Thursday, October 16th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies USA
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
Two mismatched sets of royal and peasant twins (Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland) cause confusion in the French Revolution.
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935)
London dandy Sir Percy (Leslie Howard) dons disguises to save French nobles from the Reign of Terror guillotine.
The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1938)
Robespierre has Sir Percy's (Barry K. Barnes) wife (Sophie Stewart) kidnapped to spite him for helping French nobles elude the guillotine.
Marie Antoinette (1938)
The 18th-century Austrian princess (Norma Shearer) has an affair with a Swedish count (Tyrone Power) and becomes queen of France.
Voltaire (1933)
Aided by Madame de Pompadour (Doris Kenyon), the 18th-century French thinker (George Arliss) offends Louis XV with a play.
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Dickens' Madame Defarge knits, the Bastille falls, and a London lawyer (Ronald Colman) makes a great sacrifice for love.
Gaslight (1944)
A Scotland Yard detective (Joseph Cotten) figures out why a schizoid Victorian (Charles Boyer) is trying to drive his wife (Ingrid Bergman) mad.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Corrupted by a lord (George Sanders), Oscar Wilde's London aristocrat (Hurd Hatfield) stays young, but his portrait begins to age.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A Korean War hero's (Laurence Harvey) commanding officer (Frank Sinatra) discovers he and his platoon were brainwashed.
Kind Lady (1951)
A British con man (Maurice Evans) and his gang hold an elderly art-lover (Ethel Barrymore) prisoner in her home.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)
Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime.
The Mystic (1925)
An American crook persuades a fake medium and her crew to set up shop in New York.
The Thirteenth Chair (1930)
A medium (Margaret Wycherly) holds a seance to clear her daughter (Leila Hyams) of murder in colonial India.