Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 16th December 2019 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Pool of London on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Earl Cameron, Susan Shaw, Renée Asherson, Bonar Colleano, Moira Lister, Max Adrian. Directed by Basil Dearden in 1951. Earl Cameron and Susan Shaw portray the first interracial relationship in a British film in this crime drama centred on the docks in the Pool of London. Crew members of a merchant ship on shore leave and become involved in smuggling and petty crime in post- war London. For one of them, life is further complicated when he falls in love. The first film for Earl Cameron, who went on to star in Sapphire, Guns at Batasi and Flame in the Streets. As a former seaman married to a white British woman the part came to him naturally, and he gives a heartfelt performance building towards tragedy. Basil Dearden’s portrayal of in the 1950s is enchanting and suffused with forbidden love. Airs: Sat 21st December at 4pm.

Mon 16th Dec 15:50 Wed 18th Dec 16:05 I Live In Grosvenor Square (1945) April Love (1957) Comedy, directed by: Herbert Wilcox. Drama, directed by Henry Levin. Stars: Robert Morley, Anna Neagle, Stars Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Rex Harrison & Dean Jagger. Dolores Michaels & Arthur O’Connell. Lady Patricia Fairfax finds herself falling A city boy moves to a Kentucky for the charms of an American flyer. horse farm where he courts a neighbour and takes part in a horse race. Mon 16th Dec 22:00 Night of the Eagle (1962) Wed 18th Dec 22:05 Horror, directed by: Sidney Hayers. The Nanny (1965) Stars: Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Thriller, directed by: Seth Holt. Margaret Johnston. Someone is using Stars: Bette Davis, Nora Gordon, the occult to try and ruin the life of a William Dix, Wendy Craig. Accused university lecturer. After his wife falls of drowning his little sister, Joey is prey to the powers of darkness, he sent away for therapy. On his return does battle with demonic forces, which his mother is poisoned and his aunt bring him to the verge of Hell itself. dies. No-one believes him when he insists the Nanny is responsible.

Tues 17th Dec 13:20 Thurs 19th Dec 14:30 A Tale Of Two Cities (1958) Ha’penny Breeze (1951) Drama, directed by Ralph Thomas. Drama, directed by: Don Sharp. Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Stars: Edwin Richfield, Don Sharp, Cecil Parker & Stephen Murray. Gwyneth Vaughan. David returns to During the French Revolution his Suffolk village after World War II. Lucie Manette falls in love with a with a scheme to enter a yacht race duplicitous Englishman. with a converted fishing smack.

Thurs 19th Dec 22:00 Tues 17th Dec 22:00 Billy Liar (1963) The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963) Comedy, directed by John Schlesinger. Drama, directed by Ken Hughes. Starring Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Stars: Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Wilfred Pickles. A lazy, irresponsible Robert Stephens & Wilfrid Brambell. young clerk in provincial Northern Sammy Lee owes £300 to a bookie, England lives in his own fantasy world whose muscle men want to collect. and makes immature decisions, alienating friends and family. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 16th December 2019 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Fri 20th Dec 14:30 Sat 21st Dec 21:10 The Lady With the Lamp (1951) Station Six Sahara (1963) Drama, directed by: Herbert Wilcox. Drama, directed by: Seth Holt. Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Stars: Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen, Gladys Young. Anna Neagle gives one Denholm Elliott, Peter Van Eyck, of her finest performances in this Jorg Felmy, Mario Adorf. Five lonely moving portrayal of Florence men endure life running an isolated Nightingale’s fight to improve desert oil pipeline station. When a conditions for soldiers wounded beautiful blonde woman crashes her in the Crimean War. Her tireless car nearby, tensions rise. campaign of reform was the foundation for modern nursing, making her a national icon. Sun 22nd Dec 13:50 and Thurs 19th 03:20 Fri 20th Dec 22:00 Dancing With Crime (1947) Peeping Tom (1960) Crime Drama, directed by: John Crime drama, directed by: Michael Paddy Carstairs. Powell. Stars: Karl Heinz Böhm, Moira Stars: Richard Attenborough, Shearer, Anna Massey. A cameraman Barry K. Barnes, Sheila Sim, Garry murders women while using a Marsh. A London cab driver gets portable film camera to record their mixed up with a criminal gang and dying expressions of terror. sets out to expose the group and its leader. Sat 21st Dec 12:00 The Treasure of San Teresa (1959) Sun 22nd Dec 19:20 Thriller, directed by: Alvin Rakoff. Make Mine a Million (1959) Stars: Eddie Constantine, Dawn Comedy, directed by: Lance Comfort. Addams, Marius Goring. An American Stars: Arthur Askey, Lionel Murton, ex-serviceman returns to Europe to Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, retrieve jewels hidden from the Nazis Bernard Cribbins, Dermot Walsh, in 1944. He is helped by a former Clive Morton, Olga Lindo. lover who is also the daughter of the An ad-man devises cunning plot German general who previously owned to advertise detergent on the gems, but begins to realise that non-commercial television. he is being double-crossed. (AKA Hot Money Girl.) Sun 22nd Dec 21:00 Mystery and Imagination Sat 21st Dec 16:00 Episode 3: Dracula (1968) Pool of London (1951) Drama, directed by: Crime thriller, directed by: Basil Patrick Dromgoole. Dearden. Stars: Bonar Colleano, Susan Stars: Denholm Elliot, Susan George, Shaw, Renée Asherson, Moira Lister, Bernard Archard, Corin Redgrave Earl Cameron, Max Adrian. Two sailors and Joan Hickson. on shore leave become caught up in Charles Graham’s adaptation of the smuggling. For one of them, life is Bram Stoker classic. Evil can entirely further complicated when he is both embody a man – or a woman. racially abused and falls in love with It penetrates all physical objects a white girl. and almost all mental barriers. Director Basil Dearden is sensitive in his The triumph of evil over good is portrayal of the film’s key relationships. never permanent, but it will strive Dan and Johnny are believable friends; to maintain victory. There is more to Johnny and Pat enjoy tentative but ‘Dracula’ than vampires, hypnotic clear affection. In the 1950’s, any eyes and dripping fangs. The story portrayal of a mixed-race couple was carries a moral for all those who are deemed controversial. willing to see it. Denholm Elliot plays Dracula, in This Ealing production makes brilliant use of a broad range pursuit of Lucy, played by Susan George. of south London locations including , Greenwich Park, Camberwell and .