Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 12th July 2021 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 The Blind Goddess on Talking Pictures TV Eric Portman, Michael Denison, Hugh Williams and Anne Crawford star in this courtroom drama, directed in 1948 by Harold French. Justice is the blind goddess, served by Eric Portman as the lawyer defending a lord, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use. Based on a popular play of the same title by noted barrister Patrick Hastings. The film features the screen debut of Claire Bloom. Airs: Sunday 18th July 11:50am. Monday 12th July 10am Wednesday 14th July 10:30am The Proud Valley (1940) The Fan (1949) Drama. Director: Pen Tennyson. Stars: Comedy. Director: Otto Preminger. Paul Robeson, Edward Chapman and Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Jeanne Crain Simon Lack. Hoping to find work in and George Sanders. A misplaced fan Wales, a ship’s stoker boards a train and causes havoc in Victorian London. finds work in a small mining town. Wednesday 14th July 12:05pm Monday 12th July 6:45pm The High and The Mighty (1954) Runaway Railway (1965) Drama. Director: William A. Wellman. Adventure. Director: Jan Darnley-Smith. Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor and Stars: John Moulder-Brow, Sydney Tafler, Laraine Day. On a flight from Hawaii to Kevin Bennett, Leonard Brockwell and California, the engine dies. Oscar- Ronnie Barker. Children foil crooks and winning score by Dimitri Tiomkin. re-open an old branch line. Wednesday 14th July 9:05pm Monday 12th July 9pm Blithe Spirit (1945) Eight O’Clock Walk (1954) Comedy. Director: David Lean. Stars: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Drama. Director: Lance Comfort. Stars: Kay Hammond & Margaret Rutherford. Richard Attenborough, Cathy O’Donnell A newly-married writer and his second and Maurice Denham. A taxi-driver is wife are haunted by the ghost of his accused of murdering an eight-year-old first wife. girl on a derelict bomb-site. Tuesday 13th July 10am Thursday 15th July 7:40am Rotten to the Core (1965) Personal Affair (1953) Comedy. Director: John Boulting. Stars: Crime. Director: Anthony Pelissier. Stars: Anton Rodgers, Eric Sykes & Charlotte Gene Tierney, Leo Genn & Glynis Johns. Rampling. After 18 months in jail, the In a 1950s British village, a teenager who gang are released and are eager for is in love with her teacher disappears. their share of the stash. Tuesday 13th July 11:40am Thursday 15th July 10:45am For the Love of Helen (1990) The Hypnotist (1957) Documentary. Director: David Pick. Drama. Director: Montgomery Tully. Actor Peter Cushing talks to Stars: Roland Culver, Patricia Roc and Peter Williams about his turbulent Paul Carpenter. A test pilot is injured childhood, a career in horror films and in a plane crash, following which his theatre and his wife Helen – the love fiancé takes him to a psychiatrist. of his life. Friday 16th July 6:30pm Tuesday 13th July 4:30pm Jitterbugs (1943) Clash By Night (1963) Comedy. Director: Malcolm St. Clair. Drama. Director: Montgomery Tully. Stars: Laurel & Hardy & Vivian Blaine. Stars: Terence Longdon, Jennifer Jayne The boys help a young singer. and Harry Fowler. A prison bus en route Friday 16th July 8am to jail is hijacked by a gang determined Come Back Peter (1952) to free their leader. Comedy. Director: Charles Saunders. Tuesday 13th July 6:45pm Stars: Patrick Holt, Peter Hammond The Bullfighters (1945) Humphrey Lestocq, Kathleen Boutall & Comedy. Director: Malcolm St. Clair. Joan Hickson. Pandemonium is created Stars: Laurel & Hardy, Richard Lane & in a house when various relatives come Diosa Costello. Stan & Ollie play to stay. private investigators. Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Mon 12th July 2021 Friday 16th July 11:55am Saturday 17th July 6:35pm I See a Dark Stranger (1946) House of Bamboo (1955) War. Director: Frank Launder. Stars: Thriller. Director: Samuel Fuller. Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard and Stars: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack and Raymond Huntley. During WWII, a Cameron Mitchell. Eddie Kenner is on patriotic Irishwoman is used as a spy by an army assignment to investigate a the Germans. murderous clique, led by an ex-soldier. Friday 16th July 2:10pm Sunday 18th July 10am From the Terrace (1960) Band Waggon (1940) Romance. Director: Mark Robson. Comedy. Director: Marcel Varnel. Stars: Paul Newman, Myrna Loy and Stars: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Joanne Woodward. The estranged son Patricia Kirkwood, Moore Marriott and of a factory owner seeks his fortune in Jack Hylton and his Band. Would-be New York. comedians set up a pirate radio station in a castle, unaware that it is a German FRIDAY FRIGHT NIGHT spy base. Friday 16th July 7:45pm The Mummy’s Shroud (1967) Sunday 18th July 11:50am Horror. Director: John Gilling. Stars: The Blind Goddess (1948) Andre Morell, Michael Ripper, Drama. Director: Harold French. Elizabeth Sellars and David Buck. Stars: Eric Portman, Anne Crawford An ancient Egyptian curse falls on the and Hugh Williams. Lord Brasted’s doomed members of an expedition. secretary accuses him of embezzling. Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) Sunday 18th July 4pm 9:35pm Horror. Director: Graham Baker. TEATIME WITH LAUREL Stars: Rossano Brazzi & Sam Neill. & HARDY The Battle of the Damien is advisor to the US President. Century (1927) The Day Of The Triffids (1962) Director: Clyde Bruckman. 11:45pm Sci-Fi. Directors: Steve Sekely, Stars: Laurel & Hardy. Ollie tries to Freddie Francis. Stars: Nicole Maurey, trip Stanley for an insurance claim, Howard Keel, Janette Scott and Kieron resulting in an epic pie fight. Moore. A meteor storm blinds most The Bohemian Girl (1936) 4:25pm of the world; those who can see must Directors: Charley Rogers & James W. battle with flesh eating plants. Horne. Stars: Laurel & Hardy, Thelma Saturday 17th July 2:05pm Todd & Darla Hood. Stan and Ollie Fallen Angel (1945) play gypsies caught in a kidnap plot. Thriller. Director: Otto Preminger. Sunday 18th July 7pm Stars: Dana Andrews, Charles Bickford Doctor In Distress (1963) and Bruce Cabot. Did press agent Comedy. Director: Ralph Thomas. Andrews kill his mistress? Stars: Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Saturday 17th July 4pm Justice & Samantha Eggar. Dr. Simon TEATIME WITH LAUREL Sparrow’s love life improves when the & HARDY Our Relations (1936) lovely Delia Mallory arrives in casualty. Director: Harry Lachman. Stars: Laurel Sunday 18th July 10pm & Hardy. Sailors Stan and Ollie have a Heaven Can Wait (1943) mix-up with their twin brothers. Comedy. Director: Ernst Lubitsch Twice Two (1945) 5:30pm Stars: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche and Director: James Parrott. Stars: Laurel & Charles Coburn. A dead man is asked Hardy, Baldwin Cooke & Charlie Hall. to prove he belongs in Hell by A tale of two sets of bickering spouses. telling the story of his dissolute life. Saturday Morning Pictures 09:00 Superman Episode 13: Eleventh Hour 11:15 NEW SERIES Fury Episode 1: Joey Finds a 09:10 Green Hornet Strikes Again Episode 4: Friend Cast: Peter Graves, Robert Diamond, A Night of Terror William Fawcett, Ann Robinson, Ernie 09:35 Below Zero (1930) Comedy. Laurel & Hardy Dotson. Jim Newton captures a wild stallion play struggling street musicians. and brings him back to the ranch. Later he 10:00 Eagle Rock (1965) Drama. Director: comes to the aid of a small boy and brings Henry Geddes. Stars: Pip Rolls, Bryan Marsh, him back to the ranch. The boy and the Stephen Morris, Jim Cameron, Christine horse soon become fast friends. Thomas. A boy suffers from vertigo at a 11:45 Radar Men From The Moon Episode 12: Lake District mountain climbing school. Death of the Moon Man.