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Lifeboat on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee. Directed in 1944 by Alfred Hitchcock, from a story by John Steinbeck in which eight survivors of a Nazi torpedo ship attack find themselves in the same boat with the man who sank the ship. Tallulah Bankhead plays a celebrity reporter in diamonds and fur, slowly losing all her possessions, while William Bendix descends into madness and Walter Slezak as the German ‘prisoner’ plots against them all. Beautifully shot by Hitchcock who planned the camera angles using a miniature lifeboat and figurines. Airs: Saturday 3rd April 3:40 pm.

Monday 29th March 10:30am Tuesday 30th March 6:30pm Don’t Bother To Knock (1952) Suspected Person (1942) Drama. Director: Roy Ward Baker. Drama. Director: Lawrence Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Huntington. Stars: Clifford Evans, Richard Widmark, Anne Bancroft. Patricia Roc, David Farrar, A troubled young woman is hired Robert Beatty, William Hartnell. as a babysitter in a hotel room. Two bank robbers try to find their partner who has fled to London. Monday 29th March 6:40pm The Hi-jackers (1963) Wednesday 31st March 10:30am Drama. Director: Jim O’Connolly. Five Guns West (1955) Stars: Anthony Booth & Jacqueline Ellis. Western. Director: Roger Corman. A lorry driver meets a girl at a cafe and Stars: John Lund, Dorothy Malone, offers her a lift, but his truck carrying Mike Connors. Shalee Jethro helps to valuable whisky is hijacked. run a desert stagecoach station, but comes into trouble with bandits. Monday 29th March 9pm The Lovers! (1973) Wednesday 31st March 2:30pm Comedy. Director: Herbert Wise. Above Us The Waves (1955) Stars: Richard Beckinsale, Paula Wilcox, War Drama. Director: Ralph Thomas. Joan Scott. Like everyone else, Stars: John Gregson, John Mills and Geoffrey & Beryl want to fall in love; Donald Sinden. War Drama about but this is Manchester in 1972! the British attack on the German battleship ‘Tirpitz’ in a Norwegian Monday 29th March 8pm fjord during World War II. Gideon’s Way (1964) Wednesday 31st March 4:30pm Episode 1: State Visit No Hiding Place: Music for Murder Director: John Moxey. (1965) Crime. Director: John Frankau. Stars: John Gregson, Alfie Bass, Stars: Raymond Francis, Johnny Gerald Harper, David Lodge and Briggs. A lost episode of the series. Julian Holloway. Enough nitro-glycerine Set in a hotel: a man falls to his to kill hundreds is found in Whitehall. death. Was it an accident or did John Gregson is Commander George someone push him? Gideon of Scotland Yard. Continues Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fridays at 8pm. Thursday 1st April 7:40am Spring Meeting (1941) Tuesday 30th March 10:30am Comedy. Director: Norman Lee and In The Doghouse (1961) Walter C. Mycroft. Stars: Basil Sydney, Comedy. Director: Darcy Conyers. Enid Stamp-Taylor, Michael Wilding Stars: Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins, and Margaret Rutherford. Hattie Jacques. A newly qualified vet An adventuress and her son seek takes over an old practice. romance in an Irish manor. Tuesday 30th March 12:20pm Thursday 1st April 12:10pm The Secret Place (1957) Now and Forever (1956) Crime. Director: Clive Donner. Drama. Director: Mario Zampi. Stars: Stars: Belinda Lee, Ronald Lewis, Janette Scott, Vernon Gray, Kay Walsh Michael Brooke. A gang perform a & Jack Warner. A schoolgirl falls in love daring diamond robbery. with the son of a local garage owner. Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Mon 29th March 2021

Stiff Upper Lips on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Sean Pertwee, Georgina Cates, Prunella Scales, Peter Ustinov, Samuel West, Frank Finlay, Brian Glover and Robert Portal. Directed in 1998 by Gary Sinyor. A woman’s brother and aunt try to pair her with a fop in 1908 England, but she only has eyes for a strapping peasant. A parody of British period films, especially the lavish productions of the 1980s and early 1990s, this entertaining comedy pokes fun at the British upper crust of Edwardian English society. Airs: Sunday 4th April 10pm.

Thursday 1st April 4:10pm Friday 2nd April 9pm End of the Line (1957) The Legacy (1979) Crime. Director: Charles Saunders. Thriller. Director: Richard Marquand. Stars: Alan Baxter, Barbara Shelley and Stars: Katherine Ross, Sam Elliott, Jennifer Jayne. Given a fake alibi, Mike Roger Daltrey and Margaret Tyzack. robs a ‘fence’ of stolen jewels. The fence An American couple visiting a British is found dead and Mike is blackmailed. mansion stumble upon a curse. Thursday 1st April 9pm Saturday 3rd April 8:40pm Who Dares Wins (1982) House of Strangers (1949) Thriller. Director: Ian Sharp. Thriller. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Stars: Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Richard Widmark and Tony Doyle. Susan Hayward, Richard Conte. An anti-nuclear group plan to kill the An Italian-American New York U.S. Ambassador at the Iranian banker faces criminal charges. embassy, leading to a siege. Three sons turn their backs while one, who is a lawyer, remains loyal. Friday 2nd April 7:40am They Were Not Divided (1950) Sunday 4th April 10am War. Director: Terence Young. Stars: The Big Blockade (1942) Edward Underdown, Ralph Clanton, Propaganda Documentary. Director: Helen Cherry and Christopher Lee. Charles Frend. Stars: Leslie Banks, Frank In a World War II training depot, Cellier & Alfred Drayton. Depicted recruits come from all walks of life to in humorous sketches, a film on the learn to survive. Allies’ blockade of Nazi Germany. Friday 2nd April 9:45pm Sunday 4th April 12:25pm The Small Voice (1948) The Egyptian (1954) Epic. Director: Michael Curtiz. Stars: Drama. Director: Fergus Mcdonell. Edmund Purdom, Jean Simmons, Stars: James Donald, Valerie Hobson, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, David Greene and Howard Keel. Michael Wilding and Peter Ustinov. A couple come across a car crash and A physician in 18th dynasty Egypt discover that the occupants are armed. becomes physician to the pharaoh. Rising and falling from prosperity, he becomes drawn towards a new religion spreading through Egypt.

Saturday Morning Pictures 09:00 Popeye 09:20 Zorro’s Black Whip 09:40 Peril for the Guy (1956) Director: James Hill. Stars: Frazer Hines, Christopher Warbey, Amanda Coxall, Alimami Allen, Paul Daneman. In the run up to November the 5th, kids collecting coins for their living Guy foil a dastardly plot to steal a new oil detection machine. Reveals how much attitudes to children and fireworks have changed over the decades! 10:55 The Adventures of Champion the Wonder Horse Director: George Archainbaud. Stars: Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Francis McDonald, William Tannen, Chris Alcaide and Ewing Mitchell. 11:15 Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe 11:50 Superman double episode