Claude Rains on TCM: HERE COMES MR. JORDAN, DECEPTION
Claude Rains returns this Wednesday, Sept. 9, in more films featuring Turner Classic Movies‘ Star of the Month.
Every single one of the titles listed below is worth watching if only because of Rains’ presence. That said, a couple of them actually have considerably more to offer: Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) and Deception (1946).
Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a witty, romantic comedy about love, death, reincarnation, greed, bad timing, and prizefighting. I know, this all (minus the prizefighting) sounds like some heavy-duty drama straight out of the Bible or some other holy book, but director Alexander Hall and screenwriters Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller, adapting Harry Segall’s play Heaven Can Wait, handle those serious themes with [...]
by Andre Soares | September 9, 2009
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