Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 3rd August 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 The High and the Mighty on Talking Pictures TV Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack, Jan Sterling, Robert Newton, Julie Bishop, Paul Fix, Julie Mitchum Douglas Fowley. Directed by William A. Wellman in 1954. On a flight from Hawaii to California, the engine dies on the plane Dan, (John Wayne), is flying. As he prepares for a crash landing, the passengers reassess their lives. The film set the standard for disaster movies with an Oscar-winning score by Dimitri Tiomkin and a full cast of popular of 1950s actors. Airs Sunday 9th August 6:00pm. Monday 3rd August 7:10am Tuesday 4th August 5:00pm The Ghost of Monk’s Island (1966) A Canterbury Tale (1944) Family adventure. War. Directors: Michael Powell and Director: Duncan Wood. Emeric Pressburger. Stars: Pierre Bedenes, Lucinda Jackson, Stars: Eric Portman, Shelia Sim, Peter Bartlett, Robert Bartlett, Dennis Price. A Land Girl, a GI and Beryl Cooke. The Robinson children a British soldier find themselves are marooned on a deserted Island. together on the road to Canterbury. Monday 3rd August 9:30am Wednesday 5th August 6:00am All Over The Town (1949) Love In Pawn (1953) Drama. Director: Derek N. Twist. Comedy. Director: Charles Saunders. Stars: Norman Wooland, Stars: Bernard Braden, Barbara Kelly, Sarah Churchill, Bryan Forbes & James Reg Dixon and John Laurie. Hayter. After serving in the RAF during Penniless couple Roger and Jean will WWII Nat Hearn struggles to return to get £10,000 if Roger can live a sober his pre-war job. and profitable life. Monday 3rd August 2:30pm Wednesday 5th August 12:50pm Copacabana (1947) Medal for the General (1944) Musical comedy. Comedy. Director: Maurice Elvey. Director: Alfred E. Green. Stars: Godfrey Tearle, Jeanne de Stars: Carmen Miranda and Casalis, Petula Clark. An-over-the-hill Groucho Marx. An agent has his WWI general finds a new meaning only client pose as both a French in life when six slum children are chanteuse and Brazilian bombshell evacuated to his home. to fool a nightclub owner. (AKA The Gay Intruders) Tuesday 4th August 9:30am Wednesday 5th August 2:40pm A Boy a Girl and a Bike (1949) On the Double (1961) Comedy. Director: Ralph Smart. Comedy. Director: Stars: John McCallum, Melville Shavelson. Honor Blackman, Diana Dors and Stars: Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Patrick Holt. A bike club invites new Wilfrid Hyde-White, Diana Dors, members to join who will soon be Margaret Rutherford. An American mixed into a world of illegal dealings. soldier impersonates an English general to confuse the Nazis. Tuesday 4th August 11:55am English Without Tears (1944) Thursday 6th August 9:30am Comedy. Director: Harold French. On the Night of the Fire (1939) Stars: Michael Wilding, Lilli Palmer, Drama. Director: Brian Desmond Penelope Dudley-Ward and Hurst Stars: Ralph Richardson, Margaret Rutherford. Diana Wynyard and Romney Brent. The daughter of the house falls in A barber commits a theft which love with the butler after he is made a leads to his involvement in lieutenant. (AKA Her Man Gilbey) blackmail and murder. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 3rd August 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Thursday 6th August 11:45am Saturday 8th August 2:50pm The Ghost Train (1941) Foul Play (1978) Comedy horror. Director: Romantic Comedy. Director: Walter Forde. Stars: Arthur Askey, Colin Higgins. Stars: Goldie Hawn, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison. Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith, High jinks and chills ensue when a Brian Dennehy, Rachel Roberts, group of people become stranded at Dudley Moore. A librarian is drawn an isolated station. into a mystery when a stranger asks her to hide a secret film. Thursday 6th August 9:00pm Passport to Shame (1958) Saturday 8th August 6:00pm Thriller. Director: Alvin Rakoff. The Ship That Died of Shame Stars: Odile Versois, Herbert Lom, (1955) Eddie Constantine, Diana Dors. Thriller. Director: Basil Dearden. A young French girl on the run from Stars: Richard Attenborough, the Parisian police falls prey to a pimp. George Baker and Bill Owen. Ex-servicemen smuggle black Thursday 6th August 10:50pm market items into post-war Britain. Girl in Room 13(1960) Crime. Director: Richard E. Cunha. Saturday 8th August 8:00pm Stars: Brian Donlevy, Andrea Bayard, Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) Victor Merinow. A letter summons Drama. Director: Daniel Mann. American detective Steve Marshall to Stars: Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Sao Paulo, Brazil, in search of fugitive Terry Moore. A loveless marriage is murderess Louise Dunning. rocked when a young woman rents a room in the couple’s house. Friday 7th August 10:15am Give Us the Moon (1944) Sunday 9th August 11:15am Comedy. Director: Val Guest. Orders Are Orders (1954) Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver, Comedy. Director: David Paltenghi. Peter Graves, Roland Culver. A war hero Stars: Tony Hancock, Sid James and and son of a hotel owner leads an idle life Peter Sellers. An American film crew until he bumps into a society where he make a film in a British army camp. seems to find his place. Sunday 9th August 3:15pm Friday 7th August 4:45pm Fun in Acapulco (1963) The Five Pennies (1959) Musical Comedy. Director: Richard Semi-biographical drama. Thorpe. Stars: Elvis Presley, Director: Melville Shavelson. Ursula Andress, Paul Lukas, Stars: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Elsa Cárdenas. When the daughter Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, of an Acapulco boat owner gets Bob Crosby. The story of cornet player Mike fired, a boy helps him get a job and bandleader Loring Red Nichols, as lifeguard and singer at a hotel. who became a famous trumpeter. Sunday 9th August 6:00pm Friday 7th August 7:00pm The High and the Mighty (1954) Ha’penny breeze (1951) Drama. Director: William A. Wellman. Drama. Director: Frank Worth. Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Stars: Edwin Richfield, Don Sharp Laraine Day, Robert Stack. On a and Gwyneth Vaughan. David’s Suffolk flight from Hawaii to California, the village is demoralised after the war, engine dies on a plane. As they but the people gather support for prepare for a crash landing, the his scheme to enter a yacht race. passengers reassess their lives. Saturday 8th August 11:00am Sunday 9th August 10:00pm State Secret (1950) Desire Under the Elms (1958) Mystery drama. Director: Sidney Gilliat. Drama. Director: Delbert Mann. Stars: Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Stars: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Herbert Lom. Burl Ives, Frank Overton. A New An American surgeon is caught in a England farmer works his three sons man-hunt when the dictator he as slaves after two successive wives operates on dies. die. Two sons leave while the youngest remains. The farmer (AKA The Great Manhunt) finds a new wife, but his son is also attracted to her..