Ooh, it's Easter time again!

Tomorrow is Easter, at least in western Christianity, and unsurprisingly TCM is spending a day with several Easter-themed movies. Actually, it's only six of them, because of the interruption from Noir Alley at 10:00 AM and because some of the movies are those obscenely long biblical epics:

We start at 5:00 AM with The Silver Chalice, which nearly sank Paul Newman's career until he got a second chance with Somebody Up There Likes Me;
At 7:30 AM there's Barabbas, starring Anthony Quinn as the thief whose place on the cross was taken by Jesus when Pontius Pilate gave the Jews a chance to save one condemned man; the movie goes on to speculate what Barabbas' future life might have been like.
After Noir Alley, at noon is the 1959 version of Ben-Hur, in widescreen so that Sydney Pollack doesn't get the heebie-jeebies.
Max von Sydow dies last month, and one of his big roles was as Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told. Now that it's Easter, we unsurprisingly get that one, at 4:00 PM.
For something not exactly religious, you can watch Easter Parade at 8:00 PM.
Finally, at 10:00 PM, there's the 1961 version of King of Kings, a movie I'll always remember for the "Word of Mouth" piece screenwriter Philip Yordan did on it.

Somewhat surprisingly, FXM is also getting into the Easter spirit this year. Of course, in their case, it's rather less imaginative, being four consecutive airings of The Robe, starting at 6:00 AM with each subsequent showing 2:15 apart, until 3:00 PM. Still, at least somebody is thinking over there.