Mystery and Scandal on March's REEL 13 on Thirteen

Mystery and Scandal on March's two Reel 13 Classics. Jim Broadbent, John Cusack, Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, and Melissa Leo head the month's stellar casts.

A wealthy Joan Fontaine believes that her husband (Cary Grant) is trying to swindle her out of her inheritance in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion while severAl White Sox baseball players are offered a bribe to throw the 1919 World Series in John Sayles' Eight Men Out, on March's Reel13 Classics.

Two critically-acclaimed films round out the shortened roster of March selections for Reel13 Indie: Courtney Hunt's Frozen River and Mike Leigh's Another Year. (The series will be pre-empted on March 2, 9, and 16 for special pledge programming.)

Every Saturday night beginning at 9 p.m., viewers can catch a Classic hosted by film historian Neal Gabler, followed by an Indie, hosted by RichardPeña.
The evening concludes with a Short selected by visitors to Reel13.org who vote for their favorite of three shorts every week.
Reel 13 will be pre-empted for the first three Saturdays in March because of special March Pledge programming.

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"Suspicion" (1941) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
A woman suspects her husband of plotting to murder her in this Hitchcock thriller. With Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke.

"Frozen River" (2008) Dir: Courtney Hunt
Two single mothers become smugglers along the Canadian border. With Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott.

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"Eight Men Out" (1988) Dir: John Sayles
Chicago White Sox players stand trial for throwing the 1919 World Series. With John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner.

"Another Year" (2010) Dir: Mike Leigh
Four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple. With Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville.

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