Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 13th April 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

The Hunter on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton. Directed by Buzz Kulik and released in 1980, the film was Steve McQueen’s final role before his death in November of that year. Veteran bounty hunter Ralph Thorson risks all in bringing bail jumpers to justice, but starts to question what he’s done with his life. Airs on Monday 13th April 10:00pm

Monday 13th April 06:00am Tuesday 14th April 7:00pm Passing Clouds (1941) True as a Turtle (1957) (AKA Spellbound) Comedy, directed by: Wendy Toye. Supernatural drama directed by John Stars: John Gregson, Cecil Parker, Harlow. Stars: Derek Farr, Vera Lindsay, June Thorburn, Keith Michell. Hay Petrie, Felix Aylmer, Diana King, A newly-wed young couple Irene Handl. A young man joins a honeymoon on a ketch named Turtle. spiritualist group after his fiancé dies. They experience many adventures before finally reaching the French Monday 13th April 12:00pm harbour of Dinard. and Sunday 19th April 10:45am Marry Me (1949) Tuesday 14th April 10:00pm Directed by Terence Fisher. With Girl With Green Eyes (1964) Derek Bond, Susan Shaw, Patrick Holt, Drama, directed by Desmond Davis. Carol Marsh. Several individuals meet Stars: , Rita Tushingham, through a marriage bureau, including Lynn Redgrave and Julian Glover. a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely Irish farm girl Kate and her best friend teacher, a French girl on the run from Baba move to Dublin to pursue a a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, more exciting life. and an undercover reporter. Wednesday 15th April 2:25pm Monday 13th April 6:00pm Once Upon a Dream (1949) The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972) Comedy romance directed by Beautifully restored and subtitled, Ralph Thomas. Stars: Googie Withers, written & directed by Lionel Jeffries, Griffith Jones, Guy Middleton. with: Lynne Frederick, Laurence Chaos ensues when a woman wakes Naismith, Rosalyn Landor, Garry Miller, up believing that a romantic dream David Lodge, Diana Dors, about her new servant is reality. James Villiers. A penniless family Wednesday 15th April 10:05pm move to a haunted house. A Touch of Larceny (1959) Monday 13th April 10:00pm Comedy, directed by: Guy Hamilton. The Hunter (1980) Stars: James Mason, George Sanders, Directed by Buzz Kulik. Vera Miles. British Commander With Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Max Easton fakes his defection in Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton. Steve order to sue slandering newspapers McQueen’s final role before his death for the money he needs to woo an in November of that year. A veteran American woman. bounty hunter risks all in bringing bail Thursday 16th April 12:10pm jumpers to justice, but starts to It’s Hard To Be Good (1948) question what he’s done with his life. Comedy, directed by: Jeffrey Dell. Tuesday 14th April 07:40am Stars: Anne Crawford, Jimmy Hanley, IWM: The True Glory (1945) Raymond Huntley. A conscientious Oscar winning documentary on the captain emerges from the war with Allied invasion of Europe. Directed by ambitions to spread peace and Carol Reed and Garson Kanin, with goodwill, but finds his message is commentary by various Peter Ustinov, misunderstood. John Laurie, Jimmy Hanley & Richard Attenborough. Music by William Alwyn. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 13th April 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold on Talking Pictures TV British Cold War spy film starring , Claire Bloom & Oskar Werner, directed by Martin Ritt in 1965. At the height of the Cold War, British spy Alec Leamas has one last assignment. Deep undercover, he poses as a drunken, disgraced former MI5 agent in East Germany in order to gain information about captured colleagues. When he himself is thrown in jail and interrogated, he is caught in a sinister labyrinth of plots and counter-plots unlike anything in his long career. Airs: Saturday 18th April at 8:45pm. Thursday 16th April 16:55pm Saturday 18th April 8:45pm Sky West and Crooked (1966) The Spy Who Came In from Romantic Drama directed by the Cold (1965) John Mills. Stars: Hayley Mills, Cold War film starring Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Laurence Naismith. Claire Bloom & Oskar Werner, directed Brydie is traumatised by the death by Martin Ritt. British spy Alec Leamas of her childhood friend. posing as a disgraced former MI5 agent in East Germany is caught in a sinister (AKA: Gypsy Girl) labyrinth of plots and counter-plots. Thursday 16th April 10:00pm Saturday 18th April 11:00pm The Magic Christian (1969) Armchair Theatre: Comedy, directed by: Joseph McGrath. According to the Rules (1974) Stars: , Ringo Starr. Directed by: Piers Haggard The richest man in the world stumbles Stars: Liam Redmond, Oliver Maguire, across a young orphan adopts him. They James Berwick, Des Cave, J.G. Devlin. travel the world together, spending cash. When an ex-IRA man is found dead, Friday 17th April 2:55pm suspicion falls on an old comrade, Secret of the Incas (1954) now a powerful politician. Adventure, directed by: Jerry Hopper. Sunday 19th April 12:35pm Stars: Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Court Jester (1956) Nicole Maurey. Adventurer Harry Steele A musical-comedy film starring is on the trail of an ancient Incan artefact. Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Cecil Parker, Shot on location at Machu Picchu in Basil Rathbone and Angela Lansbury. Peru, the film is often credited as the A carnival performer acts as court jester inspiration for Raiders of the Lost Ark. in a plot against an evil ruler. Friday 17th April 7:00pm Sunday 19th April 2:40pm Hangar 18 (1980) Give Us the Moon (1944) Directed by James L. Conway. Directed by Val Guest, with Margaret With Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Lockwood, Vic Oliver, Peter Graves, Gary Collins, James Hampton. Astronauts Roland Culver. A war hero and son of and a NASA scientist expose a White a hotel owner leads an idle life until he House cover-up of an occupied UFO. bumps into a society where he seems Saturday 18th April 3:10pm to find his place. Time Flies (1944) Sunday 19th April 9pm Comedy sci-fi directed by Walter Forde. Sunday Night at the With Tommy Handley, Evelyn Dall, London Palladium (1974) George Moon and Felix Aylmer. Variety entertainment show hosted by A music hall star uses a time machine to Ted Rogers with Sacha Distel, travel back in time to Elizabethan The Drifters, Penny Lane, Nino Frediani England, with hilarious consequences. and The Second Generation. Saturday 18th April 6:55pm Sunday 19th April 10pm Appointment With Crime (1946) Armchair Theatre: British crime film directed by Death of Glory (1973) John Harlow. Stars: William Hartnell, Director: Gareth Davies. Stars: Warren Raymond Lovell and Robert Beatty. Clarke, Bill Maynard, Dandy Nichols. A British thief, released from prison for A man lives out his military fantasies by jewel theft, devises a plan for leading a marching band. However, his vengeance on his accomplices. beloved ex-Army father has a secret.