TV Guide: Charles Laughton

Listing: O. Henry's Full House

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0500

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Listing: Piccadilly

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Listing: Rembrandt

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:00:00 -0500

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Listing: The Night of the Hunter

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:30:00 -0500

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Video: Spartacus

Hulu — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Screen legends Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and Laurence Olivier highlight an all-star cast in this Academy Award-winning epic about a gladiator whose love for a beautiful slave inspires him to lead a violent rebellion against the decadent Roman Empire. Dire

Video: O. Henry's Full House

Hulu — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A dozen top stars (including Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe and Anne Baxter) and five famed directors (including Howard Hawks and Henry Koster) join forces to present filmed versions of the best stories of O. Henry, all narrated by John Steinbeck.

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The movie chronicles the real-life mutiny aboard the Bounty led by Fletcher Christian against the ship's captain, William Bligh. Like the novel, it portrays Captain Bligh as an abusive villain whose cruelty towards the crew and most of the officers leads Christian to mutiny. It contains scenes of the trials of those who had been put off the ship on the launch. It also deals with the aftermath.

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Rome, 73 B.C. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas), a Thracian slave, is brought from Libya by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), a Roman trader. He is assigned to the Capuan School of Gladiators. There he meets Varinia (Jean Simmons), a beautiful slave from Britain, and they fall in love. When Spartacus training is almost complete, a Roman general, Marcus Crassus (Laurence Olivier), pays a visit to the school with his protege, Glabrus (John Dall). He demands that two gladiators fight to the death and Spartacus is chosen to confront the Ethiopian warrior Draba (Woody Strode). Draba is victorious, but refuses to finish Spartacus off. Draba turns on Crassua who kills him. Shortly after, Spartacus escapes with his companions and becomes leader of an army of slaves. He fights and wins his first battle against a Roman army led by Glabrus and trains his men in the mountains of Italy, where Varinia and Antoninus (Tony Curtis), Crassus servant, later join them. After two years of raiding and beating small

Video: Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Light Gray

TCM — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Opening titles for Leo McCarey's Ruggles of Red Gap, 1935, followed by the complacent Ruggles (Charles Laughton) waking the worse-for-wear Earl of Burnstead (Roland Young).

Video: Ruggles Of Red Gap - (Re-issue trailer)

TCM — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A British valet (Charles Laughton) must adapt to the Wild West when he is won in a poker game in Ruggles Of Red Gap (1935).

Video: Bribe, The -- (Movie Clip) Ten Thousand Dollars

TCM — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Lawman Rigby (Robert Taylor) continues his narration as Bealer (Charles Laughton) approaches with a proposition and Carwood (Vincent Price) appears in The Bribe, 1949.

Video: Witness for the Prosecution -- (Movie Clip) Miss Plimsoul

TCM — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Sir Wilfrid (Charles Laughton) shows no apparent restraint as he expresses contempt for his nurse Miss Plimsoul (Laughton's wife Elsa Lanchester) in Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution, 1957.

Video: Payment Deferred -- (Movie Clip) Well-lined, Too!

TCM — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The young Ray Milland is Jim, the unexpected Australian nephew with a thick wallet who starts cash-strapped Will Marble (Charles Laughton) thinking in Payment Deferred, 1932.

Video: Rembrandt (1936) -- (Movie Clip) I Can Still See Her