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Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 10th February 2020 306 | VIRGIN 445

State Secret on Talking Pictures TV Starring: Jr., Jack Hawkins, and and directed by . 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 , Honor Blackman, War, Lt. Benson and his troops find a Nastassja Kinski. A priest turned 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. Eric Portman, Charles Goldner. Stars: Marcus Evans, Simon An archaeologist searches for a lost Henderson, Debby Salter, Barry tomb, but two unscrupulous rogues Foster, Patricia Hayes. Children lost on are also on the hunt, leading to a Dartmoor encounter a wild dog, an deadly race across the desert. escaped convict and other dangers. Mon 10th Feb 20:00 Wed 12th Feb 11:30 Series airs Mondays at 8pm Sea Devils (1953) Danger UXB, Episode 1: Adventure film, directed by Raoul Dead Man’s Shoes (1979) Walsh. Stars: Rock Hudson, Yvonne Series set during the Second World De Carlo, Maxwell Reed. A jailed War, starring: , Marjie fisherman/smuggler is offered a Lawrence & Deborah Watling. Second pardon, if he undertakes a mission to Brian Ash joins his new sail to France to rescue a female agent. regiment only to find that they are assigned to bomb disposal. Wed 12th Feb 15:10 City Under the Sea (1965) Tues 11th Feb 11:30 Science fiction, directed by and Sunday 16th Feb 19:15 Jacques Tourneur. Stars: Vincent Price, Will Any Gentleman (1953) Tab Hunter, , Susan Comedy, directed by: Michael Hart, . A city beneath Anderson, starring George Cole, the sea is discovered off the coast of Heather Thatcher, Jon Pertwee, Cornwall, where a group of sailors Veronica Hurst. A bank clerk assists a have lived for more than a century. stage hypnotist but leaves the theatre before being brought back to normal. Wed 12th Feb 22:05 The Mind Benders (1963) Tues 11th Feb 19:20 Thriller, directed by Basil Dearden. The Small Voice (1948) Stars: , Mary Ure, Drama, directed by: Fergus . A scientist submits Mcdonell, starring James Donald, himself to a dangerous experiment by , David Greene, Howard being submerged in a tank of water Keel. Whilst driving through the Welsh for ten hours. hills, a couple find a crashed car and take the occupants home with them. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 10th February 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Thurs 13th Feb 12:00 Sat 15th Feb 16:00 Surprise Package (1960) The Scarlet Blade (1963) Comedy, directed by Stanley Donen. Action comedy drama, directed by: Stars: Yul Brynner, Noel Coward, Mitzi . Stars: Lionel Jeffries, Gaynor, & Eric Pohlmann. , Jack Hedley, A gambler and a small-time hood plan Duncan Lamont, Michael Ripper, to steal an exiled king’s crown. June Thorburn. Amid the clashes between the Roundheads and the Thurs 13th Feb 16:10 Cavaliers, a romantic figure known as The Ringer (1953) ‘The Scarlet Blade’, leads the Royalists. Crime drama, directed by Guy Hamilton. Stars: Herbert Lom, Sat 15th Feb 17:40 Donald Wolfit, Mai Zetterling, William State Secret (1950) Hartnell. A criminal master of disguise Mystery drama, directed by: nicknamed ‘The Ringer’ is out for Sidney Gilliat. Stars: Glynis Johns, revenge against a treacherous Jack Hawkins, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., lawyer who is under police protection. Herbert Lom. An American surgeon is caught up in a man-hunt when the Thurs 13th Feb 22:00 dictator he operates on dies. Expresso Bongo (1959) (AKA The Great Manhunt) Drama, directed by: . Stars: Sat 15th Feb 19:50 , , Yolande and Forever (1956) Donlan & . A sleazy agent Drama, directed by: Mario Zampi. discovers a singer in a coffee house and Stars: Janette Scott, Vernon Gray, starts him on the road to stardom. Kay Walsh, Jack Warner. A schoolgirl Fri 14th Feb 07:30 falls in love with the son of a local ga- Josephine and Men (1956) rage owner and they hatch a plan Comedy, directed by: Roy Boulting. to elope to Gretna Green... Stars: Glynis Johns, , Sat 15th Feb 21:50 , , William Some Will, Some Won’t (1970) Hartnell. The trouble with Josephine is Comedy, directed by: Duncan Wood. her over-sympathetic nature. Stars: Ronnie Corbett, Thora Hird, Fri 14th Feb 22:00 , Barbara Murray, (1966) Leslie Phillips. Arch-prankster Henry Fantasy Horror, directed by: John Gilling. Russell asks his beneficiaries to justify Stars: , Ray Barrett, their legacies. Jennifer Daniel, John Laurie. Sun 16th Feb 11:40 Strange fang marks appear on the The Ghost of Monk’s Island (1966) necks of the victims in a Cornish village Family adventure, directed by: Duncan smitten with sudden deaths. Wood. Stars: Pierre Bedenes, Lucinda Jackson, Peter Bartlett, Robert Bartlett, Sat 15th Feb 12:40 Beryl Cooke. The Robinson children Nurse On Wheels (1963) are marooned on a deserted Island. Comedy, directed by: Gerald Thomas. Stars: Juliette Mills, Ronald Lewis, Noel Sun 16th Feb 21:00 Purcell, Joan Sims, Esma Cannon, Jim Sunday Night at the Dale, Deryck Guyler and Joan Hickson. London Palladium (1969) Bruce Forsyth is joined on stage by In the sleepy little town of Blandley the singer Bobby Darin, Trio Rayros and biggest stir in recent years is caused by stars from the Frane Loesser’s musical the arrival of the new district nurse. The Most Happy Fella. Sat 15th Feb 14:25 Sun 16th Feb 22:00 Five Guns West (1955) The Boys From Brazil (1978) Western, directed by: Roger Corman. Drama, directed by Franklin J. Stars: John Lund, Dorothy Malone, Schaffner. Starring , Mike Connors, Jack Ingram. , James Mason. A Confederate officer leads a band A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers of prisoners in search of a stolen a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle shipment of Union gold. the Third Reich.