Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 25th May 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 So Little Time on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Marius Goring, Maria Schell, Gabrielle Dorziat, John Bailey, Barbara Mullen, Lucie Mannheim. Directed by Compton Bennett, and released in 1952. When war arrives in Europe for the second time in a generation, the Belgians again suffer the humiliation of enemy occupation. Madam de Malvines and her daughter Nicole are forced to share their home with Colonel von Hohensee, a military commander. Nicole realizes that she has fallen in love with him, and that he, too, loves her. Airs Saturday 30th May 1:45pm. Monday 25th May 2pm Tuesday 26th May 5:30pm The Five Pennies (1959) Hurricane Smith (1952) Semi-biographical drama. Adventure. Director: Jerry Hopper. Director: Melville Shavelson. Stars: Stars: Yvonne de Carlo, John Ireland, Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, James Craig, Forrest Tucker. An oil- Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, field worker looks for his missing sister Bob Crosby, Bobby Troup. The story of in Australia and becomes involved bandleader Loring Red Nichols, a gift- with a violent drug-smuggling gang. ed country boy who comes to the big Wednesday 27th May 7:45pm city and becomes a famous trumpeter. Never Back Losers (1962) Monday 25th May 5:30pm Crime. Director: Robert Tronson. Great Expectations (1974) Stars: Kiri Le Clown, Jack Hedley, Drama. Director: Joseph Hardy. Stars: Jacqueline Ellis, Patrick Magee. Michael York, Sarah Miles, Margaret An insurance investigator researching Leighton, James Mason & Anthony the apparently accidental death of a Quayle. Charles Dickens’ tale of an jockey uncovers an illegal gambling orphan given the opportunity to organization. escape from poverty. Wednesday 27th May 10:05pm Monday 25th May 10pm The Looking Glass War (1970) The Naked Civil Servant (1975) Action. Director: Frank R Pierson. Stars: Biographical Drama. Director: Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark Jack Gold. Stars: John Hurt, and Ralph Richardson. From the John Liz Gebhardt, Patricia Hodge. le Carre novel; a British spy sends a Based on the autobiography of Polish defector to East Germany on Quentin Crisp who lived as an openly a mission. gay man in an intolerant era. Thursday 28th May 12:05pm Tuesday 26th May 7:45am Our Man In Marrakesh (1966) Orders Are Orders (1954) Comedy. Director: Don Sharp. Comedy. Director: David Paltenghi. Stars: Tony Randall, Senta Berger, Stars: Tony Hancock, Sid James and Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Peter Sellers. An American film crew Terry Thomas. A traveller on a bus to are making a film in a British army Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to camp but the soldiers chase the fix a vote. film unit’s girls. Thursday 28th May 3:10pm Tuesday 26th May 3pm The Mummy’s Shroud (1967) Now and Forever (1956) Horror. Director: John Gilling. Drama, directed by: Mario Zampi. Stars: Andre Morell, Michael Ripper, Stars: Janette Scott, Vernon Gray, Elisabeth Sellars ad David Buck. Kay Walsh, Jack Warner. A schoolgirl falls An Ancient Egyptian curse settles in love with the son of a local upon the doomed members of an garage owner and they hatch a plan archaeological expedition. to elope to Gretna Green... Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 25th May 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 I Walk Alone on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster, together on screen for the first time and Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, Kristine Miller. Directed by: Byron Haski. After taking the rap for his partner, a mobster is released from prison to find the former partner running a night club with no intention of sharing the riches. Airs: Saturday 30th May 9:30pm Thursday 28th May 7:30pm Saturday 30th May 1:45pm Halfway House (1944) So Little Time (1952) Drama. Directed by Basil Dearden. War Drama. Director: Compton Stars: Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns and Bennett. Stars: Marius Goring, Maria Tom Walls. A group of travellers, all Schell. When war returns to Europe for with something to hide in their past, the second time in a generation, the take shelter from a storm in an old inn. Belgians again suffers occupation. Thursday 28th May 9:30pm Saturday 30th May 5:30pm Passport to Shame (1958) Man on the Run (1949) Thriller. Director: Alvin Rakoff. Crime Drama. Director: Stars: Odile Versois, Herbert Lom, Lawrence Huntington. Eddie Constantine, Diana Dors. Stars: Valentine Dyall, Derek Farr, A young French girl on the run from Leslie Perrins, Joan Hopkins, the Parisian police in London falls Edward Chapman. Having deserted prey to a violent, scheming pimp. the army, Peter Burdon is continually Friday 29th May 12pm on the run. The Ghost of Monk’s Island (1966) Saturday 30th May 9:30pm Family adventure. Director: Duncan I Walk Alone (1948) Wood. Stars: Pierre Bedenes, Lucinda Drama. Director: Byron Haski. Stars: Jackson, Peter Bartlett, Robert Bartlett, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Beryl Cooke. The Robinson children Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, are marooned on a deserted island. Kristine Miller. After taking the rap Friday 29th May 6:55pm for his partner, a mobster is released State Secret (1950) from prison to find his former Mystery drama. Director: partner running a night club with Sidney Gilliat. Stars: Glynis Johns, no intention of sharing the riches. Jack Hawkins, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sunday 31st May 10:30am Herbert Lom. An American surgeon A Canterbury Tale (1944) is caught in a man-hunt when the War. Directors: Michael Powell, dictator he operated on dies. Emeric Pressburger. Friday 29th May 10pm Stars: Eric Portman, Shelia Sim, The Hand of Night (1968) Dennis Price. A Land Girl, a GI and Fantasy horror. Director: a British soldier find themselves William Sylvester, Diane Clare, William together on the road to Canterbury. Dexter, Terrence De Marney. Visiting Sunday 31st May 1pm Morocco, Paul Carver attends a party Caesar and Cleopatra (1946) given by archaeologist Gunther, Biopic. Director: Gabriel Pascal. where he meets the mysterious Stars: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh and Marisa. Next day the ancient tomb of Stewart Granger. Julius Caesar pays a vampire is discovered. a visit to Cleopatra, newly ascended Saturday 30th May 12:10pm to the Pharaoh’s throne. IWM: I Was A Fireman (1943) Sunday 31st May 6:30pm From the Imperial War Museums Forever Female (1954) collection. Director: Humphrey Jennings. Comedy. Director: Irving Rapper. A dramatised reconstruction of the work Cast: Ginger Rogers, William Holden, of London’s fire-fighting services in “the Paul Douglas. A young writer sells bitter days of winter and spring 1940/41” his play to a Broadway producer - before the organisation of the National who wants to transform it into a Fire Service, featuring actual firefighters. vehicle for his ex-wife..