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Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 6th July 2020 306 | VIRGIN 445

The Grass is Greener on Talking Pictures TV! Stars: , , , . Directed by 1961. The story of a lively encounter between a beautiful English countess and an American oil tycoon, set in an English stately home. Deborah Kerr is seduced by Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons tries to help Cary Grant win her back. Played with suave elegance and wit by a superlative cast. Airs Sunday 12th July 6pm.

Monday 6th July 1:00pm Tuesday 7th July 10:00pm Fiddlers Three (1944) Forbidden (1949) Comedy. Directed by Harry Watt. Drama. Directed by George King. Stars Tommy Trinder, Sonnie Hale & Stars: Douglass Montgomery, Frances Day. Two sailors and a Wren Hazel Court & Patricia Burke. travel back in time after being struck An ex-serviceman plans to escape by lightning in Stonehenge. his faithless wife. Monday 6th July 3:00pm Wednesday 8th July 3:10pm The October Man (1947) The Laughing Lady (1946) Crime. Director: Roy Ward Baker. Musical Drama. Directed by Stars: John Mills, Edward Chapman, Paul L. Stein. Stars: Anne Ziegler, Joan Greenwood. A man is suspected Webster Booth, Francis L. Sullivan. of murder and, due to a previous During the French Revolution, a brain injury, he begins to doubt his young aristocrat promises to locate own innocence. and steal diamonds from Britain to Monday 6th July 5:45pm save his mother from the guillotine. The Way Ahead (1944) Wednesday 8th July 5:30pm War. Director: Carol Reed. The Large Rope (1953) Stars: Jimmy Hanley, Stanley Holloway Drama. Directed by Wolf Rilla. & . After a battalion suffers Stars: Donald Houston, Susan Shaw, casualties at Dunkirk, the gaps in the ranks must be filled by ‘call-ups’. Peter Byrne & Vanda Godsell. A man returns to the village where Tuesday 7th July 09:30am he was accused of murdering a girl, Don’t Ever Leave Me (1949) to prove his innocence. Comedy, directed by Arthur Crabtree. (AKA The Long Rope) Stars: Jimmy Hanley, Petula Clark, Linden Travers, Hugh Sinclair. Jack’s Wednesday 8th July 10:05pm grandfather Harry comes out of prison The Medusa Touch (1978) and stays with him in his mews flat. Horror. Directed by Jack Gold. He is soon up to his old tricks; Stars: Richard Burton, Lee Remick & embarrassment and chaos follow. Lino Ventura. A psychological thriller Tuesday 7th July 7:25pm about a telekinetic novelist who Remembering , causes disasters simply by thinking followed by: The Captain’s Table about them. (1959) Thursday 9th July 11:15am We speak exclusively to John’s children Oh... Rosalinda! (1956) and his wife, Thea Gregson sharing Musical Comedy. their personal memories of John. Directed by Michael Powell. Stars: Followed at 19:50pm by Michael Redgrave, Mel Ferrer & The Captain’s Table. Comedy. Director: Jack Lee. Starring: Anthony Quayle. Adaptation of John Gregson and Peggy Cummins. Die Fledermaus by Johan Strauss. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 6th July 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Thursday 9th July 2:30pm Saturday 11th July 8:05pm The Dummy Talks (1943) The Man Who Could Crime. Director: Oswald Cheat Death (1959) Mitchell. Stars: Jack Warner, Horror. Directed by Terence Fisher Beryl Orde, Claude Hulbert. Stars: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Police must solve the mysterious . An artist and murder of a ventriloquist in a scientist in 1890 Paris stays young by . periodically replacing a gland with that of a living person. Thursday 9th July 5:25pm Saturday 11th July 9:50pm Court Jester (1956) The Amorous Adventures A musical-comedy film starring of Moll Flanders (1965) Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Cecil Parker, Comedy. Director: Terence Young. Basil Rathbone and Angela Lansbury. Stars: Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, A carnival performer acts as court jester Angela Lansbury, Vittorio De Sica, in a plot against an evil ruler. Leo McKern, George Sanders, Lilli Friday 10th July 10:50am Palmer. A young 18th century Voyage of the Damned (1976) woman finds that losing her virtue is War Drama. Director: Stuart Rosenberg. no handicap to a successful career. Stars: Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner & Sunday 12 July 9:00am Lee Grant. The tragic 1939 voyage Coastal Command (1942) of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of Second World War feature length German Jewish refugees from documentary on the work of RAF Nazi Germany. Coastal Command, concentrating on the crew of Sunderland aircraft Friday 10th July 7:00pm “T for Tommy” . Director: J B Holmes Venetian Bird (1952) with score by Ralph Vaughan Mystery. Director: Ralph Thomas. Williams and brief sequence Stars: Richard Todd, Eva Bartok, featuring an RAF Gang Show. John Gregson. A private detective travels to Venice to find an Italian Sunday 12 July 3:25pm veteran of the Second World War. Follow a Star (1959) Comedy. Director: Robert Asher. Saturday 11th July 2:05pm Stars: Norman Wisdom, The Moonraker (1958) June Laverick, Fenella Fielding. Drama. Directed by Norman Truscott is a dry cleaner David Macdonald. who dreams of being a singer. Stars: George Baker, , Marius Goring & Peter Arne. Sunday 12 July 6:00pm After the battle of Worcester, The Grass is Greener (1961) Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth Comedy. Director: Stanley Donen. are to capture Charles Stuart. Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons. Saturday 11th July 6:00pm Story of a lively encounter between The Eternal Sea (1954) a beautiful English countess and War. Directed by John H. Auer. an American oil tycoon, set in an Stars: Sterling Hayden, Alexis Smith, English stately home. Ben Cooper, Dean Jagger. Sunday 12 July 10:00pm After an American naval officer loses No Room At The Inn (1948) his leg, he resists attempts to retire War Drama, directed by and continues in the service after Daniel Birt. With Freda Jackson, learning to cope with his disability. Joy Shelton, Hermione Baddeley, Based on the story of Vice Admiral Joan Dowling. The drunken landlady John Madison Hoskins, an officer and of a British boarding house confines aviator in the United States Navy, who a group of child evacuees to a life lost his right foot in an explosion aboard of degradation. USS Princeton in 1944, and refused retirement, continuing to serve until 1957. (AKA The Admiral Hoskins Story)