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Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 11th January 2021 306 | VIRGIN 445

Contraband on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie. Directed by Michael Powell in 1940. When a Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port, its captain becomes involved in a British Naval Intelligent agent’s ef- forts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema. Airs: Thursday 14th January 10:30am.

Monday 11th January 9.30am Wednesday 13th January 3:35pm NEW Episode of William Tell (1958) Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) The Golden Wheel. Comedy. Director: Norman Taurog. Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Stars: Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Goddard and Jennifer Jayne. Having Jeremy Slate, Laurel Goodwin. discovered where the resistance hides Ross Carpenter wants to buy the its funds, Gessler make plans to stop boat he built with his father. further money reaching them. Wednesday 13th January 9:05pm Monday 11th January 12:35pm Reds (1981) Springtime (1946) Drama. Director: Warren Beatty. Drama. Director: Montgomery Stars: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Tully. Stars: Peter Graves, Carol Raye and Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman. Lawrence O’Madden. When Captain The story of american John Reed, Winster gave a brooch to a lady in 1911 journalist and communist activist, his father turned him out of the house. writer Louise Bryant and their love Monday 11th January 2:20pm affair during the Russian Revolution. Master of Bankdam (1947) Thursday 14th January 10:30am Drama. Director: Walter Forde. Stars: Contraband (1940) Anne Crawford, Dennis Price, Tom Espionage. Director: Michael Powell. Walls, Stephen Murray, Linden Travers Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, and . Set in Yorkshire, Hay Petrie. A sea captain deals with the story of how Bankdam, the town’s smugglers and spies. smallest mill, grows into the largest. Thursday 14th January 6:35pm Tuesday 12th January 2:10pm Lease of Life (1954) The Years Between (1946) Drama. Director: Compton Bennett. Drama. Director: Charles Frend. Stars: Michael Redgrave, Stars: Robert Donat, Kay Walsh, Valerie Hobson and Flora Robson. Adrienne Corri and Denholm Elliott. Based on Daphne Du Maurier’s play. A vicar reconsiders his life after During WWII, Diana Wentworth awaits hearing he has limited time left. news of her husband. Thursday 14th January 10pm Tuesday 12th January 6:45pm The Silent Partner (1978) Hombre (1967) Thriller. Director: Daryl Duke. Stars: Western. Director: Martin Ritt. Elliott Gould, Susannah York, Stars: Paul Newman, Richard Boone, Christopher Plummer, John Candy. Fredric March and Diane Cilento. A bank teller skims $50 000 during a People are not so welcoming when robbery, but the crook wants it back. John returns to his Arizona home town Friday 15th January 10:30am to collect his inheritance. Know Where I’m Going (1945) Wednesday 13th January 10:30am Drama. Director: Michael Powell, Portrait of Alison (1955) Emeric Pressburger. Stars: Wendy Crime. Director: Guy Green. Stars: Hiller, , George Carney. Robert Beatty, Terry Moore, William A young Englishwoman goes to the Sylvester. A painter is commissioned to Hebrides to marry her older, paint a portrait of a girl killed in Italy. wealthier fiancé. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 11th January 2021 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Laugh It Off on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Tommy Trinder, Jean Colin, Anthony Hulme, Marjorie Browne, Edward Lexy. Directed by John Baxter in 1940. A talented young couple’s career is put on hold by the young man’s call to service, but their skills are soon tested when a colonel demands they put on a show fit for a general. Airs: Saturday 16th January 6pm.

Friday 15th January 6pm Saturday 16th January 7:35pm Mr Reeder in Room 13 (1938) The Chairman (1969) Drama. Director: Norman Lee. Action. Director: J Lee Thompson. Stars: Gibb McLaughlin, Sara Seegar, Stars: , Anne Haywood, Peter Murray-Hill, Sally Gray. and Conrad Yama. A scientist goes To discover a counterfeiter’s identity, to China to steal a formula for an a young man does jail time. When experimental enzyme with enor- released, he finds his fiancee is about mous practical benefits. to marry the man he sought! Sunday 17th January 2:20pm Friday 15th January 8:10pm Meet the Navy (1946) Night of the Eagle (1962) Musical. Director: Alfred Travers. Horror. Director: Sidney Hayers. Stars: Lionel Murton, Margaret Stars: Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair and Hurst, John Pratt, Robert Goodier, Margaret Johnston. A woman, who Phyllis Hudson. Royal Canadian may be a witch, defends her husband Navy men and women pull out all from forces attempting to harm him. the stops in a Navy show during World War II. Saturday 16th January 1:55pm Offbeat (1961) Sunday 17th January 3:55pm Crime Drama. Director: Cliff Owen. The Girl From Manhattan (1948) Stars: William Sylvester, Anthony Comedy. Director: Alfred E. Green. Dawson, Mai Zetterling. Stars: Dorothy Lamour, George An MI5 man infiltrates the world of Montgomery, Charles Laughton, new-style criminals behind the Ernest Truex, Hugh Herbert. A model robberies that fox the Yard. and a young reverend return to their hometown and to each other but Saturday 16th January 3:55pm squabbles over her uncle’s boarding The Net (1953) house threaten their romance. Thriller. Director: Anthony Asquith. Stars: James Donald, Phyllis Calvert, Sunday 17th January 10pm Robert Beatty, . A scientist Breakthrough (1980) involved in a supersonic flight project Drama. Director: Andrew V. risks his life in a dangerous experiment. McLaglen. Stars: , , , Saturday 16th January 6pm Helmut Griem, Curt Jergens, Laugh It Off (1940) Michael Parks. In the summer of Musical. Director: John Baxter. Stars: 1944, top German officers plan to Tommy Trinder, Jean Colin, Anthony assassinate Adolf Hitler. Realizing Hulme, Marjorie Browne, Edward Lexy. that the cause of the Third Reich is A talented young couple’s career is a hopeless one, these conspirators put on hold by the young man’s call to hope that the death of Hitler will service, but their skills are soon tested allow them to negotiate a cease- when a colonel demands they put on fire with the Americans. A German a show fit for a general. sergeant becomes involved in the conspiracy, and saves the life of an American colonel.