Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning Monday 25th March 2019 SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445
HAROLD PINTER’S THE BIRTHDAY PARTY TO BE SCREENED ON TALKING PICTURES TV The film version of THE BIRTHDAY PARTY made in 1968. Based on the 1957 play by Harold Pinter. Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Dandy Nichols & Sydney Tafler. Pinter also wrote the screenplay for this adaption, which is a dark comedy, with menacing under- tones. A bizarre birthday party takes place and eventually the main charac- ter, despite protesting that it is not his birthday, breaks down and is taken away for ‘medical attention’. Strange, yet compelling. The Birthday Party will be screened on Sunday March 31st at 22.00.
Monday 25th March - 10.25 Tuesday 26th March - 15.15 The Night Has Eyes (1942) Spellbound (1945) Thriller, directed by Leslie Arliss. Stars Drama, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. James Mason Wilfrid Lawson Joyce Stars Ingrid Bergman Gregory Peck & Howard & Mary Clare. Two school Michael Chekhov. A psychiatrist teachers take refuge in an isolated protects the identity of an amnesia house in the Yorkshire Moors when a patient accused of murder. storm breaks.
Monday 25th March - 18.00 Tuesday 26th March - 18.00 Raise The Titanic (1980) Crooks Anonymous (1962) Drama, directed by Jerry Jameson. Comedy, directed by Ken Annakin. Stars Jason Robards Richard Jordan Stars Leslie Phillips Stanley Baxter & David Selby Anne Archer & Wilfrid Hyde-White. Petty thief Alec Guinness. To obtain a rare Dandy Forsdyke joins an unofficial mineral a ship raising operation is organisation for reforming criminals. conducted on the Titanic.
Wednesday 27th March - 10.05 Monday 25th March - 22.00 Moulin Rouge (1952) Quatermass and The Pit (1967) Drama, directed by John Huston. Mystery, directed by Roy Ward Baker. Stars Jose Ferrer & Zsa Zsa Gabor. Stars James Donald Andrew Keir & The story is loosely based on the life Barbara Shelley. A mysterious artefact of Toulouse Lautrec, and deicts an is found in London and the famous artist who forgets his worries by scientist Bernard Quatermass helps drinking and mingling at the Moulin investigate it. Rouge nightclub in Paris.
Wednesday 27th March - 12.25 Tuesday 26th March - 10.00 Those People Next Door (1953) The Bargee (1964) Drama, directed by John Harlow and Comedy, directed by Duncan Wood. starring Jack Warner Charles Victor Stars Harry H. Corbett Hugh Griffith Jimmy James & Anthony Newley. & Ronnie Barker. The film charts the A young man’s titled parents object course of love of a Casanova who to his working-class fiancé. lives and works on the canals breaking hearts. Highlights for week beginning Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Monday 25th March 2019 SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 continued
Wednesday 27th March - 15.25 Saturday 30th March - 09:15 The Man Between (1953) Devil Girl from Mars (1954) Drama, directed by Carol Reed. Sci-Fi, directed by David MacDonald. Stars: James Mason Claire Bloom & Hildegard Stars Patricia Laffan Hugh McDermott & Knef. After World War II Susanne Mallison Hazel Court. A female alien accompanied travels to visit her older brother in Berlin. by a menacing robot comes to Earth to collect Earth’s men as breeding stock Saturday 30th March - 21:00 West 11 (1963) Thursday 28th March - 09.40 Crime Drama, directed by Michael Winner I’ll Be Seeing You (1944) Starring: Alfred Lynch, Eric Portman, Kathleen Drama, directed by William Dieterle. Harrison, Freda Jackson, Finlay Currie, Stars Ginger Rogers Joseph Cotten & Harold Lang, Diana Dors, Kathleen Breck Shirley Temple. Zachary & Mary meet on Joe Beckett, aged about 22, is, as he himself a train and despite their mutual attraction describes it, ‘an emotional leper’. He decides they are both shouldering secrets. that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for Thursday 28th March - 15:25 a man he meets in a coffee bar. Convoy (1940) Drama, directed by Pen Tennyson. Saturday 30th March - 22:50 Stars Clive Brook John Clements & Edward Jack the Ripper (1988) Part 2 Chapman. A tale of the highs and lows of Series directed by David Wickes, starring life protecting the vital convoys between Michael Caine, Armand Assante, America & England during WWII. Ray McAnally and Lewis Collins. Episode Two Produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Whitechapel murders, Thursday 28th March - 22:00 with very high audience figures at the time. No Love for Johnnie (1961) Inspector Abberline, played by Michael Caine, Drama, directed by Ralph Thomas. had a long list of suspects to investigate, in- Stars Peter Finch Mary Peach Stanley Holloway cluding royalty. He also faced opposition from Donald Pleasence & Billie Whitelaw. his superiors when he finally revealed the killer. A British MP faces the choice of his career or the woman he loves. Sunday 31st March - 11:15 Our Girl Friday (aka adventures of Sadie) (1953) Friday 29th March - 06:00 Comedy, directed by Noel Langley. The Iron Maiden (1962) Stars Joan Collins George Cole Kenneth More Comedy, directed by Gerald Thomas. Hattie Jacques & Walter Fitzgerald. Starring Michael Craig & Joan Sims. A British cast lead this story about a ship- An aircraft designer with a passion for traction wrecked group on a tropical island. engines designs a new supersonic jet plane to sell to America. Sunday 31st March - 19:10 Sparrows Can’t Sing (1963) Comedy, directed by Joan Littlewood. Friday 29th March - 15:25 Stars James Booth Barbara Windsor & The Lure of the Wilderness (1952) Roy Kinnear. Charlie returns to the East End Adventure, directed by Jean Negulesco. after two years at sea to find his house Stars: Jean Peters Jeffrey Hunter & Constance demolished and wife Maggie gone. Smith. In a Georgia swamp a hunter stumbles across a wanted fugitive and his daughter Sunday 31st March - 21:00 Armchair Theatre: Friday 29th March -18:05 Competition (1971) Meet Mr Lucifer (1954) Written by Douglas Livingstone, Directed by Kim Mills. Starring: John Thaw, Comedy, directed by Anthony Pelissier Michael Jayston, Anne Carroll and Patsy Blower, Starring: Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, with Wiliam Relton A boy wants to impress his Jack Watling, Gordon Jackson, Kay Kendall, father with his entry to a poetry competition. Joseph Tomelty, Barbara Murray, Ian Carmichael Sam Hollingsworth is playing the Demon King Sunday 31st March - 22.00 in a provincial pantomime when, owing to an The Birthday Party (1968) accident with the stage trap, he is knocked Drama, based on the play by Harold Pinter. unconscious and finds himself in the nether Directed by William Friedkin. Stars Robert regions with Mr. Lucifer. The latter explains to Shaw Patrick Magee Dandy Nichols & Sam that people are being made too happy by Sydney Tafler. The down-at-heel lodger in a watching television, when it should be making seaside boarding house is menaced by two them miserable. Sam agrees, and prepares to mysterious strangers. assist in the Devil’s work.