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64-Day Hero: A Boxer’s Tale on Talking Pictures TV In this compelling and thought-provoking 1985 documentary, sports writer and novelist Gordon Williams uses archive footage, and interviews with family members and friends, to investigate the troubled life of British boxing hero Randolph Turpin, who could deliver a knockout punch with either hand. In 1951, after defeating the American , (considered by many to be the greatest boxer of all time), for the title Champion of the World, 23-year-old Turpin became a national hero. He held the title for only 64 days before losing a rematch with Robinson. Turpin’s boxing career continued, but a fight against Carl ‘Bobo’ Olsen at Madison Square Gardens left him badly damaged and he began to decline as a fighter. The subsequent years of scandal, bankruptcy and humiliation led to his early death at the age of 38. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2001. Airs: Sat 3rd Aug 19 12:30

Mon 29th July 19 14:35 Wed 31st July 19 12:15 They Who Dare (1954) Spring in Park Lane (1948) War Drama, directed by Lewis Comedy directed by Herbert Milestone. Stars: Dirk Bogarde & Wilcox. Stars Anna Neagle, Denholm Elliott. In Greece during Michael Wilding. Joshua the war, British commandos and Howard’s niece suspects the patriots are ordered to destroy new footman is not what he two strategic German airfields. makes out to be. Mon 29th July 19 21:30 Wed 31st July 19 18:30 and Sun 4th Aug 19 01:30 The Browning Version (1951) The Running Man (1963) Drama, directed by Anthony Drama. Directed by Carol Reed. Asquith and starring Michael Stars: Laurence Harvey, Lee Redgrave. Crocker-Harris is a Remick, Alan Bates & Felix Aylmer. teacher at an English public An insurance investigator is called school who must retire early due when a plane goes down a day to ill health. after his insurance policy expires. Thurs 1st Aug 19 12:40 Tues 30th July 19 18:30 Child’s Play (1954) Pygmalion (1938) Sci-Fi comedy directed by Drama directed by Anthony Margaret Thomson. Asquith. Stars: Leslie Howard & Stars: Christopher Beeny, Wendy Hiller. Superb adaptation Ernest Scott, Patrick Wells. of the George Bernard Shaw Anneke Wills makes her acting play, for which Shaw himself was debut aged eleven, a few years awarded an Oscar. Leslie Howard before her role in Doctor Who. and Wendy Hillier are both An account of the mischief of brilliant as the phonetics expert several youngsters in a small and his pupil. village who have learnt how to split the atom. Tues 30th July 19 21:30 Oklahoma Crude (1973) Thurs 1st Aug 19 14:30 Comedy, directed by When the Whales Came Stanley Kramer. (1989) Stars: George C. Scott, Faye Drama, directed by Clive Rees. Dunaway & John Mills. In 1913 Stars: Paul Scofield, Helen Mirren, Oklahoma, Lena Doyle, aided by David Threlfall, David Suchet & her father, stubbornly drills for oil Jeremy Kemp. Two children despite pressure to sell her land. befriend an isolated old man who holds a terrible secret... Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 29th July 2019 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Thurs 1st Aug 19 21:30 Sat 3rd Aug 19 16:20 Circle of Deception (1960) The Extra Day (1956) Drama, directed by Jack Lee. Stars Comedy, directed by R William Suzy Parker, Bradford Dillman & Fairchild. Stars include: Richard Harry Andrews. An agent is sent Basehart, Simone Simon, George on a dangerous mission to mislead Baker, Sid James and Joan Hick- the Germans about the Normandy son. A comical look at the usually Landings of 1944. obscure but oddly complicated lives of a group of film extras. Fri 2nd Aug 19 16:20 Desert Mice (1959) Sat 3rd Aug 19 20:00 Comedy, directed by This is My Street (1964) Michael Relph. Stars: Sid Comedy, directed by Sidney James, Dora Bryan, Alfred Hayers. Stars: Ian Hendry, June Marks and Liz Fraser. Set in Ritchie, Avice Landone. A bored WW2, a British entertain- housewife living in a run down ment troupe bring comedy inner city house begins and chaos to North Africa. an affair with the lodger. Fri 2nd Aug 19 21:30 Sun 4th Aug 19 16:35 See No Evil (1971) The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk Thriller, directed by Richard (1959) Fleischer. Stars Mia Farrow, Comedy, directed by Herbert Dorothy Alison, Robin Bailey and Wilcox. Stars: Anthony Quayle, Diane Grayson. A young blind Anna Neagle. A story of Cold War woman living in the countryside intrigue, and of one man’s coura- with her family is pursued by a killer. geous refusal to reveal potentially devastating secret information. Sat 3rd Aug 19 12:30 64-Day Hero: A Boxer’s Tale Sun 4th Aug 19 22:00 (1985) The Small Back Room (1949) Documentary, directed by Drama, directed by Michael Franco Rosso on championship Powell & Emeric Pressburger. boxer Randolph Turpin. Gordon Stars: David Farrar, Kathleen Williams investigates the circum- Byron, Jack Hawkins. Second stances surrounding the life and World War scientist Sammy Rice death of Turpin, who in 1951 at works at a British research unit the age of 23 defeated Sugar Ray set up to solve the enemy’s Robinson to become Middleweight methods of attack. Embittered Champion of the World. He held after losing a foot in a bomb the title for a mere 64 days before blast, Sammy is increasingly losing a rematch with Robinson. seeking solace in drink. However, a budding romance Sat 3rd Aug 19 14:30 with his secretary, Susan, and Carlton-Browne of the F.O. the challenge of analysing a new (1959) German bomb provide him with Comedy, directed by Roy Boulting, a new sense of meaning. (AKA Jeffrey Dell. Stars: Terry-Thomas, Hour of Glory) Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi. A former British colony in dire need of economic aid tries to play the British against the Soviets in an attempt to secure economic aid from either side in return for political loyalty. (AKA Man in a Cocked Hat)