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John Mills in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi John Mills on TCM: I WAS MONTY'S DOUBLE, RYAN'S DAUGHTER, HOBSON'S CHOICE Schedule (PT) and synopses from the TCM website: 3:00 AM Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) A cold-hearted teacher becomes the school favorite when he's thawed by a beautiful young woman. Cast: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Paul Henreid. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-114 mins. 5:00 AM Hobson's Choice (1954) A [...]

Unfortunately, nine of the ten John Mills films to be shown on Turner Classic Movies as part of their month-long "Summer Under the Stars" series on Sunday, Aug. 22, are reruns. The one exception is I Was Monty's Double, a 1958 John Guillermin-directed World War II drama. [John Mills schedule.] I Was Monty's Double sounds like a particularly curious effort because it's based on a [...]

Maurice Jarre, best known for his Oscar-winning association with David Lean in films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984), died in his sleep on March 28 at his home in Malibu after a brief illness. Some reports claimed that Jarre had cancer. He was 84. Throughout his five-decade career in film and on television Jarre was [...]