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Best channel on Free view. Some classic old films. Hombre, starring Paul Newman, on now.
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That Mexican bandit must have been shot and killed in a hundred western over the years. Great film.
there are some good films on there but also some really awful grim films
It's noticeable how slim people were in the old days, compared to the standard barrel shape which most people are now.
Something else obvious is that the standard of dress was much higher. And note the heavy clothes worn indoors when central heating was only for the rich, and cavity walls in houses weren't standard build.
Something else obvious is that the standard of dress was much higher. And note the heavy clothes worn indoors when central heating was only for the rich, and cavity walls in houses weren't standard build.
Re runs of Gideon`s Way on tonight.
And tomorrow Hawkeye, Last Of The Mohicans starring
John Hart and Lon Chaney jnr
And tomorrow Hawkeye, Last Of The Mohicans starring
John Hart and Lon Chaney jnr
Looking forward to The Beast with Five Fingers and The Glass Mountain.
^lol
And Frankenstein - ''it's alive, look it's moving, it's alive it's alive it's alive!''
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qNeGSJaQ9Q
Boris Karloff as the monster - no make up needed. So ugly he just played himself.
And Frankenstein - ''it's alive, look it's moving, it's alive it's alive it's alive!''
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qNeGSJaQ9Q
Boris Karloff as the monster - no make up needed. So ugly he just played himself.
The Night My Number Came Up
Excellent film, just started.
Excellent film, just started.
destination versus free will. Made by Ealing Studios (better known for their comedies) it follows a motley group of military officers, civil servants and others who are flying in a small passenger plane from Hong Kong to Tokyo. The night before the flight a naval officer relates a dream he had in which their plane was lost over the sea and eventually crashed on the coast. At first the travellers are amused and rather sceptical, but as the circumstances alter: planes are changed, passengers added - in line with the dream - they become more and more nervous. Then the storm clouds close in.
This has to be one of the better British films of the fifties, as director Leslie Norman nicely builds up the tension notch by notch, allowing occasional respite as the main characters deliberate on superstition and rationality, fate and predestination, the power of dreams. Michael Redgrave is all cool rationality, Denholm Elliot repressed anxiety, and Alexander Knox the sceptic who becomes increasingly unhinged by fear, then philosophically resigned to the inevitable. It's a welcome addition to the list that will never make it as an in-flight movie. If you're nervous about flying, don't watch it.
This has to be one of the better British films of the fifties, as director Leslie Norman nicely builds up the tension notch by notch, allowing occasional respite as the main characters deliberate on superstition and rationality, fate and predestination, the power of dreams. Michael Redgrave is all cool rationality, Denholm Elliot repressed anxiety, and Alexander Knox the sceptic who becomes increasingly unhinged by fear, then philosophically resigned to the inevitable. It's a welcome addition to the list that will never make it as an in-flight movie. If you're nervous about flying, don't watch it.
try again
This has to be one of the few films to address the philosophical concept of predestination versus free will. Made by Ealing Studios (better known for their comedies) it follows a motley group of military officers, civil servants and others who are flying in a small passenger plane from Hong Kong to Tokyo. The night before the flight a naval officer relates a dream he had in which their plane was lost over the sea and eventually crashed on the coast. At first the travellers are amused and rather sceptical, but as the circumstances alter: planes are changed, passengers added - in line with the dream - they become more and more nervous. Then the storm clouds close in.
This has to be one of the better British films of the fifties, as director Leslie Norman nicely builds up the tension notch by notch, allowing occasional respite as the main characters deliberate on superstition and rationality, fate and predestination, the power of dreams. Michael Redgrave is all cool rationality, Denholm Elliot repressed anxiety, and Alexander Knox the sceptic who becomes increasingly unhinged by fear, then philosophically resigned to the inevitable. It's a welcome addition to the list that will never make it as an in-flight movie. If you're nervous about flying, don't watch it.
This has to be one of the few films to address the philosophical concept of predestination versus free will. Made by Ealing Studios (better known for their comedies) it follows a motley group of military officers, civil servants and others who are flying in a small passenger plane from Hong Kong to Tokyo. The night before the flight a naval officer relates a dream he had in which their plane was lost over the sea and eventually crashed on the coast. At first the travellers are amused and rather sceptical, but as the circumstances alter: planes are changed, passengers added - in line with the dream - they become more and more nervous. Then the storm clouds close in.
This has to be one of the better British films of the fifties, as director Leslie Norman nicely builds up the tension notch by notch, allowing occasional respite as the main characters deliberate on superstition and rationality, fate and predestination, the power of dreams. Michael Redgrave is all cool rationality, Denholm Elliot repressed anxiety, and Alexander Knox the sceptic who becomes increasingly unhinged by fear, then philosophically resigned to the inevitable. It's a welcome addition to the list that will never make it as an in-flight movie. If you're nervous about flying, don't watch it.
Straw Dogs on now.
Seems somehow out of place on this channel.
Seems somehow out of place on this channel.
Last night showed the wonderful Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak in The Night Strangler , which was a big influence on a young chap who went on to make The X Files ......top filum.
Superb film on now. LAST HOLIDAY
Alec Guinness is told he only has months to live so packs his job in and decides to live a life of luxury with the little time he has left.
Then he's told it's a mistake and he's not going to die soon.
Then................
Alec Guinness is told he only has months to live so packs his job in and decides to live a life of luxury with the little time he has left.
Then he's told it's a mistake and he's not going to die soon.
Then................
See they have a horse running in the last at Stratford.
Tuesday, 11.30 am. Review by the late great Roger Ebert
Homer thinks maybe they should stop at his Uncle Butch's saloon for a drink before they get home. "You're home now, kid," the older man Al tells him. Three military veterans have just returned to their hometown of Boone City, somewhere in the Midwest, and each in his own way is dreading his approaching reunion. Al's dialogue brings down the curtain on the apprehensive first act of William Wyler's "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946), the first film to win eight Academy Awards (one honorary) and at the time second only to "Gone With the Wind" at the U.S. box office. Seen more than six decades later, it feels surprisingly modern: lean, direct, honest about issues that Hollywood then studiously avoided. After the war years of patriotism and heroism in the movies, this was a sobering look at the problems veterans faced when they returned home.
The movie centers on the stories of the three men. Al Stephenson (Fredric March), in his 40s, was an infantryman and is now returning to his family and the bank where he worked. Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) was a crew member on a bomber. Homer Parrish (Harold Russell) was a Navy man who lost both hands and now uses steel hooks. "You gotta hand it to the Navy," Fred tells Al, as they watch Homer walk slowly from their taxi to his front door, "they sure trained that kid how to use those hooks." Al says: "They couldn't train him to put his arms around his girl, or to stroke her hair."
That's why Homer wanted to stop for the drink. When he left for the war, he had an understanding with Wilma (Cathy O'Donnell), the girl next door, but now he fears how she will react to his artificial hands. The other men have fears, too. Fred, raised in a shack by the tracks and working as a drugstore soda jerk when he enlisted, quickly married the sexy Marie (Virginia Mayo), who has stopped writing him. Al has been married for 20 years to Milly (Myrna Loy), and has a son Rob (Michael Hall) and a daughter Peggy (Teresa Wright). They welcome him home with love and hugs, but he doesn't feel right; his children have changed, his life has changed, and after Rob goes to bed he suddenly remembers Butch's bar and suggests his wife and daughter join him for a celebration.
The other two men also turn up at Butch's. Homer couldn't take the exaggerated kindness and suppressed grief he thought he sensed from his parents and Wilma. Fred didn't find anyone at home at Marie's apartment. The three men get plastered together, with Al's wife looking on with superhuman understanding. That's the night Fred and Peggy have their first conversation, and begin to fall in love.
The movie's screenplay, by Robert Sherwood, moves confidently among the problems faced by the three men; unhurried and relatively low-key, this isn't a fevered docudrama. It becomes clear to Fred that Marie is a party girl who isn't interested in life on his drugstore paycheck of $32.50. Homer coldly tries to force away Wilma because he doesn't want her pity. Al gets a promotion at the bank, and is in charge of giving loans under the G.I. Bill, but rebels when he's asked to trust an applicant's collateral more than his character. Al turns to drink, and has a half-sloshed, half-heroic moment when he speaks his mind at a company dinner.
The film makes no effort to paint these men as extraordinary. Their lives, their characters, their prospects are all more or less average, and Wyler doesn't pump in superfluous drama. That's why the movie is so effective, and maybe why it doesn't seem as dated as some 1946 dramas. But Wyler employed remarkable visuals to make some of his points. He was working with the great cinematographer Gregg Toland, known for his deep-focus photography on such films as "Citizen Kane," and often Wyler uses deep-focus instead of cutting, so that the meaning of a scene can reveal itself to us, instead of being pounded down with close-ups. Consider a scene in Butch's where Homer proudly shows how Butch (Hoagy Carmichael) has taught him to play piano with his hooks. Al and Fred look on, and then Fred walks to a phone booth in the far background to make a crucial call. The camera doesn't move, but our eyes follow Fred's movement to the booth, and we focus on a decision he is making.
One of the movie's most famous sequences involves Fred deciding to leave town in search of work, and going to the airport. While waiting for his military transport flight, he wanders into a vast graveyard of mothballed warplanes. This scene is heartbreaking. Once Fred flew these planes, and now they, and their pilots, are no longer needed. The payoff of the scene is deeply ironic.
And consider the film's extended closing scene, when Homer and Wilma get married. Fred and Peggy are among the guests. Earlier they have told each they they are in love, and Peggy vowed to her parents she would break up Fred's mistaken and miserable marriage. But Al warned Fred away from his daughter -- one reason he was leaving town, even though the tawdry Marie is filing for divorce.
Wyler shows the entire marriage ceremony, all the way through, starting with Carmichael playing the wedding march, and the lovers exchanging vows. There are two parallel lines of suspense. One involves the marriage itself, and whether Homer's hooks can slip a ring on Wilma's finger. The other involves Fred and Peggy on opposite sides of the same room, their eyes locked as they hear the wedding vows being pronounced. Deep focus allows Wyler to show both of these events at once, and his framing draws our eyes to the back of the shot, where Teresa Wright, never prettier or more vulnerable, doesn't move a muscle.
"The Best Years of Our Lives" doesn't use verbal or technical pyrotechnics. It trusts entirely in the strength of its story. One of the sources of its power is the performance by Harold Russell, the handless veteran. Producer Samuel Goldwyn was actually criticized at the time for his "tasteless" use of Russell, but look at the heartbreaking scene where Homer invites Wilma up to his bedroom -- not to make a pass, but to show her what is involved in getting ready for bed. He thinks maybe then she'll understand why he doesn't think he can marry her.
Russell was an untrained actor, but utterly sincere. He says: "This is when I know I'm helpless. My hands are down there on the bed. I can't put them on again without calling to somebody for help. I can't smoke a cigarette or read a book. If that door should blow shut, I can't open it and get out of this room. I'm as dependent as a baby that doesn't know how to get anything except to cry for it." WeknowRussell is speaking for himself, and the emotional power is overwhelming. O'Donnell's response is pitch-perfect.
Russell won an honorary Oscar, "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance." Although he was actually nominated for best supporting actor, the Academy board voted the special award because they thought he didn't have a chance of winning. They were wrong. He won the Oscar, the only time an actor has been given two Oscars for the same role. The film also won for best picture, actor (March), director, screenplay, editing and score.
As long as we have wars and returning veterans, some of them wounded, "The Best Years of Our Lives" will not be dated. The movie is available on DVD, but there are no bells and whistles, and it calls out for a special edition or the Criterion treatment. I agree with Noel Megahey atDVDTalk.com: "Some other studios might regard a film that won eight Oscars as a major back-catalogue release but not MGM. The DVD presentation of the film is barely even adequate as a barebones release, with ... not a single feature to support the film's historical and cinematic importance."
Note: The film is said to have inspired one of Samuel Goldwyn's famous Goldwynisms: "I don't care if the film doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it."
Homer thinks maybe they should stop at his Uncle Butch's saloon for a drink before they get home. "You're home now, kid," the older man Al tells him. Three military veterans have just returned to their hometown of Boone City, somewhere in the Midwest, and each in his own way is dreading his approaching reunion. Al's dialogue brings down the curtain on the apprehensive first act of William Wyler's "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946), the first film to win eight Academy Awards (one honorary) and at the time second only to "Gone With the Wind" at the U.S. box office. Seen more than six decades later, it feels surprisingly modern: lean, direct, honest about issues that Hollywood then studiously avoided. After the war years of patriotism and heroism in the movies, this was a sobering look at the problems veterans faced when they returned home.
The movie centers on the stories of the three men. Al Stephenson (Fredric March), in his 40s, was an infantryman and is now returning to his family and the bank where he worked. Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) was a crew member on a bomber. Homer Parrish (Harold Russell) was a Navy man who lost both hands and now uses steel hooks. "You gotta hand it to the Navy," Fred tells Al, as they watch Homer walk slowly from their taxi to his front door, "they sure trained that kid how to use those hooks." Al says: "They couldn't train him to put his arms around his girl, or to stroke her hair."
That's why Homer wanted to stop for the drink. When he left for the war, he had an understanding with Wilma (Cathy O'Donnell), the girl next door, but now he fears how she will react to his artificial hands. The other men have fears, too. Fred, raised in a shack by the tracks and working as a drugstore soda jerk when he enlisted, quickly married the sexy Marie (Virginia Mayo), who has stopped writing him. Al has been married for 20 years to Milly (Myrna Loy), and has a son Rob (Michael Hall) and a daughter Peggy (Teresa Wright). They welcome him home with love and hugs, but he doesn't feel right; his children have changed, his life has changed, and after Rob goes to bed he suddenly remembers Butch's bar and suggests his wife and daughter join him for a celebration.
The other two men also turn up at Butch's. Homer couldn't take the exaggerated kindness and suppressed grief he thought he sensed from his parents and Wilma. Fred didn't find anyone at home at Marie's apartment. The three men get plastered together, with Al's wife looking on with superhuman understanding. That's the night Fred and Peggy have their first conversation, and begin to fall in love.
The movie's screenplay, by Robert Sherwood, moves confidently among the problems faced by the three men; unhurried and relatively low-key, this isn't a fevered docudrama. It becomes clear to Fred that Marie is a party girl who isn't interested in life on his drugstore paycheck of $32.50. Homer coldly tries to force away Wilma because he doesn't want her pity. Al gets a promotion at the bank, and is in charge of giving loans under the G.I. Bill, but rebels when he's asked to trust an applicant's collateral more than his character. Al turns to drink, and has a half-sloshed, half-heroic moment when he speaks his mind at a company dinner.
The film makes no effort to paint these men as extraordinary. Their lives, their characters, their prospects are all more or less average, and Wyler doesn't pump in superfluous drama. That's why the movie is so effective, and maybe why it doesn't seem as dated as some 1946 dramas. But Wyler employed remarkable visuals to make some of his points. He was working with the great cinematographer Gregg Toland, known for his deep-focus photography on such films as "Citizen Kane," and often Wyler uses deep-focus instead of cutting, so that the meaning of a scene can reveal itself to us, instead of being pounded down with close-ups. Consider a scene in Butch's where Homer proudly shows how Butch (Hoagy Carmichael) has taught him to play piano with his hooks. Al and Fred look on, and then Fred walks to a phone booth in the far background to make a crucial call. The camera doesn't move, but our eyes follow Fred's movement to the booth, and we focus on a decision he is making.
One of the movie's most famous sequences involves Fred deciding to leave town in search of work, and going to the airport. While waiting for his military transport flight, he wanders into a vast graveyard of mothballed warplanes. This scene is heartbreaking. Once Fred flew these planes, and now they, and their pilots, are no longer needed. The payoff of the scene is deeply ironic.
And consider the film's extended closing scene, when Homer and Wilma get married. Fred and Peggy are among the guests. Earlier they have told each they they are in love, and Peggy vowed to her parents she would break up Fred's mistaken and miserable marriage. But Al warned Fred away from his daughter -- one reason he was leaving town, even though the tawdry Marie is filing for divorce.
Wyler shows the entire marriage ceremony, all the way through, starting with Carmichael playing the wedding march, and the lovers exchanging vows. There are two parallel lines of suspense. One involves the marriage itself, and whether Homer's hooks can slip a ring on Wilma's finger. The other involves Fred and Peggy on opposite sides of the same room, their eyes locked as they hear the wedding vows being pronounced. Deep focus allows Wyler to show both of these events at once, and his framing draws our eyes to the back of the shot, where Teresa Wright, never prettier or more vulnerable, doesn't move a muscle.
"The Best Years of Our Lives" doesn't use verbal or technical pyrotechnics. It trusts entirely in the strength of its story. One of the sources of its power is the performance by Harold Russell, the handless veteran. Producer Samuel Goldwyn was actually criticized at the time for his "tasteless" use of Russell, but look at the heartbreaking scene where Homer invites Wilma up to his bedroom -- not to make a pass, but to show her what is involved in getting ready for bed. He thinks maybe then she'll understand why he doesn't think he can marry her.
Russell was an untrained actor, but utterly sincere. He says: "This is when I know I'm helpless. My hands are down there on the bed. I can't put them on again without calling to somebody for help. I can't smoke a cigarette or read a book. If that door should blow shut, I can't open it and get out of this room. I'm as dependent as a baby that doesn't know how to get anything except to cry for it." WeknowRussell is speaking for himself, and the emotional power is overwhelming. O'Donnell's response is pitch-perfect.
Russell won an honorary Oscar, "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance." Although he was actually nominated for best supporting actor, the Academy board voted the special award because they thought he didn't have a chance of winning. They were wrong. He won the Oscar, the only time an actor has been given two Oscars for the same role. The film also won for best picture, actor (March), director, screenplay, editing and score.
As long as we have wars and returning veterans, some of them wounded, "The Best Years of Our Lives" will not be dated. The movie is available on DVD, but there are no bells and whistles, and it calls out for a special edition or the Criterion treatment. I agree with Noel Megahey atDVDTalk.com: "Some other studios might regard a film that won eight Oscars as a major back-catalogue release but not MGM. The DVD presentation of the film is barely even adequate as a barebones release, with ... not a single feature to support the film's historical and cinematic importance."
Note: The film is said to have inspired one of Samuel Goldwyn's famous Goldwynisms: "I don't care if the film doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it."
Another terrific day for this channel after yesterday's screening of "The Best Years of our Lives".
Today, so far we've already had "The Little Foxes" (Bette Davis), and "The Private Life of Oliver The Eighth" (Stan and Ollie), the hors d'oeuvre for "TREAD SOFTLY STRANGER", with the young Diana Dors in full 'femme fatale' mode.
Today, so far we've already had "The Little Foxes" (Bette Davis), and "The Private Life of Oliver The Eighth" (Stan and Ollie), the hors d'oeuvre for "TREAD SOFTLY STRANGER", with the young Diana Dors in full 'femme fatale' mode.
The Best Years Of Our Lives is the film I posted the review from above, alun. Watched the first part again today. The guy with the metal hands did indeed lose his hands 2 years earlier in 1944 when some TNT exploded when he was training soldiers. Great film.
Diana Dors on again at 10pm but only 1.5 stars out of 4.
Just watching Very Important person- brilliant-they're all in it,Robertson-justice,Stanley Baxter,Leslie Phillips,Richard Wattis etc.
seen it a few times, enjoyable light hearted romp, with a sprinkling of suspense.
Remember watching it as a boy and loved it then,haven't seen it since,loving it.
It's a great channel. I watched A Night To Remember late last night, imo the definitive film about the Titanic. On again Sat 6.35pm
Started watching that Kenny but went to bed,might watch Rakes Progress at 9 tonight
I enjoy reading the reviews on imdb.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037950/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037950/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt
Richard Wattis! Did he play a posh university type?
The Hugh Grant of the 50s and 60s
The Hugh Grant of the 50s and 60s
He usually did, mmm, he turns up in dozens of films.
Just read his Wiki page and ironically he didn't go to university
Was also gay, which was not a surprise for actors of that era.
Died in 1975 aged 73.
Was also gay, which was not a surprise for actors of that era.
Died in 1975 aged 73.
I watched a fairly bad film on 328 today. Called "The Old Dark House", it was an unnecessary 1963 remake of a 1932 film of the same name.
Fenella Fielding was in it. I hadn't realised, she died a couple of weeks ago.
This is still one of the best channels out there, imo. The copycat channel only lasted a few weeks.
The story of how it came about is quite interesting. Worth reading up.
Fenella Fielding was in it. I hadn't realised, she died a couple of weeks ago.
This is still one of the best channels out there, imo. The copycat channel only lasted a few weeks.
The story of how it came about is quite interesting. Worth reading up.
Watched a few Gideon's Way and Edgar Wallace theatre,amazing how many well known names pop up in them.
I watched all The Human Jungle episodes. That was 8 til 9 sorted for a few weeks.
For anybody interested, they are showing Public Eye series beginning next week with Alfred Burke as Frank Marker.
Good looking film on tomorrow night (1.05am Saturday morning) - I haven't seen it but is supposed to be good.
Bigger Than Life
1956. Drama. Directed by Nicholas Ray. Starring James Mason, Barbara Rush and Walter Matthau. A schoolteacher tries an experimental drug which changes his moods and personality.
Bigger Than Life
1956. Drama. Directed by Nicholas Ray. Starring James Mason, Barbara Rush and Walter Matthau. A schoolteacher tries an experimental drug which changes his moods and personality.
Superb film on now. LAST HOLIDAY
Alec Guinness is told he only has months to live so packs his job in and decides to live a life of luxury with the little time he has left.
Then he's told it's a mistake and he's not going to die soon.
Then........
On again at 2.05 today.
Alec Guinness is told he only has months to live so packs his job in and decides to live a life of luxury with the little time he has left.
Then he's told it's a mistake and he's not going to die soon.
Then........
On again at 2.05 today.
9pm today "GUMSHOE" with Albert Finney.
An absolute joy.
An absolute joy.
2 films on recently to show what happens when you gambol- Jazzy and The Wicked Lady, both starring that classic beauty of old, Margaret Lockwood
Worst ever version of Great Expectations on now. All star cast wasted.
Sun 14 Oct 18 18:45 Sudden Fear 1952. Drama. Directed by David Miller. Stars Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame & Bruce Bennett. After an actor marries a rich playwright, he plots with his mistress how to get rid of her.
Sun 14 Oct 18 21:00 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre Incident at Midnight. 1962. Directed by Norman Harrison. Stars Anton Differing, William Sylvester & Martin Miller. A drug addict recognises a man whom he knew as an active Nazi in Vienna.
Sun 14 Oct 18 22:10 Scream of Fear 1961. Drama. Directed by Seth Holt. Stars Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd & Christopher Lee. A wheelchair-bound female returns to her father’s estate when she starts to see her dead father. (Subtitles Available)
Sun 14 Oct 18 23:50 Walk on the Wild Side 1962. Drama. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Laurence Harvey, Capucine & Jane Fonda. A young Texan leaves his depression-ravaged town for New Orleans in search of his lost love. (Subtitles Available)
Sun 14 Oct 18 2:05 Force on Thunder Mountain 1978. Sci-Fi. A hiking trip into the mountains brings father and son into contact with the Force.
Sun 14 Oct 18 4:00 The Mob 1951. Drama. Directed by Robert Parrish. Stars Betty Buehler, Broderick Crawford & Richard Kiley. An undercover cop poses as a dock worker in order to get the goods on the mobsters.
Sun 14 Oct 18 5:45 The Development of Rubber Products in 1929 A promotional silent film made in 1929 for the French & British public on the benefits of Rubber products in the home and the process with which the Rubber is obtained.
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Sun 14 Oct 18 21:00 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre Incident at Midnight. 1962. Directed by Norman Harrison. Stars Anton Differing, William Sylvester & Martin Miller. A drug addict recognises a man whom he knew as an active Nazi in Vienna.
Sun 14 Oct 18 22:10 Scream of Fear 1961. Drama. Directed by Seth Holt. Stars Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd & Christopher Lee. A wheelchair-bound female returns to her father’s estate when she starts to see her dead father. (Subtitles Available)
Sun 14 Oct 18 23:50 Walk on the Wild Side 1962. Drama. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Laurence Harvey, Capucine & Jane Fonda. A young Texan leaves his depression-ravaged town for New Orleans in search of his lost love. (Subtitles Available)
Sun 14 Oct 18 2:05 Force on Thunder Mountain 1978. Sci-Fi. A hiking trip into the mountains brings father and son into contact with the Force.
Sun 14 Oct 18 4:00 The Mob 1951. Drama. Directed by Robert Parrish. Stars Betty Buehler, Broderick Crawford & Richard Kiley. An undercover cop poses as a dock worker in order to get the goods on the mobsters.
Sun 14 Oct 18 5:45 The Development of Rubber Products in 1929 A promotional silent film made in 1929 for the French & British public on the benefits of Rubber products in the home and the process with which the Rubber is obtained.
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TPTV Schedule October 15th to 21st
DATE TIME PROGRAMME SYNOPSIS
Mon 15 Oct 18 6:00 Rose of Cimmaron 1952. Western. Director: Harry Keller. Stars Jack Buetel, Mala Powers, Bill Williams. Rose, a young girl fostered by a Cherokee family, seeks revenge after her foster parents are murdered by outlaws
Mon 15 Oct 18 7:35 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans The Morristown Story. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & George Barnes. Hawkeye has tracked outlaw Simon Girty to Morristown but he and Chingachgook are turned away. (Subtitles Available)
Mon 15 Oct 18 8:05 I’ll Get You For This 1951. Drama. Director Joseph M. Newman. Stars George Raft, Coleen Gray & Enzo Staiola. A gambler discovers he has been framed for the murder of a Treasury Agent and goes on a journey to clear his name
Mon 15 Oct 18 9:45 While I Live 1947. Drama. (aka The Dream of Olwen) 25 years later, a spinster still obsesses over the death of her sister, who was a composer.
Mon 15 Oct 18 11:20 1940s Speed Skating – Glimpses Made in the late 30s early 40s narrated by Kent Stevenson – The introduction to England of the hobbies of Ice Hockey, Figure Skating and what a great night out it is!
Mon 15 Oct 18 11:35 Treasure Island 1972. Adventure. Directors: John Hough, Andrea Bianchi & Antonio Margheriti. Stars Orson Welles, Lionel Stander & Kim Burfield. Young Jim Hawkins has a map to a pirate’s buried treasure.
Mon 15 Oct 18 13:25 The Green Man 1956. Comedy. Stars Alastair Sim, Raymond Huntley, George Cole & Terry-Thomas. A watchmaker turns out to be an assassin whose target is a leading politician but his plans are stalled.
Mon 15 Oct 18 15:00 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 1951. Drama. Directed by Albert Lewin. Starring James Mason, Ava Gradner, Nigel Patrick & Shelia Sim. Hendrick – the Flying Dutchman, has been cursed by god to wander over the sea until Doomsday. (Subtitles Available)
Mon 15 Oct 18 17:30 Turn of Fate 1957. Stars David Niven, Robert Ryan & Charles Boyer. Dramatizations that depict the plight of people who are suddenly involved in unexpected and perilous situations. (S1, E16)
Mon 15 Oct 18 18:00 Idol On Parade 1959. Comedy. Directed by John Gilling. Stars Anthony Newley, William Bendix & Anne Aubrey. Newley is a pop singer called up to serve in the British army.
Mon 15 Oct 18 19:45 A Cornish Holiday – Glimpses Beautiful footage of Porthleven, Cornwall June 1950. A parade in the high street, a family trip to a small local beach, a boat trip and frolics on the shore.
Mon 15 Oct 18 20:00 Public Eye 1969. Detective & Mystery Drama. My Life’s My Own. Stars Alfred Burke, Stephanie Beacham & Katharine Blake. Frank is visited by a young lady who, for the next 36 hours, greatly upsets his life.
Mon 15 Oct 18 21:00 Jet Storm 1959. Drama. Directed by Cy Endfield. Starring Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley & Diane Cilento. A man who lost his daughter in a hit-&-Run accident tracks the man responsible. (Subtitles Available)
Mon 15 Oct 18 22:45 BFI: The Reformation of St Jules 1949. Thriller. Directed by Anthony Gilkison. Algernon Blackwood tells his gothic short story, from the series A Strange Experience.
Mon 15 Oct 18 23:00 The Gentle Touch Rogue. 1980. Directed by David Askey. Stars Jill Gascoine, Moira Redmond & James Smillie. Maggie is offended when offered a bribe. But stranger offers are waiting around the corner.
Mon 15 Oct 18 0:00 Dulcima 1971. Drama. Director: Frank Nesbitt. Stars John Mills, Carol White & Stuart Wilson. Dulcima, a girl treated as a drudge by her family, lifts herself from her environment by becoming a housekeeper.
Mon 15 Oct 18 2:00 The Camp On Blood Island 1958. Drama. Directed Val Guest. Stars Andre Morell, Carl Mohner & Walter Fitzgerald. Deep in Malaya, as WW2 comes to an end, men, women and children as still trapped by the Japanese invasion.
Mon 15 Oct 18 3:40 The Big Valley The Martyr. 1966. Directed by Virgil W. Vogel. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. Jarrod defends a Basque Sheepherder accused of Murder. (S2, E6)
Mon 15 Oct 18 4:40 Lady Beware 1932. The Master of the manor leaves his estate to a mysterious 13th guest at a dinner party but the guest doesn’t turn up. Stars Ginger Rogers & Lyle Talbot.
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Tue 16 Oct 18 6:00 Port of New York 1949. Drama. Directed by Laslo Benedek. Stars Scott Brady, Yul Brynner & Richard Rober. Two narcotics agents go after murderous drug dealers who use the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband. (Subtitles Available)
Tue 16 Oct 18 7:40 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans Revenge. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & Rodney Bunker. A young lieutenant seeks blind vengeance for the brutal murders of his parents. (Subtitles Available)
Tue 16 Oct 18 8:10 Sailor Beware! 1956. Comedy. Director: Gordon Parry. Stars Gordon Jackson, Peggy Mount, Ronald Lewis & Shirley Eaton. A seaman gets cold feet about his wedding when his mother-in-law to be takes control.
Tue 16 Oct 18 9:50 Cuckoo Patrol 1967. Comedy. Freddie Garrity of Freddie and the Dreamers fame is the scout cub leader of a bunch of misfits. Stars: Kenneth Connor, John Le Mesurier and Bernie Dwyer
Tue 16 Oct 18 11:25 The Bargee 1964. Comedy. Directed by Duncan Wood. Stars Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith & Ronnie Barker. The film charts the course of love of a Casanova who lives and works on the canals, breaking hearts. (Subtitles Available)
Tue 16 Oct 18 13:35 Bell Bottom George 1944. Drama. Directed by Marcel Varnel. Starring George Formby, Anne Firth & Reginald Purdell. Rejected by the military 3 times, a hapless waiter gets a job on a ship but is mistaken for a real sailor
Tue 16 Oct 18 15:35 Androcles and the Lion 1953. Drama. Starring Alan Young as Androcles, a Christian who lives in ancient Rome. Upon seeing a lion in severe pain, he manages to remove a massive thorn from the beast’s paw.
Tue 16 Oct 18 17:30 Turn of Fate Hidden Witness. Stars Robert Ryan. 1957. Dramatizations that depict the plight of people who are suddenly involved in unexpected and perilous situations.
Tue 16 Oct 18 18:00 She Played With Fire 1958. Drama. Directed by Sidney Gilliat. Stars Jack Hawkins, Ian Hunter, Arlene Dahl & Dennis Price. An investigator finds himself involved in blackmail & murder after running into his ex.
Tue 16 Oct 18 20:00 Public Eye 1969. Detective & Mystery Drama. Case for the Defence. Stars Alfred Burke, William Lucas & Stanley Meadows. Frank joins an enquiry agency to find working for a firm is quite different to the old days.
Tue 16 Oct 18 21:00 Cast a Dark Shadow 1955. Thriller. Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Starring Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh & Kathleen Harrison. A clever fortune-hunter with a penchant for murder does in his elderly, rich, wife. (Subtitles Available)
Tue 16 Oct 18 22:40 Glimpses: Cornwall Calling 1930. Excellently photographed film of an Austin engine being filled into a yacht, then sailing around Cornwall visiting coastal villages from Rye to The Lizard. Some villages by Austin Motorcar.
Tue 16 Oct 18 23:00 The Gentle Touch Melody. 1980. Directed by Paul Annett. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. Maggie investigates the death of Melody.
Tue 16 Oct 18 0:00 House on Haunted Hill 1959. Horror. Directed by William Castle. Starring Vincent Price & Carol Ohmart. A millionaire invites five people to a ‘haunted house’ party, and whoever makes it through the night earns $10,000.
Tue 16 Oct 18 1:35 Duffy 1968. Comedy. Directed by Robert Parrish. Stars James Coburn, James Mason & James Fox. An adventurer living in Tangiers is persuaded to help pirate a million-dollar cash shipment.
Tue 16 Oct 18 3:40 The Big Valley Target. 1966. Directed by Arthur H. Nadel. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. Joshua Hawks rides into town and accuses the Barkley’s family of stealing land. (S2, E7)
Tue 16 Oct 18 4:40 Who Killed Frank Daniels 1932. Crime A crooked undertaker switches bodies to cover up a murder. Starring Zasu Pitts.
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Wed 17 Oct 18 6:00 Silver Fleet 1943. War. Directors: Vernon Sewell & Gordon Wellesley. Stars Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers & Esmond Knight. The Gestapo, anxious for operational submarines, meet with the owner of a Dutch port.
Wed 17 Oct 18 7:45 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans The Contest. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & James Barron. Hawkeye and Chingachcook match their wits against two thieves who have phony identities. (Subtitles Available)
Wed 17 Oct 18 8:15 A Fire Has Been Arranged 1935. Directed Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Rob Wilton. Two robbers hide their loot before spending 10 years in jail, but upon release they realise things have changed quite a bit in 10 years.
Wed 17 Oct 18 9:40 Murder At 3am 1953. Crime drama directed by Francis Searle and starring Dennis Price, Philip Saville and Peggy Evans. A serial killer on the loose makes a habit of murdering women on the street at precisely 3am.
Wed 17 Oct 18 10:55 Glimpses – Just for Fun The zany comedy and rarefied glamour of 1920s Hollywood comes to life in this compilation of Mack Sennett’s work.
Wed 17 Oct 18 11:20 Panic In The Streets 1950. Drama. Director: Elia Kazan. Stars Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Barbara Bel Geddes & Paul Douglas. A Doctor and Policeman have 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.
Wed 17 Oct 18 13:20 Much Too Shy 1942. Comedy. Directed by Marcel Varnel. Stars George Formby, Kathleen Harrison, Hilda Bayley & Jimmy Clitheroe. A handyman and an artist get into trouble when their ad goes out with nudity.
Wed 17 Oct 18 15:10 Sudden Fear 1952. Drama. Directed by David Miller. Stars Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame & Bruce Bennett. After an actor marries a rich playwright, he plots with his mistress how to get rid of her. (Subtitles Available)
Wed 17 Oct 18 17:25 Petula Clark ‘The Day Begins Early’ – Glimpses Glimpses: A behind the scene look at Petula Clark’s working day in 1948, from a lost news piece.
Wed 17 Oct 18 17:30 Turn of Fate Music In The Night. Stars Jane Powell. 1957. Dramatizations that depict the plight of people who are suddenly involved in unexpected and perilous situations.
Wed 17 Oct 18 18:00 Liz Fraser’s Life in Film Liz Fraser Exclusively discusses her life in film.
Wed 17 Oct 18 18:20 The Ugly Duckling 1959. Drama. Directed by Lance Comfort. Stars Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee, Reginald Beckwith & Richard Wattis. Henry is an outsider waiting for a purpose in life until he discovers a formula.
Wed 17 Oct 18 20:00 Public Eye 1969. Detective & Mystery Drama. The Comedian’s Graveyard. Stars Alfred Burke, Peter Badger & Mona Bruce. Frank is instructed to find a stage-struck teenager who has run away from home.
Wed 17 Oct 18 21:00 Scream of Fear 1961. Drama. Directed by Seth Holt. Stars Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd & Christopher Lee. A wheelchair-bound female returns to her father’s estate when she starts to see her dead father.
Wed 17 Oct 18 22:40 BFI: Lock Your Door 1949. Thriller. Directed by Anthony Gilkison. Algernon Blackwood tells his gothic story, from the series ‘A Strange Experience’.
Wed 17 Oct 18 23:00 The Gentle Touch Something Blue. 1980. Directed by John Reardon. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. Maggie is in a moral dilemma, when she overhears her son talk about watching a ‘Dirty’ movie.
Wed 17 Oct 18 0:00 Psyche 59 1964. Drama. Directed by Alexandre Singer. Stars Patricia Neal, Curt Jurgens & Samantha Eggar. The blind wife of an industrialist begins to learn that her malady may not be the result of an injury.
Wed 17 Oct 18 2:00 Mix Me A Person 1962. Drama. Director: Leslie Norman. Stars Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden, Carole Ann Ford & Adam Faith. A barrister’s wife, who is a psychiatrist, takes on one of the cases that he has failed to win.
Wed 17 Oct 18 4:00 The Big Valley The Velvet Trap. 1966. Directed by Arthur H. Nadel. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. An outlaw’s girlfriend wants Heath to kill her lover’s pursuer. (S2, E8)
Wed 17 Oct 18 5:00 BFI: Skid Kids 1953. Drama. Director: Don Chaffey. Stars Peter Neil, Barry MacGregor, Anthony Lang & A E Matthews. ‘Swanky’ and his chums take on bike thieves in this Bermondsey-shot Children’s Film Foundation short
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Thu 18 Oct 18 6:00 Shadow Of The Eagle 1950. Drama. Director: Sidney Salkow. Stars Richard Greene, Valentina Cortese & Greta Gynt. During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
Thu 18 Oct 18 7:50 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans The Truant. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & David Hastings. Hawkeye and Chingachgook escort young Greg to the boy’s Aunt. (Subtitles Available)
Thu 18 Oct 18 8:20 The Blue Bird 1940. Drama. Director: Walter Lang. Stars Shirley Temple, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard & Spring Byington. Two children are led on a trip through past, present and future, to locate a blue bird
Thu 18 Oct 18 10:00 All In Good Fun 1956. Comedy. Bob Monkhouse introduces the golden age of slapstick comedy. Mack Sennett, Chaplin, The Keystone Kops and many more.
Thu 18 Oct 18 10:45 Blood of The Vampire 1958. Horror directed by Henry Cass and starring Sir Donald Wolfit. In the late 19th Century, the anaemic Dr Callistratus is the governor of a brutal penal institution in a remote castle.
Thu 18 Oct 18 12:30 Can-Can 1960. Musical. Director: Walter Lang. Stars Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan & Maurice Chevalier. Simone’s Parisian Nightclub performs the can-can every night, despite being outlawed.
Thu 18 Oct 18 15:10 Madeleine 1950. Drama. Directed by David Lean. Stars Ann Todd, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks & Elizabeth Sellars. The true story of Madeleine Smith, a Scotswoman on trial for murder.
Thu 18 Oct 18 17:30 Turn of Fate The Caller. Stars David Niven. 1957. Dramatizations that depict the plight of people who are suddenly involved in unexpected and perilous situations.
Thu 18 Oct 18 18:00 Dancing With Crime 1947. Crime Drama. Directed by John Paddy Carstairs. Stars Richard Attenborough, Barry K. Barnes, Sheila Sim & Garry Marsh. A Cab driver gets mistaken with a gang. He sets out to expose the group. (Subtitles Available)
Thu 18 Oct 18 19:40 BFI: Listen to Britain 1942. Factual. A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life. Stars Leonard Brockington & Joseph Macleod
Thu 18 Oct 18 20:00 Public Eye 1969. Detective & Mystery Drama. A Fixed Address. Stars Philip Brack, Alfred Burke & Pauline Delaney. Mrs Mortimer’s ex-husband calls and disrupts the routine of the household.
Thu 18 Oct 18 21:00 The Innocents 1961. Horror. Director: Jack Clayton. Stars Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, Pamela Franklin & Peter Wyngarde. A Governess believes ghosts are causing the children’s bizarre behaviour.
Thu 18 Oct 18 23:00 The Gentle Touch Decoy. 1980. Directed by John Reardon. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. When a series of rapes on women plague the area, Maggie Forbes must go undercover as a barmaid.
Thu 18 Oct 18 0:00 Blonde Fist 1991. Drama. Director: Frank Clarke. Stars Margi Clarke, Carroll Baker, Ken Hutchison & Angela Clarke. Ronnie flees domestic life to find her father in New York, and ends up boxing to make ends meet.
Thu 18 Oct 18 2:05 Walk on the Wild Side 1962. Drama. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Laurence Harvey, Capucine & Jane Fonda. A young Texan leaves his depression-ravaged town for New Orleans in search of his lost love. (Subtitles Available)
Thu 18 Oct 18 4:20 The Big Valley The Man from Nowhere. 1966. Directed by Joseph H. Lewis. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. A family are considered squatters and fight against the cattlemen. (S2, E9)
Thu 18 Oct 18 5:20 BFI: Terminus 1961. Drama. Directed by John Schlesinger. Iconic short of a day in the life of a London Railway Station.
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Fri 19 Oct 18 6:00 Scarlet Street 1945. Drama. Director: Fritz Lang. Stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett & Dan Duryea. A banker in a dying marriage falls for a thug’s girlfriend. They find a cruel way to cash in on his infatuation
Fri 19 Oct 18 8:05 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans The Royal Grant. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & Brian Smyth. Cressing claims to have a royal grant giving him ownership of the town. (Subtitles Available)
Fri 19 Oct 18 8:35 The Beachcomber 1954. Comedy-drama. Directed by Muriel Box and starring Glynis Johns, Robert Newton and Donald Sinden. Drunken womaniser, Ted, is sent to a tropical island by his family where he meets new friends.
Fri 19 Oct 18 10:15 Danny Boy 1941. Drama. A successful singer in America returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son have fallen on hard times. Starring David Farrar and Ann Todd.
Fri 19 Oct 18 11:50 Woman in a Dressing Gown 1957. Anthony Quayle & Sylvia Syms star in this British drama about marital strife. Fed up with his wife’s (Yvonne Mitchell) frumpy appearance, long-married Jim begins an affair.
Fri 19 Oct 18 13:40 Last Holiday 1950. Drama. Directed by Henry Cass. Stars Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell & Kay Walsh. A salesman who learns he has months to live cashes in his savings to live in a fancy hotel.
Fri 19 Oct 18 15:30 The Purple Plain 1954. War. Director: Robert Parrish. Stars Gregory Peck, Bernard Lee & Win Min Than. Canadian RAF pilot Forrester is a loner whose bravery can’t cover a streak of reckless instability.
Fri 19 Oct 18 17:30 Turn of Fate Days Of November. Stars Jack Lemmon. 1957. Dramatizations that depict the plight of people who are suddenly involved in unexpected and perilous situations.
Fri 19 Oct 18 18:00 Petticoat Lane, London in the 1950s – Glimpses Glimpses: Directed by JB Grainger around the late 1950s. The empty market in the early morning; barrows being wheeled in, people bringing their goods in taxis, others carrying parcels.
Fri 19 Oct 18 18:15 High Flight 1957. Drama. Directed by John Gilling. Stars Ray Milland, Bernard Lee, Kenneth Haigh & Anthony Newley. An R.A.F C.O must deal with a testing cadet, but the Cadet reminds the C.O of his younger self.
Fri 19 Oct 18 20:00 Public Eye 1971. Detective & Mystery Drama. A Mug Named Frank. Stars Alfred Burke, Pauline Delaney & Ray Smith. Frank Marker is a private detective. Petty thefts & confidence tricks are his bread & butter.
Fri 19 Oct 18 21:00 Gumshoe 1971. Comedy Drama. Directed by Stephen Frears. Stars Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw & Frank Finlay. A comedian fulfils his Dashiell Hammett love by putting an ad in the paper as a private eye. (Subtitles Available)
Fri 19 Oct 18 22:40 The Three of Us Short Children’s film made in 1974 on the perils of playing outdoors and how to look after your brand new Chopper. Stars Dorian Healy, Craig McFarlane & Earl Rhodes.
Fri 19 Oct 18 23:00 The Gentle Touch Break-In. 1980. Directed by Tony Wharmby. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. A burglary at the office of a solicitor who prosecutors for the police leads to a crisis situation.
Fri 19 Oct 18 0:00 Terror of the Tongs 1961. Drama. Directed by Anthony Bushell. Stars Geoffrey Toone, Christopher Lee & Yvonne Monlaur. A British merchant sea captain sets out to crush the Red Dragon Tong, a society terrorizing Hong Kong. (Subtitles Available)
Fri 19 Oct 18 1:35 These Are The Damned 1962. Horror. Director: Joseph Losey. Stars Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field & Viveca Lindfors. The sister of a motorbike gang leader and her boyfriend discover a military base when on the run.
Fri 19 Oct 18 3:25 The Big Valley The Great Safe Robbery. 1966. Directed by Virgil W. Vogel. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. Audra and Victoria are held hostage at the train station. (S2, E10)
Fri 19 Oct 18 4:25 The Mill on the Floss 1936. Drama. Stars Geraldine Fitzgerald, James Mason & Felix Aylmer. A feud breaks out between two families over the rights to the water from the River Floss which powers the mill.
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Sat 20 Oct 18 6:00 No Trace 1950. Drama. Directed by John Gilling. Writer Robert Southley finds his lifestyle threatened by blackmail from a former American criminal associate. Stars Hugh Sinclair, Dinah Sheridan & John Laurie.
Sat 20 Oct 18 7:35 Every Day’s A Holiday 1964. Musical starring John Leyton, Mike Sarne, Freddie & the Dreamers, Ron Moody, Liz Fraser, Nicholas Parsons and Danny La Rue. A group of high-spirited teens find friendship, love & music.
Sat 20 Oct 18 9:30 Murder At the Grange 1952. Drama. Directed by Victor M. Gover. Starring Tod Slaughter & Patrick Barr. A private investigator is approached by two old ladies who say they are being terrorised.
Sat 20 Oct 18 10:05 I’ll Get You For This 1951. Drama. Director Joseph M. Newman. Stars George Raft, Coleen Gray & Enzo Staiola. A gambler discovers he has been framed for the murder of a Treasury Agent and goes on a journey to clear his name
Sat 20 Oct 18 11:50 The Bargee 1964. Comedy. Directed by Duncan Wood. Stars Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith & Ronnie Barker. The film charts the course of love of a Casanova who lives and works on the canals, breaking hearts. (Subtitles Available)
Sat 20 Oct 18 14:05 Bell Bottom George 1944. Drama. Directed by Marcel Varnel. Starring George Formby, Anne Firth & Reginald Purdell. Rejected by the military 3 times, a hapless waiter gets a job on a ship but is mistaken for a real sailor
Sat 20 Oct 18 16:05 It Should Happen To You 1954. Comedy. Directed by George Cukor. Stars Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford & Jack Lemmon. After 2 years of trying to get big in New York. A small town model takes a gamble by investing in billboards. (Subtitles Available)
Sat 20 Oct 18 17:50 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 1951. Drama. Directed by Albert Lewin. Starring James Mason, Ava Gradner, Nigel Patrick & Shelia Sim. Hendrick – the Flying Dutchman, has been cursed by god to wander over the sea until Doomsday. (Subtitles Available)
Sat 20 Oct 18 20:20 BFI: Terminus 1961. Drama. Directed by John Schlesinger. Iconic short of a day in the life of a London Railway Station.
Sat 20 Oct 18 21:00 Mackenna’s Gold 1969. Adventure. Directed by J Lee Thompson. Stars Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif & Telly Savalas. A US Marshal is forced to lead a gang of bandits to a hidden valley of gold. (Subtitles Available)
Sat 20 Oct 18 23:35 A Severed Head 1971. Comedy. Directed by Dick Clement. Starring Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick, Clive Revill & Claire Bloom. A pampered wife tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend.
Sat 20 Oct 18 1:40 The Boston Strangler 1968. Drama. Director: Richard Fleischer. Stars Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy & Sally Kellerman. When a string of women in Boston start turning up dead, the police launch an investigation.
Sat 20 Oct 18 4:00 Shoot to Kill 1947. Crime drama. Directed by William Berke and starring Russell Wade, Luana Walters and Edmund MacDonald. A woman marries a corrupt D.A. to get evidence to help on a recent murder. (Subtitles Available)
Sat 20 Oct 18 5:15 Musical Masquerade 1946. Musical. A Lost British short detailing where a composer’s inspiration comes from and The London Symphony Orchestra.
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Sun 21 Oct 18 6:00 Dick Tracy Returns 1938. Actions. Directors: John English & William Witney. Stars Ralph Byrd, Lynn Roberts & Charles Middleton. Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang.
Sun 21 Oct 18 8:00 The Price of Silence 1959. Drama. Director: Montgomery Tully. Stars Gordon Jackson, June Thorburn & Mary Clare. Roger forges a new life for himself after his release from prison. But his past catches up with him.
Sun 21 Oct 18 9:35 BFI: Night Mail 1936. Directors: Harry Watt & Basil Wright. Narrated by Pat Jackson. A critically acclaimed British documentary film about the operation of the 30s Royal Mail train delivery service.
Sun 21 Oct 18 10:00 House of Blackmail 1953. Crime. Directed by Maurice Elvey. An Army officer (William Sylvester) and Carol (Mary Germaine) must solve the murder of a blackmailer or be charged themselves. (Subtitles Available)
Sun 21 Oct 18 11:25 A-Bob-In-The-Pound with Tommy Handley – Glimpses 1943. The well-known British comedian, Tommy Handley, gets us to sing along to start saving for the war effort and brighter days to come.
Sun 21 Oct 18 11:30 Idol On Parade 1959. Comedy. Directed by John Gilling. Stars Anthony Newley, William Bendix & Anne Aubrey. Newley is a pop singer called up to serve in the British army.
Sun 21 Oct 18 13:15 Jet Storm 1959. Drama. Directed by Cy Endfield. Starring Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley & Diane Cilento. A man who lost his daughter in a hit-&-Run accident tracks the man responsible. (Subtitles Available)
Sun 21 Oct 18 15:00 Another Man’s Poison 1951. Drama. Directed by Irving Rapper. Stars Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams, Anthony Steel & Barbara Murray. A mystery writer gets is involved in potentially murderous relationships.
Sun 21 Oct 18 16:50 Nurse Edith Cavell 1939. Drama. Directed by Herbert Wilcox. Starring Anna Neagle, Edna May oliver, George Sanders & Zasu Pitts. During WW1, a British nurse, based in Brussels, assists an escaped prisoner of war.
Sun 21 Oct 18 18:50 BFI: The Hospital Nurse 1941. Factual. Director: Francis Searle. Recruitment film presenting an ideal view of the nursing profession, which is likely to have been in stark contrast with the daily experience of wartime nurses
Sun 21 Oct 18 19:00 Day the Earth Caught Fire 1961. Sci-Fi Drama. Directed by Val Guest. Stars Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd and Michael Goodliffe. U.S and Russia test atomic bombs at the same time, which alters the nutation of the earth. (Subtitles Available)
Sun 21 Oct 18 21:00 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre The £20,000 Kiss. 1963. Directed by John Moxey. Stars Dawn Addams, Alfred Burke & Anthony Newlands. Count Arnim has formed a highly efficient organisation for extorting money by blackmail.
Sun 21 Oct 18 22:10 Loss of Innocence 1961. Drama. Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Stars Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York & Jane Asher. A story of a girl’s awakening from childhood into life and love on a vacation in France.
Sun 21 Oct 18 0:10 Psyche 59 1964. Drama. Directed by Alexandre Singer. Stars Patricia Neal, Curt Jurgens & Samantha Eggar. The blind wife of an industrialist begins to learn that her malady may not be the result of an injury.
Sun 21 Oct 18 2:10 She Played With Fire 1958. Drama. Directed by Sidney Gilliat. Stars Jack Hawkins, Ian Hunter, Arlene Dahl & Dennis Price. An investigator finds himself involved in blackmail & murder after running into his ex.
Sun 21 Oct 18 4:10 Variety Jubilee 1943. Musical. Kit (Ellis Irving) and Joe Swann (Reginald Purdell) are variety stars. Kit’s son is killed in the First World War but the grandson revives the music hall and joins the RAF musical.
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DATE TIME PROGRAMME SYNOPSIS
Mon 15 Oct 18 6:00 Rose of Cimmaron 1952. Western. Director: Harry Keller. Stars Jack Buetel, Mala Powers, Bill Williams. Rose, a young girl fostered by a Cherokee family, seeks revenge after her foster parents are murdered by outlaws
Mon 15 Oct 18 7:35 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans The Morristown Story. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & George Barnes. Hawkeye has tracked outlaw Simon Girty to Morristown but he and Chingachgook are turned away. (Subtitles Available)
Mon 15 Oct 18 8:05 I’ll Get You For This 1951. Drama. Director Joseph M. Newman. Stars George Raft, Coleen Gray & Enzo Staiola. A gambler discovers he has been framed for the murder of a Treasury Agent and goes on a journey to clear his name
Mon 15 Oct 18 9:45 While I Live 1947. Drama. (aka The Dream of Olwen) 25 years later, a spinster still obsesses over the death of her sister, who was a composer.
Mon 15 Oct 18 11:20 1940s Speed Skating – Glimpses Made in the late 30s early 40s narrated by Kent Stevenson – The introduction to England of the hobbies of Ice Hockey, Figure Skating and what a great night out it is!
Mon 15 Oct 18 11:35 Treasure Island 1972. Adventure. Directors: John Hough, Andrea Bianchi & Antonio Margheriti. Stars Orson Welles, Lionel Stander & Kim Burfield. Young Jim Hawkins has a map to a pirate’s buried treasure.
Mon 15 Oct 18 13:25 The Green Man 1956. Comedy. Stars Alastair Sim, Raymond Huntley, George Cole & Terry-Thomas. A watchmaker turns out to be an assassin whose target is a leading politician but his plans are stalled.
Mon 15 Oct 18 15:00 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 1951. Drama. Directed by Albert Lewin. Starring James Mason, Ava Gradner, Nigel Patrick & Shelia Sim. Hendrick – the Flying Dutchman, has been cursed by god to wander over the sea until Doomsday. (Subtitles Available)
Mon 15 Oct 18 17:30 Turn of Fate 1957. Stars David Niven, Robert Ryan & Charles Boyer. Dramatizations that depict the plight of people who are suddenly involved in unexpected and perilous situations. (S1, E16)
Mon 15 Oct 18 18:00 Idol On Parade 1959. Comedy. Directed by John Gilling. Stars Anthony Newley, William Bendix & Anne Aubrey. Newley is a pop singer called up to serve in the British army.
Mon 15 Oct 18 19:45 A Cornish Holiday – Glimpses Beautiful footage of Porthleven, Cornwall June 1950. A parade in the high street, a family trip to a small local beach, a boat trip and frolics on the shore.
Mon 15 Oct 18 20:00 Public Eye 1969. Detective & Mystery Drama. My Life’s My Own. Stars Alfred Burke, Stephanie Beacham & Katharine Blake. Frank is visited by a young lady who, for the next 36 hours, greatly upsets his life.
Mon 15 Oct 18 21:00 Jet Storm 1959. Drama. Directed by Cy Endfield. Starring Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley & Diane Cilento. A man who lost his daughter in a hit-&-Run accident tracks the man responsible. (Subtitles Available)
Mon 15 Oct 18 22:45 BFI: The Reformation of St Jules 1949. Thriller. Directed by Anthony Gilkison. Algernon Blackwood tells his gothic short story, from the series A Strange Experience.
Mon 15 Oct 18 23:00 The Gentle Touch Rogue. 1980. Directed by David Askey. Stars Jill Gascoine, Moira Redmond & James Smillie. Maggie is offended when offered a bribe. But stranger offers are waiting around the corner.
Mon 15 Oct 18 0:00 Dulcima 1971. Drama. Director: Frank Nesbitt. Stars John Mills, Carol White & Stuart Wilson. Dulcima, a girl treated as a drudge by her family, lifts herself from her environment by becoming a housekeeper.
Mon 15 Oct 18 2:00 The Camp On Blood Island 1958. Drama. Directed Val Guest. Stars Andre Morell, Carl Mohner & Walter Fitzgerald. Deep in Malaya, as WW2 comes to an end, men, women and children as still trapped by the Japanese invasion.
Mon 15 Oct 18 3:40 The Big Valley The Martyr. 1966. Directed by Virgil W. Vogel. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. Jarrod defends a Basque Sheepherder accused of Murder. (S2, E6)
Mon 15 Oct 18 4:40 Lady Beware 1932. The Master of the manor leaves his estate to a mysterious 13th guest at a dinner party but the guest doesn’t turn up. Stars Ginger Rogers & Lyle Talbot.
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Tue 16 Oct 18 6:00 Port of New York 1949. Drama. Directed by Laslo Benedek. Stars Scott Brady, Yul Brynner & Richard Rober. Two narcotics agents go after murderous drug dealers who use the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband. (Subtitles Available)
Tue 16 Oct 18 7:40 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans Revenge. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & Rodney Bunker. A young lieutenant seeks blind vengeance for the brutal murders of his parents. (Subtitles Available)
Tue 16 Oct 18 8:10 Sailor Beware! 1956. Comedy. Director: Gordon Parry. Stars Gordon Jackson, Peggy Mount, Ronald Lewis & Shirley Eaton. A seaman gets cold feet about his wedding when his mother-in-law to be takes control.
Tue 16 Oct 18 9:50 Cuckoo Patrol 1967. Comedy. Freddie Garrity of Freddie and the Dreamers fame is the scout cub leader of a bunch of misfits. Stars: Kenneth Connor, John Le Mesurier and Bernie Dwyer
Tue 16 Oct 18 11:25 The Bargee 1964. Comedy. Directed by Duncan Wood. Stars Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith & Ronnie Barker. The film charts the course of love of a Casanova who lives and works on the canals, breaking hearts. (Subtitles Available)
Tue 16 Oct 18 13:35 Bell Bottom George 1944. Drama. Directed by Marcel Varnel. Starring George Formby, Anne Firth & Reginald Purdell. Rejected by the military 3 times, a hapless waiter gets a job on a ship but is mistaken for a real sailor
Tue 16 Oct 18 15:35 Androcles and the Lion 1953. Drama. Starring Alan Young as Androcles, a Christian who lives in ancient Rome. Upon seeing a lion in severe pain, he manages to remove a massive thorn from the beast’s paw.
Tue 16 Oct 18 17:30 Turn of Fate Hidden Witness. Stars Robert Ryan. 1957. Dramatizations that depict the plight of people who are suddenly involved in unexpected and perilous situations.
Tue 16 Oct 18 18:00 She Played With Fire 1958. Drama. Directed by Sidney Gilliat. Stars Jack Hawkins, Ian Hunter, Arlene Dahl & Dennis Price. An investigator finds himself involved in blackmail & murder after running into his ex.
Tue 16 Oct 18 20:00 Public Eye 1969. Detective & Mystery Drama. Case for the Defence. Stars Alfred Burke, William Lucas & Stanley Meadows. Frank joins an enquiry agency to find working for a firm is quite different to the old days.
Tue 16 Oct 18 21:00 Cast a Dark Shadow 1955. Thriller. Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Starring Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh & Kathleen Harrison. A clever fortune-hunter with a penchant for murder does in his elderly, rich, wife. (Subtitles Available)
Tue 16 Oct 18 22:40 Glimpses: Cornwall Calling 1930. Excellently photographed film of an Austin engine being filled into a yacht, then sailing around Cornwall visiting coastal villages from Rye to The Lizard. Some villages by Austin Motorcar.
Tue 16 Oct 18 23:00 The Gentle Touch Melody. 1980. Directed by Paul Annett. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. Maggie investigates the death of Melody.
Tue 16 Oct 18 0:00 House on Haunted Hill 1959. Horror. Directed by William Castle. Starring Vincent Price & Carol Ohmart. A millionaire invites five people to a ‘haunted house’ party, and whoever makes it through the night earns $10,000.
Tue 16 Oct 18 1:35 Duffy 1968. Comedy. Directed by Robert Parrish. Stars James Coburn, James Mason & James Fox. An adventurer living in Tangiers is persuaded to help pirate a million-dollar cash shipment.
Tue 16 Oct 18 3:40 The Big Valley Target. 1966. Directed by Arthur H. Nadel. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. Joshua Hawks rides into town and accuses the Barkley’s family of stealing land. (S2, E7)
Tue 16 Oct 18 4:40 Who Killed Frank Daniels 1932. Crime A crooked undertaker switches bodies to cover up a murder. Starring Zasu Pitts.
DATE TIME PROGRAMME SYNOPSIS
Wed 17 Oct 18 6:00 Silver Fleet 1943. War. Directors: Vernon Sewell & Gordon Wellesley. Stars Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers & Esmond Knight. The Gestapo, anxious for operational submarines, meet with the owner of a Dutch port.
Wed 17 Oct 18 7:45 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans The Contest. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & James Barron. Hawkeye and Chingachcook match their wits against two thieves who have phony identities. (Subtitles Available)
Wed 17 Oct 18 8:15 A Fire Has Been Arranged 1935. Directed Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Rob Wilton. Two robbers hide their loot before spending 10 years in jail, but upon release they realise things have changed quite a bit in 10 years.
Wed 17 Oct 18 9:40 Murder At 3am 1953. Crime drama directed by Francis Searle and starring Dennis Price, Philip Saville and Peggy Evans. A serial killer on the loose makes a habit of murdering women on the street at precisely 3am.
Wed 17 Oct 18 10:55 Glimpses – Just for Fun The zany comedy and rarefied glamour of 1920s Hollywood comes to life in this compilation of Mack Sennett’s work.
Wed 17 Oct 18 11:20 Panic In The Streets 1950. Drama. Director: Elia Kazan. Stars Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Barbara Bel Geddes & Paul Douglas. A Doctor and Policeman have 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.
Wed 17 Oct 18 13:20 Much Too Shy 1942. Comedy. Directed by Marcel Varnel. Stars George Formby, Kathleen Harrison, Hilda Bayley & Jimmy Clitheroe. A handyman and an artist get into trouble when their ad goes out with nudity.
Wed 17 Oct 18 15:10 Sudden Fear 1952. Drama. Directed by David Miller. Stars Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame & Bruce Bennett. After an actor marries a rich playwright, he plots with his mistress how to get rid of her. (Subtitles Available)
Wed 17 Oct 18 17:25 Petula Clark ‘The Day Begins Early’ – Glimpses Glimpses: A behind the scene look at Petula Clark’s working day in 1948, from a lost news piece.
Wed 17 Oct 18 17:30 Turn of Fate Music In The Night. Stars Jane Powell. 1957. Dramatizations that depict the plight of people who are suddenly involved in unexpected and perilous situations.
Wed 17 Oct 18 18:00 Liz Fraser’s Life in Film Liz Fraser Exclusively discusses her life in film.
Wed 17 Oct 18 18:20 The Ugly Duckling 1959. Drama. Directed by Lance Comfort. Stars Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee, Reginald Beckwith & Richard Wattis. Henry is an outsider waiting for a purpose in life until he discovers a formula.
Wed 17 Oct 18 20:00 Public Eye 1969. Detective & Mystery Drama. The Comedian’s Graveyard. Stars Alfred Burke, Peter Badger & Mona Bruce. Frank is instructed to find a stage-struck teenager who has run away from home.
Wed 17 Oct 18 21:00 Scream of Fear 1961. Drama. Directed by Seth Holt. Stars Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd & Christopher Lee. A wheelchair-bound female returns to her father’s estate when she starts to see her dead father.
Wed 17 Oct 18 22:40 BFI: Lock Your Door 1949. Thriller. Directed by Anthony Gilkison. Algernon Blackwood tells his gothic story, from the series ‘A Strange Experience’.
Wed 17 Oct 18 23:00 The Gentle Touch Something Blue. 1980. Directed by John Reardon. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. Maggie is in a moral dilemma, when she overhears her son talk about watching a ‘Dirty’ movie.
Wed 17 Oct 18 0:00 Psyche 59 1964. Drama. Directed by Alexandre Singer. Stars Patricia Neal, Curt Jurgens & Samantha Eggar. The blind wife of an industrialist begins to learn that her malady may not be the result of an injury.
Wed 17 Oct 18 2:00 Mix Me A Person 1962. Drama. Director: Leslie Norman. Stars Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden, Carole Ann Ford & Adam Faith. A barrister’s wife, who is a psychiatrist, takes on one of the cases that he has failed to win.
Wed 17 Oct 18 4:00 The Big Valley The Velvet Trap. 1966. Directed by Arthur H. Nadel. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. An outlaw’s girlfriend wants Heath to kill her lover’s pursuer. (S2, E8)
Wed 17 Oct 18 5:00 BFI: Skid Kids 1953. Drama. Director: Don Chaffey. Stars Peter Neil, Barry MacGregor, Anthony Lang & A E Matthews. ‘Swanky’ and his chums take on bike thieves in this Bermondsey-shot Children’s Film Foundation short
DATE TIME PROGRAMME SYNOPSIS
Thu 18 Oct 18 6:00 Shadow Of The Eagle 1950. Drama. Director: Sidney Salkow. Stars Richard Greene, Valentina Cortese & Greta Gynt. During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
Thu 18 Oct 18 7:50 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans The Truant. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & David Hastings. Hawkeye and Chingachgook escort young Greg to the boy’s Aunt. (Subtitles Available)
Thu 18 Oct 18 8:20 The Blue Bird 1940. Drama. Director: Walter Lang. Stars Shirley Temple, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard & Spring Byington. Two children are led on a trip through past, present and future, to locate a blue bird
Thu 18 Oct 18 10:00 All In Good Fun 1956. Comedy. Bob Monkhouse introduces the golden age of slapstick comedy. Mack Sennett, Chaplin, The Keystone Kops and many more.
Thu 18 Oct 18 10:45 Blood of The Vampire 1958. Horror directed by Henry Cass and starring Sir Donald Wolfit. In the late 19th Century, the anaemic Dr Callistratus is the governor of a brutal penal institution in a remote castle.
Thu 18 Oct 18 12:30 Can-Can 1960. Musical. Director: Walter Lang. Stars Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan & Maurice Chevalier. Simone’s Parisian Nightclub performs the can-can every night, despite being outlawed.
Thu 18 Oct 18 15:10 Madeleine 1950. Drama. Directed by David Lean. Stars Ann Todd, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks & Elizabeth Sellars. The true story of Madeleine Smith, a Scotswoman on trial for murder.
Thu 18 Oct 18 17:30 Turn of Fate The Caller. Stars David Niven. 1957. Dramatizations that depict the plight of people who are suddenly involved in unexpected and perilous situations.
Thu 18 Oct 18 18:00 Dancing With Crime 1947. Crime Drama. Directed by John Paddy Carstairs. Stars Richard Attenborough, Barry K. Barnes, Sheila Sim & Garry Marsh. A Cab driver gets mistaken with a gang. He sets out to expose the group. (Subtitles Available)
Thu 18 Oct 18 19:40 BFI: Listen to Britain 1942. Factual. A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life. Stars Leonard Brockington & Joseph Macleod
Thu 18 Oct 18 20:00 Public Eye 1969. Detective & Mystery Drama. A Fixed Address. Stars Philip Brack, Alfred Burke & Pauline Delaney. Mrs Mortimer’s ex-husband calls and disrupts the routine of the household.
Thu 18 Oct 18 21:00 The Innocents 1961. Horror. Director: Jack Clayton. Stars Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, Pamela Franklin & Peter Wyngarde. A Governess believes ghosts are causing the children’s bizarre behaviour.
Thu 18 Oct 18 23:00 The Gentle Touch Decoy. 1980. Directed by John Reardon. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. When a series of rapes on women plague the area, Maggie Forbes must go undercover as a barmaid.
Thu 18 Oct 18 0:00 Blonde Fist 1991. Drama. Director: Frank Clarke. Stars Margi Clarke, Carroll Baker, Ken Hutchison & Angela Clarke. Ronnie flees domestic life to find her father in New York, and ends up boxing to make ends meet.
Thu 18 Oct 18 2:05 Walk on the Wild Side 1962. Drama. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Laurence Harvey, Capucine & Jane Fonda. A young Texan leaves his depression-ravaged town for New Orleans in search of his lost love. (Subtitles Available)
Thu 18 Oct 18 4:20 The Big Valley The Man from Nowhere. 1966. Directed by Joseph H. Lewis. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. A family are considered squatters and fight against the cattlemen. (S2, E9)
Thu 18 Oct 18 5:20 BFI: Terminus 1961. Drama. Directed by John Schlesinger. Iconic short of a day in the life of a London Railway Station.
DATE TIME PROGRAMME SYNOPSIS
Fri 19 Oct 18 6:00 Scarlet Street 1945. Drama. Director: Fritz Lang. Stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett & Dan Duryea. A banker in a dying marriage falls for a thug’s girlfriend. They find a cruel way to cash in on his infatuation
Fri 19 Oct 18 8:05 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans The Royal Grant. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & Brian Smyth. Cressing claims to have a royal grant giving him ownership of the town. (Subtitles Available)
Fri 19 Oct 18 8:35 The Beachcomber 1954. Comedy-drama. Directed by Muriel Box and starring Glynis Johns, Robert Newton and Donald Sinden. Drunken womaniser, Ted, is sent to a tropical island by his family where he meets new friends.
Fri 19 Oct 18 10:15 Danny Boy 1941. Drama. A successful singer in America returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son have fallen on hard times. Starring David Farrar and Ann Todd.
Fri 19 Oct 18 11:50 Woman in a Dressing Gown 1957. Anthony Quayle & Sylvia Syms star in this British drama about marital strife. Fed up with his wife’s (Yvonne Mitchell) frumpy appearance, long-married Jim begins an affair.
Fri 19 Oct 18 13:40 Last Holiday 1950. Drama. Directed by Henry Cass. Stars Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell & Kay Walsh. A salesman who learns he has months to live cashes in his savings to live in a fancy hotel.
Fri 19 Oct 18 15:30 The Purple Plain 1954. War. Director: Robert Parrish. Stars Gregory Peck, Bernard Lee & Win Min Than. Canadian RAF pilot Forrester is a loner whose bravery can’t cover a streak of reckless instability.
Fri 19 Oct 18 17:30 Turn of Fate Days Of November. Stars Jack Lemmon. 1957. Dramatizations that depict the plight of people who are suddenly involved in unexpected and perilous situations.
Fri 19 Oct 18 18:00 Petticoat Lane, London in the 1950s – Glimpses Glimpses: Directed by JB Grainger around the late 1950s. The empty market in the early morning; barrows being wheeled in, people bringing their goods in taxis, others carrying parcels.
Fri 19 Oct 18 18:15 High Flight 1957. Drama. Directed by John Gilling. Stars Ray Milland, Bernard Lee, Kenneth Haigh & Anthony Newley. An R.A.F C.O must deal with a testing cadet, but the Cadet reminds the C.O of his younger self.
Fri 19 Oct 18 20:00 Public Eye 1971. Detective & Mystery Drama. A Mug Named Frank. Stars Alfred Burke, Pauline Delaney & Ray Smith. Frank Marker is a private detective. Petty thefts & confidence tricks are his bread & butter.
Fri 19 Oct 18 21:00 Gumshoe 1971. Comedy Drama. Directed by Stephen Frears. Stars Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw & Frank Finlay. A comedian fulfils his Dashiell Hammett love by putting an ad in the paper as a private eye. (Subtitles Available)
Fri 19 Oct 18 22:40 The Three of Us Short Children’s film made in 1974 on the perils of playing outdoors and how to look after your brand new Chopper. Stars Dorian Healy, Craig McFarlane & Earl Rhodes.
Fri 19 Oct 18 23:00 The Gentle Touch Break-In. 1980. Directed by Tony Wharmby. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. A burglary at the office of a solicitor who prosecutors for the police leads to a crisis situation.
Fri 19 Oct 18 0:00 Terror of the Tongs 1961. Drama. Directed by Anthony Bushell. Stars Geoffrey Toone, Christopher Lee & Yvonne Monlaur. A British merchant sea captain sets out to crush the Red Dragon Tong, a society terrorizing Hong Kong. (Subtitles Available)
Fri 19 Oct 18 1:35 These Are The Damned 1962. Horror. Director: Joseph Losey. Stars Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field & Viveca Lindfors. The sister of a motorbike gang leader and her boyfriend discover a military base when on the run.
Fri 19 Oct 18 3:25 The Big Valley The Great Safe Robbery. 1966. Directed by Virgil W. Vogel. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. Audra and Victoria are held hostage at the train station. (S2, E10)
Fri 19 Oct 18 4:25 The Mill on the Floss 1936. Drama. Stars Geraldine Fitzgerald, James Mason & Felix Aylmer. A feud breaks out between two families over the rights to the water from the River Floss which powers the mill.
DATE TIME PROGRAMME SYNOPSIS
Sat 20 Oct 18 6:00 No Trace 1950. Drama. Directed by John Gilling. Writer Robert Southley finds his lifestyle threatened by blackmail from a former American criminal associate. Stars Hugh Sinclair, Dinah Sheridan & John Laurie.
Sat 20 Oct 18 7:35 Every Day’s A Holiday 1964. Musical starring John Leyton, Mike Sarne, Freddie & the Dreamers, Ron Moody, Liz Fraser, Nicholas Parsons and Danny La Rue. A group of high-spirited teens find friendship, love & music.
Sat 20 Oct 18 9:30 Murder At the Grange 1952. Drama. Directed by Victor M. Gover. Starring Tod Slaughter & Patrick Barr. A private investigator is approached by two old ladies who say they are being terrorised.
Sat 20 Oct 18 10:05 I’ll Get You For This 1951. Drama. Director Joseph M. Newman. Stars George Raft, Coleen Gray & Enzo Staiola. A gambler discovers he has been framed for the murder of a Treasury Agent and goes on a journey to clear his name
Sat 20 Oct 18 11:50 The Bargee 1964. Comedy. Directed by Duncan Wood. Stars Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith & Ronnie Barker. The film charts the course of love of a Casanova who lives and works on the canals, breaking hearts. (Subtitles Available)
Sat 20 Oct 18 14:05 Bell Bottom George 1944. Drama. Directed by Marcel Varnel. Starring George Formby, Anne Firth & Reginald Purdell. Rejected by the military 3 times, a hapless waiter gets a job on a ship but is mistaken for a real sailor
Sat 20 Oct 18 16:05 It Should Happen To You 1954. Comedy. Directed by George Cukor. Stars Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford & Jack Lemmon. After 2 years of trying to get big in New York. A small town model takes a gamble by investing in billboards. (Subtitles Available)
Sat 20 Oct 18 17:50 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 1951. Drama. Directed by Albert Lewin. Starring James Mason, Ava Gradner, Nigel Patrick & Shelia Sim. Hendrick – the Flying Dutchman, has been cursed by god to wander over the sea until Doomsday. (Subtitles Available)
Sat 20 Oct 18 20:20 BFI: Terminus 1961. Drama. Directed by John Schlesinger. Iconic short of a day in the life of a London Railway Station.
Sat 20 Oct 18 21:00 Mackenna’s Gold 1969. Adventure. Directed by J Lee Thompson. Stars Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif & Telly Savalas. A US Marshal is forced to lead a gang of bandits to a hidden valley of gold. (Subtitles Available)
Sat 20 Oct 18 23:35 A Severed Head 1971. Comedy. Directed by Dick Clement. Starring Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick, Clive Revill & Claire Bloom. A pampered wife tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend.
Sat 20 Oct 18 1:40 The Boston Strangler 1968. Drama. Director: Richard Fleischer. Stars Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy & Sally Kellerman. When a string of women in Boston start turning up dead, the police launch an investigation.
Sat 20 Oct 18 4:00 Shoot to Kill 1947. Crime drama. Directed by William Berke and starring Russell Wade, Luana Walters and Edmund MacDonald. A woman marries a corrupt D.A. to get evidence to help on a recent murder. (Subtitles Available)
Sat 20 Oct 18 5:15 Musical Masquerade 1946. Musical. A Lost British short detailing where a composer’s inspiration comes from and The London Symphony Orchestra.
DATE TIME PROGRAMME SYNOPSIS
Sun 21 Oct 18 6:00 Dick Tracy Returns 1938. Actions. Directors: John English & William Witney. Stars Ralph Byrd, Lynn Roberts & Charles Middleton. Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang.
Sun 21 Oct 18 8:00 The Price of Silence 1959. Drama. Director: Montgomery Tully. Stars Gordon Jackson, June Thorburn & Mary Clare. Roger forges a new life for himself after his release from prison. But his past catches up with him.
Sun 21 Oct 18 9:35 BFI: Night Mail 1936. Directors: Harry Watt & Basil Wright. Narrated by Pat Jackson. A critically acclaimed British documentary film about the operation of the 30s Royal Mail train delivery service.
Sun 21 Oct 18 10:00 House of Blackmail 1953. Crime. Directed by Maurice Elvey. An Army officer (William Sylvester) and Carol (Mary Germaine) must solve the murder of a blackmailer or be charged themselves. (Subtitles Available)
Sun 21 Oct 18 11:25 A-Bob-In-The-Pound with Tommy Handley – Glimpses 1943. The well-known British comedian, Tommy Handley, gets us to sing along to start saving for the war effort and brighter days to come.
Sun 21 Oct 18 11:30 Idol On Parade 1959. Comedy. Directed by John Gilling. Stars Anthony Newley, William Bendix & Anne Aubrey. Newley is a pop singer called up to serve in the British army.
Sun 21 Oct 18 13:15 Jet Storm 1959. Drama. Directed by Cy Endfield. Starring Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley & Diane Cilento. A man who lost his daughter in a hit-&-Run accident tracks the man responsible. (Subtitles Available)
Sun 21 Oct 18 15:00 Another Man’s Poison 1951. Drama. Directed by Irving Rapper. Stars Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams, Anthony Steel & Barbara Murray. A mystery writer gets is involved in potentially murderous relationships.
Sun 21 Oct 18 16:50 Nurse Edith Cavell 1939. Drama. Directed by Herbert Wilcox. Starring Anna Neagle, Edna May oliver, George Sanders & Zasu Pitts. During WW1, a British nurse, based in Brussels, assists an escaped prisoner of war.
Sun 21 Oct 18 18:50 BFI: The Hospital Nurse 1941. Factual. Director: Francis Searle. Recruitment film presenting an ideal view of the nursing profession, which is likely to have been in stark contrast with the daily experience of wartime nurses
Sun 21 Oct 18 19:00 Day the Earth Caught Fire 1961. Sci-Fi Drama. Directed by Val Guest. Stars Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd and Michael Goodliffe. U.S and Russia test atomic bombs at the same time, which alters the nutation of the earth. (Subtitles Available)
Sun 21 Oct 18 21:00 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre The £20,000 Kiss. 1963. Directed by John Moxey. Stars Dawn Addams, Alfred Burke & Anthony Newlands. Count Arnim has formed a highly efficient organisation for extorting money by blackmail.
Sun 21 Oct 18 22:10 Loss of Innocence 1961. Drama. Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Stars Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York & Jane Asher. A story of a girl’s awakening from childhood into life and love on a vacation in France.
Sun 21 Oct 18 0:10 Psyche 59 1964. Drama. Directed by Alexandre Singer. Stars Patricia Neal, Curt Jurgens & Samantha Eggar. The blind wife of an industrialist begins to learn that her malady may not be the result of an injury.
Sun 21 Oct 18 2:10 She Played With Fire 1958. Drama. Directed by Sidney Gilliat. Stars Jack Hawkins, Ian Hunter, Arlene Dahl & Dennis Price. An investigator finds himself involved in blackmail & murder after running into his ex.
Sun 21 Oct 18 4:10 Variety Jubilee 1943. Musical. Kit (Ellis Irving) and Joe Swann (Reginald Purdell) are variety stars. Kit’s son is killed in the First World War but the grandson revives the music hall and joins the RAF musical.
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1943 Vera Lynn film on now. Would be nice if she's watching. Never thought about her like this before, but she was very pretty.
My favourite channel next to Sports and documentary channels
I understand the values in what they show, much more than our current values
A great channel
I understand the values in what they show, much more than our current values
A great channel
The Boston Strangler tonight, one of Tony Curtis's better films.
Flockton Flyer 12pm
An insight into the 'ringer' that won by 20 lengths on March 29th 1982 at Leicester racecourse.
An insight into the 'ringer' that won by 20 lengths on March 29th 1982 at Leicester racecourse.
yes different gravy great film ,also try to catch flockton grey good film about the railway !
today, kind hearts @ coronets, sussex fortnight, and alec guinness again in one of my fav ,last holiday.
DIFERENT GRAVY 12 20 Jul 19 11:09 Joined: 01 Mar 07 | Topic/replies: 2,383 | Blogger: DIFERENT GRAVY 12's blog
Flockton Flyer 12pm
An insight into the 'ringer' that won by 20 lengths on March 29th 1982 at Leicester racecourse.
you donkey, it was nothing of the sort.
Flockton Flyer 12pm
An insight into the 'ringer' that won by 20 lengths on March 29th 1982 at Leicester racecourse.
you donkey, it was nothing of the sort.
People were allowed to smoke and drink without having to apologise for it
Also it was more obvious who the men were and who the women where
Last Holiday, on now is one of my all time favourites, written by the Bradford lad, J.B. Priestley.
HGS 21 Jul 19 12:34 Joined: 12 Apr 05 | Topic/replies: 930 | Blogger: HGS's blog
Kenny hooked and on the bank Happy
I sure was, even
text a couple of mates to record it.
Kenny hooked and on the bank Happy
I sure was, even
text a couple of mates to record it.
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