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Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 29th April 2019 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

ROCK CITY to show on Talking Pictures TV This fascinating time capsule documentary features vintage film footage from the hey-day of the London rock’n’roll scene. Including several perfor- mances by The Rolling Stones, as well as Otis Redding, Try A Little Tender- ness, Cream, Sunshine of Your Love at the Albert Hall and Jimi Hendrix in a rare Saville Theatre clip of Hey Joe. Cat Stevens, Pink Floyd and Ike & Tina Turner also make notable appearances and the Faces finish a fabulous trip down this musical memory lane. Also featured are glimpses into the ‘scene’ in London at the time, hippie culture, long hair and loud guitars! This cult film by Peter Clifton offers a rare glimpse into the world of rock music in the early seventies. Rock City airs on Friday 3rd May 19 at 22:00

Monday 29th April 19 15:10 Wednesday 1st May 19 11:55 Cheaper By The Dozen (1950) They Who Dare (1954) Comedy. Director: Walter Lang. War Drama. Directed by Lewis Stars Clifton Webb, , Milestone. Stars Dirk Bogarde Jeanne Crain & Betty Lynn. & Denholm Elliott. In Greece Based on a true story. Follow during the war British comman- Frank Gilbreth and his wife Lillian does and patriots are ordered as they raise their 12 children. to destroy two strategic Ger- man airfields. Monday 29th April 19 18:00 Woman In A Dressing Gown Wednesday 1st May 19 22:00 (1957) Oklahoma Crude (1973) Anthony Quayle & Sylvia Syms Comedy Western, Directed by star in this British drama about Stanley Kramer. Starring George marital strife. Fed up with his C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills. wife’s (Yvonne Mitchell) frumpy In 1913, in Oklahoma, Lena Doyle, appearance, long-married Jim aided by her father and a hobo, begins an affair. stubbornly drills for oil despite pressure to sell her land.

Tuesday 30th April 19 10:05 Thursday 2nd May 19 12:20 The Golden Salamander (1950) Silent Dust (1949) Drama. Directed by Ronald Drama. Director: Lance Comfort. Neame. Stars Trevor Howard, Stars Stephen Murray, Beatrice Anouk Aimee & Herbert Lom. Campbell & George Woodbridge. A British archaeologist is torn A wealthy blind man is deter- between tackling a sinister crime mined to build a cricket pavil- syndicate or turning a blind eye. ion as a memorial to his dead veteran son. Tuesday 30th April 19 22:00 The Looking Glass War (1970) Thursday 2nd May 19 15:10 Action Drama. Directed by Frank Spring In Park Lane Pierson. Stars: Christopher Jones, Comedy, directed by Herbert Pia Degermark, Ralph Richardson, Wilcox. Starring Anna Neagle, . Adapted from Michael Wilding. Joshua Howard’s the John le Carré novel about a niece suspects the new footman is British spy, who sends a Polish not what he makes out to be. defector to East Germany, to verify missile sites. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 29th April 2019 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Thursday 2nd May 19 22:00 Billy Liar (1963) Saturday 4th May 19 23:30 Comedy, directed by John Schlesinger. Gumshoe (1971) Starring , Julie Christie, Wil- Comedy Drama. Directed by Stephen fred Pickles. A lazy, irresponsible young clerk Frears. Stars , Billie Whitelaw in provincial Northern England lives in his & . A comedian fulfils his own fantasy world and makes emotionally love for detective novelist Dashiell immature decisions as he alienates friends Hammett by putting an ad in the paper and family. as a private eye. Friday 3rd May 19 15:10 also on at Sunday 5th May 19 12:55 Thursday 2nd May 19 04:20 New documentary Boys In Brown (1949) ‘The Immortal ’ Drama. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Commemorating the birthday of Orson Stars Richard Attenborough, Jack Warner & Welles. This intimate documentary Dirk Bogarde. The governor of a borstal contrasts the romanticised maverick institution tries to reform a group of figure with the man behind the enigma, juvenile delinquents. and celebrates his remarkable contribu- tions to film history. With recollections Friday 3rd May 19 18:00 from actor Norman Eshley (star of Welles’ The Villain (1979) film ‘Immortal Story’), filmmaker Henry Comedy Western, directed by Jagloma and Orson’s one time assistant Hal Needham. Starring , Dorian Bond, the film offers a rare insight Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ann-Margret. into the world of this fascinating man. A bank robber makes a deal with a corrupt banker to avoid execution in exchange for Sunday 5th May 19 19:00 a dirty assignment. Above Us the Waves (1954) Director: Ralph Thomas. Stars: John Mills, Friday 3rd May 19 22:00 John Gregson, . War Rock City (1973) Drama about an attack by British Music Documentary. Director: Peter Clifton. submarines on the German battleship Cast includes: Cat Stevens, Tina Turner, “Tirpitz” in a Norwegian fjord during Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Mick Jagger, World War II. Based on two true- Otis Redding, Eric Burdon, Dave Gilmour, life attacks on the Tirpitz by British Nick Mason, Keith Richards, Rod Stewart, commando frogmen; adapted from the Pete Townshend, Ike Turner, Roger Wa- book Above Us the Waves by ters, Charlie Watts and more. Vintage film C. E. T. Warren and James Benson. footage from the hey-day of the London rock’n’roll scene. Interviews with rock artists, Sunday 5th May 19 21:00 hippies and flower children. Armchair Theatre: Still Life (1970) Directed by Dennis Vance. Written by Saturday 4th May 19 17:00 Ronald Duncan. Starring Margaret It Always Rains On Sunday (1947) Rawlings, Michael Goodliffe, Rachel Drama. Director: Robert Hamer. Herbert. A forgotten and aging actress Stars Googie Withers, John McCallum, tries to recapture her youth through her Jack Warner & Susan Shaw. Rose wants to actress daughter’s life. escape the drudgery of her daily life when an old lover escapes from prison. Sunday 5th May 19 22:00 The Deep (1977) Saturday 4th May 19 21:00 The Passenger (1975) Adventure Thriller. Director: Peter Yates. Writer: Peter Benchley (novel and Thriller. Director: . screenplay). Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Stars: , Maria Schneider, Nick Nolte, Dick Anthony Williams. Jenny Runacre. A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war In Bermuda, two amateur treasure- he’s been asked to cover, takes the risky hunting divers have a run-in with local path of co-opting the identity of a dead criminals when they inadvertently arms dealer acquaintance. “I used to be discover the secret cargo of a World somebody else...but I traded him in.” War II shipwreck.