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Look at Life on Talking Pictures TV Talking Pictures TV Are Delighted to Bring to the ‘Small Screen’ the ‘Big Screen’ Production: “Look at Life” Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 3rd May 2021 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Look at Life on Talking Pictures TV Talking Pictures TV are delighted to bring to the ‘small screen’ the ‘big screen’ production: “Look at Life”. All shot on 35mm, this iconic Rank production, made from the late 50s through to the early 60s, was a mainstay at all rank cinemas. Enjoy the cars, fashions, transport, and much more when you “Look at Life” again on Talking Pictures TV. The films will be airing throughout May. Monday 3rd May 12:10pm Tuesday 4th May 6:30pm Bank Holiday (1938) The Net (1953) Drama. Director: Carol Reed. Thriller. Director: Anthony Asquith. Stars: John Lodge, Margaret Lockwood, Stars: James Donald, Phyllis Calvert, Hugh Williams, Rene Ray, Wally Patch, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom. A scientist Kathleen Harrison, Wilfrid Lawson and in a supersonic flight project risks his life. Felix Aylmer. A group of people encounter strange situations when they Wednesday 5th May 8:45am visit a resort to spend the weekend. The Sky-Bike (1967) Director: Charles Frend. Stars: Monday 3rd May 3pm Liam Redmond, William Lucas, Ian Ellis, Pollyanna (2002) Ellen McIntosh, Spencer Shires, Drama. Director: Sarah Harding. Della Rands, John Howard, Bill Shine, Stars: Amanda Burton, Georgina Terry David Lodge and Guy Standeven. and Kenneth Cranham. Adaptation of Young Tom builds a flying machine. the classic tale. Young orphan Pollyanna goes to stay with Aunt Polly, bringing Wednesday 5th May 12:20pm mirth and mayhem to her new home. The March Hare (1956) Comedy. Director: George More Monday 3rd May 9pm O’Ferrall. Stars Peggy Cummins, The Chain (1984) Terence Morgan & Wilfrid Hyde-White. Comedy. Director: Jack Gold. Sir Charles Hare gambles all on his Stars: Maurice Denham, Denis Lawson, horse at Ascot. Nigel Hawthorne, Leo McKern, Wednesday 5th May 9:05pm Judy Parfitt, Warren Mitchell, Anna Massey and Billie Whitelaw. To Die For (1995) Seven households are caught in a chain Comedy Drama. Director: Gus Van on moving day. Sant. Stars: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon and Joaqiun Phoenix. Tuesday 4th May 7:45am A beautiful but naïve aspiring Please Turn Over (1960) television personality films a Comedy. Directed by Gerald Thomas. documentary on teenagers with a Stars: Ted Ray, Leslie Phillips and Julia darker ulterior motive. Lockwood. Chaos in an English suburb Thursday 6th May 10:30am when it is portrayed in a book. The Frightened City (1961) Tuesday 4th May 10:30am Drama. Director: John Lemont. The Ghost of St. Michael’s (1941) Stars: Herbert Lom, Sean Connery and Comedy. Director: Marcel Varnel. Stars: John Gregson. British Noir film about Will Hay, Claude Hulbert and Felix Aylmer. extortion rackets and gang warfare in A school is evacuated to a remote London’s West End. Scottish castle, reputedly haunted. Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Mon 3rd May 2021 Thursday 6th May 4:20pm Saturday 8th May 3:30pm Delayed Action (1954) Caravan (1946) Thriller. Director: John Harlow. Drama. Director: Arthur Crabtree. Stars: Robert Ayres, June Thorburn, Stars: Stewart Granger, Jean Kent, Alan Wheatley, Bruce Seton. Two Anne Crawford, Dennis Price criminals do a deal with a suicidal man, Robert Helpmann. A young man on a who will confess to their crimes mission in Spain who is left for dead is before he dies. nursed back to health by a gypsy girl. Thursday 6th May 6:45pm Saturday 8th May 9pm Deadly Nightshade (1953) Blood Relatives (1978) Crime. Director: John Gilling. Mystery. Director: Claude Chabrol. Stars: Emrys Jones, Zena Marshall Stars: Donald Sutherland, John Horsely and Joan Hickson. Aude Landry, Donald Pleasence, A convict on the run switches identities Lisa Langlois, David Hemmings & with a lookalike, only to find himself in Stéphane Audran. A detective even deeper trouble. investigating a girl’s murder encounters conflicting testimonies. Friday 7th May 11:05am Bond Street (1948) Sunday 9th May 11:50am Drama. Director: Gordon Parry. Stars: Uneasy Terms (1948) Jean Kent, Kathleen Harrison and Thriller. Director: Vernon Sewell. Roland Young. The hidden stories Stars: Michael Rennie, Moira Lister, behind each essential item used on a Faith Brook and Patricia Goddard. British society bride’s wedding day. A private eye is summoned to a Colonel’s country home – only to find Friday 7th May 6pm the Colonel murdered! The Chairman (1969) Action. Director: J Lee Thompson. Stars: Sunday 9th May 3:40pm Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood and Some Will, Some Won’t (1970) Conrad Yama. A scientist goes to China Comedy, directed by: Duncan Wood. to steal a formula for a beneficial Stars: Ronnie Corbett, Thora Hird, experimental enzyme. Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray, Friday 7th May 9pm Leslie Phillips. Arch-prankster Vampire Circus (1971) Henry Russell sets the beneficiaries Horror. Director: Robert Young.1986 Stars: of his will conditions calculated to Adrienne Corri, Anthony Higgins, make them prove themselves as John Moulder-Brown, Lynne Frederick. human beings. A dying vampire swears vengeance on Sunday 9th May 10pm the local townsfolk who killed him. Years Prick Up Your Ears (1986) later, a strange travelling circus arrives. Drama. Director: Stephen Frears. Saturday 8th May 2:15pm Stars: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Behind the Headlines (1956) Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Walters. Crime. Director: Charles Saunders. A celebration of outrageous British Stars: Paul Carpenter, Adrienne Corri, playwright Joe Orton. From working Hazel Court, Alfie Bass and Harry Fowler. class boy to national celebrity, he was A male and female journalist join forces a peer of the Beatles and an icon of to hunt down a murderer. London’s swinging sixties. Saturday Morning Pictures 09:00 Superman Episode 2: The Mechanical Monsters 09:15 The Cisco Kid (1950-1956) Episode 2: Boomerang 09:50 Seventy Deadly Pills (1963) Director: Pat Jackson. Stars: Sally Thomsett, Gareth Robinson, Len Jones, John Ross and Robert Fergusan. A small boy finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car and uses them to buy his way into the Rocket Gang. The gang leader shares out the pills. One of the gang eats hers and collapses, prompting a frantic police search. 11:00 The Adventures of Champion the Wonder Horse 11:30 Radar Men From The Moon (1952) Episode 2: Moon Rocket Starring: George Wallace, Aline Towne and Roy Barcroft. This 1950s science fiction serial follows the adventures of Commando Cody as he tries to prevent Retik, evil ruler of the moon, from capturing earth. 11:45 Bugs Bunny: Case of the Missing Hare .
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