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You can always call us V 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 Dear Supporters of Film and TV History,BAH HUMBUG!!! Can you believe that Christmas is almost upon us?! It’s been a tough year for so many but I do hope we’ve brought you some comfort in such difficult times. Christmas might be a bit ‘Bah Humbug!’ for us all this year, but we have lots to keep you entertained and there is room for you all in our cinema! Sad news this month as we say goodbye to John Fraser a fine actor who can be seen on the channel in in Clover and El Cid. Good news for Old Mother Riley fans in the New Year: Noel has managed to license the ‘lost’ films to air on Talking Pictures TV. More on this in the next newsletter. This month we have a new crime release for you, our new Crime Collection Volume 7! This enthralling box set features a fantastic selection of films, includingDevil’s Bait with Jane Hylton, Geoffrey Keen and as a policeman, long before his butlering days! also features in a superb performance as a magician, in Where Has Poor Mickey Gone; a rarely seen thriller, The Black Abbot and a gripping yarn about two boys on the hunt for a stolen painting, The Secret Tunnel – plus many more! If you are struggling for gift ideas this year, please don’t forget we have gift vouchers available – they never expire and can be used on anything we sell. Please call us to order some to be posted to you. We also have a new self-cling window stickers design – we are offering a FREE sticker with every order made from this newsletter, just remember to tick the box on the order form. Display them with pride, it will help to spread the word about your favourite channel! There are some wonderful gems on your screens this Christmas, including a previously LOST Matt Monro concert, discovered in the family garage by his daughter after 40 years, the only known film of Britain’s greatest singer performing live. Also a previously lost programme of Christmas Carols from the Albert Hall with Sir CBE reading from the bible; Ten Little Indians with , Scrooge with CBE (of course!); Please Sir with John Alderton (before his chauffeuring days!), and in El Cid and the hilarious with Sir CBE and Sir , among many others. There are also some wonderful special offers for you all this month, including two NEW books, firstly, TPTV regular faceGuy Standeven, who has been in just about everything, from Man from Tangier to Public Eye. Secondly, a director whose work is often on the channel, John Guillerman, edited by his lovely wife Mary – “Very few critical studies of film directors are also a love story. This one is’. Please remember our offers don’t hang around – we can’t keep huge amounts of stock as all the spare space in the ‘office’ is taken up by reels of film and film cans – so if there’s something you are interested in get on the ‘Telling Bone’ quick! And finally, a special thanks from us here – to you, for all your support in a tough year – please keep on spreading the word, take care, stay safe and Merry Christmas, Sarah, Noel, Neill and young Archie! 1 You can always call us V 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 RENOWN PICTURES NEW DVD RELEASE CRIME COLLECTION VOLUME 7 Exclusive! 3-DVD Box Set. A collection of intriguing crime films from the 1930s to the . With optional subtitles. EXCLUSIVE PRICE Can you solve the crimes before the sleuths? Devil’s Bait (1959) Jane Hylton JUST The Black Abbot (1934) and Geoffrey Keen give riveting £20.00 Rarely seen British crime thriller performances as a husband-and- WITH FREE UK POSTAGE directed by George A. Cooper. wife bakery team who accidentally FOR ALL THREE DISCS! A gang of crooks use the legend of bake rat poison into a batch of a ghost haunting an old mansion to bread after a rat-catcher leaves Call: 0808 178 8212 kidnap a rich man. Stars: some in their bakery. John Stuart, Judy Kelly, Edgar , Richard Gordon Jackson plays the sergeant called in to Cooper, Drusilla Wills, Farren Soutar & Cyril Smith. lead the search. Directed by Peter Graham Scott. The Secret Tunnel (1948) Family thriller, set in Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964) East Anglia. Two boys try to foil a gang of art Warren Mitchell is superb as a thieves. Director: William C. Hammond. Stars: fairground magician, subjected to Tony Wager, Ivor Bowyer, Murray Matheson, torment by a group of young rowdies. Gerald Pring, Thelma Rea, Frank Henderson. Stars: Warren Mitchell, John Malcolm, Circumstantial Evidence Ray Armstrong, John Challis, (1952) Rona Anderson plays an Christopher Robbie, Karol Hagar, unhappily married woman who Joseph Cook and Vincent Shaw. falls for another man and seeks Murder in Eden (1961) British mystery grounds for divorce. Events are film directed by Max Varnel. complicated by murder and blackmail. Yard sends in Inspector Sharkey when an Director: Daniel Birt. Cast: Patrick Holt, art critic is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Stars: John Arnatt & John Warwick. Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller, Yvonne Buckingham. Night Was Our Friend (1951) Mystery of the Wentworth Castle (1940) Director: Michael Anderson. Stars as detective Mr. James Lee Wong, sent to Stars: , investigate a shipping magnate’s murder, aided by an eager , Ronald Howard reporter played by Marjorie Reynolds and Grant Withers as and Marie Ney. Moving story of a hard-nosed policeman. murder, madness and loyalty. Bash and Grab (1965) The Devil’s Jest (1954) Valentine Dyall narrates this public Sinister events at a remote castle information film on crime. owned by a widow, whose son is suspected of spying for Danger By My Side (1963) With the the Nazis. Stars: Mara Russell-Tavernan, Ivan Craig, help of the Met police a girl attempts to Call Now On Freephone Valentine Dyall, Derek Aylward & Julian Sherrier. track down the killers of her detective The Shakedown (1960) Terence Morgan plays brother. Stars: Anthony Oliver, 0808 178 8212 ‘Augie,’ just out of prison and intent on getting his blackmail Maureen Connell, Alan Tilvern, racket back from ‘Gollar’, (Harry H. Corbett). Donald Bill Nagy and Sonya Cordeau. 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Call Us Now On Freephone To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 4 0808 178 8212 5 Memories of a life in films: From the The Launch of Talking Tales from Pictures TV – ON AIR! the Shipyard Part 16, by Noel Cronin 2-DVD box set Year: 1898-1974; Launch day had arrived but it turned out to be a Sound and Silent £19.99 bit of an anti-climax – Sky couldn’t give an exact time that Talking Pictures would be on the air – Colour and Black & White only it would be between x and x time, which was a pretty big gap! Running Time approx: 314 min We waited while an engineer finished – maybe a cup of tea – and on From scenes of workers celebrating the screen, half way through a programme, TPTV started its broadcast spectacular launches in the early 1900s to ’s perspective on ’s life. As we were a 24 hours a day station, everything before the switch industrial relations in The Bowler and the was thrown was unseen by the eager viewers, probably 500 at best! Bunnet (1967), (which he also directed), to I am sure there were minor glitches but nothing major, and we documentaries such as the Oscar-winning watched with a little degree of pride that all the hard work had at Seawards the Great Ships, this collection last materialised on the screen. The next day we awaited with bated celebrates Britain’s shipbuilding heritage. breath the overnight ratings. A company called Barb had a system, in Disc One The Launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall (1898); Employees Leaving Messrs Vickers and my view based on the straw pole principle, that if X people watched Maxim’s in Barrow (1901); Workforce of Scott & a programme you could multiply their number to give you a national Co. Shipyard, Greenock (1901); The Launch of aggregate audience number. Barb signed up many panel members HMS Dominion (1903); King Edward VII Launches HMS Dreadnought from Portsmouth Dockyard around the country so the math is one member equals X of the general (1906); SS Olympic (1910); The Launch of HMS viewing public, so the more members watching the same programme (1913); Visit of Their Majesties the King gave the biggest audience numbers and most importantly, your and Queen to the North-East Coast Shipbuilding and Engineering Works on the Wear (1917); RMS advertising revenue is based on these numbers. Hence our excitement Queen Mary Leaves the Clyde (1936); Shipyard to see how we had fared on our first day. Needless to say the many (1935); Chains (1939); Tyneside (1941); Steel thousands that we hoped to get were a few hundred, but you have to Goes to Sea (1941); The Little Ships of England (1943); ‘Shipyard for Colliers’ from Mining Review start somewhere. Next time: 2nd Year No.3 (1948); Berth 24 (1950). “surely more people than this are watching?!” Disc Two We’ve Come a Long Way (1951); The Producer Noel Cronin founded Talking Pictures TV and Sea Shall Test Her (1954); Seawards the Great Renown Pictures and is contributing his memories to the Ships (1960); A Great Ship (1962); The Bowler and newsletter. Ever since his entrance into the world of film the Bunnet (1967); UCS 1 (1971); Launch (1974). as a young man, Noel is interested in preserving the Extras: Illustrated booklet with new essays and heritage of lost and forgotten films, shorts and Interview with Sean Connery (1967, 10 notes on all of the films, with contributions programmes, and for many years has gathered, restored mins extract): Sean Connery discusses his from BFI curators, Sir Sean Connery and preserved this wonderful heritage which would oth- views on labour relations. and others. erwise be lost. Noel worked for and the Central Office of Information, and bought the rights to several libraries that owned films which now air on Talking Pictures TV. His career as a OUR PRICE £19.99 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE producer and editor of films, documentaries and TV series spans several decades. Call Us Now On Freephone 0808 178 8212 6 7 Who’s that Guy? That guy is Guy Standeven. BOOK OFFER – GREAT GIFT, STOCKING FILLER OR SECRET SANTA

Rarely does a week go by that Who’s That Guy? Guy Standeven does not appear on by Marcus James Heslop Talking Pictures TV. Sometimes he is easy to spot in a speaking part; Think of your favourite British film, (or at other times, he loiters in the American movie filmed in the UK), background or is simply a face in the made between the early to the crowd. Guy was happy to do extra late 1990s. There’s a huge chance work alongside more substantial Guy Standeven is in it. The Man Who parts, very rare for a professional actor. He loved to be on location or Knew Too Much, Georgy Girl, in the film studio and would take whatever work came his Operation Crossbow, A Clockwork way. You might have spotted him in A Challenge for Robin Orange, Star Wars, Four Weddings Hood as an apothecary or as the prison chaplain in Rotten and a Funeral – you name it, he’s to the Core. In the brilliant Hammer thriller Straight on till probably in there somewhere. He did Morning, he rudely replies to ’s bizarre film, TV, radio, theatre, voice-overs, question as to whether or not his dog likes nuts; or perhaps you recall him as a doctor in the TV series Quatermass. print advertising and even found time He appears in Public Eye, enlisting Alfred Burke’s private detective to investigate his to appear in Kate Bush’s Hounds of wife’s suspected infidelity. At Halloween, you would have heard his voice narrating Love music video! Still fondly the classic 70s documentary Legend of the Witches. These are just a handful of the remembered from the classic children’s hundreds of appearances he made during his fifty-year career. Guy was one of the TV series Knightmare you will hear unsung heroes of the film and television industry, whose life proves that not all actors from many of his co-stars from that lead a gilded existence, but those on the fringes of fame still lead fascinating lives. show as well as from , A few of the Films/TV shows with roles played by Guy: On the Fiddle (1961) a soldier. Patrick Murray, Carey Harrison (son The Boys (1962) a juror. Jet Storm (1959) with as a taxi driver. Enemy at the Door (1980) as an officer.A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967) an of Rex) and many more. He appeared apothecary. Straight on Till Morning (1972) with Rita Tushingham as man in park. with them all and here they share their Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) a judge. Quatermass (1979) with as a memories of working with a much doctor. The Magic Christian (1969) a city gent. Man from Tangier (1957) a barber. loved man. This is the story of one of The Reckoning (1970) with Pauline Chamberlain, a party guest. Rotten to the Core the UK’s most prolific thespians. (1965) with , Walter Henry and Hubert Hill as the prison chaplain. The story of a ‘jobbing’ actor’s career Behemoth the Sea Monster (1959) a passerby and naval officer. covering over fifty years, told with style, Girl on Approval (1962) with James Roberson Justice as a teacher. Georgy Girl (1963) with Lynne Redgrave and good humour, packed with trivia and as a vicar. Public Eye (1973) Mr Blandford. containing many unseen photos. Who’s that Guy? That guy is Guy Standeven. PAPERBACK BOOK Our Price £14.99 Plus £3.00 Postage & Packing Call Us Now On Freephone Or 01923 290555 8 0808 178 8212 9 17 DVD Set £49.99 with Free UK Postage

This box set contains all 68 episodes from Number of Discs: 17 the five series ofUpstairs, Downstairs, originally transmitted between 1971 and Running Time: 3400 minutes approx 1975. The series takes place in a townhouse Colour / Black and White in ’s Belgravia, from the turn of the Years: 1971-1975 century through the Great War and into the Directors: various, including: 1920s. It features the Bellamy family: Bill Bain, Christopher Hodson, politician Richard Bellamy, his first and Derek Bennett, Raymond Menmuir. second wives Marjorie and Virginia, son Cast: David Langton, Rachel Gurney, James, daughter Elizabeth and his ward, , Nicola Pagett, Georgina Worsley. The house domestics Gordon Jackson, , are led by Hudson the Butler, who is in Patsy Smart, , charge of the ‘below stairs’ household staff, , Christopher Beeny, including the cook, Mrs Bridges and maids Jenny Tomasin, John Alderton, Rose and Sarah. Meg Wynn Owen, Lesley-Anne Down, Jacqueline Tong, Hannah Gordon, Currently airing on Gareth Hunt, Karen Dotrice, Joan Benham. Talking Pictures TV every Sunday at 6pm, with a Friday repeat at 5pm.

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To order, call us on Freephone Or 01923 290555 To order, call us on Freephone Or 01923 290555 10 0808 178 8212 0808 178 8212 11 Mike Pratt travelled the road to stardom in his London Taxi Robert Hughes tells the story. Mike Pratt quit broadcaster Brian Matthew continued to NEW DVD RELEASE his humdrum plug Mike’s contribution to music for 40 office job at 26, years after his death. OUR PRICE bought an old The term ‘Hackney’ harks back to the WITH FREE UK POSTAGE £15 London taxi for East London Borough where horses that Director: £12 with a pulled hired coaches were pastured. From Year: 1946; Black & White. couple of pals (one being writer and 1834 the two wheel variety were known Number of discs: 1. composer Lionel Bart) and drove around as ‘Hansom Cabs.’ Electric cabs appeared Running Time approx: 107mins. in it. Resuming London life, in 1897 and by 1910 motorized cabs Cast: , , Mike gained notoriety performing jazz outnumbered horse drawn, which and skiffle in clubs. He formed ‘The disappeared from London streets by Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard, Cavemen’ with Lionel and Tommy 1947. Austin entered the market in Norman Shelley, , Steele and co-wrote many of Steel’s hits 1930. From 1906 regulations required David Tomlinson. including award winners a distance meter and a turning circle not A tense British thriller, set in Ireland Little White Bull and Handful of Songs in exceeding 25 feet to negotiate the tight and the UK during World War II. Fiery Irish 1957. He joined The Royal Shakespeare roundabout outside The Savoy Hotel Company (RSC) in 1966 and performed entrance in one sweep. The taxi in which republican Bridie Quilty, (Deborah Kerr), has in Tango at The Aldwych. Mike’s film Mike Pratt toured Europe was probably a been inspired by her nationalist father to hate appearances included the Polanski classic pensioned-off Austin FX3 (1949-58). the British. On her 21st birthday she leaves Repulsion; The Fixer and Goodbye As a London street-scene prop, the FX3 her village and heads to Dublin to join the Gemini. He played ‘Simey’ in The has played countless cameo roles, central IRA but is unsuccessful. Instead she Adventures of Black Beauty and pops up to plots in Passport to Shame (1958), and in 60’s crime dramas including The Saint, Cabbie (1963). The hackneyed unwittingly falls in with German spy Miller, The Baron, Softly Softly and Z , often (sic) one-liner “follow that cab” dates (Raymond Huntley), who recruits her and cutting a hard character. Mike is best back at least to the - finds her a job working in a sleepy English remembered as private eye Jeff Randall, Ginger Rogers musical Carefree (1938). village near a military prison. regularly rescued from calamity by the When British Officer David Baynes, ghost of his former partner Marty Hopkirk (Kenneth Cope) in the spoof (Trevor Howard), arrives in the village he falls detective series Randall and Hopkirk for Bridie. Together they uncover a German (Deceased) (1969-70). plot to undermine the Allied efforts at a Mike returned to the RSC and regular critical point of World War II, causing her to TV roles until he succumbed to cancer question her hatred of all things British!! aged just 45. A month after his death a tribute was staged at The including stars , OUR PRICE £15 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE , and Call Us Now On Freephone Harry Corbett (Sooty). ‘Saturday Club’ 12 0808 178 8212 13 MUSIC CD Renown 60 Tracks on 3 CDs 6 films for £20 You Save £12.96 + free postage! Special Offer As the weather turns chilly, and the nights draw in, why not treat yourself to a selection of films from Renown? The perfect way to spend an evening or afternoon. The films on offer are enduring classics, The Early Years to be watched again and again. They also make fantastic gifts! THE ABSOLUTELY Battle of the V1 In Colour (1958) Director: Vernon Sewell. Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina, Milly Vitale, David Knight, ESSENTIAL COLLECTION Esmond Knight, , John G. Heller, Carl Jaffe. Set in CD World War II, based on a true story. Polish Resistance discover a OUR PRICE pilot-less plane being built and tested in Poland – the British enlist CD a Polish school teacher to infiltrate the factory where the plane was £12.99 being built. Colour. Running Time: 101 mins approx. Normal Price: £7.99 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE CD Together on one disc! A compilation of 60 tracks by one of Too Young to Love (1960) Directors: Muriel Box & Maurice Elvey. Britain’s best loved female singers who achieved international stardom in Cast: Pauline Hahn, Joan Miller, Austin Willis, Jess Conrad OBE. the 60s, concentrating on her early years when her star was very much on While appearing in court, 15-year-old Elizabeth Collins tells the the rise, with classic English and French pop mixed with standards. story that led to her being arrested for teenage prostitution. (1932) Director: Maurice Elvey. Cast: Mary Newcomb, Disc 1 1. The Little Shoemaker 2. A Long Way To Go 3. Smile 4. Majorca 5. Suddenly There’s A Valley Owen Nares, . Black & White. 6. With Your Love 7. Band Of Gold 8. Memories Are Made Of This 9. Fortune Teller 10. Another Door Opens Running Time: 158 mins approx. Normal Price: £7.99 11. A Million Stars Above 12. Alone (Why Must I Be Alone) 13. It’s Foolish But It’s Fun 14. Slumming On Together on one disc! Park Avenue 15. It’s The Natural Thing To Do 16. Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart 17. I Wish I Knew (1933) Cast: , Henry Kendall, 18. I Love A Violin 19. Too Darn Hot 20. A Doodlin’ Song Douglas Wakefield.Director: Maurice Elvey. A poor, unemployed woman is made housekeeper at the estate of a wealthy duchess. Disc 2 1. Day In Day Out 2. Mama’s Talking Soft 3. That’s How It Feels 4. There’s A Small Hotel She Shall Have Music (1935) Cast: Jack Hylton, June Clyde, 5. Lucky 6. Jones 7. All Over Now 8. La Joie D’aimer 9. Sailor 10. Garde La Derniere Danse Pour Claude Dampie. Directed by: Leslie S. Hiscott. A broadcasting Moi (Save The Last Dance For Me) 11. My Heart (Amor) 12. Sur Un Tapis Volant 13. Something Missing magnate hires Jack Hylton and his orchestra to broadcast from a cruise ship. A fantastic showcase of one of the greatest ever British (L’Absent) 14. Isn’t This A Lovely Day 15. Romeo 16. Welcome Home dance bands, The Jack Hylton Orchestra. Black & White. 1 Disc. 17. Les Gens Diront 18. You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me Running Time: 183 mins approx. Normal Price: £8.99 19. My Friend The Sea 20. With All My Love Send for Paul Temple (1946) Director: John F. Argyle. Cast: Anthony Hulme, Joy Shelton, Tamara Desni, Disc 3 1. My Favourite Things 2. I’m Counting On You Jack Raine. Scotland Yard calls in amateur detective Paul Temple to 3. Some Other World 4. Whistlin’ For The Moon 5. Tender Love help track down a gang of diamond robbers. 6. Ya Ya Twist 7. Jumble Sale 8. Too Late 9. The Road Black & White. Running Time: 84 mins approx. Normal Price: £7.99 10. No Love, No Nothin’ 11. Chariot 12. I Love To Sing WHILE STOCKS LAST! Offer expires January 15th. 13. A London (Allons Donc) 14. Be Anything (But Be Mine) 15. Les Beaux Jours (Ramblin’ Rose) 16. Gotta Have Me Go With You 17. Coeur Blesse 18. For Every Man There’s A Woman 19. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes 20. Mademoiselle De Paris

To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 14 15 COLLECTION 4 DVD BOX SET £25 with Free UK Postage I’m All Right Jack (1959) Director: John Boulting. Running time: Produced by: Roy Boulting. Cast: , Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, 367 mins approx Richard Attenborough, , , , Irene Handl, Miles Malleson, Marne Maitland, Sam Kydd, John Le Mesurier, Raymond Huntley, A comic actor who first came to attention Victor Maddern, Kenneth Griffith, Fred Griffiths. After leaving the army, upper-class on the popular radio series The Goon Stanley Windrush is offered an unskilled job on the floor of a missile factory owned by Show, Peter Sellers CBE remains one of his unscrupulous Uncle. When the personnel manager discovers how much more quickly this century’s most acclaimed comedy Windrush can complete his tasks than the other workers, union steward Fred Kite calls a stars. Graduating from radio and TV to strike to keep his men from having their wages cut. The unexpected results cause hilarious the big screen, Sellers demonstrated a gift trouble for all concerned. for character transformation. The three (1962) Director: . Screenplay written by films in this exclusive box set are from the , based on a novel. Cast: Peter Sellers, , late 50s /early 60s period of Sellers’ Virginia Maskell, Kenneth Griffith, Raymond Huntley, David Davies, Maudie Edwards, career, before he became an John Le Mesurier, Meredith Edwards, Frederick Piper, , Eynon Evans, international star as . John Arnatt, Sheila Manahan, Richard Attenborough. Dissatisfied with his home life and I’M ALL RIGHT, JACK (1959) won Sellers career, librarian John Lewis spends most of his time daydreaming of illicit affairs with a BAFTA for Best Actor as the trades attractive women. One day, gorgeous Elizabeth Gruffydd-Williams, the wife of prominent union shop steward Fred Kite. community figure Vernon Williams, walks into his life. Soon the two are plotting a ONLY TWO CAN PLAY (1962) sees passionate love affair, but can they make it work? Sellers as John Lewis, a bored librarian Heavens Above! (1963) Directed by John and Roy Boulting. Stars: Peter Sellers, Cecil tempted by the wife of a local councillor – Parker, Isabel Jeans, Ian Carmichael, Bernard Miles, Brock Peters, , Irene Handl, risky stuff in a small Welsh Valley town! , Joan Miller, Miles Malleson, , William Hartnell, , Finally HEAVENS ABOVE! (1963), is a Joan Hickson, , . An idealistic British reverend with British comedy of manners in which socialist beliefs is appointed to a parish of elitist landed gentry. His conscience and acts of Sellers’ socialist priest is sent to an charity are unpopular with the selfish parishioners, who reveal an un-Christian disdain for upper-crust parish. the less fortunate welcomed to the parish by the reverend. However, things really go awry, The box-set is completed by a when his actions endanger the village’s primary source of income. definitive collection of his best The Very Best of Peter Sellers After radio and TV success with and work: THE VERY BEST OF Beyond the Fringe, comic Peter Sellers found big screen fame, notably as Inspector PETER SELLERS. Clouseau in series. This compilation collects together memorable movie £25 clips from Return of the Pink Panther, What’s New Pussycat?, Heavens Above and Revenge of the Pink Panther. Running time: 56 mins approx.

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Crime Collection Volume 1 A GUNMAN HAS ESCAPED (1948) Cast: John Harvey, John Fitzgerald, Robert Cartland. Crime Collection Volume 4 THE BOYS (1962) Cast: , , Jess Conrad. MYSTERIOUS MR BOY WITH A FLUTE (1964) Cast: Jeremy Hawk, Freda Jackson, Ursula Jeans. DEATH GOES TO SCHOOL (1953) Cast: NICHOLSON (1947) Cast: Anthony Hulme, Lesley Osmond, Frank Hawkin. THE VOICE OF MERRILL (1952) Cast: Barbara Murray, Gordon Jackson, Pamela Alan. KING OF THE UNDERWORLD (1952) Cast: , Patrick Barr, Tucker Valerie Hobson, , . OPERATION DIPLOMAT (1953) Cast: Guy Rolfe, Lisa Daniely, McGuire. BLACK MEMORY (1947) Cast: Michael Atkinson, Myra O’Connell, , . MURDER AT 3AM Patricia Dainton. PORT OF ESCAPE (1956) Cast: Googie Withers, John McCallum, Bill Kerr, Joan Hickson. BLIND SPOT (1953) Cast: Dennis Price, Peggy Evans, Rex Garner. THE CHALLENGE (1960) Cast: , , Carl (1958) Cast: Robert MacKenzie, Delphi Lawrence, Gordon Jackson. LADY OF DECEIT (1947) Cast: Claire Trevor, Möhner. PASSPORT TO TREASON (1956) Cast: Rod Cameron, , Clifford Evans. THE PRICE OF SILENCE (1959) Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak. CHECKMATE (1935) Cast: , Evelyn Foster, Sally Gray, . Cast: Gordon Jackson, June Thorburn. THE SECRET MAN (1958) Cast: Marshall Thompson, John Loder, Henry Oscar. Crime Collection Volume 5 THE LARGE ROPE (1953) Cast: Donald Houston, Susan Shaw. THE HANGMAN WAITS Crime Collection Volume 2 THE THIRD ALIBI (1961) Cast: Laurence Payne, Patricia Dainton, Jane Griffiths. (1947) Cast: John Turnbull, Beatrice Campbell, Hylton Allen. ECHO OF DIANA (1963) Cast: Vincent Ball, Betty McDowall, JACKPOT (1960) Cast: William Hartnell, Betty McDowall, Eddie Byrne. THE QUIET WOMAN (1951) Cast: Derek Bond, Geoffrey Toone. STRANGE HARVEST (1953) Cast: Edgar Gray, Eve Shirley, Richard Antony. DECOY: TO TRAP A THIEF (1957) Jane Hylton, . IMPULSE (1954) Cast: , Constance Smith, Joy Shelton. CROSSTRAP (1962) Cast: Beverly Garland, Frank Overton, George Mitchell. THE CASE OF CHARLES PEACE (1949) Cast: Michael Martin Harvey, Cast: Laurence Payne, Jill Adams, Gary Cockrell. SMART ALEC (1951) Cast: Peter Reynolds, Leslie Dwyer , Edward Lexy. Valentine Dyall. THE GRAYSON CASE (1955) Cast: Mary Neelands, Bart Allison, Frederick Treves. NIGHT PROWL (1958) Stars: PASSENGER TO LONDON (1937) Cast: John Warwick, Jenny Laird, Paul Neville. THE BODY VANISHED (1939) Cast: Dennis O’Keefe. THE GELIGNITE GANG (1956) Cast: Wayne Morris, Sandra Dorne, Patrick Holt. THE STABLE DOOR (1966) Anthony Hulme, C. Denier Warren, Ernest Sefton. THE RIVERSIDE MURDER (1935) Cast: Basil , Judy Gunn, Cast: Harry Fowler, Jack MacGowran, Dandy Nichols. THE GENTLE TRAP (1960) Cast: Spencer Teakle, Martin Benson, Zoe Davis. VENGEANCE IS MINE (1949) Cast: Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth, Richard Goolden, Sam Kydd. Felicity Young. THE MAN OUTSIDE (1933) Cast: Henry Kendall, John Turnbull, Cyril Raymond. THE OTHER MAN (1956) Stars: Crime Collection Volume 3 BLACKOUT (1950) Stars: Dinah Sheridan and Maxwell Reed. JOHNNY ON THE SPOT Bob Danvers Walker. NIGHT OF THE PROWLER (1962) Cast: Patrick Holt, Colette Wilde, Bill Nagy. (1954) Cast: Hugh McDermott, Elspet Gray and Paul Carpenter. 13 EAST STREET (1952) Cast: Patrick Holt, Sandra Dorne Crime Collection Volume 6 WHO KILLED THE CAT (1966) Cast: Mary Merrall, Ellen Pollock, Amy Dalby. and Sonia Holm. MYSTERY AT MONSTEIN (1954) Narrator: Peter Illing. WEB OF EVIDENCE (1959) Cast: Van Johnson, I MET A MURDERER (1939) Cast: James Mason, Pamela Mason, Sylvia Coleridge. DANGEROUS GROUND (1934) Cast: Vera Miles, . WHEN LONDON SLEEPS (1932) Cast: Harold French, Francis S. Sullivan, Alexander Field. , Jack Raine, Joyce Kennedy. KILL HER GENTLY (1957) Cast: Griffith Jones, Maureen Connell, Marc Lawrence. THE LOST HOURS (1952) Cast: Mark Stevens, Jean , John Bentley. THE PASSING STRANGER (1954) Cast: SMOKESCREEN (1964) Cast: Peter Vaughan, John Carson, Yvonne Romain. POLICE DOG (1955) Cast: Joan Rice, Lee Patterson, Diane Cilento, Duncan Lamont. THE HOSTAGE (1956) Cast: Ron Randell, Mary Parker, John Bailey. Tim Turner, Sandra Dorne. ONE MAN ONE DOG (1971); THE 20 QUESTIONS MURDER MYSTERY (1950) Cast: THE END OF THE LINE (1957) Cast: Barbara Shelley, Alan Baxter. Robert Beatty, Rona Anderson, Clifford Evans. THE HI-JACKERS (1963) Cast: Anthony Booth, Terry McKinley. BOND OF FEAR (1956) Cast: Dermot Walsh, Jane Barrett, John Colicos.

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RAY (AKA The Model Girl Murder Case) Black & white and tinted Tuesday 22nd December 6am Thursday 17th December 4:10pm & To Catch a Yeti (1995) Running Time approx: 94 min Monday 21st December 6:05am Family. Director: Bob Keen. Murder in Eden (1961) Stars: Meat Loaf, Chantellese The BFI National Archive’s Thriller. Director: Max Varnel. Stars: Kent, Rick Howland, Jim Gordon. Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller and Mercenary hunter Big Jake is hired acclaimed restoration of Yvonne Buckingham. After discovering to catch the fabled Yeti. Anthony Asquith’s tale of £15 a famous painting is a forgery, a noted art critic is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Tuesday 22nd December 9pm & love, jealousy and murder in a Scotland Yard sends in Inspector Sharkey. Tuesday 29th December 10pm stunning Dual Format Edition. This classic Shout at the Devil (1976) Friday 18th December 10pm War. Director: Peter R. Hunt. British film from the silent era features Neil and Thursday 24th December 10pm Stars: , , Brand’s new orchestral score, recorded live in The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) Barbara Parkins. An American Romantic Drama. Director: Jack . ex-military man and a British 2012. Anthony Asquith balances the light and Stars: Alain Delon, , aristocrat battle against a dark sides of London life, aided by a superb Roger Mutton, Marius Goring. Newly German Commander. married rides her motorbike to cast with Brian Aherne and Elissa Landi as visit her lover Daniel in Heidelberg. Wednesday 23rd December 9:05am and 2:10pm & 3:05am the young lovers and Norah Baring and Saturday 19th December 3:45pm Christmas Day Cyril McLaglen their unhappy counterparts. Lord of the Flies (1963) Carols for Christmas with Drama. Director: . Stars: Sir Michael Hordern (1983) Underground evokes the life of the ordinary James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Sir Michael Hordern reads biblical Londoner with the bustling underground and Edwards, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman. lessons at the , Shipwrecked on an island, thirty with The Royal Choral Society the capital’s parks, double-decker buses, castaway schoolboys create their performing Christmas carols. and shabby bedsits. own savage civilization. Wednesday 23rd December Extras: Saturday 19th December 9pm & 2:30pm Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition. Wednesday 23rd December 10pm. Home for Christmas (1990) Who Dares Wins (1982) Family. Director: Peter McCubbin. Newly commissioned score by Neil Brand presented in 5.1 and 2.0. Thriller. Director: Ian Sharp. Stars: , Simon Alternative score by Chris Watson. Stars: , , Richards, Lesley Kelly. A young girl Restoring Underground (2009,9 mins): featurette on the restoration. , Tony Doyle, takes in a homeless man during the The Premier and His Little Son (1909-12, 1 min): previously unseen footage of John Duttine. An anti-nuclear Christmas Holidays. Anthony Asquith as a child. group plan to kill the U.S. ambassador leading to a siege at the embassy. Wednesday 23rd December A Trip on the Metropolitan Railway (1910, 13 mins, DVD only). 6:35pm Scenes at Circus and Hyde Park Corner (1930-32, 6 mins, DVD only). Monday 21st December 9am and The Holly and the Ivy (1952) Seven More Stations (1948, 12 mins, DVD only): a film about the expansion of the Wednesday 23rd December 4:30pm Drama. Director: George More Central Line beyond Stratford. Stars, Cars & Guitars O’Ferrall. Stars: Ralph Richardson, Talking Christmas – Celia Johnson, Denholm Elliott. Under Night Streets (1958, 20 mins): a documentary about the tube’s nightshift workers. a Talking Pictures TV Exclusive! Heart-warming tale of a minister Illustrated booklet featuring film notes and new essays by Christian Wolmar and Neil Brand. Singer Tony Hadley, legendary and his family at Christmas time. rock guitarist Jim Cregan and broadcaster Alex Dyke bring their Wednesday 23rd December Stars, Cars, Guitars show to Talking 8:15pm For the Love of Ada OUR PRICE £15 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE Pictures TV for a Christmas special (1971) Christmas Special with guests Marty and Kim Wilde, Stars: Irene Handl , Call Us Now On Freephone Suzi Quatro and Mike Read. and Barbara Mitchell. Christmas 20 0808 178 8212 edition of the gentle 70s sitcom. 21 Talking Pictures TV Highlights For CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR

This is just a small selection; our full listings are on our website www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk and in all good newspapers and TV magazines. We send email listings every Sunday to anyone who wants them – just let us know! Email Sarah: [email protected] Watch Talking Pictures on: FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Christmas Eve Christmas Day Boxing Day New Year Thursday 24th December 7:45am Friday 25th December 10am Saturday 26th December 9am Thursday 31st December 10:30am Get Some In! Christmas Special Christmas at Robin’s Nest and Sunday 27th December 9am Jumping For Joy (1956) Christmas at the Camp (1975) (1979) Stars: Tony Britton, Tessa Runaround: Christmas Special (1979) Comedy. Director: John Paddy Stars: , , Wyatt & Richard O’Sullivan. Director: Colin Nutley. Classic children’s Carstairs. Stars: Frankie Howerd, David Janson. C Flight must stay Robin puts up the decorations, gameshow. Hosted by Mike Reid with Stanley Holloway, Joan Hickson. behind when they’re picked for but the bistro must stay closed. Barbara Dickson, The Band of the Irish A young dog racer loses his job. maintenance duty. Guards & Winchester Cathedral Choir. Friday 25th December 10:30am Thursday 31st December 6:50pm Thursday 24th December 10:30am An Inspector Calls (1954) Saturday 26th December 8:10pm (1945) (1948) Crime. Director: . Went The Day Well? (1942) Thriller. Director: Alberto Drama. Director: . Stars: Alastair Sim. An inspector War. Director: Cavalcanti. Stars: Cavalcanti. Stars: Charles Crichton, Stars: John Howard Davies, Robert calls on the Birling family. , Mervyn and Basil Sydney. , , Newton, , and Kay Walsh. English villagers fight back against a Mervyn Johns & . An orphaned boy joins a household of Friday 25th December 12:05pm platoon of German troops. An architect senses doom as his boys who steal for their master. and Sunday 27th Dec 3:25pm dreams become reality. Please Sir! (1971) Saturday 26th December 10pm Thursday 24th December 12:50pm Comedy. Director: Mark Stuart. Personal Services (1987) Friday 1st January 11.55am The Christmas Tree (1966) Stars: John Alderton, Deryck Comedy, directed by . In The Doghouse (1961) Family. Director: Jim Clark. Stars: Guyler, Carol Hawkins. Stars: , Alec McCowen, Comedy. Director: Darcy Conyers. Brian Blessed, William Burleigh, Teacher Bernard Hedges takes Shirley Stelfox, Danny Schiller. A waitress Stars: , Peggy Anthony Honour and Kate Nicholls. his class to a holiday camp. sublets to prostitutes and is soon running Cummins. A newly qualified vet Gary is determined to get a tree for a brothel that caters to middle-aged men. takes over an old practice and children in hospital for Christmas. Friday 25th December 3:05pm becomes rivals with another vet. Scrooge: Sunday 27th December 11:00am & Thursday 24th December 14:30pm (1951) Tuesday 29th December 7:50am Friday 1st January 6pm & (1953) Drama. Director: Brian Desmond The Way We Live (1946) Thursday 7th January 2:30pm Comedy. Director: John Paddy Hurst. Stars: Alastair Sim, Jack Drama documentary on the rebuilding The Water Babies (1978) Carstairs. Stars: , Warner and Sir Michael Hordern. Plymouth after World War II, told Action-animation. Director: Lionel Moira Lister, Margaret Rutherford. Christmas is not a time of by a visiting journalist and through Jeffries. Stars: James Mason, The escapades of an employee of a celebration for Scrooge. the experiences of a local family made , Billie Whitelaw. London store who has ambitions to homeless by the bombing. Framed for a crime, Tom jumps become a window-dresser. Friday 25th December 6pm & into a river and becomes an Saturday 2nd January 6pm Sunday 27th December 7:05pm aquatic creature. Thursday 24th December 4:25pm El Cid (1961) The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972) and Friday 1st January at 1:45pm Epic. Director: Anthony Mann. Family film, written and directed by Friday 1st January 9:45pm & An Evening with Matt Monro Stars: Charlton Heston, Sophia . Stars: Laurence Naismith, Monday 4th January 10pm Music Special (1967) Loren, . Spain is , Rosalyn Landor, Garry Witchfinder General(1968) Director: Kenny Clayton. overrun by the Moors and the Miller, David Lodge, . Horror. Director: . For 40 years a film reel of Matt Monro country’s only hope rests in El Cid. A family move to an old house where Stars: , Ian Ogilvy. performing live lay unknown in the they encounter two ghostly children. The exploits of Matthew Hopkins, family garage. Its discovery by his Friday 25th December 9:30pm “Witch Finder Generall”. daughter Michele was momentous: the and Thurs 31st Dec 10pm Sunday 27th December 10pm; only known film of Britain’s greatest Without a Clue (1988) Monday 28th December 11:50pm & Saturday 2nd January 9:30pm & singer had at last been found. Comedy. Director: Thom Friday 1st January at midnight Tuesday 5th January 10pm Eberhardt. Stars: Michael Caine, Ten Little Indians (1965) Hud (1963) Tuesday 22nd December 6:35pm & Ben Kingsley, Lysette Anthony. Mystery. Director: George Pollock. Director: . Stars: Thursday 24th December 7:45pm Doctor Watson creates an Stars: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton. , , Christmas Under Fire (1941) imaginary and 10 strangers are invited to a mansion , Brandon deWilde. War. It’s a Christmas of holly & barbed needs an actor to play him. in the Alps where each will die. Hud declares his father mentally wire yet the British are determined to incompetent to save the herd. make it as cheerful as possible. Friday 25th December 11:40pm Wednesday 30th December 9:05pm & Sat 2nd January 11:45pm & Friday 8th January 10pm Sunday 3rd January 7:10pm & Thursday 24th December 8pm The Best of the Adventures Money Movers (1978) Wednesday 6th January 2:30pm Ooh... You Are Awful! (1972) (1981) Comedy. Director: Crime. Director: . The Anniversary (1967) Comedy. Director: Cliff Owen. Stanley Long. Stars: Barry Evans, Stars: Terence Donovan, , Drama. Director: Roy Ward Baker. Stars: , Derren Nesbitt. Diana Dors, Liz Fraser. Tony Bonner, Ed Devereaux. Stars: , Sheila Hancock Charlie must find a bank account Feature-length compilation A company running armoured cars is and Jack Hedley. The family 22 number to recover a fortune. from the ‘Adventures of’ series! repeatedly targeted by robbers. gathers to endure ‘Mother’. 23 MUSIC CD EASY MONEY CD 58 Tracks on 2 CDs CD NEW DVD RELEASE CD OUR PRICE WITH FREE UK POSTAGE £15 MONROE Director: A FINE ROMANCE Year: 1948; Colour. Number of discs: 1 Running Time approx: 88 min. OUR PRICE £15.99 Cast: , Dennis Price, WITH FREE UK POSTAGE Jack Warner, Mervyn Johns, Marjorie One of the most iconic actors of the 20th Fielding, Yvonne Owen, Jack Watling, century, MARILYN MONROE is one of a Petula Clark, Mabel Constanduros, handful of big-name, “Hollywood Golden David Tomlinson, , Era” performers who were underrated as Grey Blake, Ernest Butcher, Bill Owen. singers and made very few records. This compilation draws together 27 songs recorded between 1949 and 1962, mainly from the soundtracks to Ladies Of The Chorus, Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, River Of No Return, There’s No Business Like Show Business, The Seven Year Itch, Bus Stop, The Prince And The Showgirl, Some Like It Hot and Let’s Make Love. Also included are a two superb studio recordings, one of which is our title track, plus two live recordings, closing with her most famous singing performance, Happy Birthday Mr President, sung to JFK at Madison Square Garden in May 1962. 1. ANYONE CAN SEE I LOVE YOU 17. RACHMANINOV/CHOPSTICKS (With ) 2. DO IT AGAIN 18. THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC 3. KISS 19. I FOUND A DREAM (with ) 4. TWO LITTLE GIRLS FROM LITTLE ROCK (with Jane Russell) 20. I’M THROUGH WITH LOVE 5. BYE BYE BABY 21. I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU 6. DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND 22. SOME LIKE IT HOT 7. WHEN LOVE GOES WRONG (Nothing Goes Right) 23. MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY In 1948 Britain a win on the football pools was a way out of post war austerity. (with Jane Russell) 24. LET’S MAKE LOVE (with Frankie Vaughan) The football pools was a huge industry employing 25,000 people, with 10 8. (This Is) A FINE ROMANCE 25. INCURABLY million punters putting their crosses into the little boxes on their coupon. 9. SHE ACTS LIKE A WOMAN SHOULD ROMANTIC (with Everyone’s dream was to win the pools and most Britons did not view it as 10. THE RIVER OF NO RETURN ) gambling but as a traditional British pastime. Easy Money takes a satirical look at 11. I’M GONNA FILE MY CLAIM 26. SPECIALISATION the impact of a pools win on your average British punter in the tough days of the 12. ONE SILVER DOLLAR (with Frankie late 1940’s. With humour, suspense and drama the film sought to emphasise the 13. DOWN IN THE MEADOW Vaughan) importance of traditional British values of honesty, modesty and hard work! 14. AFTER YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT YOU WON’T WANT IT 27. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, 15. LAZY MR. PRESIDENT OUR PRICE £15 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE 16. YOU’D BE SURPRISED

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and 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 just play those we’d like to play, without proper licensing and rights in place. Also remember, some films or TV series may no longer exist, but we will keep trying! Please email us at: [email protected] Amabel Ethelreid Normand (November 10, 1892– February 23, 1930) was a popular star who collaborated with in his films, and at the height of her Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill, career in the late 1910s and early 1920s had her own movie studio and production company. My great-aunt was Mabel Normand, a star of She played a key role in starting Chaplin’s film career, acting the silent era. She was the first woman producer as his leading lady, co-writing and directing films with him. and director to fly in an aeroplane whilst filming, Chaplin had some difficulty adjusting to the demands of film and the first to have her own film company. Mabel acting after his career, and after his first film directed Chaplin in a number of films. She got him appearance in , Sennett felt he had made a his start with Mack Sennett. Some of her films costly mistake. Most historians agree that Mabel Normand are still available, such as Mickey, The Extra Girl, persuaded Sennett to give Chaplin another chance, and she Suzanna and The Nickel Hopper. I have for over and Chaplin appeared together in a 50 years been the archivist of my aunt Mabel’s dozen films. In 1914, she starred with and Chaplin life and career and I worked as a technical and in Tillie’s Punctured Romance, the first feature-length comedy. personal assistant for Michael Stewart when he wrote the script for the Broadway Musical Mack Earlier that same year, Chaplin first played his Tramp character & Mabel. I enjoy your programmes very much and in Mabel’s Strange Predicament, although it was the second Tramp thank you for your super programming. film to be released. Normand directed Chaplin and herself in the Stephen J Normand film. According to Mack Sennett, Chaplin “learned [to direct] from Mabel Normand” and Normand herself said: “For a long time, I Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill - directed all the pictures I played in, the best known of which are My brother David freelanced on many films includingBattle of Britain (1969), Ryan’s the Chaplin series”. It is difficult, however, to definitively Daughter and two films,On Her Majesty Secret Service, You Only Live Twice and distinguish her films from other Keystone productions as Figures in a Landscape. On most films he was a clapper loader but also assisted Freddie they are all made in the studio’s recognizable house style. Young (probably one of the finest photographers) and others like him. He worked with She opened her own company with Mack Sennett in 1916, and a near neighbour of his, Michael Caine, (Sir came later) and Ron a subsidiary of the Triangle Film Corporation, but lost the Moody on Oliver. He loved location work, but later worked at on company when Triangle experienced a massive shake up in many shows including . He had heart problems and could only work which Sennett also lost Keystone. Normand was signed by from the studio in Euston. He worked on a programme called The Palaces of the Queen and said it was a joy to meet her Majesty and other Royals, especially Prince Edward who Studios in 1926 where she made the films swore when he was being taught to play the cello by Prince Charles and a string broke, Raggedy Rose, The Nickel-Hopper, but the Royals in just laughed. and One Hour Married (her last film), all co-written by . I have never met the Queen but in my In 1926, she married actor Lew Cody, with whom she had Days, I have marched appeared in Mickey in 1918. However, her health was in decline due behind her. to tuberculosis. After an extended stay in a sanatorium, she sadly Thank You very much, John. died at of 37. The Broadway musical Mack & Mabel focuses on the relationship between Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand and To subscribe to the Talking Pictures TV weekly email, visit the contact page the glory days of Keystone Studios. Originally staged in 1974, the of our website: talkingpicturestv.co.uk production received eight Tony Award nominations and was most 28 recently revived in the West End in 2006. 29 34 Films Running time: 4 DVD Four-disc set featuring 561 mins approx. BOX SET the 34 surviving films CHAPLIN Year: 1914. from Charlie Chaplin’s Black & white. contract with the Silent with music. At Keystone £30 Keystone Film with Free Company. £30 UK Postage Making a Living (1914) Mabel’s Busy Day (1914) Director: Mack Sennett. Mabel Normand is a hot Director: Henry Lehrman. dog vendor who tricks her way into the racetrack. Chaplin swipes one of her hot Chaplin plays a dubious dandy who aspires dogs. Mabel’s Married Life (1914) Director: Mack Sennett. Mabel and her husband (Chaplin) visit to be a newspaper reporter. a park where she is subjected to the flirtations of a cad ().Laughing Gas (1914) , Cal. (1914) Director: Charles Chaplin. Charlie is a dentist’s assistant who blunders his tasks. The Property Director: Henry Lehrman. The comedy in which Man (1914) Director: Charles Chaplin. Charlie is a property man in a theater who must audiences first saw Chaplin’s Tramp character. contend with the many demands of the various acts. The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914) Mabel’s Strange Predicament (1914) Director: Charles Chaplin. Charlie, as the heartbroken and inebriated artist, tells his tale of woe in a Director: Mabel Normand. The first of several tavern as a series of flashbacks.Recreation (1914) Director: Charles Chaplin. Tramp contemplates Keystone comedies in which Chaplin reprises suicide until he encounters a pretty young woman. The Masquerader (1914) Director: Charles the comic drunk he had perfected for Fred Chaplin. Chaplin plays a mischievous version of himself. (1914) Director: Karno, impresario of the British music hall. Charles Chaplin. A young man (Charles Parrott, later comedian Charley Chase) hires Charlie to (1914) Director: Henry care for his wheelchair bound uncle. The Rounders (1914) Director: Charles Chaplin/Roscoe Lehrman. Featuring early evidence of several of the Arbuckle. Mr Full (Chaplin) and Mr Fuller () are a couple of disgraceful drunks Tramp’s distinctive characteristics. pursued by their angry spouses. (1914) Director: Charles Chaplin. Charlie is a (1914). Director: George Nichols. visits a janitor in an office building who blunders his tasks; one of Chaplin’s most finely crafted and important nickelodeon and falls in love with the pretty ‘Keystone works for Keystone. (1914) Director: Charles Chaplin. Charlie and Chester Girl’ (Virginia Kirtley) he sees on the screen. Tango Conklin are rivals in the attention of any woman they happen to see. Dough and Dynamite Tangles (1914) Director: Mack Sennett. The film features (1914) Director: Charles Chaplin. Chaplin and play waiters at a café/bakery who America’s tango dance craze during the early 1910s. With are forced to man the ovens when the bakers go on strike. Perhaps the most important comedy , Roscoe Arbuckle, Chester Conklin and Chaplin made in his early ascent to screen stardom. (1914) Director: Chaplin all compete for the attention of the hat-check girl Charles Chaplin. One reel event comedy filmed partly at Ascot Park speedway.His Musical (Minta Durfee). His Favorite Pastime (1914) Career (1914) Director: Charles Chaplin. A piano mover (Mack Swain) and his helper set off to Director: George Nichols. The drunken tramp follows an attractive young lady () deliver a piano and muddle their assignment by doing the opposite. His Trysting Places (1914) to her home where her outraged husband roughs him up before tossing him out on the street. Director: Charles Chaplin. The domestic discord of Charlie and his wife (Mabel Normand) Cruel, Cruel Love (1914) Director: George Nichols. Charlie is a happy and attentive lover contrasted with the harmonious relationship between Ambrose (Mack Swain) and his wife until his fiancée (Minta Durfee) ends their engagement after she believes she has caught him in a (). (1914) Director: Charles Chaplin. Charlie and compromising situation with her maid. The Star Boarder (1914) Director: George Nichols. Mabel escape their spouses (Phyllis Allen and Mack Swain) to flirt in a park. Charlie, as the favourite of the landlady (Minta Durfee), enjoys more attention than her husband His Prehistoric Past (1914) Director: Charles Chaplin. The Tramp falls asleep () and small son (Gordon Griffith), who secretly records various compromising on a park bench and dreams he is a caveman. Tillie’s Punctured Romance situations with his box camera. Mabel at the Wheel (1914) Director: Mabel Normand/ (1914) Director: Mack Sennett. Hollywood’s first feature-length slapstick comedy, Mack Sennett. The first two-reeler in which Chaplin appears, incorporating footage taken at the Tillie’s Punctured Romance was a vehicle for stage star Marie Dressler. Tillie Banks Vanderbilt Cup road race. Twenty Minutes of Love (1914) Director: Joseph Maddern/Charles (Marie Dressler), a country girl deceived by a city slicker (Chaplin) to steal her father’s Chaplin. Chaplin’s first tentative effort at both story and direction, a simple park comedy.Caught in money and run away with him to the city. Once there, the slicker takes her money a Cabaret (1914) Director: Mabel Normand. Charlie, a café/dancehall waiter, impersonates a foreign and abandons her for Mabel (Mabel Normand). A huge box office success, the film dignitary at a garden party in amorous pursuit of a society debutante (Mabel Normand). Caught in was lauded in the press and sealed Chaplin’s ascent to stardom. the Rain (1914) Director: Charles Chaplin. Charlie flirts with a married lady (Alice Davenport) in a Extras include: Charlie’s White Elephant (1916, 6 minutes): an animation by John Colman park, only to be by her outraged husband, (Mack Swain). (1914) Director: Terry and Hugh Shields. Inside the Keystone Project (2010, 10 minutes): a short Mack Sennett. Chaplin again obstructs a camera crew, but this time he is dressed as a shrewish documentary about international restoration efforts behind the films in this collection. woman. The Fatal Mallet (1914) Director: Mack Sennett. The Tramp and another man (Mack Silent Traces (2010, 12 minutes): historian John Bengston on several of the Keystone Sennett) are rivals for the attention of a young woman (Mabel Normand). (1914) locations. Extracts from (1914,7 minutes): a film recently rediscovered Director: Mack Sennett. Chaplin appears briefly in the second reel of this Roscoe Arbuckle comedy as by Paul E Gierucki, with a cameo of Chaplin as a Keystone Cop. Stills Gallery; the boxing referee, much of his comedy material here borrows from Karno sketches. Illustrated booklet written by Jeffrey Vance.

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Thursday 24th December Christmas Eve Friday 25th December Christmas Day Friday 26th December Boxing Day Thursday 31st December New Year’s Eve 06:10 Scrooge (1935) Ebenezer Scrooge (Seymour 06:00 John and Julie (1955) Comedy. Director William 06:00 Jim’s Gift (1996) Stars: Jean Boht, Chris Jury and 06:00 Man Who Changed His Name (1934) Drama. Hicks) is persuaded to change his ways by visits from Fairchild. Stars: Colin Gibson, Noelle Middleton, Robert Llewellyn. A mysterious stranger presents a boy Lyn Harding plays Shelby Clive, who has shortened his the ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet-to-come. Lesley Dudley, Megs Jenkins, Sid James & Peter Sellers. with a VCR that can play the future. last name so that he won’t be mistaken for a murderer. 07:45 Get Some In! Christmas at the Camp (1975) Two children run away to London so they can visit 07:55 BFI: Skid Kids (1953) Drama. Director: Don 07:35 Scotland Yard: Wings of Death (1961) Stars: Tony Selby, Robert Lindsay, David Janson. C Flight the Queen. Chaffey. Stars: Peter Neil, Barry MacGregor, Anthony Director: Allan Davis. Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Peter must stay behind for maintenance duty (Special) 07:40 Christmas in 1942 Lang and A. E. Matthews. ‘Swanky’ and his chums take Bowles & Simon Lack. A light aeroplane comes down in 08:15 The Yellow Balloon (1953) Drama. Stars: 07:45 We Joined The Navy (1962) Comedy. Director: on bike thieves in this -shot Children’s Film Kent, killing the pilot. It was no accident... (S1, E38) Andrew Ray, , Kathleen Ryan. A young . Stars: Kenneth More, Lloyd Nolan, Joan Foundation short. 08:10 in the Sky (1951) Drama. boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly O’Brien and Mischa Auer. Lt Commander Badger, RN: 09:00 Runaround: Christmas Special (1979) Directed by . Stars: , Jack lead his friend to fall from a building. has one simple fault. The honesty to say the right thing Classic children’s gameshow. Hosted by Mike Reid and Hawkins, & . An aero- 09:50 Christmas In Britain Join the festive cheer all at the wrong time! featuring Barbara Dickson. nautical engineer predicts that a new plane will fail over the country in this short film showing how 09:45 The Christmas Truce of 1914 - Lest We 09:30 Black Saddle Client Starkey (1959) catastrophically. Christmases past were celebrated in London the great Forget Together with Alan Forbes, we visit the site 10:00 Johnny Ringo: The Hunters 10:00 Robin’s Nest: Day Trippers Stars: Tony Britton, British countryside and a traditional British home. where late on Christmas Eve 1914, our boys heard 10:30 Rogues Rock Double Trouble! (1975) Richard O’Sullivan and Tessa Wyatt. Vicky and Robin 10:00 Robin’s Nest: Once Two is Three German troops singing carols and on Christmas Day Stars: Donald Hewlett, Royston Tickner and take the day off so they can go out for a peaceful picnic. Stars: Richard O’Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton. British and German soldiers met in no man’s land. Harold Goodwin. The return of the hit 70s ITV series, 10:30 Jumping For Joy (1956) Comedy. Director John 10:30 Oliver Twist (1948) Drama. Directed by David 10:00 Christmas at Robin’s Nest Stars: Tony Britton, Rogue’s Rock! Action and adventure await! (S2, E4) Paddy Carstairs. Stars: Frankie Howerd, Stanley Holloway. Lean. Stars: John Howard Davies, Alec Guinness, Robert Tessa Wyatt and Richard O’Sullivan. Robin attempts to 11:00 The Christmas Truce of 1914 - A young dog racer loses his job and his honour. Newton & Kay Walsh. An orphaned boy in London joins put up the decorations but the bistro must stay closed. Lest We Forget 12:10 The Passionate Stranger (1957) Director: a household of boys trained to steal for their master. 10:30 An Inspector Calls (1954) Crime. Director: Guy 11:15 (1976) Comedy. Director: Muriel Box. Stars: Margaret Leighton, Carlo Giustini, 12:50 BFI: The Christmas Tree (1966) Family. Stars: Hamilton. Stars: Alastair Sim, Olga Lindo, Eileen Moore. Michael Tuchner. Stars: Rodney Bewes, Patricia Dainton and Ralph Richardson. A happily married Brian Blessed, William Burleigh, Anthony Honour and The Birling family are rich and complacent. It is 1912, & Brigit Forsyth. Bob, Thelma, Terry and his girlfriend writer of pens a book about an affair with a chauffeur. Kate Nicholls. Gary determines to get a tree for children and the shadow of impending war has yet to fall across Christina go on a touring caravan holiday. 14:00 Rooms: Paul & Lynda P1 (1975) in hospital for Christmas. Directed by Jim Clark. their lives. 13:05 The Long & the Short & the Tall (1961) War. 14:30 The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947) 14:00 Rooms: Alan & Peter P1 (1975) 12:05 Please Sir! (1971) Comedy. Directed by Mark Stars: Richard Todd, & . Comedy. Director: Vernon Sewell. Stars: Robert Morley, 14:30 Trouble in Store (1953) Comedy. Director: John Stuart. Stars: John Alderton, , & Joan A British patrol in Burma seeks to avenge British Felix Aylmer, Yvonne Arnaud. At a court in the afterlife Paddy Carstairs. Stars: Norman Wisdom, Moira Lister, Sanderson. Film version of the TV sitcom. Teacher prisoners. two 18th century soldiers are sentenced to haunt Margaret Rutherford. The escapades of an employee of a Bernard Hedges takes his Fenn Street class to a 15:10 The Winslow Boy (1948) Drama. Directed by a mansion. London store, who wants to become a window-dresser. holiday camp. Anthony Asquith. Stars: , 16:20 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: 16:15 The Night Before Christmas (1946) 14:10 Carols with Michael Horden (1983) With & . In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is The Set-Up (1962) Stars: Maurice Denham, John Beautiful adaptation of the famous poem, 1946. readings from Sir Michael Hordern and carols expelled from a naval academy over a theft. Carson & Brian Peck. A benevolent act leads to 16:25 An Evening With Matt Monro (1967) including O Little Town of Bethlehem, The First Noel, 17:30 The Adventures of Sir Lancelot: The Lesser something more sinister. Directed by Kenny Clayton. Lying hidden in his family Good King Wenceslas and Silent Night from the Royal Breed (1957) Stars: William Russell, Cyril Smith and 17:30 Rooms: Paul & Lynda P2 (1975) garage for forty years, until recently discovered, the only Choral Society and friends. Ronald Leigh-Hunt. A village is being terrorised; King 18:00 Scotland Yard: The Mysterious Bullet (1954) known film of Matt Monro performing live. 15:05 Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (1951) Drama. Arthur sends Sir Lancelot who discovers the Vikings Directed by Paul Gherzo. Stars: Robert Raglan, John 17:30 Rooms: Alan & Peter P2 (1975) Stars: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison & are responsible. Warwick and Christine Adrian. A ballistics expert tracks 18:00 Scotland Yard: The Silent Witness (1954) Michael Hordern. Christmas is not a time of 18:00 Hobson’s Choice (1954) Drama. Director: David down the killer of a widow’s fiance. (S1, E13) Directed by Montgomery Tully. Stars: Molly Weir, Ivan celebration for the tight-fisted Ebenezer Scrooge. Lean. Stars: , & Brenda de 18:35 The Telephone at Work A host of Craig & Kenneth Henry. The case of the self-confessed 16:50 Christmas In Britain - Glimpses Banzie. Henry Hobson’s daughters want to marry, but familiar faces warn us of the excessive use of telephones. killer who almost escaped the full weight of the law. 17:00 Upstairs Downstairs: The Path of Duty he refuses as traditions require him to pay settlements. 18:50 Dead of Night (1945) Thriller. Stars: Charles 18:35 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: Locker (1971) Stars: Gordon Jackson, David Langton and Jean 20:10 Went The Day Well (1942) War. Director: Crichton, Basil Dearden, Mervyn Johns, Michael Sixty-Nine (1962) Stars: Eddie Byrne, Paul Daneman & Marsh. Elizabeth returns from studying abroad and Cavalcanti. Stars: Leslie Banks, Mervyn Johns and Redgrave. An architect senses doom as his dreams Penelope Horner. A private detective is knocked the household are in a , preparing for her entry Basil Sydney. English villagers stage a fight back against become reality. unconscious after finding the body of his employer. into society. a german platoon. 20:55 Report On Litter 1950s Public Information Film 19:45 Christmas Under Fire It’s 1940 and the UK 18:00 El Cid (1961) Epic. Stars: Charlton Heston, 22:00 Personal Services (1987) Comedy. Director: on the rising concern of litter. Take your litter home! prepares for Christmas in this propaganda film for US Sophia Loren & Genevieve Page. Spain is overrun by the Terry Jones. Stars: Julie Walters, Alec McCowen. 21:00 Public Eye: Transatlantic Cousins (1971) audiences. It’s a Christmas of holly & barbed wire yet Moors and the country’s only hope rests in the knight A waitress becomes madam of a brothel which caters to Detective Drama. Stars: Alfred Burke, Brenda Cavendish the British are determined to make it as cheerful El Cid. older men. & Una Brandon-Jones. Marker finds a case involving an as possible. 21:30 Without a Clue (1988) Comedy. Directed by 00:10 The Boys From Brazil (1978) Drama. Directed old reprobate and a young American visiting Britain. 20:00 Ooh - You Are Awful (1972) Comedy. Directed Thom Eberhardt. Stars: Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley and by Franklin J. Schaffner. Stars: , Laurence 22:00 Without a Clue (1988) Comedy. Director: by Cliff Owen. Stars: Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Lysette Anthony. Could the world’s greatest detective Olivier & James Mason. A Nazi hunter in Paraguay Thom Eberhardt. Stars: Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley & Fraser, Cheryl Kennedy, & Liza Goddard. merely be the fictional creation of Dr Watson? discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Lysette Anthony. Could the world’s greatest detective Charlie must find a bank account number to recover 23:40 The Best of The Adventurers (1981) Comedy. Third Reich. merely be the fictional creation of Dr Watson? a fortune. Stars: Barry Evans, Harry H. Corbett & Diana Dors. 00:10 First Monday in October (1981) Comedy. 22:00 Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) Romantic Drama. The funniest, naughtiest bits from the 1970s Director: . Stars: , Jill Alain Delon, Marianne Faithfull, Roger Mutton. Newly “Adventures of” series. Bawdy British fun at its cheekiest. Clayburgh. The Supreme Court’s first woman Associate married Rebecca rides her motorbike to visit her lover. Justice dates her political opposed colleague. 32 33 Subtitled films available on TPTV this month Classic Crooners 3-CD FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Collection Full listings of films with subtitles 18:35 The Yangtse Incident 00:50 Lost Horizon (1973) OUR PRICE £12.99 available on our website. 03:25 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans 05:00 Stagecoach West WITH FREE UK POSTAGE Sun 13 December Tue 22 December Wed 30 December 06:00 A Fire Has Been Arranged 10:30 Kipps 06:00 Hills Of Donegal 07:25 Laxdale Hall 12:15 Men In War 07:55 My Teenage Daughter Disc 1 60 Essential Tracks 12:55 The Duke Wore Jeans 18:50 The Night My Number Came Up 10:30 Hello Down There 1 - Come Fly With Me 19:00 Spring and Port Wine 05:00 Stagecoach West 12:30 Scarlet Thread 2 Andy Williams - Moon River Wed 23 December 14:30 The Green Man 23:50 The Party’s Over 3 Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea 01:40 Piccadilly Third Stop 14:30 Home For Christmas 16:05 Narrowing Circle Mon 14 December 18:35 The Holly and the Ivy Thu 31 December 4 Dean Martin - Sway 08:05 There is Another Sun 20:15 For the Love of Ada 08:10 No Highway in the Sky 5 Nat King Cole - Mona Lisa 18:35 Jigsaw 22:00 Who Dares Wins 18:50 Dead of Night 6 Perry Como - Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes 01:45 The Limping Man 02:15 Home to Danger 00:10 First Monday in October 7 Pat Boone - April Love Tue 15 December Thu 24 December Fri 01 January 8 Bing Crosby - Moonlight Becomes You 08:20 Command Performance 06:10 Scrooge (1935) 07:15 9 Brook Benton - It’s just a matter of time 10:30 Oliver Twist 10:30 End of the Line 00:30 Meet Mr Callaghan 10 Billy Eckstine - I Apologize 02:15 The Case of Charles Peace 12:50 BFI: The Christmas Tree 15:00 The Long Arm Wed 16 December 20:00 Ooh - You Are Awful 20:00 Ten Little Indians 11 Frankie Laine - High Noon 07:40 Duel In the Jungle 23:50 Second Woman 23:25 Play It Cool 12 Johnny Mathis - The Twelfth of Never 17 Frank Sinatra - One For My Baby 12:20 Daybreak 02:05 Final Appointment Sat 02 January 13 Mel Tormé - Blue Moon (And One More for the Road) 18:35 The Turners of Prospect Road Fri 25 December 06:00 The Shipbuilders 14 Roy Orbison - Love Hurts 18 Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine 02:25 Anne of the Indies 06:00 John and Julie 07:30 Cuckoo Patrol 15 Jack Jones - Lollipops and Roses 19 Brook Benton - Endlessly Thu 17 December 10:00 Robin’s Nest 11:00 They Came From Beyond Space 16 Frank Sinatra - I’ve Got You Under My Skin 20 Mel Tormé - Careless Hands 06:00 Distant Trumpet (1952) 10:30 An Inspector Calls 15:20 Angels One Five 07:15 The Broken Horseshoe 12:05 Please Sir! 18:00 El Cid 17 Dean Martin - When You’re Smiling Disc 3 08:50 The Windmill Girls and Boys 15:05 Scrooge: A Christmas Carol 21:30 HUD 18 Nat King Cole - Unforgettable 1 Dean Martin - That’s Amore 10:30 The Brave Don’t Cry 18:00 El Cid Sun 03 January 19 Sammy Jr. Davis - What Kind Of Fool Am I 2 Perry Como - Magic Moments 12:30 Our Girl Friday Sat 26 December 07:30 The Butler’s Dilemma 20 Al Martino - Here In My Heart 3 Frank Sinatra - I Get A Kick Out Of You 16:10 Murder in Eden 15:10 The Winslow Boy 11:00 Date With Disaster 4 Nat King Cole - Smile 22:00 Up the Junction 18:00 Hobson’s Choice 14:10 Last Holiday Disc 2 02:35 Flannelfoot 00:10 The Boys From Brazil 15:55 The Green Man 1 Nat King Cole - When I Fall in Love 5 Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind Fri 18 December 02:45 Dangerous Cargo 05:30 Tate 2 Frank Sinatra - Night And Day 6 Pat Boone - Love Letters in the Sand 06:05 Come Back Peter Sun 27 December Mon 04 January 3 Johnny Mathis - Misty 7 Tony Bennett - Blue Velvet 07:40 Serves You Right! 07:45 Man From Tangier 08:00 Once In a New Moon 4 Frankie Laine - I Believe 8 Sammy Jr. Davis - Love Me Or Leave Me 10:35 Konga 11:00 The Way We Live 10:30 5 Perry Como - Catch a Falling Star 9 Bing Crosby - Pennies From Heaven 19:00 Paper Tiger 15:25 Please Sir! 12:40 Profile 6 Dean Martin - Memories Are Made of This 10 Johnny Mathis - Wonderful! Wonderful! 01:50 Come Back to the Five & Dime, 19:05 The Amazing Mr Blunden 18:35 Serious Charge Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean 22:00 Ten Little Indians 01:45 Jazz Mad 7 Sammy Jr. Davis - That Old Black Magic 11 Billy Eckstine - My Foolish Heart Sat 19 December 03:40 A Celebration of Nettlefold Studios 03:00 Life In Danger 8 Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife 12 Andy Williams - Butterfly 07:50 Marked Men and Cecil Hepworth Tue 05 January 9 Sam Cooke - You Send Me 13 Bobby Darin - Lazy River 21:00 Who Dares Wins 05:30 Tate 18:35 10 Tony Bennett - Stranger in Paradise 14 Frank Sinatra - The Lady is a Tramp Sun 20 December Mon 28 December 22:00 HUD 11 Al Hibbler - Unchained Melody 15 Dean Martin - Mambo Italiano 06:00 The Black Abbot 06:00 The Black Rider 05:00 Stagecoach West 12 Andy Williams - Canadian Sunset 16 Tony Bennett - Just in Time 07:10 Frasier The Loveable Lion 07:20 Circumstantial Evidence (1952) Wed 06 January 13 Bing Crosby - Swinging on a star 17 Nat King Cole - Stardust 11:00 Wonderful Life 12:10 The Lady is a Square 08:20 Second Fiddle 21:00 Enemy At The Door 18:55 12:05 Nate and Hayes 14 Dean Martin - Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu) 18 Johnnie Ray - Just Walking in the Rain 01:20 French Postcards 23:50 Ten Little Indians 02:55 Fools Rush In 15 Ray Charles - Your Cheatin’ Heart 19 Sammy Jr. Davis - Something’s Gotta Give Mon 21 December 01:40 Girl With A Pistol Thu 07 January 16 Nat King Cole - Nature boy 20 Chet Baker - Let’s Get Lost 06:05 Murder in Eden Tue 29 December 07:45 Blood of The Vampire 07:25 Escape By Night 06:00 The Devil and Miss Jones 12:05 Pink String and Sealing Wax To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 12:15 Scrooge (1935) 07:50 The Way We Live 18:35 Last Holiday NAME FREEPHONE ADDRESS 0808 178 8212

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