TCM/uk 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 09:30:00 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 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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- Tue Oct 1 17:50:00 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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- Tue Oct 1 17:55:00 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 1 20:15:00 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 1 22:15:00 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
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- Wed Oct 2 00:00:00 2002 The Prince and the Showgirl
- It's 1911 and an American showgirl catches the eye of the Prince Regent in this delightful romantic comedy starring Marylin Monroe and Laurence Olivier (1957)
- Director:Laurence Olivier
- Actors: Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Sybil Thorndike, Richard Wattis
- Aspect Ratio: Pan & Scan
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 2 02:15:00 2002 A Streetcar Named Desire
- Powerful production of Tennessee Williams' celebrated drama of passion and friction. With stunning performances from Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh (1951)
- Director:Elia Kazan
- Actors: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Wed Oct 2 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
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- Wed Oct 2 06:15:00 2002 Seven Hills of Rome
- Mario Lanza sings his heart out as the lead of this romantic tale of an exhausted TV star who flees to Rome for a much-needed break and falls in love with a local girl (1958)
- Director:Roy Rowland
- Actors: Mario Lanza, Renato Rascel, Peggie Castle, Clelia Matania
- 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 Showboat
- Hollywood's third version of the musical about the lives and loves of a colourful group of characters aboard a Mississippi showboat. Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson star (1951)
- Director:George Sidney
- Actors: Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Joe E. Brown
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 2 18:00:00 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 2 20:00:00 2002 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Cameos from Hollywood veterans, including Buster Keaton, lend class and colour to this screen version of the Mark Twain classic about the crafty Mississippi river-boat boy (1960)
- Director:Michael Curtiz
- Actors: Tony Randall, Eddie Hodges, Patricia McCormack, Archie Moore
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 2 22:00:00 2002 Clash By Night
- Emotionally turbulent drama from director Fritz Lang, with Barbara Stanwyck as a restless woman straining against the confines of marriage. With Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe (1952)
- Director:Fritz Lang
- Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 3 00:00:00 2002 Ryan's Daughter
- A sensual Irish girl, trapped in a frigid marriage, finds solace in the arms of a shellshocked soldier. Sarah Miles and Robert Mitchum star in David Lean's epic love story (1970)
- Director:David Lean
- Actors: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 3 03:20:00 2002 Behind the Scenes - Ryan's Daughter
- Short film featuring director David Lean on location and the cast and crew discussing their characters and the story of 'Ryan's Daughter'.
- Actors: David Lean, Robert Mitchum
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 3 03:30:00 2002 Pennies From Heaven
- Dennis Potter's landmark TV drama, which made Bob Hoskins' reputation, gets the big-screen - and big-star - treatment with Steve Martin and Christopher Walken (1981)
- Director:Herbert Ross
- Actors: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 3 05:25:00 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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- Thu Oct 3 07:05:00 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 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
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- Thu Oct 3 17:50:00 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
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- Thu Oct 3 19:50:00 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
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- Thu Oct 3 21:50:00 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
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- Fri Oct 4 00:00:00 2002 The Witches Of Eastwick
- Jack Nicholson stars as the devilish stranger conjured up by three bored housewives to satisfy their desires. Co-starring Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michele Pfeiffer (1987)
- Director:George Miller
- Actors: Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 4 02:20:00 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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- Fri Oct 4 03:55:00 2002 The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
- Caper comedy with early starring role for Robert De Niro as a member of a gang of ludicrously bumbling crooks. Based on Jimmy Breslin's novel (1971)
- Director:James Goldstone
- Actors: Robert De Niro, Jerry Orbach, Leigh Taylor-Young
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 4 05:45:00 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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- 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 Dream Wife
- Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr star in this light-hearted look at sexual politics. A woman tackles her boyfriend's chauvinism with a little help from a gorgeous Arab princess (1953)
- Director:Sidney Sheldon
- Actors: Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Walter Pidgeon
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 4 17:50:00 2002 The Glass Bottom Boat
- Doris Day and 'Que Sera Sera' - what a combination! Miss Day's comic and vocal talents are given full rein in this wacky farce, co-starring Rod Taylor (1966)
- Director:Frank Tashlin
- Actors: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver, Dom DeLuise
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Oct 4 19:50:00 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
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- Fri Oct 4 21:50:00 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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- Sat Oct 5 00:00:00 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
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- Sat Oct 5 02:00:00 2002 Brewster McCloud
- A fascinating curiosity from director Robert Altman, starring Bud Cort as the flight-obsessed eccentric who becomes the chief suspect in a series of bizarre murders (1970)
- Director:Robert Altman
- Actors: Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Shelley Duvall, Stacy Keach
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 5 04:00:00 2002 The Biggest Bundle of Them All
- A retired mobster turns the tables on his would-be kidnappers by persuading them to join him in a multi-million-dollar robbery. With Robert Wagner and Raquel Welch (1968)
- Director:Ken Annakin
- Actors: Raquel Welch, Edward G. Robinson, Vittorio De Sica
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 5 06:00:00 2002 Alfred the Great
- David Hemmings stars in this historical swashbuckler about the legendary 9th-century English king who famously burned the cakes and defeated the invading Danes (1969)
- Director:Clive Donner
- Actors: David Hemmings, Michael York, Prunella Ransome, Ian McKellen
- 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 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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- Sat Oct 5 17:50:00 2002 Meet Me in St Louis
- Judy Garland performs a host of unforgettable tunes in Vincente Minnelli's superb musical. Margaret O'Brien almost steals the show as Garland's little sister, Tootie (1944)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Mary Astor
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 5 19:55:00 2002 3 Godfathers
- Three outlaws risk their lives to rescue a small child left abandoned in the desert. John Ford directs John Wayne, Ward Bond and Harry Carey Jnr in this touching feature (1948)
- Director:John Ford
- Actors: John Wayne, Ward Bond, Harry Carey Jr, Mildred Natwick
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sat Oct 5 21:50:00 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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- Sun Oct 6 00:00:00 2002 All the President's Men
- Political thriller about the events surrounding the infamous Watergate break-in. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman play the investigative reporters Woodward and Bernstein (1976)
- Director:Alan J. Pakula
- Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Jason Robards
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sun Oct 6 02:35:00 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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- Sun Oct 6 04:30:00 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
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- Sun Oct 6 06:40:00 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
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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 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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- Sun Oct 6 17:55:00 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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- Sun Oct 6 20:20:00 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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- Sun Oct 6 21:55:00 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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- Mon Oct 7 00:00:00 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 01:10:00 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 02:50:00 2002 Greta Garbo: The Divine Garbo
- Using rare film footage, Glenn Close hosts this tribute to the 'Divine Garbo', who emerged from nowhere to become the most glamorous and mysterious film star in the world (1990)
- Actors: Glenn Close, Greta Garbo
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Mon Oct 7 03:50:00 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
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 7 05:20:00 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
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 7 06:35:00 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 7 16:00:00 2002 After the Thin Man
- William Powell and Myrna Loy stars as the urbane sleuths Nick and Nora Charles, who find themselves embroiled in blackmail and murder as they try to help an unstable cousin (1936)
- Director:W.S. Van Dyke
- Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 7 18:05:00 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 7 19:55:00 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
- Mon Oct 7 21:40:00 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
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 7 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
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 8 00:00:00 2002 Gigi
- Lerner and Loewe's sparkling musical, set in turn-of-the-century Paris, based on Colette's short story. Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold star (1958)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 8 02:10:00 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
- Tue Oct 8 04:25:00 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
- Tue Oct 8 06:15:00 2002 Our Mother's House
- Fearful of life in an orphanage, seven children bury their mother's body in the garden when she dies after an illness. A powerful and disturbing drama starring Dirk Bogarde (1967)
- Director:Jack Clayton
- Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Brooks, Pamela Franklin
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 8 16:00:00 2002 Moonfleet
- An outstanding cast - Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood - graces this swashbuckling, classic adventure yarn. Fritz Lang directs with style and panache (1955)
- Director:Fritz Lang
- Actors: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Jon Whiteley, Viveca Lindfors
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 8 17:35:00 2002 Goodbye, Mr Chips
- Robert Donat won an Oscar for his memorable performance in this much-loved film chronicling the life and times of a schoolteacher and his love for a good woman (Greer Garson) (1939)
- Director:Sam Wood
- Actors: Greer Garson, Robert Donat, Paul Henreid, John Mills
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 8 19:45:00 2002 Bells Are Ringing
- Sprightly adaptation of the Broadway musical about an answering-service operator who falls in love with a 'voice' on the telephone. Starring Dean Martin and Judy Holliday (1960)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Dean Martin, Judy Holliday, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy Jr.
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 8 22:10:00 2002 Jailhouse Rock
- The ultimate Presley big-screen offering, with 'The King' rockin' both the prison and the music world in the movie that many consider to be his best (1957)
- Director:Richard Thorpe
- Actors: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Vaughn Taylor
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 9 00:00:00 2002 Cool Hand Luke
- Paul Newman gives one of his finest performances as Luke in this superbly acted character driven story about prison life in the late 1940s and one man's fight against authority.
- Director:Stuart Rosenberg
- Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Robert Drivas
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 9 02:25:00 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 9 04:55:00 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
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 9 06:45:00 2002 Parlor, Bedroom And Bath
- Buster Keaton's first sound film, filmed at his mansion in Beverly Hills. He plays a dim-witted bill-poster who finds himself the pawn of a wealthy man's romantic scam (1931)
- Director:Edward Sedgwick
- Actors: Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 9 09:20:00 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 9 16:00:00 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
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 9 18:00:00 2002 Each Dawn I Die
- James Cagney stars as the crusading newspaper reporter who's framed for murder and exacts revenge with the help of gangster George Raft (1939)
- Director:William Keighley
- Actors: James Cagney, George Raft, George Bancroft
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 9 19:40:00 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
- Wed Oct 9 22:30:00 2002 Bad Day at Black Rock
- Director John Sturges' taut and powerful drama, with Spencer Tracy as the one-armed stranger uncovering dark secrets in a Western hick town - with explosive results (1955)
- Director:John Sturges
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Dean Jagger, Lee Marvin
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 10 00:00:00 2002 Badlands
- Terrence Malick's influential cult classic, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as the amoral young couple whose killing spree terrorises backwoods America (1974)
- Director:Terrence Malick
- Actors: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 10 01:50:00 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
- Thu Oct 10 03:40:00 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
- Thu Oct 10 05:35:00 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 10 09:40:00 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
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 10 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
- Thu Oct 10 18:05:00 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
- Thu Oct 10 20:15:00 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
- Thu Oct 10 22:15:00 2002 Viva Las Vegas
- Ann-Margret co-stars with Elvis Presley in this musical treat about an ambitious racing driver who takes a job in a casino to fund his entry to the Las Vegas Grand Prix (1964)
- Director:George Sidney
- Actors: Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 10 23:50:00 2002 Behind the Scenes - The Rock: Pointblank
- Short film focusing on the experiences of the production cast and crew filming on the most notorious prison ever built.
- Actors: John Boorman, Angie Dickinson, John Giles
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 11 00:00:00 2002 Point Blank
- John Boorman's stylish, cult thriller, with a bloody plotline. Lee Marvin is the gangster who returns to wreak revenge on those who double-crossed him and left him for dead (1967)
- Director:John Boorman
- Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 11 01:40:00 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
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 11 03:50:00 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
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 11 05:55:00 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
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 11 16:00:00 2002 Dodge City
- Get ready for some classic bar-room brawls in this celebrated Western, starring Errol Flynn as the man who tamed the Wild West. With Olivia de Havilland (1939)
- Director:Michael Curtiz
- Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 11 17:55:00 2002 Northwest Passage
- King Vidor directs this epic Western, starring Spencer Tracy as a tough frontiersman who leads a gruelling expedition to Canada to punish a fearsome Indian tribe (1940)
- Director:King Vidor
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 11 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
- Fri Oct 11 22:10:00 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
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 12 00:00:00 2002 Mad Max
- Mel Gibson, in his first major screen role, is a policeman in a futuristic dystopian world working outside of the law to take revenge on the gang who murdered his family (1979)
- Director:George Miller
- Actors: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Vincent Gil
- Aspect Ratio: Pan & Scan
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 12 01:45:00 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
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 12 03:35:00 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
- Sat Oct 12 05:25:00 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
- get vcal
- 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 Fighting 69th
- A cocky, arrogant Brooklyn boy is brought down to earth with a terrible bump when he discovers the realities of war in the trenches. James Cagney stars (1940)
- Director:William Keighley
- Actors: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 12 17:25:00 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
- Sat Oct 12 20:05:00 2002 7 Faces of Dr Lao
- A masterpiece of the imagination from cult sci-fi director George Pal. Magician Tony Randall takes on some Wild West bad guys with a little help from his magic circus (1964)
- Director:George Pal
- Actors: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell, John Ericson
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 12 21:50:00 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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- Sun Oct 13 00:00:00 2002 Logan's Run
- An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at 30. Michael York is Logan, the cop who escapes the compulsory human culling and goes on the run (1976)
- Director:Michael Anderson
- Actors: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Peter Ustinov, Richard Jordan
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sun Oct 13 02:15:00 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
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- Sun Oct 13 04:00:00 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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- Sun Oct 13 05:55:00 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
- Sun Oct 13 07:30:00 2002 Lion Power
- Looking at the series of lavish and spectacular films produced by MGM from its long history in cinema.
- 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
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- 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
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- Sun Oct 13 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
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 17:55:00 2002 Close Up - Lauren Bacall: To Have And Have Not
- An insightful interview with Lauren Bacall, widow of Humphrey Bogart who talks about her film debut in 'To Have and Have Not' where she first met Humphrey Bogart.
- Actors: Lauren Bacall
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Sun Oct 13 18:00:00 2002 To Have and Have Not
- The unforgettable wartime romance that brought together Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and sparked Hollywood's most enduring on-and-off-screen partnership (1944)
- Director:Howard Hawks
- Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 19:50:00 2002 Close Up - Ava Astaire On Fred Astaire
- Ava Astaire presents a short profile on her famous father. Featuring his choregraphed dance routines and his music composition.
- Actors: Ava Astaire, Fred Astaire
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 20:00:00 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
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 13 22:10:00 2002 Code Name: Emerald
- Ed Harris is the American agent who must ensure that secret plans for the D-Day invasion do not fall into Nazi hands. Max von Sydow co-stars (1985)
- Director:Jonathon Sanger
- Actors: Ed Harris, Max von Sydow, Horst Buchholz, Helmut Berger
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 00:00:00 2002 Kelly's Heroes
- Riotous, tongue-in-cheek adventure yarn, with Clint Eastwood the leader of a gang of oddball misfits assigned to retrieve a stash of gold from behind enemy lines (1970)
- Director:Brian G. Hutton
- Actors: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Don Rickles
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 02:45:00 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
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 04:30:00 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
- Mon Oct 14 06:35:00 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 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
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 17:55:00 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
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 14 20:00:00 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
- Mon Oct 14 22:00:00 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
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 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
- Tue Oct 15 02:15:00 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
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 04:00:00 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
- Tue Oct 15 05:55:00 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
- 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 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
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 15 17:50:00 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
- Tue Oct 15 20:10:00 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
- Tue Oct 15 21:50:00 2002 The Bad and the Beautiful
- Vincente Minnelli's razor-sharp multi-Oscar-winning dissection of what it takes to climb the Hollywood ladder. Starring Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner and Dick Powell (1952)
- Director:Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Dick Powell
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 00:00:00 2002 A Star is Born
- Delightful musical featuring performances from Judy Garland and James Mason at the peak of their powers as a doomed Hollywood couple (1954)
- Director:George Cukor
- Actors: Judy Garland, James Mason, Charles Bickford
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 03:15:00 2002 Dial M for Murder
- Classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller with Ray Millard as a man who plans on having his wife (Grace Kelly) murdered whilst he is away.
- Director:Alfred Hitchcock
- Actors: Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, John Williams
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 05:10:00 2002 Murder, She Said
- Agatha Christie's super-sleuth Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) is soon on the trail when she witnesses a murder on a speeding train. Based on '4.50 From Paddington' (1961)
- Director:George Pollock
- Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 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
- 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 Captain Blood
- Derring-do on the high seas with Errol Flynn memorable as the eponymous, swashbuckling pirate captain. Get set for plenty of sword-play romance and sea battles (1935)
- Director:Michael Curtiz
- Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 18:10:00 2002 Friendly Persuasion
- Gary Cooper stars as the patriarch of a Quaker family forced to confront its religious faith at the outbreak of the American Civil War in this warm-hearted drama (1956)
- Director:William Wyler
- Actors: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Marjorie Main, Anthony Perkins
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 16 20:45:00 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
- Wed Oct 16 22:00:00 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
- Thu Oct 17 00:00:00 2002 Dog Day Afternoon
- Based on a true story about a man's attempts to rob a bank to finance his lover's sex-change operation. Starring Al Pacino, John Cazale and Charles Durning (1975)
- Director:Sidney Lumet
- Actors: Al Pacino, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar, John Cazale
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 02:20:00 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
- Thu Oct 17 04:20:00 2002 The Man Who Laughs
- Lisa Gastoni and Edmund Purdom star in this story of the notorious Borgias, the decadent Italian Renaissance rulers who turned politics and poisoning into a lethal art form (1966)
- Director:Sergio Corbucci
- Actors: Lisa Gastoni, Edmund Purdom, Jean Sorel
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 06:15:00 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
- 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
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 16:00:00 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
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 18:20:00 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
- Thu Oct 17 20:40:00 2002 Seven Women
- Legendary Western helmer John Ford directs his last film - a stirring tale of a group of women caught up in the Chinese revolution at an isolated Mongolian mission (1966)
- Director:John Ford
- Actors: Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson, Mildred Dunnock
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 17 22:10:00 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
- Fri Oct 18 00:00:00 2002 2010
- Ambitious sequel to Kubrick's sci-fi classic, with Roy Scheider as the leader of a group of astronauts sent to unravel the mystery of what went wrong on the original mission (1984)
- Director:Peter Hyams
- Actors: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 02:15:00 2002 The Ice Pirates
- Robert Urich and Anjelica Huston star in this swashbuckling 'Robin-Hood-in space'-style adventure, set in an arid future when water is man's most precious commodity (1984)
- Director:Stewart Raffill
- Actors: Robert Urich, Anjelica Huston, Mary Crosby, Ron Perlman
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 04:00:00 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
- Fri Oct 18 05:55:00 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
- 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 Trial
- Taut political court-room drama with Glenn Ford as a lawyer battling to save his young Mexican client from both a lynch-mob and communist rabble rouser Arthur Kennedy (1955)
- Director:Mark Robson
- Actors: Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, John Hodiak
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 18:00:00 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
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 18 20:05:00 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
- Fri Oct 18 22:05:00 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
- Sat Oct 19 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
- Sat Oct 19 02:30:00 2002 The Strawberry Statement
- Music from the likes of John Lennon graces this political drama about a '60s firebrand campus protestor (Bruce Davison). An accurate portrait of a turbulent era (1970)
- Director:Stuart Hagmann
- Actors: Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Bud Cort, Bob Balaban
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 04:30:00 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
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 06:25:00 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
- 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 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
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 17:50:00 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
- Sat Oct 19 20:05:00 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
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 19 21:55:00 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
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 00:00:00 2002 Empire of the Sun
- Steven Spielberg directs this lavish adaptation of JG Ballard's novel of a British boy who is separated from his parents during Japan's invasion of Shanghai in World War II (1987)
- Director:Steven Speilberg
- Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 02:50:00 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
- Sun Oct 20 05:00:00 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
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 06:55:00 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
- 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 Passage to Marseilles
- Various cast members from 'Casablanca' are reunited for this supposed follow-up, with Humphrey Bogart as a French journalist framed by French pro-fascists (1944)
- Director:Michael Curtiz
- Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 18:00:00 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
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 20:30:00 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
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 20 22:30:00 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 21 00:00:00 2002 The Accidental Tourist
- Writer-director Lawrence Kasdan's wonderful film features William Hurt as travel writer Macon Leary whose life seems to have come to a full stop after the death of his son (1988)
- Director:Lawrence Kasdan
- Actors: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Amy Wright
- Aspect Ratio: Pan & Scan
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 02:20:00 2002 The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone
- A fading actress's husband dies on the way to Italy and her friend arranges for her to meet a handsome young Italian man. With Vivien Leigh and Warren Beatty (1961)
- Director:José Quintero
- Actors: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya, Coral Browne
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 04:15:00 2002 Seven Hills of Rome
- Mario Lanza sings his heart out as the lead of this romantic tale of an exhausted TV star who flees to Rome for a much-needed break and falls in love with a local girl (1958)
- Director:Roy Rowland
- Actors: Mario Lanza, Renato Rascel, Peggie Castle, Clelia Matania
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 06:10:00 2002 Young Cassidy
- A richly atmospheric film biography of Irish literary great and revolutionary rebel Sean O'Casey, set in Dublin in 1910. Rod Taylor, Julie Christie and Maggie Smith star (1965)
- Director:John Ford, Jack Cardiff
- Actors: Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith
- 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 Mrs Miniver
- Multi-Oscar-winning tribute to British war-time pluck, with Greer Garson suitably stoic as the devoted wife braving the bombs as she waits for her husband and son to return (1942)
- Director:William Wyler
- Actors: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 18:25:00 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
- Mon Oct 21 20:20:00 2002 The Outriders
- Joel McCrea is the rogue Confederate soldier forced to reassess his priorities when Indians attack a wagon train transporting priceless bullion... and a beautiful woman (1950)
- Director:Roy Rowland
- Actors: Joel McCrea, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 21 22:00:00 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
- Tue Oct 22 00:00:00 2002 Victor/Victoria
- Blake Edwards' ingenious gender-bender comedy, with Julie Andrews as the stage performer pretending to be a man impersonating a woman. With James Garner and Robert Preston (1982)
- Director:Blake Edwards
- Actors: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 02:30:00 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
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 04:45:00 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
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 06:55:00 2002 The Mask of Fu Manchu
- Terrific adaptation of Sax Rohmer's chilling classic, with Boris Karloff suitably fiendish as the evil Chinese madman who's out to nab the fabulous mask of Ghengis Khan (1932)
- Director:Charles Brabin
- Actors: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley
- Colour/BW: Colour
- 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 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
- Tue Oct 22 17:50:00 2002 A Night at the Opera
- The Marx Brothers are on top form as they get involved in the opera business in what is reckoned by some to be their finest hour. Margaret Dumont lends formidable support (1935)
- Director:Sam Wood
- Actors: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 22 19:25:00 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
- Tue Oct 22 22:10:00 2002 Your Cheatin' Heart
- George Hamilton stars in this screen tribute to country and western singing sensation Hank Williams, who beat the booze only to die at the tragically early age of 29 (1964)
- Director:Gene Nelson
- Actors: George Hamilton, Susan Oliver, Red Buttons
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 00:00:00 2002 Giant
- George Stevens's epic tale of a Texan family features great performances by Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson and was sadly also James Dean's last role.
- Director:George Stevens
- Actors: Rock Hudson, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Carroll Baker, Dennis Hopper
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 03:40:00 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
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 05:45:00 2002 Invitation to the Dance
- Star and director Gene Kelly's ambitious musical tells three different stories entirely through dance. Featuring some great ballet stars, including Tamara Toumanova (1956)
- Director:Gene Kelly
- Actors: Gene Kelly, Igor Youskevitch, Claire Sombert, Tamara Toumanova
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 07:30:00 2002 Lion Power
- Looking at the series of lavish and spectacular films produced by MGM from its long history in cinema.
- Colour/BW: Colour
- 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 The Prisoner of Zenda
- Ruritania rules! Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr and James Mason star in this enjoyable swashbuckler about an Englishman's daring adventures in the kingdom of Ruritania (1952)
- Director:Richard Thorpe
- Actors: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Jane Greer, Louis Calhern, Lewis Stone, James Mason
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 17:55:00 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
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 20:10:00 2002 Gun Glory
- Stewart Granger plays a reformed gunslinger who is rejected by his community until rampaging outlaws force him into an act of self-redemption (1957)
- Director:Roy Rowland
- Actors: Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming, Chill Wills, James Gregory
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 23 21:45:00 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
- Thu Oct 24 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
- Thu Oct 24 03:15:00 2002 The Hook
- Striking war drama, starring Kirk Douglas as the hard-hearted commander faced with a moral dilemma when he captures a Korean pilot (1962)
- Director:George Seaton
- Actors: Kirk Douglas, Robert Walker Jnr., Nick Adams, Nehemiah Persoff
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 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
- Thu Oct 24 06:40:00 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 08:00:00 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
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 09:30:00 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 Spinout
- Elvis Presley is the racer who drives the girls crazy, but finds himself torn between two women: magazine editor Shelley Fabares and drummer Deborah Walley (1966)
- Director:Norman Taurog
- Actors: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Deborah Walley
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Thu Oct 24 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
- Thu Oct 24 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
- Thu Oct 24 22:05:00 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
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 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
- Fri Oct 25 02:55:00 2002 Battleground
- William Wellman's powerful psychological World War II drama about the fateful Battle of the Bulge, focusing on a motley crew of trapped US soldiers. Starring Van Johnson (1949)
- Director:William Wellman
- Actors: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Marshall Thompson
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 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
- Fri Oct 25 06:55:00 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
- 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 Action in the North Atlantic
- US Merchant Marines battle Nazi U-boats amid the deadly seas of World War II in this action-packed drama starring Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey and Alan Hale (1943)
- Director:Lloyd Bacon
- Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 18:20:00 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
- Fri Oct 25 20:10:00 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
- get vcal
- Fri Oct 25 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
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 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
- Sat Oct 26 01:45:00 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
- Sat Oct 26 03:30:00 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
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 05:35:00 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
- 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 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
- Sat Oct 26 17:45:00 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
- Sat Oct 26 20:45:00 2002 Act of Violence
- Hard-hitting film noir from director Fred Zinnemann tracing the aftermath of a World War II escape that ends in disaster. Starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan and Janet Leigh (1949)
- Director:Fred Zinnemann
- Actors: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sat Oct 26 22:10:00 2002 Zeppelin
- Wartime adventure. Michael York plays a German-born British aviator who finds himself torn between duty and homeland when called upon to go undercover as an Allied agent (1971)
- Director:Étienne Périer
- Actors: Michael York, Elke Sommer, Peter Carsten
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 00:00:00 2002 Barry Lyndon
- A visually stunning journey of seduction, gambling and dueling through the eyes of the 18th Century European nobleman, Barry Lyndon.
- Director:Stanley Kubrick
- Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kr?;ger
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 02:30:00 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
- Sun Oct 27 05:00:00 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
- Sun Oct 27 06:40:00 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
- 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 A Day at the Races
- Classic comedy with the zany Marx Brothers, with Groucho as a batty horse doctor who causes havoc among the inmates of a respectable sanatorium (1937)
- Director:Sam Wood
- Actors: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan, Margaret Dumont
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 18:00:00 2002 Strangers on a Train
- A chance meeting on a train turns into a nightmare as Guy Haines (Farley Granger) is dragged into a terrifying ordeal after the man he meets kills Guy's wife. (1951)
- Director:Alfred Hitchcock
- Actors: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 19:50:00 2002 The Big Sleep
- Howard Hawks' famously cryptic version of Chandler's crime thriller. Humphrey Bogart (as private eye Philip Marlowe) and Lauren Bacall work their usual potent screen magic (1946)
- Director:Howard Hawks
- Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 22:00:00 2002 The Time Machine
- Oscar-winning special effects adorn George Pal's version of HG Wells' classic. Rod Taylor plays the Victorian scientist who takes a mind-blowing trip into the future (1960)
- Director:George Pal
- Actors: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Sun Oct 27 23:50:00 2002 Behind the Scenes - Logan's Run: A Look into the 23rd Century
- Short documentary on the revolutionary special effects used in the cult 1976 science fiction movie Logan's Run. Including interviews with the cast and production crew.
- Actors: Ned Beatty, Michael York, Jenny Agutter
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 00:00:00 2002 Logan's Run
- An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at 30. Michael York is Logan, the cop who escapes the compulsory human culling and goes on the run (1976)
- Director:Michael Anderson
- Actors: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Peter Ustinov, Richard Jordan
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 02:15:00 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
- Mon Oct 28 04:15:00 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
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 06:10:00 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
- 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 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
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 17:50:00 2002 The Seventh Cross
- Spencer Tracy stars in this exciting Nazi prison-camp drama, directed by Fred Zinneman, as an escapee who has a grim fate awaiting him if he is ever recaptured (1944)
- Director:Fred Zinnemann
- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy
- Colour/BW: B/W
- get vcal
- Mon Oct 28 20:00:00 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
- Mon Oct 28 22:10:00 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
- Tue Oct 29 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
- Tue Oct 29 02:25:00 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 29 04:25:00 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 29 06:20:00 2002 The Swordsman of Siena
- Stewart Granger stars as a dashing 16th-century Italian swordsman who switches allegiance when he falls for the noblewoman under his protection (1962)
- Director:Étienne Périer
- Actors: Stewart Granger, Sylva Koscina, Christine Kaufmann
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 29 16:00:00 2002 Ivanhoe
- Swashbuckling spectacular, based on the Walter Scott novel, and starring Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor as the brave knight and the woman with whom he falls in love (1952)
- Director:Richard Thorpe
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Tue Oct 29 18:00:00 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
- Tue Oct 29 20:40:00 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
- Tue Oct 29 22:10:00 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
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 30 00:00:00 2002 Rebel Without a Cause
- James Dean struck a nerve with many teenagers as Jim Stark, the new kid in town who's failed relationships result in switchblade fights and dangerous cliff top car races.
- Director:Nicholas Ray
- Actors: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 30 02:05:00 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
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 30 04:10:00 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
- get vcal
- Wed Oct 30 06:15:00 2002 Travels With My Aunt
- Maggie Smith gives a terrific performance as the flamboyant aunt who gives her up-tight nephew (Alec McCowen) the adventure of a lifetime aboard the Orient Express (1972)
- Director:George Cukor
- Actors: Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Lou Gossett, Robert Stephens
- Colour/BW: Colour
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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
- get vcal
- 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 On the Town
- Gene Kelly both directs and stars in this MGM spectacular about the exploits of three sailors on leave in New York. Also stars Frank Sinatra and Vera-Ellen (1949)
- Director:Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
- Actors: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Vera-Ellen, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Betty Garrett
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Wed Oct 30 17:45:00 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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- Wed Oct 30 20:15:00 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
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- Wed Oct 30 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
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- Thu Oct 31 00:00:00 2002 55 Days at Peking
- Historical actioner, starring Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner, set amid the turbulent events of the Boxer Rebellion, which took place in China in the 1900s (1963)
- Director:Nicholas Ray
- Actors: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Thu Oct 31 02:55:00 2002 Behind the Scenes - Once A Thief: The Background Beat
- A short film on Lalo Schifrin's acclaimed musical score for the 1965 classic drama 'Once a Thief'.
- Colour/BW: B/W
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- Thu Oct 31 03:00:00 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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- Thu Oct 31 04:55:00 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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- Thu Oct 31 06:40:00 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
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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 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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- Thu Oct 31 18:30:00 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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- Thu Oct 31 20:35:00 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
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- Thu Oct 31 22:35:00 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
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- Fri Nov 1 00:00:00 2002 The Shining
- Stanley Kubrick's terrifying take on Stephen King's immensely popular horror novel. Features amazing performances from it's stars, Shelley Duvall and Jack Nicholson (1980)
- Director:Stanley Kubrick
- Actors: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
- Aspect Ratio: Pan & Scan
- Colour/BW: Colour
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- Fri Nov 1 02:40:00 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 04:50:00 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 06:55:00 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
- get vcal