Friday, January 2nd TV listings for Turner Classic Movies Canada HD
In This Our Life (1942)
A wretched woman (Bette Davis) runs off with her sister's (Olivia de Havilland) husband, for starters.
The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
An oil-field worker's wife (Joan Crawford) climbs the social ladder as a public enemy's (David Brian) mink-draped mistress.
Now, Voyager (1942)
A Boston spinster (Bette Davis) finds a lover (Paul Henreid) after the counsel of a kind psychiatrist (Claude Rains) brings her out of her frumpy shell.
Flamingo Road (1949)
A small-town Florida sheriff (Sydney Greenstreet) frames his political pawn's (Zachary Scott) dancer girlfriend (Joan Crawford) for prostitution.
The Letter (1940)
A woman (Bette Davis) in Malaya kills a man, telling her husband (Herbert Marshall) and lawyer (James Stephenson) it was self-defense.
Mildred Pierce (1945)
After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but can't win the approval of her spoiled daughter.
Citizen Kane (1941)
Enigmatic newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) rises, falls and leaves behind a riddle with his dying breath.
Rashomon (1950)
Three parties (Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura) and a witness have four versions of a rape/murder in ninth-century Japan.
Sophie's Choice (1982)
A Southern writer (Peter MacNicol) lives in Brooklyn with an Auschwitz survivor (Meryl Streep) and her mad lover (Kevin Kline).
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
A ruthless producer (Kirk Douglas) uses and discards Hollywood hopefuls as stepping stones to the top of the Tinseltown heap.