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SATURDAY 19 DECEMBER 1998 (TNT - ENGLISH VERSION)
9:45 Betrayed
(Betrayed)
Film - USA, 1954 104'
Clark Gable: Col. Pieter Deventer
Lana Turner: Gen. Ten Eyck
Victor Mature: Gen. Charles Larraby
Louis Calhern: The Scarf
O E Hasse: Carla Van Owen
Wilfrid Hyde-White: Blackie
Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
War drama in which a woman branded as a Nazi collaborator is given the chance to
redeem herself when she is recruited by a resistance group. She is trained and
smuggled into the Netherlands, where she works as a singer in a bar frequented
by German soldiers, passing on information to her contact. Then the Germans
start rounding up members of the group.
11:45 The Charge of the Light Brigade
(The Charge of the Light Brigade)
Film - USA, 1936 115'
Errol Flynn: Major Geoffrey Vickers
Olivia de Havilland: Elsa Campbell
Patric Knowles: Captain Perry Vickers
Henry Stephenson: Sir Charles Macefield
Nigel Bruce: Sir Benjamin Warrenton
Donald Crisp: Colonel Campbell
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Lavish Crimean war epic about the 27th British Lancers, whose journey begins in
India and ends in a windswept Russian valley where 600 men charge a Russian
artillery post numbering over 20,000. The action sequences are thunderous -
especially the final dramatic charge into certain death.
13:45 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
(Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)
Film - USA, 1941 92'
Spencer Tracy: Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
Ingrid Bergman: Ivy Pearson
Lana Turner: Muriel Carew
Ian Hunter: Dr. Lanyon
Donald Crisp: Brigadier General Carew
Barton MacLane: Poole
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Classic Hollywood horror. A respected Victorian scientist becomes obsessed with
notions of good and evil, spending long evenings discussing his theories and the
rest of his free time working in the laboratory. But after a humiliating evening
spent with astreetwalker, he angrily drinks an experimental potion he has
concocted and becomes a murderous rampaging brute. From Robert Louis Stevenson's
short novel.
15:45 The Great Caruso
(The Great Caruso)
Film - USA, 1951 109'
Mario Lanza: Enrico Caruso
Ann Blyth: Dorothy Benjamin
Dorothy Kirsten: Maria Selka
Jarmila Novotna: Louise Heggar
Richard Hageman: Carlo Santi
Carl Benton Reid: Park Benjamin, Bankier
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Dramatisation of the career of legendary tenor Enrico Caruso, from his days
spent singing on street corners in order to survive, to his apprenticeship in an
opera chorus in Naples and his sensational success in America. Mario Lanza
himself performed the operatic arias featured in the film.
17:45 Random Harvest
(Random Harvest)
Film - USA, 1942 125'
Ronald Colman: Charles Ranier
Greer Garson: Paula
Philip Dorn: Dr. Jonathan Benet
Susan Peters: Biffer
Reginald Owen: Minister
Edmund Gwenn: Dr. Sims
Directed by Mervyn Le Roy
Heartfelt story of an American World War I veteran suffering from amnesia who is
saved from life in a mental institution by a gregarious English music-hall
entertainer. Based on a novel by James Hilton.
20:00 Betrayed
(Betrayed)
Film - USA, 1954 104'
Clark Gable: Col. Pieter Deventer
Lana Turner: Gen. Ten Eyck
Victor Mature: Gen. Charles Larraby
Louis Calhern: The Scarf
O E Hasse: Carla Van Owen
Wilfrid Hyde-White: Blackie
Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
War drama in which a woman branded as a Nazi collaborator is given the chance to
redeem herself when she is recruited by a resistance group. She is trained and
smuggled into the Netherlands, where she works as a singer in a bar frequented
by German soldiers, passing on information to her contact. Then the Germans
start rounding up members of the group.
22:00 They Drive by Night
(They Drive by Night)
Film - USA, 1940
George Raft: Joe Fabrini
Ann Sheridan: Cassie Hartley
Alan Hale: Ed Carlsen
Humphrey Bogart: Paul Fabrini
Gale Page: Pearl Fabrini
Roscoe Karns: "Irish" McGurn
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Classic road-movie charting the fortunes of two brothers trying to break into
the trucking business. All goes well until one of the men is seriously injured
in an accident and his brother is framed for murder by a jealous paramour.
Excellent performancesfrom a fine cast mark this film out from others of the
genre.
0:00 Get Carter
(Get Carter)
Film - 1971 112'
Michael Caine: Jack Carter
Britt Ekland: Eric Paice
Ian Hendry: Anna Fletcher
John Osborne: Cyril Kinnear
Geraldine Moffat: Peter
George Sewell: Con McCarty
Directed by Mike Hodges
Hard-hitting British thriller about a London villain who sets out to avenge the
death of his brother, victim of a gangland killing in Newcastle. Using ruthless
methods, Jack Carter unearths the sordid conspiracy - involving drugs, gambling
and porn - which cost his brother his life.
2:00 Hearts of the West
(Hearts of the West)
Film - USA, 1975
Jeff Bridges
Andy Griffith
Donald Pleasence
Blythe Danner
Alan Arkin
Alex Rocco
Charming, offbeat modern western about a starry-eyed novelist who arrives in
1930s Hollywood hoping to write westerns and joins up with a western movie crew
in order to hide from a pair of vengeful con men. Aided by an ageing film extra,
he soon finds himself acting in low-budget westerns - but he faces a 'High
Noon'-style showdown of his own when the grifters arrive in town looking for
him.
4:00 Going Home
(Going Home)
Film - USA, 1971 105'
Robert Mitchum: Harry K. Graham
Brenda Vaccaro: Jenny
Jan-Michael Vincent: Jimmy Graham
Jason Bernard
Directed by Herbert B Leonard
Gritty drama in which a man who murdered his wife is released from prison after
13 years and attempts to re-establish a relationship with his son who was
witness to the gruesome event.
5:45 Get Carter
(Get Carter)
Film - 1971 112'
Michael Caine: Jack Carter
Britt Ekland: Eric Paice
Ian Hendry: Anna Fletcher
John Osborne: Cyril Kinnear
Geraldine Moffat: Peter
George Sewell: Con McCarty
Directed by Mike Hodges
Hard-hitting British thriller about a London villain who sets out to avenge the
death of his brother, victim of a gangland killing in Newcastle. Using ruthless
methods, Jack Carter unearths the sordid conspiracy - involving drugs, gambling
and porn - which cost his brother his life.
8:00 Busman's Honeymoon
(Busman's Honeymoon)
Film - USA, 1940 84'
Robert Montgomery: Lord Peter Wimsey
Constance Cummings: Harriet Vane
Leslie Banks: Inspector Andrew Kirk
Seymour Hicks: Bunter
Robert Newton: Frank Crutchley
Googie Withers: Polly
Directed by Arthur B. Woods
Comic mystery in which matrimonial bliss for a famous amateur criminologist and
his mystery writer-wife is interrupted when murder enters the picture and throws
their honeymoon home into disarray. From the Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
novel by Dorothy L Sayers.
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