Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 16th March 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Turn the Key Softly on Talking Pictures TV Starring: Yvonne Mitchell, Terence Morgan, and Kathleen Harrison with Thora Hird and Glyn Houston. Directed by Jack Lee. Joan Collins was just beginning her career, Yvonne Mitchell was making her mark as an outstanding actor and Kathleen Harrison was already a legend when they were brought together to star in this unsentimental yet moving film. Three women are released from Holloway prison at the same time and their progress is followed during the next 24 hours. Each must decide whether to return to a life of crime, or to start afresh. Their stories are portrayed with delicacy and honesty, balancing poverty, loneliness, old age and optimism. With beautiful inner city cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth, (Hell Drivers, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Cabaret), this film is an ode both to London and to the people who must find a way to live there. Turn the Key Softly airs on Saturday 21st March at 7:50pm.

Monday 16th March 4:15pm Wednesday 18th March 1:40pm The Net (1953) Trent’s Last Case (1953) Aviation thriller. Drama, directed by: Herbert Wilcox. Director: Anthony Asquith. Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Stars: James Donald, Phyllis Calvert, Michael Wilding and Orson Welles. Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom. Private eye Philip Trent suspects foul A scientist involved on a supersonic play when an American financier is flight project risks his life in a dangerous found dead. experiment, unwaware of the further risk from sabotage by foreign agents. Wednesday 18th March 3:30pm In the Doghouse (1961) Monday 16th March 5:50pm Comedy. Director: Darcy Conyers. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Stars: , Peggy Cummins. Comedy. Director: Robert A newly qualified vet with a heart of Hamer. Stars: Alec Guinness, gold takes over an old practice and Dennis Price & Valerie Hobson. becomes rivals with another vet. A poor relative of a wealthy Duke plots to inherit the title by murdering the Wednesday 18th March 10:05pm heirs who stand ahead of him. The Upturned Glass (1946) Thriller. Director: Lawrence Tuesday 17th March 1:20pm Huntington. Stars: James Mason, Watch Your Stern (1960) Rosamund John, Pamela Kellino. Comedy, directed by . A leading brain surgeon believes Stars: , , himself responsible for the death of and Leslie Phillips. Details of the woman he loves. a secret torpedo are ruined when the Admiral needs to present the plans. Thursday 19th March 2:30pm Jumping for Joy (1956) Tuesday 17th March 7:15pm Comedy. Director: John Paddy The Blue Lamp (1949) Carstairs. Stars: Frankie Howerd, Crime, drama, directed by Stanley Holloway, Joan Hickson and Basil Dearden. Stars Dirk Bogarde, Lionel Jeffries. Willie Joy is fired from Jack Warner & Jimmy Hanley. his job at the greyhound stadium. A killer shoots a London policeman Taking pity on an injured greyhound during a robbery. he decides to train her to compete for the prestigious Golden Bowl trophy. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 16th March 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Talking Pictures TV Exclusive Interview with Stephanie Beacham Stephanie Beacham stars in The Wolves of Willoughby Chase on Thursday, a haunting tale based on the much-loved children’s novel by Joan Aiken. The film will be followed by an exclusive interview in which Stephanie discusses her life and career with Jenny Hanley. Thursday 19th March 4:35pm The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1988) Adventure, directed by: Stuart Orme. Stars: Stephanie Beacham, Mel Smith, Emily Hudson, Aleks Darowska, Richard O’Brien and Jane Horrocks. This mock-Gothic tale of resourceful children, evil governesses, forged wills, cruel orphanages and goodness triumphant is set in an isolated country house in an alternative 19th century where savage packs of wolves roam the snow bound countryside. Thursday 19th March 6:20pm Talking Pictures TV with Stephanie Beacham Jenny Hanley interviews Stephanie Beacham excusively at The Talking Pictures Festival of Film. Learn why kept his wellies on, what Ava Gardner looked like in the morning; was Alfred Burke a nice man to work with? Why does Joan Collins call Stephanie ‘Cybil’? And what it was like to work with dear ?

Friday 20th March 2:30pm Saturday 21st March 9:30pm Trottie True (1949) The Seekers (1954) Musical comedy. Director: Adventure directed by: Ken Annakin. Brian Desmond Hurst. Stars: Jean Kent, Stars: Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, James Donald and Hugh Sinclair. Noel Purcell, Kenneth Williams. After making her name in the music halls, In 1821, one of the first British sailors Trottie True marries Lord Digby Landon, to visit New Zealand, Phillip Wayne, but their love is put to the test. befriends a Maori chief, marries in (AKA The Gay Lady) England and returns with a group of followers. (AKA Land of Fury) Friday 20th March 6:15pm Penny and the Pownall Case (1948) Sunday 22nd March 12:20pm Thriller, directed by Slim Hand. Five Golden Dragons (1967) Stars: Ralph Michael, Peggy Evans, Action, directed by Jeremy Summers. Diana Dors and Christopher Lee. Stars: Robert Cummings, A model helps a Scotland Yard detective Margaret Lee and Christopher Lee. to hunt a gang of criminals smuggling An American playboy in Hong Kong Nazi war criminals out of Europe. finds himself caught in a power struggle in the criminal world. Friday 20th March 10pm The Legend Of Hell House (1973) Sunday 22nd March 4:10pm Horror. Director: John Hough. They Met in the Dark (1943) Stars: Roddy McDowall, Mystery, directed by: Karel Lamac. Gayle Hunnicutt & Pamela Franklin. Stars: James Mason, Joyce Howard, A psychiatrist and his wife take Edward Rigby. A cashiered naval mediums into a house which is officer and a young woman join haunted by the victims of a serial killer. forces to solve a murder and expose a German spy ring. Saturday 21st March 1:40pm Neutral Port (1940) Sunday 22nd March 6:40pm War film directed by: Marcel Varnel. Oliver Twist (1948) Stars: Will Fyffe, Leslie Banks, Drama, directed by David Lean. Yvonne Arnaud, Phyllis Calvert and Stars: John Howard Davies, Wally Patch. A British merchant ship Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, is torpedoed by a German U-Boat. Kay Walsh. An orphaned boy in Taking shelter in a neutral port, the London joins a household of boys Captain strikes back at the enemy. trained to steal for their master. Saturday 21st March 7:50pm Sunday 22nd March 9pm Turn the Key Softly (1953) Sunday Night at the Drama directed by: Jack Lee. London Palladium (1965) Stars: Yvonne Mitchell, Joan Collins, Classic variety entertainment show Kathleen Harrison, Terence Morgan. hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck, featuring Three women are released on George Raft, Paul and Barry Ryan, probation from prison on the same magician David Nixon, dancer Hugh morning, each to different fates. Lambert, Spike Milligan and pianist Russ Conway.