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Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 21st October 2019 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Our Man in Marrakesh on Talking Pictures TV Stars: , Senta Berger, , Wilfrid Hyde-White, Klaus Kinski and Terry-Thomas. Directed by: . A traveller on a journey to the exotic Moroccan capital finds himself enmeshed in a web of suspicion and counter-espionage in this star-studded spy thriller with a difference! Odd Couple star Tony Randall is the American tourist whose vacation turns into a potentially deadly adventure. Herbert Lom, Terry-Thomas and Austrian-born star Senta Berger are among the assorted spies and villains with whom he unwittingly tangles, with Klaus Kinski in suitably menacing form as the sinister stranger. An entertaining spy comedy, with interesting Moroccan locations, the film blends humour, 1960’s glamour and intrigue, skilfully treading the line between comedy and danger. Airs: Sat 26th Oct at 5.25pm.

Mon 21st Oct 18:55 Wed 23rd Oct 14:30 Next of Kin (1942) The True Glory (1945) Ealing Studios production, directed Oscar winning documentary on by , demonstrating the Allied invasion of Europe. the perils of “careless talk” during Directed by Carol Reed and Garson Kanin, using commentary wartime, with Mervyn Johns, Jack from the soldiers involved spoken Hawkins, Basil Radford, Naunton by various actors including Peter Wayne and Nova Pilbeam. Ustinov, John Laurie, Jimmy Hanley & Richard Attenborough. Mon 21st Oct 22:00 Music by William Alwyn. The Long Dark Hall (1951) Crime Drama directed by Reginald Wed 23rd Oct 18:00 Beck & Anthony Bushell. Lost (1956) Stars: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Thriller, directed by: Guy Green. Tania Heald & Raymond Huntley. Stars: David Farrar, David Knight An alcoholic showgirl is murdered. & Julia Arnall. A U.S. Embassy A man who helped her is the only employee and his wife discover that their 18 month old baby has suspect. disappeared in . Tues 22nd Oct 12:00 (AKA Tears For Simon) The Rainbow Jacket (1954) Thurs 24th Oct 12:00 and Drama, directed by Basil Dearden. Weds 16th Oct 04:15 Stars: Robert Morley, Kay Walsh & Idol On Parade (1959) Edward Underdown. A champion Comedy, directed by John Gilling. jockey is banned from racing so Stars: Anthony Newley, William spends his time helping a young lad Bendix and Anne Aubrey. Newley to become the next champion. plays a pop singer called up to serve in the British army. Tues 22nd Oct 22:00 Thurs 24th Oct 14:30 The Anderson Tapes (1971) Josephine and Men (1956) Crime Thriller, directed by Sidney Comedy, directed by: Roy Boulting. Lumet. Stars: Martin Balsam, Dyan Stars: Glynis Johns, Jack Buchanan, Cannon, Sean Connery, Christopher Donald Sinden, Peter Finch, William Walken. A habitual criminal looks for Hartnell. The trouble with Josephine funding to set up his next robbery. is that her over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men... Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 21st October 2019 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Fri 25th Oct 07:15 Sat 26th Oct 19:15 Journey Together (1944) The Planter’s Wife (1952) Documentary feature about cadets Drama, directed by Ken Annakin. hoping to become pilots in the Stars: Jack Hawkins and Claudette RAF, directed by John Boulting, Colbert. The marriage of a with Richard Attenborough, rubber-plantation owner and his Jack Watling, David Tomlinson wife has survived many disasters and Edward G. Robinson. but is now at breaking point. Fri 25th Oct 19:00 Surprise Package (1960) Sat 26th Oct 21:00 Comedy, directed by Stanley Donen. The Boys From Brazil (1978) Stars: , Noel Coward, Drama, directed by Franklin J. Mitzi Gaynor, Lyndon Brook and Schaffner. Starring , Eric Pohlmann. A devil-may-care , James Mason. gambler and a small-time hood plan A Nazi hunter in Paraguay to steal an exiled king’s crown. discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich. Sat 26th Oct 16:20 Documentary: Memories of Lindsay Anderson (2019) Sun 27th Oct 16:10 Chris Wade’s documentary film is a Some Will, Some Won’t (1970) personal, intimate and affectionate Comedy, directed by: Duncan look at the life and work of Lindsay Wood. Stars: Ronnie Corbett, Anderson, the legendary film and Thora Hird, , theatre director behind if.... and Barbara Murray, Leslie Phillips. O Lucky Man! With new recollections In his will, arch-prankster Henry from director Stephen Frears, and if... Russell charges his four benefi- star David Wood, plus actor and ciaries to justify their legacies of friend Brian Pettifer. This documentary £150,000 each; the conditions he paints a portrait of a stubborn, self sets are calculated to make them assured artist, anti-establishment and step completely out of character, non-conformist, who refused to play and prove themselves as human the game. Anderson is revealed as a beings. When the four report back private man who, though on the to the executor, they have all surface seemed confident, held his changed for the better. emotional cards close to his chest. But Henry still has a surprise in An in depth study of a brilliant yet store for them... under-valued filmmaker.

Sat 26th Oct 17:25 Sun 27th Oct 18:30 Our Man in Marrakesh (1966) Great Expectations (1974) Comedy spy film, directed by: Drama, directed by Joseph Hardy. Don Sharp. Stars: Tony Randall, Stars: Michael York, Sarah Miles, Senta Berger, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Margaret Leighton, James Hyde-White, Terry-Thomas. One of six Mason & Anthony Quayle. travellers on a bus from Casablanca Charles Dickens’ tale of an orphan airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 given the opportunity to escape million to fix a United Nations vote. from poverty. At least three of them aren’t who they claim to be, but who has the money?