Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 19th October 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Uneasy Terms on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Michael Rennie, Moira Lister, Faith Brook, Nigel Patrick, Sydney Tafler. Directed by Vernon Sewell in 1948. Slim Callaghan is a private eye whose client, Colonel Stenhurst, is murdered, leaving behind a trail of suspects. The eldest of the Colonel’s three stepdaughters, is the prime suspect, but Callaghan’s not so sure, wading through clues and romance to find the truth. Airs: Saturday 24th October 7:50pm.

Monday 19th October 9:30am Wednesday 21st October Deadly Record (1959) 6:45pm Drama. Director: Lawrence Huntington. Champion (1949) Stars: Lee Patterson, Barbara Shelley. Drama. Director: Mark Robson. Pilot Trevor Hamilton’s wife is found Stars: Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, dead – and he is the prime suspect. Arthur Kennedy. The struggles of a boxer fighting his own demons while Monday 19th October 4:40pm trying to achieve success. The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940) Thursday 22nd October 10:25am Comedy. Director: Edward Cline. Stars: The World Owes Me a Living Hugh Herbert, Anita Louise, Alan (1945) Mowbray, Buster Keaton. Drama. Director: Vernon Sewell. Turn-of-the-century melodramas are Stars: David Farrar, Judy Campbell, spoofed in this modern evocation Sonia Dresdel, Jack Livesey, of the charming heroine, dastardly John Laurie. In between the World landlord villain, dashing hero, and loyal Wars, British aviators pushed the sidekick. Buster Keaton stands out in a envelope with new technical feats. supporting role as the hero’s buddy. However, after a plane crash, a Tuesday 20th October 2:30pm young pilot experiences amnesia. Frieda (1947) Thursday 22nd October 2:30pm Drama. Director: Basil Dearden. The Man in Grey (1943) Stars: David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Drama, directed by: Leslie Arliss Mai Zetterling and Flora Robson. Stars: Margaret Lockwood, An RAF pilot who was shot down during James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, WWII marries a German woman who Stewart Granger. The story of a helps him escape. Regency romance with a bitter outcome told in retrospect. Tuesday 20th October 4:40pm Friday 23rd October 11:50am One Jump Ahead (1954) True as a Turtle (1957) Crime. Director: Charles Saunders. Stars: Comedy. Director: Wendy Toye. Paul Carpenter, Diane Hart, Stars: John Gregson, Cecil Parker, Jill Adams and Freddie Mills. June Thorburn. Newlywed Tony A journalist is on the trail of a killer, Hudson takes his young wife Jane on attempting to keep “one jump ahead” of a honeymoon cruise on a yacht. the police in solving the crime. Friday 23rd October 6:25pm Wednesday 21st October Rockets Galore (1958) 12:00pm Comedy. Director: Michael Relph. No, My Darling Daughter (1961) Stars: Jeannie Carson, Comedy. Director: Ralph Thomas. Stars: Donald Sinden, Roland Culver. Michael Redgrave, Michael Craig and Residents of a small island in the Juliet Mills. The vivacious daughter of a Atlantic resist their government’s wealthy industrialist runs away with a plan to make their home a playboy, but falls in love with the young missile base. man who is sent to bring her back. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 19th October 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Strawberry Roan on Talking Pictures TV Stars: William Hartnell, Carol Raye, Walter Fitzgerald, Petula Clark. Directed by Maurice Elvey in 1945. A farmer weds a spoiled showgirl in a disastrous marriage that ultimately ruins his livelihood. Based on the novel of the same name by Wiltshire author A. G. Street, an English farmer, writer and broadcaster. Airs: Saturday 24th October 6:00pm.

Friday 23rd October 8:55am Saturday 24th October 9:40pm Loyal Heart (1946) The Great Gatsby (1974) Drama. Director: Oswald Mitchell. Drama. Director: Jack Clayton. Stars: Percy Marmont, Stars: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Harry Welchman, Patricia Marmont, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern, Philip Kay, Eleanor Hallam. A loyal Karen Black, Scott Wilson. sheep dog refuses to be taken from Jay Gatsby loved spoiled, beautiful, his master in exchange for a debt. Daisy Buchanan but lost her. Based on the Ernest Lewis novel Now he is ready to risk everything Beth the Sheepdog. to woo her back. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel with a Friday 23rd October 11:10pm screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola. Red Line 7000 (1965) Sunday 25th October 1:45pm Drama. Director: Howard Hawks. Going Ape! (1981) Stars: James Caan, Laura Devon, Comedy. Director: Jeremy Joe Gail Hire. The lives and passions of a Kronsberg. Stars: Tony Danza, stock car team are revealed against Jessica Walter, Danny DeVito, the turbulent backdrop of the Stacey Nelkin. Max Sabatini dies, professional racing world. leaving his three orangutans in the Saturday 24th October 12:40pm care of his son, Foster, who must At The Earth’s Core (1976) take care of them for five years in Adventure. Director: Kevin Connor. order to inherit his father’s fortune. Stars: Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Sunday 25th October 6:55pm Caroline Munro and Cy Grant. Funny Face (1957) A Victorian scientist miscalculates Musical Romance. his new machine and ends up in Director: Stanley Donen. the Earth’s core, where he finds Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, prehistoric monsters, man-eating Kay Thompson, Robert Flemyng. plants and cavemen dominated by A fashion photographer asks evil pterodactyl-type creatures with a girl to model for him after extra-sensory abilities. accidentally catching her on film. Saturday 24th October 2:30pm Sunday 25th October 10:00pm Darling Lili (1970) Don Chicago (1945) Drama. Director: Blake Edwards. Comedy. Director: Maclean Rogers. Stars: Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, Stars: Jackie Hunter, Eddie Gray, Joyce Lance Percival, Jeremy Kemp, Heron, Claud Allister, Amy Veness. Gloria Paul, Mike Witney, An American gangster visits merry Jacques Marin, Andre Maranne. old England, becoming the toast of Lili Smith is the singing sweetheart London’s high society – but his eyes who the troops adore. But she’s are fixed on the crown jewels. really an enemy agent with a new Saturday 24th October 7:50pm mission: seduce heroic pilot Major Uneasy Terms (1948) William Larrabee. With music by Drama. Director: Vernon Sewell. Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Stars: Michael Rennie, Moira Lister, Mercer. The film makes use of a collection of World War I replica Faith Brook, Nigel Patrick. fighter aircraft originally put A private detective investigates the together for the film The Blue Max murder of one of his own clients. and the film features some spectacular flying stunts.