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TCM – Wednesday 3 October, 8.30pm

When James Dean died in a car crash on September 30, 1955, he was mourned throughout the world with a mass hysteria that had never before been experienced. One of Hollywood’s most talented stars with the briefest of careers, Dean remains an internationally compelling screen presence, an iconic image, and a cult favourite of timeless fascination. 57 years after his death, TCM presents Michael J. Sheridan’s documentary James Dean: Forever Young, which revisits five years of the actor’s life, underscoring the subtlety of his work in 37 television series and the three great Warner Bros. films that made James Dean a legend – East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant.

TCM – Sunday 30 September, 8.30pm

This September on Turner Classic Movies, we examine some of the greatest romances to have ever lit up the silver screen.

Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland star in this swashbuckling classic. After he treats wounded English rebels, physician Peter Blood (Flynn) is arrested and sentenced to slavery in Jamaica. There, he catches the eye of the governor’s daughter, Arabella (de Havilland), who buys him. But Blood leads fellow slaves in an escape and strikes terror into the Jamaicans as the pirate Captain Blood–until the Spanish attack, and Blood saves Arabella and Jamaica from England’s enemies.

TCM – Sunday 30 September, 12pm

Sundays in September are about movies the whole family can enjoy as TCM presents Family Classics.

Academy Award� winner Mickey Rooney stars as Huckleberry Finn in this version of Mark Twain’s masterpiece, often regarded as the greatest American novel.

Mid-1800s. Young Huckleberry Finn runs away from his home in Missouri and travels down the Mississippi River with his friend, a fugitive slave named Jim. Together the two discover life and America as they find adventure in this classic family tale.

TCM – Saturday 29 September, 8.30pm

This September on Turner Classic Movies, we examine some of the greatest romances to have ever lit up the silver screen.

Refusing to join the company boxing team gets Robert E. Lee Prewitt (Montgomery Clift), a soldier in Sgt. Milton Warden’s (Burt Lancaster) outfit, ostracized by his fellow soldiers save one, Pvt. Angelo Maggio (Frank Sinatra). While Prewitt falls in love with prostitute Alma Lorene (Donna Reed), and Warden carries on an affair with Karen Holmes (Deborah Kerr), the wife of their company commander, Maggio goes AWOL and is brutally beaten before dying in Prewitt’s arms. In retaliation, Prewitt angrily kills the man responsible for Maggio’s death and then finds sanctuary in Lorene’s arms – until Pearl Harbor is bombed and he’s killed while trying to rejoin Warden and their company to defend the islands.

TCM – Friday 28 September, 8.30pm

After escaping from an insane asylum, the hilariously crazy Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) sends 26 assassins on the trail of hapless Inspector Closeau (Peter Sellers).

TCM – Sunday 23 September, 8.30pm

This September on Turner Classic Movies, we examine some of the greatest romances to have ever lit up the silver screen, The Clock.

Academy Award winner Judy Garland stars with Robert Walker as a New Yorker and a GI on a 48-hour leave who meet in New York’s Pennsylvania train station.

New York, World War II. Over two whirlwind days, the impossible happens: Two strangers meet and fall in love with each other, with the City, and with its iconoclastic, eccentric inhabitants in this delightful romance.

TCM – Sunday 23 September, 12.00pm

Sundays in September are about movies the whole family can enjoy as TCM presents Family Classics. This week, Captain Sinbad. The brutal El Kerim’s (Pedro Armend�riz) can only be defeated by the man who finds the tyrant’s heart, which was removed from his body long ago and locked away in a secret ivory tower. Now, to save Princess Jana (Heidi Bruhl) and win her heart, Sinbad (Guy Williams) sets out to travel an impossible trail and battle undefeatable monsters in his quest to find the tyrant’s heart and end his evil rule.

TCM – Saturday 22 September, 8.30pm

This September on Turner Classic Movies, we examine some of the greatest romances to have ever lit up the silver screen, Howards End.

Love, passion and honour strain against the rigid bonds of class and Victorian morality in this stunningly beautiful, Academy Award winning adaptation of E.M. Forster’s classic novel.

The lives of the members of three families – The wealthy industrialist Wilcoxes; the aristocratic, educated and enlightened, if threadbare, Schlegel sisters; and the working class Basts – are bound together by love, marriage, infidelity, a yearning to break the restraints of their stifling society, and by a beautiful English cottage known as Howards End.

Starring Academy Award� winners Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave and Academy Award nominee Helena Bonham Carter.

TCM – Friday 21 September, 8.30pm

Inspector Closeau (Peter Sellars) is a bungling investigator hot on the trail of a burglar (David Niven), who schemes to steal the rare “Pink Panther” gem in the hilarious farce that began the most successful series in film comedies!

TCM – Sunday 16 September, 8.30pm

This September on Turner Classic Movies, we examine some of the greatest romances to have ever lit up the silver screen, this week ‘Dark Victory’. Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan star in one of the greatest film romances ever. After beautiful, charming young socialite Judith Traherne (Davis) is diagnosed with a brain tumour, romance grows between Judith and the dashing neurosurgeon who operates on her. Although he knows she has only months to live, the two wed. And in that short time Judith discovers true love.