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You can always call us V 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 Dear Supporters of Film and TV History, Well, ‘Saturday Morning Pictures’ are back, and it seems so many of you have been enjoying the revival of these memories. It’s been fascinating reading your snippets of what ‘Saturday Morning Pictures’ has meant to you. We are working hard behind the scenes as always and I am pleased to say that Champion The Wonder Horse is on its way, plus more Children’s Film Foundation films, with a very young Melvyn Hayes and an even younger Frazer Hines. Who spotted a young in shorts? This month we bring you a brilliant new box set – following on from the success of & Variety Act Memories Volume One, here’s Volume Two, which includes my fascinating insight into life behind the doors of The Windmill Theatre, along with Top of the Bill with Davy Kaye and Sally Barnes – a real treat for Music Hall fans. Also included is the long-awaited release of the rare filmMurder at the Windmill, once thought lost, which features Garry Marsh, , Jack Livesey and . Other performers featured in the collection include , , , Frank Randle, Robert Morley, Roy Hudd, , Norman Wisdom and Max Wall, plus much more, all with optional subtitles, see pages 2-3. There’s also some very special limited £10 offers this month and if you haven’t yet got hold of Music Hall Volume 1, a special deal is on page 4. We’ve also got some brilliant offers for you all, two exclusive t-shirt designs, handmade by us; a fascinating book about the early history of Shepperton Studios; ’ The Plank on DVD, music from Louis Prima & Keely Smith and ; a combined offer for Please Sir! the film on DVD plus a book by David Barry who played Frankie Abbott in all three series as well as the feature film;Softly Softly on DVD and a brilliant compilation of Public Information films – remember the Green Cross Code? If you enjoy naval history,A Sailor’s View, a collection of films with rare footage of the Royal Navy will be essential viewing. Coming up on the channel we have a host of new gems from the archives, including new series: Interpol Calling. Also coming: with , Don’t Bother to Knock with Marilyn Monroe, Lifeboat – a masterpiece by , and a horror double bill, Doomwatch plus Dr Terror’s House of Horrors with and . Gregory Peck stars in The Keys of the Kingdom and Ginger Rogers stars in Dreamboat. We are more hopeful that our event at the Stockport Plaza will take place on Sunday October 10th; we await the government’s plans on theatre opening, hopefully more details next month. Sadly, we have lost a few great names recently, including Ronald Pickup, CC, Pauline Chamberlain, Trisha Noble, and of course, star of No Hiding Place, Johnny Briggs MBE. Finally, a fond farewell to our dear pal Tony Hutchinson, an avid film collector and a dear friend. Film conventions won’t be the same without him. Stay Safe and stay tuned to Talking Pictures TV and please keep chatting about TPTV to all who will listen! Thank you for your support, best wishes, Sarah, Noel and Neill

You can always call us V 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 1 RENOWN PICTURES NEW DVD RELEASE MUSIC HALL & VARIETY ACT MUSIC HALL & VARIETY ACT MEMORIES VOLUME TWO Disc 2: TOP OF THE BILL (1971) Once ‘lost’ MEMORIES VOLUME TWO documentary about the great days of variety, introduced by Ben Warriss, President of the society of entertainers 3-DVD Set with ‘The Water Rats’. He is joined by Charlie Chester and EXCLUSIVE PRICE JUST £20 OPTIONAL Wee Georgie Wood, who set the scene for artistes from WITH FREE UK POSTAGE comedians to singers to acrobats, including Davy Kaye, SUBTITLES Sally Barnes and others brought to life by gifted imitators Peter Cavanagh and Ken Goodwin. Renown Pictures present SPRINGTIME (1946) Director: Montgomery Tully. Stars: Peter Graves, Carol Raye & Lawrence O’Madden. over ten hours of 13 films THE GREAT GABBO (1929) Director: James Cruze. and shorts in this superb Early musical with big production numbers. 3-DVD Box Set with Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Betty Compson, previously considered Donald Douglas, Marjorie Kane, George Grandee, ‘lost’ films on DVD for John F. Hamilton and Harry Ross. the first time. HIGHLIGHTS OF VARIETY (1938) comedy musical short from the Bell & Howell Music Hall featuring Disc One: A NIGHT IN A MUSIC Ernest Shannon and Sam Browne. HALL (1939) A musical short directed by Arthur Dreifuss, starring: Disc 3: STARS FROM THE SCREEN Clips from Pinky Tomlin, Betty Atkinson, four British musical films of 1934.The Camels are Nell Kelly, Estelle Preston, Ben Coming with Jack Hulbert; Aunt Sally with Cicely Black & His Orchestra. Courtneidge; Evergreen with Jessie Matthews OBE THE WINDMILL GIRLS (AND and Road House with Music Hall star Violet Loraine. BOYS!) Exclusive documentary on the HARMONY LANE (1954) Directed by Lewis Gilbert, a artistes of the Windmill Theatre. musical comedy starring Max Bygraves, The Beverley MURDER AT THE WINDMILL Sisters, Dora Bryan and Jack Billings. (1949) British crime film directed by WHEN YOU COME HOME (1947) British comedy Val Guest, stars: Garry Marsh, film directed by John Baxter starringFrank Randle. Jack Livesey, , As Grandad Randle he recounts his life as a music hall Jon Pertwee & Jimmy Edwards. odd job man, with flashbacks to his younger days. THE KENTUCKY MINSTRELS YOU WILL REMEMBER (1941) Robert Morley (1934) British music hall film directed by stars in this musical biography of , in the John Baxter, starring Harry Scott & Eddie Whaley. British music halls. Cast: , Dorothy MUSIC HALL GREATS – TELL ME ANOTHER Hyson, Nicholas Phipps, Tom E. Finglass, (1976) Dick Hills interviews variety greats Arthur Gertrude Musgrove, with an early Askey, Roy Hudd, Roy Castle, Dickie Henderson, appearance by Tommy Trinder, , Norman Wisdom, Roddy McDowall. Billy Dainty, Max Wall and with anecdotes and insights into working the ‘halls’. Call Now On Freephone 0808 178 8212 “YOU WILL REMEMBER THESE!” 2 Or 01923 290555 3 MUSIC HALL Memories of a life in films: & VARIETY ACT Frustration with Freeview SPECIAL MEMORIES Offer ends and TV Magazines. April 15th OFFER! VOLUME ONE Part 19, by Noel Cronin £10 ONLY (normal price £20) Going back around four years ago now, TPTV with free UK postage & packing was doing quite well on HD Freeview, but because the HD reach was not available to all of This first volume in our Music Hall series the UK and you needed a set top box to receive is the perfect companion to the new the channel. We found there was a lot of frustration from households Musical Hall & Variety Act Memories that couldn’t view TPTV. We also found that our increased audience Volume II. For this month only it is available numbers were flattening out and a lot of our time was spent trying at the special price of £10 (half the normal price) to explain the technical requirements that were needed. Freeview HD IF PURCHASED WITH VOLUME II ON THE PREVIOUS PAGES. was just about washing its face financially, but given the restriction of 14 Music Hall Films & Shorts in a 3 DVD Box Set the HD reach and the need of the set box, TPTV were again forced to stay as we were or go for the full Freeview service which would solve Over 10 Hours of 14 films and shorts including previously ‘lost,’ films. the box and reach problem but was hugely more expensive. So in THEATRE ROYAL (1943) Stars: Flanagan & Allen, Peggy Dexter and Finlay Currie. barely a year we were faced with the same conundrum: stay as you are A LITTLE OF WHAT YOU FANCY (1968) a tribute to Music Hall with Gus Elen, & more. with the inherent problems or get the purse out again. We were also MUSIC HALL (1934) Stars George Carney, Ben Field and Helena Pickard. Many original music halls stars appear including Debroy Somers Band, G H Elliott and Olive Sloane. experiencing huge difficulty in getting the channel schedules shown SARAH REMEMBERS (1952) a film by Wilf Watters which features the recollections of an elderly in the TV magazines and newspapers. Next month: Is there enough in resident of Hoxton, with personal memories of The Hoxton Music Hall. the purse? Dealing with the press. (1943) stars Reginald Purdell, Ellis Irving and Lesley Brook. Set in the 1900s, this film features the great music hall act Wilson, Keppel and Betty. Producer Noel Cronin founded Talking Pictures TV and Renown Pictures and is HIGHLIGHTS OF VARIETY (1938) Highlights from the acts of Bell & Howell Music Hall features contributing his memories to the newsletter. Ever since his entrance into the world of singing trio The Radio Three, Xylophonist Teddy Brown and a sketch from Harry Tate Jr. film as a young man, Noel has been interested in preserving the heritage of lost and THE FINAL FINALE (1968) Filmed by Wilf Watters, the demolition of one of ’s greatest forgotten films, shorts and programmes, and for many years has gathered, restored Music Halls, The Bedford Theatre, with unprecedented access to the site. and preserved this wonderful heritage which would otherwise be lost. Noel worked for SAY IT WITH FLOWERS (1934) Stars Mary Clare, Ben Field and George Carney. Features Charles Coborn, Florrie Forde and musical comedy star Marie Kendall – grandmother of . the Rank Organisation and the Central Office of Information, and bought the rights to LONDON ENTERTAINS (1951) takes us on a tour of a variety of entertainment from several libraries that owned films which now air on Talking Pictures TV. His career as a Diana Coupland, Gloria Swanson, Ray Ellington, The Goons and Les Girls des Folies-Bergère. producer and editor of films, documentaries and TV series spans several decades. CLIMB UP THE WALL (1960) Jack Jackson, Glen Mason, Russ Conway, Craig Douglas, Libby Morris. Archive footage of , , Elvis Presley & many more! Director: Michael Winner. CAVALCADE OF VARIETY (1940) Directed by Thomas Bentley. Includes Billy Cotton & His Band, Eve Becke, The Four Air Aces, Bobbie ‘Uke’ Henshaw and Sam Barton. STARS ON PARADE (1936) Stars Syd Harrison, Max Harrison and Pat O’Brien. Featuring some of Britain’s finest variety acts including Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, Robb Wilton, Albert Whelan, Navarre, Mabel Constanduros and Jimmy James. MUSIC HALL GREATS: TELL ME ANOTHER Dick Hills interviews Norman Wisdom, Charlie Drake, Roy Castle and more about their music hall careers. Billy Dainty, Dickie Henderson, Tommy Trinder and Reg Varney tell us about the jobs they did before showbusiness.

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He trained for the stage blood donors and Ed ‘Stewpot’ Stewart gives at the Everyman Theatre School in Hampstead and made his stage debut with David Horne’s precautionary advice on children and strangers. company at the Theatre Royal in in The Last of Mrs Cheyney which the company Roy Hudd is converted from littering to cleaning next brought to London’s Westminster Theatre. up, Basil Brush visits the beach and Delia Smith Under the stage name Alec Rowland, he subsequently played advises on saving energy. Many famous faces with thirteen repertory companies, including the explain road safety, including Jon Pertwee, and Colchester Repertory Companies. In Amersham, he played Alvin Stardust, (in multiple characters), Joe Bugner, Jimmy Hill, the alongside (who lived at nearby Beel House), cast of Dad’s Army, David Prowse, (before his Darth Vadar days), pop group Mud , Patrick Troughton and Peter Wyngarde. and footballer Kevin Keegan, while Man About the House star Richard O’Sullivan In 1959, Alec gave up acting professionally but continued in displays his lack of driving ability. Softly Softly star Stratford Johns warns against drink-driving and Shaw Taylor introduces car seatbelts. performs a amateur dramatics and also wrote plays in his spare time, Pythonesque parody with a serious message about driving too close, while whilst working in the film processing department of Pathéscope Play School favourite Derek Griffiths explains how to protect your bike. There Ltd., a UK subsidiary of the French Pathé film company. 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Stars: , John Pike, There’s No Business Like Show Business (Annie Get Your Gun) Doris Day The Deadwood Stage Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones Jeremy Bulloch, John Gabriel, John Stacy. and Charlotte Greenwood The With The Fringe On Top (Oklahoma) Jimmy Bryant Maria (West Side Story) Bing Crosby Saturday 27th March Adventure in the and Grace Kelly True Love (High Society) Fred Astaire Cheek To Cheek William Warfield Ol’ Man River (Showboat) Hopfields(1954) Young Jenny runs away to Don’t worry if you (Jo Ann Greer) Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Pal Joey) Mitzi Gaynor and Giogio Tozzi Twin Soliloquies/ Kent to earn money hop picking. missed Enemy at Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific) (Marni Nixon) I Whistle A Happy Tune () Mitzi Gaynor Stars: Mandy Miller, Melvyn Hayes, the Door, there’s an A Cock-Eyed Optimist (South Pacific) Ann Blyth and Vic Damone Stranger In Paradise (Kismet) (Trudy Erwin) My afternoon run on Funny Valentine (Pal Joey) Annette Warren Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man (Showboat) Maurice Chevalier Thank Heaven For Little Girls Hilda Fenemore, . Monday’s at 2pm. Saturday 3rd April Peril for the Guy (1956) (Gigi) DISC 2 Gene Kelly Singin’ In The Rain Judy Garland I Got Rhythm Marilyn Monroe Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend Kids collecting coins for their living Guy foil Doris Day Secret Love Frank Sinatra The Lady is a Tramp Deborah Kerr (Marni Nixon) and Yul Brynner Shall We Dance? a plot to steal a new oil detection machine. (The King And I) Muriel Smith Happy Talk (South Pacific)Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra Well Did You Evah? (High Society) Stars: Frazer Hines, Christopher Warbey, Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold I Remember It Well (Gigi) Ray Bolger and Judy Garland If I Only Had A Brain Amanda Coxall, Alimami Allen, (The Wizard Of Oz) Marni Nixon and Jimmy Bryant Tonight (West Side Story) Judy Garland with Fred Astaire Easter Parade Paul Daneman. Doris Day Just Blew in from the Windy City Frank Sinatra Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Fred Astaire Let’s Face The Music and Saturday 10th April Wings of Mystery Dance Donald O’Connor Make ‘Em Laugh (Singin’ In The Rain) Claramae Turner and Barbara Ruick June Is Bustin’ Out All DON’T MISS An Over (Carousel) Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae If I Loved You (Carousel) Frank Sinatra I Didn’t Know What Time It Was (1963) Stars: Judy Geeson, Hennie Scott, interview with Sir (Pal Joey) Gene Kelly All I Do Is Dream Of You (Singin’ In The Rain) DISC 3 Gordon MacRae Oh, What A Beautiful Morning Francesca Bertorelli, Graham Aza, Patrick (Oklahoma) Judy Garland and Fred Astaire A Couple Of Swells (Easter Parade) Howard Keel Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (Seven Jordan and Arnold Ridley. Set in Sheffield, a Thursday 18th Brides For Seven Brothers) Deborah Kerr (Marni Nixon) Getting To Know You (The King And I) Mitzi Gaynor I’m Gonna Wash That brother and sister search for a stolen alloy. March at 2:30pm. Man Right Out Of My Hair (South Pacific) Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’ Connor Good Morning (Singin’ In The COMING SOON! The Adventures On 24th March at 10am, Rain) Judy Garland Get Happy Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Nanette Fabray and Oscar Levant That’s Entertainment of Champion The Wonder Horse look out for a fascinating (The Bandwagon) Georges Guetary and Gene Kelly S’Wonderful (An American In Paris) Ann Miller Too Darn Hot (Kiss Me Kate) Saturday 3rd April short film, THE HILLMAN Betty Hutton and Howard Keel Anything You Can Do (Annie Get Your Gun) I Cain’t Say No (Oklahoma) at 10:55am MINX IN THE 1960s, Marni Nixon and Jimmy Bryant Somewhere (West Side Story) Doris Day The Black Hills Of Dakota Howard Keel, Ann Blyth The adventures of a with Sheila van Damm, & Vic Damone And This Is My Beloved (Kismet) Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae People Will Say We’re In Love (Oklahoma) boy, a wild stallion former owner of Carol Haney Hernando’s Hideaway (The Pajama Game) Gene Kelly Almost Like Being in Love (Brigadoon) Dorothy Dandridge and a dog in the The Windmill Theatre (Marylynn Horne), Harry Belafonte, Joe Adams, Olga James and Pearl Bailey Dat’s Love (Habanera) (Carmen Jones) American South- and champion rally driver, Kathryn Grayson & Howard Keel Wunderbar (Kiss Me Kate) west of the 1880s. as she competes in a To order, call us on Freephone Or 01923 290555 20 20-day speed race. 0808 178 8212 21 SOFTLY SOFTLY TASK FORCE Series 1 OUR PRICE 4-Disc Box Set WITH OPTIONAL SUBTITLES. The classic long running police series that became one of the BBC’s most successful spin-offs. Stratford Johns and £20 Frank Windsor reprise their iconic roles as nasty and nice cops WITH FREE UK POSTAGE DCS Charlie Barlow and DCI John Watt. OPTIONAL SUBTITLES The first colour series of BBC One’s acclaimed Z-Cars Number of discs: 4. spin-off. Stratford Johns stars as the no-nonsense DCS Running Time Charlie Barlow, a tough, relentless and sharp-tongued approx: 800 mins. copper, with Frank Windsor as his even-tempered Colour. Year: 1969 sidekick DS John Watt. Together they tackle the most Cast: Stratford Johns, heinous crimes, and unravel perplexing cases. Frank Windsor, Norman Bowler, The two hard-nosed officers Walter Gotell, David Allister, first became household names in Troy Kennedy Martin’s David Lloyd Meredith, legendary TV series, Z Cars. In this colour spin-off, Susan Tebbs,Terence Rigby, Barlow and Watt headed south to head up a special Basil Dignam, Michael Hall, task force in fictional Thamesford. Nicholas Brent, Tony Caunter, The ground-breaking series was created by Elwyn Michael Francis. Jones, a stalwart of BBC crime drama. It featured a stellar cast of regulars, with guest stars including: INCLUDES ALL 16 EPISODES FROM SERIES 1 Geoffrey Hayes, Nerys Hughes, Victor Maddern, , Disc One: Disc Three: Tom Baker, , Sally Geeson, Gary Waldhorn & Jack Shepherd. The Arrival Private Mischief The Exercise Open and Shut Diversion Sprats and Mackerels The Spoilt Ones Like Any Other Friday Disc Two: Disc Four: To Protect the Innocent Power of the Press Any Other Night Trust a Woman The Aggro Boy The Hermit Standing Orders Escort

Call Us Now On Freephone 22 OUR PRICE £20 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE 0808 178 8212 23 A Blue Flashing Light DEANNA Gave a Green Light to DURBIN Brian Blessed’s Fame Can’t Help Robert Hughes explains the connection Singing between Brian Blessed OBE and Z Cars. CD Strong as a lion with a roar to match, at Earls Court as an operational vehicle Original Film Brian Blessed’s booming voice is his in police livery which stole thunder from Soundtracks trademark. A third dan in judo and boxer Wolseley’s long-held dominance in that who has sparred with the Dalai Lama, as field, some Zephyrs were deployed as RAF WITH FREE a child he hitched rides on coal trucks staff cars – a role fulfilled fictionally in £15.99 UK POSTAGE MUSIC CD 25 Tracks on 1 CD with his friend (Sir) to Thunderball (1964). watch plays in London. After completing Constabulary loaned Zephyr patrol 1936 was a watershed year for . Founder Carl Laemmle RAF National Service, he enrolled at cars for the pilot Z Cars series, but they was replaced by new management after over-investing in the of Old Vic Theatre School and in withdrew in horror at the show’s gritty and it was the year that a bright new star arrived, Deanna Durbin, 1962 became a household name playing storylines and often unsavoury portrayal whose films were instrumental in saving the organisation from bankruptcy. Zephyr driving PC ‘Fancy’ Smith in of Police attitudes. Ford supplied Mk 3 The Canadian-born actress and singer possessed the technical skill and vocal Z Cars, the new Police TV drama. Blessed replacements, grateful for publicity range of a soprano, performing many styles from popular standards to has recounted that Z Cars was filmed live from the title. In film comedy operatic arias. Durbin was a child actress who made her first film appearance Z Cars but they took the windscreen off the car The Sandwich Man (1966), two Zephyrs aged 14 with Judy Garland in Every Sunday (1936), subsequently signing a because they couldn’t film with the glare collide and in the multi-storey car park contract with Universal Studios. In 1938, at the age of 17, Durbin was of the screen. “The phone rang inside the scene in (1971), Brian Mosley awarded the Academy Juvenile Award. She retired from film-making in 1949, car and I put my hand through the lands on the bonnet of a Zephyr. In 1966, having achieved the status, in 1947, of top-salaried woman in the United windscreen to answer it. I thought ‘Oh illusionist David Berglas drove blindfolded States. She is reported to have said: “I can’t run around being a Little Miss Christ, I’ve just put my hand through a around London in a Zephyr 6, terrifying Fix-It who bursts into song.” The films she appeared in are a musical legacy, windscreen!’” Blessed played Porthos his passenger, F1 legend Graham Hill. performances from which feature on this disc. in The Three Musketeers (1967) and A dust-jacket sketch from John Braine’s Can’t Help Singing (1944) Can’t Help Singing / Any Moment Now / More And More / Californ-I-Ay appeared in The Avengers. He played 1962 novel Life at the Top depicts Joe Spring Parade (1940) It’s Foolish But It’s Fun / When April Sings / Caesar Augustus in I Claudius (1976) Lampton as a Mk 3 Zephyr driver… but it Blue Danube Dream / Waltzing In The Clouds and Richard IV in (1984). is Blessed who will be remembered behind Nice Girl? (1941) Perhaps / Swanee River - Old Folks At Home / Love At Last His uproarious hosting of Have I Got the wheel – and through the windscreen. / Beneath The Lights Of Home First Love (1939) Amapola News for You was unforgettable. Away from stage and screen, he climbed Mount Christmas Holiday (1944) Always / Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year Kilimanjaro, Mount Aconcagua and (1936) Someone To Care For Me / Everest and he is the oldest man to reach Il Bacio (The Kiss) / The Old Refrain The North Pole on foot, once face- Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939) Invitation To The Dance punching a polar bear in self-defence. Because Of Him (1945) Lover / Danny Boy / Goodbye A well-reviewed author of his adventures, Lady On A Train (1945) Gimme A Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh? / Night And Day / Blessed received an OBE in 2016 for More And More / Can’t Help Singing service to the arts and charity. Ford’s Zephyr Mk 3 made a splash with To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 modernistic styling in 1962. Unveiled 24 25 ROYAL NAVY AT WAR A Sailor’s View THE COMPLETE COLLECTION

A seven film collection of rare and never before seen footage of the Royal Navy from a range of film archives, with rare colour footage shot 7-DVD Collection just £25 by officers from the Nelson, the Kent, the Ivanhoe and the Laforey. with FREE UK POSTAGE 7-DVD Collection Disc 4: OPERATION TORCH AND NEPTUNE Two of the largest, most spectacular and successful operations Running Time conducted by the Royal Navy during the Second World War. approx: 780 mins. Includes The Great Armada: Operation Torch, Assault Convoys,  Force ‘H’ Patrols, D-Day Reflections of ‘Operation Neptune’, Historian Roland R Smith creates a Let the Landings Commence, The Supply Line, The Small Ships, powerful film portrait of the Royal a Visit from the King and Churchill visits the Beachhead. Navy in the early years of the Second World War, reviewing the Disc 5: KING GEORGE V CLASS fleet and recounting some of the BATTLESHIP 1941-1942 One of the last battleships commissioned by earliest action. the Royal Navy, it played a major role in the Disc 1: ROYAL NAVY AT WAR Second World War. Includes: Destroying IN COLOUR the Bismarck, Churchill Aboard HMS Rare archive footage shot by serving Prince of , Life Aboard HMS King officers from the HMS Nelson, HMS George V and early March 1942. Kent, HMS Ivanhoe and HMS Laforey. Disc 6: BRITANNIA GOES TO WAR Includes footage of Norwegian Waters, Hong A look at how the Royal Navy responded Kong and the Med, Africa and Madagascar, to war through training of new recruits, new tactics to protect Refuelling at Sea and Operation Pedestal. convoys in the Channel and mine sweeping of the waters. Disc 2: PERILOUS WATERS Includes: Excerpts from Silent Film, Gibraltar and the AND THE HAZARDS OF Coronation Review, The Orkneys, Aircraft Carriers of WWII, RUSSIAN CONVOYS The Demands of the Destroyer, War Against the U-Boats, Royal Navy Historian Roland R. Training and Convoys and A Warm Welcome Home. Smith vividly captures two very different types Disc 7: WAR IN THE of British convoys during the Second World War. FROZEN NORTH Includes: U-Boats, Radar, Russian Convoys, The story of the carrier Glorious The Nazis and the Top Brass. from 1935 to her sinking during Disc 3: THE EAST INDIES AND PACIFIC FLEETS the ill-fated Norwegian Disparagingly referred to as the ‘forgotten fleets’, this is the Campaign of 1940. Includes ultimate film record of these two fleets, their fighting ships and HMS Glorious, HMS Repulse men. Includes: The British Pacific and East Indies fleets, HMS and HMS Renown, The Battle of Howe in , The Pacific Fleet Strikes, Refuelling at Sea, North Cape and Recollections. The Fleet in colour, the King Inspects, Sydney and beyond.

Call Us Now On Freephone 26 OUR PRICE £25 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE 0808 178 8212 27 BLITZ ON BRITAIN Letters to the Projectionist On this page we bring you some of the interesting letters that have arrived at Talking Pictures HQ this month. We receive many letters every day about film and series requests; please be Just £15 assured that we do make a note of them all. We acquire new films and series every month, so ‘never say never’! is our motto – but sadly we can’t just play those we’d like to play, without with FREE UK POSTAGE proper licensing and rights in place. Also remember, some films or TV series may no longer exist, Running Time approx: but we will keep trying! Please email us at: [email protected] 68 mins. Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill, I first sawSons Of the Desert and The Music Box Year: 1960; Black and white Saturday 6th February 2021 will have gone with Stan and Ollie. It was where I saw a film Narrated by: Alistair Cooke down in history as the day Saturday Morning I have long forgotten the title of, but I believe it Pictures returned to Britain. This is the real was a CFF film and told of hop pickers in Kent; a with Henning Skaarup. McCoy and memories flood back. For the first film about a music competition which I believe Written and narrated by one of the time in over 60 years I have watched a ’Popeye’ featured Michael Crawford and a circus one with cartoon, and surprise, it was in colour! I recall Carol White amongst many others. They were world’s most revered broadcasters, watching them in the early 1960s in black and happy days and I enjoyed every one of them – Alistair Cooke, this is a moving and white as colour television was in the future. even without the raccoon cap!! unforgettable account of the famous Saturday Morning Pictures was a must. Best regards, Richard. defence of Britain, May 1940 to I would go to the cinema with the old man and (under extreme protest ) my sister Suzanne. 10th May 1941. Yes, I ended up with four sisters and when BLITZ ON BRITAIN is the first full I informed my father some years later that he record of what Sir and Mum got it right first time he told me they were only practising when I came along. Now has called one of the decisive battles some people may think this was a bad thing to of the world: the battle that was fought say to your thirty year old son but it gets worse... in the streets and homes of Britain When the first Davy Crockett film came out and turned every civilian into a (c. 1955) raccoon caps were given out to boys and my father always promised me one. No, I was the front-line soldier. It traces the full only boy at school without one and my father ferocity of Hitler’s attempt to defeat worked at the cinema where it was being shown!! Britain. It begins on the 10th May, 1940 and ends with the Great Fire of In fact I did not see the film until the BBC London exactly one year later. Using film shot in combat by both British showed it around 1970. I was taken to see the Left to right: Roy Girdler, Mr. C. Denton (manager second one, Davy Crockett and The River Pirates. Odeon ), Davy Crockett. and German crews, it sets the Blitz in the context of Nazi invasion plans... Unfortunately I was at school when Davy turned Dear Richard, could your hop-picking film have been It is the story of the raging conflict between arrogance and guts... up for the Press Show. Adventure in the Hopfields? It’s on Talking Pictures TV between military might and the dogged, spirited endurance of the Anyway, Saturday Morning Pictures was where on Saturday 27th March at 9:30am; see page 20. people Hitler called ‘decadent’. Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill, terrifying ‘adventures’ she was brought back to We’re really looking forward to The Champions England. After a well earned rest she completed a starting in March, but did you know that Alexandra meteorology course and gave weather forecasts to Bastedo’s Mum was a real unsung hero of WWII? pilots before they took off. She was born in Czechoslovakia, but managed She remarried after the war and had a long and to leave in a plane, stolen by her good friend (and happy life, passing away only a few years before her future husband) RAF pilot Robin Golden, when daughter. It seems not even her own children knew Germany took control. everything she achieved during the war! Robin, a pilot in a Battle of Britain Squadron, was Really appreciate the great entertainment. sadly killed in action. To help her get over the loss, Kind Regards, Barney Riana joined the Special Operations Executive of the WAAF and, after training, she was sent to occupied To subscribe to the Talking Pictures TV France to work with the French Resistance using weekly email, visit our website: her linguistic skills. Surviving a series of quite talkingpicturestv.co.uk To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 28 29 Renown SPECIAL OFFER THE FLYING SCOTSMAN Just £15 TELL ME with FREE UK POSTAGE Running Time approx: 57 mins. Year: 1929; Black and white ANOTHER! Part sound, part intertitles. Series 1& 2 (1976-79) Director: Castleton Knight. Cast: Moore Marriott, Pauline Johnson, SPECIAL PRICE ONLY £10 Ray Milland, , Alec Hurley. with free UK P&P The day before his retirement an old engine-driver reports his stoker for being Usually £20! drunk. The stoker is fired and warns that Offer ends April 15th 2021 he will make trouble for the driver and Run time: 450 minutes. 18 Episodes. crew. On the day of the last run, the driver’s Renown Pictures present TELL ME daughter is on the train and notices that ANOTHER, SERIES 1 & 2, the iconic hit TV the ex-stoker is also aboard, unaware that show made from 1976-79. This fabulous two DVD he intends to separate it from its carriages Box Set brings together the first two series. Enjoy – with disastrous consequences. the company of Dick Hills and his special guest stars The film was shot aboard the Flying Scotsman including , Jon Pertwee, with Ray Milland in his first acting role and , Jim Dale, Roy Hudd, Ray Alan, Pauline Johnson, a leading British silent actress, in Norman Vaughan, Jimmy Jewel, Ted Ray, one of her last. Her father is played by Moore Marriott, best Barbara Windsor, Jimmy Logan, , remembered for the films he made with . All the stunts were Bill Maynard, , Jack Warner, filmed on the moving train using the actors – Pauline Johnson manoeuvres along the , , Millicent Martin, outside in high heeled shoes while travelling at speed. The film was originally intended to be Reg Varney, Marti Caine, , David silent, with the decision to switch to speech made during production. 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Monday 15th March 6pm Tuesday 23rd March 5pm Saturday 3rd April 3:40pm and Saturday 10th April 6:35pm and Interpol Calling (1959) No Hiding Place: Dead Ringer Tuesday 6th April 3:55pm Wednesday 14th of April 3:35pm Crime. Stars: Charles Korvin, (1961) Crime. Director: Richard Lifeboat (1944) Drama. The House on Telegraph Hill Edwin Richfield, Roland Bartrop, West. Stars: Raymond Francis, Director: Alfred Hitchcock. (1951) Thriller. Director: Robert Wise. George Pastell. Interpol policemen Eric Lander and Peter Vaughan. Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Slezak, Stars: Richard Basehart, Duval and Mornay fight against Newly discovered episode sur- William Bendix. Survivors of a torpedoed Valentina Cortese. A Nazi camp international crime. rounding a horse racing ‘ringer’. ship find themselves in the same boat as survivor takes the identity of a fellow Same time every weekday. the man who sank them. Sunday 21st March 3:20pm victim. Meeting her friend’s son, she Wednesday 17th March 9:05pm and Wed 24th March 2:30pm Saturday 3rd April 8:40pm and finds she has an inheritance but the All About Eve (1950) The Duchess & the Dirtwater Sunday 11th April at 00:30am boy’s has a guardian. Drama. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Fox (1976) Drama. House of Strangers (1949) Sunday 11th April 2:55pm and Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Thriller. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Director: Melvin Frank. Stars: Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Richard Friday 16th April 2:25pm Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, George Segal, Goldie Hawn. Rebecca (1940) Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Conte, Susan Hayward. A New York an 1880s dance hall girl steals a banker faces criminal charges. Drama. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Marilyn Monroe. A ruthless ingénue satchel of ill-gotten money from Stars: , uses an aging Broadway star as a a gambler. Sunday 4th April 12:25pm and Joan Fontaine, George Sanders. stepping-stone to stardom. Monday 5th April 3pm A new is tormented by the Friday 26th March 9pm and The Egyptian (1954) memory of her husband’s first wife. Thursday 18th March 10pm and Sunday 4th March 12am Epic. Director: Michael Curtiz. Stars: Monday 22nd March 8:05pm Enemy Mine (1985) Edmund Purdom, Jean Simmons and Sunday 11th April 10pm The Canadians (1961) Science Fiction. Director: Peter Ustinov. A physician in 18th dynasty Emperor of the North Pole Western. Director: Burt Kennedy. Wolfgang Petersen. Stars: Egypt becomes doctor to the pharaoh. (1973) Adventure. Director: Stars: Robert Ryan, John Dehner, Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr. Robert Aldrich. Stars: Lee Marvin, Torin Thatcher. Mounties attempt to Sunday 4th April 10pm and A spaceship pilot is stranded Wednesday 7th April 9:05pm Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine. defuse confrontation between Sioux with an enemy fighter. A legendary hobo renowned for Indians and Indian-fighters. Stiff Upper Lips (1998) Saturday 27th March 3:55pm Comedy. Director: Gary Sinyor. riding the rails meets his match. Friday 19th March 3:20pm & Monday 29th March 10:30am Stars: Sean Pertwee, Georgina Cates, Tuesday 13th April 4pm Hue and Cry (1947) Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) Prunella Scales, Peter Ustinov. The House on 92nd Street Adventure. Director: Charles Drama. Director: Roy Ward A woman’s brother and aunt try to pair (1945) Espionage. Crichton. Stars: Alastair Sim, Frederick Baker. Stars: Richard Widmark, her with a fop. Director: . Piper, Harry Fowler. A gang of street Marilyn Monroe, . Wednesday 7th April 10:30am Stars: , boys foil a master crook. A troubled young woman is and Signe Hasso. An American hired as a babysitter. The Brass Monkey (1948) Saturday 20th March 9:30am and Comedy. Director: Thornton Freeland. university student is approached by Wednesday 31st March 6:30am Saturday 27th March 6:25pm Stars: Carroll Levis, Carole Landis, a Nazi spy ring to infiltrate the FBI The Cat Gang (1958) An Inspector Calls (1954) Terry-Thomas and Herbert Lom. A radio and becomes a double agent. Children’s Adventure. Director: Darrel Crime. Director: . personality tries to prevent a connoisseur Saturday 17th April 3:55pm Catling. Stars: Francesca Annis, Stars: Alastair Sim, Olga Lindo, from stealing the priceless Brass Monkey. House of Bamboo (1955) John Pike, Jeremy Bulloch, John Gabriel, Eileen Moore. A dinner party Thriller. Director: Samuel Fuller. John Stacy. Three children are on the is interrupted by an Inspector, Friday 9th April Stars: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, track of a gang of smugglers. investigating the death of a girl. FRIDAY NIGHT Shirley Yamaguchi. In post-World Saturday 20th March 3:20pm and Sunday 28th March 12:15pm HORROR DOUBLE BILL War II Tokyo, Eddie Kenner is on Tuesday 23rd March 2:50pm & Wed 31st March 12:15pm 9pm Dr Terror’s House of Horrors investigates a murderous clique. A Bell for Adano (1945) Dreamboat (1952) (1965) Saturday 17th April 6:45pm War. Director: Henry King. Comedy. Director: Claude Director: Freddie Francis. Heaven Can Wait (1943) Stars: Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, Binyon. Stars: Ginger Rogers, Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Comedy. Director: Ernst Lubitsch. William Bendix. A major and his men Clifton Webb, Anne Francis. Max Adrian, Ann Bell, Peter Madden, A college professor’s career is Stars: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche attempt to restore order in the Donald Sutherland, Roy Castle. Five and Charles Coburn. A man is asked war-torn town of Adano. threatened by his previous life chilling stories linked by a strange as a movie star. to prove he belongs in Hell by Saturday 20th March 8pm and fortune-telling predicts the telling the story of his dissolute life. Friday 2nd April 9pm and deaths of his fellow train passengers. Monday 22nd March 3:40pm Sunday 18th April 2:05pm Tuesday 6th April 10:50pm 11:05pm Doomwatch (1972) Call Northside 777 (1948) The Legacy (1979) The Keys of the Kingdom (1943) Drama. Director: Henry Hathaway. Thriller. Director: Richard Director: Peter Sasd. Stars: Ian Bannen, Drama. Director: John M. Stahl. Stars: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Marquand. Stars: Katherine Judy Geeson & John Paul. Island waters Stars: Gregory Peck, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker. A Chicago Ross, Sam Elliott, Roger Daltrey are contaminated by chemical dumping, Thomas Mitchell, Rose Stradner. reporter looks into an old murder and and . those who eat fish caught there become The story of a Catholic priest who realises the man in jail is innocent. An American couple visit a deformed and violent. goes to China as a missionary. 32 cursed British mansion. 33 SUBTITLED FILMS ON TPTV THIS MONTH FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Full subtitle listings on Tue 23 March 05:00 Stagecoach West 01:05 Penny Serenade Respectable The Mary Millington Story our website. 07:50 Lilli Marlene Wed 31 March Thu 08 April Mon 15 March 12:45 Whistle Down the Wind 06:00 Saturday Morning Pictures 06:00 Impulse (1955) with FREE UK POSTAGE 07:50 Dual Alibi 14:50 A Bell For Adano (repeat) (all content subtitled) 12:15 Sunstruck Just £15 10:30 Suddenly 17:00 No Hiding Place - Dead Ringer 10:30 Five Guns West 14:30 They Came From Running Time approx: 109 mins. 14:00 Enemy At The Door 05:00 Stagecoach West 16:30 No Hiding Place – Beyond Space Colour. Certificate: 18 17:00 No Hiding Place - Wed 24 March Music For Murder 16:15 Impact A Pocketful of Bones 06:00 Saturday Morning Pictures 23:10 Hurry Sundown 18:30 Kill Her Gently Director: Simon Sheridan. Tue 16 March (repeat) (all content subtitled) 02:00 French Postcards 00:20 Lady Of Deceit Narrator: Dexter Fletcher. 06:00 Sing As You Swing 12:10 Thu 01 April Fri 09 April “I was born respectable, but I soon 12:20 The Pot Carriers 14:30 Duchess and The Dirtwater Fox 06:00 Girdle of Gold 06:00 Thunder Rock 16:20 The Night Caller 16:40 The Secret Tunnel 07:40 Spring Meeting 18:50 Burnt Evidence decided I wasn’t going to let that spoil 18:30 Woman in a Dressing Gown 02:25 Kill Me Tomorrow 12:10 Now and Forever 00:55 The Red House my life.” – Mary Millington 22:20 Bad Dreams Thu 25 March 16:10 End of the Line 03:00 Vacant Possession 02:20 Yank In Ermine 06:00 Love In Pawn 21:00 Who Dares Wins Sat 10 April IN THE 1970’S ONE GIRL BROKE ALL 05:00 Stagecoach West 12:05 Beautiful Stranger Fri 02 April 09:00 Saturday Morning Pictures THE RULES... THIS IS HER STORY. Wed 17 March 14:30 Father’s Doing Fine 06:00 Tiger By The Tail (all content subtitled) Mary Millington was a pretty English girl-next- 16:15 The Monkey’s Paw 09:45 The Small Voice 06:00 Saturday Morning Pictures 13:50 door who personified the word ‘glamour’. (repeat) (all content subtitled) 18:30 The Long Arm 11:25 To Dorothy A Son 22:45 Up the Junction 10:30 For the Love of Ada 20:30 Tell Me Another 13:05 The Holly and the Ivy Sun 11 April Her meteoric rise to the top was scandalous 12:30 Ha’penny Breeze 02:00 Downhill Racer 02:30 The Terror (1963) 06:00 Hello Down There and controversial. She became the most famous 16:10 Bond of Fear Fri 26 March Sat 03 April 12:50 Jigsaw 21:05 All About Eve 06:00 Assignment Redhead 06:00 Port of New York pin-up of the decade and her racy reputation 14:55 Rebecca could shift a million newspapers and sell the 23:50 Desire Under The Elms 07:35 That Brennan Girl 07:40 The Six Men 21:00 The Champions Thu 18 March 13:00 King Creole 09:00 Saturday Morning Pictures 02:35 She Knows Y’Know longest-running British movie of all-time. 08:00 Charlie Chan at the Olympics 21:00 Enemy Mine (all content subtitled) Mon 12 April Mary’s fame brought her a lavish lifestyle and an 02:45 The Hand 13:40 Night My Number Came Up 10:30 John and Julie 06:00 The Southerner affair with a serving Prime Minister. Her sexuality 22:00 The Canadians Sat 27 March 15:40 Lifeboat 12:20 The Traitor Fri 19 March 06:00 Fire Maidens From Outerspace 00:55 Come Back to the Five & 14:00 Enemy At The Door was accessible and her personality addictive, but her sexual bravado hid a darker side. 06:00 Charley Moon 07:35 Monster From Green Hell Dime, Jimmy Dean Persecuted by the authorities, Mary was tortured by self-doubt and she sadly died at 09:00 Saturday Morning Pictures 03:05 Port of Escape 15:00 Hobson’s Choice 09:45 On the Fiddle 17:10 No Hiding Place - Dead Ringer 13:35 The Black Swan (all content subtitled) Sun 04 April the height of her fame in August 1979, aged 33. Filmed on location in London and at 15:20 Hue and Cry 13:50 06:00 No Hiding Place – 18:30 The Quiet Woman Pinewood Studios, Simon Sheridan’s documentary reveals the truth behind an icon. 23:10 Come Back, Little Sheba 15:55 Don’t Bother To Knock (1952) A Pocketful of Bones 21:00 Men In War Extras: Audio Commentary. Sam Dunn from the BFI discusses the Sat 20 March 18:25 An Inspector Calls 12:25 The Egyptian 03:00 London Entertains 05:00 The Rogues making of Respectable with its writer/director/producer, Simon 06:10 Stock Car 20:00 Ooh - You Are Awful 21:00 The Champions Sheridan. Respectable teaser trailer plus 2015 teaser trailer for 09:00 Saturday Morning Pictures 22:00 The Boys From Brazil 00:00 Enemy Mine Tue 13 April (all content subtitled) Sun 28 March 02:15 Play It Cool 06:00 The Dancing Years Respectable, originally released on what would have been Mary 12:00 Crossroads to Crime 08:00 No Hiding Place – Whoever’s 03:50 Popeye The Sailor 08:00 Behemoth The Seamonster Millington’s 70th birthday. Come Play with Me original 1977 trailer 15:20 A Bell For Adano Right, Sweeney’s Wrong Mon 05 April 10:30 Kipps plus The British theatrical trailer for Come Play with Me, unseen for 18:00 Angels One Five 14:00 The Anniversary 06:00 Johnny On The Spot 16:00 House On 92nd Street nearly 40 years. Party Pieces 1974 Mary Millington film. 20:00 Call Northside 777 15:50 A Hill in Korea 07:45 Emergency Call 18:30 Booby Trap 00:30 His Girl Friday A short film, once presumed lost, with a young Mary Millington. 03:20 Shadows on the Stairs 21:00 The Champions 10:30 Hangman’s Wharf Originally released on 8mm without sound, it was digitally restored Sun 21 March 22:00 HUD 14:00 Enemy At The Door 02:20 There Was a Young Lady 06:00 Dreaming 01:55 Little Fauss and Big Halsy 15:00 The Egyptian 05:00 Stagecoach West at Pinewood Studios. Confessions from the David Sullivan Affair. 10:00 Viva Max Mon 29 March 18:30 No Trace Wed 14 April Film producer David Sullivan chats about life with girlfriend Mary 12:00 Mark of The Phoenix 10:30 Don’t Bother To Knock (1952) 02:35 06:00 Saturday Morning Pictures Millington, as well as exclusively revealing a self-portrait Mary gave 13:15 The Jungle Book 12:05 The Silent Hope Tue 06 April (repeat) (all content subtitled) him in 1977. Keep It Up, Sue! In Conversation with Sue Longhurst. 15:20 Duchess and The Dirtwater Fox 12:20 Home and Away 06:00 Up In The Air 12:35 Operation Diplomat Mary Millington’s co-star Sue Longhurst talks about her career in 21:00 The Champions 14:00 Enemy At The Door 07:25 The Lady is a Square 14:35 Castle Sinister 00:15 The Fan 18:40 The Hi-jackers 10:30 21:05 Notorious (1946) saucy British sex comedies and recalls the making of Come Play Mon 22 March Tue 30 March 14:20 The Smallest Show On Earth 23:05 Girl With A Pistol with Me. Sex Talk with Ed Tudor-Pole Former Sex Pistol 14:00 Enemy At The Door 06:00 The Voice Of Merrill 15:55 Lifeboat 03:05 The Rogues Ed Tudor-Pole shares his views on pornography, Mary Whitehouse, 15:00 Talking Pictures TV 07:40 Passing Clouds 18:30 House of Blackmail Thu 15 April the allure of 1970s’ and what it was like working with with Joss Ackland 12:20 The Secret Place 05:00 Stagecoach West 08:20 Impulse (1955) Mary Millington on The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle. 15:40 Call Northside 777 16:15 The Devil and Miss Jones Wed 07 April 12:30 Blind Spot 18:30 The Green Man 21:00 Last Holiday 06:00 Saturday Morning Pictures 14:30 Mutiny 20:05 The Canadians 00:35 Houdini (repeat) (all content subtitled) 16:10 Out of The Fog To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 01:20 Scarlet Street 02:40 Mystery of Wentworth... 14:30 Halfway House 18:30 Rogue’s Yarn NAME FREEPHONE ADDRESS 0808 178 8212

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