Week Beginning Monday 25Th February 2019
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Highlights: Week beginning Monday 25th February 2019 th Monday 25 February 2019 – 10:10 THE TWO HEADED SPY (1958) Director: André De Toth Starring: Jack Hawkins, Gia Scala, Erik Schumann and Alexander Knox. A British spy disguises himself as a Nazi to infiltrate the Gestapo and sabotage the war effort. Monday 25th February 2019 – 14:30 I DIDN’T DO IT (1945) (also showing Thursday 28th February at 00:40) Director: Marcel Varnel Starring: George Formby, Billy Caryll, Hilda Mundy and Carl Jaffe. An aspiring entertainer has to try and clear his name when he is accused of a murder. Tuesday 26th February 2019 – 09:30 THAT HAMILTON WOMAN (1941) Director: Alexander Korda Starring: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray and Gladys Cooper. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century, this is the story of the scandalous adulterous affair between Lord Horatio Nelson and Emma, Lady Hamilton. Tuesday 26th February 2019 – 17:30 GENEVIEVE (1953) Director: Henry Cornelius Starring: John Gregson, Kenneth More, Kay Kendall and Dinah Sheridan. Alan and Ambrose are not going to let their friendship get in the way of winning the London to Brighton car rally… th Wednesday 27 February 2019 – 17:30 THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON (1957) Director: Lewis Gilbert Starring: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes and Martita Hunt. Lord Henry Loam, his family and his servants are shipwrecked on a deserted island where the survival of the fittest renders the rigid class system irrelevant. Wednesday 27th February 2019 – 23:00 THE HELLIONS (1961) Director: Ken Annakin Starring: Richard Todd, Anne Aubrey, James Booth, Marty Wilde and Lionel Jeffries. Luke Billings and his four reprobate sons ride into a small South African settlement to seek revenge on Police Sergeant Sam Hargis. Thursday 28th February 2019 – 17:30 UNEARTHLY STRANGER (1963) Director: John Krish Starring: John Neville, Philip Stone, Gabriella Licudi, Patrick Newell and Jean Marsh. Dr. Mark Davidson is a government scientist who meets a mysterious woman. He falls for her and is married quickly, despite knowing very little of her past… Thursday 28th February 2019 – 21:00 THE CASSANDRA CROSSING (1976) Director: George P. Cosmatos Starring: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster. Terrorists have planted a deadly virus on a transcontinental train and the passengers on-board who may have been exposed to it, are unable to leave. Friday 1st March 2019 – 11:55 DAVID COPPERFIELD (1970) (also showing Friday 1st March at 03:25) Director: Delbert Mann Starring: Richard Attenborough, Cyril Cusack, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, Ron Moody, Wendy Hiller, Susan Hampshire, Michael Redgrave, Pamela Franklin and Ralph Richardson. All-star cast version of Charles Dickens story of a young man’s journey to maturity. Friday 1st March 2019 – 17:30 BLITHE SPIRIT (1945) Director: David Lean Starring: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond and Margaret Rutherford. A newly-married mystery novelist and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife, so medium Madame Arcati, tries to help by contacting the spirit. Friday 1st March 2019 – 20:00 VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED (1976) Director: Stuart Rosenberg Starring: Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker and Wendy Hiller. In May 1937, over 900 Jewish refugees are permitted to leave Nazi Germany on the luxury liner S.S. St Louis, bound for Cuba. However, Goebbels has arranged with the president of Cuba that the passengers' landing permits are to be treated as invalid, forcing them to return to Germany. Saturday 2nd March 2019 – 11:15 DAYBREAK (1948) Director: Compton Bennett Starring: Ann Todd, Eric Portman, Maxwell Reed, Edward Rigby and Bill Owen. A hangman conceals his true identity when he sets up home with his girl on a Thames barge. Saturday 2nd March 2019 – 18:15 OUT OF THE CLOUDS (1955) Director: Basil Dearden Starring: Anthony Steel, Robert Beatty, David Knight and James Robertson Justice. The film follows the personal dramas of the passengers and pilots during a typical, busy day at a London Airport. Saturday 2nd March 2019 – 20:00 MR DENNING DRIVES NORTH (1951) Director: Anthony Kimmins Starring: John Mills, Phyllis Calvert, Eileen Moore, Herbert Lom and Wilfrid Hyde-White. A British aircraft engineer accidentally kills his daughter's boyfriend and tries to cover it up. Sunday 3rd March 2019 – 09:45 BOYS IN BROWN (1949) Director: Montgomery Tully Starring: Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Jimmy Hanley and Patrick Holt. A borstal governor tries to reform a group of juveniles using sympathy rather than punishment. Sunday 3rd March 2019 – 14:55 ALIVE AND KICKING (1959) Director: Cyril Frankel Starring: Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Estelle Winwood and Stanley Holloway. Three elderly friends run away from their nursing home looking for greener pastures to spend their twilight years. Sunday 3rd March 2019 – 18:55 I’M ALL RIGHT JACK (1959) Director: John Boulting Starring: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers and Richard Attenborough. Upper-class, ex-army, Stanley Windrush takes a job in industry and inadvertently starts a strike. Sunday 3rd March 2019 – 22:10 ARMCHAIR THEATRE (1973) Red Riding Hood Director: Joan Kemp-Welch Starring: Rita Tushingham, Keith Barron, Ursula Hirst, Arthur Hewlett and Hilda Barry. A librarian, frustrated with nursing her sick father, is drawn into a dangerous relationship. Sunday 3rd March 2019 – 23:10 SILENT DUST (1949) Director: Lance Comfort Starring: Stephen Murray, Nigel Patrick, Sally Gray, Derek Farr and Seymour Hicks. A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War 2. .