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Peter Cushing Interview: for the Love of Helen on Talking Pictures TV Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 24th May 2021 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Peter Cushing Interview: For the Love of Helen on Talking Pictures TV In celebration of the birthday of the late, great actor, Peter Cushing OBE, (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994), we present an interview made in 1990 with him by Peter Williams. This incredibly personal interview is a heart-wrenching, yet uplifting, glimpse into the life of a brilliant actor, but Peter Cushing was more than a tremendous stage presence. He was also an exceptional human being; one who suffered a shocking amount of shyness and self-doubt as a child; and was plagued with unsurety as a young man. Peter eloquently reminisces about his wife, Helen, his childhood, his love of painting and his thoughts on religion. Airs: Wednesday 26th May 5:30pm. Monday 24th May 10:30am Wednesday 26th May 7:25am Cover Girl Killer (1959) Johnny on the Run (1953) Director: Terry Bishop. Stars: Director: Lewis Gilbert. Harry H. Corbett and Felicity Young. Stars: Sydney Tafler, Michael Balfour & Crime. Someone is murdering cover girl Eugeniusz Chylek. A Polish boy runs models, leaving them in the same pose away from his unkind foster mother and and place as featured in Wow magazine. is involved in a robbery. Monday 24th May 12:05pm Wednesday 26th May 1:40pm Ask a Policeman (1939) True as a Turtle (1957) Comedy. Director: Marcel Varnel. Comedy. Director: Wendy Toye. Stars: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt and Stars: John Gregson, Cecil Parker and Moore Marriott. Sergeant Samuel June Thorburn. Newlywed Tony Hudson Dudfoot and his two constables stage a offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a fabricated crimewave to save their jobs. yacht as a honeymoon trip. Monday 24th May 9pm Wednesday 26th May 9:05pm Harlow (1965) Black Sunday (1977) Biography. Director: Gordon Douglas. Thriller. Director: John Frankenheimer. Stars: Carroll Baker, Red Buttons, Stars: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern and Raf Vallone. Biopic inspired by the Bekim Fehmiu. A terror group try to brief life of the 1930s platinum blonde blow up a Goodyear blimp over the bombshell, screen siren Jean Harlow. Super Bowl stadium, with the US president attending. Tuesday 25th May 10:30am Portrait from Life (1948) Thursday 27th May 7:45am Drama. Director: Terence Fisher. The Angel with the Trumpet (1950) Stars: Mai Zetterling, Robert Beatty, Drama. Director: Anthony Bushell. Guy Rolfe and Herbert Lom. An army Stars: Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney & major attempts to find a girl after seeing Norman Wooland. A powerful her portrait in a London art gallery. panoramic story of a family’s tribulations from the last decades of Tuesday 25th May 3:20pm the 19th Century through to the dark The Singer Not The Song (1961) days of Nazi rule. Drama. Director: Roy Ward Baker. Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Mylène Demongeot, Thursday 27th May 2:40pm John Mills, Laurence Naismith and Gert & Daisy’s Weekend (1942) John Bentley. A bandit terrorises a Comedy. Director: Maclean Rogers. Mexican village and only an idealistic Irish Stars: Elsie Waters and Doris Waters. priest is willing to stand up to him. Gert and Daisy are put in charge of a group of tearaway evacuee children. Tuesday 25th May 6:35pm Blitz on Britain (1960) Thursday 27th May 6:30pm Documentary. Director: Harry Booth. Walk a Tightrope (1963) Stars: Alistair Cooke & Henning Skaarup. Drama. Director: Frank Nesbitt. Stars: Archive footage from both British and Dan Duryea ,Patricia Owens and German sources to tell the story of the Terence Cooper. Ellen finds perfect defence of Britain during World War II. happiness in marriage – but things aren’t what they seem. Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Mon 24th May 2021 Thursday 27th May 9pm Saturday 29th May 8:05pm Romance on the Orient Express (1985) An Inspector Calls (1954) Romantic Drama. Director: Lawrence Crime. Director: Guy Hamilton. Gordon Clark. Stars: Cheryl Ladd, Stars: Alastair Sim, Olga Lindo, Stuart Wilson, Renée Asherson and Eileen Moore. It is 1912 and the John Gielgud. Former lovers are impending war has yet to fall across reunited on the Venice-Paris train. the lives of the rich and complacent Birling family. Friday 28th May 9:05am Blowing Wild (1953) Sunday 30th May 10am Drama. Director: Hugo Fregonese. The Five Pennies (1959) Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Semi-biographical drama. Ruth Roman and Anthony Quinn. Director: Melville Shavelson. Stars: A love triangle set in Mexico’s oilfields, Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes and where bandits are still active. Louis Armstrong. The story of Loring Red Nichols – a gifted country boy Friday 28th May 6pm who becomes a famous trumpeter. The Magic Box (1952) Biography. Director: John Boulting. Sunday 30th May 12:35pm Stars: Robert Donat, Maria Schell and Q Planes (1939) Renee Asherson. A chronicle of the War Comedy. Directors: Tim Whelan life of William Friese-Greene, a British and Arthur B. Woods. Stars: Ralph inventor and early pioneer in cinema. Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Valerie Hobson. In September 1938, Friday 28th May 8:10pm experimental British aircraft vanish Inferno (1953) on test flights. Major Hammond, his Drama. Director: Roy Ward Baker. sister Kay, an undercover newspaper Stars: Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming reporter and a pilot must solve the and William Lundigan. A millionaire mystery and recover the planes. industrialist is left alone with a broken leg in the Mojave Desert by his wife Sunday 30th May 3:30pm and her lover. Prelude to Fame (1950) Drama. Director: Fergus McDonell. Saturday 29th May 2pm Stars: Guy Rolfe, Kathleen Byron and Uncle Silas (1947) Kathleen Ryan. Based on a story by Drama. Director: Charles Frank. Stars: Aldous Huxley, which chronicles the Jean Simmons, Derrick de Marney, career of a gifted young musician. Katina Paxinou and Derek Bond. Uncle Silas, a sickly, impoverished and Sunday 30th May 10pm unbalanced man, becomes guardian Bachelor of Hearts (1958) of his wealthy teenage niece. Comedy. Director: Wolf Rilla. Stars: Hardy Krüger, Sylvia Syms, Saturday 29th May 4:05pm Ronald Lewis, Eric Barker and Miles The Beachcomber (1954) Malleson. A German exchange Comedy-drama. Director: Muriel Box. student has girl troubles while Stars: Glynis Johns, Robert Newton and studying at Cambridge, as the Donald Sinden. Drunken womaniser annual May Ball approaches. Ted is sent to a tropical island by his family, where he meets new friends. Saturday Morning Pictures 09:00 Superman Episode 5: The Bulleteers 09:10 The Cisco Kid Episode 5: Lynching Story 09:45 Mystery on Bird Island (1954) Director: John Haggarty. Stars: Mavis Sage, Vernon Morris, Jennifer Beech, Nick Edmett, Roddy Hughes. Four youngsters discover birds’ nest thieves on a sanctuary island. From a story by Mary Cathcart Borer. Filmed in Guernsey and Alderney. 11:00 The Lone Ranger Episode 10: High Heels 11:30 Radar Men From The Moon Episode 5: Murder Car 11:45 Flip Flap (1948) Animation ‘Noveltoon’ Jackson Beck, Gwen Davies and Cecil Roy. Flip-Flap the seal is tired of life at the zoo, so he runs away and sets off for the North Pole in search of a better life and possibly love..
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