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Dear Supporters of Film and TV History, Hoping you are all well. It’s entering the best time of year for us film lovers, as the nights draw in and a good DVD or Talking Pictures TV can be enjoyed in the warmth. If this was ‘The Smallest Show On Earth’ we would be turning the heating up to sell more ice creams! Our new Renown DVD Box set is The Vintage Transport Collection Volume 2 – a must for all vintage transport fans, it’s three discs full of shorts and films featuring Austins, Stock Cars, 1950s Taxi Cabs, bikes, planes, boats and good old steam trains. Just £20 with free UK postage, it’s a real wallow in transport nostalgia – a perfect (dare I say it) Christmas gift for vintage transport enthusiasts! By popular demand, we have produced a beautiful Limited Edition shiny enamel lapel pin for all you Film Club members! £6.99 each or two for £12, which you can wear with pride as being a proud member of the only independent British club dedicated to preserving film and TV history! AND the moment you have all been waiting for has arrived – the 2021 TPTV Calendar is here! £10 each while stocks last, full of important dates for film buffs, with stars birthdays, along with wonderful images of stars close to all our hearts. These go like HOT CAKES so do get yours quick! There’s also a very special 4 films for £20 offer, just £5 a DVD! While stocks last; plus many more offers exclusive to you all with some excellent articles to also keep you entertained. Some Important dates for your Calendars! Saturday 27th March 2021 in St Albans we will be holding a Film Quiz with Afternoon Tea and a Film Quiz with Dinner and entertainment the night before our Festival of Film on Sunday 28th March 2021 – more details in your next newsletter but for those of you who live nearby or those of you travelling from afar and staying the night before the festival, do make a note of the date to join us. It will be a lot of fun and time to test you egg heads on your film and TV knowledge and meet like-minded film fanatic friends! We have received a number of letters and calls regarding the ridiculous change of law for TV licenses for over 75s. I am sure you will all be aware that we do not receive one penny of this and Talking Pictures TV is FREE. We are hopeful we will be able to launch a ‘catch up ‘ service one day – but until then you will need to purchase your TV licence I’m afraid. We continue to provide you lots of premieres over the coming weeks, including The Assassination Bureau with & ; One of Our Aircraft is Missing with & Googie Withers; and Felix Aylmer in The Ghosts of Berkeley Square; the once lost Welcome, Mr. Washington with Peggy Cummins, Sidney Sheldon’s Bloodline with Audrey Hepburn and James Mason who is also in Child’s Play with Beau Bridges and Robert Preston; Elvis Presley in G.I. Blues and the compelling Contraband with Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson, to name a few! More details on pages 28-29. As ever please do keep on spreading the word! Very best wishes, Sarah, Noel & Neill 1 THE RENOWN PICTURES VINTAGE TRANSPORT IN FILM COLLECTION VOLUME 2 Running Time: 377 minutes. Dial-a-Bus in Harlow (1974) 3 DVD RRP £29.99 A charming film made around Harlow, Essex A collection of fascinating films and shorts Box Set Exclusive ! on the trail of the new ‘dial a bus’ scheme. on the wonderful world of vintage transport PRICE FOR OUR With great shots of 1970s . – everything from bikes to buses, bi-planes to EXCLUSIVE jet planes, luxury cars, rally cars and, the wonderful world SUPPORTERS JUST Sons of the Sea (1939) of the steam engine. Highlights include: £20.00 Director: . 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Ralph Smart, a film on Austin Cars, from the 7 to the Ascot. Free Road Symphony for Steam A look at the world of 1970s rallying in Switzerland. Commen- Charming amateur footage of tary by Jeremy Martin, featuring racing drivers Andre Savary steam trains chuffing along in the and Jean-Robert Corthay. 1950s, set to music. The Three-Pointed Star Serves You Right! (1940) A film made by Daimler and Benz A “Lost” short film on an English in the 1950s, the history of the ‘three-pointed star’ across car garage, featuring the right and all the Grand Prix events from the 1920s to the 1950s. wrong ways to treat a customer. Glimpses of the Ford Eight and the Flying - Hendon Display (1934) Ford Popular, Prefect and Pilot. Vintage footage of aerial displays including an early helicopter and Radio Cab Murder (1954) bi-planes in superb detail. Crime drama. Director: Vernon Sewell. Stars: Jimmy Hanley, Lana Morris and Sam Kydd. Sports Cars Race in Snow World War II veteran and ex-con Fred Martin witnesses a Fascinating footage from the 50s and 60s of cars on a race track Call Now On Freephone bank robbery and is asked by the police to join the gang in the snow, with commentary on the cars of the era. undercover and expose its leader. Let’s Talk Steam Engines 0808 178 8212 Around the World in 21 Days in an Austin (1951) A short film, made by Richard B. Morros. Features the familiar Or 01923 290555 An Austin A40 is driven around the world as a travelling whistle of the steam train and the chug of the old railroad. ambassador for the Festival of Britain. Holidays of 1938 Echo - The Motor Car A film made by a family on holiday in 1938, featuring visits A stunningly prophetic late 1960s / early 1970s to Rugby, Stratford-upon-Avon and a tour of the Standard news feature on the motor car and its place in Motor Car Factory in Coventry. 2 the world. 3

Memories of a life in films: Ooh... You are Awful! on DVD PLUS our matching T-shirt SPECIAL DEAL The Launch of Talking Pictures TV – the Early Days A perfect Secret Santa or Christmas gift! Part 13, by Noel Cronin Having made the decision to start our own TV channel, Sarah and I started the long process. Is it a good idea? How much will it cost? What are the regulations? The list was endless and in my late sixties, should I be starting a new career? + We felt the idea was sound; there seemed to be a gap in the market for a mostly mature audience that were fed up with the mind-numbing fare served up by the BBC and ITV. Daytime drama programmes by and large had been replaced by reality shows – how £20 to do up a , are auntie’s old candlesticks worth anything etc – FOR BOTH! which, sadly, still play after all this time. Starting and running a TV station is very time consuming and Free UK extremely expensive, so off to the banks with our business plan we PLEASE SPECIFY SIZE Postage went, only to find out that they didn’t really do that sort of thing, ON ORDER FORM. but, “how much is your house worth?” Further meetings with financial Ooh... You are Awful – institutions proved equally unsuccessful including offering the EXCLUSIVE LIMITED Chinese a place on the board. EDITION T-SHIRT! but I like you! In the end, we realised if it were to happen it would have to be self On the front the white t-shirt is printed on DVD Year: 1973 financed and, with a small loan from the bank… yes, and with the words: Director: Cliff Owen the deeds of the house were brought out (!) we were in Ooh you are awful – but I like you! Cast: Dick Emery, business. It always appeared obvious that most of the These bespoke t-shirts are hand made by Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Fraser, work would have to be carried out by Sarah and myself us and are 100% Polyester. Cheryl Kennedy, Pat Coombs, so having raised the minimum finance we were off to get Wash at 40°C; iron on reverse; do not Liza Goddard. To recover a stolen fortune tumble dry. a broadcasters licence... stashed in Switzerland, con-man Producer Noel Cronin founded Talking Pictures TV and Renown Pictures and is Chest measurements: Charlie has to find a bank contributing his memories to the newsletter. 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To order, call Freephone Or 01923 290555 Call Us Now On Freephone 8 0808 178 8212 0808 178 8212 9 The Talking Pictures Calendar 2021 The essential calendar is here! Just £10 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE! Call Now On Freephone: 0808 178 8212 The Talking Pictures Calendar 2021 is now Exclusive! available to order, at the same price as last year. This unique calendar is not available anywhere else! It features photos of stars you know and love, including Jack Warner, Kay Kendall, Honor Blackman, Norman Wisdom and Margaret Rutherford. The calendar features fascinating photographic collages including one of our screen detectives and another of our leading men; cinema memories from bygone days and posters from a selection of the wonderful films shown on Talking Pictures TV, as well as a tribute montage to the ever popular Sam Kydd! Every month features birthdays of some of our best loved stars and film directors, as well as a few fascinating facts from the world of film and TV. Bank holidays and memorable yearly events are also included. Don’t miss out on this wonderful tribute to British film and entertainment. A pleasure to look at, it also makes a wonderful gift.

To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 10 11 The Andrews Sisters That ’ll Be The Absolutely Essential MUSIC CD 3-CD Collection 60 Tracks on 3 discs The Day OUR PRICE £12.99 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE AND 60 fine examples of close harmony singing from the Stardust threeWITH FREE UK POSTAGE sisters who sold over Double Bill 80 million records. They were most popular in 2-DVD Box Set the US, where they had hit Colour. Running time: 107 mins approx. after hit, many duetting with free with Bing Crosby. All of the CD £15 UK Postage hits are included here, which THAT’LL BE THE DAY were recorded from 1938 Year: 1973 Director: Claude Whatham through to the early 1950s. Cast: David Essex, Rosemary Leach, Disc 1 Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy / The Woodpecker Song / Disc 3 Don’t Sit Under The Apple Ringo Starr, Robert Lindsay, Beth Morris, Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen / The Beer Down By The Ohio Tree / I Can Dream, Can’t I? / Rosalind Ayres, Deborah Watling, Barrel Polka / Pistol Packin’ Mama Disc 2 Rum And Coca Cola / Shoo Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t (My Baby) Karl Howman, , Patti Love. (With Bing Crosby) / Nice Work If Shoo Baby / Don’t Fence Me In (With Bing Crosby) / Near You / A nostalgic trip back to the late 1950s, You Can Get It / Joseph!, Joseph! / (With Bing Crosby) / Oh, Johnny! Strip Polka / Straighten Up And Fly time of brothel-creeper shoes, drainpipe Ti Pi Tin / Shortnin’ Bread / Says Oh, Johnny! Oh! / (I’ll Be With Right / Money Is The Root Of All Evil trousers, sideburns and greased back hair. My Heart / There’ll Be A Hot Time You In) Apple Blossom Time / Say / South America, Take It Away (With David Essex makes his screen debut as In The Town Of (With Bing Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy) / Tuxedo Bing Crosby) / Tico Tico / The Blond wayward hero Jim MacLaine, who lives a Crosby) / Pross-Tchai (Goodbye, Junction / Rhumboogie / Pennsylva- Sailor / Put That Ring On My Finger life of dead-end jobs and one-night stands Goodbye) / Lullaby To A Little nia 6-5000 / Beat Me Daddy, Eight / Hold Tight, Hold Tight (Want Some and dreams of becoming a rock star, Jitterbug / Yodelin’ Jive (With Bing To The Bar / Scrub Me, Mama, With More Sea Food, Mama?) / Lullaby supported by some famous musical Crosby) / Begin The Beguine / Well A Boogie Beat / Yes, My Darling Of Broadway / The Lady From 29 names including Ringo Starr, All Right (Tonight’s The Night) / The Daughter / I Yi Yi Yi Yi (I Like You Palms / Your Red Wagon / Toolie and Keith Moon. Jumpin’ Jive / Chico’s Love Song / Very Much) / The Three Caballeros Oolie Doolie / Heat Wave / You Call Ciribiribin (With Bing Crosby) / (With Bing Crosby) / Aurora Jealous Everybody Darling / STARDUST / The Shrine Of Underneath Year: 1974 Director: Michael Apted St. Cecilia / Three The Arches / Cast: David Essex, , Larry Little Sisters / Quicksilver Hagman, Rosalind Ayres, Karl Howman, Pennsylvania Polka (with Ines Des Longchamps. / I’ve Got A Guy In Bing Crosby) The sequel to That’ll Be the Day, Stardust To order, call us on Freephone Kalamazo chronicles Jim MacLaine’s rise and fall as a rock star. The cast featured several 0808 178 8212 To order, call us on Freephone well-known pop/rock performers, including Keith Moon, , Edd Byrnes, Or 01923 290555 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 12 Dave Edmunds and Paul Nicholas. 13 The Best of Collection 5 DVD Collector’s Edition • • • The Man in the White Suit • A collection of five classic . PRICE The Man in The White Suit (1951) With Optional Subtitles. £20 Directed by: WITH FREE UK POSTAGE Cast: , Cecil Parker, In the years following World War II, English film studio Joan Greenwood, Michael Gough, Ealing created a number of comedies which remain Ernest Thesiger, Henry Mollison, overwhelmingly popular with today’s audiences, and are Howard Marion-Crawford, Vida Hope, still regarded as treasured English classics. The films Duncan Lamont, Colin Gordon, spanned the lively and modest, to black comedies of the Miles Malleson, Mandy Miller. darkest variety, all were equally hilarious. Sidney Stratton is a laboratory cleaner in a Kind Hearts and Coronets textile factory who invents a material that (1949) neither wears out nor becomes dirty. Initially hailed as a great Directed by: discovery, Sidney’s invention is suffocated by the management Cast: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, when they realise that people will only need one suit of clothing. Joan Greenwood, Audrey Fildes, Miles Malleson, Passport to Pimlico Lyn Evans, Clive Morton, John Penrose, Cecil Ramage, (1949) Hugh Griffith, John Salew, Eric Messiter, Barbara Leake, Directed by: Henry Cornelius Peggy Ann Clifford, Anne Valery, Cast: Stanley Holloway, Margaret Arthur Lowe, Jeremy Spenser. Rutherford, Barbara Murray, A period comedy set in the early 20th Hermione Baddeley, Paul Dupuis, Raymond Huntley, John Slater, century. Louis Mazzini vows to take revenge Jane Hylton, Betty Warren, on his family, the D’Ascoynes, when he learns Basil Radford, Tafler, how they disinherited his mother. Working Charles Hawtrey, Sam Kydd, his way into their trust, Louis begins to bump Naunton Wayne, Richard Hearne. off his distant relatives (all played by Alec An unexploded bomb goes off in Pimlico, revealing documents Guinness), but complications begin when Edith D’Ascoyne, showing that this part of London belongs to Burgundy in France. the widow of his first victim, falls in love with him. An automonous state is set up, but the petty squabbles of everyday The Ladykillers (1955), life soon shatter the Utopian vision. Directed by: Alexander Mackendrick The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Cast: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Directed by: Charles Crichton Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner, Katie Johnson, Cast: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Philip Stainton, Frankie Howerd. Eccentric landlady Alfie Bass, Marjorie Fielding, Edie Martin, John Salew, Mrs Wilberforce believes her new lodger Professor Ronald Adam, Arthur Hambling, , Marcus and his associates, to be amateur musicians. They , Audrey Hepburn. are, in fact, the perpetrators of a bank heist, planning to Gold bullion delivery man Henry Holland conspires whisk their ill-gotten gains out of London. All goes well with fellow lodger Pendlebury, to carry out a heist, intending to smuggle the until Mrs Wilberforce is persuaded by Marcus to claim his gold out of the country by melting it into miniature models of the Eiffel Tower. trunk from the station; only then the criminals carefully laid plans go awry. Confusion ensues when the models becomes muddled with a non-golden batch.

To order, call Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 To order, call Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 14 15 Enemy at the Door Spotlight on Mary Miller (27 December 1929 – 11 July 2020) £35 Mary Miller, who played Fay Passmore in ‘Rooms’, was The Complete Series in with FREE UK postage born in Norfolk on 27 December 1929. She became not an 8-DVD Box set! only an actress of stage and television, but was also a founding member of The National Theatre in 1963, under Sir Laurence Olivier, in its inaugural season. Her television career began in 1959, with appearing in the first episode ofThe Golden Spur, with Ronald Hines and Oliver Reed. The same year she appeared in the episode, The Talking Doll, in the popular series No Hiding Place, as Ann Elsden. Throughout the sixties she was a familiar character actress in many television productions, including Hobson’s Choice (as Maggie Running time: approx. 1300 mins Hobson), Dixon of Dock Green, Dr Finlay’s Casebook, Jackanory, Mystery and Colour. Year: 1978-1980 Imagination, ITV Playhouse, The Wednesday Play and The Tales of Rudyard Cast: Bernard Horsfall, Kipling, as well appearing in comedy in shows with Marty Feldman, Alfred Burke, Simon Cadell, and Dick Emery, among others. John Malcolm, Simon Lack, Miller continued to receive television offers during the 70s. Some of her Richard Heffer, Helen Shingler, most notable seventies roles included the part of Angela Dunwoody QC, in Antonia Pemberton, Crown Court, a recurrent role over several ‘case stories’; the BBC mini-series Emily Richard. Fathers and Families, the long running ITV drama series Rooms, in which she Producer: Michael Chapman, played Fay Passmore; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Space 1999 and a producer of Public Eye. television film,All Quiet on the Western Front in 1979, which starred Number of discs: 8 Colour Richard Thomas and Ernest Borgnine. The film won a Golden Globe and an All 26 episodes from the TV drama series, Emmy Award. On stage she was critically acclaimed when she appeared in Simon Gray’s filmed on Jersey but set in Guernsey, Otherwise Engaged at the Queens Theatre in 1975 – under the direction of portray the daily life of Channel islanders – and repeated the success in 1977 on Broadway. Miller returned under German occupation during WWII. to Covent Garden in 1981 to appear in a Royal Ballet production, providing the As the only British territory to be occupied by ‘voice’ of the legendary artistic dancer Isadora Duncan in Kenneth MacMillan’s the Nazi regime during WWII, the Channel ballet Isadora. Mary provided the subject, reading from Duncan’s memoirs. Islands represented a glimpse of what life in She also provided a variety of voices for a puppet/live action production of Britain could have been like if Germany had Alice in Wonderland for Anglia Television in 1985 and became a regular cast won the war. Blending archive footage with Watch Enemy at The Door member for Anglia’s Knightmare series. contemporary film techniques, the series every Sunday at 9pm Only Miller’s later years included more stage and television achieved a gritty realism that went a long way on Talking Pictures TV. appearances in dramas such as EastEnders, Casualty, The to recreating the fear and uncertainty in the Alfred Burke led the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, Cadfael and Lynda Le Plante’s population at the time. German force, aided by Trial and Retribution. Enemy at the Door’s achievement is in Simon Cadell. John Nettles played a police detective Mary married actor Bill Simpson in 1965. The couple had presenting stories and characters that explore no children and their relationship ended in divorce in 1969. and Anthony Head made his the complex issues of alienation and wartime TV debut as the leader of She never remarried and in 2009 became a resident at the collaboration in a multi-faceted and subtle the resistance. actor’s retirement and nursing home, Denville Hall, where way, with a sense of day-to-day reality. she enjoyed a tranquil retirement until she peacefully passed away on 11 July 2020. To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 16 17 Charlie Chaplin – The Early Years It seems perfectly fitting that the Cinema Museum in London is not only used as the perfect filming CHAPLIN backdrop for many of the Talking Pictures TV inter- The story of one of view programmes, but was also once a home to one of Britain’s first international film stars… Sir Charles cinema’s greatest Chaplin KBE. The main building of the museum was pioneers on DVD. once a workhouse where Chaplin lived as a child. Chaplin’s presence is commemorated, with framed Running time: 138 mins approx. posters and stills from his most famous films, with free comedies that became international successes and £15 UK Postage guaranteed his status in film history forever. Year: 1992 Director: Richard Attenborough It is well documented that Chaplin’s early life was marked by what were to Cast: Robert Downey Jr., John Thaw, become the themes of his silent comedies: poverty, cruelty and loneliness. Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys, Moira Kelly, With an absent father and a mother who struggled both financially and with Anthony Hopkins, Dan Aykroyd, mental health problems, he had two stays in the workhouse before he reached Marisa Tomei, Penelope Ann Miller, 9 years of age. He had performed in the music halls from an early age and by Kevin Kline, Maria Pitillo, Milla Jovovich, the time he was 14 had built a respectable act, including a hilarious ‘drunken Kevin Dunn, Deborah Moore, Diane Lane, man’ routine, and toured extensively throughout the UK. After a relatively short Nancy Travis, James Woods, Hugh Downer, time, he came to the attention of impresario Fred Karno, who recognised Nicholas Gatt, Bill Paterson. Chaplin’s great talents and took Charlie on tour with his company to America. It was while he was performing in the States that he was invited to work in the Legendary director Richard Attenborough fledgling film industry. By 1914 Chaplin was working for Keystone Studios. He tells the epic story of a true cinematic honed his craft and his knowledge of the film industry as he worked through icon, Charlie Chaplin. In this award- the studios of Essanay, Mutual and First National. Within four years, he had winning masterpiece we follow Chaplin’s created his iconic ‘little tramp’ character which bought him a huge following of increasingly complicated life from a fans and turned him into an international film star. poverty stricken music hall entertainer in In 1919 Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists with England to eventual triumph in America. D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, giving him full control The story of Chaplin is the story of cinema, over his films, something he had been striving for since as we watch him grow from developing the Keystone days. He built his own studio, where he silent era slapstick to becoming one of the wrote, directed, produced, edited, appeared in and even most important, pioneering fathers of film composed the music for most of his films. He was a making, the art-form of a new century. But perfectionist and his financial independence now although he was able to reflect wondrous, enabled him to spend years on the development and magical humour in his work, his private life production of a picture. was afflicted with infamy, sadness and a His first feature length film wasThe Kid (1919), growing sense of loss. co-starring Jackie Coogan. It was a masterpiece and one Chaplin’s complex and dramatic career of the finest appearances for his ‘tramp’ character. is brought to life by a stunning array of He would keep the character as the ‘star’ of his films actors, with unforgettable performances until he was forced to make him speak in The Great from Robert Downey Jr, Anthony Hopkins, To order, call us on Freephone Dictator (1940), after which he never appeared on film Kevin Kline, Dan Akroyd, Marisa Tomei as ‘the little tramp’ again. What followed was a new era and Geraldine Chaplin as her own 0808 178 8212 of filmmaking for Chaplin. Further classics would fill the grandmother. provides a soul Or 01923 290555 screen… but that’s another story. stirring score to complete the film. 18 19 NEW Series and films coming up in Watch Talking Pictures on: FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 Renown Offer THE VINTAGE CHILLER & Sept/Oct on Talking Pictures TV FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 THRILLER COLLECTION Please spread the word and tell your friends! 3 DVD box set just £20 The British National Films Company with free UK postage We are very proud that Noel has managed to license some of the films produced by the Halloween is on October 31st, with British National Films Company, formed in 1934 by Joseph Arthur Rank, a devout member pumpkins, Trick or Treat and SCARY of the British Methodist Church and also a Sunday school teacher. He discovered that MOVIES! (Or slightly frightening.) screening religious films received a positive response and in 1933 formed the Religious Plan ahead and order a copy of our Film Society. A newspaper article about the effect of the film industry on family life mildly terrifying vintage creepy films, motivated Rank to expand into the commercial market. His first feature film wasTurn of to create a perfect atmosphere for the Tide (1935), but it was difficult to find distribution and Rank knew he had to create a when children, grandchildren and commercial version of his Religious Film Society. In 1934, Charles Boot had constructed a film studio in the village of Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire named Pinewood Film family come knocking... Our 3 DVD Studios. Boot approached British National about taking over ownership and management box set has 9 films with introductions of the studios, and a contract was signed. Rank produced many films, some of which you by Patricia Dainton for Tread Softly and will recognise from watching Talking Pictures TV. They include many Old Mother Riley The House in Marsh Road. films;Gaslight (1940); Love on the Dole (1941); Crook’s Tour (1941); The Seventh Survivor THE HOUSE IN MARSH ROAD (1960) Stars: Patricia Dainton, Tony Wright, (1942); One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942); Lady from Lisbon (1942); The Dummy Talks Sam Kydd. Jean Linton inherits a house where she moves with her husband, but (1943); Welcome, Mr. Washington (1944); Medal for the General (1944); Lisbon Story when he plots to kill her, the house intervenes. Director: Montgomery Tully. (1946); Green Fingers (1947); Dual Alibi (1947) and The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947). THE TROLLENBERG TERROR (1958) Stars: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne and Jennifer Jayne. A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a radioactive cloud. Director: Quentin Lawrence. FIREMAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE (1956) Stars: Susan Shaw, Paul Carpenter and Harry Fowler. A team of astronauts land on a moon of Jupiter, to find beautiful young women looking for mates, but also danger. Director: Cy Roth. TREAD SOFTLY (1952) Stars: John Bentley, Patricia Dainton. People are dying to keep the secret of a murder in a haunted theatre. Director: David MacDonald. The Seventh Survivor, Sat 3rd Oct 7:30pm Fri 9th Oct 4:55pm BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE (1958) Stars: Barbara Shelley, , Vincent Make a note One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing Sat 3rd Oct 3:25pm; Fri 9th Oct 2:30pm Ball and Victor Maddern. A mad scientist is experimenting on the inmates of a in your TV The Ghosts of Berkeley Square Sun 4th Oct 15:40pm; Mon 5th Oct 4:20pm prison hospital for the criminally insane. Director: Henry Cass. diary! Welcome, Mr.Washington Sat 10th Oct 1:00pm THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1950) Stars: , Kaye Tendeter and Irving Steen. A traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find New Glimpses! Coming Soon! Are you sitting on both his friend and his sister are suffering from a mysterious malady. That evening buried treasure? he hears of the Usher curse. Director: Ivan Barnett. As you can see from our THE MONKEY’S PAW (1948) Stars: Megs Jenkins, Milton Rosmer and articles, the ‘buried’ Michael Martin-Harvey. A magic monkey’s paw grants its owner treasure that is old films three wishes before disaster befalls them. Director: Norman Lee. can be found almost CROW HOLLOW (1952) Stars: Donald Houston, Natasha Parry and Patricia Owens. The story of the new wife of a young doctor anywhere – please do who goes to live with him in an old house where attempts are check your lofts and garages for any films made on her life. Director: Michael McCarthy. in cans – you never know what film treasures you may find for film and THE CURSE OF THE WRAYDONS (1946) Stars: Tod Slaughter, No slacking for Noel - 232 cans of film have Bruce Seton and Henry Caine. A young Captain becomes the TV history. If you find any – call us. been donated to us from a family archive! suspect of a series of killings in Epping Forest. He must find and Sadly we cannot accept any VHS tapes, trap the real killer! Director: Victor M. Gover. Watch out for some brilliant new Glimpses films. We don’t want to give too much away, old cassette tapes or DVDs – but if its film, its for us! To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 but stock car racing in the 1960s, anyone? 20 Dora Bryan in ? Watch this space! Call Noel on 01923 290555 21 Screen Icons Julie Christie Box Set DVD Box Set - 4 Discs In Schlesinger’s adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd Total Running time: 488 mins approx. (1967) she played Thomas Hardy’s heroine Bathsheba Everdene. The cinematography was by Nicolas Roeg with Julie Christie is one of the most luminous a soundtrack by Richard Rodney Bennett. He also used actresses to grace the British screen, as well as traditional folk songs in various scenes throughout the film. screens worldwide. She is famously known for Cast: Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, her magnetism on film, which has by no means Alan Bates, Fiona Walker, Prunella Ransome, faded with time. This box set contains some of Alison Leggatt, Paul Dawkins, the films that helped to carve her career as one Julian Somers, John Barrett, of the best known actresses of her time. Freddie Jones, Andrew Robertson, Brian Rawlinson. Christie’s first major film role was inBilly Liar (1963), which was directed by John Schlesinger. The Go-Between (1971), was She played Liz, the friend and “would-be lover” of adapted by Harold Pinter from the eponymous Billy Liar, played by Tom Courtenay, the novel written by L.P Hartley. a lazy, irresponsible young clerk in provincial Northern Christie starred with Alan Bates. England who lives in a fantasy world Directed by Joseph Losey, the film and makes immature decisions won the Grand Prix at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival and as he alienates friends and achieved unaniminous critical acclaim, was seen by many as family. Cast: Tom Courtenay, the peak of the careers of the actors involved. It remains a Wilfred Pickles, Mona beautiful and atmospheric interpretation of a truly poignant Washbourne, Ethel Griffies, story about a secret love affair between a beautiful heiress Finlay Currie, Gwendolyn and a poor tenant farmer, who can only communicate by Watts, Helen Fraser, sending messages via a young boy. Julie Christie, Leonard Rossiter, 4 Disc Box Set £20 Cast: Julie Christie, Edward Fox, Alan Bates, Margaret Rodney Bewes, George Innes, with FREE UK postage Leighton, , Leslie Randall, Patrick Barr, Dominic Guard, Michael Gough, Ernest Clark. Richard Gibson, Amaryllis Schlesinger went on to direct The Go Between Garnett, Simon Hume-Kendall, Christie in her breakthrough Roger Lloyd-Pack. role in Darling (1965), Billy Liar Julie Christie’s smile is her written by Frederic Raphael and trademark expression: radiant and co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Far From the serene suggesting empathy with in the whoever it’s aimed at. A brave face, poignant story of a stylish but Madding Crowd smiling in spite of adversity in a amoral model. Christie won slightly more upbeat version of the British stiff upper lip. several awards for Darling, Darling She remains a vivid image of the independent woman who including an Oscar. is, as Frederic Raphael noted, “contemptuous of convention The film features music by Johnny Dankworth. Cast: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, and wary of commitments.” Laurence Harvey, Roland Curram, José Luis de Villalonga, Basil Henson, Helen Lindsay, Carlo Palmucci, Dante Posani, Umberto Raho, Marika Rivera, To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 22 Alex Scott, Ernest Walder, Brian Wilde, Pauline Yates, Peter Bayliss. 23 From the British Film Institute Letters to the Projectionist London in 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 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 the Raw just play those we’d like to play, without proper licensing and rights in place. A film by Arnold L. Miller Also remember, some films or TV series may no longer exist, but we will keep trying! OPTIONAL SUBTITLES Please email us at: [email protected] Year: 1964; Colour Dear Talking pictures Team, Running Time approx: 75 min Last week you told of us of a lovely letter from Hilary Field inviting Number of discs: 1 Robin Hood and his merry men to tea and I just had to tell you how I did have tea with one of the men from Sherwood Forest! Like Hilary I was a Influenced by the worldwide huge fan of the series and it is so wonderful to see it running again on success of Italian ‘Mondo’ Talking Pictures. As a child I never expected to meet the Sheriff. Many movies, which combined £15 years later, I met Alan Wheatley who played the Sheriff of Nottingham documentary footage with and he became a friend, which led to me having tea with him several times at his beautiful flat in the late 70’s and the 80’s. Alan would always staged sequences to salacious effect, wheel out a trolley with a wonderful assortment of cakes and scones. legendary British low-budget movie mogul Arnold Louis Miller He would tell me many stories of his film work and of course Robin Hood. concocted this fascinating exploitation-style documentary. Thank you for providing us with the opportunity to catch up with our old Peering voyeuristically behind the grimy net curtains of London life heroes!! Very best to all the team, David J. Williams- Southampton. into seedy bars and clubs for beatniks and ‘art lovers’ and burrowing Dear Sarah, Hi Sarah, Baddeley, Raymond Lovell, beneath the glittering façade of the capital’s glamorous cocktail Can I thank all of you at We have Sky, Netflix and Jane Barrett, Robert Brown, Talking Pictures for putting in Amazon Prime, but the Marjorie Rhodes, , lounges and casinos, London in the Raw provides a cynical, such a lot of time and effort channel I seem to watch the sometimes startling, vision of life on and off the rain-spattered , Ivor Barnard, Edie to get this channel up and most is yours! I just wanted Martin, Sydney Tafler, Joan streets of 1960s London. running....I hope it goes from to thank TPTV for showing Young, Marianne Stone and strength to strength. The Fully Fitted Freight last Patrick McAlinney and the Extras programmes are great and It is Thursday. My late father director was . In • Alternative cut of the feature (46 mins). fantastic to see my childhood was in that film, appearing the film Thaxted was called favourites from the 1960s. in the Gloucester signal • Three 1960s London Sketches: Little Hayhoe. Many of the I have a lot of single elderly box. Although released in locals were used as extras. Pub (Peter Davis, 1962, 15 mins) neighbours who do not have 1957, he recalled that it I was one of the children who mobile phones or computers was filmed around 1955. Chelsea Bridge Boys (Peter Davis, had to run behind old Dan and Talking Pictures has been Thanks again, regards, Dance (Eddie Byrne) as he was Staffan Lamm, 1965, 30 mins) a Godsend during lockdown, so Adrian Holford taken to the old alms houses. I Strip (Peter Davis, Staffan Lamm, on their behalf, thank you for was also in a crowd scene. In providing companionship and a TIME GENTLEMEN PLEASE the final scene when the Prime Don DeFina, 1966, 25 mins). reason for getting up each day. from LES HOCKLEY Minister arrived it was not • Original trailer. As one lady said “It is just like I was born in Thaxted, a raining enough, so the fire the thrill of Saturday morning small town in Essex. In 1952 brigade had to spray their hoses • Dolby Digital mono audio (320kbps). cinema in the 1940s-50s and we heard that a comedy film to make it look as if it was I justify spending my pension called Time Gentlemen Please. raining. After the final scenes on a little chocolate each to Filming started in the summer were shot, all the children were sustain me during the all day WITH FREE UK POSTAGE and we watched many of the given a party in the Bolfold OUR PRICE £15.00 cinema.” Best wishes and kind scenes. The stars included Eddie Street Schoolroom and were regards, Tony Roberts Byrne, Dora Bryan, Hermione waited on by the stars. 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Tuesday 15th September 2:30pm Thursday 1st October 10:00pm Sunday 4th October 3.40pm and Saturday 10th October 9:05pm Warn That Man (1943) and Wed 7th October 12:00am Monday 5th October 4:20pm Bloodline (1979) Comedy Thriller. Director: Lawrence The Assassination Bureau The Ghosts of Berkeley Square Thriller. Director: Terence Young. Huntington. Stars: Gordon Harker, (1969) Comedy. Director: (1947) Comedy. Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Raymond Lovell, . An . Stars: Oliver Reed, Director: Vernon Sewell. Stars: Robert James Mason, Omar Sharif. impersonator takes part in a German Diana Rigg, , Beryl Morley, Felix Aylmer, Yvonne Arnaud, A pharmaceutical heiress attempt to kidnap . Reid. The Assassination Bureau Claude Hulbert. At a court in the becomes the target of an Wednesday 16th September 10:00pm chooses targets for moral issues. afterlife a pair of 18th century soldiers unknown killer. (AKA Sidney Tender Mercies (1983) Friday 2nd October 2:30pm are sentenced to haunt a mansion. Sheldon’s Bloodline) Drama. Director: Bruce Beresford. Flight Nurse (1954) Sunday 4th October 6:10pm and Sunday 11th October 6:50pm Stars: Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, War drama. Director: Allan Dwan. Thursday 8th October 9:25am. & Friday 16th October 2:30pm Betty Buckley, Ellen Barkin. A country Stars: Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker, Teacher’s Pet (1958) G.I. Blues (1960) singer seeks to turn his life around Arthur Franz. Nurse Lt. Polly Comedy. Director: George Seaton. Musical Comedy. Director: through his relationship with a widow. Davis is on assignment with the Stars: Clark Gable, Doris Day, Norman Taurog. Stars: Sunday 20th September 3:50pm and Medical Air Evacuation Unit. Gig Young and Mamie Van Doren. Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse. Wednesday 23rd Sept 2:30pm Saturday 3rd October 1:40pm A city editor is attracted to a lecturer A soldier dreams of running his own nightclub. Springtime (1946) & Thursday 8th October 2:30pm and ends up in her class as a student. Drama. Director: Montgomery Tully. Submarine Command (1951) Friday 9th October 11:10pm Saturday 17th October 1:55pm Stars: Peter Graves, Carol Raye, War. Director: John Farrow. Friends (1971) Springtime in the Sierras Lawrence O’Madden, Leni Lynn. Stars: William Holden, Nancy (1947) Western. Romance. Director: Lewis Gilbert. Director: William N. Witney. The journey of a brooch, through its Olson, William Bendix. Stars: Sean Bury, Anicée Alvina, owners, first given as a gift in 1911. A Lieutenant Commander is Stars: Roy Rogers, Jane Frazee, Ronald Lewis, Joan Hickson. An Andy Devine. A lady rancher Sunday 20th September 10:00pm called to back active duty. orphaned French girl and a rich slaughters game out of season. and Thursday 24th September Saturday 3rd October 3:25pm English boy decide to create a life apart from the adult world. Saturday 17th October 10:00pm First Monday in October and Friday 9th October 2:30pm 6:10pm (1981) Comedy-drama. Director: One of Our Aircraft is Missing Saturday 10th October 1:00pm Contraband (1940) Ronald Neame. Stars: Walter Matthau, (1942) War. Directors: Michael Welcome, Mr. Washington (1944) Espionage. Director: Michael Jill Clayburgh. The Supreme Court’s Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Stars: Drama. Director: Leslie S. Hiscott. Powell. Stars: Conrad Veidt, first woman Associate Justice dates her Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Stars: Barbara Mullen, Donald Stewart Valerie Hobson. A merchant sea politically opposed colleague. Googie Withers. A British bomber and Peggy Cummins. Two penniless captain meets an enigmatic is shot down over Holland. Monday 28th September 9:25am sisters are forced to lease their estate as passenger during WWII. American forces during World War II. and Sunday 4th October 6am Saturday 3rd October 7:30pm Saturday 17th October The Girl in the Taxi (1937) & Friday 9th October 4:55pm Saturday 10th October 6pm and 10:10pm Child’s Play (1973) Comedy. Director: André Berthomieu. The Seventh Survivor (1943) Sunday 11th October 2.20pm Drama. Director: Sidney Lumet. Stars: Frances Day, Henri Garat, Espionage. Director: Leslie S. The Second Mr. Bush (1940) Stars: Beau Bridges, James Mason, Lawrence Grossmith, Jean Gillie. Hiscott. Stars: Austin Trevor, Comedy. Director: John Paddy Carstairs. Robert Preston. A new teacher Blackmail ensues when the head of a Linden Travers. Survivors of a Stars: Wallace Evennett, Evelyn Roberts discovers all is not as harmless as Parisian purity league is found to be torpedo attack are rescued with and Kay Walsh. A writer poses as a shy it seems at his new school. leading a double life. the German captain responsible. butterfly hunter who has a fortune. Sunday 18th October 3:40pm Wednesday 30th September 10:00pm Saturday 3rd October 9:05pm Saturday 10th October 7:05pm The World Owes Me a Living and Monday 5th October 11:00pm & Thurs 8th October 10:00pm Blueprint for Robbery (1960) (1945) Drama. Director: Vernon Hit! (1973) Action. Director: Sidney J. The Day of the Locust (1975) Crime. Director: Jerry Hopper. Sewell. Stars: David Farrar, Furie. Stars: Billy Dee Williams, Richard Drama. Director: John Schlesinger. Stars: J. Pat O’Malley, Robert J. Wilke, Judy Campbell, Sonia Dresdel, Pryor, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles. Stars: Donald Sutherland, Karen Robert Gist. Gang members fight among Jack Livesey, . A federal agent tries to destroy a drug Black. In 1930s Hollywood a themselves while the police pour all their After a plane crash, a young pilot ring after his daughter overdoses. corrupt society collapses. resources into capturing them. experiences amnesia. NEW SERIES: The Mind of Mr J.G. Reeder NEW SERIES: Midnight is a Place Stars: Hugh Burden, Willoughby Goddard, Mona Bruce, Gillian Lewis, Virginia Stride, Stars: Simon Gipps-Kent, Maxine Gordon, David Collings, Erik Chitty, William Squire. Windsor Davies, Ray McAnally, Edward Fox and Victor Maddern. Set in the 1920s, Based on the Joan Aiken historical , directed by Chris McMaster. The story based on stories by Edgar Wallace, this series ran from 1969-1971. Hugh Burden plays follows a young English boy and a French girl who are left destitute after a fire. The pair a mild-mannered employee at the Department of Public Prosecutions with a gift for struggle to survive, learning ways of making a living and finding help where they least solving complex crimes, working under the overbearing Sir Jason Toovey. expect it. (1977-78) Begins Saturday 26th September 9:00am, continues Saturday and 28 Starts: Wednesday 16th Sept at 9pm, continues weekly. Sunday mornings. 29 Subtitled films available on TPTV this month FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 British Rock ‘n’ Roll Full listings of films with subtitles 00:00 Girl With A Pistol Sun 04 Oct available on our website. Thu 24 Sep 06:00 Girl In A Taxi OUR PRICE £12.99 Tue 15 Sep 10:30 Demobbed 07:20 Fire Maidens From Outerspace WITH FREE UK POSTAGE 07:50 The Passing Stranger 14:30 Gelignite Gang 09:30 Stagecoach West 09:10 It’s in the Bag 16:00 The Fast Lady 11:00 The Key Man 10:25 Hindle Wakes 22:00 First Monday in October 18:10 Teacher’s Pet MUSIC CD 12:10 Folly To Be Wise Fri 25 Sep 21:00 Enemy At The Door 60 Tracks on 3 discs 16:05 No Highway in the Sky 07:00 Thunder In The City 22:00 Up the Junction 18:50 Sudden Fear 08:40 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers Mon 05 Oct This 60 track compilation Wed 16 Sep 20 10:55 Private Information 06:00 The Secret Man 09:15 It’s a Great Day 12:10 Mandy 09:15 Night Was Our Friend on three discs, showcases 12:25 Come Back Peter 16:45 Ring of Spies 23:00 HIT! the British Rock ‘n’ Rollers 23:50 Penny Gold 01:45 Flight From Tue 06 Oct CD 01:35 Marked Men Sat 26 Sep 06:35 Salute the Toff from the late 50s and early 60s Thu 17 Sep 07:00 Ramrod 11:50 Bond Street when they absorbed the sounds 10:10 Paul Temple’s Triumph 09:30 Stagecoach West 23:50 The Hunter and style of their American 16:35 Stormy Crossing 10:30 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans Wed 07 Oct 18:40 The Black Rose 11:00 The Frightened Man 06:00 Lest We Forget counterparts. 22:00 These Dangerous Years (1957) 12:20 They Came From Beyond Space 16:25 Devil Girl From Mars Disc 1 Cliff Richard & The Drifters - - Five Days, Five Days / Wee Willie Harris - I Go Ape / 00:00 Hard Times 18:00 00:00 The Assassination Bureau Fri 18 Sep 21:35 An Inspector Calls Thu 08 Oct Move It / Tommy Steele - Rock With The Vipers - No Other Baby / Adam Bert Weedon - Big Beat Boogie / 16:30 I Live In Grosvenor Square Sun 27 Sep 06:25 Master Spy The Cave Man / Terry Dene - Faith - High School Confidential Sharkey Todd And The Monsters - 18:45 Pool of London 09:30 Stagecoach West 07:50 Make Mine a Million A White Sport Coat / Don Lang / Janice Peters - This Little Girl’s Horror Show 23:45 The Legend of Hell House 13:05 Oliver Twist 09:25 Teacher’s Pet Sat 19 Sep 21:00 Enemy At The Door 22:00 The Day of the Locust And His Frantic Five - 6.5 Special / Gone Rockin’ / Vince Eager And The Disc 3 Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - 06:00 The Conquest of Everest Mon 28 Sep 00:50 Circle of Deception Tommy Steele - Singing The Blues / Vagabonds - Soda Pop Pop Shakin’ All Over / Vince Taylor - Brand 07:35 Clash By Night 06:00 Fire Over England Fri 09 Oct Jim Dale - Be My Girl / Adam Faith Disc 2 The Shadows - Apache / New Cadillac / The Shadows - F.B.I / 09:30 Stagecoach West 09:25 Girl In A Taxi 06:00 Emergency Call 10:30 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans 10:45 Dancing With Crime 09:20 Mad About Men - What Do You Want ? / Vince Taylor And The Playboys - Marty Wilde And The Wildcats - Sea Of 12:10 Farewell To Arms 12:25 Target Earth 12:10 His Girl Friday Tony Crombie And His Rockets - Right Behind You Baby / Lord Love / The John Barry Seven - Hit And 15:45 Genevieve 14:40 End of the Line 18:30 Nate and Hayes Sticks And Stones / Don Lang And Rockingham’s X1 - Hoots Mon! / Miss / Sharkey Todd And The Monsters 20:35 Angels One Five 18:30 Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down 23:10 Friends 22:35 The Deep Tue 29 Sep Sat 10 Oct His Frantic Five - Red Planet Rock / Tommy Steele - Come On Let’s Go - Cool Gool / Dickie Pride - Slippin’ Sun 20 Sep 14:40 The Court Jester 06:00 Music Hall Marty Wilde And The Wildcats - Love / Cliff Richard - Livin’ Lovin’ Doll ‘n’ Slidin’ / The Scorpions - Riders In 06:00 Serena 16:45 British Intelligence 07:20 Warp Speed Bug Crawl / Wee Willie Harris - / Marty Wilde And The Wildcats - The Sky / Janice Peters - A Girl Likes 09:30 Stagecoach West 23:45 The Big Gamble 09:30 Stagecoach West 10:30 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans 01:45 A Gunman Has Escaped 11:00 Arabian Adventure Rockin’ At The Two I’s / Jim Dale Endless Sleep / Billy Fury - Don’t / Billy Fury And The Four Jays - Turn 12:30 Wed 30 Sep 15:50 Nurse on Wheels - Crazy Dream / Terry Dene - This Knock Upon My Door / Johnny Kidd My Back On You / Johnny Kidd and 15:50 Springtime 06:00 The Villain (1979) 21:05 Sidney Sheldon’s Bloodline Is The Night / Cliff Richard - High and The Pirates - Please Don’t Touch The Pirates - Growl / The John Barry 18:00 The Monkey’s Paw 07:45 Gert & Daisy’s Weekend 01:15 Man In The Attic 21:00 Enemy At The Door 11:00 Pink String and Sealing Wax Sun 11 Oct Class Baby / Vince Taylor And The / Emile Ford And The Checkmates Seven - Walk Don’t Run / Mike Sagar 22:00 First Monday in October 22:00 HIT! 06:00 The Ghost Camera Playboys - I Like Love / - What Do You Want To Make Those And The Cresters - Deep Feeling / Mon 21 Sep Thu 01 Oct 07:25 Dentist In The Chair Eyes At Me For? 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