Highlights: Week beginning Monday 14th January 2019
Monday 14th January 2019 – 12:40 DILEMMA (1962) (also showing 18-January at 04:40 & 21-January at 03:40) Director: Peter Maxwell Starring: Peter Halliday, Ingrid Hafner, Patricia Burke and Joan Heath. A respectable schoolmaster returns from work on the eve of a wedding anniversary holiday to find a strange man dead in their bathroom and his wife missing…
Monday 14th January 2019 – 14:35 THEY WERE SISTERS (1945) Director: Arthur Crabtree Starring: Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Hugh Sinclair, Anne Crawford and Dulcie Gray. The story of three sisters who marry men of widely different character as their individual and widely-different married lives unfold.
Tuesday 15th January 2019 – 14:35 ANOTHER MAN’S POISON (1951) Director: Irving Rapper Starring: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams and Anthony Steel. In an isolated house, an English mystery writer Janet Frobisher is involved in potentially murderous relationships.
Tuesday 15th January 2019 – 21:00 VICIOUS CIRCLE (1957) Director: Gerald Thomas Starring: John Mills, Lionel Jeffries, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Derek Farr. When Dr Howard Latimer finds the German Actress that he has just met at London Airport murdered in his flat, it leads him into the world of murder and blackmail.
th Wednesday 16 January 2019 – 08:25 WHERE THERE’S A WILL (1936) (also showing Tues 15 January at 03:45) Director: William Beaudine Starring: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, H.F. Maltby and Norma Varden. A bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, is unwittingly involved in a bank robbery when he takes a job from a group of Americans.
Wednesday 16th January 2019 – 11:10 THE FINAL TEST (1953) Director: Anthony Asquith Starring: Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph and Adrienne Allen. Sam Palmer is a cricket player who is playing the last Test match of his career. He hopes his son – a budding poet – will attend the match but he has another invitation… Features many legendary cricketers of the era including Denis Compton and Lee Hutton.
Thursday 17th January 2019 – 08:05 DOUBLE CONFESSION (1950) Director: Ken Annakin Starring: Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, Naunton Wayne and William Hartnell. When his wife is murdered, a husband tries to divert suspicion from himself to someone else, but his plan gets him mixed up with some real murderers.
Thursday 17th January 2019 – each weekday at 17:30 FOR THE LOVE OF ADA (TV Series 1970) S1, Ep1: Walter meets Ada Director: Ronnie Baxter Starring: Irene Handl, Wilfrid Pickles, Jack Smethurst and Barbara Mitchell. Walter Bingley is the local gravedigger who meets Ada Cresswell for the first time on a visit to her late husband’s grave.
Thursday 17th January 2019 – 18:00 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…
Friday 18th January 2019 – 07:45 SUDDEN FEAR (1952) Director: David Miller Starring: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame and Bruce Bennett. After a whirlwind romance, an actor marries a wealthy middle-aged playwright and then plots with his secret mistress to murder her.
Friday 18th 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.
Saturday 19th January 2019 – 13:25 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.
Saturday 19th January 2019 – 16:00 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.
Saturday 19th January 2019 – 17:55 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.
Saturday 19th January 2019 – 20:00 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.
Sunday 20th January 2019 – 06:20 STORM OVER TIBET (1952) Director: Andrew Marton Starring: Rex Reason, Diana Douglas, Myron Healey and Robert Karnes. During World War II, David Simms pilots supplies between India and China over the Himalaya Mountains. One day he's forced to miss a flight and is replaced by his friend, Bill March but the plane is lost enroute…
Sunday 20th January 2019 – 16:00 THE WICKED LADY (1945) Director: Leslie Arliss Starring: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Patricia Roc. A noblewoman begins to lead a dangerous double life by impersonating a notorious highwayman in order to alleviate her boredom.
Sunday 20th January 2019 – 18:55 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.
Sunday 20th January 2019 – 22:10 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.