TCM Schedule for Thurs, Oct 16, 2025: The French Revolution / Angela Lansbury

6:00 AM | Danton (1983)
Georges Danton clashes against Maximilien Robespierre in 1793 France,
Dir: Andrzej Wajda | Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro

8:30 AM | Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
Identical twins mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution.
Dir: Bud Yorkin | Cast: Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith

10:15 AM | The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
An aristocrat's effete facade masks a swashbuckling hero rescuing victims of the French revolution.
Dir: Harold Young | Cast: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey

12:00 PM | The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
The masked hero plots to rescue his wife when his enemies kidnap her.
Dir: Hans Schwartz | Cast: Barry Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott

1:30 PM | Marie Antoinette (1938)
The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.
Dir: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier | Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore

4:15 PM | Voltaire (1933)
The famed French writer becomes the conscience of his country during the French Revolution.
Dir: John G. Adolfi | Cast: George Arliss, Doris Kenyon, Margaret Lindsay

5:45 PM | A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
A British lawyer sacrifices himself to save another man from the guillotine.
Dir: Jack Conway | Cast: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allen, Edna May Oliver


PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM | Gaslight (1944)
A husband manipulates his wife to believing she is descending into insanity. But why?
Dir: George Cukor | Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten

10:00 PM | The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin | Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed

12:00 AM | The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Dir: John Frankenheimer | Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh

2:15 AM | Kind Lady (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
Dir: John Sturges | Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury

3:45 AM | Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)
A father returns to London after being deported to find out what happened to his wife and child.
Dir: Terry Hughes | Cast: Michael Kalinyea, Ken Jennings, Angela Lansbury