Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 11th May 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Botany Bay on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Alan Ladd, James Mason and Patricia Medina. Directed by John Farrow, released in 1953. In 1787 prisoners are shipped from Newgate Jail on Charlotte to found a new penal colony in Botany Bay, New South Wales. Amongst them is an American medical student who was wrongly imprisoned. During the journey he clashes with the villainous Captain, and is soon plotting mutiny against him. Airs on Saturday 16th May at 9pm.

Monday 11th May 1:10pm Tuesday 12th May 10pm The Importance of being Earnest The Best of Everything (1959) (1952) Drama, directed by Jean Negulesco. Comedy, directed by Anthony Stars: Joan Crawford, Louis Jourdan, Asquith. Stars: Michael Redgrave, Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd and Suzy Richard Wattis, Michael Denison, Parker. A story about the lives of three Edith Evans, Margaret Rutherford. women who share a small apartment Algernon discovers that his friend in New York City. Ernest has a fictional brother and Wednesday 13th May 11:30am decides to impersonate the brother. Scotland Yard Investigator (1945) Monday 11th May 5:30pm Directed by George Blair. Hue and Cry (1947) Stars: C. Aubrey Smith, Stephanie Adventure. Director: Charles Crichton. Bachelor, Erich von Stroheim. During Stars: Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, the Second World War the Mona Lisa Harry Fowler. A gang of street boys is moved to a London gallery, where a foil a crook who sends commands for German art collector tries to steal it. robberies in a cunning way. Wednesday 13th May 3:10pm Monday 11th May 10pm Raising The Wind (1961) The Enforcer (1951) Comedy. Director: Gerald Thomas. Adventure. Director: Bretaigne Stars: James Robertson Justice, Windust. Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Everett Sloane, Zero Mostel, Williams, Jennifer Jayne and Liz Fraser. Ted de Corsia. For as long as crime A group of music students move into a boss Albert Mendoza has been shared flat in order to cut costs. running a notorious ring of hired hitmen, DA Martin Ferguson has been Wednesday 13th May 10:05pm hunting him down. (AKA Murder, Inc.) The Nanny (1965) Thriller. Director: Seth Holt. Tuesday 12th May 1:25pm Stars: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig and Silver Bears (1978) Jill Bennett. Joey Fane is a young boy Thriller, directed by: Ivan Passer. who believes that the nanny killed his Stars: Cybill Shepherd, Michael Caine, sister, but nobody believes him. Louis Jourdan, Stéphane Audran, David Warner, Tom Smothers and Thursday 14th May 5:30pm Martin Balsam. Double dealing in S is For Stanley (2015) the world’s silver market. 30 Years Behind the Wheel Tuesday 12th May 7:25pm for Stanley Kubrick Spare A Copper (1940) Award winning documentary film Comedy, directed by: John Paddy depicting the relationship between Carstairs. Stars: George Formby, film director Stanley Kubrick and Dorothy Hyson, George Merritt. A War his chauffeur and assistant, Reserve Policeman foils saboteurs Emilio D’Alessandro. plotting to destroy a warship. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 11th May 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Thursday 14th May 6:50pm Saturday 16th May 6:50pm The Lady With A Lamp (1951) Cloak and Dagger (1946) Drama. Director: Herbert Wilcox. Drama. Directed by Fritz Lang. Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding & Starring: Gary Cooper, Gladys Young. Based on the Reginald Vladimir Sokoloff, Lilli Palmer. Berkeley stage play, this compelling Pressed into in the last months of drama offers a depiction of WWII, physics professor Alvah Jesper is Florence Nightingale. sent to Europe in search of an atomic Thursday 14th May 10pm scientist held captive by the Nazis. The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) The first major “atomic power” Science-fiction fantasy. melodrama of the postwar era. Director: Nicolas Roeg. Saturday 16th May 9pm Stars: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark. Botany Bay (1953) The mysterious and complex Thomas Drama. Directed by John Farrow. Jerome Newton appears in New York. Starring: Alan Ladd, James Mason and Despite his frail physical presence, Patricia Medina. In 1787 prisoners are the strength of his intellect and scientific shipped to Botany Bay, New South knowledge transcend contemporary Wales. Amongst them a wrongly human experience. imprisoned American medical student Friday 15th May 9:10am clashes with the villainous Captain. It’s Great to be Young (1956) Sunday 17th May 10:30am Musical. John Mills stars as a well-loved Bell Bottom George (1944) teacher in this gentle musical comedy Drama. Directed by Marcel Varnel. portraying life in the 1950s British Starring George Formby, Anne Firth classroom and the school jazz band. & Reginald Purdell. Rejected by the Friday 15th May 7pm military, a hapless waiter gets a job on I Know Where I’m Going (1945) a ship but is mistaken for a real sailor. Drama. Directed by Michael Powell and Sunday 17th May 2:50pm Emeric Pressburger. Starring: Wendy Small Hotel (1957) Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney. Comedy, directed by David A young Englishwoman travels to the Mcdonald. Stars: Gordon Harker, Hebrides to marry her older fiancé. Marie Lohr, John Loder, Irene Handl, Friday 15th May 10pm Billie Whitelaw, Janet Munro, Francis The Masque of the Red Death (1964) Matthews. At a small, hotel, Albert, Fantasy horror. Directed by Roger an aged but shrewd waiter, is a past Corman. Starring: Vincent Price, master at the art of fiddling. Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee, Sunday 17th May 4pm Paul Whitsun-Jones, Robert Brown. Viva Max (1969) Prince Prospero learns that a village is Comedy, directed by Jerry Paris. plagued with the dreaded Red Death Stars: Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin, and orders it to be burnt to the ground. Jonathan Winters. Delusional Mexican Gen. Maximilian Rodrigues Saturday 16th May 10:30am tells his troops they are on their way Lambretta to an American march in honour of Between 1946-1947 Italy begins to move. George Washington’s birthday – Lambrettas become the symbol of a new then leads them over the border and Italian vitality, after the trauma of the recaptures the Alamo. civil war. Distances grow smaller, ideas circulate, people meet. Sunday 17th May 10pm The Molly Maguires (1970) Saturday 16th May 2:40pm Drama, directed by Martin Ritt. Lucy Gallant (1955) Stars: Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Drama. Directed by Robert Parrish. Samantha Eggar. Embittered Irish Starring: Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston, immigrant coal miners start a Claire Trevor. Jilted at the altar, Lucy campaign of sabotage to retaliate retreats to an oil town, where she opens against the owners’ cruelty. up a gown shop. Rancher Casey Cole disdains “working women”, but he is madly in love with Lucy.