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Film Matinee Double Bill: Honky Tonk

on BBC Two England

starring Lana Turner , Clark Gable In the first of this afternoon's films, Lana Turner is ideally cast as the beautiful Elizabeth Cotton - a woman with amorous designs on con-man 'Candy' Johnson. When he decides to take over the gold-rush town of Honky Tonk, she decides that he needs all the help she can give him ...
Screenplay by MARGUERITE ROBERTS and JOHN SANFORD Directed by jack CONWAY
Produced by PANDRO S. BERMAN
Films: page 16 and at 3.55
The Train starring Burt Lancaster
Paul Scofield , Jeanne Moreau
Based on one of the most daring incidents of World War II, this classic adventure story tells of one man's struggle to save some of France's greatest art treasures from the Nazis. When the Germans decide to move many of the finest paintings across the border, the French underground fighters determine to stop them. Led by a railway official, Labiche, the Resistance carries out its dangerous plan to 'kidnap' the train on its way to Germany....
Screenplay by FRANKLIN TOES and FRANK DAVIS Produced by JULES BRICK EN
Directed by JOHN FRANKENHEIMER Films: page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Lana Turner
Unknown:
Clark Gable
Unknown:
Lana Turner
Unknown:
Marguerite Roberts
Unknown:
John Sanford
Directed By:
Jack Conway
Produced By:
Pandro S. Berman
Unknown:
Burt Lancaster
Unknown:
Paul Scofield
Unknown:
Jeanne Moreau
Play By:
Franklin Toes
Unknown:
Frank Davis
Produced By:
Jules Brick
Directed By:
John Frankenheimer
'Candy' Johnson:
Clark Gable
Elizabeth Cotton:
Lana Turner
Judge Cotton:
Frank Morgan
'Gold Dust' Nelson:
Claire Trevor
Mrs Varner:
Marjorie Main
Brazos Hearn:
Albert Dekker
Daniel Wells:
Henry O'Neill
The Sniper:
Chill Wills
Pearl:
Veda Ann Borg
Labiche:
Burt Lancaster
Colonel Von Waldheim:
Paul Scofield
Christine:
Jeanne Moreau
Papa Boule:
Michel Simon
Miss Villard:
Suzanne Flon
Herren:
Wolfgang Preiss
Von Lubitz:
Richard Munch
Didont:
Albert Remy

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