Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 14th December 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Lord of the Flies on Talking Pictures TV Stars: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman. Directed by Peter Brook in 1963. A group of schoolboys are evacuated from England following the outbreak of an unidentified war. Their aircraft is shot down by fighter planes near a remote island, and the pilot is killed. Unaided by adults, the boys establish a crude civilisation, the behaviour of the majority degenerating into savagery. Based on the novel by William Golding. Airs Saturday 19th December 3:45pm. Monday 14th December 10:30am Tuesday 15th December 8:10pm The Teckman Mystery (1954) Girl In the Headlines (1963) Drama. Director: Wendy Toye. Drama. Director: Michael Truman. Stars: Margaret Leighton, John Justin Stars: Ian Hendry, Ronald Fraser, and Roland Culver. A writer is Jeremy Brett, Jane Asher. commissioned to write the biography A model is found dead. As the Chief of a young airman who died while Inspector searches for clues, everyone testing a new plane. seems to have a motive. (AKA The Model Girl Murder Case) Monday 14th December 4:15pm Now and Forever (1956) Wednesday 16th December 12:20pm Drama. Director: Mario Zampi. Daybreak (1948) Stars: Janette Scott, Vernon Gray, Drama. Director: Compton Bennett. Kay Walsh and Jack Warner. Stars: Ann Todd, Eric Portman and A schoolgirl falls in love with the son of Maxwell Reed. Tragedy strikes when a a local garage owner and they hatch a hangman’s assistant gets into a fight plan to elope. after he tries to seduce the wife of his boss. Tuesday 15th December 10:30am Wednesday 16th December 4:25pm An Ideal Husband (1947) The Edgar Wallace Mystery Comedy. Director: Alexander Korda. Theatre: Strangler’s Web (1965) Stars: Paulette Goddard, Director: John Llewellyn Moxey. Stars: Michael Wilding and Diana Wynyard. John Stratton, Pauline Munro and A prominent politician is blackmailed Griffith Jones. What appears to be a after he begins preparing to expose a cut-and-dried case of murder of a financial scandal. showgirl becomes very complicated. Tuesday 15th December 2:30pm Wednesday 16th December 10pm The Small Voice (1948) Gold (1974) Drama. Director: Fergus Mcdonell. Thriller. Director: Peter R. Hunt. Stars. James Donald, Valerie Hobson, Stars: Roger Moore, Susannah York, David Greene, Howard Keel. A couple Ray Milland and John Gielgud. come across a car crash but discover Financiers use the foreman of a South that the occupants are armed. African gold mine to break through an underground dike to a seam of gold. Tuesday 15th December 4:10pm IWM: Now it Can Be Told (1946) Thursday 17th December 8:50am Semi-documentary. Director: The Windmill Girls and Boys Teddy Baird. Stars: Harry Rée, (2020) Jacqueline Nearne, Teddy Baird. A documentary meeting up with The top secret missions of British artistes who performed at the famous agents behind enemy lines during Windmill Theatre - whose doors the Second World War. ‘never closed’. Memories of the ladies and gents who ‘grew up’ at The Windmill. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 14th December 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 The Girl on a Motorcycle Stars: Alain Delon, Marianne Faithfull, Roger Mutton, Marius Goring. Directed by Jack Cardiff in 1968. Newly married Rebecca rides her prized motorbike – her symbol of freedom and escape – to visit her lover Daniel in Heidelberg, reliving her changing relationship with the two men in flashback as she travels at high speed. Airs: Friday 18th December 10pm Thursday 17th December 4:10pm Saturday 19th December 3:45pm Murder in Eden (1961) Lord of the Flies (1963) Thriller. Director: Max Varnel. Stars: Drama. Director: Peter Brook. Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller and Stars: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Yvonne Buckingham. After discovering Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin, a famous painting is a forgery, a noted Tom Gaman. Shipwrecked on an art critic is killed by a hit-and-run island, thirty castaway schoolboys driver. Scotland Yard sends in Inspector create their own savage Sharkey to investigate. civilization. Based on the novel by William Golding. Friday 18th December 8:10 am The Ghost of Monk’s Island (1966) Saturday 19th December 9pm Action. Directors: Jan Darnley-Smith Who Dares Wins (1982) Jeremy Summers. Stars: Pierre Bedenes, Thriller. Director: Ian Sharp. Lucinda Jackson and Peter Bartlett. Stars: Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Four young children are shipwrecked Richard Widmark, Tony Doyle, on an island, but they are not alone. John Duttine. An anti-nuclear group plan to kill the U.S. Friday 18th December 12:20pm ambassador at the Iranian embassy, The Saint – The Fiction-Makers leading to a siege. (1968) Adventure. Director: Roy Ward Baker. Stars: Roger Moore, Sylvia Syms Sunday 20th December 1:15pm and Justine Lord. The Saint acts as a Kind Hearts & Coronets (1949) bodyguard to best-selling author Amos Comedy. Director: Robert Hamer. Klein, secretly a young woman. Stars: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price and Valerie Hobson. A poor relative Friday 18th December 3:15pm of a wealthy Duke plots to inherit Sunstruck (1972) the title by murdering the heirs who Comedy. Director: James Gilbert. Stars: stand ahead of him. Harry Secombe, Maggie Fitzgibbon and Sunday 20th December 3:25pm John Meillon. Stanley Evans is a Welsh We Dive at Dawn (1943) teacher who heads to Australia after an War. Director: Anthony Asquith. unsuccessful romance. Stars: John Mills, Jack Watling and Friday 18th December 10pm Eric Portman. The story of an The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) attempt by a Royal Navy Romantic Drama. Director: Jack Cardiff. submarine to sink the German Stars: Alain Delon, Marianne Faithfull, battleship Brandenburg. Roger Mutton, Marius Goring. Newly Sunday 20th December 7:10pm married Rebecca rides her motorbike to Genevieve (1953) visit her lover Daniel in Heidelberg. Comedy. Director: Henry Cornelius. Saturday 19th December 11:00am Stars: Kenneth More, Dinah Sheridan The Big Blockade (1942) and Kay Kendall. Friendship will Propaganda documentary. Director: not get in the way of winning the Charles Frend. Stars: Leslie Banks, London to Brighton rally. A young Frank Cellier, Alfred Drayton, barrister and his wife drive Will Hay, John Mills, Robert Morley. Genevieve, a 1904 Darracq. Their A propaganda film on the blockade of friends, an advertising salesman and Nazi Germany by the Allies. Depicted his fashion model girlfriend ride in a in a series of humorous sketches, also 1905 Spyker. The journey to London includes a British bomber mission. involves both adventure and mishap..