Movie lineup (all times in EST):
6:00AM La Ronde (1950)
8:00AM Casque D'Or (1952)
10:00AM Against the Wind (1948)
12:00PM Gunman in the Streets (1950)
1:30PM The Deadly Affair (1967)
3:30PM Ship of Fools (1965)
*Daily Cinema #1: 6:00PM Term of Trial (1962)*
8:00PM Room at the Top (1959)
*Daily Cinema #2 10:15PM Diabolique (1955)*
12:30AM The Confession (1970)
3:15AM Police Python.357 (1975)
Daily Cinema Double Feature: Term of Trial (1962)/Diabolique (1955)
The minute I saw the synopsis for this film, I knew I had to feature it. In this movie, Sir Laurence Olivier plays alcoholic schoolteacher Graham and Simone Signoret plays his disdainful wife Anna. A new student enrolls at Graham's school and develops a crush on him, but when she attempts to make a pass at him he rebuffs her. She threatens to tell his supervisors that he molested her, throwing his life into disarray.
Simone Signoret co-stars in Diabolique as long-suffering mistress Nicole, who is a teacher carrying on an affair with the headmaster of her school, cruel Michel. Michel's wife Christina is the owner of the school and a fellow teacher, but is fully aware of the affair; Michel's abusive treatment of them both has allowed them to bond with each other over their growing hatred of him. At her wit's end, Nicole comes up with the idea to kill Michel. Christina takes some convincing but eventually agrees to go along with it, but after the deed is done things start to go wrong.
Don't worry, there's only one more Double Feature in this year's festival; I'm quite proud of myself for not overdoing it for once. If you want to join the larger conversation about today's movies, you can use the tags #SignoretTCM or #SUTS and if you watch either (or both) of today's Daily Cinema films, we can talk using the tag #atvdailycinema. See you tomorrow!
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