A look at the films showing on BBC-tv and the new releases in the cinema with Philip Jenkinson who introduces scenes from:
Arsenic and Old Lace
Frank Capra's 1944 film version of the macabre farce by Joseph Kesselring, starring Cary Grant.
The Marrying Kind
Judy Holliday in a George Cukor 'thirties-style' comedy about the break-up of a marriage.
Thanks a Million
Dick Powell and Fred Allen in a 1935 musical about a touring revue that becomes involved in local politics.
Grand Prix
John Frankenheimer's large-scale film of four racing drivers-'the men and women behind them, the machines beneath them'. By courtesy of M.G.M.