TV Guide: Michael Curtiz

Listing: Captain Blood

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 06:00 PM TCM

Video: The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)

iTunes — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:18:00 -0500

Errol Flynn ("The Adventures of Robin Hood") and Patrick Knowles ("Auntie Mame," "The Wolf Man") star in this Oscar-winning film about two brothers whose love for the same woman at a perilous Foreign Legion outpost in India leads to the famous "charge" against Surat Kahn. Oscar and Golden Globe-winner and Emmy-nominee Olivia de Havilland ("Gone with the Wind," "The Heiress") provides a romantic edge to this classic adventure. Features specacular battle scenes. Co-stars Oscar and Golden Globe-winner David Niven ("The Pink Panther," "The Bishop's Wife") and Oscar-winner Donald Crisp ("How Green Was My Valley"). Directed by Oscar-winner Michael Curtiz ("Casablanca," "Yankee Doodle Dandy").

Video: Captain Blood -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits

TCM — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:32:29 -0500

Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score drives the opening credits for director Michael Curtiz's Captain Blood, 1935, starring Errol Flynn.

Video: Unsuspected, The -- (Movie Clip) Mr. Steven Howard

TCM — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:41:08 -0500

Victor Grandison (Claude Rains) counsels the confused Matilda (Joan Caulfield) who's come home to a husband she doesn't remember in director Michael Curtiz' The Unsuspected, 1947.

Video: Captains Of The Clouds - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:08:11 -0500

James Cagney learns he has to take orders in the Royal Canadian Air Force in this scene from Captains Of The Clouds (1942), directed by Michael Curtiz.

Video: Casablanca - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:02:10 -0500

"Major Strasser (Conrad Veidt) taunts Rick (Humphrey Bogart) in a political discussion about the U.S. in this scene from Casablanca (1942), directed by Michael Curtiz."

Video: Francis Of Assisi

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:08:43 -0500

This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for his 1942 Casablanca, is a verbose, routine religious drama on the life of St. Francis of Assisi. After quickly passing over St. Francis' early life as the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, the story notes his talents in and out of battle. St. Francis hears the call to the cloth (in his hagiography, the call was repeated several times before he finally responded completely), and gives up all his worldly goods to dedicate himself to God. The main focus of attention is then on his relationship to Clare (Dolores Hart) a young aristocratic woman who was so taken with St. Francis that she left her family and became a nun. St. Francis by this time (1212 A.D.) had a well-established reputation for his vows of poverty, and aside from the dubious aspersions cast on his interest in Clare, the drama goes on to note miracles and other aspects of his life, up to and including his death on October 3, 1226. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide.

Video: Casablanca

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:55:08 -0500

One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz defies standard categorization. Simply put, it is the story of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a world-weary ex-freedom fighter who runs a nightclub in Casablanca during the early part of WWII. Despite pressure from the local authorities, notably the crafty Capt. Renault (Claude Rains), Rick's caf has become a haven for refugees looking to purchase illicit letters of transit which will allow them to escape to America. One day, to Rick's great surprise, he is approached by the famed rebel Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) and his wife, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), Rick's true love who deserted him when the Nazis invaded Paris. She still wants Victor to escape to America, but now that she's renewed her love for Rick, she wants to stay behind in Casablanca. You must do the thinking for both of us, she says to Rick. He does, and his plan brings the story to its satisfyingly logical, if not entirel

Video: Trouble Along the Way

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:32:44 -0500

Silver screen legend John Wayne stars as a former top-notch college football coach who tries to maintain custody of his daughter during a tough divorce while earning back self-respect by coaching a small-town Catholic school's football team. A unusually sentimental role for the Duke, in which he proves his amazing gift for comedy and sentiment. Co-starring Donna Reed ("It's a Wonderful Life"), and directed by Michael Curtiz ("Casablanca").

Video: Trouble Along the Way

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:10:07 -0500