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Week Beginning Monday 28Th January 2019 Highlights: Week beginning Monday 28th January 2019 Monday 28th January 2019 – 07:45 WE’LL MEET AGAIN (1943) Director: Philip Brandon Starring: Vera Lynn, Patricia Roc, Geraldo and Ronald Ward. A young dancer trying to make it in London during World War II, soon discovers that people also like her singing voice. Monday 28th January 2019 – 21:00 DON’T TALK TO STRANGE MEN (1962) Director: Pat Jackson Starring: Christina Gregg, Janina Faye, Cyril Raymond and Conrad Phillips. An innocent girl talks to a male stranger on a public telephone box and eventually agrees to meet him. But by doing this, she unknowingly puts her younger sister in danger. Tuesday 29th January 2019 – 10:10 THE TALK OF THE TOWN (1942) Director: George Stevens Starring: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman and Edgar Buchanan. A wrongfully imprisoned man who escapes from jail goes to an old school friend who is now a teacher. He had always had a crush on the girl but finds he now has to vie for affections along with her lodger, a stuffy law professor. Tuesday 29th 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. th Tuesday 29 January 2019 – 21:00 THE BEST OF EVERYTHING (1959) Director: Jean Negulesco Starring: Joan Crawford, Louis Jourdan, Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd and Suzy Parker. A story about the professional careers and private lives of three women who share a small apartment in New York City, work together and contend with romantic disappointments and office politics. Wednesday 30th January 2019 – 08:15 IDOL ON PARADE (1959) Director: John Gilling Starring: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, William Bendix and Lionel Jeffries. 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. Wednesday 30th January 2019 – 14:35 THE SCAMP (1957) Director: Wolf Rilla Starring: Richard Attenborough, Dorothy Alison and Colin Petersen. A British schoolmaster and his partner take temporary custody of the tearaway son of a drunken actor, while he is on tour, in the hope that he might give the boy a stable education and lifestyle. Thursday 31st January 2019 – 08:10 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. Thursday 31st January 2019 – 09:55 GET CRACKING (1943) Director: Marcel Varnel Starring: George Formby, Edward Rigby, Frank Pettingell and Dinah Sheridan. A mechanic becomes the village hero when he defeats the town's neighbouring rival in a Home Guard exercise. Thursday 31st January 2019 – 21:00 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 ill U.S. Army Lieutenant Winston, who is accused of killing a British staff sergeant in cold blood. Friday 1st February 2019 – 11:35 WANTED FOR MURDER (1946) Director: Lawrence Huntington Starring: Eric Portman, Dulcie Gray, Derek Farr and Stanley Holloway. The son of a Victorian hangman is driven insane by thoughts of his father's profession. Friday 1st February 2019 – 21:00 THE DETECTIVE (1954) aka Father Brown Director: Robert Hamer Starring: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch and Cecil Parker. Works of art are being stolen by a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul. Saturday 2nd February 2019 – 13:00 YESTERDAY’S ENEMY (1959) Director: Val Guest Starring: Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Gordon Jackson and Bryan Forbes. In World War II, during the Japanese invasion of Burma, the lost remnant of a British Army Brigade HQ, led by the ruthless Captain Alan Langford, escapes through the jungle toward the British lines… Saturday 2nd February 2019 – 16:00 DO YOU KNOW THIS VOICE? (1964) (also showing Friday 1st February at 02:50) Director: Frank Nesbitt Starring: Dan Duryea, Isa Miranda, Gwen Watford and Peter Madden. A great murder mystery. The only clue to a mad killer's identity is his shoes! The crimes only witness saw them while she was picking something up… Saturday 2nd February 2019 – 19:00 THE BIG GAMBLE (1961) Director: Richard Fleischer, Elmo Williams Starring: Stephen Boyd, Juliette Gréco, David Wayne and Sybil Thorndike. An ambitious Irishman goes on a long and arduous trip to Africa, along with his wife and bumbling cousin, in the hopes of starting a trucking business. Saturday 2nd February 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… Sunday 3rd February 2019 – 13:00 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 life story of William Pitt, who became the Prime Minister of Great Britain at the young age of 24. Sunday 3rd February 2019 – 16:00 APRIL LOVE (1957) Director: Henry Levin Starring: Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Dolores Michaels and Arthur O’Connell. A wayward young man sent to live on his relatives' farm decides to mend his ways when he falls in love with the neighbours’ daughter. Sunday 3rd February 2019 – 22:10 ARMCHAIR THEATRE: A BIT OF A LIFT (1973) Director: Dennis Vance Starring: Ronald Fraser, Ann Beach, Donald Churchill and Denise Shaw. Alec, Frank and Penelope were strangers when they came to the hotel. But a bedroom brings them all together. .
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