Highlights: Week beginning Monday 23rd July 2018
Monday 23rd July 2018 – 09:30 EVERY DAY’S A HOLIDAY (1964) Director: James Hill Starring: John Leyton, Liz Fraser, Ron Moody, Freddie & The Dreamers. A group of young people come together in a holiday camp to enjoy fun and friendly rivalry over matters of music and romance when they enter a televised talent contest.
Monday 23rd July 2018 – 11:20 SAILOR BEWARE (1956) Director: Gordon Parry Starring: Peggy Mount, Ronald Lewis, Shirley Eaton and Esma Cannon. Sailor Albert Tufnell is getting frightened off marriage to his sweetheart Shirley Hornett by the domineering habits of his future mother in law and as the wedding day approaches will he get cold feet or march down the aisle?
Tuesday 24th July 2018 – 11:30 THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) Director: William Wyler Starring: Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright and Virginia Mayo. Three war veterans return home after the end of World War 2 to their families but they all find difficulties in returning to civilian life in differing ways.
Tuesday 24th July 2018 – 19:15 THE MOB (1951) (also showing Saturday 28th July at 14:30) Director: Robert Parrish Starring: Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley and Ernest Borgnine. After witnessing what appears to be a police officer shooting a man in cold blood, detective Johnny Damico decides to go undercover. Tracing the murder victim to a waterfront crime ring, Damico poses as longshoreman Tim Flynn and infiltrates the corrupt New York dockworkers union.
Tuesday 24th July 2018 – 22:00 THE SERVANT (1963) Director: Joseph Losey Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles and Wendy Craig. Tony, a British aristocrat, hires the mysterious Hugo Barrett as his household servant. The new employee however soon begins to cause unrest in the household…
Wednesday 25th July 2018 – 08:55 CUCKOO PATROL (1967) Director: Duncan Wood Starring: Freddie Garrity, Kenneth Connor, John Le Mesurier and Victor Maddern. The story of a troop of scout misfits ...The Cuckoo Troop… led by Scout Leader Garrity on their way to scout camp and the misadventures they stumble into!
Wednesday 25th July 2018 – 18:00 ENCHANTMENT (1948) Director: Irving Reis Starring: David Niven, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger and Teresa Wright. During World War II, an American ambulance driver stationed in London visits her reclusive grand-uncle, General Roland "Rollo" Dane. At first Rollo resists, but he eventually opens up, revealing how as a young soldier, he missed a chance at true love and has spent the rest of his life regretting it…
Thursday 26th July 2018 – 19:00 ADDRESS UNKNOWN (1944) (also showing Saturday 28th July at 13:00) Director: William Cameron Menzies Starring: Paul Lukas, Peter Van Eyck, K T Stevens and Carl Esmond. An American art dealer returns to his native Germany for a visit and is attracted by Nazi propaganda.
Thursday 26th July 2018 – 22:00 TERROR OF THE TONGS (1961) (also showing Sunday 29th July at 01:40) Directors: Anthony Bushell Starring: Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Toone, Yvonne Monlaur and Roger Delgado. In 1910, Hong Kong members of a secret Tong crime syndicate protect their identities by murdering the daughter of a British sea captain who vows revenge.
Friday 27th July 2018 – 12:15 PYGMALION (1938) Director: Anthony Asquith Starring: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson and Scott Sunderland. When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet.
Friday 27th July 2018 – 17:30 PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (1942) Directors: Sam Wood Starring: Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth, Teresa Wright and Walter Brennan. This moving biographical drama follows the life of revered baseball player Lou Gehrig. Championed by sportswriter Sam Blake, Gehrig eventually gets recruited by the New York Yankees, joining a team of heavy hitters that includes the legendary Babe Ruth…
Friday 27th July 2018 – 22:00 MACKENNA’S GOLD (1969) Director: J Lee Thompson Starring: Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Ted Cassidy and Julie Newmar. A bandit kidnaps a Marshall who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands and forces him to lead his gang to it. Other groups are looking for it too but the Apaches are trying to keep the secret location undisturbed.
Saturday 28th July 2018 – 16:15 SHE PLAYED WITH FIRE (1958) Director: Sidney Gilliat Starring: Jack Hawkins, Dennis Price, Arlene Dahl and Ian Hunter. An insurance investigator runs into an ex-girlfriend, who is still as beautiful as he remembered her but is now married. However he soon finds himself involved in arson, blackmail and murder.
Saturday 28th July 2018 – 18:15 IDOL ON PARADE (1959) Director: John Gilling Starring: Anthony Newley, William Bendix, Anne Aubrey and Lionel Jeffries. Rock and roll star Jeep Jackson is riding on the crest of fame, when he suddenly finds himself drafted into the British army. Jeep's manager however, doesn’t want his fame to fade and continues to get him work outside of the army which causes problems with his commanding officers…
Saturday 28th July 2018 – 23:40 PSYCHE 59 (1964) Director: Alexander Singer Starring: Patricia Neal, Curt Jurgens, Samantha Eggar and Ian Bannen. The blind wife of an industrialist begins to learn that her malady may not be the result of an injury suffered in a fall but a psychosomatic response to an affair between her husband and her sister.
Sunday 29th July 2018 – 13:15 THE PURPLE PLAIN (1954) Director: Robert Parrish Starring: Gregory Peck, Bernard Lee, Brenda de Banzie and Win Min Than. At the end of World War II in Burma, Canadian Royal Air Force pilot Forrester is a loner whose bravery can't cover a streak of reckless instability. When his actions cause an injury, Dr. Harris recommends pulling him from duty, due to the emotional trauma he's suffered.
Sunday 29th July 2018 – 15:15 YOU MUST BE JOKING (1965) Director: Michael Winner Starring: Terry-Thomas, Michael Callan, Denholm Elliott, James Robertson Justice, Bernard Cribbins and Lionel Jeffries. An eccentric psychiatrist oversees a 48-hour army-initiation test during which five competing soldiers are ordered to find a rare breed of rose, an electric rabbit, a set of plaster ducks...and much more.
Sunday 29th July 2018 – 17:20 INTERLUDE (1968) Director: Kevin Billington Starring: Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Virginia Maskell and Donald Sutherland. A world famous symphony conductor is attracted to a lovely young journalist despite the difference in their ages and the fact that he is married.