Week Beginning Monday 18Th February 2019
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Highlights: Week beginning Monday 18th February 2019 th Monday 18 February 2019 – 10:30 st TIME LOCK (1957) (also showing Thursday 21 February at 03:05) Director: Gerald Thomas Starring: Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall and Alan Gifford. When a boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault with less than 10 hours of oxygen left, it becomes a race against time to try and save him. (Features a young Sean Connery.) Monday 18th February 2019 – 18:00 UNEARTHLY STRANGER (1963) Director: John Krish Starring: John Neville, Philip Stone, Gabriella Licudi, Patrick Newell and Jean Marsh. Dr. Mark Davidson is a government scientist who meets a mysterious woman. He falls for her and is married quickly, despite knowing very little of her past… Tuesday 19th February 2019 – 14:35 THE LOST HOURS (1952) Director: David Macdonald Starring: Mark Stevens, Jean Kent, Garry Marsh, John Bentley and Duncan Lamont. During a London WW2 reunion, a US pilot gets into a fight with a drunk and belligerent colleague. The next day he wakes up in a strange room and doesn’t know how he got there. Tuesday 19th February 2019 – 21:00 AGE OF CONSENT (1969) Director: Michael Powell Starring: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran and Harold Hopkins. An elderly artist who believes he has past his prime, travels to a Mediterranean island where he rediscovers his muse in the form of a young girl. th Wednesday 20 February 2019 – 14:35 ALL FOR MARY (1955) (also showing Saturday 23rd February at 19:40) Director: Wendy Toye Starring: Nigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison, David Tomlinson and Lionel Jeffries. Clive Morton and "Humpy" Miller are two bachelors have nothing whatsoever in common— except for one thing – both men are falling for a hotel proprietor's daughter. Wednesday 20th February 2019 – 23:00 THE RECKONING (1970) Director: Jack Gold Starring: Nicol Williamson, Ann Bell, Zena Walker, Douglas Wilmer and Rachel Roberts. Successful businessman Michael Marler returns to his Liverpudlian hometown to seek revenge for the death of his father, as a “matter of honour.” Thursday 21st February 2019 – 14:35 BOYS IN BROWN (1949) Director: Montgomery Tully Starring: Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Jimmy Hanley, Patrick Holt Patrick Holt, Barbara Murray, Thora Hird, Michael Medwin and Alfie Bass. The governor of a borstal institution tries to reform a group of juvenile delinquents through sympathy rather than punishment. Thursday 21st February 2019 – 21:00 BEFORE WINTER COMES (1968) Director: J Lee Thompson Starring: David Niven, Topol, John Hurt, Anthony Quayle and Anna Karina. After World War II, in an Austrian camp for displaced people, an interpreter mediates between the British and the Soviets regarding the fate of various refugees. Friday 22nd February 2019 – 14:45 BLESS THIS HOUSE (1972) Director: Gerald Thomas Starring: Sidney James, Diana Coupland, Peter Butterworth, Terry Scott and June Whitfield. Sid Abbott and his best mate Trevor enjoy home brewing. Plans to turn their hobby into a profitable, if illicit, side line come unstuck when a Customs and Excise officer moves in next door! What’s more, Sid’s outspoken, madcap family hinder neighbourly relations even further. Friday 22nd February 2019 – 17:30 GOING A BUNDLE (TV series 1976) Produced by: Southern Television Starring: Harry Fowler, James Villiers and featuring Bill Wyman. Made in 1976 and unseen for decades, Harry Fowler and James Villiers look at a day-in-the-life of the London Evening News. It also features Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones) visiting Kew Gardens. Friday 22nd February 2019 – 21:00 THE HELLIONS (1961) Director: Ken Annakin Starring: Richard Todd, Anne Aubrey, Jamie Uys, Marty Wilde, Lionel Jeffries & James Booth. Luke Billings and his four reprobate sons ride into a small South African settlement to seek revenge on Police Sergeant Sam Hargis. Saturday 23rd February 2019 – 16:00 BLITHE SPIRIT (1945) Director: David Lean Starring: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond and Margaret Rutherford. A newly-married mystery novelist and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife, so medium Madame Arcati, tries to help by contacting the spirit. Saturday 23rd February 2019 – 18:00 DAYBREAK (1948) Director: Compton Bennett Starring: Ann Todd, Eric Portman, Maxwell Reed, Edward Rigby and Bill Owen. A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love, and sets up home with his girl on a barge in the river Thames. Sunday 24th February 2019 – 13:40 THAT HAMILTON WOMAN (1941) Director: Alexander Korda Starring: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray and Gladys Cooper. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century, this is the story of the scandalous adulterous affair between Lord Horatio Nelson and Emma, Lady Hamilton. Sunday 24th February 2019 – 16:15 VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED (1976) Director: Stuart Rosenberg Starring: Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker and Wendy Hiller. In May 1937, Jewish refugees are permitted to leave Nazi Germany on the luxury liner S.S. St Louis, bound for Cuba. However, Goebbels has arranged with the president of Cuba that the passengers' landing permits are to be treated as invalid, forcing them to return to Germany. Sunday 24th February 2019 – 19:30 MURPHY’S STROKE (1980) Director: Frank Cvitanovich Starring: Niall Toibin, Pierce Brosnan, T.R. Bowen and John Bardon. Irish millionaires put together a betting coup and go to England to pursue their illicit prize in this tale based on a true story. Sunday 24th February 2019 – 22:10 ARMCHAIR THEATRE: Will Amelia Quint Continue writing A Gnome Called Shorthouse (1971) Director: James Gatward Starring: Beryl Reid, Richard Vernon, Norman Rossington and Sheila Steafel. To millions, Amelia Quint is the writer of the best children’s stories. But there is another side to her character, as her panic stricken publisher is about to find out. .