Starring Burt Lancaster
With the fort at Tarfa under Riff attack, Sgt Kincaid, a French legionnaire jailed for flirting with the commandant's wife, is released with nine other prisoners on a suicide mission.
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Starring Burt Lancaster
With the fort at Tarfa under Riff attack, Sgt Kincaid, a French legionnaire jailed for flirting with the commandant's wife, is released with nine other prisoners on a suicide mission.
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David Holmes reviews week-by-week the moves made by the politicians and examines the part played by government in the lives of us all.
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It was in this fixture two seasons ago that the mythical award of the Triple Crown was last won by Wales, and today they are the only team who can win it this season. Victory over Ireland today will complete the sequence which began with the annihilation of England and the brilliance of the game against Scotland.
Commentator at Cardiff Arms Park, Bill McLaren
Introduced by Cliff Morgan
In 1763 the novelist Tobias Smollett took the Grand Tour, from Boulogne to Paris, south to the Mediterranean, and across to Rome - hating most of what he saw. In this film William Fox follows Smollett's route and written account of the journey. The words are 18th-century. The camera looks at places as they are today.
Is Roskill Right? ...about the siting of London's third airport. Should it be built at Cublington (Wing) in the beautiful Vale of Aylesbury - or at Foulness, an equal catastrophe to the lovers of that coastline?
Is Roskill Right? ...about the timing of the need for London's third airport. And can you put a cost on all the factors surrounding such a decision?
Is Roskill Right? ...debated by the people directly involved in the decision:
For Roskill:
Professor Theo Barker, University of Kent
Derrick Wood, Foulness Resistance Committee
Against Roskill:
Andrew Sharman, Consultant engineer
Desmond Fennell, Wing Airport Resistance Assoen
with some of the top witnesses who gave evidence to the Roskill Commission and two groups from Foulness and Cublington - the people whose lives will most be affected by the decision.
Introduced by Bill Grundy
Starring George C. Scott, Dana Wynter
with Clive Brook, Herbert Marshall, Gladys Cooper
and 'The List' - in disguise Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra
A vast fortune awaits a master criminal if he can eliminate 11 people without detection. An expert in disguise, he is well on the way to success when Adrian Messenger becomes suspicious and asks an Intelligence Officer to check the people on his carefully compiled list.
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