Reply With QuoteThe Callan film is excellent, well worth a look.
Its nearer to the book "A Magnum for Schneider" than the Armchair Theatre production was.
Kidnapped
13:05 on Monday 4th July on Channel 4.
Following a bloody defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, a naive young man, David Balfour, is cheated of his inheritance by an avaricious uncle, Ebenezer. Kidnapped and to be sold into slavery by Captain Hoseason, Balfour meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck onboard the ship. After the vessel runs aground the pair are thrown in to a succession of adventures that lead them to Edinburgh to fight for justice.
Director: Delbert Mann
Starring: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Gordon Jackson, Vivien Heilbron
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1971)
Contraband
10:30 on Tuesday 5th July on BBC 2.
During World War II, a Danish merchant captain and his girlfriend, a beautiful agent, snare a gang of spies with the help of a group of waiters. This was Deborah Kerr's first feature film, but all her scenes ended up on the cutting-room floor.
Director: Michael Powell
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell, Esmond Knight
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1940)
The Mouse That Roared
14:00 on Tuesday 5th July on five.
Classic comedy in which the tiny Grand Duchy of Fenwick declares war on the United States with the aim of glorious defeat and a hefty sum in post-war aid. An advance party travels to New York and kidnaps the inventor of the Q-bomb, unfortunately forcing the Americans into immediate surrender.
Director: Jack Arnold
Starring: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, David Kossoff, William Hartnell, Timothy Bateson, MacDonald Parke
(Stereo, Subtitles, 1959)
The Rebel
13:30 on Friday 8th July on Channel 4.
Tony Hancock stars in this story of a frustrated artist who is taken up by the pseudo-intellectuals of the art world as a genius. But retribution waits around the corner as Hancock's flatmate Paul Massie shows the art world what's what.
Director: Robert Day
Starring: Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Paul Massie, Margit Saad, Grégoire Aslan, Dennis Price
(Subtitles, 1961)
The Man with the Golden Gun
20:30 on Friday 8th July on ITV1.
James Bond finds himself the target of the World's deadliest assassin, Scaramanga. 007 is given orders to eliminate Scaramanga before he himself is killed.
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Hervé Villechaize, Clifton James
(Stereo, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1974)
Callan
01:35 on Saturday 9th July on five.
Thriller based on the 70s TV series. A spy with a conscience is given the chance to resurrect his career within British Intelligence. But, having accepted a mission to kill a German businessman, he soon realises there is more to the case than meets the eye when he discovers a fellow agent in the businessman's house.
Director: Don Sharp
Starring: Edward Woodward, Eric Porter, Carl Mohner, Catherine Schell, Peter Egan, Russell Hunter
(Stereo, Subtitles, 1974)
A Passage to India
14:30 on Saturday 9th July on BBC 2.
A meticulously-detailed adaptation of E M Forster's culture-clash novel set in the late 1920s. In the company of her fiance's mother, a headstrong young Englishwoman goes to India to visit her intended husband and is shocked by the arrogant superiority of the British establishment. The film won Oscars for Best Supporting Actress and Maurice Jarre's exotic score.
Director: David Lean
Starring: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers
(Subtitles, 1984)
A Shot in the Dark
15:20 on Saturday 9th July on ITV1.
Second in the series of Inspector Clouseau comedies. A chambermaid at the Ballon residence in Paris is accused of murdering her lover. Against the wishes of Chief Inspector Dreyfuss, the infamous Clouseau is assigned to the case. Death follows the maid wherever she goes, yet Clouseau is stubbornly convinced of her innocence.
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders
(Stereo, Subtitles, 1964)
The Importance of Being Earnest
06:00 on Sunday 10th July on UKTV Drama.
A stunning cast including the original 'Miss Marple', Margaret Rutherford, features in this classic comic drama based on legendary foppish wit Oscar Wilde's play about two wealthy bachelors who each pretend to be the dashing but wholly imaginary 'Ernest' when courting two young ladies. They soon come unstuck when the girls fall for the charms of the fictitious male. Altogether now... "A Handbag!?".
Director: Anthony Asquith
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Richard Wattis, Michael Denison, Walter Hudd, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood
(Premiere, 1952)
Swallows and Amazons
15:35 on Sunday 10th July on ITV1.
Children's adventure set in the 1920s about four children on holiday in the Lake District, who meet two tomboys. The children name themselves The Swallows while their two friends become The Amazons, and together they embark on a series of adventures. Based on the popular book by Arthur Ransome.
Director: Claude Whatham
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser, Brenda Bruce
(Stereo, Subtitles, 1974)
The Callan film is excellent, well worth a look.
Its nearer to the book "A Magnum for Schneider" than the Armchair Theatre production was.
The Mouse That Roared was very good indeed, Jean Seberg is how can I put it.... easy on the eye. I always thought this was an American film with Jack Arnold at the helm?
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