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Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 27th April 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Another Time, Another Place on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Lana Turner, , Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns, Terence Longdon and Sidney James. Directed by , released in 1958. A World War II melodrama in which Sean Connery and Lana Turner play journalists who fall in love. Connery is a BBC radio reporter and Turner is posted in London, working for an American newspaper. Their relationship begins in London while the second half of the story takes place in Cornwall, with beautiful scenery and locations. Connery, at the time relatively unknown, is a potent screen presence. Airs on Sunday 3rd May at 7pm

Monday 27th April 9am Tuesday 28th April 1:40pm Charley Moon (1956) Another Shore (1948) Musical. Director: Guy Hamilton. Comedy Drama. Directed by Charles Stars: , Dennis Price & Crichton. Stars: Robert Beatty, . The life and loves of Stanley Holloway & Moira Lister. a country boy, who makes it on the A young Irishman comes up with an London stage, but misses home. unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti.

Monday 27th April 3pm Wednesday 29th April 9am Blithe Spirit (1945) Old Bill and Son (1940) Comedy. Director: David Lean. Comedy. Director: Ian Dalrymple. Stars: , Constance Stars: Morland Graham, John Mills, Cummings, Kay Hammond & Mary Clare. World War I veteran Bill Margaret Rutherford. A newly-married is inspired to re-enlist in 1939 and writer and his second wife are haunted ends up serving with his son. by the ghost of his first wife. Wednesday 29th April 10:05pm This Property Is Condemned Monday 27th April 6:10pm (1966) The Lamp Still Burns (1943) Romantic drama directed by Drama. Director: Maurice Elvey. Sydney Pollack. Stars: Natalie Wood, Stars: Rosamund John, Robert Redford, Kate Reid, Charles , Godfrey Tearle. Bronson, Robert Blake and Mary Hilary Clarke is a young architect who accompanies her office boy to hospital Badham with a screenplay by Francis when he is injured. Ford Coppola, Fred Coe and Edith Sommer. Inspired by the Tennessee Williams’ play, a sexually charged Tuesday 28th April 9am Depression-era drama. On the Fiddle (1961) Comedy. Directed by Cyril Frankel. Thursday 30th April 9:10am Stars: Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery & The Hypnotist (1957) Cecil Parker. A couple of loveable Drama. Directed by Montgomery service dodgers avoid the front line Tully. Stars: Roland Culver, until they are sent to France. Patricia Roc & Paul Carpenter. A test pilot is injured in a plane crash following which his fiancé takes him to a psychiatrist Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 27th April 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Houdini on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher. Directed by George Marshall, released in 1953. Tony Curtis is the great Houdini, the circus performer who became the world’s most captivating magician and escape artist. From his beginnings as a carnival act to escaping from a locked trunk in an icy river, the film portrays the amazing life and courage of Houdini. Janet Leigh plays the supportive wife who stood by his side throughout his legendary career. Airs on Saturday 2nd May at 7:40pm

Thursday 30th April 6:55pm Saturday 2nd May 7:40pm They Were Not Divided (1950) Houdini (1953) War. Director: Terence Young. War Drama. Directed by George Stars: Edward Underdown, Marshall. Stars: Tony Curtis, Ralph Clanton, Helen Cherry. Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher. In a World War II training depot The spectacular but tragically short recruits come from all walks of life career of magician and illusionist to learn to survive. Harry Houdini whose tricks defied explanation and safety. Friday 1st May 5:30pm Sunday 3rd May 2:05pm Nothing Barred (1961) Spies of the Air (1940) Comedy. Directed by Darcy Conyers. War Drama. Directed by Stars: Brian Rix, Charles Heslop & David Macdonald. Leo Franklyn. Lord Whitebait’s plan to Stars: Barry K. Barnes, Joan Marion, save his sinking fortunes is to open Roger Livesey. The story of a test stately Whitebait Manor to the public. pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time Friday 1st May 10pm it was released in 1940, war had The Fan (1981) been declared. Thriller. Directed by Edward Bianchi. Stars: , Michael Biehn, Sunday 3rd May 3:40pm James Garner & Maureen Stapleton. King Creole (1958) A famous stage and film actress is Musical Drama. stalked by a violent, deranged fan, Directed by Michael Curtiz. who begins killing those around her. Stars: Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau. A rebellious young Saturday 2nd May 12:35pm man takes a job as a nightclub, Operation Bullshine (1959) attracting the attention of a local Comedy. Directed by Gilbert Gunn. crime boss. Stars: Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray, Sunday 3rd May 7pm Dora Bryan & Carole Lesley. The ATS Another Time Another Place wife of an artillery lieutenant secretly (1958) joins her husband on the post. War Drama. Directed by Lewis Allen. Stars: Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Saturday 2nd May 3:55pm Glynis Johns, Sean Connery, Terence Thunder in the East (1953) Longdon, Sidney James. A beautiful War Drama. Directed by Charles New York newspaper woman falls in Vidor. Stars: Alan Ladd, , love with a married BBC war Charles Boyer. In 1947, in an correspondent during WWII. independent India, Europeans are scrambling to evacuate Ghandahar, which is besieged by a local warlord but sought-after by an American arms dealer.