Wednesday, July 23rd TV listings for Turner Classic Movies Canada HD
A Star Is Born (1937)
A matinee idol turns to alcohol when his wife's acting career starts to take off and his own popularity begins to dwindle.
Pick a Star (1937)
A small town Iowa girl heads to Hollywood with dreams of stardom and becomes a big star owing to a publicity agent.
Hearts of the West (1975)
A naive young man goes to Hollywood to write pulp Westerns and becomes the hero of a string of class B horse operas.
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
The story of Z Channel, one of the first U.S. pay cable stations, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey; debuting in 1974, their eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.
The Magic Box (1951)
Some of Britain's finest actors appear in this story based on the life of movie camera inventor William Friese-Greene.
Film, the Living Record of Our Memory (2021)
Archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers from around the world explain what film preservation is and why it is needed.
Oedipus Rex (1967)
Based on the Greek tragedy about a man who, unaware of his true parentage, kills his father and marries his mother.
Medea (1970)
The powerful sorceress (Maria Callas) helps Jason (Giuseppi Gentile) steal the Golden Fleece and reclaim his throne, then enacts a gruesome revenge after he spurns her.
Electra (1962)
Siblings (Irene Papas, Giannis Fertis) plot the death of their mother (Aleka Katselli) in an adaptation of Euripides' tragedy.
Iphigenia (1977)
Clytemnestra (Eirini Papa) begs Greek King Agamemnon (Kostas Kazakos) not to sacrifice their daughter Iphigenia (Tatiana Papamoskou).
Damon and Pythias (1962)
Greek tyrant Dionysius puts the friendship of two men (Don Burnett, Guy Williams) to a life-or-death test.
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
An Irish patriot (Aldo Ray) and his 1901 gang use an old sewer to reach Bank of England gold bullion.
A Taste of Honey (1961)
A working-class British teen (Rita Tushingham) becomes pregnant by a sailor and moves in with a gay man.