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On the Double on Talking Pictures TV Stars: , , Wilfrid Hyde-White, Margaret Rutherford. Directed by Melville Shavelson in 1961. A comedy in which Danny Kaye plays two roles, an American soldier and a British General. All military camps in England are sealed off after an assassination attempt. Two American soldiers are stranded in England and one looks so like the general who escaped murder that he is asked to impersonate him, played with all the hilarity Kaye was so good at creating. Airs Sunday 2nd August 7:10pm.

Monday 27th July 9:30am Wednesday 29th July 9:30am The Night We Dropped a Clanger The Goose Steps Out (1942) (1959) Comedy. Directed by A is on a mission and Will Hay. Stars: Will Hay, to find out about the flying bomb. Charles Hawtrey and Peter Croft. Stars: Brian Rix, William Hartnell, A bumbling teacher is flown to , Leo Franklyn and Germany to impersonate a general Liz Fraser. and obtain secret plans. Wednesday 29th July 3:05pm Monday 27th July 11:15am Dear Mr Prohack (1949) Stolen Assignment (1955) Comedy, directed by: Thornton Comedy. Director: . Freeland. Stars: Cecil Parker, Stars: John Bentley, Hy Hazell, , Hermione Baddeley, Eddie Byrne. A young female , Sheila Sim. reporter, tired of the lightweight Arthur Prohack works in the treasury stories her editor assigns her, is but when he comes into a private looking for something more. fortune, his personal finances are much more difficult to manage! Tuesday 28th July 11:15am The Man in Grey (1943) Wednesday 29th July 4:50pm Drama, directed by: Leslie Arliss The Rainmaker (1957) Stars: , Romance, directed by Joseph James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Anthony. Stars: , . The story of a Katharine Hepburn. A middle-aged Regency romance with a bitter woman falls for a con man who outcome, told in retrospect. promises that he can make it rain. Thursday 30th July 7:40am Tuesday 28th July 5:15pm One Jump Ahead (1954) Come Back Peter (1952) Crime thriller directed by Comedy, directed by: Charles Saunders. Charles Saunders. Patrick Holt, Stars: Paul Carpenter, Diane Hart, Peter Hammond, Humphrey Lestocq, Jill Adams and Freddie Mills. Kathleen Boutall, Charles Lamb. A journalist on the trail of a killer, Pandemonium is created in a small tries to keep “one jump ahead” of the country house when various police to solve the crime. relatives come to stay. Thursday 30th July 3:00pm Tuesday 28th July 6:50pm Funny Face (1957) Champion (1949) Musical Romance. Drama. Director: Mark Robson. Director: . Stars: , Marilyn Maxwell, Stars: Audrey Hepburn, , Arthur Kennedy. The struggles of a Kay Thompson, Robert Flemyng. boxer fighting his own demons while A fashion photographer asks trying to achieve success. a girl to model for him after accidentally catching her on film. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 27th July 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

The Desperate Hours on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy and Martha Scott. Directed by William Wyler in 1955. Escaped criminals hide in a suburban home and take the family hostage. Their stay extends into days, while the homeowner tries to protect his wife and two children, and also plot an escape. Bogart viewed the story as his earlier role Duke Mantee, “grown up”. Airs Saturday 1st August 6:15pm.

Thursday 30th July 9:00pm Saturday 1st August 3:15pm Framed (1975) The One That Got Away (1957) Crime. Director: Phil Karlson. Stars: Drama. Director: Roy Ward Baker. Joe Don Baker, Conny Van Dyke. Stars: Hardy Kruger, Colin Gordon An innocent man comes out of and Michael Goodliffe. A German prison ready to get even with the flight officer is shot down over people who sent him there. England and makes numerous Friday 31st July 8:00am attempts to escape to fight again. (1954) Saturday 1st August 6:15pm Drama. Director . The Desperate Hours (1955) Stars: Dirk Bogarde, and Thriller. Director: William Wyler. Alexander Knox. After a convict breaks Stars: Humphrey Bogart, into a psychotherapist’s home, he Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy and agrees to rehabilitation but there’s Martha Scott. Escaped criminals a hidden twist. hold a family hostage. Friday 31st July 11:25am Saturday 1st August 9:00pm Sabotage (1937) The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) Thriller, directed by: Alfred Hitchcock. Crime. Director: Peter Yates. Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Stars: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Desmond Tester. A Scotland Yard Richard Jordan. Boston gunrunner undercover detective is on the trail Eddie Coyle’s last chance to avoid of a saboteur who is part of a plot a prison sentence is to become to set off a bomb in . an informer. Friday 31st July 2:45pm Sunday 2nd August 7:45am No, My Darling Daughter (1961) Monster From Green Hell (1957) Comedy. Director: . Sci-fi. Directed by Kenneth G. Crane. Stars: , Stars: Jim Davis, Barbara Turner, Michael Craig and . Robert E. Griffin. A scientific The daughter of a wealthy industrialist expedition in Africa investigates runs away with a playboy, but falls in giant mutated wasps. love with another young man. Sunday 2nd August 7:10pm Friday 31st July 10:00pm On the Double (1961) Phase IV (1974) Comedy. Directed by Melville Science-fiction Horror. Director: Shavelson. Stars: Danny Kaye, Saul Bass. Stars: Michael Murphy, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Nigel Davenport, . Margaret Rutherford, Diana Dors. Desert ants develop intelligence and An American soldier impersonates wage war. Two scientists and a an English general in order to rescued girl attempt to destroy them. confuse the Nazis. Saturday 1st August 1:25pm Sunday 2nd August 10:00pm Hell’s Outpost (1954) (1966) Action. Director: Joseph Kane. Drama. Directors: Roy & John Stars: Rod Cameron, Joan Leslie, Boulting. Stars , John Russell, Chill Wills, Ben Cooper. , and A Korean War veteran runs into Marjorie Rhodes. The troubles of resistance when he becomes two newlyweds whose marriage has part-owner of a mining company. yet to be consummated.