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Starring Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield
with Jack Warner

During the Second World War a young English girl falls in love with and marries a French officer, Etienne Szabo. When he is killed at El Alamein, Violette finds herself drawn into secret service work in Occupied Europe.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

Contributors

Director:
Lewis Gilbert
Violette Szabo:
Virginia McKenna
Tony Fraser:
Paul Scofield
Mr. Bushell:
Jack Warner
Mrs. Bushell:
Denise Grey
Etienne Szabo:
Alain Saury
Jacques:
Maurice Ronet
Lillian Rolfe:
Anne Leon
Potter:
Sydney Tafler
Vera Atkins:
Avice Landone
Denise Bloch:
Nicole Stephane
Interrogator:
Noel Willman
NCO instructor:
Bill Owen
Winnie:
Billie Whitelaw
Col. Buckmaster:
William Mervyn
Coding expert:
Michael Goodliffe
Garage man:
Andre Maranne
Commandant Suhren:
Harold Lang

The highlights of today's Daily Express International Offshore Powerboat Race from Cowes to Torquay and back to Cowes.
See page 12)

Contributors

Commentator:
Raymond Baxter
Commentator:
David Vine
Director:
William Cave
Director:
Douglas Hespe
Executive Producer:
Alan Chivers

by Honore de Balzac
Dramatised in five parts by Ray Lawler
Starring Margaret Tyzack

Montes, Crevel, Hector and Steinbock all believe themselves to be the father of Valerie's child.
(Repeated Friday, 9.45pm)

Contributors

Author:
Honore de Balzac
Dramatised by:
Ray Lawler
Script Editor:
Lennox Phillips
Costumes:
Robin Fraser Paye
Designer:
Ian Watson
Producer:
Martin Lisemore
Director:
Gareth Davies
Hector:
Thorley Walters
Cousin Bette:
Margaret Tyzack
Valerie:
Helen Mirren
Steinbock:
Colin Baker
Crevel:
John Bryans
Montes:
Edward de Souza
Marneffe:
Oscar Quitak
Hortense:
Harriett Harper
Adeline:
Ursula Howells
Marshal Hulot:
Esmond Knight
Mariette:
Margaret Boyd
Marie:
Sally James
Police Supt:
Jerold Wells
Prince de Wissembourg:
David Garth
Victorin:
Davyd Harries
Chardin:
Godfrey James
Johann Fischer:
Robert Speaight
Beau Pied:
Edmund Bailey
Majordomo:
John Devaut
Footman:
Michael Mulcaster

You're Never Alone with a Stately Home... says Lord Montagu of Beaulieu in this series of highly personal films.

This weekend, between 8,000 and 10,000 people each day will visit Lord Montagu's-home at Beaulieu in Hampshire. Is this taking commercialisation too far? Would it not be more dignified for a stately home owner who cannot afford to maintain his house to hand it over to the nation?

In this film Lord Montagu puts the case for private ownership. 'Our historic houses must above all remain as family homes, not museums.' He looks at the situation in France, where the chateaux so often stand 'as dead mausoleums of a bygone age,' and visits other stately homes in Britain. He also gets forthright comments from some Oxford students and a group of car workers at Cowley.

Contributors

Presenter:
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
Producer:
Malcolm Brown
Director:
Mischa Scorer

The opening show of the International Radio and Television Exhibition in Berlin starring
From Berlin: Shirley Bassey
From Los Angeles: Andy Williams
and a line-up of Continental stars

Contributors

Singer (From Berlin):
Shirley Bassey
Singer (From Los Angeles):
Andy Williams
Director (For ZDF Berlin):
Edward Burife

Introducing Mr Kirk Douglas
An interview with Kirk Douglas on location in Scotland for Catch Me a Spy, with excerpts from Ace in the Hole, The Champion, Lust for Life, The Vikings, The Arrangement and The Gunfight.

Philip Jenkinson reveals the 'real' names of well-known Holly-wood stars.

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Jenkinson
Interviewee:
Kirk Douglas
Producer:
Barry Brown
Editor:
Rowan Ayers

Starring Pat O'Brien, Edward Arnold, Broderick Crawford

A crusading lawyer challenges the might of a state's political boss and finds himself involved in murder.

The dialogue comes fast and furious in this typical 30s comedy-thriller, and a young Broderick Crawford gives an appealing performance as Pat O'Brien's side-kick.
He played many light-relief roles in the inter-war years and it wasn'until the 1940s he got the opportunity for the stronger roles like Willie Stark in All the King's Men, which was to get him an Oscar.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

Contributors

Producer/Director:
Tay Garnett
John Webb:
Pat O'Brien
Cushing:
Edward Arnold
Rus Sampson:
Broderick Crawford
Ann:
Ruth Terry
Alma Brehmer:
Claire Dodd
Commissioner Joyce:
Alan Dinehart
Mrs Cushing:
Janet Beecher
Sarilla Cushing:
Phyllis Brooks
George Taylor:
Douglas Dumbrille
Godena:
Bernard Nedell
Miss Ater:
Eve Arden
Miss Vlissigen:
Evelyn Keyes

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