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Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 29th June 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

The Country Girl on Talking Pictures TV! Stars: , , . Directed by George Seaton in 1955. The film is about an alcoholic has-been actor struggling with the one last chance he has been given to resurrect his career. Grace Kelly won an Academy Award for Best Actress for playing the alcoholic actor’s long-suffering wife. The film contains realistic, frank dialogue and honest treatment of alcoholism and divorce. Airs Sunday 5th July 6:00pm.

Monday 29th June 9:30am Tuesday 30th June 11:30am The Old Dark House (1963) The Man Inside (1958) . Directed by William Castle. Drama. Directed by . Stars: Fenella Fielding Tom Poston Stars: , Anita Ekberg & & Janette Scott. . A detective and a A car salesman finds himself in fatal beautiful jewel thief chase a stolen mishaps when delivering a car to a diamond from New York to Europe. secluded mansion. Tuesday 30th June 1:30pm The Big Job (1965) Monday 29th June 3:00pm Comedy. A gang of crooks are caught The Dawn Guard (1941) on a big job. 15 years later they find Home Guard volunteers Bernard Miles their loot is now buried under a and Percy Walsh discuss the causes police station. Stars: Sidney James of war and their hopes for the peace. Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery & Joan Sims. Directed by Roy Boulting. Tuesday 30th June 5:30pm Loser Takes All (1956) Monday 29th June 3:10pm Comedy. Director: Ken Annakin. Counter-Attack (1945) Stars: , Rossano Brazzi, Drama directed by Zoltan Korda. Tony Britton, Robert Morley. When Stars: Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman Bertrand finds an accounting error at & Larry Parks. A Russian paratrooper is a London firm the boss sends him trapped with eight Nazi soldiers in the on a trip to Monte Carlo. basement of a bombed-out building. Tuesday 30th June 10:00pm Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) Monday 29th June Comedy Drama. Director: Robert Episode 1 at 2pm; Episode 2 at 8pm. Altman. Cast: Sandy Dennis, Cher, Hannay (1988) , Sudie Bond, Marta Heflin, , Mark Patton. The Disciples Drama Stars: Robert Powell, of James Dean meet on the anniversary Christopher Scoular, Jill Meager, of his death and mull over their lives in Gavin Richards, Diane Bull. the present and in flashback. Continues every Monday at 8pm. Starring Robert Powell, this drama Wednesday 1st July 2:50pm series featuring Edwardian Bond Street (1948) adventurer Richard Hannay, was Drama. Director: Gordon Parry. developed from John Buchan’s novel Stars: Jean Kent, Roland Young, The Thirty-Nine Steps. With guest . A young British appearances from Martin Clunes, woman goes through her trousseau Alex Kingston, Iain Cuthbertson and before her wedding, uncovering the Anthony Valentine and many more. stories behind her wedding items. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 29th June 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders on Talking Pictures TV Stars: , Richard Johnson, , , Leo McKern, , Lilli Palmer. Directed by in 1965. The film follows the adventures of an 18th century young woman who finds that losing her virtue is no handicap to a successful career. Based on the Daniel Defoe bawdy novel, Kim Novak is the penniless heroine who finds her way in the world through personal charm. Some of the best moments belong to its largely British supporting cast, including Leo McKern. Airs Friday 3rd July 10:00pm.

Wednesday 1st July 6:45pm Friday 3rd July 2:50pm The Young Ones (1961) (1941) Musical. Director: Sidney J. Furie. Stars Comedy Drama. Director: Cliff Richard Robert Morley Carole Gray . Stars: , & The Shadows. Cliff and his friends , . raise money to buy their youth club A shoe-seller in a large department before Cliff’s dad can get it. store, takes pity on an elderly new employee (Charles Coburn) who is Wednesday 1st July 10:05pm really the owner of the store work- The Snorkel (1958) ing undercover in order to expose Drama. Directed by Guy Green. Stars: workers who want better pay and Peter Van Eyck, Betta St John & Mandy conditions. Coburn gives a Miller. A teenager suspects that her masterly performance, changing wealthy mother’s suicide was a from a cold-hearted tyrant to a cleverly planned murder by her champion of (his own) workers diabolical stepfather. rights as the story progresses. Thursday 2nd July 2:50pm Friday 3rd July 5:30pm and Love Story (1944) Saturday 4th July 6:00pm Romance, directed by: Leslie Arliss. Cross Channel (1955) Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Drama. Director: RG Springsteen. Granger, Patricia Roc. Suffering from a Stars: Wayne Morris, Patrick Allen, potentially fatal heart condition, Yvonne Furneaux, June Ashley. Margaret has one last fling with an RAF An American running a boat-charter pilot who is slowly going blind. becomes involved with smuggling Thursday 2nd July 9:15pm and murder. Out of Season (1975) Friday 3rd July 10:00pm Drama. Directed by Alan Bridges. The Amorous Adventures Stars: , of Moll Flanders (1965) Susan George, , Comedy. Director: Terence Young. Edward Evans. Ann and her Stars: Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, daughter Joanna live in a small Angela Lansbury, Vittorio De Sica, hotel on the English coast. When Leo McKern, George Sanders, Lilli Joe arrives, all three are pulled into Palmer. A young 18th century an intense relationship. woman finds that losing her virtue is no handicap to a successful career. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 29th June 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 The Dummy Talks on Talking Pictures TV Stars: , Beryl Orde, Claude Hulbert. Directed by Oswald Mitchell in 1943. The police must solve the mysterious murder of a ventriloquist in a music hall. The film features the film debut of Jack Warner playing a music-hall comedian and singer and a number of genuine variety acts add a flavour of the period. Airs Saturday 5th July 4:10pm.

Saturday 4th July 08:00am Sunday 5th July 10.30am Old Bill and Son (1940) Just William’s Luck (1948) Comedy. Director: Ian Dalrymple. Comedy. Director: . Stars: Morland Graham, , Stars: William Graham, Garry Marsh, Mary Clare. World War I veteran Bill is Jane Welsh. Based on the popular inspired to re-enlist in 1939 and ends books written by Richmal Compton. up serving with his son. Saturday 4th July 1:30pm Sunday 5th July 4:10pm Warlords of Atlantis (1978) The Dummy Talks (1943) Adventure. Director: Kevin Connor. Crime. Director: Oswald Stars: Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore & Mitchell. Stars: Jack Warner, Cyd Charisse. A professor of Beryl Orde, Claude Hulbert. archaeology, his son and an engineer Police must solve the mysterious are on a quest to find the lost city murder of a ventriloquist in a of Atlantis. music hall.

Saturday 4th July 3:30pm Sunday 5th July 6:00pm Nate and Hayes (1983) The Country Girl (1955) Adventure. Director: Ferdinand Musical Drama. Director: Fairfax. Stars: , George Seaton. Stars: Bing Crosby, Michael O’Keefe, Max Phipps, Grace Kelly, William Holden. Jenny Seagrove. A missionary vies An alcoholic actor struggles to with a sea captain for the affection resurrect his career. of the same woman. Saturday 4th July 7:15pm Sunday 5th July 10:05pm Blowing Wild (1953) Harlow (1965) Drama. Director: . Biography. Director: Gordon Stars: , Barbara Stanwyck, Douglas. Stars: , , . A love Red Buttons, Raf Vallone, Angela triangle set in Mexico’s oilfields, where Lansbury. Biopic inspired by the bandits are still active. brief life of the platinum blonde bombshell, screen siren Saturday 4th July 9:00pm Jean Harlow. The film opens with The Spy Who Came in from Harlow as a struggling extra and the Cold (1965) bit actress dealing with her greedy Cold War film starring , stepfather and oblivious mother. & , directed She rises to fame, and makes an by Martin Ritt. British spy Alec Leamas unfortunate marriage; but career posing as a disgraced former MI5 agent stress and failed relationships result in East Germany is caught in a sinister in her own final tragedy. labyrinth of plots and counter-plots.