Highlights: Week beginning Monday 21st January 2019
Monday 21st January 2019 – 18:00 LIGHT UP THE SKY (1960) Director: Lewis Gilbert Starring: Ian Carmichael, Tommy Steele, Benny Hill, Johnny Briggs and Dick Emery. An odd bunch of misfit soldiers man a British searchlight battery during the Second World War.
Monday 21st January 2019 – 21:00 ROYAL FLASH (1975) Director: Richard Lester Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Britt Ekland and Tom Bell. Captain Harry Flashman of the British army is a cad, a coward, and a lecher who always seems to come off inadvertently heroic, but while romancing Lola Montes, he is coerced by Otto von Bismark into impersonating a prince.
Tuesday 22nd January 2019 – 14:35 NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY (1951) Director: Henry Koster Starring: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns and Jack Hawkins. An aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of plane will fail as he believes they are susceptible to metal fatigue after a specific amount of time in the air.
Tuesday 22nd January 2019 – 18:00 TIME WITHOUT PITY (1957) Director: Joseph Losey Starring: Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Paul Daneman and Peter Cushing. The day before a young man is to be executed for killing his girlfriend, his alcoholic father shows up to try to prove his innocence.
nd Tuesday 22 January 2019 – 21:00 MODESTY BLAISE (1966) Director: Joseph Losey Starring: Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde and Harry Andrews. Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair style and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers, is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. Based on the comic book adventures of Modesty Blaise.
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 – 14:35 THE GAMES (1970) Director: Michael Winner Starring: Michael Crawford, Ryan O'Neal, Charles Aznavour and Stanley Baker. The motivation stories of four marathon runners – from England, America, Czechoslovakia and an Australian aborigine – as they prepare to run in the Olympic games.
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 – 18:00 LADIES WHO DO (1963) Director: C M Pennington-Richards Starring: Robert Morley, Peggy Mount, Harry H Corbett and Miriam Karlin. A British colonel teams up with a cleaning lady and her cleaning colleagues to profit from office tips discovered in the wastepaper baskets.
Thursday 24th January 2019 – 18:00 THE GAY DOG (1954) Director: Maurice Elvey Starring: Wilfrid Pickles, Petula Clark, Megs Jenkins, John Blythe and Jon Pertwee. Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he discovers a dog with a better chance to win and begins a scheme to try and remedy the situation…
Thursday 24th January 2019 – 21:00 CIRCLE OF DECEPTION (1960) Director: Jack Lee Starring: Suzy Parker, Bradford Dillman, Harry Andrews and Robert Stephens. In 1944, prior to the Allied landings in Normandy, British Intelligence is anxious to mislead the Germans regarding the actual landing sites and plans to drop an officer in their lap to in order to carry out the plan. The officer however will be unaware of the actual plan.
Friday 25th January 2019 – 14:35 ANNE OF THE INDIES (1951) Director: Jacques Tourneur Starring: Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget and Herbert Marshall. In order to recover his ship impounded by the British, former pirate captain LaRochelle agrees to spy on the notorious Caribbean Sea pirates Blackbeard and Anne Providence.
Friday 25th January 2019 – 21:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) Director: Jim Sharman Starring: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O’Brien and Charles Gray. The cult classic camp horror-musical. A newly engaged couple have a car breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter…
Saturday 26th January 2019 – 08:50 IDOL ON PARADE (1959) Director: John Gilling Starring: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Lionel Jeffries, David Lodge and Bernie Winters. With his recording career on an all-time high, rock ‘n’ roll star Jeep Jackson receives his call up papers and is drafted into Army life, but his manager has other ideas…
Saturday 26th January 2019 – 10:35 FATHOM (1967) Director: Leslie H. Martinson Starring: Anthony Franciosa, Raquel Welch, Ronald Fraser and Richard Briers. In Spain, an American skydiver is recruited by Western intelligence agents to recover a lost H-bomb detonator from hostile foreign agents.
Saturday 26th January 2019 – 16:00 THE BLACK ROSE (1950) Director: Henry Hathaway Starring: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry, Jack Hawkins and Michael Rennie. An exiled English nobleman travels to Asia in search of riches and stumbles into romance and adventure.
Saturday 26th January 2019 – 18:20 THE YOUNG MR PITT (1942) Director: Carol Reed Starring: Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Mills and Herbert Lom. A dramatisation which tells the story of the life of ‘Pitt The Younger’, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Saturday 26th January 2019 – 20:20 MAN IN THE MIDDLE (1964) Director: Guy Hamilton Starring: Robert Mitchum, France Nuyen, Barry Sullivan and Trevor Howard. Set in India in 1944, this courtroom drama centres on Lieutenant Colonel Barney Adams, a war hero and career army man called to defend the mentally ill U.S. Army Lieutenant Winston, who is accused of killing a British staff sergeant in cold blood.
Sunday 27th January 2019 – 13:15 A WEEKEND WITH LULU (1961) (also showing Friday 25th January at 02:50) Director: John Paddy Carstairs Starring: Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Phillips, Shirley Eaton and Irene Handl. Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances for was the company of Deirdre's mother who insists on coming along as her daughter's chaperone.
Sunday 27th January 2019 – 16:00 WHEN THE WHALES CAME (1989) Director: Clive Rees Starring: Paul Scofield, Helen Mirren, David Threlfall and Jeremy Kemp. Two children befriend a strange old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret…
Sunday 27th January 2019 – 22:10 THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (1973) Director: John Hough Starring: Roddy McDowell, Gayle Hunnicutt, Pamela Franklin and Clive Revill. Scientist Lionel Barrett and his wife, Ann, lead a team into the infamous Belasco House, supposedly haunted by the victims of its late owner, who was a notorious serial killer.