26 (2000)
TCM promotes two comedy shorts with ventriloquist Edgar Bergan, "The Eyes Have It" (1931) and "Africa Speaks...English" (1933).
BW-22 mins

5:49am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Facing Your Danger (1946)
Conquering the Colorado River is no easy task but the men in this exciting short make it look so easy!
Cast: Knox Manning Dir: Edwin E. Olsen C-10 mins

6:00am Pride And Prejudice (1940)
Jane Austen's comic classic about five sisters out to nab husbands in 19th-century England.
Cast: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Edna May Oliver. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-118 mins, TV-PG

8:00am Topper (1937)
A fun-loving couple returns from the dead to help a henpecked husband.
Cast: Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-97 mins, TV-G

9:39am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: One Live Ghost (1936)
Leon Errol is an underappreciated husband who trys to teach his family a lesson, but the joke is on him.
Cast: Lucille Ball, Leon Errol Dir: Leslie Goodwins BW-21 mins

10:00am Merrily We Live (1938)
A society matron's habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants leads to romance for her daughter.
Cast: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-95 mins, TV-G

11:36am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Five Minutes From The Station (1930)
BW-13 mins

12:00pm Westerner, The (1940)
A drifter accused of horse stealing faces off against the notorious Judge Roy Bean.
Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport. Dir: William Wyler. BW-100 mins, TV-PG

1:43pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Fabulous Fraud, The (1948)
BW-11 mins

2:00pm Fall of the Roman Empire, The (1964)
A mad emperor's excesses leave the Roman Empire open to barbarian invasions.
Cast: Sophia Loren, Christopher Plummer, Alec Guinness. Dir: Anthony Mann. C-183 mins, TV-PG

5:15pm Anatomy Of A Murder (1959)
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Cast: James Stewart, Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick. Dir: Otto Preminger. BW-161 mins, TV-PG

What's On Tonight: THE ESSENTIALS: BARRISTERS

8:00pm Witness For The Prosecution (1957)
A British lawyer gets caught up in a couple's tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder.
Cast: Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich. Dir: Billy Wilder. BW-116 mins, TV-PG

10:00pm Paradine Case, The (1947)
A married lawyer falls for the woman he's defending on murder charges.
Cast: Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-114 mins, TV-PG

12:15am Victim (1961)
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price. Dir: Basil Dearden. BW-100 mins, TV-PG

2:00am Hostile Witness (1968)
A lawyer out to avenge his daughter's death becomes the suspect in a suspect's murder.
Cast: Ray Milland, Sylvia Syms, Felix Aylmer. Dir: Ray Milland. C-103 mins, TV-PG

3:45am Night to Remember, A (1958)
The crew and passengers of the Titanic fight to survive when the legendary ship strikes an iceberg.
Cast: Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, Anthony Bushell. Dir: Roy Ward Baker. BW-123 mins, TV-PG

[Longhorn]

1. The Paradine Case and Witness for the Prosecution --

I don't know why I like these both so much, though Charles Laughton's appearance in each might be part of the reason. Then add Gregory Peck or Tyrone Power -- well, maybe I DO know the reason. :loveya:

But actually, having seen each rather recently, I was reminded about how many courtroom thrillers have been made based on similar plots, always with the surprise twist.

[Matilda]

2. "A Night to Remember" - the best film about the Titanic.

I think this simply-told, straightforward film stands head and shoulders
above the 1997 version, which I thought was total garbage.

It sticks to the facts, as far as they were known at that time, and tells
us some of the real stories of the people on board. In view of the
tragedy that befell so many on that night, I simply can't get involved
in the make-believe that the later film indulges in. Reality is so
much more poignant in this case, and you can really care about them.

And I cry every time as the orchestra members go down with the ship,
playing "Abide With Me".

[Longhorn]

3. I agree about the 1997 film.

I didn't want to see it but my children insisted. I tried to have an open mind but I knew that they had taken several liberties with the truth and created these fictional characters and I felt it was so disrespectful. I would have walked out if I hadn't been there with my family. :(

[lavenderdiva]

4. thank you!

thank you SO much for helping me out this past week- Mr. ld and I are limping along by stretching an extension cord across the neighbor's yard to his parent's home where they have a generator. We have one lamp, two fans going, a TV and now internet! That's a HUGE change from a week ago. We're being told that we won't have electricity until after Oct. 2! :cry:

[Longhorn]

5. I was glad to help! I'm so sorry you're still have to muddle through without power

but I'm glad you've got some help! :hug: