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Lunacy and laughter with Dan Rowan and Dick Martin
This week's star guest Sammy Davis Jr
and featuring The Laugh-In regulars
A Schlatter/Friendly production for NBC
Half a million tons of snow travelling at up to 200 miles an hour... From the Andes to the Alps, ever since man made his home beneath the mountain, avalanches have preyed on him. But now the careless tourist is replacing the mountain dweller as the avalanche's main victim.
This film looks at avalanches from their beautiful beginning in the snow crystal to their terrible effect on the dwellings of men, and on to, perhaps, their ultimate control by explosives and science.
Written and produced by Richard Robinson
(The white killer: page 12)
A comic opera by William Walton
In The Bear, Chekhov's most popular and successful farce, Madame Popova's elaborate grief for her dead husband is rudely interrupted by the visit of a creditor, who stays to demand rather more than his money. This musical version has the additional fun of William Walton's tunes, many written as operatic parodies.
With English Chamber Orchestra
Leader Kenneth Sillito
Conducted by Sir William Walton
(Plenty to Enjoy: page 11)
On the night of 7 September 1936 three men - a university lecturer, a Baptist minister, and a schoolmaster-set fire to a training school for bomber crews being built by the Government on the Lleyn Peninsula, North Wales.
The schoolmaster was D. J. Williams who died early this year. In this film, made last summer, he retells the story of their action, now a part of Welsh history. 'It was not an act of vandalism but a direct protest in the name of the whole Welsh Nation.'
Also appearing: J. E. Jones, Catkin Daniel, Berta Ruck
by Emile Zola
Dramatised in five parts by David Turner
The rioting miners have destroyed the Jean-Bart mine and wrecked Maigrat's shop. The situation has become so serious that troops have been called in and starvation faces the miners.
A weekly look at the cinema with stars, previews, and a dig into the past
Introduced by Tony Bilbow with Philip Jenkinson
This week's guest: David Lean director of Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago, and now Ryan's Daughter.
