The Keys of the Kingdom

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The Keys of the Kingdom on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner, Edmund Gwenn, Benson Fong, Roddy McDowall and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Directed in 1944 by John M. Stahl, and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz who also co-wrote the screenplay. The story of the trials and tribulations of a Catholic priest who goes to China as a missionary, based on a novel by A. J. Cronin. Gregory Peck was Oscar-nominated for his second ﬁlm role, a portrayal of a heroic Scottish priest. Airs: Sunday 18th April 2:05pm.

Monday 12th April 7:50am Wednesday 14th April 10:30am Boys in Brown (1949) The Saint – The Fiction-Makers Drama. Director: Montgomery Tully. (1968) Adventure. Director: Roy Ward Stars: Richard Attenborough, Baker. Stars: Roger Moore, Sylvia Syms Jack Warner and Dirk Bogarde. The and Justine Lord. The Saint acts as a governor of a borstal institution tries to bodyguard to a best-selling author reform a group of juvenile delinquents. Amos Klein – who is secretly a woman. Monday 12th April 3pm Wednesday 14th April 3:35pm Hobson’s Choice (1954) The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) Drama. Director: David Lean. Stars: Thriller. Director: Robert Wise. Stars: Charles Laughton, Brenda de Banzie and Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, John Mills. Henry Hobson’s daughters William Lundigan, Fay Baker. A Nazi want to marry, but he refuses as camp survivor takes the identity of a tradition require him to pay settlements. fellow victim. Meeting her friend’s son, she ﬁnds she has an inheritance but Monday 12th April 6:30pm the boy’s guardian wants the money. The Quiet Woman (1951) Crime Drama. Director: John Gilling. Wednesday 14th April 9:05pm Stars: Derek Bond, Jane Hylton and Notorious (1946) Dora Bryan. A proprietress of a country Drama. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. inn becomes involved with smugglers. Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains. A woman is asked to spy Tuesday 13th April 10:30am on a group of Nazis in South America, Kipps (1941) but how far will she have to go? Comedy. Director: Carol Reed. Stars: Michael Redgrave, Phyllis Calvert and Thursday 15th April 10:30am Philip Frost. Based on H.G. Wells’ novel. Captain Boycott (1947) Kipps the draper’s apprentice falls in Drama. Director: Frank Launder. Stars: love with a girl above his station. Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Alastair Sim. Property owner Captain Tuesday 13th April 4pm Boycott dispossesses the townspeople, The House on 92nd Street (1945) leaving them without hope. Espionage. Director: Henry Hathaway. Stars: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan and Thursday 15th April 4:10pm Signe Hasso. An American university Out of the Fog (1962) student is approached by a Nazi spy Crime. Director: Montgomery Tully. ring to inﬁltrate the FBI and becomes a Stars: David Sumner, Susan Travers, double agent. John Arnatt, James Hayter, Jack Watson. An ex-con is the prime suspect when Tuesday 13th April 9pm a series of murders occur under a full Overlord (1975) moon. Every victim is a young woman. War. Director: Stuart Cooper. Stars: Brian Stirne, Davyd Harries, Thursday 15th April 9pm Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam, Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) Stella Tanner. Set during World War II, Drama. Director: Robert Bolt. Stars: around the D-Day ‘Operation Overlord’, Sarah Miles, Richard Chamberlain, a British soldier experiences war and Jon Finch. Lady Caroline Lamb falls into premonitions of death. an affair with Lord Byron. Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Mon 12th April 2021

Heaven Can Wait on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche and Charles Coburn. Directed in 1943 by Ernst Lubitsch, it was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Cinematography – Color, Best Director and Best Picture. The comedy follows the life of a man who has just died and ﬁnds himself in an opulent reception area “where innumerable people had told him so often to go”, to be personally greeted by “His Excellency”. He is asked to prove he belongs in Hell by telling the story of his dissolute life. The Devil has to decide where he will spend eternity. Airs: 6:35 pm Saturday 17th April.

Friday 16th April 9:50am Saturday 17th April 3:55pm Caesar and Cleopatra (1946) House of Bamboo (1955) Biopic. Director: Gabriel Pascal. Stars: Thriller. Director: Samuel Fuller. Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh and Stars: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Stewart Granger. Cleopatra has not been Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell. on the throne of the pharaohs of Egypt In post-World War II Tokyo, Eddie very long when Julius Caesar pays a visit. Kenner is on a U.S. Army assignment to investigate a murderous clique led by Friday 16th April 2:25pm ex-soldier Sandy Dawson. Rebecca (1940) Mystery. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Sunday 18th April 12:00pm Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and The Rebel (1961) George Sanders. A self-conscious young Comedy. Director: Robert Day. bride is tormented by the memory of her Stars: Tony Hancock, George Sanders, husband’s dead first wife. Paul Massie, Margit Saad, Irene Handl. A self-taught artist who throws in his Friday 16th April 9pm office job to live among the beatniks The Innocents (1961) and bohemians of Paris. Horror. Director: Jack Clayton. Stars: Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, Sunday 18th April 7pm Pamela Franklin and Peter Wyngarde. Against the Wind (1948) A governess believes ghosts are causing War. Director: Charles Crichton. Stars: the children’s bizarre behaviour. Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret and The film uses minimal lighting and deep Jack Warner. At the height of WWII focus, employed by cinematographer a group of men and women Freddie Francis to achieve a distinctive atmosphere. gather in London to be trained as spies.

Saturday Morning Pictures 09:00 Popeye: Aladdin And His Wonderful Lamp 09:15 Zorro’s Black Whip 09:35 Operation Third Form (1966) Director: David Eady. Stars: John Moulder-Brown, Kevin Bennett, Derren Nesbitt, Sydney Bromley, Michael Crockett, Ronnie Caryl, George Roderick, William Sherwood and Roberta Tovey. School children save an old junk collector from being accused of a theft, and prevent his partner from stealing a valuable painting. John Moulder Brown gives a sparkling performance as the schoolboy out to foil a pair of London crooks with his crack spy unit – his classmates and kid sister. With its groovy 1960s soundtrack, the ﬁlm is a pacy boy’s own adventure. 10:50 The Adventures of Champion the Wonder Horse 11:25 Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe 11:50 Superman