Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 15th July 2019 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Caesar and Cleopatra on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson The most expensive movie ever made in Britain at the time (1946), this breathtaking adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s epic was notoriously lavish. Shot in Technicolor and directed by Gabriel Pascal, the film was so extravagant that the director even took sand to Egypt to get the right cinematic colour. Leigh and Rains portray perfect screen chemistry in this depiction of the relationship that developed between Caesar and Cleopatra before Mark Antony seduced Cleopatra. This witty, brilliantly designed movie features a memorable cast and even impressed Shaw him- self, who collaborated on the adaptation. Airs: Saturday 20th July at 18:30 Mon 15th July 14:45 Wed 17th July 13:35 Blind Corner (1965) Defence of the Realm (1985) Drama. Directed by Lance Thriller. Directed by David Drury Comfort. Stars William Sylvester, Stars Gabriel Bryne, Greta Scac- Barbara Shelley & Elizabeth Shep- chi, Denholm Elliott and Robbie herd. The wife of a blind compos- Coltrane. After an exposé article er plots to murder her husband is published an MP dies in after he learns of her affair. mysterious circumstances. Mon 15th July 21:30 Wed 17th July 21:30 Hell Drivers (1957) Venus Peter (1989) Drama Director: C. Raker Endfield Drama. Directed by Ian Sellar Stars: Stanley Baker, Patrick Stars: George Anton, Louise McGoohan. An ex-con signs up Breslin, Juliet Cadzow, Peter as a driver and uncovers shady Caffrey, Sinéad Cusack. Portrayal dealings between the manager of boyhood in a Scottish fishing and the viciously ambitious head town in Fife in the 1940s. Touch- driver. The drivers take dangerous ing semi-autobiographical story risks and when one dies in an about childhood. accident, the ex-con vows to take revenge. Thurs 18th July 14:30 John and Julie (1955) Tues 16th July 14:25 Directed by William Fairchild. The Dark Man (1951) Stars: Colin Gibson, Lesley Drama. Directed by Jeffrey Dell. Dudley, Noelle Middleton. Stars Maxwell Reed, Edward Six year-old Julie & twelve Underdown, Natasha Parry & year-old John run away from William Hartnell. An inspector their school to see the Queen’s hunts a killer who is looking for coronation procession. an actress who witnessed him commit murder. Thurs 18th July 16:15 The Iron Petticoat (1956) Tues 16th July 21:30 War. Director: Ralph Thomas. The Deadly Affair (1966) Stars Katharine Hepburn, Thriller, directed by Sidney Bob Hope, James Robertson Lumet Stars: James Mason, Justice & Robert Helpmann. Simone Signoret. A British secret A female pilot lands a Russian agent is puzzled by the sudden aircraft on German soil after suicide of a man he’s recently investigated. flying off in a rage. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 15th July 2019 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Fri 19th July 12:20 Sat 20th July 21:00 The Flemish Farm (1943) The Boys From Brazil (1978) War drama. Directed by Jeffery Drama. Directed by Franklin J. Dell. Stars Jane Baxter, Clifford Schaffner. Stars Gregory Peck, Evans and Philip Friend. Laurence Olivier & James Mason. An injured pilot and his nurse A Nazi hunter in Paraguay are separated when Belgium discovers a sinister and bizarre surrenders to the Nazis. plot to rekindle the Third Reich. Fri 19th July 16:10 Sun 21st July 14:25 Make Me An Offer (1955) Kind Hearts and Coronets Comedy. Directed by Cyril (1949) Frankel. Starring Peter Finch. Comedy. Director: Robert When Charlie was a boy, he fell Hamer. Stars: Alec Guinness, in love with a Portland Vase in a Dennis Price & Valerie Hobson. museum. Now he hopes to realise A poor relative of a wealthy his dreams of becoming Duke plots to inherit the title by an antiques dealer. murdering the heirs who stand ahead of him. Fri 19th July 21:30 The Anderson Tapes (1971) Sun 21st July 19:00 Crime Thriller. Directed by Sidney Crooks Tour (1941) Lumet. Stars Martin Balsam, Director: John Baxter Dyan Cannon, Sean Connery, Stars: Basil Radford, Naunton Christopher Walken. A habitual Wayne, Greta Gynt. Caldicott criminal looks for funding to set and Charters, touring in the up his next robbery. Near East, are mistaken for German agents and handed Sat 20th July 18:30 in error a gramophone record Caesar and Cleopatra (1946) which contains vital information Director: Gabriel Pascal for Britain’s enemies. Stars: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson. Sun 21st July 22:00 Adapted by: George Bernard The Comedy Man (1964) Shaw from his own play. Comedy, directed by As Rome invades Egypt, Julius Alvin Rakoff. Starring: Kenneth Caesar stumbles across the young More, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, and unrefined Princess Cleopatra, Billie Whitelaw, Angela sheltering in the Sphinx. Douglas. Rep actor Chick Byrd Impressed by her spirit, intelligence is heading to London in search and charm he determines to make of bigger and better things. her his Queen. .