Talking Pictures TV feature film: FOOL’S PARADEJames Stewart and George Kennedy give consummate performances in this comedy-drama, which also features a young Kurt Russell. Directed in 1971 by Andrew V. McLaglen, the film has a good storyline with layers of unexpected depth and light-hearted moments. When a trio of ex-convicts is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money one has saved during his 40-year sentence, however, the plan is met with great resistance from a corrupt prison official and a banker. A midweek premiere on Wednesday 15th May at 22:00.

Highlights for week beginning Monday 13th May 2019

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Monday 13th May 19 10:25Target Earth (1954)Sci-Fi. Directed by Sherman A. Rose. Starring Richard Denning. A large city is ordered to be completely evacuated as an army of robots, believed to be from the planet Venus, attack it.

Monday 13th May 19 15:30A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949)Comedy. Director: Ralph Smart. Stars John McCallum, Honor Blackman, Diana Dors & Patrick Holt. A bike club invites new members to join who will soon be mixed into a world of illegal dealings.

Monday 13th May 19 18:00Talking Pictures with Anneke Wills Best known as Dr Who’s ‘Polly’, Anneke talks to Robert Ross exclusively about her career so far. Stories from Some People and The Pleasure Girls to The Avengers and everything in-between.

Tuesday 14th May 19 10:00The Divided Heart (1954)Drama. Directed by Charles Crichton. Stars Cornell Borchers Yvonne Mitchell & Armin Dahlen. After WW2 an orphan is adopted by a German couple. When he turns 10 he hears his mother is still alive.

Tuesday 14th May 19 18:00Waterfront (1950)Drama. Directed by Michael Anderson. Stars Robert Newton Kathleen Harrison, Richard Burton. A sailor leaves his family to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums.

Tuesday 14th May 19 22:00Songwriter (1984)Music Drama, directed by Alan Rudolph. Stars: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson. Doc Jenkins is a singer/song-writer who tries to be a music “mogul”, and gets tangled up in a bad publishing deal. He enlists a young singer and his former singing partner, Blackie Buck, to help him get out of the deal.

Wednesday 15th May 19 12:20Eyewitness (1956)Drama. Directed by Muriel Box. Stars Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow. Lucy is eyewitness to a robbery at a cinema shortly before being hospitalised.

Wednesday 15th May 19 18.00Talking Pictures with George LaytonGeorge Layton talks to Robert Ross exclusively about writing Robin’s Nest and many other well-known sitcoms. He dis-cusses his acting career: Doctor in the House, Minder, The Like-ly Lads, The Liver Birds and of course That’s Life among many, many other stories.

Wednesday 15th May 19 22:00Fool’s Parade (1971)Director: Andrew V. McLaglen. Stars: James Stewart, George Kennedy, Anne Baxter, Kurt Russell. After forty years in a West Virginia prison, three convicts wish to open a legitimate business, but meet with opposition.

Thursday 16th May 19 11:00Chase A Crooked Shadow (1958)Thriller. Director: Michael Anderson. Stars Anne Baxter, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom & Faith Brook. A stranger arrives at his sister’s villa and claims he is the long lost brother who she thought was dead.

Thursday 16th May 19 15:05The Talk of The Town1942. Drama. Directed by George Stevens. Stars Cary Grant, Jean Arthur Ronald Colman & Edgar Buchanan. An escaped prisoner and a stuffy law professor vie for the hand of a spirited schoolteacher.

Thursday 16th May 19 22:00The Looking Glass War (1970) Action Drama. Directed by Frank Pierson. Stars: Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Ralph Richardson, Anthony Hopkins. Adapted from the John le Carré novel about a British spy, who sends a Polish defector to East Germany, to verify missile sites.

Friday 17th May 19 12:10Floodtide (1949)Drama. Directed by Frederick Wilson. Starring Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie and Elizabeth Sellars. David Shields decides to become a ship designer instead of following the family tradition and entering farming and falls in love with the boss’s daughter.

Friday 17th May 19 15:05The Love Lottery (1954)Comedy. Directed by Charles Crichton. Starring David Niven, Peggy Cummins and Herbert Lom. Having escaped from being a Hollywood star, Rex unwittingly becomes the prize in a lottery.

Friday 17th May 19 20.00Talking Pictures with Robert PowellExclusive interview with Robert Powell, Mr Hannay himself. Stories from the set of The Italian Job, Jesus of Nazareth, The 39 Steps and, of course, Hannay and The Detectives.

Saturday 18th May 19 11:25The Huggetts Abroad (1949)Comedy. Directed by Ken Annakin. Stars Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison & Dinah Sheridan. When Jimmy gets work in South Africa the family all decide to go, travelling there by truck!

Saturday 18th May 19 14:50Hanover Street (1979)War Adventure/Romance, directed and written by: Peter Hyams. Stars: Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer. Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.

Saturday 18th May 19 21:00 also at 22:00 Monday 13th May 19White Water Summer (1987)1987 American drama film directed by Jeff Bleckner. Starring Kevin Bacon, Sean Astin, Jonathan Ward and Matt Adler. An experienced guide takes a city boy and his three friends on their first wilderness experience. Pushing them to the limit, the guide soon alienates the boys, but after an accident, finds him-self in desperate need of help and must rely on his students in order to survive.

Sunday 18th May 19 09:15 also at 00:20 on Thursday 16th May 19Get Cracking (1943)Comedy. Directed by Marcel Varnel. Starring George Formby, Dinah Sheridan & Ronald Shiner. Formby joins the Home Guard and launches his own style of commando raid to steal a machine gun.

Sunday 18th May 19 13:10The Long Arm (1956)Drama. Directed by Charles Frend. Stars Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison & Michael Brooke. The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries, all linked to a deceased safecracker.

Sunday 18th May 19 15:10Derby Day (1952)Drama. Directed by Herbert Wilcox. Stars Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Googie Withers & John McCallum. On the morning of the Epsom Derby a disparate group of people prepare to go to the races.

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