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ROBERT OSBORNE'S MOVIE PICKS
July 16, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

For 20 fabulous years now, Robert Osborne has served as primary host of Turner Classic Movies, establishing, like the network he represents, an impeccable and reliable reputation for both class and classics. Usually, Osborne presents movies built around the themes and tastes of others – but tonight, he presents his own movie picks, beginning at 8 p.m. ET with 1961’s Fanny (pictured), a romantic comedy-drama starring Leslie Caron as a fishmonger’s daughter in pre-WWII Marseille. She’s in love with a young sailor (played by Horst Buchholz, fresh off The Magnificent Seven), but circumstances leave her pregnant, alone, and contemplating accepting the advances of a wealthy older man (Maurice Chevalier). If the plot sounds somewhat familiar, it was adapted into another classic movie rarity shown occasionally on TCM, 1964’s all-music The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Other films on Osborne’s recommendation list tonight include (at 10:30 p.m. ET) 1933’s The Bitter Tea of General Yen, and (at 12:15 a.m. ET) 1944’s Experiment Perilous.

 
 
 
 
 
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