The Earth Dies Screaming on Talking Pictures TV Willard Parker, Virginia Field and Dennis Price Star in This Science fiction Story, Directed in 1964 by Terence Fisher
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Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 14th June 2021 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 The Earth Dies Screaming on Talking Pictures TV Willard Parker, Virginia Field and Dennis Price star in this science fiction story, directed in 1964 by Terence Fisher. An astronaut is confronted by a ravaged planet on his return to Earth. He discovers that the world has been torn apart by alien robots who raise their victims from the dead as zombies. A few human survivors remain to fight back. They blow up a transmission tower being used by the robots, then commandeer a plane and fly south in search of other survivors. The film was shot at Shepperton Studios in London and on location in Shere village in Surrey. Airs: Saturday 19th June 8pm. Monday 14th June 7:50am Tuesday 15th June 6:35pm While I Live (1947) Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) Drama. (AKA The Dream of Olwen) Comedy. Director: H. Bruce Director: John Harlow. Stars: Humberstone. Stars: Warner Oland, Sonia Dresdel, Tom Walls & Carol Raye. Katherine DeMille & Pauline Moore. 25 years on, a spinster still obsesses over Detective Chan chases spies at the the untimely death of her sister. 1936 Berlin Olympics. Monday 14th June 12:25pm Wednesday 16th June 8:10am Spare a Copper (1940) Lionheart (1968) Comedy. Director: John Paddy Carstairs. Drama. Director: Michael Forlong. Stars: George Formby, Dorothy Hyson Stars: James Forlong, Louise Rush, and George Merritt. A War Reserve Ian Jessup, Robert Dean, Pauline Yates, Policeman foils saboteurs plotting to Wilfrid Brambell, Irene Handl. A lion destroy a warship. escapes from a circus but is rescued Monday 14th June 4:55pm and protected by a young boy. No Hiding Place: Contents Noted Wednesday 16th June 12:05pm (1962) Newly discovered episode. Marry Me (1949) Stars: Raymond Francis, Eric Lander, Comedy. Director: Terence Fisher. Andrew Laurence, Frank Littlewood, Stars: Derek Bond, Susan Shaw, Patrick John Junkin, Peter Vaughan and Holt & Carol Marsh. Several individuals Vanda Godsell. Directors: Ian Fordyce meet through a marriage bureau. and Richard Sidwell. Wednesday 16th June 9:05pm Monday 14th June 6:40pm Hush… Hush Sweet Charlotte Sherlock Holmes: The Woman (1964) in Green (1945) Mystery. Director: Thriller. Director: Robert Aldrich. Roy William Neill. Stars: Basil Rathbone, Stars: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke and Henry Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead. Daniell. Sherlock Holmes investigates A middle-aged Southern woman, the mysterious murders of women, all of suspected of the murder of her lover, whom have their forefinger severed. is plagued by bizarre occurrences. Tuesday 15th June 10am Thursday 17th June 9:05am The Kidnappers (1953) The Man in Grey (1943) Drama. Director: Philip Leacock. Drama. Director: Leslie Arliss. Stars: Stars: Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, Margaret Lockwood, James Mason & Adrienne Corri, Duncan Macrae and Phyllis Calvert. The story of a regency Jean Anderson. Two Canadian orphans romance with a bitter outcome told ‘borrow’ a baby to raise as their own. retrospectively. Tuesday 15th June 3pm Thursday 17th June 2:40pm Hell and High Water (1954) Fourteen Hours (1951) Cold War Drama. Director: Drama. Director: Henry Hathaway. Samuel Fuller. Stars: Richard Widmark, Stars: Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Bella Darvi and Victor Francen. A sub Barbara Bel Geddes, Agnes Moorehead. commander aids an atomic scientist in A New York police officer tries to stop a preventing a nuclear attack. man from jumping from the 15th floor of an hotel. Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Mon 14th June 2021 Thursday 17th June 4:30pm Saturday 19th June 9:15pm The Impersonator (1961) Five Fingers (1952) Thriller. Director: Alfred Shaughnessy. Espionage. Director: Joseph L. Stars: John Crawford, Jane Griffith, Mankiewicz. Stars: James Mason, Patricia Burke and John Salew. Danielle Darrieux and Michael Rennie. English villagers are sure a U.S. airman A mercenary spy working for the is the killer in their midst. Nazis poses as valet to Sir Frederic, the British ambassador to Turkey. Thursday 17th June 9pm Deadfall (1968) Sunday 20th June 10am Drama. Director: Bryan Forbes. Looking for Sophia (2004) Stars: Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Documentary. Directors: Roberto Olla Eric Portman and Nanette Newman. & Danila Satta. Documentary on the A cat burglar checks himself into a work of Sophia Loren with interviews sanatorium under false pretences. and rare footage. Friday 18th June 9:50am Sunday 20th June 11:55am Max Wall “It’s Got to Be Funny, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935) Hasn’t It?” (1983) Drama. Director: Harold Young. Stars: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon Actor Max Wall, one of Britain’s greatest and Raymond Massey. A mysterious clowns, traces his life and career in Englishman travels to Paris to rescue conversation with Peter Williams, French aristocrats from the guillotine. including extracts from performances, and his frank assessment of the love Sunday 20th June 7:15pm affair that nearly ended his career. The Astonished Heart (1950) Drama. Directors: Terence Fisher and Friday 18th June 20:10pm Antony Darnborough. Screenplay The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox and story by Noël Coward. Stars: (1976) Comedy. Director: Melvin Frank. Celia Johnson, Noël Coward and Stars: George Segal, Goldie Hawn, Margaret Leighton. A love triangle Conrad Janis and Thayer David. between a psychiatrist, his wife and An 1880s dance hall girl steals a satchel an impulsive younger woman. of ill-gotten money from gambler Charlie Dirtwater Fox. Sunday 20th June 10pm The Detective (1968) Saturday 19th June 1:10pm Crime. Director: Gordon Douglas. The Hunters (1958) Stars: Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick and War. Director: Dick Powell. Jacqueline Bisset. Detective Joe Stars: Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Leland investigates a murder and Richard Egan, May Britt and Lee Philips. steps into a world of sex and drugs An American officer falls in love with a as he discovers official corruption in lieutenant’s wife, creating enmity New York. Leland is trying to juggle between them. marital issues with a murder case Saturday 19th June 3:35pm that seems to be open-and-shut at Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) first, but runs much deeper than he Drama. Director: Elia Kazan. imagined. The Detective was Sinatra’s Stars: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, fourth collaboration with director John Garfield and Celeste Holm. Douglas and is one of the films that A reporter pretends to be Jewish in first brought Jacqueline Bisset to order to cover a story on anti-Semitism. prominence. 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