Highlights: Week beginning Monday 20th August 2018
Monday 20th August 2018 – 10:45 MADELEINE (1950) Director: David Lean Starring: Ann Todd, Ivan Desney, Leslie Banks and Elizabeth Sellars. The true story that rocked the English legal system to its foundations in the mid-19th century. Did Madeleine commit murder?
Monday 20th August 2018 – 18:15 INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE (1953) Director: Vittorio De Sica Starring: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift and Gino Cervi. Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.
Tuesday 21st August 2018 – 12:35 STREET CORNER (1953) Director: Muriel Box Starring: Peggy Cummins, Rosamund John, Anne Crawford and Barbara Murray. London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea in this intriguing docu-drama.
Tuesday 21st August 2018 – 18:10 HINDLE WAKES (1952) Director: Arthur Crabtree Starring: Lisa Daniely, Leslie Dwyer and Brian Worth. While on seaside holiday with her girlfriend Mary, a pretty factory worker named Jenny is attracted to Alan, son of the owner of the mill where she works.
Wednesday 22nd August 2018 – 12:30 THE DEMI PARADISE (1943) Director: Anthony Asquith Starring: Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward and Margaret Rutherford. A Russian engineer, recounts during World War II, his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships, but is naïve to British people.
Wednesday 22nd August 2018 – 21:00 TOWN ON TRIAL (1957) Director: John Guillermin Starring: John Mills, Charles Coburn, Barbara Bates and Derek Farr. At a local tennis club in a posh London suburb, an attractive but flirty young woman is murdered, prompting a Scotland Yard investigation.
Thursday 23rd August 2018 – 08:50 HOLIDAY CAMP (1947) Director: Ken Annakin Starring: Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Flora Robson and Dennis Price. The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run and a pregnant young girl with her boyfriend, missing from home.
Thursday 23rd August 2018 – 21:00 NOWHERE TO RUN (1978) Director: Richard Lang Starring: Richard Jansen, Stefanie Powers, Allen Garfield and Linda Evans. Harry patiently executes a 15-year plan to accumulate enough wealth to start a new life away from his loveless marriage.
Friday 24th August 2018 – 09:20 HELL IS A CITY (1960) Director: Val Guest Starring: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence and Billie Whitelaw. In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who has escaped from prison.
Friday 24th August 2018 – 21:00 DEADFALL (1968) Director: Bryan Forbes Starring: Michael Caine, Giovanni Ralli, Eric Portman and Nanette Newman. Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices, the Moreaus, attempt to steal diamonds from the château of millionaire Salinas.
Saturday 25th August 2018 – 17:55 THE HIRELING (1973) Director: Alan Bridges Starring: Robert Shaw, Sarah Miles, Peter Egan and Elizabeth Sellars. A young British woman suffering from depression over the loss of her husband develops an unusual relationship with her chauffeur.
Saturday 25th August 2018 – 21:50 BREAKOUT (1975) Director: Tom Gries Starring: Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland and Randy Quaid. A Texas bush pilot is hired by a woman to help break out her husband who is imprisoned in Mexico on a framed charge that was engineered by his Grandfather.
Saturday 25th August 2018 – 23:50 I WALK THE LINE (1970) (also showing Monday 20th August at 23:00) Director: John Frankenheimer Starring: Gregory Peck, Tuesday Weld, Estelle Parsons and Charles Durning. Henry Tawes is the sheriff in a small town in Tennessee. A man of strong moral fibre, he is always quick to judge others and follows the law zealously. Then he meets Alma who turns his world upside down.
Sunday 26th August 2018 – 15:50 MR WINKLE GOES TO WAR (1944) Director: Alfred E Green Starring: Edward G Robinson, Ruth Warrick and Ted Donaldson. Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.
Sunday 26th August 2018 – 19:15 I’LL BE SEEING YOU (1944) Director: William Dieterle, George Cukor Starring: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple and Spring Byington. A soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance.
Sunday 26th August 2018 – 22:10 BEFORE WINTER COMES (1969) Director: J Lee Thompson Starring: David Niven, Topol, Anna Karina, John Hurt and Anthony Quayle. After World War II, in an Austrian camp for displaced people, an interpreter mediates between the British and the Soviets regarding the fate of various refugees.