Farewell, My Lovely

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Farewell, My Lovely on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, Sylvia Miles, John Ireland, Anthony Zerbe, Harry Dean Stanton and Sylvester Stallone. Directed by Dick Richards in 1975. An ex-con hires private eye Phillip Marlowe to find his missing girlfriend. Marlowe is knocked during a routine ransom exchange for a necklace and is framed for murder. He eventually finds evidence that connects the two cases. Based on the Raymond Chandler novel. Airs: Sunday 28th February 10:05pm

Monday 22nd February 7:40am Tuesday 23rd February 2:15pm Noose (1948) The Spanish Gardener (1956) Crime. Director: Edmond T. Gréville. Drama. Director: Philip Leacock. Stars: Derek Farr, Carole Landis and Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Stanley Holloway. A black-market Michael Hordern and Cyril Cusack. racketeer is amassing a fortune but A diplomat stationed in Spain, jealous reporter Linda Medbury is on to him. of the friendship between his son and the gardener, frames him for a crime. Monday 22nd February 2:30pm Doctor at Sea (1955) Tuesday 23rd February 6:35pm Comedy. Director: Ralph Thomas. The Four Feathers (1939) Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot and Adventure. Director: Zoltan Korda. James Robertson Justice. A young man Stars: Ralph Richardson, signs up to be a ship’s doctor to bring John Clements and C. Aubrey Smith. some excitement into his life. A British officer seeks to redeem his cowardice ‘feathers’. Monday 22nd February 4:30pm 21 Days (1940) Wednesday 24th February 6:30am Drama. Director: Basil Dean. Stars: Countdown to Danger (1967) Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and Children’s Adventure. Leslie Banks. When the disreputable Director: Peter Seabourne. Stars: David Macalister, Paul Martin, husband of his lover Wanda tries to Angela Lee, Penny Spencer, extort money from the lovers, Larry Richard Coleman. A boy on holiday accidentally kills him in a fight. uncovers a live German mine. Monday 22nd February 8:15pm Wednesday 24th February 12:45pm The Rat Race (1960) The Hornet’s Nest (1955) Drama. Director: Robert Mulligan. Comedy. Director: Charles Saunders. Stars: Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Cast: Paul Carpenter, June Thorburn. Jack Oakie and Don Rickles. Two model girls take over a barge in A saxophonist leaves Milwaukee to try Chelsea where crooks have hidden and make it in New York. the proceeds of a jewel robbery. Tuesday 23rd February 7:45am Wednesday 24th February 9:05m Blackout (1950) The Fourth Protocol (1987) Crime. Director: Robert S. Baker. Espionage. Director: John Mackenzie. Stars: Maxwell Reed & Dinah Sheridan. Stars: Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan An ambulance drops a blind patient to and Joanna Cassidy. The KGB plot to the wrong address, where he stumbles blame the Americans for a nuclear over a body. bomb strike in Britain. Tuesday 23rd February 12:30pm Thursday 25th February 10:30am The Goodtime Girl (1948) Fiddlers Three (1944) Crime. Director: David MacDonald. Comedy. Directed by Harry Watt. Stars: Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Herbert Stars: Tommy Trinder, Sonnie Hale & Lom. A young girl gets involved with Frances Day. Two sailors and a wren a drunken hit and run. Meeting some on leave travel back in time after GIs, she starts a crime wave with them. being struck by lightning. Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Mon 22nd February 2021 Thursday 25th February 2:55pm Saturday 27th February 2pm School For Secrets (1946) The Gold Express (1955) War. Director: Peter Ustinov. Comedy-thriller. Stars: Ralph Richardson and Director: Guy Fergusson. Richard Attenborough. On the eve of Cast: Vernon Gray, Ann Walford, the Battle of Britain, British scientists May Hallatt. An ace reporter finds develop the first radar systems. crooks stealing gold on the Scotland to London express. Thursday 25th February 6:35pm Value For Money (1955) Saturday 27th February 3:10m Romantic Comedy. Director: Woman Hater (1948) Ken Annakin. Stars: John Gregson, Romantic Comedy. Diana Dors, Joan Hickson and Director: Terence Young. Cast: Susan Stephen. Chayley falls for a Stewart Granger, Ronald Squire, nightclub performer after inheriting a Edwige Feuillère, Miles Malleson, large sum of money from his father. James Hayter, Dandy Nichols, Irene Handl. Woman-hating Lord Friday 26th February 9:05am Datchett tries to lure a French film Old Mother Riley Detective (1943) star into an experimental ‘romance’. Comedy. Director: When she discovers his subterfuge Lance Comfort. Stars: Arthur Lucan, she turns the tables on him. Kitty McShane, Hal Gordon and Saturday 27th February 8pm Peggy Cummins. Old Mother Riley Easy Money (1948) investigates the disappearance of food Comedy. Director: Bernard Knowles. during the war, a serious crime Cast: Greta Gynt, Dennis Price, because of rationing. Jack Warner, Petula Clark, Mervyn Friday 26th February 3:20am Johns. Four tales about the effect a Theirs is the Glory (1946) major Pools win has on four different War. Director: Brian Desmond Hurst. sets of people. Based on a play The story of the American and British by Arnold Ridley. armies’ heroic struggle to hold the vital Sunday 28th February 10:30am Arnhem Bridge during World War II. Flame of the Islands (1955) (AKA Men of Arnhem). Thriller. Director: Edward Ludwig. Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Howard Duff Friday 26th February 9pm & Zachary Scott. A young woman Nijinsky (1980) receives a windfall, leaves New York Biography. Director: Herbert Ross. and opens a Bahamas casino. Stars: Alan Bates, George de la Peña, Leslie Browne, Carla Fracci and Sunday 28th February 1:25pm Ronald Pickup. The later life and career Unpublished Story (1942) of Vaslav Nijinsky, based on the War. Director: Harold French. Stars: premier dancer’s diaries and exploring Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson and his relationship with Diaghilev. Basil Radford. A war correspondent in London during WWII becomes Saturday 27th February 9am suspicious of a peace organisation. Saturday Morning Pictures! 09:00 Popeye; 09:10 Zorro’s Black Sunday 28th February 3pm Whip; 09:30 Go-Kart Go (1963) Stars: The Grass is Greener (1961) Dennis Waterman, Frazer Hines, Comedy. Director: Stanley Donen. Jimmy Capehorn, Pauline Challoner, Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum. The story of an Wilfrid Brambell. Rival groups build encounter between an English their own go-karts and encounter countess and an American oil tycoon. excitement and trouble in their efforts to win the local go-kart race. Sunday 28th February 10:05pm 10:45 The Lone Ranger; 11:15 Flash Farewell, My Lovely (1975) Gordon; 11:35 Superman. Thriller. Director: Dick Richards. Stars: Robert Mitchum, Sylvia Miles, Saturday 27th February 12pm Charlotte Rampling, Harry Dean The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935) Stanton and Sylvester Stallone. Drama. Director: Harold Young. Stars: An ex-con hires private eye Phillip Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon and Marlowe to find his girlfriend. Raymond Massey. A mysterious Marlowe is knocked out on a ransom Englishman travels to Paris to rescue exchange for a necklace and is French aristocrats from the guillotine. framed for murder. He eventually finds evidence that connects the two cases.