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UEN-TV LitFlix
| Website: | http://www.uen.org/litflix |
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| Next Airing: | Fri, May 3rd, 2024 at 8:00 PM on UEN-TV |
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Every Friday at 8pm, UEN-TV 9.1 presents a classic movie based on a book. Great reads are even more fun with friends! Check out a set of books for your group from the UEN LitFlix Collection from Utah State Library’s Book Buzz program. For more info, go to UEN.org/litflix/ \
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The Borrowers (1973)
An eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home. Directed by Walter Miller; starring Eddie Albert and Tammy Grimes. Based on the novel by Mary Norton.
Next Airing: Fri, May 3rd, 2024 at 8:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 01:21:14 Usage rights: Expires 1/18/2038 -
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
Abbott & Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans. Stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Based on a folk tale published in England in 1730, "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean".
Next Airing: Fri, May 10th, 2024 at 8:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 01:14:49 Usage rights: Expires 4/30/2025 -
The Painted Hills (1951)
An intrepid dog comes to the rescue when a boy's life is put at risk by the greed inflamed by a gold strike.
Next Airing: Fri, May 17th, 2024 at 8:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 01:10:00 Usage rights: Expires 12/31/2027 -
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust. Directed by John Cromwell; starring Freddie Batholomew and Dolores Costello. Based on the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Next Airing: Fri, May 24th, 2024 at 8:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 01:41:50 Usage rights: Expires 4/30/2025 -
Topper Returns (1941)
The third of three Topper films (Topper - 1937 and Topper Takes A Trip - 1939), Roland Young stars again as the unflappable Cosmo Topper battling yet another ghost. The ghostly events start when Topper picks up two pretty hitchhikers and offers to have his chauffeur (Eddie "Rochester" Anderson of Jack Benny fame) take them to the creepy Carrington mansion. One of the ladies, Ann Carrington (Carole Landis) is the ailing Mr. Carrington's daughter who is to inherit the entire estate the next day, if she is still alive! When Ann gallantly offers to let her friend Gail Richards (Blondell) spend the night in the beautiful bedroom her "father" has decorated specifically for her...hang on for dear life!
Next Airing: Fri, May 31st, 2024 at 8:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 01:28:38 Usage rights: Expires 3/31/2026 -
Becky Sharp (1935)
Against the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder. From a play by Langdon Mitchell.
Next Airing: Fri, Jun 7th, 2024 at 8:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 01:24:51 Usage rights: Expires 5/1/2025 -
The 39 Steps (1935)
Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to 1930s London. After a disturbance at a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith, who is on the run from foreign agents. He takes her back to his apartment, but they are followed and later that night Annabella is murdered. Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring and thus prove his innocence. Adapted from the novel by John Buchan.
Next Airing: Fri, Jun 14th, 2024 at 8:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 01:26:38 Usage rights: Expires 5/1/2025 -
Four Feathers (1939)
A timid 1880s British Army officer resigns, burning his last-day summons to war in Egypt. Accusing him of cowardice, his girlfriend and three friends give him white feathers. To gain redemption, he shadows his friends to save their lives. From a novel by A.E.W. Mason. Directed by Zoltan Korda.
Next Airing: Fri, Jun 21st, 2024 at 8:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 01:54:49 Usage rights: Expires 1/18/2038 -
An Ideal Husband (1947)
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws. Based on a play by Oscar Wilde.
Next Airing: Fri, Jun 28th, 2024 at 8:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 01:32:35 Usage rights: Expires 5/1/2025 -
Henry V (1944)
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415. Directed by and stars Laurence Olivier. From the play by William Shakespeare.
Length: 02:16:52 Usage rights: Expires 1/18/2038 -
King Lear (1970)
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers. From the play by William Shakespeare.
Length: 02:00:02 Usage rights: Expires 1/18/2038 -
Of Human Bondage (1934)
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both. Stars Bette Davis, Leslie Howard. Based on a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham.
Length: 01:22:33 Usage rights: Expires 6/30/2024 -
Othello (1951 0r 1933?)
The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago. From a play by William Shakespeare. Directed by Orson Welles. Starring Orson Welles, Michael MacLiammoir, Robert Coote.
Length: 01:29:00 Usage rights: Expires 1/18/2038 -
She (1935)
A group of explorers search of the legendary "flame of life," a mysterious force that bestows immortality. Based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard.
Length: 01:42:31 Usage rights: Expires 1/18/2038 -
Sherlock Holmes & The Secret Weapon (1942)
In this film, Holmes is up against his toughest foe, Professor Moriarity (played by horror icon Lionel Atwill). Holmes is working for England in the war against Hitler and has successfully accomplished his mission of getting Dr. Franz Tobel, creator of the extremely accurate and destructive "Tobel Bomb Site," which the Germans are after, into England. Tobel has ingeniously given four scientists, unknown to each other, key elements of the plan, which will only work if they are brought together. Moriartiy, working for the Germans, has captured three of the scientists, and is in a race with Holmes to decipher a code of dancing men symbols which will reveal the identity of the fourth. In a most Holmesian maneuver, Holmes, after being captured by Moriarity and needing more time for Scotland Yard to arrive, challanges Moriarity to come up with a more imaginative way to kill him, such as draining his blood "drop by drop". Moriarity promptly falls for the bait, thus sealing his fate when the police arrive. Based on the book "The Dancing Men" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Length: 01:08:49 Usage rights: Expires 5/1/2025 -
Taming of the Shrew (1929)
Adapted from Shakespeare's play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca. The younger daughter, Bianca, is charming and has many suitors. But her father will not allow Bianca to be married until her older sister, who is notoriously quarrelsome and bad-tempered, is married first. When Petruchio comes from Verona to Padua in search of a wife, he hears of this situation, and he accepts the challenge of trying to woo and marry the ill-natured Katherine. Starring Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Edwin Maxwell.
Length: 01:05:18 Usage rights: Expires 1/18/2038 -
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all. Based on the novel by Oscar Wilde. Stars George Sanders and Donna Reed.
Length: 01:50:38 Usage rights: Expires 1/18/2038 -
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice. Stars Gregory Peck. From the novel by Harper Lee.
Length: 02:09:36 Usage rights: Expires 6/30/2024