Talking Pictures tonight 18.1.23 8.0pm

The Rainbow Jacket was on the other week, thats a great old English Horseracing film
a very good cast as well

" about a knobled favourite."

Not a gelding then?

When's Murphy's stroke going to be on

is it Sir Ivor?

Quite entertaining. Most of the racing vocabluary was correct. First bookmaker in the programme was Jackie Levy, who used to trade as Morry Levy.
The programme was first aired in 1964.
The Derby at Epsom showed, could have been 1963. Won by Relko, ridden by Yves ST Martin.

Film Buffs might like tonights FILM 4 @ 22.55 offerings

The Outsiders 1983 (***)

In a small Oklahoma town in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other.

I'm not expecting much but it's a bit of a cast of unknowns .....

C. Thomas Howell...    Ponyboy Curtis
Matt Dillon    ...    Dallas Winston
Ralph Macchio    ...    Johnny Cade
Patrick Swayze    ...    Darrel Curtis
Rob Lowe    ...    Sodapop Curtis
Emilio Estevez    ...    Two-Bit Matthews
Tom Cruise    ...    Steve Randle
Glenn Withrow    ...    Tim Shepard
Diane Lane    ...    Cherry Valance

Enjoy ....or not

Jan 18, 2023 -- 5:19PM, dambuster wrote:

The Rainbow Jacket was on the other week, thats a great old English Horseracing filma very good cast as well

Anyone seen it yet.?

Thanks for that heads up Virgin, I've never seen "The Outsiders" before so have set to record it for another day.

Gideon's Way was a bit unrealistic. The "hottest Derby favourite in years" started at 4/1 with Paddy Brennan up, and who'd believe there was a dishonest bookie?

Thursday 1.20 P.M one for the Coffin Dodgers.

Derby Day (1952 film)

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Not to be confused with Derby Day (light opera).
Derby Day

Directed by    Herbert Wilcox
Written by    Arthur Austen
John Baines
Monckton Hoffe
Alan Melville
Produced by    Maurice Cowan
Hebert Wilcox
Starring    Anna Neagle
Michael Wilding
Googie Withers
John McCallum
Peter Graves
Suzanne Cloutier
Gordon Harker
Narrated by    Raymond Glendenning
Cinematography    Mutz Greenbaum
Edited by    Bill Lewthwaite
Music by    Anthony Collins
Production
company   
Herbert Wilcox Productions
Distributed by    British Lion Film Corporation
Release date    9 May 1952
Running time    84 minutes
Country    United Kingdom
Language    English
Box office    £150,010 (UK)[1]
Derby Day is a 1952 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Googie Withers, John McCallum, Peter Graves, Suzanne Cloutier and Gordon Harker. An ensemble piece, it portrays several characters on their way to the Derby Day races at Epsom Downs Racecourse. It was an attempt to revive the success that Neagle and Wilding had previously enjoyed on screen together.[2] To promote the film, Wilcox arranged for Neagle to launch the film at the 1952 Epsom Derby.[3] In the United States, the film was released as Four Against Fate.

While making the film, Wilding began dating Elizabeth Taylor, who was in London filming Ivanhoe, and later became her second husband.[4]

Plot
On the morning of the Epsom Derby, a disparate group of people prepare to go to the races. Lady Helen Forbes, a recently widowed aristocrat, is planning to make the journey in spite of the disapproval of her social set who consider it unseemly to go while still in mourning. David Scott, a newspaper cartoonist, is ordered to go by his editor against his wishes. As part of a charity raffle, dissolute film star Gerald Berkeley must reluctantly escort a wealthy grand dame to Epsom. When the woman falls and injures her leg, her crafty housekeeper arranges for one of the young French maids to go in her place.

In Hackney, a lodger kills a man whose wife he has been having an affair with. The lodger and the wife plan to flee the country and travel to Epsom, where he knows a tipster who may be able to smuggle them out.

Helen and David meet and find themselves sharing confidences, as they were both bereaved in the same air crash. It seems likely that they will meet again. The lodger and the wife are spotted and arrested. A taxi driver's wife fulfils her life ambition to see the races.

Cast
Anna Neagle as Lady Helen Forbes
Michael Wilding as David Scott - the cartoonist
Googie Withers as Betty Molloy
John McCallum as Tommy Dillon
Peter Graves as Gerald Berkeley - film star
Suzanne Cloutier as Michele Jolivet
Gordon Harker as Joe Jenkins
Edwin Styles as Sir George Forbes
Gladys Henson as Gladys Jenkins
Nigel Stock as Jim Molloy
Ralph Reader as Bill Hammond
Tom Walls Jr. as Gilpin
Josephine Fitzgerald as O'Shaughnessy - the cook
Alfie Bass as Spider Wilkes
Toni Edgar-Bruce as Mrs. Harbottle-Smith
Ewan Roberts as Jock, the Studio driver
Leslie Weston as Capt. Goggs
Sam Kydd as Harry Bunn - the bookie
Raymond Glendenning as Himself
Brian Johnston as Interviewer
Richard Wattis as Newspaper editor
Frank Webster as Taxi driver
Gerald Anderson as Police Sergeant
Robert Brown as Foster - Berkeley's Butler
John Chandos as man on Train
Cyril Conway as Hinchcliffe - Coalman
Arthur Hambling as Col. Tremaine
H.R. Hignett as Lawson - Lady Forbes' Butler
Prince Monolulu as himself
Myrette Morven as Mrs. Tremaine
Hugh Moxey as Police Constable
Jan Pilbeam as 1st Maid
Mary Gillingham as 2nd Maid
Derek Prentice as Old Man
Michael Ripper as 1st Newspaper Reporter
Philip Ray as 2nd Newspaper Reporter
Cecily Walper as Mrs. Wickham - Housekeeper

Prince Monolulu as himself...Might be worth a watch.