James Mason in The Verdict (Nov. 18, 1:00 AM ET)
We've reached the beginning of a new month on TCM, and that means a new Star of the Month. This month, we get back to something more conventional, namely one person, and that person is British-born James Mason. His movies will be airing every Thursday in prime time, leading into the beginning of the Friday morning schedule. Note that the 24th is Thanksgiving here in the US, but that this isn't pre-empting the James Mason movies; we get four full nights of Mason.
James Mason (r.) and Cary Grant at the Mount Rushmore visitors' center in North by Northwest (Nov. 24, 8:00 PM ET)
In fact, Thanksgiving kicks off with Mason in another non-lead role like The Verdict pictured above, but another truly great movie, that being Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
Looking through the schedule, the first Thursday has a bunch of Mason's earlier roles, including a fair bit of the 40s stuff he did in his native Britain, but beyond that the salute isn't laid out particularly thematically. Indeed, one of Mason's great roles from before going to Hollywood, in Odd Man Out where's he's an IRA agent trapped in Belfast in Northern Ireland, is part of the Thanksgiving schedule, at 1:45 AM Nov. 25.
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I love James Mason from his great voice to his great looks and great presence on the silver screen. I loved him as the brutal and brooding “Uncle” in the now disturbing The Seventh Veil to the sad anti hero in The Man Between. He always seemed to bringing something more to his movies. I chose Gene Tierney.
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