Friday, April 24th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies Canada HD
The Canterville Ghost (1944)
A GI (Robert Young) billets in a relative's (Margaret O'Brien) castle, haunted by a cowardly 300-year-old ghost (Charles Laughton).
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
To save her father, a Frenchwoman (Josette Day) offers her life to a man (Jean Marais) under a bestial enchantment but who is noble and grows to love her.
Quentin Durward (1955)
Sir Walter Scott's Scottish Guard hero (Robert Taylor) foils Louis XI (Robert Morley) and wins Countess Isabelle (Kay Kendall) in 15th-century France.
Knights of the Round Table (1953)
Sir Gawain meets the Green Knight, Sir Percival seeks the Holy Grail, and King Arthur's (Mel Ferrer) Guinevere (Ava Gardner) loves Sir Lancelot (Robert Taylor).
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Court followers foil a plot by having a British look-alike (Ronald Colman) pose as the king of Ruritania.
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Matronly Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) loves the dashing Earl of Essex (Errol Flynn), but politics come first.
Boxcar Bertha (1972)
A young woman (Barbara Hershey) robs trains with a union man (David Carradine), a gambler (Barry Primus) and a friend in the Depression.
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
A teenager (P.J. Soles) and her friends get even with their principal to music by the Ramones.
The Shooting (1967)
A woman (Millie Perkins), two bounty hunters and a gunman (Jack Nicholson) ride into a desert and run out of water.
Roger Corman: The Pope of Pop Cinema
"Roger Corman" is a by the numbers look at one of the most influential names in Hollywood; though many know him for his low budget exploitation movies, Roger Corman is also responsible for giving many names their start in the business.
Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
Three adolescents think their prayers have been answered when they stumble upon heroin abandoned by drug dealers.
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024)
Martin Scorsese reflects on the influence of filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, whose decades-long collaboration led to a series of classics that made the duo a crucial part of British cinema.
Bachelor Mother (1939)
An unmarried store clerk (Ginger Rogers) finds a baby on a doorstep and is quickly mistaken for its mother.
I Love You Again (1940)
A businessman (William Powell) snaps out of 9-year amnesia, reverts to con man and falls in love with his wife (Myrna Loy).