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Dear Supporters of Film and TV History,
Hoping as usual that you are all safe and well in these troubled
times. Our cinema doors are still well and truly open, I’m pleased to
say, the channel has been transmitting 24 hours a day 7 days a week
on air with a number of premières for you all and orders have been
posted out to you all every day as normal. It’s looking like a difficult
few months ahead with lack of advertising on the channel, as you all
know it’s the adverts that help us pay for the channel to be
transmitted to you all for free and without them it’s very difficult.
But we are confident we can get over the next few months. All we
ask is that you keep on spreading the word about the channel in any
way you can. Our audiences are strong with 4 million viewers per week , but it’s spreading the
word that’s going to help us get over this.
Can you believe it Talking Pictures TV is FIVE Years Old later this month?!
There’s some very interesting selections in this months newsletter.
Firstly, a terrific deal on The Humphrey Jennings Collections – one of
Britain’s greatest filmmakers. I know lots of you have enjoyed the shorts
from the Imperial War Museum archive that we have brought to Talking
Pictures and a selection of these can be found on these DVD collections.
Also a brand new release from the BFI, The Battle of the Sexes with Peter
Sellers and Constance Cummings; the complete series of Butterflies with
Wendy Craig on DVD, Quatermass with John Mills to tie in with it airing on
the channel and some wonderful music CDs plus lots more.
I had a lovely chat online with Adrienne Posta
about her time on Up the Junction which we aired
recently and I hope we can start filming again soon with the stars we love.
I hope to invite Adrienne and Maureen Lipman to our next event.
Licensing – a thank you to all of you once again for suggestions of what
to air on the channel. Our list is pretty full now I’m afraid! As you know it’s
not always a case of we haven’t thought of your suggestion, it could be
we can’t locate the copyright owners, or we know film material still exists
but the owners don’t wish to negotiate a license with us – but stay tuned,
hopefully we will get there eventually!
Very sad news at the loss of dear Jill Gascoine recently. I know it was a release
for her, but watching her so young in ROOMS currently airing on the channel,
really brings it home that she is no longer with us. Our hearts go out to her
family and of course also to the family of dear Blonde British Bombshell Honor
Blackman who also passed away recently. Both a great loss to our industry and
we are fortunate to be able to see them both on Talking Pictures TV.
Finally, our T-shirts are ready! Hand made by us! They are super quality and
a new and improved price – do wear them with pride. Do enjoy the premières
on Talking Pictures TV this month including: The Molly Maguires (1970) with
Sean Connery, Viva Max (1969) with Peter Ustinov, Copacabana (1947) with Carmen Miranda
and Groucho Marx, The Enforcer (1951) with Humphrey Bogart, I Walk Alone (1948) with Kirk
Douglas and Burt Lancaster and The Rebel (1961) with Tony Hancock.
Until next month, Stay Safe and Stay Tuned! Very best wishes, Sarah, Noel & Neill 1
From the British
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GREATEST F
HUMPHREY
DVD Collections
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Humphrey Jennings Volume 1
The First Days (1934-1940)
2 discs, 1 DVD and 1 Blu-Ray £15.00
Colour & Black & White; Optional subtitles;
£15.00
Running time approx: 211 minutes.
Volume 1 gathers together 14 films from 1934-1940 and
£25.00
provides a fascinating insight into Jennings’ early days as
a filmmaker, learning and developing his craft. Features WITH FREE U
include the acclaimed Spare Time and London Can Take Call Us Now O
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It! as well as previously neglected works, many of which are
available for the first time since their release.
Films: Post Haste (1934) Locomotives (1934)
The Story of the Wheel (1934) Farewell Topsails
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(1937) Penny Journey (1938) Speaking from
America (1938) The Farm (1938) Making Fashion Widely considered to be one
(1938) Spare Time (1939) SS Ionian (1939) The First of Britain’s greatest filmmakers
Humphrey Jennings has
Days (1939) Spring Offensive (1940) Welfare of the long been celebrated as the
Workers (1940) London Can Take It! (1940) director of works which
Extras: The Birth of the Robot capture everyday heroism in
times of war and peace.
(1936): a Len Lye film for Shell on which Born in Walberswick, Suffolk
Jennings worked. English Harvest on 19th August 1907 he was
(1939): alternative cut of The Farm. not only a filmmaker but a
Cargoes (1940): alternative cut of SS photographer, literary critic,
Ionian. Britain Can Take It! (1940) theatrical designer, poet,
alternative cut of London Can Take It! painter and theorist of modern
art. He died on 24th Septembe
Illustrated booklet with essays 1950 in an accident in Greece,
and film credits. while preparing for a film.
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Britain’s
Filmmakers
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s Volumes 1 & 2
rst Days and
s Were Started
SPECIAL OFFER
Humphrey Jennings Volume 2
Fires Were Started (1941-1943)
each OR 2 discs, 1 DVD and 1 Blu-Ray £15.00
0 for both
Black & White; Optional subtitles;
Running time approx: 138 minutes.
The second volume of films is a lyrical portrait of the nation
UK POSTAGE at war and includes five films from 1941-1943. It shows
On Freephone Jennings at the peak of his tragically short but outstanding
career. From the rousing call to arms of The Heart of
78 8212 Britain and Words for Battle, the poetic evocation of daily
life in Listen to Britain, and the powerful drama of
3 290555 Fires Were Started and The Silent Village, the films
included in the set offer a lyrical portrait of the nation at war
and a moving celebration of ‘Britishness’.
s, Films: The Heart of Britain (1941)
Words for Battle (1941) Listen to Britain (1941)
Fires Were Started (1943) The Silent Village (1943)
Extras: This is England (1941,
10 mins): alternate cut of The Heart of
Britain. I Was a Fireman (1943,
74 mins): Jennings’ original cut of
Fires Were Started.
n Illustrated booklet featuring
er essays, film notes and biographies by
Lindsay Anderson, Patrick Russell
and Kevin Jackson.
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Memories of
a life in films
Part 9, by Noel Cronin
Selling to TV stations was hard enough, but only having
trade films and old or not very good series made it doubly
so. Breaking into companies that had prime product for a
small fledgling distribution company was nearly
impossible; you either needed distribution clout or money,
but I battled away and finally got a break. Luck or judgement who knows?!
In my travels I met a charming American and a tough Swede who had a distribution
company in the USA and I sold their product in the UK. It wasn’t the best and the
company bumped along before going bust. Jim, the American, reappeared a while
later. He was working with a New York based company, producing and selling family
dramas known as ‘after school specials’ – good wholesome productions that the USA
TV networks played for children returning home from school. Good films, but not easy
to sell in the UK. I was offered the UK distribution, but had to put up a large advance to
secure the contract. The product on the face of it did not support the investment,
but my hunch was to go with it. To this day I am not sure how I raised the money –
I am sure my house was hocked – but the deal was done! Things started slowly, a few
little sales, but not looking great, then BANG – the American company was bought
by a company called New World Entertainment and, after a period of uncertainty, my
company, Dandelion Distribution, was retained to handle the New World product.
I had programming I could only have dreamed of in the past; mini-series, soaps,
feature series – a whole new world had literally opened up. LA here I come!
Producer Noel Cronin founded Talking Pictures TV and
Renown Pictures. Noel is contributing a series of memories
to the newsletter over the coming months. Ever since his
entrance into the world of film as a young man, Noel has
been interested in preserving the heritage of lost and
forgotten films, shorts and programmes, and for many
years has been gathering, restoring and preserving this
wonderful heritage which would otherwise be lost. Noel
worked for The Rank Organisation and the Central Office
of Information, and bought the rights to several libraries
that owned films which now air on TPTV. His career as a
producer and editor of films, documentaries and TV series
spans several decades.
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BRAND NEW RELEASE from the British Film Institute
THE BATTLE
OF THE SEXES
(Dual Format Edition, you
will receive both DVD and
Blu-Ray editions)
Year: 1960 | Black & White
Optional Subtitles
Running Time Approx: 84 minutes
Includes both DVD and Blu-ray editions
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Constance Cummings, Robert Morley,
Peter Sellers, Donald Pleasence.
When Angela Barrows, an accomplished
business woman from the US, is sent by her
company to Edinburgh to look into potential export
markets, she meets Robert MacPherson, a company
manager who has just inherited his father’s textile
business and wants her advice on updating it to
modern standards. Angela introduces new ideas and
the employees, scandalised that they have to work
under a female boss, turn to head clerk Mr Martin, who
promises to lead the fight against the interloper.
Extras:
• Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition
• Hancock’s Hard Boiled Eggs Sellers’
contemporary, the lad from East Cheam himself,
Tony Hancock, appears with ‘The Battle of the Sexes’ Patricia Hayes in this cracking
collection of 11 egg-cellent Egg Marketing Board adverts from 1966.
• A Ghost of a Chance (1968, 50 mins). Bonus feature-length fun for all the family as Sellers’
chum Graham Stark stars with Ronnie Barker, Patricia Hayes, Jimmy Edwards,
Bernard Cribbins and Terry Scott in a corking Children’s Film Foundation comedy.
• Images of Edinburgh in Archive Film a selection of rarely-seen short films capturing
Scotland’s capital in the first half of the twentieth century, from the BFI National Archive
• Woolly Wonders evocative 1940s archive films of traditional Scottish cloth-making, shot in
colour by the great Jack Cardiff
• Image gallery
• Fully Illustrated booklet with an essay by the BFI’s Vic Pratt; biographies of Charles Crichton,
Constance Cummings, Robert Morley and James Thurber by Kieron McCormack; notes on
the special features and full film credits.
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Spotlight on Penny Morrell
Born: 4th February 1938 – Died: 3rd January 2020
The actress, producer and widow of the late George Cole,
sadly passed away in January, aged 81. We look back at her prolific
career and her achievements both as a wife and mother, as well as
her career, in tribute to a remarkable lady.
She was born Penelope Margaret Ann Pennington on the 4th
of February 1938 in Maidenhead. Her father left when she was
two years of age and her mother Dorothy took her with her as she
globe-trotted the world. Dorothy then met Ray Morrell, an English Professor who worked in
Singapore and Malaysia, who she married. Ray raised Penny as if she were his own child. He
taught her to appreciate art and antiques and helped in her studies at night school where she
trained in philosophy after a brief, unhappy marriage – she was just 18 – that ended in divorce.
Although she had no formal acting training, she had first tasted show business broadcasting
in plays for Radio Malaysia when she was just 12 years old. It was not until the family moved to
Jersey, years later, that she joined a repertory company and learned the business from stage
management to acting.
Her talents were soon recognised by the studios and in her twenties she played roles in films
such as Brothers in Law (1957), Lucky Jim (1957), Make Mine Mink (1960), The Bulldog Breed
(1960), Too Hot to Handle (1960), Out of the Fog (1962), A Stitch in Time (1963), The Comedy
Man (1964), Smokescreen (1964) and The Early Bird (1965). While on television she appeared
with Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Morecambe & Wise, Sid James and Arthur Askey, adding
variety to her CV. She also continued to work in radio and famously became the voice of Piglet
in Winnie the Pooh with Ian Carmichael.
She met George Cole in 1966 at an audition in London for The Waiting Game. George wrote
in his autobiography, “I’m pretty sure it was love at first sight. I think I knew there and then that
I would marry her.” They were married a year later at Henley Registry Office on 26 May 1967.
She made the decision to take a back-seat with her career, allowing George the freedom to
pursue his. She concentrated on being a wife and mother to Cole’s two children from his previ-
ous marriage and to Tara and Toby, children from their own happy relationship. Penny created
the warm, loving, stable and secure family home she had never had as a child, which was also
what George had been searching for.
Once the children had grown up, Penny began to write and produce shows for Henley’s
Kenton Theatre and The Mill at Sonning – many for charity. She also wrote, produced and
starred in a series of Music Hall shows for Catamaran Cruises in London in 1980-81, which
became so successful that they spawned many corporate bookings. ‘Mrs Cole’s Music Hall’ also
played successive and sold out Christmas sea-
sons at The Mill from 1982-85. Throughout this
time, she also continued to appear in guest roles
on television in Doctors, Heartbeat, The End of
the Affair and Chucklevision, among others.
After George passed away in 2015,
Penny continued with her small antique business
in Henley, but closed the shop in 2017. She died
on the 3rd January 2020 and, at her funeral, it was
requested that attendees wore some colour and in-
stead of flowers, that they plant something in her
memory… a lovely lasting legacy to a lovely lady.
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Butterflies
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION
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Colour. Running time: 830 mins
With Optional Subtitles.
Over 13 hours of classic
British comedy.
Directors: John B. Hobbs,
Sydney Lotterby, Mandie Fletcher,
Gareth Gwenlan.
Cast: Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Palmer,
Nicholas Lyndhurst, Andrew Hall,
Bruce Montague, Michael Ripper.
Wendy Craig stars as Ria, a suburban
housewife frustrated with mundane family
life, craving some escape from drudgery.
As hard as she tries she has never
mastered the domestic arts and her
well-meant efforts in the kitchen result in
spectacular disaster. Husband Ben and
layabout sons Russell and Adam live in
fear of mealtimes as unidentified creations
need coaxing from the pan and the words egg custard induce panic.
Desperate for some excitement in her life, could a chance meeting
with the charming and wealthy Leonard be the answer she is
looking for? Written by Carla Lane, Butterflies ran from 1978
to 1983 and is one of the BBC’s most successful sitcoms. Presented
here is every one of the hilarious 28 episodes to enjoy again.
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From the British Film Institute
British Transport
Films Volume 14
The Road Ahead
2-Disc DVD Set
Years: 1959-1980 | Colour and Black & White
Running Time: approx. 215 minutes
Following the nationalisation of public transport in
1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own
in-house film production unit. Launched on 1 May 1949,
British Transport Films was led for 25 years by Edgar
Anstey, a founding father of the British documentary
movement, and became one of the largest industrial
film units in Britain.
This 2-disc collection includes 14 newly remastered films, most of which have never been
released on DVD before, including Railbus for the 80’s, Five in Millions and Speedlink:
The Quiet Revolution. Also included on this release is a new score for Safe on the Track?
by composer Mordecai Smyth. A fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the films by BFI
curator and BTF expert Steven Foxon and post-war transport historian and enthusiast
Stephen Edwards is also included. This digitally remastered collection is a must for the
transport enthusiast and the documentary aficionado alike.
Disc 1
Diesel Train Driver: Driving the Train (1959, 19 mins)
Railway Electrification at Industrial Frequency
(1960, 26 mins)
Contact with the Heart of England (1967, 8 mins)
Speed the Payload (1967, 15 mins)
Safe on the Track? (1969, 11 mins)
Flashing Yellows (1976, 10 mins)
Railbus for the 80’s (1978, 6 mins)
Disc 2
Through to the Continent by Ferry Train (1978, 8
mins)
Carriage Cleaning (1978, 28 mins)
Great Britain: A Travel Guide (1978, 9 mins)
Five in Millions (1978, 26 mins)
Emergency Coupling Class 253/4 (1980, 14 mins)
Safe at Work? (1980, 26 mins)
Speedlink: The Quiet Revolution (1980, 9 mins)
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THE CR IME COLLECTION
CD AUDIO BOOK £19.99 on 6 CDs
Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles
Read by Peter Egan
John Buchan The Thirty Nine Steps
Read by James Fox CD Audio Book
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone
Read by Steven Pacey
The Hound of
the Baskervilles
A devil-beast haunts the
lonely moor around the
Baskervilles’ ancestral
home. A legend warns the
descendants of that ancient
family never to venture out
on the moor “… in those
dark hours when the powers
of evil are exalted.”
One of the Baskervilles, Sir Charles, is dead,
and the footprints of a giant hound had been found near his body.
Would the new heir to the Baskervilles meet the same dreadful fate?
The Thirty Nine Steps
Richard Hannay is warned of an assassination plot that has the
potential to take Britain into a war. A few days later he discovers the
murdered body of the American who warned him and becomes a
prime suspect. He flees to the moors of Scotland, pursued by the police
and German spies involved with stealing British plans.
The Moonstone
The Moonstone, a priceless Indian
diamond brought to England as spoils of war, is given to
Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That night,
the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked
housemaid, on Rachel’s cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe
of mysterious Indian jugglers, and even on Rachel herself.
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11Danger Men, Mavericks, Thrillers & Twilight Zones
Classic TV Themes
of the 50s and 60s
MUSIC CD
40 Tracks on one disc
OUR PRICE £12.99
WITH FREE UK POSTAGE
This 40-track compilation features TV themes from
‘The Golden Age’ of television. Tunes include TV westerns,
Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, The Life and Legend of Wyatt
Earp, Cheyenne, Bronco, Have Gun Will Travel,
Maverick, The Rifleman, Rawhide, Bonanza!, Laramie
and Zorro! Also detective series such as M Squad, The Untouchables, Naked City, 77 Sunset Strip,
Hawaiian Eye, Johnny Staccato, Peter Gunn and UK-originated shows, Ghost Squad, Maigret and
No Hiding Place. Espionage shows Danger Man and The Saint, and science-fiction themes from
Quatermass & The Pit, One Step Beyond, The Twilight Zone, Boris Karloff’s Thriller and Out of this
World. The familiar themes from Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, Route 66,
Adventures in Paradise, Philadelphia Story, Dr Kildare and Ben Casey are included and music shows
Dinah Shore Chevy Show and American Bandstand plus America’s favourite comedy show, I Love Lucy.
Many of the tracks are from the actual soundbeds of their original series, and have never been released before.
1. ADVENTURES IN PARADISE: Theme From Adventures 19. LARAMIE: original TV theme music (intro theme)
In Paradise - Jerry Byrd 20. THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF WYATT EARP: The Legend of
2. ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: Funeral March Of Wyatt Earp - Hugh O’Brian
A Marionette 21. M SQUAD: M Squad Theme - Stanley Wilson & His Orchestra
3. AMERICAN BANDSTAND: Bandstand Boogie - 22. MAIGRET: original TV theme music
Les & Larry Elgart 23. MAVERICK: original TV theme music
4. BEN CASEY: Theme From Ben Casey - Valjean 24. NAKED CITY: original TV theme music (closing theme)
5. BONANZA: original TV theme music 25. NO HIDING PLACE: No Hiding Place - Ken Mackintosh
6. BORIS KARLOFF’S THRILLER: Thriller Theme - Pete Rugolo 26. ONE STEP BEYOND: Fear (opening theme) - Harry Lubin
7. BRONCO: original TV theme music 27. OUT OF THIS WORLD: Out Of This World - Tony Hatch
8. CHEYENNE: original TV theme music 28. PETER GUNN: Peter Gunn Theme - Henry Mancini
9. DANGER MAN: original TV theme music 29. PHILADELPHIA STORY: Tracy’s Theme - Spencer Ross
10. DINAH SHORE CHEVY SHOW: original TV theme music 30. QUATERMASS AND THE PIT: original TV theme music
11. DR KILDARE: Three Stars Will Shine Tonight - 31. RAWHIDE: RAWHIDE - Frankie Laine
Richard Chamberlain 32. THE RIFLEMAN: original TV theme music
12. EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERY THEATRE: Man Of Mystery - 33. ROUTE 66: original TV theme music (closing theme) -
The Shadows Nelson Riddle & Ray Sherman
13. GHOST SQUAD: Ghost Squad Theme - Tony Hatch 34. THE SAINT: Theme From The Saint - Edwin Astley
14. GUNSMOKE: original TV theme music 35. 77 SUNSET STRIP: original TV theme music - Don Ralke
15. HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL: The Ballad Of Paladin - 36. TWILIGHT ZONE: original TV theme music
Johnny Western 37. THE UNTOUCHABLES: original TV theme music
16. HAWAIIAN EYE: original TV theme music (intro theme) 38. WAGON TRAIN: original TV theme music
17. I LOVE LUCY: original TV theme music (closing theme) 39. WAGON TRAIN: Wagon Train - Johnny O’Neill
18. JOHNNY STACCATO: Staccato’s Theme - Elmer Bernstein 40. ZORRO: original TV theme music (opening title theme)
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12Maltese Falcons, Third Men & Touches of Evil
The Sound of
Film Noir 1941-1958
OUR PRICE £12.99
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MUSIC CD
42 Tracks on one disc
Film Noir - which translates literally as ‘black film’ or ‘black
cinema’ - was an epithet first used by French film critics to
describe the new wave of downbeat American crime and
detective films which were released in France immediately
after WWII. Primarily filmed in a low-key, monochrome visual style that had roots in German Expressionist
cinematography, they became increasingly prominent in the immediate post-war era, enjoying a Golden Age
through to the late 50s. This unique set features the main title themes and/or signature music from 42 Noir
classics, starting with John Huston’s pivotal The Maltese Falcon (1941) and ending with Orson Welles’
Touch of Evil (1958), taking in benchmark movies like The Big Sleep (1946), The Postman Always Rings
Twice (1946), Key Largo (1948), White Heat (1949), The Third Man (1949), Strangers on a Train
(1951), The Big Heat (1953) and Night of the Hunter (1955), in between. A truly unique compilation, this
is a must-have for fans of the golden cinematic era.
1. THE MALTESE FALCON [Theme] 25. IN A LONELY PLACE [I Hadn’t Anyone Till You, By Hadda Brooks]
2. JOURNEY INTO FEAR [Theme] 26. THE PROWLER [Main/End Title]
3. DOUBLE INDEMNITY [Theme/Scene] 27. THE RACKET [Theme]
4. MILDRED PIERCE [Theme] 28. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN [Theme]
5. DETOUR [Theme] 29. MACAO [Theme]
6 THE KILLERS [Main Title/Theme] 30. THE HITCH-HIKER [Main/End Title]
7. THE BIG SLEEP [Theme] 31. THE BIG HEAT [Theme]
8 THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE [Theme] 32. PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET [Skip Leaves With Candy,
9. NOTORIOUS [Intro] By Lionel Newman]
10. BORN TO KILL [Theme] 33. PRIVATE HELL 36 [Theme]
11 THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI [Theme] 34. CRIME WAVE [Opening Credits]
12. KISS OF DEATH [Theme] 35. SUDDENLY [Theme]
13. KEY LARGO [Theme] 36. NIGHT OF THE HUNTER [Opening Credits]
14. FORCE OF EVIL [Theme] 37. PETE KELLY’S BLUES [Main Theme, By Ray Anthony]
15. SORRY, WRONG NUMBER [Prelude/Foreword] 38. THE WRONG MAN [Prelude]
16. DRUNKEN ANGEL [Guitar Music] 39. THE KILLING [Theme]
17. OBSESSION [Main/End Title] 40. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS [Theme]
18. WHITE HEAT [Theme] 41. ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS
19. CRISS-CROSS [Main/End Title] [Générique, By Miles Davis]
20. THE THIRD MAN [Main Theme, By Anton Karas] 42. A TOUCH OF EVIL [Main Title Theme,
21. THE ASPHALT JUNGLE [Theme] By Henry Mancini]
22. D.O.A. [Theme]
23. SUNSET BOULEVARD [Theme]
24. NIGHT AND THE CITY [Theme/Intro]
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13QUATERMASS
Year: 1979 | Colour
2-DVD Set | Optional Subtitles
Running time: 200 mins approx £15
Director: Piers Haggard
Cast: Sir John Mills, Simon MacCorkindale,
Barbara Kellerman
John Mills brings a stoic intensity to the role of
Professor Bernard Quatermass in this key piece of
British dystopian fiction from visionary writer
Nigel Kneale. Unsettling in its vision of a crumbling
society coming under alien attack, Quatermass is
directed with characteristic style by BAFTA winner
Piers Haggard and features the high production
values associated with Euston Films. Shot on
35mm, the original negatives have been used for
this stunning, brand-new restoration – a new 5.1
mix from original triple-track audio elements is
also presented here alongside the original
mono soundtrack.
Bernard Quatermass, former head of the British
Rocket Group, lives in seclusion in western Scotland,
watching in appalled silence as Britain slowly turns
into a vision of violence, gang rule and governmental
collapse. A desperate search for his missing
granddaughter plunges him into a terrifying situation QUATERMASS is coming
when he comes to realise that the mass to Talking Pictures TV!
disappearance of thousands of youths is nothing Don’t miss the thrilling series,
less than the culling of the human species by an airing on Talking Pictures TV
unknown alien intelligence... from Tuesday 19th May at 9pm,
Special Features: and following Tuesdays.
• Brand-new 5.1 mix for episodic version Chapter 1: Ringstone Round
• Brand-new HD restoration of The Quatermass Appearing as a guest on a
Conclusion in its original theatrical aspect ratio television programme covering
a United States and Russian
• Music-only tracks for all four episodes
space mission, Professor
• Episode recaps Quatermass is horrified when
• Textless titles both spacecraft are destroyed
• Image Gallery by an unknown force.
• Booklet by archive TV historian Andrew Pixley
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Call Us Now On Freephone 0808 178 8212From the British Film Institute
That Sinking
Feeling £15
A film by Bill Forsyth
Dual Format Edition
DVD and Blu-Ray
Year: 1979 | Optional Subtitles
Colour | Running Time: approx. 93 minutes
The hilarious directorial debut of acclaimed director
Bill Forsyth, whose work also includes: Gregory’s Girl
and Local Hero.
Cast: Robert Buchanan, Eddie Burt, Drew Burns,
Danny Benson, John Gordon Sinclair.
Unemployed teenager Ronnie, (played by Robert
Buchanan), and his hapless pals spend their time
hanging around the rainy parks and dingy cafés of
Glasgow, but their world is about to change when Ronnie
hatches a plan to make them all rich by stealing a job-lot
of stainless steel sinks. Hilarious and inventive, Forsyth’s
zero budget debut provides an authentic depiction of
1970s Glasgow youth culture, and is presented here
for the first time in a new HD transfer complete with the
original Glaswegian dialogue track.
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• Presented in both High Definition and
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•N ew audio commentary with Bill Forsyth
and Mark Kermode.
•K H-4 (John Schorstein, 1969, 13 min):
starring Bill Forsyth.
•M irror (John Schorstein, 1970, 33 min):
starring Bill Forsyth.
•G lasgow 1980 (Oscar Marzaroli, 1971, 30 min): travel documentary.
•B ill Forsyth BAFTA Film (Bill Forsyth, 2009, 7 min).
•K ermode Uncut (2012, 9 min): an analysis of the budget for That Sinking Feeling.
• A Conversation with Robert Buchanan (2014, 14 min).
• Optional alternative dubbed dialogue track.
• Fully illustrated booklet with new essays and full credits.
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18UK Cinema and The War Years: Part 2
War Returns
When World War II was declared on Sunday 3rd September 1939,
all cinemas were closed as a safety precaution. It was a worrying
time as the nation was still readjusting to some kind of normality
after the First World War, which had ended in November 1918.
However for the cinema, it was to be an important time. The advent
of television for the British masses was nowhere in sight, music halls
were on the decline but variety theatre still had audiences. The cinema
became once more a place for escapism and keeping up the
spirits of the nation. Cinemas were reopened within a week of the
closure with the blessing of the government, who realised that cinema was the ideal outlet for
propaganda via its newly-created Ministry of Information (MOI).
In 1940, the MOI took over the GPO Film Unit, responsible for many creative 1930s documentaries,
turning it into the state’s official film propaganda arm. Renamed the Crown Film Unit, it retained
many GPO filmmakers, including Harry Watt, Pat Jackson and Humphrey Jennings. Their shorts and
documentaries soon appeared on cinema screens. The times were challenging, particularly as the
war progressed. Films were regularly interrupted, with the manager walking on stage to notify the
audience of air raid warnings and give direction to the nearest shelters. Most, however, felt safe
inside the picture houses – apart from a direct hit they were regarded as “safe as a shelter”. Many
would seat grouped under the balcony area for “maximum benefit” if it were to be hit. Basement
cinemas were particularly popular – The Ritz Cinema, located in London‘s Leicester Square, always
did good business. In some cinemas, the “air raid” interruption was replaced with a slide placed on-
screen over the film for a few seconds, so the films didn’t have to be stopped.
In areas where bombing had been particularly ferocious, attendance was affected, but gener-
ally, from early 1941, the picture houses, palaces and flea pits enjoyed good business. The film
themes changed to morale boosting features, war themed stories and heroic tales, lapped up by
audiences boosted by visiting servicemen who were stationed nearby. The MOI backed fiction features
too, with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 49th Parallel (1941), The Lamp Still Burns (1943)
and Millions Like Us (1943), a depiction of an ordinary British family during wartime. Propaganda
messages were delivered by major stars of the day, including, Eating Out with Tommy Trinder (1941).
The biggest name was perhaps Leslie Howard, who returned from Hollywood to Britain to make
propaganda shorts including From The Four Corners (1941) and fiction features like The First of the
Few (1942) and The Gentle Sex (1943), losing his life before the war was over. David Lean came to
prominence with films such as In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944) and the charming
Blithe Spirit (1945). Launder and Gilliat also contributed with films such as Two Thousand Women
(1944) and The Rake’s Progress (1945), while at Ealing Studios, Will Hay starred in The Goose Steps
Out (1942) and Michael Balcon added to the war effort, with audience friendly stories such as,
The Foreman Went to France, Went The Day Well? and The Next of Kin all made in 1942.
Audiences flocked to see George Formby, Alastair Sim, Anna Neagle, Arthur Lucan as Old Mother
Riley, Michael Wilding, Flora Robson, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray and many more.
After the war ended cinema continued to thrive and an all-time peak of 1,635 million
admissions was reached in 1946. New challenges such
as building restrictions meant that new cinemas could
not be built in areas of expanding population nor war-
damaged ones repaired. Some smaller cinemas fell into
disrepair, while the bigger chains spent what they could
to keep their cinemas functional and cosmetically pleasing.
A tax dispute resulted in Hollywood withholding new films for
nine months in 1947-48, encouraging the hasty production of
low-budget British pictures, but times were changing as the
decade wore on and Britain began the recovery from war.
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1 Murray Johnson Pack up your Troubles
2 John McCormack It’s a long way to Tipperary
3 Courtland & Jeffries Oh! It’s a lovely War
4 Violet Lorraine/George Robey
If You Were the Only Girl in the World
5 John McCormack Roses of Picardy
6 Ella Retford Take me back to dear old Blighty
7 Nora Bayes Over There
8 Courtland & Jeffries Goodbye-Ee
9 Ted Yorke Hello, hello, Who’s your Lady Friend
10 Jack Charman Mademoiselle from Armentieres Disc Three
11 George Grossmith / Haidee De Rance 1 Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
They Didn’t Believe Me Tuxedo Junction
12 Bill Murray Sister Susie’s Sewing Shirts for Soldiers 2 The Andrew Sisters Boogie Woogie
13 Frederick Wheeler Here We are Again Bugle Boy
14 The American Quartet Oh! You Beautiful Doll 3 Vera Lynn The White Cliffs of Dover
15 Harry Champion Boiled Beef and Carrots 4 Noël Coward London Pride
16 John McCormack Keep the Home Fires Burning 5 Nat Gonella & His New Georgians
17 Harry Fay How Ya Gonna Keep ‘em down on the Farm Hey little Hen
18 Jack Hylton Painting the Clouds with Sunshine 6 Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
19 Al Bowlly Goodnight Sweetheart Pennsylvania 6-5000
20 Jack Buchanan Everything Stops for Tea 7 Vera Lynn Yours
8 Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra When
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1 Vera Lynn We’ll Meet Again 9 George Formby Mr. Wu’s an Air Raid
2 Glenn Miller Orchestra In The Mood Warden Now
3 George Formby Our Sergeant Major 10 The Andrew Sisters Don’t sit Under the
4 Binnie Hale A Nice Cup of Tea Apple Tree
5 Al Bowlly The Very Thought of You 11 Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
6 Gracie Fields Sing As We Go American Patrol
7 Flanagan & Allen Run, Rabbit, Run 12 Bing Crosby Moonlight Becomes You
8 The Andrew Sisters Oh Johnny oh Johnny oh! 13 Kay Kyser & His Orchestra
9 Harry Roy & His Orchestra They Can’t Black out Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
the Moon 14 Irving Berlin This is the Army, Mr. Jones
10 F lanagan & Allen (We’re gonna hang) The Washing on 15 Ambrose & His Orchestra Comin’ in on a
the Siegfried Line Wing and a Prayer
11 Gracie Fields Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye 16 Johnny Mercer G.I. Jive
12 Billy Cotton & His Band Kiss Me Tonight Sergeant Major 17 Anne Shelton Lili Marlene
13 Joe Loss & His Band Till the lights of London shine again 18 Vera Lynn There’s a Land of Begin Again
14 Anne Shelton A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square 19 Doris Day / Les Brown & Orchestra
15 Tommy Handley In the Quartermaster’s Stores Sentimental Journey
16 George Formby Bless ‘em all 20 Anne Shelton I’ll Be Seeing You
17 The Ink Spots Whispering Grass
18 Joe Loss & His Band There’ll always be an England To order, call us on Freephone
19 F lanagan & Allen Down forget-me-not Lane
20 20 Prima Scala & His Accordion Band Roll me over
0808 178 8212Shedflix! Father and daughter run AS SEEN IN THE film channel from a garden studio As media nerve centres go, it is a far cry of major studios. ‘It’s a tragedy,’ says Sarah, from the usual glass-and-chrome Soho office, ‘because they are pieces of history which should stuffed with designer furniture and high-tech be preserved – and as we have proved, there’s gadgets. Despite operating from a modest an audience longing to see them again. At first, shed in a Home Counties village, Talking Pic- he sold them to mainstream channels for their tures TV has become an unlikely success sto- old black-and-white matinee slots, but the big ries in broadcasting, even counting the Queen broadcasters stopped showing them. It was among its fans. Run by a 72-year-old film buff as if streaming, TV-on-demand and box-sets and his daughter, the channel’s blend of clas- would render the oldies obsolete. We disagreed sic movies and vintage TV serials has proved a as we knew there was an audience who would winning formula, and according to the latest otherwise be ignored. We were also terrified ratings now reaches 3.5 million viewers a week. that thousands of brilliant old films would be Vic Reeves and Jools Holland adore its 1960s obliterated from memory, the stars and their crime capers, while actors Kenneth Branagh scripts forgotten.’ and Brian Blessed agree on a classic film they The father-and-daughter team pitched the can both watch and discuss afterwards. idea of a dedicated old movie channel to ter- The operation is all run from Noel Cronin’s restrial broadcasters, banks and satellite TV back garden in the Hertfordshire village of companies – but always in vain. In 2015, they Chipperfield, where he uses a pad and pen to launched Talking Pictures TV themselves, as a put together a schedule from his library. Her free-to-view channel, in the hope it would be fi- Majesty is just the pinnacle of the station’s nanced with advertising. ‘Everyone said, ‘You’re celebrity fan base. ‘What I like are films which mad, no one wants to watch black and white don’t rely on a car chase, big booming special any more, but they were wrong,’ remembers effects or a scantily-clad lady. I also like them Sarah – as the latest viewing figures prove, to have a proper ending, not a cliffhanger. Our with the channel growing from being the secret loyal audience, which we can see growing as pleasure of a few to a mainstream hit. viewers come for a bit of comfort and nostalgia, Brian Blessed loves the channel so much that seems to feel the same way,’ says Noel, he sent them a fan email saying he’s watched His daughter, Sarah Cronin-Stanley, says her ‘lost favourites and little-known gems’, father – who began his career as a post boy adding: ‘We’ve all heard the cliché they don’t with the Rank Organisation – has always been make them like they used to… but we neglect passionate about preserving film history and the arts at our peril.’ spent years building up his eclectic library. ‘He was very clever in the 1960s and 1970s, buying the rights to features no one else was particularly interested in,’ she says. When the Queen was too ill to attend church at Christmas 2016, she watched Laurel and Hardy on Talking Pictures. Celebrity fans include Sir Ian McKellen and theatrical impresario Bill Kenwright who, like Blessed and Branagh, enjoy watching the same films. The programme viewers most ask to see is police show Z-Cars, which starred Brian Blessed alongside Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor – but Noel and Sarah have never been able to persuade the BBC to part with it, nor with Dixon Of Dock Green, which viewers are also keen to see. They also struggle to locate films that have disappeared into the vaults By SARAH OLIVER FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY 21
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Black and White Colour and Black/white | Silent with music
Tinker This 1949 drama documentary tells The Miners’ Hymns This elegy, in film and
the story of Derek Smith (Tinker), a gypsy boy music, of the coal mining history of North East
who runs away to join a community of young England is the product of an exceptional
boys training to become mine workers. creative collaboration between renowned
He makes friends and begins learning the ways filmmaker Bill Morrison (Decasia) and
of the world. However, when a theft occurs, acclaimed musician and composer Johann
all fingers point to the gypsy boy and his Johannson. Collaged in 2010 from archive film
new-found happiness is threatened. The story footage and drawing on the region’s brass
of his perseverance makes an interesting and music culture, The Miners’ Hymns celebrates
moving social documentary. the labour, endurance, vibrant sense of
Tinker was filmed on location in Easington, a community and rich culture that characterised
coastal colliery villages on the East Durham the lives of those who worked underground.
coast, with mostly non-professional actors. Includes: Concert Documentation - Excerpts
Scenes showing the boys going down the mine (2010, 12 minutes): highlights from the live
are both claustrophobic and realistic. première performances in Durham Cathedral.
With his wife, Alfredda Brilliant and author Interview with Bill Morrison and Jhann
Louis Golding, Marshall also wrote the story Jhannson (2010, 8 minutes). Original trailer.
for Proud Valley (1940), starring Paul Robeson. Illustrated booklet with essays and notes.
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22Farewell To Honor Blackman
Born: 22d August 1925 – Died: 6th April 2020
Honor Blackman was born in Plaistow on 22 August 1925, one
of four children. Her father, Frederick Blackman, was a civil service
statistician. She attended North Ealing Primary School and Ealing
County Grammar School for Girls. At age 15, her parents permitted
her to take acting lessons and she started training at the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama in 1940. While attending the school,
she worked as a clerical assistant for the Home Office and during
World War II, she was a dispatch driver.
Blackman’s film debut was a non-speaking role in Fame is the Spur (1947), after which she was
signed with the Rank Organisation. Other films of note include: Quartet (1948), A Boy, A Girl and
a Bike (1949), So Long at the Fair (1950), The Delavine Affair (1955), Breakaway (1956), You Pay
Your Money (1957), A Night to Remember (1958), The Square Peg (1958), Serena (1962), Jason
& The Argonauts (1963), Life at the Top (1965) and the Western films Shalako (1968) with Sean
Connery and Brigitte Bardot and Something Big (1971) with Dean Martin.
Her fame rocketed in England when she took the role in TV series The Avengers, opposite
Patrick Macnee. Her role in this series was so iconic that she was given a special BAFTA award
for it in 2000, which she shared with the other Avenger’s women, Linda Thorson, Diana Rigg and
Joanna Lumley. However, the role many remember her for is Pussy Galore in the James Bond
film, Goldfinger (1964). Blackman practised judo at the famous Budokwai Dojo which helped her
prepare for the roles of both Cathy Gale in The Avengers and Pussy Galore in Goldfinger. At 38,
she was one of the oldest actresses to play a Bond girl!
Her theatrical career was as spectacular as her television and film work. In 1968 she appeared
opposite John Neville and Hylda Baker in the musical play, Mr & Mrs, based on the plays of Noël
Coward. In the late 1970s she toured Australia and New Zealand with Michael Craig and Colleen
Clifford in the comedy Move Over, Mrs Markham. In February 1979, she starred in Stephen
Barry’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Night and Day at the Perth Playhouse. In 1981, she was
cast in the London revival of The Sound of Music opposite Petula Clark. The production opened
to rave reviews and the largest advance sale in British theatre history. In 1987 she starred as the
Mother Superior in the West End production of Nunsense and returned to the theatre in 2005,
with a production of My Fair Lady, playing Mrs. Higgins. She developed one-woman shows,
Word of Honor and Wayward Ladies and played Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret at the Lyric
Theatre in London’s West End.
Honor was featured twice in This is Your Life, and made many appearances on TV including
Dr Who, Midsummer Murders, Coronation Street, The Verdict, Casualty, Columbo, The Four
Just Men and The Saint, The Upper Hand and You, Me and Them (2015). She returned to film in
Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) and Jack Brown and the Curse of
the Crown (2001).
She was married twice, to Bill Sankey from 1948–56 and later
to British actor Maurice Kaufmann (1961–75). They appeared
together in the horror film Fright (1971) and on stage. They
gave a home to two adopted children, Lottie and Barnaby.
Honor Blackman refused a CBE in 2002 and in 2015 she
stated in the Daily Mirror that she objected to being labelled
a Bond Girl. Yet despite her strong opinions – she was also
very political – the glamorous Ms Blackman, even in her 90s,
was still adored by legions of fans and her passing will create
further interest in the life and career of this legendary lady. 23What’s on Talking Pictures TV over the coming weeks?
Watch Talking Pictures on: FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445
Monday 18th May 3:40pm Thursday 21st May 12pm
Burma Victory (1945) Viva Max (1969)
Director: Roy Boulting. World War II Comedy. Director: Jerry Paris.
feature-length documentary on the Stars: Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin,
Allied victory in Burma. An account Jonathan Winters. A Mexican
of military events, including the drive General leads his troops over the
on Mandalay and the offensive of the border to recapture the Alamo.
Americans and Chinese. Thursday 21st May 6:55pm
Tuesday 19th May 12pm Spring and Port Wine (1970)
The Proud Valley (1940) Comedy. Director: Peter
Musical drama. Director: Hammond. Stars: James Mason,
Pen Tennyson. Stars: Paul Robeson, Susan George, Diana Coupland,
Edward Chapman, Rachel Thomas. Hannah Gordon, Rodney Bewes.
A Black American wins the respect of The Crompton family live and
a Welsh community facing work in a changing society.
unemployment and mining accidents, Friday 22nd May 2:30pm
with them, becoming a hero. Lucy Gallant (1955)
Tuesday 19th May 3:25pm and Drama. Director: Robert Parrish.
Saturday 23rd May 1:50pm Starring: Jane Wyman, Charlton
Lady from Lisbon (1943) Heston, Claire Trevor. Jilted Lucy
Comedy. Director: Leslie S. Hiscott. opens a gown shop in an oil town.
Stars: Jane Carr, Francis L. Sullivan, Rancher Casey Cole disdains
Martita Hunt and Charles Victor. “working women”, but loves Lucy.
An art lover agrees to spy for the Friday 22nd May 5:30pm
Germans in return for Leonardo da The Small Voice (1948)
Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’. Drama. Director: Fergus Mc-
Wednesday 20th May 9am donell, starring James Donald,
Rotten to the Core (1965) Valerie Hobson, David Greene,
Comedy. Director: John Boulting. Howard Keel. A couple find a
Stars: Anton Rodgers, Eric Sykes and crashed car and take the
Charlotte Rampling. After 18 months occupants home with them.
in jail, the gang are released and are Saturday 23rd May 10:30am
eager for their share of the stash. Model for Murder (1959)
Wednesday 20th May 12:50pm Crime, directed by: Terry Bishop.
City Under the Sea (1965) Stars: Keith Andes, Hazel Court,
Science Fiction. Director: Michael Gough, Julia Arnall. A
Jacques Tourneur. Stars: Vincent Price, Mayfair dress designer arranges
Tab Hunter, Susan Hart, for the theft of jewellery on loan
David Tomlinson. An under sea city is to his salon.
discovered off the Cornish coast. Saturday 23rd May 3:25pm
Wednesday 20th May 10:05pm and Tuesday 26th May 5:30pm
The Molly Maguires (1970) Hurricane Smith (1952)
Drama. Director: Martin Ritt. Adventure. Director: Jerry Hopper.
Stars: Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Stars: Yvonne de Carlo,
Samantha Eggar. John Ireland, James Craig,
Embittered Irish miners retaliate Forrest Tucker. An oil-field worker
against cruel mine owners’. looks for his sister in Australia.
NEW SERIES: QUATERMASS
(1979) Stars: Sir John Mills, Simon MacCorkindale, Barbara Kellerman.
Directed by: Piers Haggard Professor Quatermass, now retired, arrives in
London in search of his missing granddaughter. Law and order has broken
down and gangs terrorise the streets. The fall of civilization has spread across
the world. Appearing as a guest on a television programme covering a United
States and Russian space mission, he is horrified when both spacecraft are
destroyed by an unknown force. Airs: Tuesday evenings at 9pm from 19th May.
24What’s on Talking Pictures TV over the coming weeks?
Watch Talking Pictures on: FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445
Saturday 23rd May 7pm and Wednesday 27th May 7:45pm
Monday 25th May 12:10pm Never Back Losers (1962)
Medal for the General (1944) Crime. Director: Robert Tronson.
Comedy. Director: Maurice Elvey. Stars: Kiri Le Clown, Jack Hedley,
Stars: Godfrey Tearle, Jeanne de Casalis, Jacqueline Ellis, Patrick Magee.
Petula Clark. An-over-the-hill WWI An insurance investigator
general finds a new meaning in life researching death of a jockey
when six slum children are evacuated uncovers illegal gambling.
to his home. (AKA The Gay Intruders) Friday 29th May 10pm
Saturday 23rd May 8:50pm and The Hand of Night (1968)
Thursday 28th May 9:30pm Fantasy horror. Director: Frederic
Passport to Shame (1958) Goode. Stars: William Sylvester,
Thriller. Director: Alvin Rakoff. Diane Clare, William Dexter. In
Stars: Odile Versois, Herbert Lom, Morocco, Paul Carver meets the
Eddie Constantine, Diana Dors. mysterious Marisa. Next day a
A young French girl on the run falls vampire tomb is discovered.
prey to a violent, scheming pimp. Saturday 30th May 9:30pm
Sunday 24th May 3:40pm and I Walk Alone (1948)
Monday 25th May 2pm Drama. Director: Byron Haski.
The Five Pennies (1959) Stars: Kirk Douglas,
Semi-biographical drama. Burt Lancaster. A mobster is
Director: Melville Shavelson. Stars: released from prison to find his
Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis partner running a night club.
Armstrong. The story of cornet player Sunday 31st May 6:30pm
and bandleader Loring Red Nichols. and Friday 5th June 5:30pm
Sunday 24th May 6:40pm and Forever Female (1954)
Wed 27th May 3:10pm Comedy. Director: Irving
Copacabana (1947) Rapper. Cast: Ginger Rogers,
Musical comedy. Director: Alfred E. William Holden, Paul Douglas.
Green. Stars: Carmen Miranda and A writer sells his play to a Broad-
Groucho Marx. An agent and his client way producer who transforms it
plot to fool a nightclub owner. into a vehicle for his ex-wife.
Sunday 24th May 10pm Thursday 4th June 7:20pm
The Enforcer (1951) The Rebel (1961)
Adventure. Director: Bretaigne Comedy. Director: Robert Day.
Windust. Stars: Humphrey Stars: Tony Hancock, George
Bogart, Everett Sloane, Sanders, Paul Massie. A self-
Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia. taught artist throws in his office
DA Martin Ferguson hunts for crime job to live among the beatniks
boss Albert Mendoza. and bohemians of Paris.
Monday 25th May 10pm Saturday 6th June 8:10pm
The Naked Civil Servant (1975) Eight O’Clock Walk (1954)
Biographical Drama. Drama. Director: Lance Comfort
Director: Jack Gold. Stars: John Hurt, Stars: Richard Attenborough,
Liz Gebhardt, Patricia Hodge. Cathy O’Donnell, Maurice
The life of Quentin Crisp, openly gay Denham. A taxi-driver is accused
in an intolerant era. of murdering an eight-year-old
girl on a derelict bomb-site.
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 military commander Colonel von Hohensee.
Nicole realizes that she has fallen in love with him, and that he, too, loves her.
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