Starring Buster Crabbe. 7: Primitive Urge
Killer Kane invades the Council Chamber. Directed by FORD BEEBE and SAUL GOODKIND
Starring Buster Crabbe. 7: The Land of the Dead
Flash is taken prisoner. Directed by FORD BEEBE and ROBERT HILL
Starring
Crosby and Astaire are perfectly cast as a couple of song and dance men in love with the same girl. The movie features songs such as A
Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody and Puttin' on the Ritz.
Lyrics and music by IRVING BERUN Directed by STUART HEISLER
('Shall We Dance' Tuesday 9.25am)
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Back to the Saturday Matinee
A lively look at vintage Hollywood westerns.
HRH the Princess Royal takes the salute at this year's tournament, which features the Royal Air Force, boasts a cast of 2,000 and a 70ft eagle. Royal Tournament producer MICHAEL PARKER
Television presentation
PETER HYLTON CLEAVER (R)
Conducted by Zubin Mehta. Beethoven Overture:
Leonora No 3
Ravel La Valse
Verdi Overture: La forza del destino
Mahler Symphony No 1
A concert given in April in Santa Cecilia, Rome, featuring two brightly coloured late-Romantic masterpieces and two popular overtures. Television presentation RAI
The first of two films starring the versatile Peter Sellers. Starring and A clerical error brings a brash northern vicar with strong ideas about equality and Christian charity to a pretentious middle-class community.
Produced by ROY BOULTING Directed by JOHN BOULTING
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A Shot in the Dark Starring and When parlour-maid Maria Gambrelli is accused of shooting her lover, Chief
Inspector Dreyfus is alarmed to hear that Clouseau is already on the case. Soon his worst fears are realised.
Screenplay by BLAKE EDWARDS and WILLIAM PETER BLATTY Produced and directed by BLAKE EDWARDS
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Presented by Chris Lowe. Lisa Davidson reviews the week in pictures, with subtitles.
Followed by Weatherview.
The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Robert Mitchum hosts a special documentary celebrating Huston the film director and the man, using interviews and home-movie footage never before seen, as well as contributions from
Lauren Bacall , Arthur Miller ,
Paul Newman ,
Anjelica Huston , among others, and scenes from favourite films. Written by FRANK MARTIN and CHARLES DEGELMAN Produced by JONI LEVIN
Directed by FRANK MARTIN
('Prizzi's Honor' at 9.30pm)
Richter Plays Chopin
Earlier this year the legendary and reclusive Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter performed in London for the first time in nearly 15 years. This concert, recorded at the Barbican, revealed that age had dimmed neither his virtuosity nor his music. From Chopin's Etudes Op 10 he played Nos 1-4 and Nos 6, 10, 11 and 12, and from Op 25 Nos 5, 6, 8 and 11. Introduced by Professor Norman Stone. Sound PAUL CUNLIFFE
Director DONALD STURROCK (Part 2 tomorrow at 8.35pm)
Starring and When an Italian from
Brooklyn and a beautiful blonde from LA meet and fall in love, their romance should have a happy ending. But he's Charley Partanna, hit-man for the Prizzis, and she's Irene, a professional enforcer. Their next assignments seem destined to bring them closer. John Huston 's Oscar-winning black comedy is based on Richard Condon 's bestseller. Screenplay by RICHARD CONDON and JANET ROACH
Produced by JOHN FOREMAN Directed by JOHN HUSTON
(First showing on British television)
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Introduced by Elvira.
Guns 'n' Roses Live at the Ritz
America's hardest band deliver no-holds-barred performances of their hits. An MTV Network production
('Arena: Heavy Metal', tomorrow at
1.15am)
Starring
When Mob hitman Trabucco checks into the Ramona Hotel , he has only one
'contract' to fulfil - Rudy 'Disco' Gambola.
Unfortunately for the lugubrious killer, suicidal
Victor Clooney has checked into the adjoining room, with his frantic attempts at self-destruction continually interrupting the assassin's carefully laid plans.
Billy Wilder 's acerbic last film is characteristically a manic monument to bad taste.
Produced by JAY WESTON Directed by BILLY WILDER
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