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The Black Orchid on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Ina Balin and Jimmy Baird Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 20th July 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 The Black Orchid on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Ina Balin and Jimmy Baird. Directed by Martin Ritt in 1959. Rose Bianco, a florist widowed by a famous gangster, looks for happiness with widower Frank Valente. Rose is dealing with her son Ralph who is in a work farm for troubled boys, though Ralph is warned that if he runs away one more time he will be sent to reform school. Sophia Loren convincingly portrays the mother, the widow and the bride. Anthony Quinn combines charm with strength. Airs Saturday 25th July 7:10pm. Monday 20th July 11:10am Wednesday 22nd July 9:30am Heart of a Child (1958) It’s Hard to be Good (1948) Drama, directed by Clive Donner. Comedy. Directed by: Jeffrey Dell. Stars: Jean Anderson, Stars: Anne Crawford, Jimmy Hanley, Donald Pleasence, Richard Williams. Raymond Huntley. A conscientious During wartime rationing, a young captain emerges from the war Austrian boy is forced to sell the with ambitions to spread peace family dog to pay for food. Will his and goodwill. canine friend find him when he is Wednesday 22nd July 1:10pm trapped in a snowstorm? My Six Loves (1962) Monday 20th July 2:35pm Comedy, directed by Gower Don’t Bother To Knock (1961) Champion. Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Comedy. Director: Cyril Frankel. Stars: David Janssen, Cliff Robertson. Richard Todd, Nicole Maurey and Comic story of a Broadway musical Elke Sommer. A flirtatious travel agent star who arrives at her country home gives all his girlfriends keys to his flat and finds six runaway children living which seemingly backfires. on her property. Tuesday 21st July 8:25am Wednesday 22nd July 7:00pm Harmony Lane (1954) Rockets Galore (1958) Directed by: Lewis Gilbert (as Byron Comedy. Director: Michael Relph. Gill). A ‘lost’ short featuring several Stars: Jeannie Carson, Donald Sinden, variety acts: The Jack Billings Trio; The Roland Culver. Residents of a small Beverley Sisters; Sadlers Wells dancers island in the Scottish Hebrides resist Svetlana Beriosova & David Paltenghi; their government’s plan to make The Television Toppers and a comedy their home a missile base. routine with Dora Bryan OBE and Thursday 23rd July 9:35am Max Bygraves OBE. That Brennan Girl (1946) Tuesday 21st July 1:15pm Drama, directed by: Alfred Santell. Derby Day (1952) Stars: James Dunn, Mona Freeman, Drama. Directed by Herbert Wilcox. William Marshall, June Duprez. Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, When Ziggy Brennan’s seaman Googie Withers and John McCallum. husband is killed in action, her baby On the morning of the Epsom Derby, is taken into custody. Can she make a disparate group of people prepare to good and be reunited with her go to the races. child? (AKA Tough Girl) Tuesday 21st July 2:55pm Thursday 23rd July 4:35pm Green Fingers (1947) Distant Trumpet (1952) Drama. Directed by John Harlow. Drama, directed by: Terence Fisher. Stars: Robert Beatty, Carol Raye, Stars: Derek Bond, Jean Patterson, Nova Pilbeam. A young man returns Derek Elphinstone. A Harley Street from war to discover that he has what physician swaps duties with his appear to be healing powers. brother, a medical missionary. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 20th July 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Hurry Sundown on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Robert Hooks, Faye Dunaway. Directed by Otto Preminger in 1967. A gold-digging canning plant owner and his heiress wife are determined to sell their land in Georgia, but the deal rests on selling two adjoining plots. No one wants to sell and tragedy is brought into their lives by the ruthless businessman. One of Faye Dunaway’s two 1967 film debuts. Airs Sunday 26th July 10:05pm. Thursday 23rd July 9:00pm Saturday 25th July 1:40pm The Carpetbaggers (1964) Champion (1949) Drama. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Drama. Director: Mark Robson. Stars: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Stars: Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Carroll Baker, Bob Cummings, Arthur Kennedy. The struggles of Martha Hyer and Elizabeth Ashley. a boxer fighting his own demons The ruthless and destructive rise to while trying to achieve success. power of playboy Jonas Cord. Saturday 25th July 7:10pm Friday 24th July 10:45am The Black Orchid (1959) Flight To Mars (1951) Drama. Director: Martin Ritt. Science fiction, directed by Lesley Stars: Sophia Loren, Jimmy Baird, Selander. Stars: Marguerite Chapman Anthony Quinn, Ina Balin. Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz. A gangster’s widow looks for Five astronauts fly to Mars where the happiness with a widower while inhabitants plan to invade Earth. dealing with her troubled son. Tuesday 21st July 5am and Saturday 25th July Friday 24th July 8:30pm Framed (1975) 9:00pm NEW SERIES Bognor (1981-1982) Crime. Director: Phil Karlson. Starring David Horovitch, with Stars: Joe Don Baker, Conny Van Dyke. An innocent man comes out Joanna McCallum, Ewan Roberts and of prison ready to get even with the Tim Meats. Simon Bognor, is an people who sent him there. investigator for the Department of Trade, who contends with Sunday 26th July 9:30am double-dealing, murders, dismissive The Secret Tunnel (1948) bosses and his fierce fiancé Monica. Family. Director: William C. Continues weekdays at 5am. Hammond. Stars: Tony Wager, Ivor Bowyer, Murray Matheson. Two Friday 24th July 10:00pm boys set out to bring to justice the Peeping Tom (1960) thieves of a Rembrandt painting. Horror. Director: Michael Powell. Stars: Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, Sunday 26th July 6:25pm Moira Shearer. A young man murders Funny Face (1957) women using a movie camera to film Musical Romance. their dying expressions of terror. Director: Stanley Donen. Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Saturday 25th July 07:40am Kay Thompson, Robert Flemyng. Runaround (1975) A fashion photographer asks The popular Saturday morning kids’ a girl to model for him after show hosted by comedian accidentally catching her on film. Mike Reid. Children from two schools Sunday 26th July 10:05pm competed, supported by a noisy Hurry Sundown (1967) audience of fellow pupils. Drama. Director: Otto Preminger. Saturday 25th July 12:30pm Stars: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Circumstantial Evidence (1952) John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Crime. Director: Daniel Birt. Robert Hooks, Faye Dunaway. Stars: Rona Anderson, Patrick Holt, A ruthless Southern opportunist John Arnatt. A woman seeks tries to buy his cousin’s land, and, evidence to give grounds for divorce. when thwarted, brings tragedy to the lives of his loved ones..
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