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Paris When It Sizzles on Talking Pictures TV Stars: William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Gregoire Aslan, Raymond Bussires, Christian Duvallex, Thomas Michel, Noel Coward, Tony Curtis, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire. Directed by Richard Quine in 1964. Holden plays a successful but jaded screenwriter who secures a huge advance on his next project but wastes the cash on booze, hotel rooms and food. A vivacious young assistant is sent to help with the looming deadline and as the plot unfolds on paper, so does their story. Airs: Sunday 8th November 6:05pm

Monday 2nd November 11:30am Wednesday 4th November The Rainmaker (1957) 12:20pm Romance. Director: Joseph Lassie From Lancashire (1938) Anthony. Stars: Burt Lancaster, Comedy. Director: John Paddy Katharine Hepburn. A middle-aged Carstairs. Stars: Marjorie Browne, woman who suffers from unrequited Hal Thompson, Marjorie Sandford, love for the sheriff falls for a con man Mark Daly, Vera Lennox. A talented who comes to town with the promise lassie from Lancashire sneaks out that he can make it rain. every night to appear in a show, hoping to be discovered. Monday 2nd November 4pm Dark City (1950) Wednesday 4th November 2:30pm Thriller. Director: William Dieterle. Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947) Stars: Charlton Heston, Dean Jagger, Drama. Director: Montgomery Tully. Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Stars: Peter Graves, Joyce Howard, Don DeFore. When a man kills Leslie Banks, Margaretta Scott, himself after a poker game, his Wanda Rotha. A society beauty’s brother looks for revenge. secret marriage to the Prince of Wales brings political crisis. Tuesday 3rd November 2:35pm Loser Takes All (1956) Wednesday 4th November 10pm Comedy. Director: Ken Annakin. Hell’s Half Acre (1954) Stars: Glynis Johns, Rossano Brazzi, Drama. Director: John H. Auer. Robert Morley. When Bertrand finds Stars: Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, an accounting error at a London firm Elsa Lanchester, Marie Windsor, the boss sends him on a trip to Nancy Gates. A woman searches for Monte Carlo. her long-lost husband, presumed dead at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii. Tuesday 3rd November 6:30pm My Six Loves (1962) Thursday 5th November 2:30pm Comedy. Director: Gower Tom Brown’s School Days (1940) Champion. Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Drama. Director: Robert Stevenson. David Janssen, Cliff Robertson. Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Comic story of a Broadway musical Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon. The life star who arrives at her country home of a Victorian school-boy at one of a and finds six runaway children living famous British prep school. on her property. Thursday 5th November 6:45pm Tuesday 3rd November 10pm Don’t Bother To Knock (1961) Girl With Green Eyes (1964) Comedy. Director: Cyril Frankel Drama. Director: Desmond Davis. Stars: Richard Todd, Nicole Maurey, Stars: Peter Finch Rita Tushingham, Elke Sommer. A flirtatious travel Lynn Redgrave & Julian Glover. agent gives all his girlfriends keys An Irish Catholic farm girl moves to to his flat – which backfires when Dublin to pursue a more exciting life. he finally finds a girl he wants to settle down with! Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 2nd November 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Heller In Pink Tights on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Eileen Heckart, Ramon Novarro, Margaret O’Brien, Steve Forrest. Directed by George Cukor in 1960. Tom Healy and his travelling stage show are on the run from creditors, thanks to his seductive leading lady. The troupe gets mixed up with a shady banker and a gunslinger and, after a dangerous trek and a shootout, everything culminates in a show-stopping opera production. Airs: Friday 6th November 5:55pm.

Friday 6th November 2:40pm Saturday 7th November 8.05pm Is Paris Burning? (1966) The Spy Who Came in from Drama. Director: Rene Clement. the Cold (1965) Stars: Kirk Douglas, Charles Boyer, Espionage. Director: Martin Ritt. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gert Frobe, Stars: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, and Oskar Werner. During the Cold Anthony Perkins, Alain Delon. War, a British spy posing as a The story of the Allied Resistance disgraced former MI5 agent is and Paris Liberation of 1944. caught in a labyrinth of plots. Friday 6th November 5:55pm Sunday 8th November 9am Heller In Pink Tights (1960) Runaround (1975) Western Drama. Director: George Fans will be delighted to hear that Cukor. Stars: Sophia Loren, some unseen episodes of the Anthony Quinn, Eileen Heckart, popular Saturday morning kids’ Ramon Novarro. An 1880s theatrical show hosted by comedian Mike troupe involved in off stage Reid, begin airing today. Children confrontations with the townfolk. from two schools compete, cheered Saturday 7th November 3:40pm on by an audience of fellow pupils. Dressed To Kill (1946) Sunday 8th November 12:40pm Drama. Director: Roy William Neill. White Cradle Inn (1947) Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Drama. Director: Harold French. Patricia Morison, Edmond Breon, Stars: Michael Rennie & Madeleine Frederick Worlock, Carl Harbord. Carroll. Among children evacuated Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson during the war to the Swiss Alps, hunt for the elusive plates before one is billeted with local Inn owners. counterfeiters acquire them. Sunday 8th November 6:05pm Saturday 7th November 6pm Paris When It Sizzles (1964) The Count of Monte Cristo (1975) Comedy. Director: Richard Quine. Drama. Director: David Greene. Stars: William Holden, Audrey Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Hepburn, Gregoire Aslan, Raymond Donald Pleasence, Louis Jourdan, Bussires, Christian Duvallex, Thomas Tony Curtis, Kate Nelligan. Michel, Noel Coward, Tony Curtis, After the death of its captain, Edmond Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire. Dantes successfully brings in the ship, A screenwriter with a script deadline only to be framed for the murder. asks his secretary for help. ROOMS is back on Talking Pictures TV Rooms ran from 1974-1977, featuring Sylvia Kay and Bryan Marshall plus appearances from Jill Gascoine, Cheryl Hall, Bernard Hill, Nigel Havers and many more. The story focusses on different tenants of an old London house which has been made into bed-sits. Episode 1: Jan & Tony features John Duttine and Jan Francis. Begins 4th November and continues Wednesday and Thursdays at 2pm and 5:30pm