Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 5th October 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Welcome Mr Washington on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Peggy Cummins , Barbara Mullen, Donald Stewart. Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott in 1944. Once missing, presumed lost, this is a light, warm-hearted Home Front tale with a sparkling early performance by Peggy Cummins. Two sisters are forced to lease their estate as an airbase to American forces during World War II and romantic possibilities ensue. With a well-observed script by future James Bond writer Jack Whittingham, adapted from a story by children’s author Noel Streatfeild. Airs: Saturday 10th October 1:00pm. Monday 5th October 10:30am Tuesday 6th October 4:10pm Helter Skelter (1949) The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966) Comedy. Director: Ralph Thomas Adventure. Director: Don Sharp. Stars: Carol Marsh, Mervyn Johns, Stars: Christopher Lee, David Tomlinson, Richard Hearne, Douglas Wilmer, Heinz Drache. Terry-Thomas. A radio star becomes Fu Manchu and his army are involved with a wealthy heiress but a kidnapping daughters of brilliant case of hiccups causes problems. scientists to demand ransom. Monday 5th October 4:20pm Tuesday 6th October 10:00pm The Ghosts of Berkeley Square That’ll Be The Day (1973) (1947) Musical. Director: Claude Whatham. Comedy. Director: Vernon Sewell. Stars: David Essex, Ringo Starr, Stars: Robert Morley, Felix Aylmer, Rosemary Leach. David Essex makes Yvonne Arnaud, Claude Hulbert. his screen debut as wayward hero At a court in the afterlife a pair of Jim MacLaine, who lives a life of 18th century soldiers are sentenced dead-end jobs and one-night stands to haunt a mansion. and dreams of becoming a rock star. Monday 5th October 6:30pm Wednesday 7th October 2:30pm Take Two: Sylvia Syms The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk Actress Sylvia Syms talks about her (1959) life and career in films and television Crime. Director: Herbert Wilcox. at the famous Elstree Studios. Stars: Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle Hosted by Morris Bright. and Zsa Zsa Gabor. A barrister tries to defend her client, a U.S. scientist, Monday 5th October 7:00pm for killing his bride, a U.S. spy. The Frightened City (1961) Drama. Director: John Lemont Wednesday 7th October 6:50pm Stars: Herbert Lom, Sean Connery The Small Back Room (1949) and John Gregson. British Noir film Drama. Directors: about extortion rackets and gang Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. warfare in the West End of London. Stars: David Farrar, Jack Hawkins, The Shadows had a hit single with and Kathleen Byron. The best bomb main theme. disposal expert must battle his inner self during the German raids. Tuesday 6th October 10:10am Wednesday 7th October 10:00pm Don’t Ever Leave Me (1949) This Is My Street (1964) Comedy. Director: Arthur Crabtree. Drama. Ian Hendry, June Ritchie, Stars: Jimmy Hanley, Petula Clark, John Hurt, Annette Andre, Linden Travers, Hugh Sinclair. Jack’s Avice Landone and Mike Pratt grandfather Harry comes out of prison feature among an outstanding cast and stays with him in his mews flat. in this mid-sixties realist drama from He is soon up to his old tricks; noted director Sidney Hayers. embarrassment and chaos follow. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 5th October 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 G.I. Blues on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse and Robert Ivers. Directed by Norman Taurog in 1960. The first film made after his time in the US Army, G.I. Blues sees Presley play a tank crewman with a singing career who dreams of running his own nightclub, but such dreams don’t come cheap. Airs: Sunday 11th October 6:50pm. Thursday 8th October 11:45am Saturday 10th October 6pm The Way Ahead (1944) The Second Mr. Bush (1940) War. Director: Carol Reed. Stars: Comedy. Director: John Paddy Jimmy Hanley, Stanley Holloway and Carstairs. Stars: Wallace Evennett, David Niven. After a battalion suffers Evelyn Roberts and Kay Walsh. casualties at Dunkirk, the gaps in the A writer poses as a shy butterfly ranks must be filled by ‘call-ups’. hunter who has a fortune and is Thursday 8th October 4:15pm hounded by reporters, until the Spring In Park Lane (1948) angry wife turns up. Comedy. Director :Herbert Wilcox. Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding. Saturday 10th October 7:05pm The new footman is not who he Blueprint for Robbery (1960) seems to be. Crime. Director: Jerry Hopper. Stars: J. Pat O’Malley, Robert J. Friday 9th October 2:30pm Wilke, Robert Gist. After a successful One of Our Aircraft is Missing robbery, the gang members fight (1942) among themselves over the loot War. Directors: Michael Powell, while the police are pouring all their Emeric Pressburger. Stars: Godfrey resources into capturing them. Tearle, Eric Portman, Googie Withers. When a British bomber is shot down Saturday 10th October 9:05pm over Nazi-held Holland, the crew Bloodline (1979) is helped by the local resistance. Thriller. Director: Terence Young. Friday 9th October 4:55pm Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, The Seventh Survivor (1943) James Mason, Claudia Mori, Espionage. Director: Leslie S. Hiscott. Omar Sharif. When her father is Stars: Austin Trevor, Linden Travers, murdered, a pharmaceutical heiress John Stuart. Survivors from a becomes the next target of an torpedoed passenger vessel are unknown killer amid the rescued by a lighthouse crew, but international jet set. the German captain responsible for (AKA Sidney Sheldon’s Bloodline) the attack is also rescued. Friday 9th October 11:10pm Sunday 11th October 6:50pm Friends (1971) G.I. Blues (1960) Romance. Director: Lewis Gilbert. Musical Comedy. Director: Norman Stars: Sean Bury, Anicée Alvina, Taurog. Stars: Elvis Presley, Juliet Ronald Lewis, Joan Hickson. When an Prowse and Robert Ivers. A soldier orphaned French girl meets a rich dreams of running his own night- English boy, they decide to create a club. He places a bet on his friend life apart from the adult world they to spend a night with the most inhabit. Music composed by popular club dancer. Elton John with Paul Buckmaster, lyrics by Bernie Taupin. Sunday 11th October 10:00pm Rough Cut (1980) Saturday 10th October 1:00pm Drama. Director: Don Siegel. Stars: Welcome, Mr. Washington (1944) Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, Drama. Director: Leslie S. Hiscott. David Niven, Timothy West, Stars: Barbara Mullen, Donald Stewart Patrick Magee. Burt Reynolds plays and Peggy Cummins. Two sisters are a gentleman thief who comes out left almost penniless by their father’s of semi-retirement to plan a sudden death, and are forced to lease spectacular heist of $30 million in their estate as an airbase to American uncut diamonds. forces during the Second World War. .