Highlights: Week beginning Monday 3rd September 2018
Monday 3rd September 2018 – 14:25 THE CAPTIVE HEART (1946) Director: Basil Dearden Starring: Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Jack Warner and Mervyn Johns. In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, but to keep the deception going, he must also write to the officers wife.
Monday 3rd September 2018 – 18:10 THE HUGGETT’S ABROAD (1949) (also showing Saturday 8th September at 12:20) Director: Ken Annakin Starring: Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Dinah Sheridan, Susan Shaw & Petula Clark. When Jimmy gets work in South Africa and Dad Huggett loses his job, the family decide to all go with Jimmy and travel there by truck, amid several misadventures!
Monday 3rd September 2018 – 21:00 THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY (1957) Director: Roy Ward Baker Starring: Hardy Krüger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe and Terence Alexander. A cocky German flight officer is shot down over England and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.
Tuesday 4th September 2018 – 07:50 THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY (1953) Director: Lawrence Huntington Starring: Dulcie Gray, Michael Denison, Sydney Tafler and Charles Farrell. A super-efficient secretary of a London jeweller finds herself in the way of some thieves attempting a smash-and grab robbery…
Tuesday 4th September 2018 – 21:00 EYEWITNESS (1957) Director: John Hough Starring: Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George, Jeremy Kemp and Peter Vaughan. A young daydreamer struggles to convince his family and the authorities that he witnessed a political assassination.
Wednesday 5th September 2018 – 21:00 GENEVIEVE (1953) Director: Henry Cornelius Starring: Kenneth More, Dinah Sheridan, Kay Kendall and John Gregson. It's time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally and Alan McKim and Ambrose Claverhouse are not going to let their friendship get in the way of winning…
Wednesday 5th September 2018 – 22:45 KOTCH (1971) Director: Jack Lemmon Starring: Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr and Charles Aidman. Wanting to avoid settling in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman embarks on a road trip and strikes up a friendship with a pregnant girl, whom he helps.
Thursday 6th September 2018 – 08:10 MRS PYM OF SCOTLAND YARD (1940) Director: Fred Ellis Starring: Mary Clare, Edward Lexy, Nigel Patrick and Janet Johnson. An eccentric woman detective investigates the murders of several people who visited the same psychic medium.
Thursday 6th September 2018 – 21:00 CAMPBELL’S KINGDOM (1957) Director: Ralph Thomas Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig and Barbara Murray. Taking possession of his grandfather's Canadian land but a man faces various challenges with disgruntled locals, a ruthless contractor, a new power dam and his own bad health.
Friday 7th September 2018 – 09:35 SECRET MISSION (1942) Director: Harold French Starring: Hugh Williams, Carla Lehmann, James Mason and Roland Culver. Three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces for a planned invasion.
Friday 7th September 2018 – 11:25 QUARTET (1948) Director: Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French and Ralph Smart Starring: Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Dirk Bogarde, George Cole & Cecil Parker. Four of Somerset Maugham's short stories are brought to the screen with each introduced by the author himself.
Friday 7th September 2018 – 16:00 RITA TUSHINGHAM INTERVIEW (2018) *New & Exclusive* Rita Tushingham. Interviewed by Robert Ross, where she discusses her life and career, working with Oliver Reed, meeting Buster Keaton, getting locked out of her own Cannes premiere with Dora Bryan and why she will always love film!
Saturday 8th September 2018 – 16:05 DIAMOND CITY (1949) Director: David MacDonald Starring: David Farrar, Honor Blackman, Diana Dors and Niall MacGinnis. Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
Saturday 8th September 2018 – 17:55 KIDNAPPED (1971) Director: Delbert Mann Starring: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins and Donald Pleasence. In 18th century Scotland, during the Jacobite Rebellion, David Balfour claims his inheritance from his uncle, who has him shanghaied…
Sunday 9th September 2018 – 13:10 THE GHOST TRAIN (1941) Director: Walter Forde Starring: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison and Peter Murray-Hill. When a concert party is stranded in a remote Cornish railway station, its members are amused by the stories of the local ghost train.
Sunday 9th September 2018 – 19:00 THE EARLY BIRD (1965) Director: Robert Asher Starring: Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman and Jerry Desmonde. Norman is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation.
Sunday 9th September 2018 – 22:10 MADNESS OF THE HEART (1949) Director: Charles Bennett Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Paul Dupuis, Kathleen Byron and Maxwell Reed. Lydia Garth’s romance with a French nobleman is plagued by her complaint of recurring spells of blurred vision.