Dark Victory (1939, b/w) BBC Four, 10.40pm ★★★★

Come to this drama for Bette Davis on star form as a hard-drinking Long Island socialite, cocooned in a lie that her brain surgery has been successful. Stay for the total devastation when she learns that it hasn’t. Conquering fear before total blindness claims her, she’s at her very best opposite silver-screen luminaries George Brent as her doctor and Humphrey Bogart as her stable master, who still holds a torch for her.