Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 25th January 2021 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 We’ll Smile Again on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen and Meinhart Maur. Directed by John Baxter in 1942. A ring of Nazi spies infiltrate a film studio, planning to use it for sending coded messages, but are foiled by two of the studio staff. An engaging showcase for one of Britain’s best-loved song-and-comedy teams. Airs: Wednesday 27th January 7:40am. Monday 25th January 10:30am Wednesday 27th January 7:40am The Frightened City (1961) We’ll Smile Again (1942) Drama. Director: John Lemont. Musical. Director: John Baxter. Stars: Stars: Herbert Lom, Sean Connery and Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen and John Gregson. British Noir film about Meinhart Maur. A ring of Nazi spies extortion rackets and gang warfare in infiltrate a film studio, planning to the West End of London. use it for sending coded messages, Monday 25th January 12:30pm but they are foiled by two of the The Missing Million (1942) studio staff. Crime. Director: Phil Brandon. Stars: Wednesday 27th January 2:30pm Linden Travers, John Warwick, Patricia Teacher’s Pet (1958) Hilliard. When a millionaire mysteriously Comedy. Director: George Seaton. disappears before his wedding, a chain Stars: Clark Gable, Doris Day, of violent events is triggered. Gig Young and Mamie Van Doren. Monday 25th January 10pm A city editor finds himself attracted to The Day of the Locust (1975) a college lecturer and ends up in her Drama. Director: John Schlesinger. class as a student. Stars: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black Wednesday 27th January 9:05pm William Atherton & Burgess Meredith. Power Play (1978) In 1930s Hollywood, an introverted Thriller. Director: Martyn Burke. accountant watches as society Stars: Peter O’Toole, David Hemmings, collapses. Donald Pleasence, Barry Morse. Tuesday 26th January 7:35am Sick of what is happening to their Flight to Mars (1951) nation, a retiring colonel and his Sci-Fi. Director: Lesley Selander. friends organise a military coup d’etat. Stars: Marguerite Chapman, Thursday 28th January 8am Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz. Radio Cab Murder (1954) Five astronauts fly to Mars, where they Crime drama. Director: Vernon Sewell. encounter seemingly friendly and Stars: Jimmy Hanley and Sam Kydd. advanced inhabitants. An ex-convict taxi driver poses as a Tuesday 26th January 12:10pm crook to catch a bank robber. Filmed Raising The Wind (1961) at Nettelfold Studios. Comedy. Director: Gerald Thomas. Thursday 28th January 2:30pm Stars: James Robertson-Justice, Walk A Tightrope (1963) Leslie Phillips, Sidney James, Liz Fraser, Drama. Director: Frank Nesbitt. Kenneth Williams, Jennifer Jayne. Stars: Dan Duryea, Patricia Owens, A group of music students move into a Terence Cooper. A hitman is hired by shared flat in order to cut costs. a woman to kill her ex-husband, but Tuesday 26th January 8:35pm things are not what they seem to be. State Secret (1950) Thursday 28th January 6:35pm Drama. Director: Sidney Gilliat. Stars: It Always Rains On Sunday (1947) Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glynis Johns and Drama. Director: Robert Hamer. Jack Hawkins. After WWII, the dictator of Stars: Googie Withers, John McCallum, a small police state dies during surgery Jack Warner & Susan Shaw. Rose wants and the surgeon is held captive. to escape the drudgery of her daily life when an old lover escapes from prison. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 25th January 2021 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Robert Redford, Paul Dahlke. Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt in 1965. During World War II, two American fliers bail out over Germany. Wilhelm Frick hides them in his cellar. He enjoys their company so much that he does not inform them when the war ends, maintaining a masquerade to convince his guests that Germany is still fighting. Airs: Saturday 30th January 9:15pm. Thursday 28th January 10pm Saturday 30th January 2:10pm Darling Lili (1970) The Ghost & Mrs Muir (1947) Drama. Director: Blake Edwards. Drama. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Stars: Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson and Stars: Rex Harrison, Gene Tierney and Lance Percival. Lili Smith is the singing George Sanders. Mrs Muir discovers sweetheart the troops adore – that her holiday cottage is haunted by but she’s an enemy agent. a previous owner. Friday 29th January 7:10am Saturday 30th January 6pm Old Mother Riley in Society (1940) Is Paris Burning? (1966) Comedy. Director: John Baxter. Drama. Director: Rene Clement. Stars: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Stars: Kirk Douglas, Charles Boyer, John Stuart, Jimmy Clitheroe. Mother Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gert Frobe, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Riley’s daughter Kitty finds romance with Anthony Perkins, Alain Delon. a wealthy society boy, causing Riley to The story of the Allied Resistance leave home, fearing her working class and Paris Liberation of 1944. roots will spoil her daughter’s future. Saturday 30th January 9:15pm Friday 29th January 11:35am Situation Hopeless... Maytime in Mayfair (1949) But Not Serious (1965) Comedy. Musical. Director: Herbert Wilcox. Director: Gottfried Reinhardt. Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Stars: Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Thora Hird, Tom Walls & Peter Graves. Robert Redford, Paul Dahlke. During Michael is left a high-class Mayfair World War II, two American fliers bail fashion salon which he intends to sell. out over Germany. Wilhelm Frick hides them in his cellar but does not Friday 29th January 6pm inform them when the war ends. Harry’s War (1981) Comedy. Director: Kieth Merrill. Stars: Sunday 31st January 11am Edward Herrmann, Geraldine Page, The Common Touch (1941) Karen Grassle, David Ogden Stiers, Drama. Director: John Baxter. Salome Jens. Harry’s aunt, a rich Stars: Greta Gynt, Raymond Lovell, eccentric with an extensive collection of Percy Walsh and Bernard Miles. military memorabilia, is fighting the IRS. When his father dies, young Peter When she dies, Harry takes up the fight. leaves school and takes over the family firm. Friday 29th January 21:55pm Sunday 31st January 1:15pm Child’s Play (1973) Theatre Royal (1943) Drama. Director: Sidney Lumet. Comedy. Director: John Baxter. Stars: Beau Bridges, James Mason and Stars Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Robert Preston. At an exclusive boys’ Peggy Dexter & Lydia Sherwood. school, a new gym teacher is drawn A theatre manager goes bust and into a feud between two instructors. has to close. A formerly ‘lost’ film. Saturday 30th January 11am Sunday 31st January 10pm False Colours (1943) Western. A New Kind of Love (1963) Director: George Archainbaud. Comedy. Director: Melville Stars: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Shavelson. Stars: Paul Newman, Jimmy Rogers, Robert Mitchum. Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter. Hopalong Cassidy and his sidekicks A womanizing American reporter in expose a scheme to replace the heir Paris mistakes a fashion designer for a high-class prostitute. to a ranch with an impostor. He interviews her for a series of articles, then falls in love..