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TAKE A GIRL LIKE YOU for the first time on Talking Pictures TV Starring: Hayley Mills, Oliver Reed, Noel Harrison, John Bird, Sheila Hancock. Based on the 1960 novel by Kingsley Amis, adapted by George Melly, directed by Jonathan Miller, this film has a fantastic pedigree, and is updated to a more modern, 1970’s setting. Oliver Reed is the confirmed bachelor eager to deflower the pretty lass from the North played by Hayley Mills, who is determined to hang on to her virtue! Airs: Tuesday 11th June at 21:30

Monday 10th June 11:20 Tuesday 11th June 15:00 Rebecca (1940) Alive and Kicking (1958) Mystery. Directed by Alfred Comedy. Directed by Cyril Hitchcock and starring Laurence Frankel. Stars Sybil Thorndike, Olivier, Joan Fontaine and George Kathleen Harrison & Estelle Sanders. A self-conscious bride is Winwood. Three elderly friends tormented by the memory of her run away from their nursing husband’s dead first wife. home looking for greener pastures. Monday 10th June 18:40 and Saturday 15th June 14:30 Cairo Road (1950) Tuesday 11th June 21:30 Take a Girl Like You (1970) Director: David MacDonald Stars: Eric Portman, Laurence Director: Jonathan Miller Harvey, Maria Mauban Writers: George Melly (screen- play), Kingsley Amis (novel). Filmed in Egypt, with Lawrence Starring: Hayley Mills, Oliver Harvey playing second in Reed, Noel Harrison, John Bird, command to Eric Portman as they Sheila Hancock. Young Jenny chase down shady North African heads to the South of drug dealers. Black and white England to start a new cinema noir style photography is a career as a school teacher. highlight of this rarely seen film. Even before she has had a Monday 10th June 21:30 chance to settle in she meets A Man Called Sledge (1971) Patrick, one of the local “lads”. Director: Vic Morrow Within a short time she has her Stars: James Garner, Dennis hands full when a number of Weaver, Claude Akins, Laura the local boys take a liking to Antonelli. A gunfighting outlaw her. But who will be the lucky in the Old West connives his way one who wins her affections? into a prison in hopes of getting his hands on a large shipment of Wednesday 12th June 06:00 gold stored there. Secret Mission (1942) War. Director: Harold French. Tuesday 11th June 11:45 Stars James Mason, Michael This Happy Breed (1944) Wilding, Carla Lehmann & Drama. Director: David Lean. Hugh Williams. Stars Robert Newton, Celia British intelligence are sent to Johnson, John Mills & Stanley assess the German defence of Holloway. After WW1 a family Nazi occupied France. lead an ordinary sort of life until the outbreak of WW2. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 10th June 2019 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Wednesday 12th June 21:30 Saturday 15th June 16:20 The Family Way (1966) The Ghost of St Michael’s Drama. Directors: Roy & John (1941) Boulting. Stars Hayley Mills, Director: Marcel Varnel Hywel Bennett, John Mills & Marjorie Stars: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Rhodes. The troubles of two young Charles Hawtrey. A school has newlyweds whose marriage has yet been evacuated to a remote to be consummated. Scottish castle, which, is reputedly Thursday 13th June 10:15 haunted. John Laurie as the school Duel In The Jungle caretaker tells the fearsome story of the castle’s ancient curse. Adventure Drama. Directed by: George Marshall Starring: Dana Saturday 15th June 21:00 Andrews, Michael Mataka, Jeanne The Cotton Club (1984) Crain. An American insurance Director: Francis Ford Coppola investigator discovers that the Starring: Richard Gere, James head of a big diamond concern has Remar, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins drowned in Africa and his fiancée In the glittering underworld, has vanished. where violence hides beneath the Thursday 13th June 19:10 cloak of glamour, a young cornet also on Saturday 15th June 11:15 player, Dixie Dwyer, (played by The Headless Ghost (1959) Richard Gere, loosely based on real life 1920’s musician Bix Beiderbecke), Director: Peter Graham Scott inadvertently saves the life of Starring: Richard Lyon, Liliane much-feared mobster Dutch Sottane, David Rose, Clive Revill (James Remar), and finds himself While holidaying in Britain, ex- being drawn into his world. change students Bill, Ronnie and Award-winning director Francis Ingrid visit Ambrose Castle, reputed- Coppola’s acclaimed take on the ly haunted by the Headless Ghost. crime-filled underworld of the They hide together in the castle, infamous Jazz age. and spend the night investigating… Sunday 16th June 16:55 Friday 14th June 19:15 Saloon Bar (1940) and on Saturday 15th June 19:45 Thriller. Director: Walter Forde. The Flying Squad (1940) Stars: Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Director: Herbert Brenon Allan & Mervyn Johns. A group of Stars: Sebastian Shaw, Phyllis Brooks, pub locals set out to prove that Jack Hawkins. Inspector Bradley of a local is not guilty of murder to Scotland Yard is on the trail of the prevent a hanging. murderous ringleader of a smug- gling organization in London. Sunday 16th June 19:00 Ann Perryman hinders his investi- Home at Seven (1952) gation, convinced that Bradley is Director: Ralph Richardson responsible for her brother’s death. Stars: Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins. Friday 14th June 21:30 Bank clerk Richardson returns home Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb (1971) from work to quiet suburbia at Director: Seth Holt, Stars: Andrew his usual time, only to be told by Keir, Valerie Leon, James Villiers. his wife that he’s been missing for An archaeological expedition 24 hours. Suffering from apparent returns to London with the coffin amnesia, he gets another shock of an Egyptian queen known for when evidence incriminates her magic powers. Her spirit takes him in theft and murder on the shape of a young girl and committed during the time he strange events unfold. can’t account for.