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THURSDAY 17 DECEMBER 1998 (TNT - ENGLISH VERSION)
9:45 Beau Brummell
(Beau Brummell)
Film - USA, 1954 111'
Stewart Granger: George Bryan "Beau" Brummel
Elizabeth Taylor: Lady Patricia Belham
Peter Ustinov: Prince of Wales/King George IV
Robert Morley: King George III
James Donald: Lord Edwin Mercer
Rosemary Harris: Mrs. Fitzherbert
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Lavish historical costume drama about a dandy who wins the friendship of the
Prince of Wales and leads a life of sumptuous ease in early 19th-century England
until a plot against the King backfires. He begins his friendship with the
future George IV in adaring act of defiance, but his scheme to have the Prince
certify his father insane goes awry.
11:45 The Good Earth
(The Good Earth)
Film - USA, 1937 133'
Paul Muni: Wang Lung
Luise Rainer: O-Lan
Walter Connolly: Uncle
Charley Grapewin: Lotus
Jessie Ralph: Old Father
Tilly Losch: Cuckoo
Directed by Victor Fleming, Sidney Franklin
A Chinese family overcome years of hardship only to find their happiness
threatened by greed in this epic version of Pearl Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning
novel. Featuring an Oscar-winning performance from Luise Rainer.
14:15 Julie
(Julie)
Film - USA, 1956
Doris Day: Julie Benton
Louis Jourdan: Lyle Benton
Barry Sullivan: Cliff Henderson
Frank Lovejoy: Captain Pringle
John Gallaudet: Co-pilot
Harlan Wade: Valerie
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Edgy drama. After discovering that her new husband killed her first spouse, a
woman becomes afraid that he will also kill her.
16:00 The Last Time I Saw Paris
(The Last Time I Saw Paris)
Film - USA, 1954 116'
Elizabeth Taylor: Helen Ellswirth
Van Johnson: Charles Wills
Donna Reed: Marion Ellswirth
Eva Gabor: Lorraine Quarl
Roger Moore: Paul
Walter Pidgeon: James Ellswirth
Directed by Richard Brooks
Bleak romantic drama in which an ex-GI meets and falls in love with a wealthy
girl when he travels to Paris after the Second World War to write his novel in a
literary atmosphere. But when he fails to sell his work, he begins to drink
heavily - with tragic consequences. Based on a story by F Scott Fitzgerald.
18:00 The Hucksters
(The Hucksters)
Drama - USA, 1947
Clark Gable: Victor Albee Norman
Deborah Kerr: Kay Dorrance
Sidney Greenstreet: Evan Llewellyn Evans
Adolphe Menjou: Mr. Kimberly
Ava Gardner: Jean Olgilvie
Keenan Wynn: Buddy Hare
Directed by Jack Conway
After serving in World War II, Victor Norman returns to civilian life as a high-
flying advertising executive, and falls for an English society woman during a
campaign to promote a range of beauty soap. But Victor soon discovers that his
ruthless client expects him to get publicity by using every underhand method and
dirty trick in the book.
20:00 Beau Brummell
(Beau Brummell)
Film - USA, 1954 111'
Stewart Granger: George Bryan "Beau" Brummel
Elizabeth Taylor: Lady Patricia Belham
Peter Ustinov: Prince of Wales/King George IV
Robert Morley: King George III
James Donald: Lord Edwin Mercer
Rosemary Harris: Mrs. Fitzherbert
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Lavish historical costume drama about a dandy who wins the friendship of the
Prince of Wales and leads a life of sumptuous ease in early 19th-century England
until a plot against the King backfires. He begins his friendship with the
future George IV in adaring act of defiance, but his scheme to have the Prince
certify his father insane goes awry.
22:00 To Have and Have Not
(To Have and Have Not)
Film - USA, 1944 96'
Humphrey Bogart: Harry Morgan
Lauren Bacall: Eddie
Walter Brennan: Marie
Hoagy Carmichael: Cricket
Dolores Moran: Renard
Walter Molnar: Gerard
Directed by Howard Hawks
Wartime adventure drama about an opportunistic American skipper in Nazi-occupied
Martinique who is drawn into the conflict when he falls for an attractive
Resistance fighter. To help her return to America, he agrees to make a dangerous
run. A stylish andwitty film with some classic, sultry love scenes, based on the
novel by Ernest Hemingway. William Faulkner collaborated on the screenplay.
0:00 A Man For All Seasons
(A Man for All Seasons)
Film - 1988 143'
Charlton Heston: Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England
Vanessa Redgrave: Mistress More
John Gielgud: Thomas Cardinal Wolsey
Richard Johnson: The Chorus
Roy Kinnear: King Henry VIII
Benjamin Whitrow: Cardinal Wolsey
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
A reworking of Robert Bolt's outstanding stage play about Sir Thomas More's
refusal to acknowledge Henry VIII's break with the Catholic Church in Rome. A
deeply pious man, More disapproves of his sovereign's plans for divorce and pays
for his silent disapproval with his life. Charlton Heston stars in and directs
this adaptation.
2:30 Cry Terror
(Cry Terror)
Crime - 1958 105'
James Mason: Jim Molner
Rod Steiger: Paul Hoplin
Inger Stevens: Mrs. Joan Molner
Neville Brand: Steve
Angie Dickinson: Eileen Kelly
Kenneth Tobey: Agent Frank Cole
Directed by Andrew Stone
Fast-paced crime thriller, in which a psychopath forces a one-time friend and
his family to assist him in extorting money from airlines.
4:15 The Best House in London
(The Best House in London)
Film - 1969 93'
David Hemmings: Benjamin Oakes/Walter Leybourne
Joanna Pettet: Josephine Pacefoot
George Sanders: Sir Francis Leybourne
Dany Robin: Babette
Warren Mitchell: Count Pandolfo
Bill Fraser: Inspector MacPherson
Directed by Philip Saville
Frivolous period yarn about the establishment of a government-sponsored bordello
in London. When Victorian values look like putting a stop to the activities of
ladies of the night, the capital's young bucks persuade the Home Secretary to
let them open anexclusive brothel. A knight of the realm is made proprietor, but
when he dies abroad the house falls into the hands of his social-reforming
niece.
John Cleese puts in a brief appearance.
6:00 The Haunting
(The Haunting)
Film - USA, 1963 107'
Julie Harris: Dr. John Markway
Claire Bloom: Eleanor Lance
Richard Johnson: Theodora
Russ Tamblyn: Luke Sannerson
Lois Maxwell: Mrs. Sannerson
Fay Compton: Mrs. Dudley
Directed by Robert Wise
Classic psychological horror tale about a New England mansion which comes
terrifyingly to life for a group of psychic researchers who arrive to
investigate it. The supernatural power that resides in the house gradually
exerts its force over a young womanuntil she can no longer resist the fate the
house has in store for her.
This striking film relies on sound and light to achieve its effect, rather than
gruesome violence.
8:00 Village of Daughters
(Village of Daughters)
Film - 1961 86'
Eric Sykes: Gastoni
Scilla Gabel: Maria Gastoni
Gregoire Aslan: Spartaco
John Le Mesurier: Herbert Harris
Eric Pohlmann: Gloria Balbino
Warren Mitchell: Sophia Balbino
Directed by George Pollock
Comedy about an English travelling salesman who makes his mark in a small
Italian village. There is a distinct lack of males in a tiny Italian community -
all the young men have left for more prosperous pastures. One ex-resident,
having struck it rich elsewhere, decides to choose a bride from his birthplace,
and enlists the newcomer to the village to judge the farcical pageant of local
beauties which ensues.
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