TV Guide: Edmund Gwenn

Listing: Lassie Come Home

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:45:00 -0500

Mon Dec 1 07:45 AM TCM

Listing: Miracle on 34th Street

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:00:00 -0500

Thu Nov 27 02:00 PM NBC

Listing: The Keys of the Kingdom

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 24 08:00 AM FMC

Video: The Bishop Misbehaves - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:07:19 -0500

A bishop (Edmund Gwenn) with a taste for mysteries gets involved in a real one in The Bishop Misbehaves (1935).

Video: Foreign Correspondent - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:05:24 -0500

Rowley (Edmund Gwenn) attempts to push John (Joel McCrea) to his death in this scene from Foreign Correspondent (1940), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Video: Miracle On 34th Street

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:51:44 -0500

The 1947 holiday classic Miracle on 34th Street is transplanted to the 1990s with few changes in this family-oriented remake. The screenplay by the prolific John Hughes sticks close to the original outline, centering on Macy's executive Dorey Walker (Elizabeth Perkins) and her young daughter Susan (Mara Wilson), neither of whom much believes in the spirit of Christmas. Dorey is in charge of hiring Macy's Santas, including an old man named Kriss Kringle (Richard Attenborough). He does a remarkably convincing job, and he soon reveals that he actually believes himself to be Santa Claus. The authorities threaten to place the old man in an insane asylum, but a young lawyer comes to his defense. Meanwhile, Dorey and Susan find their own defenses melting and become reacquainted with the power of faith. Hughes and director Les Mayfield add a few modern touches, making Susan slightly more cynical and adding the requisite soulless corporate villains. Viewers familiar with the original may still prefer Edmund Gwenn's or

Video: Lassie Come Home

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:42:38 -0500

Female dogs tend to shed while in heat; this is why all the collies who've played doggy heroine Lassie in the movies have actually been well-disguised males. A magnificent animal named Pal was the screen's first Lassie in 1943's Lassie Come Home. Set in Yorkshire during the first World War, the film gets under way when the poverty-stricken parents (Donald Crisp, Elsa Lanchester) of young Joe Carraclough (Roddy McDowall) are forced to sell his beloved Lassie. While her new master, the duke of Rudling (Nigel Bruce), is pleasant enough, Lassie prefers the company of Joe and repeatedly escapes. Even when cared for by the duke's affectionate granddaughter, Priscilla (Elizabeth Taylor), Lassie insists upon heading back to her original home. This time, however, the trip is much longer, and Lassie must depend upon the kindness of strangers, notably farmers Dally (Dame May Whitty) and Dan'l Fadden (Ben Webster) and handyman Rowlie (Edmund Gwenn). Based on the novel by Eric Knight (originally serialized in {~The Saturd

Video: Trouble With Harry, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:17:32 -0500

The trouble with Harry is that he's dead. The scene is a autumnal Vermont village, where a pre-Leave It to Beaver Jerry Mathers stumbles upon Harry's corpse in the woods. Mathers alerts his mother Shirley MacLaine (making her film debut), who recognizes Harry as her ex-husband. Later on, retired sea captain Edmund Gwenn likewise comes across the moribund Harry. Both MacLaine and Gwenn have reason to believe that they're responsible for Harry's demise; MacLaine thinks that she killed Harry by clobbering him with a bottle, while Gwenn is certain that he shot the poor fellow while hunting. As the day draws to a close, seemingly every person in town is convinced that he or she has had some hand in Harry's death, thus they conspire to hide the body from the authorities. Visiting artist John Forsythe, dumbfounded at the calm, collected reactions of the villagers regarding Harry (whose ubiquitous body pops up at the most inopportune moments), solves the mystery. Though not his most successful film, The Trouble with