TV Guide: Cedric Hardwicke

Listing: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 9 02:00 AM TCM

Listing: The War of the Worlds

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:45:00 -0500

Fri Dec 4 10:45 AM AMC

Video: Nicholas Nickleby

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

After the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby (Derek Bond), and his mother (Mary Merrall) and sister (Sally Ann Howes) are cared for by his greedy uncle Ralph (Cedric Hardwicke), who accepts the duty rather unwillingly. Ralph arranges for Nicholas to get a job at a notoriously brutal school for boys, where he befriends one of the ill-treated students, Smike. He and Smike flee the school and join a theatrical troop. Nicholas then has to protect Smike, while trying to stop his Uncle Ralph from taking advantage of his sister and later his sweetheart, Madeline Bray, whose father is in debtors prison. Also starring Stanley Holloway, Alfred Drayton, Cyril Fletcher and Bernard Miles. Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. Black & white.

Video: Nicholas Nickleby

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Video: War of the Worlds, The -- (Movie Clip) Halfway to Pomona!

TCM — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Narration by Cedric Hardwicke surveys the solar system, and a fireball lands in California where Sylvia (Ann Robinson) and Pastor Collins (Lewis Martin) are attending a C.B. DeMille (who owned the film rights!) picture, in George Pal's The War of the Worlds, 1953.

Video: War of the Worlds, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Rout of Civilization

TCM — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Almost midway through the film, update by narrator Sir Cedric Hardwicke, special praise for the Brits, in a quick survey of Earth vs. Martian invaders, from the 1953 George Pal production of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds.

Video: Lodger, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) I May Be Out Late

TCM — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Creepy Slade (Laird Cregar) meets Kitty (Merle Oberon) chaperoned by her uncle (Cedric Hardwicke) and aunt (Sara Allgood) before her big performance in director John Brahm's The Lodger, 1944.

Video: Lodger, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) My Name Is Slade

TCM — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

In the immediate aftermath of a "Jack the Ripper" murder, "Slade" (Laird Cregar) inquires about rooms from Robert and Ellen Burton (Cedric Hardwicke and Sara Allgood) in The Lodger, 1944.

Video: Les Miserables (1935) -- (Movie Clip) The Good Priest

TCM — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Bishop Bienvenue (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) makes a big deposit in the karma bank, telling the cops that the plates Valjean (Fredric March) stole were in fact a gift, in the 1935 Fox production of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.

Video: Stanley and Livingstone -- (Movie Clip) Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?

TCM — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

At the climax of his search, newsman Stanley (Spencer Tracy) delivers the big line as he meets Livingstone (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) at lake Tanganyika, in Henry King's Stanley and Livingstone, 1939.

Video: Stanley and Livingstone -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits

TCM — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Opening title sequence featuring strains of "Onward Christian Soldiers," which will reappear, from director Henry King's Stanley and Livingstone, 1939, starring Spencer Tracy and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

Video: Things to Come -- (Movie Clip) Theotocopulos

TCM — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Master sculptor Theotocopulos (Cedric Hardwicke) is the first to express disquiet over the "progress" that has taken over "Everytown," as the final act of the sci-fi epic Things to Come, 1936, begins.

Video: Richard III (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Long Live Edward IV!

TCM — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The crowning of Edward IV (Cedric Hardwicke) features pageantry then brief speeches by the new king and his brothers Clarence (John Gielgud) and Richard (Laurence Olivier) in Shakespeare's Richard III, 1955.

Video: Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Esmerelda

TCM — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Teenage (Irish) Gypsy Esmerelda (Maureen O'Hara) enthralls the crowd including King Louis (Harry Davenport) but not his aide Frollo (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) in William Dieterle's 1939 production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Video: Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) King of Fools

TCM — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The mob (led by Edmond O'Brien as Gringoire) is totally into naming Quasimodo (Charles Laughton) the "King of Fools" until dour Frollo (Cedric Hardwicke) intervenes in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939.

Video: Ghoul, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Queer Ideas

TCM — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Vicar Mr. Hartley (young Ralph Richardson) asserts himself amid battling heirs and bystanders and the lawyer (Cedric Hardwicke) in the dark home of the deceased Professor Morlant in The Ghoul, 1933.

Video: On Borrowed Time - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Old Gramps (Lionel Barrymore) traps Death (Cedric Hardwicke) in a tree in MGM's fantasy On Borrowed Time (1939).