State Secret on Talking Pictures TV Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns and Herbert Lom and Directed by Sidney Gilliat
Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 10th February 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 State Secret on Talking Pictures TV Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns and Herbert Lom and directed by Sidney Gilliat. An American surgeon is decoyed to a middle European country to perform an operation on the dictator. When the dictator dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, and the surgeon becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill chase which accelerates through city streets and across the country, culminating in a breath-taking episode of mountain climbing toward a safe frontier. Beautifully photographed in Italian cities and the Dolomites, the film also benefits from a wonderful cast including Douglas Fairbanks as the kidnapped surgeon, Glynis Johns as a saucy and explosive music-hall girl with Jack Hawkins and Herbert Lom in key roles. Airs on Sat 15th Feb 5:40pm. Mon 10th Feb 14:05 Tues 11th Feb 22:00 Men In War (1957) To The Devil A Daughter (1976) War film, directed by Anthony Mann. Horror, directed by Peter Sykes. Stars: Robert Ryan, Robert Keith, Aldo Stars: Richard Widmark, Ray & Vic Morrow. During the Korean Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, War, Lt. Benson and his troops find a Nastassja Kinski. A priest turned colonel with combat trauma. Satanist kidnaps a young girl, hoping Mon 10th Feb 18:15 she will bear the offspring of Satan. South Of Algiers (1953) Wed 12th Feb 07:55 Action adventure, directed by Jack Lee. Danger on Dartmoor (1980) Stars: Van Heflin, Wanda Hendrix, Adventure, directed by David Eady.
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