TCM/eu listing for october, 2002
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- Tue Oct 1 08:00:00 2002 Battle Beneath the Earth
- The Cold War is at its chilliest and the Chinese are digging secret invasion tunnels from China to the States. Can the US Navy stop the Communist menace in time?! (1967)
- Director:Montgomery Tully
- Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Viviane Ventura, Robert Ayres, Peter Arne
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 1 09:28:00 2002 Private Potter
- A young Tom Courtenay stars as the callow young soldier who claims to have seen a vision from God when he jeopardises a mission and causes the death of a colleague (1963)
- Director:Casper Wrede
- Actors: Tom Courtenay, Mogens Wieth, Ronald Fraser, James Maxwell
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 1 10:55:00 2002 Romeo and Juliet
- Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer star in this magnificent early screen version of Shakespeare's tragedy tracing the romance of two doomed young lovers (1936)
- Director:George Cukor
- Actors: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 1 13:00:00 2002 Kings Row
- This haunting drama exposes the sordid reality lurking behind the neat facade of small-town America through the story of five children growing up in the same house (1942)
- Director:Sam Wood
- Actors: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 1 15:10:00 2002 Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
- Sally Field introduces this tribute to one of Hollywood's greatest actresses - star of 'Double Indemnity' and 'Ball Of Fire' and at one time the highest paid woman in the USA.
- Director:Richard Schickel
- Actors: Sally Field, Barbara Stanwyck
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 1 16:00:00 2002 East Side, West Side
- The marital woes of a sophisticated New York couple are stoked to fever pitch with the arrival of Ava Gardner and Van Heflin. James Mason and Barbara Stanwyck star (1949)
- Director:Mervyn LeRoy
- Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Ava Gardner, Van Heflin, Cyd Charisse
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 1 17:50:00 2002 The Fountainhead
- Gary Cooper stars in this ambitious screen version of Ayn Rand's novel, as an idealistic architect who takes drastic action when his plans for a Utopian city are compromised (1949)
- Director:King Vidor
- Actors: Gary Cooper, Raymond Massey, Patricia Neal
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 1 19:45:00 2002 Till the Clouds Roll By
- There are show-stopping tunes aplenty as celebrated songsmith Jerome Kern gets the starry biopic treatment. With Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, Angela Lansbury (1946)
- Director:Richard Whorf
- Actors: Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, Angela Lansbury
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 1 22:00:00 2002 That's Dancing!
- A toe-tapping compilation of the best song-and-dance routines from the Hollywood greats, hosted by Gene Kelly and other top names from the dance world (1985)
- Director:Jack Haley Jr.
- Actors: Gene Kelly, Shirley Temple, John Travolta, Liza Minnelli, Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 1 23:45:00 2002 Studio Insiders - Gene Kelly
- Focusing on how Gene Kelly became an MGM star and the icon of musical cinema through his dazzling dance moves.
- Actors: Gene Kelly
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 1 23:50:00 2002 Close Up - Neil Norman On Musicals
- Film critic Neil Norman discusses the rise of the big-screen musical. Focusing on early musicals like 'The Jazz Singer' to more contemporary musicals like 'Singin' in the Rain'.
- Actors: Neil Norman
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 2 00:00:00 2002 An American in Paris
- Gene Kelly is the American GI who stays in post-war Paris and falls for the gamine charms of Leslie Caron. A multi-Oscar winning musical charmer, with a great Gershwin score (1951)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 2 01:50:00 2002 High Society
- Fabulous tunes - and a legendary trio of leads. Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly star in this sparkling Cole Porter musical, a remake of 'The Philadelphia Story' (1956)
- Director:Charles Walters
- Actors: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 2 03:40:00 2002 The Prize
- Paul Newman stars as a Nobel Prize-winning novelist who stumbles into a murderous Cold War plot when he travels to the award ceremony in Stockholm. With Edward G. Robinson (1963)
- Director:Mark Robson
- Actors: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 2 05:55:00 2002 The Yearling
- Enduring family film, based on Kinnan Rawlings' best-seller, about the touching friendship between a young country boy and his pet fawn. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman star (1946)
- Director:Clarence Brown
- Actors: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 2 08:00:00 2002 The Little Hut
- Lively farce, in which the love-starved wife of a busy civil servant seeks solace in the arms of her husband's best friend. Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger and David Niven star (1957)
- Director:Mark Robson
- Actors: Ava Gardner, Stewart Gardner, David Niven
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 2 09:30:00 2002 The Doctor's Dilemma
- An astute screen version of Shaw's classic play, with Dirk Bogarde as the Harley Street doctor who must decide which patient is more deserving of vital medication (1958)
- Director:Anthony Asquith
- Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Leslie Caron, Alastair Sim, Robert Morley
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 2 11:10:00 2002 The Power and the Prize
- A businessman, who must prove his worth to his ruthless boss, finds his career at risk when he falls in love with a refugee. Robert Taylor and Elisabeth Mueller star (1956)
- Director:Henry Koster
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Elisabeth Mueller, Burl Ives
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 2 12:50:00 2002 The Merry Widow
- The third screen version of Lehar's charming operetta, with Lana Turner (whose singing voice was dubbed) as the eponymous widow romanced by Fernando Lamas' dashing charmer (1952)
- Director:Curtis Bernhardt
- Actors: Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel, Richard Haydn
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 2 14:35:00 2002 Red Dust
- Celebrated steamy romance, with Clark Gable's plantation owner falling for Jean Harlow's floozie, then dumping her for a married woman (Mary Astor), with tragic results (1932)
- Director:Victor Fleming
- Actors: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 2 16:00:00 2002 King Solomon's Mines
- Stirring adventure abounds with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger braving swamps, jungles and deserts as they search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon (1950)
- Director:Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
- Actors: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 2 17:45:00 2002 Tarzan the Ape Man
- The first talkie to feature Edgar Rice Burrough's yodelling jungle hero, and the film which also marks the debut of Olympic swimmer Johnny Weismuller in the title role (1932)
- Director:W.S. Van Dyke
- Actors: Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O'Sullivan
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 2 19:30:00 2002 The Shoes of the Fisherman
- A Russian Catholic priest rises to the Papacy, where his former experiences in a Siberian prison camp enable him to make a sensational proposal. Anthony Quinn stars (1968)
- Director:Michael Anderson
- Actors: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner, David Janssen
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 2 22:00:00 2002 A Life of Her Own
- Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who embarks on an affair with a married man (Ray Milland), but is brought up short when she finally meets her lover's wife (1950)
- Director:George Cukor
- Actors: Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell, Louis Calhern
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 3 00:00:00 2002 The Tender Trap
- Sophisticated romantic musical with Frank Sinatra as the snazzy New York agent who meets his match when young actress (Debbie Reynolds) fails to respond to his advances (1955)
- Director:Charles Walters
- Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, David Wayne
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 3 01:55:00 2002 Ransom
- Brooding drama starring Glenn Ford as a man fighting to free his kidnapped son. Remade in 1996 with Mel Gibson in the Ford role (1956)
- Director:Alex Segal
- Actors: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 3 03:45:00 2002 The Liquidator
- Bond-style actioner, with Rod Taylor as a handsome playboy lured into a spy mission by an old army buddy. Trevor Howard co-stars and Jack Cardiff directs (1966)
- Director:Jack Cardiff
- Actors: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St John, Wilfrid Hyde-White
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 3 05:30:00 2002 The Comedians
- Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Alec Guinness head the cast of this starry adaptation of Graham Greene's novel about political intrigue in Haiti (1967)
- Director:Peter Glenville
- Actors: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford, Lilian Gish
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 3 07:00:00 2002 Ride Him, Cowboy
- In the wild, wild West, a horse stands accused of murder. Inevitably, the said horse teams up with John Wayne to prove its innocence and nail the bad guy (1932)
- Director:Fred Allen
- Actors: John Wayne, Ruth Hall, Henry B. Walthall
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 3 08:00:00 2002 The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
- Some of the best-loved fairy-tales of all time are brought to the screen in this delightful and colourful film, starring Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom and Karl Boehm (1962)
- Director:Henry Levin
- Actors: Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Karl Boehm, Oscar Homolka, Martita Hunt, Jim Backus, Yvette Mimieux
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 3 10:05:00 2002 Roberta
- A gem of a musical, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers rediscovering their love in Paris. Features some of Jerome Kern's greatest songs, including 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes' (1935)
- Director:William A. Seiter
- Actors: Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 3 11:55:00 2002 The Yellow Rolls Royce
- Terrence Rattigan's starry drama tracing three poignant love affairs involving the owners of a vintage Rolls. Starring Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison and Ingrid Bergman (1965)
- Director:Anthony Asquith
- Actors: Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Ingrid Bergman, Jeanne Moreau, Edmund Purdom, George C. Scott, Omar Sharif, Alain Delon
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 3 13:55:00 2002 Random Harvest
- Ronald Colman stars in this heart-felt drama as a shell-shocked World War I veteran so stricken by amnesia that he cannot remember his wife (Greer Garson) (1942)
- Director:Mervyn LeRoy
- Actors: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 3 16:00:00 2002 Destination Tokyo
- One of the most intelligent and objective of wartime thrillers with Cary Grant as a submarine captain undertaking a daring espionage mission into Tokyo harbour (1943)
- Director:Delmer Daves
- Actors: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 3 18:15:00 2002 The Sea Wolf
- Ida Lupino and John Garfield find themselves trapped and sailing towards a disaster aboard Edward G. Robinson's ship in this claustrophobic sea drama (1941)
- Director:Michael Curtiz
- Actors: Ida Lupino, Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 3 19:45:00 2002 Anchors Aweigh
- Oscar-winning musical, with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra terrific as sailors enjoying an eventful shore-leave, including a dance for Kelly with Jerry the cartoon mouse (1945)
- Director:George Sidney
- Actors: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, José Iturbi, Dean Stockwell
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 3 22:00:00 2002 36 Hours
- Ingenious World War II thriller with James Garner as a US intelligence officer duped by the Nazis into betraying vital D-Day secrets. With Eva Marie Saint (1964)
- Director:George Seaton
- Actors: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Oct 4 00:00:00 2002 The Outfit
- Robert Duvall heads the cast of this taut and explosive Mob revenge story, in which an ex-con takes on the Mafia to avenge the death of his brother (1973)
- Director:John Flynn
- Actors: Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan
- Aspect Ratio: Pan & Scan
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 4 01:45:00 2002 Dark Passage
- Immortal on-and-off screen duo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall star as a fugitive and a beautiful stranger who team up to trap a murderer (1947)
- Director:Delmer Daves
- Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Oct 4 03:35:00 2002 The Girl and the General
- Rod Steiger stars as a one-armed Austrian general who escapes from his captors during the Great War with the help of Ada, a feisty female freedom-fighter (1967)
- Director:Pasquale Festa Campanile
- Actors: Virna Lisi, Rod Steiger, Tony Gaggia, Umberto Orsini
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 4 05:20:00 2002 Stand Up and Fight
- There are plenty of rousing fisticuffs in this adventure yarn, with Robert Taylor as the plantation owner who uses physical force to drive a slave-trader out of business (1934)
- Director:W.S. Van Dyke
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Wallace Beery, Florence Rice
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 4 08:00:00 2002 Joe: The Busy Body
- A frenetic French farce with Louis De Funes as a TV writer who shoots a blackmailer (or so he thinks) and hides the body in his garden. That's just the start...! (1972)
- Director:Jean Girault
- Actors: Louis De Funes, Bernard Blier, Claude Gensac, Michel Galabru
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 4 09:25:00 2002 Conspirator
- A spy discovers that he can never come in from 'the cold' in this suspenseful espionage drama, starring Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor (1949)
- Director:Victor Saville
- Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Taylor, Honor Blackman, Wilfrid Hyde-White
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Oct 4 10:55:00 2002 Kim
- Errol Flynn and Dean Stockwell star as the flamboyant bandit Red Beard and the young orphan he befriends in this memorable adaptation of the Kipling classic (1950)
- Director:Victor Saville
- Actors: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Thomas Gomez
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 4 12:45:00 2002 Boys Town
- Spencer Tracy gives an Oscar-winning performance as Father Flanagan, a priest who runs a school for juvenile delinquents. Mickey Rooney plays his toughest case yet (1938)
- Director:Norman Taurog
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Oct 4 14:20:00 2002 Rogue Cop
- Robert Taylor plays the bad guy for a change in this crime melodrama, as a corrupt cop who seeks revenge when his honest brother is murdered in cold blood (1954)
- Director:Roy Rowland
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, George Raft
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Oct 4 16:00:00 2002 Flamingo Road
- She's been framed - and she's hell-bent on revenge! Joan Crawford stars as a tough carnival dancer tackling Sydney Greenstreet's corrupt sheriff in this powerful drama (1949)
- Director:Michael Curtiz
- Actors: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Oct 4 17:35:00 2002 These Wilder Years
- A moving domestic drama, with an atypical role for James Cagney as a man who becomes involved with an unwed teen mother as he searches for his illegitimate son (1956)
- Director:Roy Rowland
- Actors: James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 4 19:05:00 2002 Pick a Star
- A remake of Buster Keaton's 'Free And Easy', with Jack Haley as a small-town guy trying to transform his sweet-heart into a movie star. Laurel and Hardy also star (1937)
- Director:Edward Sedgwick
- Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jack Haley, Rosina Lawrence, Patsy Kelly
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Oct 4 20:15:00 2002 The Angry Hills
- Robert Mitchum stars in this gripping action-drama as an American undercover reporter pursued by the Nazis through war-torn Greece. Robert Aldrich directs (1959)
- Director:Robert Aldrich
- Actors: Robert Mitchum, Elisabeth Mueller, Stanley Baker
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Oct 4 22:00:00 2002 Skyjacked
- Tense airborne drama starring Charlton Heston as the pilot of an airplane that is hijacked by a terrorist (James Brolin), who demands that the plane is flown to Moscow (1972)
- Director:John Guillermin
- Actors: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 5 00:00:00 2002 The Split
- Jim Brown, Gene Hackman and Donald Sutherland are among the starry cast of this exciting caper movie about a plot to rob the LA Coliseum during a Rams game (1968)
- Director:Gordon Flemyng
- Actors: Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Donald Sutherland, Diahann Carroll, Julie Harris
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 5 01:30:00 2002 Brass Target
- Thriller that focuses on the possibility that World War II leader General Patton was assassinated over a bullion heist. Starring George Kennedy, Sophia Loren, Max von Sydow (1978)
- Director:John Hough
- Actors: George Kennedy, Sophia Loren, Max von Sydow, John Cassavetes
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 5 03:20:00 2002 The Cross of Lorraine
- Jean-Pierre Aumont and Gene Kelly are the heroes, Peter Lorre a wicked Nazi and Hume Cronyn an informant in this powerful and inspirational WWII POW drama (1943)
- Director:Tay Garnett
- Actors: Jean Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Hume Cronyn
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Sat Oct 5 04:50:00 2002 Murder Ahoy
- Enjoyable Agatha Christie thriller, starring the immortal Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple, here investigating the murder of a trustee fund holder (1964)
- Director:George Pollock
- Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, William Mervyn
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Sat Oct 5 06:25:00 2002 Riff-Raff
- Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow star in this gutsy romance between a cannery girl and a hard-hitting fisherman who confront strikes and jail as they search for happiness (1935)
- Director:J. Walter Ruben
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow, Joseph Calleia
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 5 08:00:00 2002 Crest of the Wave
- Culture-clash drama by the Boulting Brothers, with Gene Kelly as the American scientist raising British hackles over a top-secret project to develop a revolutionary torpedo (1954)
- Director:John Boulting, Roy Boulting
- Actors: Gene Kelly, John Justin, Bernard Lee
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Sat Oct 5 09:30:00 2002 Haunted Honeymoon
- Matrimonial bliss for amateur sleuths Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane is interrupted when murder enters the picture. A comic crime mystery from Dorothy L. Sayers. (1940)
- Director:Arthur Woods
- Actors: Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Seymour Hicks, Robert Newton
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Sat Oct 5 11:00:00 2002 Lassie Come Home
- The first - and perhaps the best - of the famous canine adventures, with Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowall as the youngsters fighting to return Lassie to her rightful home (1943)
- Director:Fred M. Wilcox
- Actors: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty, Elizabeth Taylor
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 5 12:30:00 2002 Northern Pursuit
- Errol Flynn is the Mountie with German parents who poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring. Raoul Walsh directs with his usual dashing style and panache (1943)
- Director:Raoul Walsh
- Actors: Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Sat Oct 5 14:05:00 2002 Scaramouche
- Energetic swashbuckler, with Stewart Granger as an 18th-century French aristocrat who disguises himself as the zany Scaramouche to avenge the death of a friend (1952)
- Director:George Sidney
- Actors: Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 5 16:00:00 2002 Julius Caesar
- Marlon Brando and John Gielgud head a magnificent cast in this expertly crafted screen adaptation of Shakepeare's tragedy of political intrigue, set in ancient Rome (1953)
- Director:Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Actors: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Louis Calhern, Edmond O'Brien, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Sat Oct 5 18:00:00 2002 Clash of the Titans
- Laurence Olivier plays 'king of the gods' Zeus and Harry Hamlin his son Perseus in this epic adventure based on the Greek Myths. Ray Harryhausen provides the special effects (1981)
- Director:Desmond Davis
- Actors: Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith, Maggie Smith
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 5 19:55:00 2002 The Champ
- Franco Zeffirelli directed this touching remake of the 1931 Oscar-winner about a fading prize-fighter and his young son. Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway and Ricky Schroder star (1979)
- Director:Franco Zeffirelli
- Actors: Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Ricky Schroder
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 5 22:00:00 2002 The V.I.P.s
- The trials and tribulations of the rich and the beautiful (headed by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton) are the focus of this starry drama, set in a VIP departure lounge (1963)
- Director:Anthony Asquith
- Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Margaret Rutherford, Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Orson Welles
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sun Oct 6 00:00:00 2002 Blow-up
- Antonioni's pop-culture cult classic, with David Hemmings as the photographer who may have unwittingly snapped a murder. An intriguing, erotic film that's rich in symbolism (1966)
- Director:Michelangelo Antonioni
- Actors: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Jane Birkin
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sun Oct 6 01:50:00 2002 Zabriskie Point
- Psychedelia rules in Michelangelo Antonioni's visually arresting celebration of American counter-culture, based around the adventures of a group of campus radicals (1970)
- Director:Michelangelo Antonioni
- Actors: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sun Oct 6 03:45:00 2002 Hysteria
- Following a car accident, an amnesiac American finds himself caught up in a complex murder plot. A Hammer Studios production, starring Anthony Newlands (1965)
- Director:Freddie Francis
- Actors: Anthony Newlands, Robert Webber, Jennifer Jayne
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Sun Oct 6 05:10:00 2002 Beware, My Lovely
- The tension builds swiftly in this cat-and-mouse thriller, starring Ida Lupino as a young woman held hostage by a mentally deranged handyman (1952)
- Director:Harry Horner
- Actors: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Sun Oct 6 06:20:00 2002 The Unsuspected
- Claude Rains plays the charming radio host, whose chilling murder mystery stories are just that little bit too realistic. Is he out to commit the perfect crime? (1947)
- Director:Michael Curtiz
- Actors: Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Sun Oct 6 09:25:00 2002 The Crowd
- King Vidor directs this silent screen drama which dissects the American Dream in turn-of-the-century New York through the story of a young city clerk (1928)
- Director:King Vidor
- Actors: Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach, Estelle Clark
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sun Oct 6 11:00:00 2002 MGM: When the Lion Roars (part 1)
- Patrick Stewart presents this outstanding eight-part documentary series about the most lavish of Hollywood studios.
- Director:Frank Martin
- Actors: Patrick Stewart
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sun Oct 6 11:50:00 2002 The Big Parade
- Great battle scenes and a moving love story make this one of the most highly acclaimed movies on World War One (1925)
- Director:King Vidor
- Actors: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Sun Oct 6 13:55:00 2002 Flesh and the Devil
- A romantic masterpiece. Two men find their friendship under threat when they both fall under the spell of the same woman, played by the immortal Greta Garbo (1926)
- Director:Clarence Brown
- Actors: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sun Oct 6 15:50:00 2002 Short - Vitaphone Sound Pictures
- A short programme documenting the introduction of Vitaphone Sound Pictures.
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Sun Oct 6 16:00:00 2002 Hallelujah!
- A beautifully filmed and moving account of a Southern cotton picker who becomes a preacher. Features some particularly outstanding musical sequences (1929)
- Director:King Vidor
- Actors: Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Sun Oct 6 20:25:00 2002 Anna Christie
- Yes, Garbo talks! The immortal Greta Garbo plays a prostitute who falls hopelessly in love with a sailor in this romantic drama - her first talking picture (1930)
- Director:Clarence Brown
- Actors: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, Marie Dressler
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Sun Oct 6 22:15:00 2002 White Shadows In The South Seas
- With Oscar winning cinematography and wonderful acting, this early W.S. Van Dyke picture is a true gem as a young physician travels out to a strange Polynesian island (1928)
- Director:W.S. Van Dyke
- Actors: Monte Blue, Raquel Torres
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Mon Oct 7 00:00:00 2002 Greed
- A monumental movie from the silent era, intended by director Eric von Stroheim to be eight hours long, charting the destructive forces unleashed by a wife's greed for money (1925)
- Director:Erich von Stroheim
- Actors: Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Mon Oct 7 02:15:00 2002 The Race to Save 100 Years
- A revealing and insightful documentary covering the loss of over 80 percent of silent films, many of great cultural significance. (1999)
- Director:Scott Benson
- Actors: Peter Brooks, Martin Scorsese, James H. Billington
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Mon Oct 7 03:20:00 2002 The Jazz Singer
- The landmark 'sound' movie that rang the death-knell for the silent era. Al Jolson stars as the cantor's son who clashes with his father over his love of showbusiness (1927)
- Director:Alan Crosland Jr.
- Actors: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Mon Oct 7 04:50:00 2002 Short - Silent Era
- Movie stars talk about the, 'silent era' of cinema leading up to Al Johnson's performance in, 'The Jazz Singer'.
- Actors: Buddy Rogers
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Mon Oct 7 05:05:00 2002 The Wind
- A great film from the silent era, with a bravura performance from Lillian Gish as a woman driven to the brink of insanity when a windstorm uncovers evidence of a killing (1928)
- Director:Victor Seastrom
- Actors: Lillian Gish, Lara Hanson, Montagu Love
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Mon Oct 7 06:35:00 2002 The Unholy Three
- Horror star Lon Chaney (in his only 'talkie') plays a sideshow ventriloquist who teams up with a strongman and a midget to form the world's unlikeliest underworld trio (1930)
- Director:Jack Conway
- Actors: Lon Chaney, Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Mon Oct 7 08:00:00 2002 The Prime Minister
- The late, great John Gielgud takes the title role in this biopic on the 19th-century political wizard, Benjamin Disraeli, a great favourite of Queen Victoria (1941)
- Director:Thorold Dickinson
- Actors: John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Stephen Murray
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Mon Oct 7 09:35:00 2002 Escape From East Berlin
- A gripping adventure yarn, based on true events, in which an East Berlin chauffeur forges a daring escape plan to save his family from the Communist menace. Don Murray stars (1962)
- Director:Robert Siodmak
- Actors: Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Werner Klemperer
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Mon Oct 7 11:00:00 2002 Rich, Young and Pretty
- Paris-set musical, scripted by Sidney Sheldon, with Jane Powell as a young girl who falls for a handsome Frenchman and meets a mysterious woman with a secret to tell (1951)
- Director:Norman Taurog
- Actors: Jane Powell, Danielle Darrieux, Wendell Corey
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Mon Oct 7 12:35:00 2002 It Started With A Kiss
- Sweet, frothy comedy with US airforce sergeant Glenn Ford trying to make a go of his marriage to wacky showgirl, Debbie Reynolds, following a life-changing move to Spain (1959)
- Director:George Marshall
- Actors: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Eva Gabor
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Mon Oct 7 14:20:00 2002 It's Always Fair Weather
- The unbeatable musical team of Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen is behind this zappy musical about three servicemen buddies reunited after 10 years. Cyd Charisse co-stars (1955)
- Director:Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
- Actors: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Michael Kidd, Cyd Charisse
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Mon Oct 7 16:00:00 2002 Studio Insiders - Gene Kelly
- Focusing on how Gene Kelly became an MGM star and the icon of musical cinema through his dazzling dance moves.
- Actors: Gene Kelly
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Mon Oct 7 16:10:00 2002 Studio Insiders - Cyd Charisse
- Cyd Charisse talks about her glittering career as a dancer and actress in classic MGM musicals.
- Actors: Cyd Charisse
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Mon Oct 7 16:20:00 2002 Woman of the Year
- The first of the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn sparring matches, with the legendary screen couple playing warring reporters who 'enjoy' a comically turbulent relationship (1942)
- Director:George Stevens
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Mon Oct 7 18:10:00 2002 Close Up - Natascha Mcelhone On Katharine Hepburn
- Actress Natascha McElhone discusses the acting style of Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn.
- Actors: Natasha McElhone, Katharine Hepburn
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Mon Oct 7 18:20:00 2002 Quote Unquote Jennifer Tilly On Bette Davis
- Actress Jennifer Tilly discusses her admiration for Hollywood legend Bette Davis. Focusing on her powerful roles in the melodramas Jezebel and Cabin in the Cotton.
- Actors: Jennifer Tilly
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Mon Oct 7 18:30:00 2002 The Catered Affair
- Bette Davis sheds her glamorous image to play a downbeat wife who is determined to give her daughter a lavish wedding. With Debbie Reynolds, Rod Taylor and Ernest Borgnine (1956)
- Director:Richard Brooks
- Actors: Rod Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, Bette Davis
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Mon Oct 7 20:05:00 2002 Behind the Scenes - A Patch of Blue
- Featuring exclusive footage and interviews with the actors Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman and Sidney Poitier from the set of the groundbreaking drama 'A Patch of Blue'.
- Actors: Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Sidney Poitier
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Mon Oct 7 20:15:00 2002 A Patch of Blue
- Shelley Winters won an Oscar for her portrayal of an overbearing mother in this sensitive and moving drama of a blind girl who falls for Sidney Poitier (1965)
- Director:Guy Green
- Actors: Shelley Winters, Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Mon Oct 7 22:00:00 2002 Somebody Up There Likes Me
- The film that made Paul Newman a star. An accomplished and often brutal biopic of the boxing legend Rocky Marziano, who fought against his roots to become world champ (1956)
- Director:Robert Wise
- Actors: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Sal Mineo
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 8 00:00:00 2002 Butterfield 8
- Elizabeth Taylor won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as a high-class prostitute who, convinced she has found Mr Right, wants to go straight. With Laurence Harvey (1960)
- Director:Daniel Mann
- Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 8 01:50:00 2002 The Opposite Sex
- An all-star musical adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's play 'The Women', with June Allyson and Ann Sheridan among the women each fighting to keep her man (1956)
- Director:David Miller
- Actors: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 8 03:50:00 2002 The Angel Wore Red
- Dirk Bogarde and Ava Gardner play a priest and prostitute thrown together during the Spanish Civil War in this powerful romance (1960)
- Director:Nunnally Johnson
- Actors: Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Cotten, Vittorio De Sica
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 8 05:31:00 2002 Studio Insiders - Greer Garson
- Charting the rise of Greer Garson from humble beginnings to Hollywood star.
- Actors: Greer Garson
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 8 05:40:00 2002 Mrs Parkington
- An elderly woman relates her turbulent rags-to-riches story - a saga of snobbery, infidelity and strife - to help a stricken son-in-law. Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon star (1944)
- Director:Tay Garnett
- Actors: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Gladys Cooper
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 8 08:00:00 2002 Mark of the Vampire
- Chilling terror tale from cult horror maestro Tod Browning, with Lionel Barrymore as an occult expert on the blood-drenched trail of the sinister Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) (1935)
- Director:Tod Browning
- Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Bela Lugosi, Elizabeth Allan
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 8 09:00:00 2002 Hercules, Samson and Ulysses
- Sword-and-sandal adventure in which three mythological superheroes are thrown together on an island and join forces to combat its cruel king (1964)
- Director:Pietro Francisci
- Actors: Kirk Morris, Liana Orfei, Richard Lloyd
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 8 10:25:00 2002 Never Say Goodbye
- Romantic comedy, with Errol Flynn as the ex-husband who's out to win back his wife (1946)
- Director:James V. Kern
- Actors: Errol Flynn, Eleanor Parker, Lucile Watson, S.Z. Sakall
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 8 12:05:00 2002 Captains Courageous
- A spoiled little rich boy (Freddie Bartholomew) gets a tough lesson in life from Oscar-winning salty sea dog Spencer Tracy in this great adaptation of Kipling's classic tale.
- Director:Victor Fleming
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Mickey Rooney
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 8 14:00:00 2002 The Courtship of Eddie's Father
- Charming comedy with Glenn Ford as a handsome widower whose precocious six-year-old son vets all of dad's prospective dates. Will Shirley Jones be the lucky woman? (1963)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Glenn Ford, Ronny Howard, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Dina Merrill
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 8 16:00:00 2002 The Tunnel of Love
- Gene Kelly directs this sophisticated sex comedy starring Doris Day and Richard Widmark as the ideal couple who have everything they need... except a baby (1958)
- Director:Gene Kelly
- Actors: Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Gig Young
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 8 17:40:00 2002 Ask Any Girl
- Screwball comedy, with Shirley MacLaine as the young woman who puts the motivational techniques she learns at work into practice to snag the husband of her dreams (1959)
- Director:Charles Walters
- Actors: David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Gig Young, Rod Taylor
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 8 19:20:00 2002 No Guts, No Glory: 75 Years of Stars
- Actress Goldie Hawn hosts this tribute to the star performers that have graced the films of Warner Brothers.
- Director:Keith R. Clarke
- Actors: Goldie Hawn
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 8 20:05:00 2002 Ten Thousand Bedrooms
- Musical comedy with Dean Martin suitably cast as a playboy hotelier who's off to Rome to visit his 10,000th bedroom - hotly pursued by not one but two beautiful women (1967)
- Director:Richard Thorpe
- Actors: Dean Martin, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Eva Bartok
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 8 22:00:00 2002 Love Me or Leave Me
- James Cagney and Doris Day star in this biopic of singer Ruth Etting, whose struggle for fame and fortune was hampered by her obsessive love for a gangster (1955)
- Director:Charles Vidor
- Actors: James Cagney, Doris Day, Cameron Mitchell
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 9 00:00:00 2002 Doctor Zhivago
- Lean's multi-Oscar-winning romantic epic, based on Pasternak's novel. Omar Sharif is the Russian doctor whose turbulent love life is overtaken by the Russian Revolution (1965)
- Director:David Lean
- Actors: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson, Rod Steiger
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 9 03:10:00 2002 The 25th Hour
- Wartime drama, with Anthony Quinn as a Romanian farmer who falls foul of a local police captain (Gregoire Aslan) who desires Quinn's wife (Virna Lisi) (1967)
- Director:Henri Verneuil
- Actors: Anthony Quinn, Grégoire Aslan, Virna Lisi, Aaron Lipstadt
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 9 05:06:00 2002 The Outrage
- Paul Newman stars in this offbeat frontier take as a Mexican bandit whose crimes are retold from three different perspectives. A remake of the classic 'Rashomon' (1964)
- Director:Martin Ritt
- Actors: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Claire Bloom, Laurence Harvey
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 9 06:40:00 2002 Calling Bulldog Drummond
- Walter Pidgeon stars as Herman McNiele's debonair ex-war hero, this time called out of retirement to help Scotland Yard solve a spate of baffling robberies (1951)
- Director:Victor Saville
- Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 9 08:00:00 2002 The Hour of 13
- Thriller starring Peter Lawford as a jewel thief, under suspicion of both theft and murder when a policeman is killed on the same night as a valuable jewel heist (1952)
- Director:Harold French
- Actors: Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 9 10:50:00 2002 The Prizefighter and the Lady
- Real-life boxing champ Max Baer (who won the heavyweight crown in 1934) plays a fighter who forges a rocky romance with a nightclub singer (Myrna Loy) (1933)
- Director:W.S. Van Dyke
- Actors: Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Otto Kruger, Walter Huston
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 9 12:35:00 2002 The Mask of Dimitrios
- Classic film noir, with Peter Lorre magnificent as a Dutch mystery writer delving into the past of a master criminal whose body has been washed ashore in Istanbul (1944)
- Director:Jean Negulesco
- Actors: Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 9 14:10:00 2002 Johnny Eager
- A gangster pretends to go straight while still indulging in a life of crime, a situation complicated even further when he falls in love. Robert Taylor and Lana Turner star (1942)
- Director:Mervyn LeRoy
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 9 16:00:00 2002 Now, Voyager
- The quintessential Hollywood romance stars Bette Davis as the repressed spinster who emerges from her chrysalis to win Paul Henreid's heart. Pure movie magic (1942)
- Director:Irving Rapper
- Actors: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 9 17:55:00 2002 Silk Stockings
- Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire dance and sing to a classic Cole Porter score in this musical remake of Greta Garbo's 'Ninotchka' (1957)
- Director:Rouben Mamoulian
- Actors: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 9 19:50:00 2002 That's Entertainment
- A magnificent array of screen legends, including Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby and Gene Kelly, host this tribute to the golden age of the MGM musical. A toe-tapping delight! (1974)
- Director:Jack Haley Jr.
- Actors: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, James Stewart, Liza Minnelli, Bing Crosby
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 9 22:00:00 2002 The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Lana Turner and John Garfield star as the waitress and drifter who form a sexually charged alliance that results in cold-blooded murder. A great and powerful crime classic (1946)
- Director:Tay Garnett
- Actors: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 10 00:00:00 2002 Sergeant York
- Gary Cooper deservedly won an Oscar for his performance in this compelling war saga, based on the true story of an ordinary soldier who became a war hero (1941)
- Director:Howard Hawks
- Actors: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 10 02:15:00 2002 Vengeance Valley
- Lustful Western drama, with Burt Lancaster as the decent foster brother threatened by his evil sibling (Robert Walker), who spreads rumours of an illegitimate child (1951)
- Director:Richard Thorpe
- Actors: Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, Sally Forrest
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 10 03:40:00 2002 Catlow
- Yul Brynner stars in this ebullient comic Western about a roguish cattle rustler who must dodge both the local sheriff and a bounty hunter to recover some hidden booty (1971)
- Director:Sam Wanamaker
- Actors: Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 10 05:20:00 2002 The Devil Makes Three
- There's an unusual role for Gene Kelly in this thriller as a US intelligence officer who returns to post-war Munich and finds himself caught up with neo-Nazis (1952)
- Director:Andrew Marton
- Actors: Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli, Richard Egan
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 10 06:50:00 2002 Mad Love
- Peter Lorre stars in this horror classic as the vengeful surgeon who replaces a pianist's severed hands with those of a murderer when the pianist's wife rejects his advances (1935)
- Director:Karl Freund
- Actors: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 10 08:00:00 2002 Made in Paris
- Ann-Margret stars as a nubile young American sent to attend the Paris fashion shows, where she experiences a series of amorous encounters. Louis Jourdan co-stars (1966)
- Director:Boris Sagal
- Actors: Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan, Richard Crenna
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 10 09:39:00 2002 Action of the Tiger
- Strapping star Van Johnson comes to the aid of a beautiful French woman whose brother has been captured by Communists in this action-packed adventure yarn (1957)
- Director:Terence Young
- Actors: Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom, Sean Connery
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 10 11:10:00 2002 Bonnie Scotland
- Comic mayhem ensues when Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy join a Scottish military regiment stationed in the desert (1935)
- Director:James W. Horn
- Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Lang, William Janney
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 10 12:30:00 2002 In Our Time
- Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid combine their considerable forces to save Poland from the Nazi menace in this lush melodrama (1944)
- Director:Vincent Sherman
- Actors: Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Nancy Coleman, Nazimova
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 10 14:25:00 2002 Suzy
- Dorothy Parker had a hand in the script of this romantic spy drama, which features the only screen pairing of stars Jean Harlow and Cary Grant (1936)
- Director:George Fitzmaurice
- Actors: Jean Harlow, Cary Grant, Franchot Tone
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 10 16:00:00 2002 Flight Command
- There's plenty of action both on the ground and in the air as upstart pilot Robert Taylor fights to make the grade in a top-notch naval flight squadron (1940)
- Director:Frank Borzage
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 10 18:00:00 2002 Gaby
- Leslie Caron takes the title role in this heart-rending romance as a ballerina who falls for an American serviceman during World War II. A remake of 'Waterloo Bridge' (1956)
- Director:Curtis Bernhardt
- Actors: Leslie Caron, John Kerr, Cedric Hardwicke
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 10 19:45:00 2002 The Green Years
- A young Dean Stockwell stars as a morose boy brought out of his shell by his gruff old grandaddy in this stirring drama based on a novel by A.J. Cronin (1946)
- Director:Victor Saville
- Actors: Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Cooper, Dean Stockwell, Jessica Tandy
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 10 22:00:00 2002 Blackboard Jungle
- Glenn Ford is the navy veteran who finds his idealism fading fast when he starts a new career teaching in one of New York's toughest schools. Sidney Poitier co-stars (1955)
- Director:Richard Brooks
- Actors: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Sidney Poitier, Louis Calhern
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Oct 11 00:00:00 2002 All Fall Down
- John Frankenheimer's powerful family drama, with Warren Beatty as the handsome stud idolised by his young brother until Beatty causes the death of the woman they both love (1962)
- Director:John Frankenheimer
- Actors: Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Angela Lansbury
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Oct 11 01:50:00 2002 Period Of Adjustment
- Comedy which explores the emotional instability of two couples. Based on a Tennessee Williams play. Starring Jane Fonda and Anthony Franciosa (1962).
- Director:George Roy Hill
- Actors: Anthony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Oct 11 03:45:00 2002 A Very Private Affair
- Louis Malle's study of stardom, reportedly based on Brigitte Bardot's own life, with Bardot as the starlet fleeing the pressures of movie-making through a passionate affair (1962)
- Director:Louis Malle
- Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Marcello Mastroianni, Nicolas Bataille, Jacqueline Doyen
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 11 05:20:00 2002 Village of Daughters
- Comedy with Eric Sykes as the English travelling salesman who makes his mark in an Italian village stricken by a distinct lack of males (1962)
- Director:George Pollock
- Actors: Eric Sykes, Scilla Gabel, John Le Mesurier, Grégoire Aslan, Warren Mitchell
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Oct 11 06:45:00 2002 Signpost to Murder
- A deranged killer escapes from an asylum and takes refuge in the house of an unhappily married woman whose husband is absent. Joanne Woodward and Stuart Whitman star (1964)
- Director:George Englund
- Actors: Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare, Alan Napier
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 11 08:00:00 2002 The House of the Seven Hawks
- Robert Taylor is the boat skipper who goes to Holland to search for hidden Third Reich loot - and finds himself the quarry of a gang of Nazis (1959)
- Director:Richard Thorpe
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey, Linda Christian, Donald Wolfit
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 11 09:30:00 2002 The Green Slime
- Tentacled monsters threaten Earth in this enjoyable space opera about the havoc wreaked by some nasty green slime that slithers aboard a rocket ship (1969)
- Director:Kinji Fukasaku
- Actors: Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckel, Luciana Paluzzi, Bud Widom
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 11 11:00:00 2002 Lost in a Harem
- Side-splitting gags and nonsensical plotlines abound as crazy duo Abbott and Costello become stranded in a desert kingdom ruled by an evil sheik (1944)
- Director:Charles Riesner
- Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marilyn Maxwell, John Conte
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Oct 11 12:30:00 2002 Julie
- Doris Day stars in this tense thriller as a wife struggling to escape the clutches of a psychopathic husband who was responsible for her first husband's death (1956)
- Director:Andrew L. Stone
- Actors: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Oct 11 14:10:00 2002 Bachelor in Paradise
- Bob Hope stars as a famous 'agony uncle' who settles incognito in a wealthy Californian town and stirs up unbidden passions among the town's women. With Lana Turner (1961)
- Director:Jack Arnold
- Actors: Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige, Jim Hutton
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 11 16:00:00 2002 Penelope
- Natalie Wood plays the neglected young wife who comes up with a novel way to grab attention: she dresses up as a little old lady and robs her husband's bank! (1966)
- Director:Arthur Hiller
- Actors: Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn, Peter Falk
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 11 17:40:00 2002 Grand Prix
- A thrilling account of life on the Grand Prix circuit, charting the clashes and crashes both on and off the track. Starring James Garner and Eva Marie Saint (1966)
- Director:John Frankenheimer
- Actors: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Toshiro Mifune
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 11 20:25:00 2002 Speedway
- Nancy Sinatra is the IRS agent who brings even more trouble for stock-car racer Elvis Presley when the latter discovers that his manager (Bill Bixby) has been swindling him (1968)
- Director:Norman Taurog
- Actors: Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra, Bill Bixby
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 11 22:00:00 2002 Zigzag
- Edgy thriller, with George Kennedy as a dying insurance man who plans to pin a murder on himself so that his family can benefit from a lucrative payout after his death (1970)
- Director:Richard A. Colla
- Actors: George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 12 00:00:00 2002 Slither
- In a desperate bid to find a stolen fortune, an ex-con sets out across country with a fellow crook (who is fanatical about mobile homes) and his wife. James Caan stars (1973)
- Director:Howard Zieff
- Actors: James Caan, Peter Boyle, Sally Kellerman
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 12 01:35:00 2002 Wise Guys
- Danny De Vito and Harvey Keitel star in Brian De Palma's black comedy about two small-town hoods who turn out to be anything but wise when they hatch a plot to rob a mobster (1986)
- Director:Brian De Palma
- Actors: Danny De Vito, Harvey Keitel, Joe Piscopo
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 12 03:05:00 2002 The Liquidator
- Bond-style actioner, with Rod Taylor as a handsome playboy lured into a spy mission by an old army buddy. Trevor Howard co-stars and Jack Cardiff directs (1966)
- Director:Jack Cardiff
- Actors: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St John, Wilfrid Hyde-White
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 12 04:45:00 2002 Out of the Fog
- A fine film version of Irwin Shaw's play 'The Gentle People', with John Garfield as a hoodlum terrorising a Brooklyn fisherman while falling for his daughter (Ida Lupino) (1941)
- Director:Anatole Litvak
- Actors: Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Eddie Albert, Thomas Mitchell
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 12 06:10:00 2002 Somewhere I'll Find You
- Clark Gable and Robert Sterling play war correspondent brothers who strike up a relationship with fellow scribe Lana Turner at the height of World War II (1942)
- Director:Wesley Ruggles
- Actors: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Sat Oct 12 08:00:00 2002 Captain Sindbad
- Legendary sailor Sindbad copes with gorgeous women and man-eating fish in this splendid adventure fantasy stuffed with special effects and full-blooded performances (1963)
- Director:Byron Haskin
- Actors: Guy Williams, Heidi Bruhl, Pedro Armendáriz
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 12 09:25:00 2002 Postman's Knock
- Spike Milligan gives a typically eccentric performance as a hapless provincial postman, who finds himself suspected of masterminding a mail robbery in this zany '60s farce (1962)
- Director:Robert Lynn
- Actors: Spike Milligan, Barbara Shelley, John Wood
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 12 10:55:00 2002 Son of Lassie
- It's Laddie, rather than his mum Lassie, who hogs the action in this tale of doggy daring-do as he tackles the Nazis alongside bomber pilot Peter Lawford (1945)
- Director:Simon S Sylvan
- Actors: Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 12 12:35:00 2002 The Scarlet Coat
- Real-life American Revolution spy yarn, with Cornel Wilde as the major who must foil the infamous plot of Benedict Arnold, played with subtle menace by Robert Douglas (1955)
- Director:John Sturges
- Actors: Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, George Sanders, Robert Douglas
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 12 14:15:00 2002 The Wreck of the Mary Deare
- The special effects are the real star of this seaborne adventure-mystery, with Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston as the mariners caught up in a dirty salvage scam (1959)
- Director:Michael Anderson
- Actors: Charlton Heston, Gary Cooper, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 12 16:00:00 2002 The Red Badge of Courage
- Director John Huston's devastating war film, with war-hero-turned-actor Audie Murphy as the young recruit forced to master his cowardice when it has terrible consequences (1951)
- Director:John Huston
- Actors: Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Douglas Dick
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 12 17:10:00 2002 Carbine Williams
- James Stewart is the Western drifter who finds himself wrongly imprisoned. He survives through his indomitable spirit and his invention of a revolutionary new rifle (1952)
- Director:Richard Thorpe
- Actors: James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 12 18:45:00 2002 Treasure Island
- Family entertainment in the grand style, with Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery perfectly cast as a boy chasing pirate treasure in RL Stevenson's adventure classic (1934)
- Director:Victor Fleming
- Actors: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 12 20:25:00 2002 Torpedo Run
- A Japanese aircraft carrier becomes the obsessive target of an American commander following its involvement in the death of his family. Glenn Ford and Ernest Borgnine star (1958)
- Director:Joseph Pevney
- Actors: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Diane Brewster, Dean Jones
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 12 22:00:00 2002 White Heat
- "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" A psychotic James Cagney delivers his most famous line - and a blistering performance - in one of the greatest gangster films of all time (1949)
- Director:Raoul Walsh
- Actors: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 00:00:00 2002 Where Eagles Dare
- All is not as it seems in this action-packed drama as Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton lead a team of elite commandos into Nazi Bavaria to rescue an American general (1968)
- Director:Brian G. Hutton
- Actors: Clint Eastwood, Richard Burton, Mary Ure
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 02:35:00 2002 Billy the Kid
- Robert Taylor takes the title role in this biopic of the notorious outlaw who turned killer after the death of a friend. Brian Donlevy is the man who brings him to justice (1941)
- Director:David Miller
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Ian Hunter, Mary Howard, Lon Chaney Jr.
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sun Oct 13 04:10:00 2002 The Americanization of Emily
- Against the backdrop of a World War, Julie Andrews stars as a sexy widow who falls for the charms of a cowardly American commander (James Garner) in this black comedy (1964)
- Director:Arthur Hiller
- Actors: James Garner, Julie Andrews, James Coburn
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 06:05:00 2002 Sweethearts
- Successful Broadway singing stars Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy contemplate a move to Hollywood. But their sponging friends and relatives have other ideas... (1938)
- Director:W.S. Van Dyke
- Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 08:00:00 2002 All at Sea
- Alec Guinness repeats his 'Kind Hearts And Coronets' multiple-characters feat in this comic tale of a failed sailor who strikes it big in the entertainment trade (1958)
- Director:Charles Frend
- Actors: Alec Guinness, Irene Brown, Maurice Denham, Percy Herbert
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 09:20:00 2002 The Alphabet Murders
- This delightful comic adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic whodunnit sees dapper sleuth Hercule Poirot on the trail of a very methodical killer. Starring Tony Randall (1963)
- Director:Frank Tashlin
- Actors: Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Margaret Rutherford
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 10:50:00 2002 Grand Hotel
- The first 'portmanteau' movie, with a luxury hotel location binding individual's tales. Greta Garbo, John and Lionel Barrymore and Joan Crawford play the glamorous guests (1932)
- Director:Edmund Goulding
- Actors: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 12:45:00 2002 Private Lives
- Witty screen version of Noel Coward's celebrated comedy of manners, with Robert Montgomery and Norma Shearer as the divorced couple who fall in love all over again (1931)
- Director:Sidney Franklin
- Actors: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Una Merkel, Reginald Denny
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 14:15:00 2002 The Roaring Twenties
- A masterly portrayal of the gangster decade, with James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Jeffrey Lynn as ex-army buddies making a 'killing' during the age of Prohibition (1939)
- Director:Raoul Walsh
- Actors: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Jeffrey Lynn
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 16:00:00 2002 Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
- Kathleen Turner hosts this tribute to the career of one of Hollywood's favourite leading ladies, perhaps best known as classy sleuth Nora Charles in the 'Thin Man' films.
- Actors: Kathleen Turner
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 16:50:00 2002 Another Thin Man
- William Powell and Myrna Loy reprise their roles as sophisticated sleuths Nick and Nora Charles, investigating a murder case on Long Island in this third 'Thin Man' outing (1939)
- Director:W.S. Van Dyke
- Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 18:35:00 2002 Father of the Bride
- Timeless comedy from Vincente Minnelli in which father Spencer Tracy looks back on the events leading up to his daughter's (Elizabeth Taylor) fraught and expensive wedding (1950)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Billie Burke, Leo G. Carroll
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 20:15:00 2002 Sunday in New York
- Enjoyable and sexy comedy, with Jane Fonda as a young woman debating whether to surrender her virginity or hold out until her wedding day (1963)
- Director:Peter Tewksbury
- Actors: Cliff Robertson, Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 22:00:00 2002 The Sunshine Boys
- The late Walter Matthau and George Burns (who won an Oscar) team up for this delicious Neil Simon comedy about two feuding ex-vaudevillians who reunite for a TV special (1975)
- Director:Herbert Ross
- Actors: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 23:50:00 2002 Behind the Scenes - Fame: On Location
- Featuring a rare glimpse behind the scenes at Alan Parker's 1980 production of 'Fame'. Including interviews with the director, cast and crew.
- Actors: Alan Parker
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 00:00:00 2002 Fame
- Alan Parker's high-energy, Oscar-winning musical drama about just what it takes to make it to the top of the tree at New York's most prestigious stage school (1980)
- Director:Alan Parker
- Actors: Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Paul McCrane, Gene Anthony Ray
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 02:15:00 2002 Alex in Wonderland
- Donald Sutherland stars as a film director who takes on Hollywood's movie moguls in director Paul Mazursky's homage to the immortal Federico Fellini, who appears in cameo (1970)
- Director:Paul Mazursky
- Actors: Donald Sutherland, Ellen Burstyn, Federico Fellini
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 04:05:00 2002 Hot Millions
- Peter Ustinov both stars in and co-scripts this riotous crime caper about an embezzler who uses his newly acquired computer skills to siphon off big bucks from big business (1968)
- Director:Eric Till
- Actors: Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 06:00:00 2002 Where the Spies Are
- David Niven stars in this comic spy yarn as the country GP recruited for a vital Middle East mission. Needless to say, the mission is complicated by a sexy double agent (1965)
- Director:Val Guest
- Actors: David Niven, Françoise Dorléac, John Le Mesurier
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Mon Oct 14 08:00:00 2002 Gaslight
- Anton Walbrook takes the lead in this original version of the superb psychological thriller as a sinister husband plotting to drive his wife (Diana Wynyard) insane (1940)
- Director:Thorold Dickinson
- Actors: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Mon Oct 14 09:20:00 2002 The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
- Rousing crime caper, starring Peter O'Toole and Aldo Ray who, following the plot of a 1901 plan by the IRA, rob the Bank of England courtesy of the city's Victorian sewers (1962)
- Director:John Guillermin
- Actors: Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O'Toole, Hugh Griffith
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 10:45:00 2002 Manpower
- Raoul Walsh directs this lively offering from Warner Bros., with Edward G Robinson and George Raft as friends whose friendship is shattered by hostess Marlene Dietrich (1941)
- Director:Raoul Walsh
- Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 12:30:00 2002 The Happy Years
- Dean Stockwell stars as a young tearaway sent to a strict prep school as a means of straightening him out and making a man of him. Features Robert Wagner's screen debut (1950)
- Director:William A. Wellman
- Actors: Dean Stockwell, Scotty Beckett, Darryl Hickman, Leo G. Carroll, Robert Wagner
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Mon Oct 14 14:20:00 2002 The Harvey Girls
- A delightful 'Wild West' musical, starring Judy Garland as the waitress whose charms brighten up a tough frontier town. Cyd Charisse, Angela Lansbury, and Ray Bolger co-star (1946)
- Director:George Sidney
- Actors: Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury, Ray Bolger
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Mon Oct 14 16:00:00 2002 The Sheepman
- Glenn Ford is the sheep rancher who falls for his rival's fiancee (Shirley MacLaine) and causes further trouble by driving his sheep through cattle country (1958)
- Director:George Marshall
- Actors: Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Nielsen, Mickey Shaughnessy
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 17:30:00 2002 Home From the Hill
- Vincente Minnelli directs this starry melodrama, with Robert Mitchum as a wealthy landowner whose troubled sons (George Hamilton and George Peppard) fall for the same woman (1960)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 20:10:00 2002 Come Fly With Me
- Glossy, fluffy comedy that tracks the efforts of three air stewardesses to find the men of their dreams. Pamela Tiffin, Dolores Hart and Lois Nettleton star (1963)
- Director:Henry Levin
- Actors: Pamela Tiffin, Dolores Hart, Lois Nettleton, Karl Malden
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 22:00:00 2002 All the Fine Young Cannibals
- The notorious habits of the idle rich are exposed in this romantic melodrama, inspired by the life of doomed jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. Starring Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood (1960)
- Director:Michael Anderson
- Actors: Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 00:00:00 2002 Sweet Bird of Youth
- Full-throttle adaptation of Tennessee Williams' classic. Geraldine Page's performance as the fading movie star, exploited by Paul Newman's hustler, is a tour de force (1962)
- Director:Richard Brooks
- Actors: Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 02:00:00 2002 Cannery Row
- Nick Nolte and Debra Winger star in this entertaining tug-of-war romance, based on John Steinbeck's classic study of bums and drifters. John Huston narrates (1982)
- Director:David S. Ward
- Actors: Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, M. Emmet Walsh
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 04:00:00 2002 Night Must Fall
- A second film version of Emlyn Williams' psychological thriller, with Albert Finney as the axe-murderer who seduces the daughter (Susan Hampshire) of a well-to-do widow (1964)
- Director:Karel Reisz
- Actors: Albert Finney, Mona Washbourne, Susan Hampshire
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 05:50:00 2002 Operation Crossbow
- During World War II, a team of daring Allied agents is hand-picked to infiltrate and destroy a vital German weapons research station. George Peppard and Sophia Loren star (1965)
- Director:Michael Anderson
- Actors: George Peppard, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 08:00:00 2002 The Adventures of Tartu
- Robert Donat gives a gripping performance as an intrepid British soldier who risks his life to go undercover in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. With Valerie Hobson (1943)
- Director:Harold S. Bucquet
- Actors: Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla, Glynis Johns
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 09:50:00 2002 The Citadel
- Robert Donat stars as the idealistic doctor struggling to regain his true aims in this fine adaptation of AJ Cronin's autobiographical novel (1938)
- Director:King Vidor
- Actors: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 11:45:00 2002 Studio Insiders - Judy Garland
- An in-depth examination into the life and career of Judy Garland, from her rise to fame in MGM's classic musicals to her tragic downfall.
- Actors: Judy Garland
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 11:50:00 2002 The Clock
- A young couple meet under the huge clock in New York's Penn station and fall in love. Judy Garland and Robert Walker star in Vincente Minnelli's charming romance (1945)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 13:20:00 2002 Interrupted Melody
- Eleanor Parker stars in this fine biopic of Australian opera star Marjorie Lawrence, who made a remarkable comeback after being crippled by polio. Glenn Ford co-stars (1955)
- Director:Curtis Bernhardt
- Actors: Eleanor Parker, Glenn Ford, Roger Moore, Cecil Kellaway
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 15:05:00 2002 All About Bette Davis: The Life & Films of Bette Davis
- James Mason called her 'the greatest actress of all time'. Jodie Foster hosts this celebration of screen legend Bette Davis and her 60-year film career (1994)
- Director:Susan F. Walker
- Actors: Jodie Foster
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 16:00:00 2002 Jezebel
- Bette Davis dominates the screen in one of her most famous, Oscar-winning roles as the tempestuous southern belle who pushes propriety - and her fiance - to the limit (1938)
- Director:William Wyler
- Actors: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 15 17:45:00 2002 They Died With Their Boots On
- Errol Flynn cuts a dash in Raoul Walsh's stirring biopic of General Custer, revealing the ambition and courage that inspired the famous Last Stand. With Olivia de Havilland (1942)
- Director:Raoul Walsh
- Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 20:05:00 2002 Shine on Harvest Moon
- Musical biopic based around the lives of the great entertainers Nora Bayes and Jack Horworth. Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson star (1944)
- Director:David Butler
- Actors: Ann Sheridan, Jack Carson, Dennis Morgan, S.Z. Sakall, Irene Manning
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 22:00:00 2002 Key Largo
- The immortal pairing of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall brings class and charisma to this celebrated gangster flick, set in the Florida Keys. John Huston directs (1948)
- Director:John Huston
- Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 00:00:00 2002 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- A searing adaptation of Tennessee Williams' stage classic about a Southern patriarch and his wayward sons, with powerhouse performances from Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman (1958)
- Director:Richard Brooks
- Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 01:45:00 2002 Some Came Running
- There are dilemmas aplenty for writer Frank Sinatra when he returns to small-town life with floozie Shirley MacLaine in tow and teams up with town drunk Dean Martin (1959)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 04:00:00 2002 The Road Builder
- Patricia Neal stars in her husband Roald Dahl's adaptation of Joy Cowley's thriller about a middle-aged spinster who falls under the spell of a dangerous rapist (1971)
- Director:Alastair Reid
- Actors: Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown, Nicholas Clay
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 05:46:00 2002 The Women
- Biting social satire exposing the machinations that drive the war between women and men. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell lead the all-female cast (1939)
- Director:George Cukor
- Actors: Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 08:00:00 2002 Invasion Quartet
- Spike Milligan heads the cast in this farcical wartime romp as a member of a gang of British servicemen attempting to sneak into Nazi Germany to destroy an enemy cannon (1961)
- Director:Jay Lewis
- Actors: Spike Milligan, Jay Lewis, Bill Travers, Grégoire Aslan
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 09:30:00 2002 Kill Or Cure
- British comedians Terry-Thomas and Eric Sykes head the cast of this spoof comedy involving murder and other dastardly deeds at a health farm (1962)
- Director:George Pollock
- Actors: Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Dennis Price, Lionel Jeffries
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 11:00:00 2002 Reunion in France
- A glossy war-time romance, with Joan Crawford as a Frenchwoman falling for dashing fly-boy John Wayne when she suspects her fiance (Philip Dorn) is a Nazi collaborator (1942)
- Director:Jules Dassin
- Actors: John Wayne, Joan Crawford, Philip Dorn
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 12:45:00 2002 The Thin Man
- Breezy wit and fast-paced repartee dominate the action as William Powell and Myrna Loy make their debuts as Dashiell Hammett's suave sleuths Nick and Nora Charles (1934)
- Director:W.S. Van Dyke
- Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 14:15:00 2002 The Conspirators
- Spy thriller involving a Dutch freedom fighter on the run from the Nazis joins up with underground conspirators, however, one of their number is a traitor.
- Director:Jean Negulesco
- Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 16:00:00 2002 Royal Wedding
- Fred Astaire musical, co-starring Jane Powell and featuring some of Astaire's most elaborate routines, including a dance around the walls and ceiling. Stanley Donen directs (1951)
- Director:Stanley Donen
- Actors: Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 17:35:00 2002 Waterloo Bridge
- A superb romantic weepie, with Vivien Leigh as the ballerina who turns to prostitution when she believes lover Robert Taylor dead - then pays the price when he reappears (1940)
- Director:Mervyn LeRoy
- Actors: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 19:25:00 2002 Marie Antoinette
- Opulent, Oscar-winning costume drama, starring Norma Shearer, tracing the romances and intrigues at the court of Versailles before the French Revolution (1938)
- Director:W.S. Van Dyke
- Actors: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 16 22:00:00 2002 The Sandpiper
- Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton form a steamy love triangle with Eva Marie Saint when headmaster Burton takes on Taylor's unruly young son as a pupil (1965)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Morgan Mason
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 00:00:00 2002 The Appointment
- Sidney Lumet directs Omar Sharif as lawyer Federico Fendi who steals his law partner's fiancée (played by Anouk Aimée), however, the couple's love affair soon leads to disaster.
- Director:Sidney Lumet
- Actors: Omar Sharif, Anouk Aimée, Lotte Lenya, Fausto Tozzi
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 01:55:00 2002 The Loved One
- Robert Morse and John Gielgud star in this comedy based on Evelyn Waugh's biting satire - a wry look at death in Hollywood...for both humans and their beloved pets (1965)
- Director:Tony Richardson
- Actors: Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Milton Berle, James Coburn
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 03:55:00 2002 Eye of the Devil
- Occult thriller starring Deborah Kerr and David Niven as the wealthy owners of a French vineyard who become obsessed with their family's traditions of pagan sacrifice (1967)
- Director:J. Lee Thompson
- Actors: David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Donald Pleasence, Flora Robson, Sharon Tate, David Hemmings
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 05:30:00 2002 David Copperfield
- What a book - what a cast! WC Fields, Freddie Bartholomew and Basil Rathbone are just some of the famous faces gracing George Cukor's rendition of the Dickens' classic (1935)
- Director:George Cukor
- Actors: Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, W.C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore, Basil Rathbone, Maureen O'Sullivan
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 17 08:00:00 2002 Battle Beneath the Earth
- The Cold War is at its chilliest and the Chinese are digging secret invasion tunnels from China to the States. Can the US Navy stop the Communist menace in time?! (1967)
- Director:Montgomery Tully
- Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Viviane Ventura, Robert Ayres, Peter Arne
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 09:30:00 2002 The Scapegoat
- Alec Guinness plays a school-teacher caught up in a murder plot through his uncanny resemblance to a French count, who is planning to kill his wife. With Bette Davis (1959)
- Director:Robert Hamer
- Actors: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 11:00:00 2002 Arena
- A talented rodeo star has to balance personal problems with his dangerous career when his married life becomes as bumpy as his sport. Starring Gig Young (1953)
- Director:Richard Fleischer
- Actors: Gig Young, Jean Hagen, Polly Bergen
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 12:15:00 2002 Rose Marie
- A remake (with a slightly different setting) of the most famous of the Eddy-MacDonald musicals. Ann Blyth and Howard Keel star as the Mountie and his girl (1954)
- Director:Mervyn LeRoy
- Actors: Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Bert Lahr
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 14:00:00 2002 Rhapsody
- A lush musical romance, with Elizabeth Taylor torn between her love for a great violinist (Vittorio Gassman), who's devoted to his art, and a pianist yet to make his mark (1954)
- Director:Charles Vidor
- Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson, Louis Calhern
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 17 16:00:00 2002 Humoresque
- High-class romantic drama, scripted by Clifford Odets, with Joan Crawford as a wealthy patron who becomes tragically involved with a talented violinist (John Garfield) (1946)
- Director:Jean Negulesco
- Actors: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J. Carroll Naish
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 18:05:00 2002 In The Good Old Summertime
- There are plenty of excuses for lots of catchy tunes as music store buddies Van Johnson and Judy Garland bicker and fall in love in this MGM musical (1949)
- Director:George Stoll
- Actors: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 19:50:00 2002 The Journey
- Amid the turbulent events of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, romance blossoms for would-be escapees Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in this heady love story (1959)
- Director:Anatole Litvak
- Actors: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Jason Robards Jnr., Robert Morley, Ronny Howard
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 22:00:00 2002 Bhowani Junction
- A sultry Ava Gardner stars in this fine adaptation of John Masters' novel as an Anglo-Indian woman who sets pulses racing during India's battle for independence from Britain (1956)
- Director:George Cukor
- Actors: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 00:00:00 2002 The Night of the Iguana
- Repression and passion dominate this Oscar-winning adaptation of Tennessee Williams' classic play about a defrocked priest. Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr star (1964)
- Director:John Huston
- Actors: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 02:05:00 2002 Border Incident
- Gritty crime drama of two law enforcement officers who infiltrate an organisation involved in the illegal smuggling of Mexican farmers into California.
- Director:Anthony Mann
- Actors: George Murphy, Ricardo Montalban, Howard Da Silva, James Mitchell
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 03:45:00 2002 Guns for San Sebastian
- Anthony Quinn stars as a popular bandit who inspires a group of villagers to defend themselves against marauding Indians when they mistake him for a priest (1968)
- Director:Henri Verneuil
- Actors: Anthony Quinn, Anjanette Comer, Charles Bronson, Sam Jaffe
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 05:38:00 2002 The White Cliffs of Dover
- A patriotic World War I romancer, which boasts a marvellous cast, including Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Alan Marshal, Dame May Whitty and a young Elizabeth Taylor (1944)
- Director:Clarence Brown
- Actors: Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Alan Marshall, Dame May Whitty, Elizabeth Taylor
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 08:00:00 2002 The Barretts of Wimpole Street
- Remake by director Sidney Franklin of his 1934 drama about the celebrated love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. With Jennifer Jones and John Gielgud (1956)
- Director:Sidney Franklin
- Actors: Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 09:40:00 2002 Vacation From Marriage
- Deborah Kerr and Robert Donat are the bored couple forced apart by the war. Will this restore marital bliss and sparkle? Clemence Dane won an Oscar for her script (1945)
- Director:Alexander Korda
- Actors: Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Ann Todd
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 11:15:00 2002 Texas Carnival
- A clutch of great musical stars (including Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Red Skelton and Ann Miller) get together for this breezy, romantic musical adventure (1951)
- Director:Charles Walters
- Actors: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Ann Miller
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 12:35:00 2002 The Honeymoon Machine
- Two soldiers stand to trigger all-out war when their betting scam in Venice interferes with their ship's communications. Steve McQueen, Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss star (1961)
- Director:Richard Thorpe
- Actors: Steve McQueen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 14:05:00 2002 Les Girls
- Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor and Kay Kendall head the cast of this charming, fast-paced, flashback musical about a troupe of dancing girls, featuring songs by Cole Porter (1957)
- Director:George Cukor
- Actors: Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 16:00:00 2002 Two Weeks in Another Town
- An expose of the dark side of Hollywood, with Kirk Douglas as the washed up star trying to make a comeback through director Edward G Robinson's latest 'cheapie' production (1962)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, George Hamilton
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 17:50:00 2002 Cimarron
- Glenn Ford stars in this remake of the 1931 classic that traces the trials and tribulations of a family's life in the Old West over four decades (1960)
- Director:Anthony Mann
- Actors: Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 20:15:00 2002 Green Mansions
- A Shangri-La-style tale, with young refugee Anthony Perkins encountering a mysterious beauty (Audrey Hepburn) in the jungles of Venezuela and inevitably falling in love (1959)
- Director:Mel Ferrer
- Actors: Anthony Perkins, Audrey Hepburn, Lee J. Cobb, Sessue Hayakawa
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 22:00:00 2002 The Power
- Sci-fi thriller with George Hamilton and Suzanne Pleshette as members of a scientific team one of whose number possesses super-intelligent, murderous mind-mending powers (1968)
- Director:Byron Haskin
- Actors: George Hamilton, Suzanne Pleshette, Yvonne de Carlo
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 00:00:00 2002 Demon Seed
- Julie Christie is the wife of a brilliant scientist who finds herself forcibly impregnated by a super-intelligent computer that has developed evil ideas of its own (1977)
- Director:Donald Cammell
- Actors: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 01:35:00 2002 Soylent Green
- A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations. Charlton Heston is the cop who stumbles on the truth. Edward G. Robinson's last film (1972)
- Director:Richard Fleischer
- Actors: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Edward G. Robinson
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 03:15:00 2002 Village of the Damned
- Screen version of John Wyndham's chiller 'The Midwich Cuckoos'. Mysterious mass-pregnancies in a village give birth to a legion of sinister children. George Sanders stars (1960)
- Director:Wolf Rilla
- Actors: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 04:30:00 2002 Savage Messiah
- Ken Russell's typically intense and erotic depiction of the love affair between the wild young French sculptor Gaudier-Brzeska and a Polish woman 20 years his senior (1972)
- Director:Ken Russell
- Actors: Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Helen Mirren
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 06:10:00 2002 The Hard Way
- Behind-the-scenes showbiz melodrama with Ida Lupino as a strong-willed sister pushing her younger sibling (Joan Leslie) into a glitzy Broadway career (1942)
- Director:Vincent Sherman
- Actors: Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 08:00:00 2002 The Green Helmet
- After several crashes, a racing driver loses his nerve. But he is determined to prove himself in one last race, despite his girlfriend's fears. Bill Travers stars (1961)
- Director:Michael Forlong
- Actors: Bill Travers, Ed Begley, Sidney James, Nancy Walters
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 09:30:00 2002 The Safecracker
- Ray Milland is both star and director of this wartime drama. He plays a safe-cracker sprung from jail when England needs him to crack a Nazi safe containing spy secrets (1958)
- Director:Ray Milland
- Actors: Ray Milland, Barry Jones, Jeannette Sterke
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 11:05:00 2002 Courage of Lassie
- Elizabeth Taylor stars in this third instalment from the classic canine saga as the devoted young owner who must rehabilitate a Lassie left shell-shocked by the Japanese war (1946)
- Director:Fred M. Wilcox
- Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan, Tom Drake
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 12:40:00 2002 Adventures of Don Juan
- Errol Flynn stars in the role he was born to play: the legendary seducer of women and fabled swashbuckler, Don Juan. Also starring Viveca Lindfors and Alan Hale (1949)
- Director:Vincent Sherman
- Actors: Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Alan Hale, Robert Douglas
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 14:30:00 2002 'G' Men
- A gangster's protegee sees the light and joins the 'G-Men' to exact revenge when his FBI pal is gunned down in cold blood. A gangster 'great' with Cagney in fine form (1935)
- Director:William Keighley
- Actors: James Cagney, Ann Dvorak, Margaret Lindsay
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 16:00:00 2002 The Three Musketeers
- Gene Kelly makes a marvellously athletic D'Artagnan in this starry version of the Dumas classic. Lana Turner and June Allyson co-star with Vincent Price as the 'baddie' (1948)
- Director:George Sidney
- Actors: Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, Vincent Price, June Allyson, Van Heflin
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 18:05:00 2002 Studio Insiders - Gene Kelly
- Focusing on how Gene Kelly became an MGM star and the icon of musical cinema through his dazzling dance moves.
- Actors: Gene Kelly
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 18:15:00 2002 The Asphalt Jungle
- John Huston's seminal crime movie, remade countless times, with Sam Jaffe as the ageing criminal reuniting the gang for one last heist. Marilyn Monroe co-stars (1950)
- Director:John Huston
- Actors: Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, Jean Hagen, Marilyn Monroe
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 20:10:00 2002 Betrayed
- Lana Turner plays a Dutch resistance fighter - branded as a Nazi collaborator - who is given the chance to redeem herself in the eyes of sceptical army colonel Clark Gable (1954)
- Director:Gottfried Reinhardt
- Actors: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature, Louis Calhern
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 22:00:00 2002 Bataan
- Robert Taylor gives an outstanding performance as a military commander in this blistering tale of courage and perseverance during a doomed wartime mission in the Pacific (1943)
- Director:Tay Garnett
- Actors: Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 00:00:00 2002 Mutiny on the Bounty
- The second, epic version of the famous British naval mutiny, with Marlon Brando taking the role of the mutineer Fletcher Christian, and Trevor Howard as Captain Bligh (1962)
- Director:Lewis Milestone
- Actors: Trevor Howard, Marlon Brando, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 02:55:00 2002 The Last Voyage
- Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone star as the couple whose romantic cruise of a lifetime turns into a voyage of terror on the high seas when the ship starts to sink (1960)
- Director:Andrew L. Stone
- Actors: Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 04:30:00 2002 Arturo's Island
- Against the dramatic backdrop of the Bay of Naples, a teenage boy finds his uneventful life transformed as he falls in love with his beautiful stepmother (1962)
- Director:Damiano Damiani
- Actors: Reginald Kerman, Gabriella Giorgelli, Kay Meersman, Vanni De Maigret
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 06:05:00 2002 Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
- Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors and Nanette Newman star in this underwater fantasy tracking the further exploits of Jules Verne's visionary Victorian submariner (1969)
- Director:James Hill
- Actors: Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors, Nanette Newman
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 07:15:00 2002 Short - Mgm 40th Anniversary
- Celebrating the legacy of the famous MGM studios and the golden era of cinema.
- Actors: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Henry Fonda, James Garner
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 08:00:00 2002 Mark of the Vampire
- Chilling terror tale from cult horror maestro Tod Browning, with Lionel Barrymore as an occult expert on the blood-drenched trail of the sinister Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) (1935)
- Director:Tod Browning
- Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Bela Lugosi, Elizabeth Allan
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 09:00:00 2002 Ringo and His Golden Pistol
- Spaghetti Western, in which bounty hunter Ringo finds the tables turned when his arch-enemy arrives in town to avenge the murder of his brothers. Mark Damon stars (1966)
- Director:Sergio Corbucci
- Actors: Mark Damon, Valeria Fabrizi, Ettore Manni
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 10:30:00 2002 The Secret Partner
- A London shipping tycoon finds himself blackmailed by an evil dentist, who threatens to expose a previous conviction for embezzlement. Crime drama starring Stewart Granger (1961)
- Director:Basil Dearden
- Actors: Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee, Hugh Burden
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 12:00:00 2002 I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
- An uncompromising 'docudrama' portrayal of injustice, with Paul Muni powerful as the World War I vet on the run from a chain gang in Depression era America (1932)
- Director:Mervyn LeRoy
- Actors: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 13:35:00 2002 Behind the Scenes - Lust for Life
- Short film looking at the European locations used in the classic 1956 melodrama 'Lust for Life', which starred Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn as painters Van Gogh and Gauguin.
- Actors: Vincente Minnelli
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 13:55:00 2002 Lust for Life
- Vincente Minnelli directs this visually stunning biopic on tormented artistic genius Van Gogh, with Kirk Douglas in the title role and Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin (1956)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Anthony Quayle
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 16:00:00 2002 The Man Who Came to Dinner
- Spot-on caricatures of the likes of Noel Coward and Harpo Marx add spice to this delicious comedy about a pompous critic who descends on an unsuspecting midwestern family (1942)
- Director:William Keighley
- Actors: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Billie Burke, Jimmy Durante
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 17:55:00 2002 The Brothers Karamazov
- Yul Brynner, Claire Bloom, Lee J Cobb and William Shatner head the cast of this starry adaptation of the Dostoevsky classic (1958)
- Director:Richard Brooks
- Actors: Yul Brynner, William Shatner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 20:20:00 2002 The Rack
- Paul Newman stars as a US soldier, brainwashed and tortured during the Korean War, who finds himself court-martialed on a treason charge. Walter Pidgeon co-stars (1956)
- Director:Arnold Laven
- Actors: Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Walter Pidgeon, Edmond O'Brien
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 22:00:00 2002 Angels With Dirty Faces
- 'Dead End Kids' James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Pat O'Brien star in this greatest of gangster love-and-loyalty melodramas from director Michael Curtiz (1938)
- Director:Michael Curtiz
- Actors: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 00:00:00 2002 Mrs Soffel
- Diane Keaton is the prison warder's wife who falls for the lethal charms of handsome murderer Mel Gibson. Based on a true story that rocked turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh (1984)
- Director:Gillian Armstrong
- Actors: Mel Gibson, Diane Keaton, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 01:55:00 2002 Hearts of the West
- Enjoyable off-beat comedy with Jeff Bridges as a would-be 1930s screen-writer fleeing to Hollywood to escape a duo of vengeful con-men (1975)
- Director:Howard Zieff
- Actors: Jeff Bridges, Donald Pleasence, Andy Griffith, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 03:40:00 2002 The Best House in London
- Watch out for a fleeting appearance from John Cleese in this comic period romp about the establishment of an official government bordello in Victorian London (1968)
- Director:Philip Saville
- Actors: David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 05:20:00 2002 Ada
- Susan Hayward stars as a former call girl who marries a US state governor - much to the chagrin of his advisors. Scandal ensues... Also starring Dean Martin (1961)
- Director:Daniel Mann
- Actors: Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ralph Meeker
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 08:00:00 2002 The Main Attraction
- Pat Boone plays a guitar-playing drifter on the run from a murder charge. Joining a circus, he falls for the charms of two very different women (Nancy Kwan, Mai Zetterling) (1962)
- Director:Daniel Petrie
- Actors: Pat Boone, Nancy Kwan, Mai Zetterling
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 09:25:00 2002 Action of the Tiger
- Strapping star Van Johnson comes to the aid of a beautiful French woman whose brother has been captured by Communists in this action-packed adventure yarn (1957)
- Director:Terence Young
- Actors: Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom, Sean Connery
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 10:55:00 2002 Never Let Me Go
- Clark Gable is the devoted husband who braves the communist menace in post-war Moscow to enable his Russian ballerina wife (Gene Tierney) to escape with him to the West (1953)
- Director:Delmer Daves
- Actors: Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles, Richard Haydn
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 12:30:00 2002 Mr Imperium
- Lana Turner stars in this romantic melodrama about a woman whose lover becomes a monarch. Look out for Debbie Reynolds in a minor role (1951)
- Director:Don Hartman
- Actors: Lana Turner, Ezio Pinza, Marjorie Main
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 13:55:00 2002 National Velvet
- One of the greatest family films of all time, with a young Elizabeth Taylor unforgettable as the lass who sets her sights on a Grand National win. Mickey Rooney co-stars (1944)
- Director:Clarence Brown
- Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Ann Revere
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 16:00:00 2002 Saratoga
- Jean Harlow (in her last film) is the devoted farmer's daughter for whom the lure of the race track (and smooth gambler Clark Gable) proves just too irresistible (1937)
- Director:Jack Conway
- Actors: Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Jean Harlow
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 17:35:00 2002 Dark Victory
- Bette Davis shows her superb range as the society beauty who discovers love and life anew when she is struck down by a fatal brain tumour. Humphrey Bogart co-stars (1939)
- Director:Edmund Goulding
- Actors: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, George Brent, Ronald Reagan
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 19:15:00 2002 Quo Vadis
- An epic movie and a huge box-office hit. Roman general Robert Taylor sparks rebellion when he falls for Christian slave Deborah Kerr. Peter Ustinov steals the show as Nero (1951)
- Director:Mervyn LeRoy
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Leo Genn
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 22:00:00 2002 Never So Few
- An all-star cast - including Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and Gina Lollobrigida - lines up for this World War II action-romance set in the Far East (1959)
- Director:John Sturges
- Actors: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson, Paul Henreid, Charles Bronson
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 00:00:00 2002 The Gypsy Moths
- The action-packed, free-falling story of three daredevil skydivers - Burt Lancaster, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson - encountering love and death in small-town Kansas (1969)
- Director:John Frankenheimer
- Actors: Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 01:50:00 2002 The Carey Treatment
- James Coburn stars as a top Boston pathologist determined to clear a colleague when an abortion on the boss's daughter goes tragically wrong (1972)
- Director:Blake Edwards
- Actors: James Coburn, Jennifer O'Neill, Pat Hingle
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 03:30:00 2002 The Last Run
- George C. Scott stars in this crime thriller about an ex-getaway driver who takes on one last job for the Mob - but things don't go quite as planned (1971)
- Director:Richard Fleischer
- Actors: George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, Colleen Dewhurst
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 05:05:00 2002 The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
- Rousing crime caper, starring Peter O'Toole and Aldo Ray who, following the plot of a 1901 plan by the IRA, rob the Bank of England courtesy of the city's Victorian sewers (1962)
- Director:John Guillermin
- Actors: Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O'Toole, Hugh Griffith
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 06:30:00 2002 Fury
- Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film is a powerful and insightful study of injustice. Spencer Tracy delivers a powerful performance as a man wrongly imprisoned for kidnapping (1936).
- Director:Fritz Lang
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel, Walter Brennan
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 08:00:00 2002 Captain Sindbad
- Legendary sailor Sindbad copes with gorgeous women and man-eating fish in this splendid adventure fantasy stuffed with special effects and full-blooded performances (1963)
- Director:Byron Haskin
- Actors: Guy Williams, Heidi Bruhl, Pedro Armendáriz
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 09:20:00 2002 Son of a Gunfighter
- A gunfighter finds himself torn by family loyalties when he helps a sheriff track down an outlaw who is terrorising the American/Mexican border. Russ Tamblyn stars (1966)
- Director:Paul Landres
- Actors: Russ Tamblyn, Kieron Moore, Fernando Ray, James Philbrook
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 10:50:00 2002 The Good Earth
- One of the great prestige Hollywood productions of the '30s. Paul Muni and Luise Rainer, who won an Oscar, star in this tale of a humble Chinese family destroyed by greed (1937)
- Director:Sidney Franklin
- Actors: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 13:05:00 2002 The Teahouse of the August Moon
- A slyly delicious culture-clash comedy, set in post-war Japan, with Glenn Ford as the officer persuaded to open a geisha house by Marlon Brando's conniving interpreter (1956)
- Director:Daniel Mann
- Actors: Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo, Eddie Albert
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 15:10:00 2002 Clark Gable: Tall, Dark and Handsome
- Liam Neesom narrates this fascinating documentary on the star dubbed 'The King of Hollywood' who reached the height of his fame with 'Gone With The Wind'.
- Director:Susan F. Walker
- Actors: Liam Neeson, Robert Wagner, Eli Wallach, Judy Lewis, Carroll Baker
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 16:00:00 2002 Honky Tonk
- Romantic Western drama, with Clark Gable as a smooth-talking con-man who finds his ambitious plans under threat when he falls for a judge's daughter. Lana Turner co-stars (1941)
- Director:Jack Conway
- Actors: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, Claire Trevor
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 17:50:00 2002 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
- One of the greatest musicals of the '50s - the rousing tale of seven brothers in search of female company. Features a feast of rollicking, toe-tapping song-and-dance numbers (1954)
- Director:Stanley Donen
- Actors: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Russ Tamblyn
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 19:30:00 2002 Close Up - Neil Norman On Musicals
- Film critic Neil Norman discusses the rise of the big-screen musical. Focusing on early musicals like 'The Jazz Singer' to more contemporary musicals like 'Singin' in the Rain'.
- Actors: Neil Norman
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 19:40:00 2002 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
- Oscar-winning special effects grace this dramatic, near-documentary drama tracing the ordeals endured by US airmen who flew near-suicidal US bombing raids over Tokyo (1944)
- Director:Mervyn LeRoy
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 22:00:00 2002 Adam's Rib
- Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn sparkle in this sophisticated battle-of-the-sexes comedy as husband-and-wife lawyers who take opposite sides in a high-profile murder case (1949)
- Director:George Cukor
- Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 00:00:00 2002 Gone With the Wind
- The star-studded Civil War epic, with Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, that is perhaps the most famous film of all time. An emotional, artistic and technical triumph (1939)
- Director:Victor Fleming
- Actors: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 03:35:00 2002 Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
- Oscar-winner Jessica Lange hosts this tribute to Vivien Leigh, star of 'Gone With The Wind' and one of the most beautiful and influential actresses of the 20th century (1990)
- Actors: Jessica Lange
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 04:25:00 2002 Beau Brummell
- Lavishly told story of George Brummel, the brilliant wit and fashion arbiter who became a favourite of the Prince Regent. Starring Stewart Granger and Elizabeth Taylor (1954)
- Director:Curtis Bernhardt
- Actors: Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 06:15:00 2002 The Toast of New Orleans
- Mario Lanza gets to sing 'Be My Love', and plenty of other operatic greats, as the fisherman whose vocal genius is exposed when he falls for singing star Kathryn Grayson (1950)
- Director:Norman Taurog
- Actors: Mario Lanza, Kathryn Grayson, David Niven, Rita Moreno
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 08:00:00 2002 Cairo
- A master criminal arrives in Egypt to plot the daring theft of Tutankhamen's treasure from the Cairo Museum. George Sanders stars in this remake of 'The Asphalt Jungle' (1963)
- Director:Wolf Rilla
- Actors: George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamama
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 09:30:00 2002 Vacation From Marriage
- Deborah Kerr and Robert Donat are the bored couple forced apart by the war. Will this restore marital bliss and sparkle? Clemence Dane won an Oscar for her script (1945)
- Director:Alexander Korda
- Actors: Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Ann Todd
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 11:05:00 2002 The Light in the Piazza
- An American girl falls for an Italian prince - but should her parents reveal a dark secret about her past? George Hamilton, Rossano Brazzi and Olivia de Havilland star (1962)
- Director:Guy Green
- Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 12:50:00 2002 Merry Andrew
- Danny Kaye stars as the mild-mannered archaeology professor whose life is dramatically transformed when he joins the circus. Bright musi-comedy co-starring Pier Angeli (1958)
- Director:Michael Kidd
- Actors: Danny Kaye, Pier Angeli, Salvatore Baccaloni, Noel Purcell
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 14:35:00 2002 Valley of the Kings
- Robert Taylor stars as an 'Indiana Jones'-type archaeologist searching for a lost pharoah's tomb. The glamorous Eleanor Parker comes along for the ride - and soon all hell breaks loose (1954)
- Director:Robert Pirosh
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Carlos Thompson
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 16:00:00 2002 Ride the High Country
- Sam Peckinpah's elegiac Western, with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea as two ageing cowboys reflecting on their lives. A bittersweet salute to a lost age (1962)
- Director:Sam Peckinpah
- Actors: Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Edgar Buchanan
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 17:30:00 2002 Raintree County
- An epic 'Gone With The Wind'-style civil war drama, with Elizabeth Taylor as a spoiled Southern belle seducing Montgomery Clift away from his true love (Eva Marie Saint) (1957)
- Director:Edward Dmytryk
- Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin, Nigel Patrick, Rod Taylor, Agnes Moorehead
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 20:15:00 2002 Green Fire
- Spectacular natural disasters, a notorious bandit and a beautiful woman (Grace Kelly) keep prospector Stewart Granger on his toes in this exciting adventure yarn (1954)
- Director:Andrew Marton
- Actors: Grace Kelly, Stewart Granger, Paul Douglas
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 22:00:00 2002 The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Errol Flynn is magnificent (in perhaps his greatest role) in Michael Curtiz's swashbuckler - one of the best adventure movies of all time. Olivia de Havilland co-stars (1938)
- Director:Michael Curtiz
- Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 00:00:00 2002 My Favorite Year
- Satirical comedy with Peter O'Toole as the movie idol with a fondness for drink, whose forthcoming appearance on a live TV show sparks nervousness among the TV executives (1982)
- Director:Richard Benjamin
- Actors: Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 01:34:00 2002 Diner
- Barry Levinson's masterly tribute to his youthful years in Baltimore is an early showcase for the talents of such future stars as Kevin Bacon, Mickey Rourke and Ellen Barkin (1982)
- Director:Barry Levinson
- Actors: Kevin Bacon, Mickey Rourke, Steven Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Timothy Daly, Ellen Barkin
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 03:25:00 2002 Shaft in Africa
- Richard Roundtree stars in this last film from the Shaft trilogy. The cool, streetwise PI quits New York for Africa on the trail of a gang of ruthless slave traders (1973)
- Director:John Guillermin
- Actors: Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 05:05:00 2002 Murder Most Foul
- Miss Marple takes to the stage to prove the innocence of a young man accused of murder. Margaret Rutherford gives another delightful turn as Agatha Christie's super-sleuth (1964)
- Director:George Pollock
- Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 06:35:00 2002 Crossroads
- Classic whodunit set around the courtroom trial of a prominent member of the French government, who is accused of being a notorious thief in his past life (1942)
- Director:Jack Conway
- Actors: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor, Basil Rathbone
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 08:00:00 2002 Murder at the Gallop
- Margaret Rutherford stars as Agatha Christie's super-sleuth, Miss Marple, here investigating a suspicious will. Robert Morley co-stars in this droll murder-mystery (1963)
- Director:George Pollock
- Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Stringer Davies, Flora Robson
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 09:20:00 2002 Gaslight
- Anton Walbrook takes the lead in this original version of the superb psychological thriller as a sinister husband plotting to drive his wife (Diana Wynyard) insane (1940)
- Director:Thorold Dickinson
- Actors: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 10:50:00 2002 Please Believe Me
- Deborah Kerr stars in this romance about a young Englishwoman who inherits a Texan ranch - and the attentions of three men determined to woo her as a bride (1950)
- Director:Norman Taurog
- Actors: Deborah Kerr, Robert Walker, James Whitmore, Peter Lawford
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 12:20:00 2002 Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
- Doris Day comedy centering on the real-life, massive black-out which befell New York on 9 November 1965. Terry-Thomas co-stars (1968)
- Director:Hy Averback
- Actors: Doris Day, Terry-Thomas, Robert Morse
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 14:00:00 2002 Designing Woman
- Vincente Minnelli directs this chic romantic comedy with Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall as a sportswriter and fashion designer who marry and clash head on (1957)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray, Sam Levene, Chuck Connors
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 16:00:00 2002 The Stratton Story
- James Stewart stars in this popular account of the life of Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton, who lost a leg in a hunting accident but went on to play the game (1949)
- Director:Sam Wood
- Actors: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 17:50:00 2002 Take Me Out to the Ball Game
- Energetic musical in which Esther Williams offends star players Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra when she takes on their baseball team. Busby Berkeley's last film as a director (1949)
- Director:Busby Berkeley
- Actors: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Betty Garrett
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 19:20:00 2002 Studio Insiders - Lana Turner
- Focusing on how Lana Turner was discovered by MGM and transformed into an international star.
- Actors: Lana Turner
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 19:25:00 2002 Studio Insiders - Judy Garland
- An in-depth examination into the life and career of Judy Garland, from her rise to fame in MGM's classic musicals to her tragic downfall.
- Actors: Judy Garland
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 19:30:00 2002 The Ziegfeld Girl
- MGM glitter galore in this musical drama about three Ziegfeld Follies girls - Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr (1941)
- Director:Robert Z. Leonard
- Actors: Lana Turner, James Stewart, Judy Garland
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 21:40:00 2002 Close Up - Jack Davenport: James Stewart
- Actor Jack Davenport (This Life) takes a close look at the acting style of James Stewart and his oeuvre of classic Hollywood films.
- Actors: Jack Davenport
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 21:50:00 2002 Close Up - Mark Strong: Cary Grant
- British television actor Mark Strong (star of Our Friends in the North) reveals the secrets behind Cary Grant's acting technique.
- Actors: Mark Strong, Cary Grant
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 22:00:00 2002 Arsenic and Old Lace
- Riotously funny black comedy from Frank Capra, with Cary Grant as the nephew who discovers that his seemingly sweet old aunts have a habit of bumping off their boyfriends (1944)
- Director:Frank Capra
- Actors: Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Peter Lorre
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 00:00:00 2002 Buddy Buddy
- Director Billy Wilder and stars Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon team up for this comic tale of a cynical mob hit man who forms an odd alliance with his suicidal neighbour (1981)
- Director:Billy Wilder
- Actors: Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Paula Prentiss, Klaus Kinski
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 01:35:00 2002 Mister Buddwing
- James Garner is the title character, who wakes up in Central Park with total amnesia. Various women, strangers or otherwise, must help him to piece together his past (1966)
- Director:Delbert Mann
- Actors: James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Angela Lansbury
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 03:15:00 2002 The Secret of My Success
- Swinging '60s sex romp about a naive young boy whose progress to maturity is helped along by several crafty females. James Booth, Lionel Jeffries and Honor Blackman star (1965)
- Director:Andrew L. Stone
- Actors: James Booth, Lionel Jeffries, Honor Blackman
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 05:00:00 2002 Hysteria
- Following a car accident, an amnesiac American finds himself caught up in a complex murder plot. A Hammer Studios production, starring Anthony Newlands (1965)
- Director:Freddie Francis
- Actors: Anthony Newlands, Robert Webber, Jennifer Jayne
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 06:25:00 2002 Crest of the Wave
- Culture-clash drama by the Boulting Brothers, with Gene Kelly as the American scientist raising British hackles over a top-secret project to develop a revolutionary torpedo (1954)
- Director:John Boulting, Roy Boulting
- Actors: Gene Kelly, John Justin, Bernard Lee
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 08:00:00 2002 Haunted Honeymoon
- Matrimonial bliss for amateur sleuths Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane is interrupted when murder enters the picture. A comic crime mystery from Dorothy L. Sayers. (1940)
- Director:Arthur Woods
- Actors: Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Seymour Hicks, Robert Newton
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 09:25:00 2002 Private Potter
- A young Tom Courtenay stars as the callow young soldier who claims to have seen a vision from God when he jeopardises a mission and causes the death of a colleague (1963)
- Director:Casper Wrede
- Actors: Tom Courtenay, Mogens Wieth, Ronald Fraser, James Maxwell
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 10:50:00 2002 The Trouble With Girls
- Lively Elvis romp, with The King as the head of a travelling 1920s medicine show whose life is spiced up by numerous encounters with the opposite sex (1969)
- Director:Peter Tewksbury
- Actors: Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Nicole Jaffe, Sheree North
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 12:30:00 2002 Where the Boys Are
- Four lovely girls have a single mission when they holiday in Florida: to meet boys. Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, Yvette Mimieux, Connie Francis and George Hamilton star (1960)
- Director:Henry Levin
- Actors: George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Jim Hutton, Yvette Mimieux, Dolores Hart, Connie Francis
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 14:10:00 2002 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- Enjoyable, musical farce with David Niven and Doris Day as a couple who quit the Big Apple for a new life in a musty old mansion. (1960)
- Director:Charles Walters
- Actors: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 16:00:00 2002 The Band Wagon
- Dazzling MGM musical with an equally dazzling cast, headed by Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse and Jack Buchanan. Numbers include 'That's Entertainment'. Vincente Minnelli directs (1953)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Jack Buchanan
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 17:50:00 2002 Uncertain Glory
- Errol Flynn stars in Raoul Walsh's wartime drama as a murderer who escapes the guillotine by a whisker and runs to Spain, where a different menace awaits him (1944)
- Director:Raoul Walsh
- Actors: Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Jean Sullivan
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 19:35:00 2002 Ice Station Zebra
- Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine and Patrick McGoohan star in this gripping naval action thriller set amid the chilliest region on Earth, based on Alistair MacLean's book (1968)
- Director:John Sturges
- Actors: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 22:00:00 2002 High Wall
- A pacy mystery tale with Robert Taylor as a former air ace trying to solve the murder of his unfaithful wife with the help of a psychiatrist (1947)
- Director:Curtis Bernhardt
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 00:00:00 2002 Coma
- Michael Douglas and Genevieve Bujold star in this Hitchcockian medical thriller about the illicit recycling of body parts. Michael Crichton directs from Robin Cook's novel (1978)
- Director:Michael Crichton
- Actors: Michael Douglas, Genevieve Bujold, Richard Widmark
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 02:00:00 2002 The Formula
- Riveting thriller with George C. Scott as a cop on the trail of a murder that hinges around a Nazi formula to turn coal into gold. Marlon Brando co-stars (1980)
- Director:John G. Avildsen
- Actors: George C. Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller, John Gielgud
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 04:00:00 2002 The Fearless Vampire Killers
- Roman Polanski directs this brilliant spoof on the trials and tribulations of vampire hunting. Among the stars is Polanski's late wife, Sharon Tate (1967)
- Director:Roman Polanski
- Actors: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, Alfie Bass
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 05:51:00 2002 The 25th Hour
- Wartime drama, with Anthony Quinn as a Romanian farmer who falls foul of a local police captain (Gregoire Aslan) who desires Quinn's wife (Virna Lisi) (1967)
- Director:Henri Verneuil
- Actors: Anthony Quinn, Grégoire Aslan, Virna Lisi, Aaron Lipstadt
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 08:00:00 2002 The Doctor's Dilemma
- An astute screen version of Shaw's classic play, with Dirk Bogarde as the Harley Street doctor who must decide which patient is more deserving of vital medication (1958)
- Director:Anthony Asquith
- Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Leslie Caron, Alastair Sim, Robert Morley
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 09:40:00 2002 Tom Thumb
- George Pal's take on the Brothers Grimm tale won an Oscar for Special Effects. Russ Tamblyn brings energetic charm to the role of the miniature hero. Peter Sellers co-stars (1958)
- Director:George Pal
- Actors: Russ Tamblyn, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, Alan Young, Jessie Matthews
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 11:10:00 2002 Challenge to Lassie
- Shades of 'Greyfriars Bobby' colour this tale of the famous collie dog, as Lassie keeps vigil on her late master's grave, despite the protests of a cold-hearted policeman (1949)
- Director:Richard Thorpe
- Actors: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 12:25:00 2002 Little Women
- Re-telling of Louisa M. Alcott's classic story of four New England sisters growing up during the American Civil War. June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor and Margaret O'Brien star (1949)
- Director:George Cukor
- Actors: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 14:25:00 2002 In This Our Life
- John Huston directs this domestic melodrama with Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland as sisters whose relationship founders when they both fall for the same man (1942)
- Director:John Huston
- Actors: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 16:00:00 2002 Ninotchka
- 'Garbo laughs'. The film's catchline summarises the mood of this Oscar-winning comedy, with Greta Garbo as the chilly Communist thawed by playboy Melvyn Douglas' charm (1939)
- Director:Ernst Lubitsch
- Actors: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 17:50:00 2002 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- A remake of the 1921 classic, which traces how the tides of war tear a family apart as they join opposing sides during the Nazi conflict. Glenn Ford and Charles Boyer star (1961)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Boehm, Paul Henreid, Yvette Mimieux
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 20:20:00 2002 ...tick...tick...tick...
- Veteran star Fredric March shows his enduring class as a mayor sitting on a racial time bomb when a black man (Jim Brown) is elected as the town's sheriff (1970)
- Director:Ralph Nelson
- Actors: Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Fredric March
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 22:00:00 2002 The Year of Living Dangerously
- Politics and romance mix to intriguing effect in Peter Weir's thriller, set in a turbulent Indonesia during the mid-60s. Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt star (1982)
- Director:Peter Weir
- Actors: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 00:00:00 2002 The Hill
- There are fine performances from the likes of Sean Connery, Harry Andrews and Michael Redgrave in Sidney Lumet's drama set in a harsh military stockade in WWII Africa (1955)
- Director:Sidney Lumet
- Actors: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry, Michael Redgrave, Ian Bannen
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 02:10:00 2002 Something of Value
- Rock Hudson and Sidney Poitier play boyhood friends who find their loyalties torn when conflicts break out between white settlers and native farmers in colonial Kenya (1957)
- Director:Richard Brooks
- Actors: Rock Hudson, Sidney Poitier, Dana Wynter
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 04:05:00 2002 The Walking Stick
- Samantha Eggar stars as a crippled antiques dealer so smitten by the charms of an artist (David Hemmings) that she agrees to participate with him in a robbery (1970)
- Director:Eric Till
- Actors: David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar, Emlyn Williams
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 04:50:00 2002 A Tale of Two Cities
- A striking screen adaptation of Dickens' French Revolution classic, with Ronald Colman as the carefree lawyer Sydney Carton, who makes the ultimate sacrifice (1935)
- Director:Jack Conway
- Actors: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 08:00:00 2002 Bridge to the Sun
- The powerful true story of Gwendolen Terasaki (Carroll Baker), a US woman whose life changed dramatically when she married a Japanese diplomat just before Pearl Harbor (1960)
- Director:Étienne Périer
- Actors: Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, James Yagi, Tetsuro Tamba
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 09:50:00 2002 Edward My Son
- Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr star in this powerful, tragic story of tangled family dynamics as a ruthless businessman and his alcoholic wife whose son takes his own life (1949)
- Director:George Cukor
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter, James Donald
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 11:45:00 2002 The Tall Target
- Dick Powell stars in this thriller, based on a true story, as the detective who suspects an assassination attempt will be made on Abraham Lincoln and sets out to prevent it (1951)
- Director:Anthony Mann
- Actors: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 13:10:00 2002 Kind Lady
- Disturbing thriller about a kindly woman who hires a psychotic artist to paint her portrait. Starring Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans and Angela Lansbury (1951)
- Director:John Sturges
- Actors: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury, Keenan Wynn
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 14:30:00 2002 The Law and Jake Wade
- Robert Taylor is the bad-guy-turned-marshal, and Richard Widmark the ex-partner who kidnaps him to force him to reveal the whereabouts of the loot from an earlier heist (1958)
- Director:John Sturges
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 16:00:00 2002 The Wings of Eagles
- Director John Ford's tribute to war-hero and screenwriter Frank Wead, with John Wayne as the reckless aviator whose life was transformed by a dramatic accident (1957)
- Director:John Ford
- Actors: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Dan Dailey
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 17:45:00 2002 The Sea Hawk
- One of Errol Flynn's finest hours, here cementing his dashing image as Geoffrey Thorpe, the daring sea captain who battles the Spaniards on behalf of Good Queen Bess (1940)
- Director:Michael Curtiz
- Actors: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, Flora Robson, Henry Daniell
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 19:55:00 2002 Studio Insiders - Gene Kelly
- Focusing on how Gene Kelly became an MGM star and the icon of musical cinema through his dazzling dance moves.
- Actors: Gene Kelly
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 20:05:00 2002 The Pirate
- Cole Porter provides the score for this great Vincente Minnelli musical, with Gene Kelly as the street musician who poses as an infamous pirate to woo Judy Garland (1948)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 22:00:00 2002 Mogambo
- Clark Gable, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner star as the main players in this action-packed, safari-bound love-triangle. A celebrated remake by John Ford of 'Red Dust' (1953)
- Director:John Ford
- Actors: Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner, Donald Sinden
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 23:53:00 2002 Behind the Scenes - Ben Hur
- Short film focusing on the difficulties experienced in the technical direction and photography of the wild horses in the famous Chariot race.
- Actors: Glenn Randall, Yakima Canutt
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 00:00:00 2002 Ben-Hur
- The spectacular chariot race is just one of the highlights of this magnificent epic, graced by vast sets, star rivals Charlton Heston and Steven Boyd, and a compelling story (1959)
- Director:William Wyler
- Actors: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 03:30:00 2002 Take the High Ground
- Tough adventure yarn starring Richard Widmark and Karl Malden as a 'hard-cop-soft-cop' pair charged with moulding a crew of raw recruits into a fighting machine (1953)
- Director:Richard Brooks
- Actors: Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Elaine Stewart
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 05:10:00 2002 Sitting Target
- Oliver Reed and Ian McShane star as escaped convicts who leave a trail of bodies in their wake as they go in search of Reed's unfaithful wife and her lover (1972)
- Director:Douglas Hickox
- Actors: Oliver Reed, Jill St John, Ian McShane, Edward Woodward, Frank Finlay
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 06:45:00 2002 San Quentin
- Pat O'Brien stars in this hard-hitting drama as a prison warden caught between his lover (Ann Sheridan) and her inmate brother (Humphrey Bogart), with tragic consequences (1937)
- Director:Lloyd Bacon
- Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 08:00:00 2002 The Hour of 13
- Thriller starring Peter Lawford as a jewel thief, under suspicion of both theft and murder when a policeman is killed on the same night as a valuable jewel heist (1952)
- Director:Harold French
- Actors: Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 09:20:00 2002 Joe: The Busy Body
- A frenetic French farce with Louis De Funes as a TV writer who shoots a blackmailer (or so he thinks) and hides the body in his garden. That's just the start...! (1972)
- Director:Jean Girault
- Actors: Louis De Funes, Bernard Blier, Claude Gensac, Michel Galabru
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 10:45:00 2002 Go West
- Expect fast and frantic comic adventures as the Marx Brothers - Groucho, Chico and Harpo - head out to the Wild West to seek their fortunes, with inevitable results (1940)
- Director:Edward Buzzell
- Actors: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, John Carroll, Diana Lewis
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 12:05:00 2002 Pride of the Marines
- The moving true story of US Marine Al Schmid (John Garfield), blinded during an act of heroism, who fought a very different battle to overcome his disability after the War (1945)
- Director:Delmer Daves
- Actors: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 14:05:00 2002 Meet Me in Las Vegas
- Lena Horne and Frank Sinatra are among the guest-stars in this tuneful musical starring Cyd Charisse as a dancer who captures the heart of compulsive gambler Dan Dailey (1956)
- Director:Roy Rowland
- Actors: Cyd Charisse, Dan Dailey, Agnes Moorehead
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 16:00:00 2002 It Happened at the World's Fair
- There's romance in store for Elvis Presley in this actioner set at Seattle's World Fair, with 'The Pelvis' as a daredevil pilot falling for the charms of a pretty nurse (1963)
- Director:Norman Taurog
- Actors: Elvis Presley, Joan O'Brien, Gary Lockwood
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 17:45:00 2002 Lili
- Enchanting musical, based on a Paul Gallico story, with Leslie Caron as a French orphan who falls in love with a magician, only to find that he is already hitched (1953)
- Director:Charles Walters
- Actors: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jean-Pierre Aumont
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 19:05:00 2002 Easter Parade
- Fred Astaire, Judy Garland and Ann Miller star in this delightful Irving Berlin musical, featuring such classic numbers as 'Shakin' The Blues Away' and 'A Couple Of Swells' (1948)
- Director:Charles Walters
- Actors: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 20:45:00 2002 Terror on a Train
- Danger UXB! Glenn Ford stars in this tense thriller as a bomb disposal expert who just happens to be on hand when a train carrying high explosives is booby-trapped (1953)
- Director:Ted Tetzlaff
- Actors: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 22:00:00 2002 Crisis
- Cary Grant is a brain surgeon forced to operate on an ailing dictator - a situation further complicated by revolutionaries who want the tyrant to die under the knife (1950)
- Director:Richard Brooks
- Actors: Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond, Signe Hasso
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 23:35:00 2002 Close Up - Mark Strong: Cary Grant
- British television actor Mark Strong (star of Our Friends in the North) reveals the secrets behind Cary Grant's acting technique.
- Actors: Mark Strong, Cary Grant
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 29 00:00:00 2002 Marlowe
- James Garner stars as hard-boiled private eye, Philip Marlowe, in this stylish interpretation of Raymond Chandler's 'The Little Sister'. Murder and mayhem abound (1969)
- Director:Paul Bogart
- Actors: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 29 01:35:00 2002 Once a Thief
- Going straight is harder than he thinks for ex-con Eddie Peck (Alain Delon) when his mobster brother needs him for one last job. Ann-Margret and Van Heflin co-star (1965)
- Director:Ralph Nelson
- Actors: Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin, Jack Palance
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 29 03:20:00 2002 The Fixer
- Alan Bates stars as a Russian peasant who refuses to make a false murder confession in this riveting adaptation of Bernard Malamud's seminal novel. Dirk Bogarde co-stars (1968)
- Director:John Frankenheimer
- Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Alan Bates, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Ian Holm
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 29 05:30:00 2002 The Comedians
- Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Alec Guinness head the cast of this starry adaptation of Graham Greene's novel about political intrigue in Haiti (1967)
- Director:Peter Glenville
- Actors: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford, Lilian Gish
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 29 08:00:00 2002 Green Dolphin Street
- A man gets drunk and proposes to the wrong woman, with fascinating consequences. Lana Turner stars in this lavish melodrama as one side of this romantic triangle (1947)
- Director:Victor Saville
- Actors: Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 29 10:15:00 2002 The Story of Louis Pasteur
- Paul Muni stars in this critical and popular hit, a biopic of the French scientist who discovered cures for both anthrax and rabies. Muni won an Oscar, as did the screenplay (1936)
- Director:William Dieterle
- Actors: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 29 11:40:00 2002 Marie Antoinette
- Opulent, Oscar-winning costume drama, starring Norma Shearer, tracing the romances and intrigues at the court of Versailles before the French Revolution (1938)
- Director:W.S. Van Dyke
- Actors: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 29 14:15:00 2002 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
- Watch the sparks fly between Errol Flynn and Bette Davis in this costume epic tracing the tempestuous relationship between the Earl of Essex and Elizabeth I (1939)
- Director:Michael Curtiz
- Actors: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 29 16:00:00 2002 The Swan
- It's a case of art imitating life as Grace Kelly takes her last screen role, appropriately as a princess, before quitting the screen to become Princess Grace of Monaco (1956)
- Director:Charles Vidor
- Actors: Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 29 17:45:00 2002 The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- Debbie Reynolds gives a vivacious performance in this charming musical as the real-life socialite who earned her nickname following her heroic exploits aboard the Titanic (1964)
- Director:Charles Walters
- Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Ed Begley Sr, Harve Presnell
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 29 19:55:00 2002 Mr Skeffington
- Bette Davis gives a bravura performance in this grand-scale soap as a vain society woman slow to discover her devoted husband's true feelings for her. Claude Rains co-stars (1944)
- Director:Vincent Sherman
- Actors: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 29 22:00:00 2002 They Drive By Night
- Gritty actioner from Raoul Walsh, with Humphrey Bogart and George Raft as truck-driving brothers and Ida Lupino as the femme fatale boss' wife who devastates their lives (1940)
- Director:Raoul Walsh
- Actors: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Tue Oct 29 23:40:00 2002 Close Up - Patricia Hitchcock on Hitchcock
- The daughter of Alfred Hitchcock offers a rare glimpse into the life of one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
- Actors: Patricia Hitchcock
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Tue Oct 29 23:50:00 2002 Studio Insiders - Oliver Stone On Hitchcock
- Oliver Stone (director of Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers) talks about his admiration for the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
- Actors: Oliver Stone
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 30 00:00:00 2002 North By Northwest
- Alfred Hitchcock's exhilarating and darkly comic thriller, starring Cary Grant as the dashing ad-man mistaken for a double agent. James Mason and Eva Marie Saint co-star (1959)
- Director:Alfred Hitchcock
- Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 30 02:15:00 2002 The Cincinnati Kid
- Steve McQueen is the ambitious tyro card-shark who aims to take veteran poker player Edward G Robinson's crown. A steamy Southern drama with Ann-Margret as the love interest (1965)
- Director:Norman Jewison
- Actors: Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 30 04:00:00 2002 The Password is Courage
- Dirk Bogarde stars in this wartime adventure which tells the true story of the ever-inventive Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, master of the POW escape plan (1962)
- Director:Andrew L. Stone
- Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Alfred Lynch
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 30 06:01:00 2002 The Human Comedy
- A poignant portrait of American small-time life during World War II, with Mickey Rooney as the telegram delivery boy who learns about life from those devastated by the war (1943)
- Director:Clarence Brown
- Actors: Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, Fay Bainter, James Craig
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 30 08:00:00 2002 Mark of the Vampire
- Chilling terror tale from cult horror maestro Tod Browning, with Lionel Barrymore as an occult expert on the blood-drenched trail of the sinister Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) (1935)
- Director:Tod Browning
- Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Bela Lugosi, Elizabeth Allan
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 30 09:00:00 2002 Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
- Swinging Sixties musical comedy, with Herman and the Hermits heading to London to race their prize greyhound. Co-starring Stanley Holloway (1968)
- Director:Saul Swimmer
- Actors: Peter Noone, Karl Green, Keith Hopwood, Derek Leckenby, Stanley Holloway, Barry Whitwam, Mona Washbourne
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 30 10:35:00 2002 Hotel Paradiso
- Delightful farce, with Alec Guinness as a shy man with a domineering wife whose attempts to have an affair with the gorgeous Gina Lollobrigida seem thwarted at every turn (1966)
- Director:Peter Glenville
- Actors: Alec Guinness, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 30 12:15:00 2002 Summer Stock
- 'Let's put on a show!' musical with Gene Kelly's theatre troupe helping out struggling farmer Judy Garland, who memorably performs 'Get Happy' in a Fedora and black tights (1950)
- Director:Charles Walters
- Actors: Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Phil Silvers
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 30 14:05:00 2002 The Hucksters
- Deborah Kerr made her US film debut in this cool dissection of the advertising business. Clark Gable plays the idealist forced to compromise his principles to win the game (1947)
- Director:Jack Conway
- Actors: Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 30 16:00:00 2002 The Shop Around the Corner
- James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan star in Ernst Lubitsch's delightful romantic comedy as business rivals who are unwitting penpals. Remade in 1998 as 'You've Got Mail' (1940)
- Director:Ernst Lubitsch
- Actors: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 30 17:40:00 2002 Close Up - Jack Davenport: James Stewart
- Actor Jack Davenport (This Life) takes a close look at the acting style of James Stewart and his oeuvre of classic Hollywood films.
- Actors: Jack Davenport
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 30 17:50:00 2002 Mildred Pierce
- A huge box-office success, which earned star Joan Crawford an Oscar. She's predictably magnificent as the woman who gives up everything for her ungrateful daughter (1945)
- Director:Michael Curtiz
- Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 30 19:40:00 2002 Objective, Burma!
- World War II epic that caused controversy on its release by suggesting that Errol Flynn captured Burma singlehandedly without any help from the Brits. Raoul Walsh directs (1945)
- Director:Raoul Walsh
- Actors: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 30 22:00:00 2002 Knights of the Round Table
- MGM's first widescreen movie: a lavish tale of medieval love and war, with Mel Ferrer, Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner as principles in the Arthurian legends (1953)
- Director:Richard Thorpe
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Stanley Baker, Felix Aylmer
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 31 00:00:00 2002 They Were Expendable
- John Ford's tribute to the courage of ordinary fighting men, based on a true incident involving troops in the Pacific campaign. Robert Montgomery and John Wayne star (1945)
- Director:John Ford
- Actors: John Wayne, Robert Montgomery, Donna Reed
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 31 02:15:00 2002 Dark of the Sun
- Cinematographer Jack Cardiff directs Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux in this gritty, Congo-based adventure yarn involving romance, mercenary activity and a fortune in diamonds (1968)
- Director:Jack Cardiff
- Actors: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Brown, Kenneth More
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 31 03:55:00 2002 Brotherly Love
- Hilarious study of British upper-class eccentricities with Peter O'Toole and Susannah York as two parts of a distinctly peculiar country-house menage-a-trois (1969)
- Director:J. Lee Thompson
- Actors: Peter O'Toole, Susannah York, Michael Craig, Harry Andrews
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 31 05:50:00 2002 The Yellow Rolls Royce
- Terrence Rattigan's starry drama tracing three poignant love affairs involving the owners of a vintage Rolls. Starring Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison and Ingrid Bergman (1965)
- Director:Anthony Asquith
- Actors: Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Ingrid Bergman, Jeanne Moreau, Edmund Purdom, George C. Scott, Omar Sharif, Alain Delon
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 31 08:00:00 2002 The Golden Arrow
- Genies, princes and magicians abound in this lively fantasy drama, starring Tab Hunter as a bandit who must prove his worth by seeking out a fabulous golden arrow (1964)
- Director:Antonio Margheriti
- Actors: Tab Hunter, Rossana Podestà, Umberto Melnati
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 31 09:30:00 2002 The Adventures of Quentin Durward
- Robert Taylor takes the title role in this energetic swashbuckler, based on Walter Scott's historical classic. Also starring Kay Kendall (1955)
- Director:Richard Thorpe
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley, George Cole
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 31 11:10:00 2002 Murder at the Gallop
- Margaret Rutherford stars as Agatha Christie's super-sleuth, Miss Marple, here investigating a suspicious will. Robert Morley co-stars in this droll murder-mystery (1963)
- Director:George Pollock
- Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Stringer Davies, Flora Robson
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 31 12:30:00 2002 Three Strangers
- Three mysterious strangers (Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet) fall under the murderous spell of a fabled statue. Vastly entertaining crime thriller (1944)
- Director:Jean Negulesco
- Actors: Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 31 14:10:00 2002 The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Hurd Hatfield and George Sanders star in this chilling screen version of Oscar Wilde's classic tale of a handsome 19th-century socialite who sells his soul for eternal youth (1945)
- Director:Albert Lewin
- Actors: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 31 16:00:00 2002 The Two Mrs Carrolls
- Humphrey Bogart plays the psychotic artist with the habit of dispatching his wives. Barbara Stanwyck plays the next victim in line. A compelling murder-melodrama (1947)
- Director:Peter Godfrey
- Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 31 17:40:00 2002 Studio Insiders - Stephen Bogart On Bogie
- Humphrey Bogart's son, Stephen, talks candidly about his father's film career and life away from the cameras.
- Actors: Stephen Bogart
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 31 17:55:00 2002 Gaslight
- Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar for her fine portrayal of a wife driven insane by a dangerously schizophrenic husband in this remake of the classic chiller. With Charles Boyer (1944)
- Director:George Cukor
- Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 31 19:50:00 2002 Close Up - Natascha Mcelhone On Katharine Hepburn
- Actress Natascha McElhone discusses the acting style of Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn.
- Actors: Natasha McElhone, Katharine Hepburn
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 31 20:00:00 2002 Undercurrent
- Katharine Hepburn stars as a dowdy wife whose seemingly idyllic marriage to the wealthy Robert Taylor turns to menace when his sinister brother (Robert Mitchum) resurfaces (1946)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Mitchum, Robert Taylor
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 31 22:00:00 2002 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Spencer Tracy is the Victorian scientist whose experiments with good and evil drive him to murderous madness in this later adaptation of the Stevenson classic (1941)
- Director:Victor Fleming
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Ingrid Bergman, Donald Crisp
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Nov 1 00:00:00 2002 Poltergeist
- A dream home becomes the house from hell as evil spirits rise up to possess the soul of an innocent child. A truly chilling horror movie, produced by Steven Spielberg (1982)
- Director:Tobe Hooper
- Actors: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Heather O'Rourke
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Nov 1 02:00:00 2002 The Haunting
- A paranormal investigator enlists the help of two psychic women to investigate the evil goings-on at a haunted mansion. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom and Russ Tamblyn star (1963)
- Director:Robert Wise
- Actors: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Fri Nov 1 03:55:00 2002 The Hunger
- Stylish and erotic vampire thriller from director Tony Scott, starring David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve. With Willem Dafoe in a small role (1983)
- Director:Tony Scott
- Actors: Susan Sarandon, Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Cliff de Young
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Nov 1 05:30:00 2002 Freaks
- Unique horror-fest from maestro Tod Browning, set in a bizarre circus and featuring real-life 'freaks'. A macabre, darkly comic film that was banned in the UK for 30 years (1932)
- Director:Tod Browning
- Actors: Wallace Ford, Olga Baclanova, Leila Hyams
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Nov 1 06:30:00 2002 Children of the Damned
- Eerie sci-fi thriller, based on John Wyndham's 'The Midwich Cuckoos', about six super-intelligent children whose powers can spread death and destruction (1964)
- Director:Anton M. Leader
- Actors: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris
- Colour/BW: B/W
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