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    Coming up on TCM - UK. Enjoy!



    Wed. 17 May



    17:30 Murder at the Gallop

    Margaret Rutherford stars as Agatha Christie's super-sleuth, Miss Marple, here investigating a suspicious will. Robert Morley co-stars. D: George Pollock (1963)



    01:20 The Angel Wore Red

    Dirk Bogarde and Ava Gardner play a priest and prostitute thrown together during the Spanish Civil War in this powerful romance. D: Nunnally Johnson (1960)





    19 May 2006

    05:00 The Secret Partner

    A London shipping tycoon finds himself blackmailed by an evil dentist, who threatens to expose a previous conviction for embezzlement. D: Basil Dearden (1961)



    00:50 The Hill

    There are fine performances from Sean Connery, Harry Andrews and Michael Redgrave in Sidney Lumet's drama set in a harsh military stockade in WWII Africa. D: Sidney Lumet (1965)



    20 May 2006

    06:45 The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

    Some of the best-loved fairy-tales of all time are brought to the screen in this delightful and colourful film, starring Laurence Harvey. D: Henry Levin (1962)



    15:00 Logan's Run

    An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at 30. Michael York is Logan, the cop who escapes and goes on the run. D: Michael Anderson (1976)



    01:35 Hysteria

    Following a car accident, an amnesiac American finds himself caught up in a complex murder plot. A Hammer Studios production, starring Anthony Newlands. D: Freddie Francis (1965)



    21 May 2006

    05:00 Calling Bulldog Drummond

    Walter Pidgeon stars as Herman McNiele's debonair war hero, this time called out of retirement to help Scotland Yard solve a spate of baffling robberies. D: Victor Saville (1951)



    22 May 2006

    06:35 Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

    Swinging Sixties musical comedy, with Herman and the Hermits heading to London to race their prize greyhound. Co-starring Stanley Holloway. D: Saul Swimmer (1968)



    19:00 Where the Spies Are

    David Niven stars in this comic spy yarn as the country GP recruited for a vital Middle East mission. D: Val Guest (1965)



    21:00 Gumshoe

    Albert Finney excels as a bingo caller whose dreams of becoming a hard bitten detective land him in the middle of a mysterious smuggling ring. D: Stephen Frears (1971)



    00:30 The Comedians

    Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Alec Guinness head the cast of this starry adaptation of Graham Greene's novel about political intrigue in Haiti. D: Peter Glenville (1967)



    23 May

    15:00 The End of the Affair

    Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson and John Mills star in this faithful adaptation of Graham Greene's literary classic about doomed love in war-torn London. D: Edward Dmytryk (1954)



    16:55 Les Girls

    Gene Kelly and Kay Kendall head the cast of this charming, fast-paced, flashback musical about a troupe of dancing girls, featuring songs by Cole Porter D: George Cukor (1957)



    24 May 2006

    05:00 The Adventures of Tartu

    Robert Donat gives a gripping performance as an intrepid British soldier who risks his life to go undercover in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. D: Harold S. Bucquet (1943)

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    (theuofc @ May 17 2006, 10:03 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>

    Coming up on TCM - UK. Enjoy!



    19 May 2006

    05:00 The Secret Partner

    A London shipping tycoon finds himself blackmailed by an evil dentist, who threatens to expose a previous conviction for embezzlement. D: Basil Dearden (1961)

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    Well worth a look, this one.

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    24 May 2006

    05:00 The Adventures of Tartu

    Robert Donat gives a gripping performance as an intrepid British soldier who risks his life to go undercover in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. D: Harold S. Bucquet (1943)

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    So is this...Donat as secret agent, what more do you want!!!

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