TCM Schedule for Tuesday, November 10: Women Make Film

[CBHagman]

It's on at an hour (early Wednesday) when few us are bound to be awake, but you owe it to yourself to see Allison Anders' Gas Food Lodging, a one-of-a-kind look into the lives of three women living in the American Southwest.

And for more family upheaval, but from another era, check out Four Daughters this morning.

And damn, Now, Voyager and The Unsuspected are both on! And Casablanca! It's a veritable Claude Rains-O-Rama for the actor's birthday!

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

1:30 AM
A Patch of Blue (1965)
1h 45m | Romance | TV-PG
A young blind white woman, living with her prostitute mother and sheltered inside most of ...
Director: Guy Green
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman

3:30 AM
Harper (1966)
2h 1m | Drama | TV-14
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman's missing husband.
Director: Jack Smight
Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris

6:00 AM
Four Daughters (1938)
1h 30m | Romance | TV-G
A small-town family's peaceful life is shattered when one daughter falls for a rebellious ...
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, John Garfield

7:45 AM
Lady with Red Hair (1940)
1h 21m | Drama | TV-G
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Director: Kurt Bernhardt
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley

9:15 AM
The Unsuspected (1947)
1h 43m | Drama | TV-PG
The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case o...
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter

11:00 AM
Mr. Skeffington (1945)
2h 7m | Drama | TV-G
A flighty beauty marries a stockbroker for convenience and almost ruins both their lives.
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel

1:30 PM
Now, Voyager (1942)
1h 57m | Drama | TV-G
A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man.
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains

3:45 PM
Casablanca (1942)
1h 42m | Romance | TV-PG
An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love tur...
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

5:45 PM
Caesar And Cleopatra (1945)
2h 18m | Drama | TV-G
Julius Caesar gives the famed Egyptian queen lessons in government.
Director: Gabriel Pascal
Cast: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Flora Robson

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: WOMEN MAKE FILM

8:00 PM
Image Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema 11 (2019)
Documentary | TV-14
A documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art a...
Director: No Director Available
Cast: No Cast Information Available.

9:15 PM
Silent Waters (2003)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-14
In Pakistan during the late 1970s, widowed Ayesha lives with her beloved son, Saleem. Sale...
Director: Sabiha Sumar
Cast: Kiron Kher, Aamir Malik, Arsad Mahmud

11:15 PM
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema 11 (2019)
Documentary | TV-14
A documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art a...
Director: No Director Available
Cast: No Cast Information Available.

12:30 AM
The Hurt Locker (2008)
2h 10m | Drama | TV-MA
A munitions expert finds defusing bombs in Iraq almost addicting.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Ralph Fiennes, Anthony Mackie

3:00 AM
The Day I Will Never Forget (2002)
1h 33m | Documentary | TV-MA
Filmmaker Kim Longinotto examines the tradition of clitoridectomy in Kenya.
Director: No Director Available
Cast: No Cast Information Available.

4:45 AM
Gas Food Lodging (1991)
1h 40m | Adaptation | TV-MA
Slice of life about a single mother and her two teenage daughters living in a trailer park...
Director: Allison Anders
Cast: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk

[Staph]

1. I love Claude Rains!

He had a way of making the most rascally characters loveable, like Captain Renault in Casablanca (1942). On paper, the Captain is a despicable man, who takes bribes and extorts sex from frightened refugees. And yet, and yet. When he says, "I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on here!", we grin at his outrageousness.

I loved his character in Now, Voyager (1942), Dr. Jaquith. He's a no-nonsense psychiatrist, who is very strict with Bette Davis' character, Charlotte Vale. And yet, and yet. He gets that twinkle in his eye and lets her go off to do things that don't fit the standard of care, because he is practical and willing to try something different.

I guess you can tell I'm a Claude Rains fan!

[CBHagman]

2. He had a way.

It's the supporting players, Rains chief among them, who command attention in Casablanca. The use of humor and ambiguity and above all comic timing work brilliantly.

And the man himself fascinated me in Aljean Harmetz's book on Casablanca. We lost him too soon; what a lot of stories he had left in him!