Films On Tv (16th June+)

[DB7]

On the Fiddle

13:30 on Thursday 16th June on Channel 4.

Second World War comedy starring Alfred Lynch as sharp-witted, unscrupulous wide boy Horace Pope and Sean Connery as amiable, slow-witted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe. Horace cons Pedlar and the two recruits get involved in every conceivable racket. Eventually, however, the two find themselves in France as unlikely war heroes. Directed by Cyril Frankel. In 1.55 linear screen ratio.

Director: Cyril Frankel

Starring: Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Alan King, Eric Barker

(Subtitles, Black and White, 1961)



Carry On Sergeant

13:40 on Friday 17th June on Channel 4.

The first of the Carry On movies was inspired by R.F. Delderfield's novel The Bull Boys. William Hartnell plays Sergeant Grimshawe, the retiring army training sergeant who is faced with possibly the worst group of national service recruits ever to have been called up, including Charlie Sage, Horace Strong, Peter Golightly and James Bailey.

Director: Gerald Thomas

Starring: Bob Monkhouse, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams

(Subtitles, Black and White, 1958)



The Night Caller

00:40 on Saturday 18th June on BBC 2 East.

British sci-fi thriller about aliens who land on Earth in order to kidnap women for breeding, thus reviving their ailing race. After receiving an unusually high number of reports of missing women, the police begin to search for an explanation.

Director: John Gilling

Starring: John Saxon, Alfred Burke, Patricia Haines, Maurice Denham, Ballard Berkeley, John Carson

(Black and White, Subtitles, 1965)



Carry On Cowboy

16:10 on Saturday 18th June on Channel 4.

One of the best in the canon of Carry On... films sees Sid James as The Rumpo Kid, fast on the draw and mean as hell, who takes over the town of Stodge City. The good townsfolk send for a new sheriff but end up with Marshall P Knutt who's less a lawman and more a cowardly sanitary engineer with a name that's not good news in a lawless frontier town... Joining them in Gerald Thomas's film are usual suspects Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey and Angela Douglas, all showing how the west was lost!

Director: Gerald Thomas

Starring: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Angela Douglas

(Subtitles, 1965)



Battle of Britain

18:15 on Saturday 18th June on Five.

This worthy tribute to "the few" has spectacular air battles, a memorable re-creation of the Blitz and a terrific cast that includes Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer. It is interesting today to watch so many great names in the twilight of their careers: not just knights Ralph Richardson, Michael Redgrave and Laurence Olivier (as the tight-lipped Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding), but also Trevor Howard (excellent as Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park), Robert Shaw, Harry Andrews, Kenneth More, Patrick Wymark, Nigel Patrick and Curt Jürgens. Most of Sir William Walton's original score was dumped and replaced by Ron Goodwin's, but a tantalising fragment remains in the air battles.

Directed by: Guy Hamilton

Starring: Laurence Olivier, Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Ian McShane, Michael Caine, Kenneth More and Trevor Howard

(1969)



Aces High

13:55 on Sunday 19th June on ITV1.

Director: Jack Gold

Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth, David Wood, John Gielgud.

Director: Jack Gold

Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth, David Wood, John Gielgud

(Subtitles, Stereo, 1977)



The Heroes of Telemark

15:00 on Sunday 19th June on National Geographic.

Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris are the Norwegian resistance fighters who go undercover to destroy an atomic weapons factory in their Nazi-occupied homeland.

Director: Anthony Mann

Starring: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, David Weston, Sebastian Breaks

(1965, U)



The Boys from Brazil

21:20 on Sunday 19th June on ITV3.

From his South American hideaway, deranged Nazi Josef Mengele (the never-more-villainous Gregory Peck) plans to resurrect the Third Reich by creating clones of Hitler. But Nazi hunter Lieberman (Laurence Olivier) is on his trail. Thriller based on a book by Ira Levin.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Starring: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Steve Guttenberg

(Widescreen, 1978)



Captives

00:15 on Monday 20th June on BBC2.



In this drama made by the BBC, Julia Ormond stars as a dentist with marital problems who takes work in a high security prison where she falls for a dangerous criminal, played by Tim Roth. In breach of contract for fraternising with an inmate, Ormond is blackmailed into running an errand for Colin Salmon's drug dealer. From this decidedly offbeat premise emerges a strange love story and suspense thriller, tightly directed by Angela Pope and sharply written by Frank Deasy. There's fine support, too, from Keith Allen, Siobhan Redmond and Kenneth Cope. Both Ormond and Roth went on from this to become Hollywood stars.

Directed by: Angela Pope

Starring: Tim Roth, Julia Ormond, Keith Allen, Siobhan Redmond and Peter Capaldi

(1994)

[mysteriesofedgarwallace]

YAY! Alfie Burke on the telly!

[Aenima]

Originally posted by DB7@Jun 9 2005, 10:46 AM

The Night Caller

00:40 on Saturday 18th June on BBC 2 East.

British sci-fi thriller about aliens who land on Earth in order to kidnap women for breeding, thus reviving their ailing race. After receiving an unusually high number of reports of missing women, the police begin to search for an explanation.

Director: John Gilling

Starring: John Saxon, Alfred Burke, Patricia Haines, Maurice Denham, Ballard Berkeley, John Carson

(Black and White, Subtitles, 1965)

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Who watched this? It was excellent. I'd never seen it before. Can anyone suggest any similar obscure Brit. Scifi film from the 60s.

[Steve Crook]

Originally posted by Aenima@Jun 20 2005, 10:13 AM

Who watched this? It was excellent. I'd never seen it before. Can anyone suggest any similar obscure Brit. Scifi film from the 60s.

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It's hard to know what you mean by obscure. Anything can be considered obscure if you've never heard of it, even if everyone else has.



But how about ...

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Battle Beneath the Earth (1967)

The Blood Beast Terror (1968)

Children of the Damned (1963)

The City Under the Sea (1965)

Curse of the Fly (1965)

Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)

The Damned (1963)

Danny the Dragon (1967)

The Day of the Triffids (1962)

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

Doppelgänger (1969)

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)

Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)

The Earth Dies Screaming (1965)

The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)

Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

Fall X701, Der (1966)

First Men in the Moon (1964)

Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)

The Frozen Dead (1966)

Gonks Go Beat (1965)

Gorgo (1961)

Invasion (1966)

Island of Terror (1966)

Konga (1961)

Masters of Venus (1962)

The Mind Benders (1963)

Moon Zero Two (1969)

Mysterious Island (1961)

The Night Caller (1965)

Night of the Big Heat (1967)

One Million Years B.C. (1966)

Popdown (1967)

Privilege (1967)

The Projected Man (1967)

Quatermass and the Pit (1967)

Rocket to the Moon (1967)

Scream and Scream Again (1969)

Spaceflight IC-1 (1965)

Teenage Jekyll and Hyde (1963)

The Terrornauts (1967)

They Came From Beyond Space (1967)

Thin Air (1969)

Thunderbird 6 (1968)

Thunderbirds Are GO (1966)

A Dead Man Seeks His Murderer (1962)

Unearthly Stranger (1963)

Village of the Damned (1960)

The Vulture (1967)

The War Game (1965)

You Only Live Twice (1967)

Zeta One (1969)



That's the list of all the UK films made in the 1960s that people have tagged as Sci-Fi (although it's doubtful as to why some of them should get that designation).



Steve

[Aenima]

Thanks Steve,

There are many in the list I don't know so that's very helpful for me.

Cheers,

A

[smudge]

EARTH DIES SCREAMING and UNEARTHLY STRANGER are very much of a similar nature to NIGHT CALLER - both claustrophobic little low-budget B&W SFs which are, IMHO, still remarkably effective.



Oh yes, also INVASION - another little B&W offering from Merton Park studios.



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SMUDGE



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[Aenima]

Thanks S,



More useful info. I've added them to my ever expanding "to get" list.



Cheers,

A

[mysteriesofedgarwallace]

I too, love old Sci-Fi from the 50's/60's and can highly recommend the following:-



Timeslip (1956)

The Earth Dies Screaming (1965)

Invasion (1966)

Island of Terror (1966)

Night of the Big Heat (1967)



My favourites would probably be Invasion and The Earth Dies Screaming, which are both what I call 'they're here' type films.

I love SF films which are set on Earth (and ideally UK) rather than the '......in a galaxy far away....' type of stuff.

[mysteriesofedgarwallace]

Sunday 26th June 00:45

'The Eagle Has Landed' (1976)