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WEDNESDAY 16 DECEMBER 1998 (TNT - ENGLISH VERSION)
9:45 The Wreck of the Mary Deare
(The Wreck of the Mary Deare)
Film - USA, 1959 105'
Charlton Heston: John Sands
Gary Cooper: Gideon Patch
Michael Redgrave: Mr. Hyland
Emlyn Williams: Sir Wilfred Falcett
Cecil Parker: The Chairman
Virginia McKenna: Janet Taggart
Directed by Michael Anderson
Adventure yarn in which a salvager teams up with an abandoned ship's sole crew
member to foil an insurance scam by the ship's owners. While investigating the
`Mary Deare', the salvager is surprised to find someone aboard and puzzled by
his wish for secrecy. He discovers that the ship's owners are plotting with a
salvage company to sink the ship, but the salvager and the crew member set out
to stop them.
11:30 Abbott and Costello in Hollywood
(Abbott and Costello in Hollywood)
Film - USA, 1945 84'
Bud Abbott: Abercombie
Lou Costello: Buzz Kurtis
Frances Rafferty: Claire Warren
Robert Stanton: Ruthie
Jean Porter: Norman Royce
Warner Anderson: Dennis Kavanaugh
Directed by S Sylvan Simon
Classic comedy in which Bud and Lou hit Tinseltown as inept theatrical agents
trying to land a client the lead in a musical. More than a few productions
suffer on the way, but despite their incompetence, the pair end up as a big
success. Lucille Ball andvarious Hollywood personalities appear as themselves.
13:00 Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion
(Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion)
Film - USA, 1965 95'
Marshall Thompson: Doctor Marsh Tracy
Betsy Drake: Julie Harper
Cheryl Miller: Paula
Richard Haydn: Rupert Rowbotham
Alan Caillou: Carter
Rockne Tarkington: Juma
Directed by Andrew Marton
Rousing wildlife adventure about a doctor who combines raising a daughter with
running a centre for the study of animal behaviour on a nature reserve in
Africa. The busy daily routine is disrupted when the doctor learns that poachers
are closing in on his girlfriend and her beloved gorillas. Film spawned the
popular TV series 'Daktari'.
14:45 Dodge City
(Dodge City)
Film - USA, 1939 100'
Errol Flynn: Wade Hatton
Olivia de Havilland: Abbie
Ann Sheridan: Ruby
Bruce Cabot: Jeff Surrett
Frank McHugh: Joe Clemens
Alan Hale: Rusty Hart
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Spectacular action western about a clean-living cattle merchant who takes on the
corrupt forces in the notorious frontier town of Dodge City in an attempt to
bring a sense of justice and order to the Wild West community. Among the
highlights is a bruising barroom brawl.
16:30 Executive Suite
(Executive Suite)
Film - USA, 1954 120'
Barbara Stanwyck: McDonald Walling
June Allyson: Julia O. Treadway
William Holden: Mary Belmond Walling
Fredric March: Loren Phineas Shaw
Walter Pidgeon: Frederick Alderson
Shelley Winters: Eva Bardeman
Directed by Robert Wise
A film which exposes the corrupt practices and back-stabbing which goes on in a
large firm. When the president of a large furniture concern dies, the casting
vote in the choosing of his successor goes to his daughter. She is horrified to
learn of the dubious morality of all of the candidates - except for one.
18:15 Follow the Boys
(Follow the Boys)
Film - USA, 1963 105'
Connie Francis: Bonnie
Paula Prentiss: Toni
Dany Robin: Michele
Russ Tamblyn: Smitty
Richard Long: Pete
Ron Randell: Ben
Directed by Richard Thorpe
A sequel to `Where the Boys Are' with the same four American girls who are this
time chasing sailors on the French Riviera.
20:00 The Wreck of the Mary Deare
(The Wreck of the Mary Deare)
Film - USA, 1959 105'
Charlton Heston: John Sands
Gary Cooper: Gideon Patch
Michael Redgrave: Mr. Hyland
Emlyn Williams: Sir Wilfred Falcett
Cecil Parker: The Chairman
Virginia McKenna: Janet Taggart
Directed by Michael Anderson
Adventure yarn in which a salvager teams up with an abandoned ship's sole crew
member to foil an insurance scam by the ship's owners. While investigating the
`Mary Deare', the salvager is surprised to find someone aboard and puzzled by
his wish for secrecy. He discovers that the ship's owners are plotting with a
salvage company to sink the ship, but the salvager and the crew member set out
to stop them.
22:00 The Roaring Twenties
(The Roaring Twenties)
Film - USA, 1939 104'
James Cagney: Eddie Bartlett
Humphrey Bogart: George Hally
Jeffrey Lynn: Lloyd Hart
Priscilla Lane: Jean Sherman
Gladys George: Panama Smith
Frank McHugh: Danny Green
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Classic gangster movie about three ex-army buddies who become involved in
bootlegging to earn a living in the lean years after the First World War. James
Cagney is at his best as the honest cabbie pushed towards crime by force of
circumstance only to become the powerful head of a gangland empire.
0:00 Ryan's Daughter
(Ryan's Daughter)
(16:9)
Film - 1970 187'
Sarah Miles: Rosy Ryan
Robert Mitchum: Charles Shaughnessy
John Mills: Pater Collins
Trevor Howard: Major Randolph Dorian
Christopher Jones: Michael
Leo McKern: Tim O'Leary
Directed by David Lean
A story of love and scandal set on the West Coast of Ireland in World War I.
Trapped in a colourless marriage to a schoolteacher, Rosy Ryan embarks on a
passionate affair with a British soldier, but the village idiot - an Oscar-
winning performance from John Mills - unwittingly proves the undoing of the
couple. Filmed on an epic scale, with cinematography by Freddie Young winning
the film another Oscar.
3:15 Two Loves
(Two Loves)
Film - USA, 1961 120'
Shirley MacLaine: Anna Vorontosov
Laurence Harvey: Paul Lathrope
Jack Hawkins: Abercrombie
Juano Hernandez: Rauhuia
Nobu McCarthy: Whareparita
Directed by Charles Walters
Anna, an American teacher in New Zealand, has unusual but effective teaching
methods, and schools administrator Abercrombie leaves her to her own devices.
But when the repressed spinster is shocked by the behaviour of the Maoris and
rebuffs the advances of a fellow teacher, tragic consequences are sure to be the
result.
5:00 The Alphabet Murders
(The Alphabet Murders)
Film - 1965
Tony Randall: Hercule Poirot
Anita Ekberg: Amanda Beatrice Cross
Robert Morley: Hastings
Guy Rolfe: Duncan Doncaster
James Villiers: Franklin
Sheila Allen: Lady Diane
Directed by Frank Tashlin
Tongue-in-cheek thriller in which Agatha Christie's enigmatic sleuth Hercule
Poirot trails a killer whose murder spree appears to be linked to the letters of
the alphabet. Featuring a cameo from Margaret Rutherford as Christie's other
notable sleuth, Miss Marple.
6:30 Ambush
(Ambush)
Film - USA, 1950
Robert Taylor: Ward Kinsman
Arlene Dahl: Captain Ben Lorrison
Chief Thundercloud: Ann Duverall
John Hodiak: Lt. Linus Delaney
Don Taylor: Martha Conovan
Jean Hagen: Tom Conovan
A glamorous female adventurer persuades an Indian scout to help track down her
sister who has gone missing in Apache country.
8:00 Murder Most Foul
(Murder Most Foul)
Film - 1964 91'
Margaret Rutherford: Miss Marple
Ron Moody: Driffold Cosgood
Charles Tingwell: Mrs. Thomas
Andrew Cruickshank: Polizeiinspektor Craddock
Megs Jenkins: Mr. Stringer
Stringer Davies: Bill Hanson
Directed by George Pollock
Murder mystery featuring Agatha Christie's sleuthing elderly spinster. Miss
Marple takes to the stage when she joins a theatrical company to prove the
innocence of a young man accused of murdering his landlady. The delightful
Margaret Rutherford's third outing as Miss Marple, based on the book 'Mrs
McGinty's Dead'.
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