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Home , A Canterbury Tale, David Tomlinson, Jerry Desmonde, Ken Annakin, Talking Pictures TV

Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 27th January 2020 306 | VIRGIN 445 A Tale on Talking Pictures TV Starring: , Sheila Sim, Dennis Price and Sgt. John Sweet, and directed by and , the script used the work of Chaucer as inspiration. Shot in 1944, throughout the county of not long after the raids of May/June 1942 which destroyed large areas of the city centre of Canterbury, the film tells the tale of the search for a mysterious man who pours glue on the heads of young girls dating soldiers after dark. Three characters who have been thrown together by the war pursue the man: a land girl, a British soldier and an American GI played by John Sweet, a US Army sergeant serving in the UK at the time of filming. Michael Powell was the son of a hop farmer and grew up in Kent. The film clearly portrays his love of the Kent landscape and the history of the area. Airs on Saturday 1st February at 5.30pm.

Mon 27th Jan 08:30 Wed 29th Jan 11:30 Odd Man Out (1947) Man of Aran (1934) Thriller, directed by: . Stars: Robert J Flaherty’s epic portrayal of life , James Mason, Fay off the western coast of Ireland Compton & William Hartnell. Johnny where families eked out a living McQueen, the idealist leader of an from growing potatoes and hunting illegal organisation has escaped basking shark. A brutal, beautiful film from prison. that challenges the boundaries of the Mon 27th Jan 18:25 documentary form. Well known for his epic film Nanook of the North (1922), Rebecca (1940) Robert Flaherty made films in the Mystery, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. naturalist tradition. He spent months Stars: , Joan Fontaine living with the Aran Islanders, getting and George Sanders. A self-conscious to know them so that his film might bride is tormented by the memory of be as “truthful” as possible. her husband’s dead first wife. Tues 28th Jan 13:20 Wed 29th Jan 22:05 and Friday 31st Jan 16:50 Tiger in the Smoke (1956) Follow a Star (1959) Crime drama, directed by Roy Ward Comedy, directed by Baker. Stars: , Muriel Robert Asher. Stars: , Pavlow, Tony Wright A gang of war June Laverick, Jerry Desmonde, veterans masquerading as street Hattie Jacques. A shop worker dreams musicians search for their of becoming a famous singer. former sergeant, who deprived them Tues 28th Jan 19.10 of hidden loot in France. The Lamp Still Burns (1943) Thurs 30th Jan 08:45 Crime drama, directed by Maurice Elvey. School for Secrets (1946) Stars: Rosamund John, Stewart Granger War Drama, written and directed and Godfrey Tearle. A woman architect by . Stars: Ralph changes careers to become a nurse. Richardson, , A plea for better conditions in . Story of the hospitals and for better treatment of scientists who developed radar, nurses. Produced by . avoiding invasion of Britain in 1940. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 27th January 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Thurs 30th Jan 18:50 Sat 1st Feb 20:05 They Were Not Divided (1950) Nor the Moon by Night (1958) Crime drama, directed by Terence Adventure, directed by . Young. Stars: Edward Underdown, Stars: Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Ralph Clanton and Michael Patrick McGoohan. Two brothers, Rusty Trubshawe; also with . and Andrew Miller, are game wardens Action-packed World War II drama in Africa. Andrew’s fiancee comes out following the experiences of British and from and falls in love with American soldiers from D-Day to the Rusty. (AKA Elephant Gun) final months of the war. Thurs 30th Jan 22:00 Sun 2nd Feb 16:00 Rockets Galore! (1958) : Brown Skin Gal, Comedy, directed by Michael Relph. Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee (1971) Stars: Jeannie Carson, Donald Sinden Drama, directed by: Mike Vardy and Roland Culver. The sequel to Stars: Billie Whitelaw, Donal McCann Whisky Galore! The inhabitants of & Anna Cropper. Ruth, a divorcee, Todday, a small Hebridean island in takes Roger, a shy young lodger, into the Atlantic, resist their government’s her home. Armchair Theatre was the plan to make their home a missile first anthology drama series to make base. (AKA Mad Little Island) its mark on television history. Sun 2nd Feb 19:00 Friday 31st Jan 11:45 Old Bill and Son (1940) Spellbound (1945) Comedy, directed by: Ian Dalrymple. Drama, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Stars: Morland Graham, , Stars: , Mary Clare and Ronald Shiner. and Michael Chekhov. A psychiatrist World War veteran Bill re-enlists protects the identity of an amnesia in 1939 and ends up serving with patient accused of murder. his son. Friday 31st Jan 14:30 Sun 2nd Feb 21:00 I See a Dark Stranger (1946) Sunday Night at the Palladium Thriller, directed by Frank Launder. (1960) Stars: , , Variety entertainment show hosted Raymond Huntley. Towards the end of by Bruce Forsyth. This week’s stars World War II, a patriotic Irishwoman is include American singer-songwriter used as a spy by the Germans but Bobby Darin, jazz singer Art Lund, repents in time to prevent them from American actress Libi Staiger, singer finding out about the D-Day landings. Helen Scott, New Zealand Maori Sat 1st Feb 17:30 opera singer Inia Wiata, actor and A Canterbury Tale (1944) singer Jack Delon, comedy acrobats War Comedy, directed by Trio Rayros, The Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Girls and Boys, and regular game Stars: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Beat the Clock. Price. A ‘Land Girl’, an American GI and a British soldier find themselves Sun 2nd Feb 22:00 together in a small Kent town near True as a Turtle (1957) Canterbury. The town is being plagued Comedy, directed by: Wendy Toye. by a mysterious “glue-man”, who pours Stars: , Cecil Parker, glue on the hair of girls dating soldiers June Thorburn, Keith Michell. after dark. The three suspect the local A newly-wed young couple honey- magistrate, an eccentric figure with a moon on a ketch named Turtle. strange, mystical vision of the history They experience many adventures of England in general and Canterbury before finally reaching the French in particular. harbour of Dinard.