Starring Danny Kaye
with Pier Angeli, Baccaloni, Noel Purcell, Robert Coote
Andrew is a rather timid schoolteacher until he becomes involved with a travelling circus, and discovers a talent as a clown.
(This Week's Films: page 11)
A film of an extraordinary flight from Switzerland into Italy
Described by one of the balloon pilots, Anthony Smith
In August 1963 ten hydrogen balloons assembled in the Swiss village of Murren. They came from Holland, Germany, Austria and England, their pilots determined - if the wind was right - to fly them over some of the most spectacular peaks and glaciers of the Alps.
An Adventure presentation
The National Trust is the third largest landowner in the United Kingdom, led only by the Crown and the Forestry Commission. It owns 359,000 acres of land, its properties include famous gardens, farms, wind- and water-mills, lakes and hills, abbeys, prehistoric and Roman antiquities.
This is a challenging film about its work for all who want Britain to remain a bearable place in which to live.
Max Reinhardt's classic film version of Shakespeare's play, starring Mickey Rooney in a brilliant performance as Puck and James Cagney equally outstanding as Bottom are two of the great successes in this star-studded Hollywood production of the famous tale.
(This Week's Films: page 11)
and Weather
A personal view by Kenneth Clark
In this, the final programme, Kenneth Clark shows how the heroic materialism of the past hundred years has been linked with an equally remarkable increase in humanitarianism. The achievement of engineers and scientists - Brunel and Rutherford, for example - has been matched by that of the great reformers like Wilberforce and Shaftesbury. Kenneth Clark's thoughts on the period in which we are now living take him from the English industrial landscape of the 19th century to the sky-scrapers of contemporary New York, the world of the radio telescope and the exploration of space.
(Book £4.75, paperback £2.25: see p 66)
John McLaughlin (guitar), Billy Cobham (drums), Rick Laird (bass), Jan Hammer (piano), Jerry Goodman (violin)
by H.G. Wells
A second chance to see this dramatisation in four parts by Alun Richards
Mr Lewisham was forced to leave Whortley, where he had spent idyllic hours with Ethel Henderson. Three years later he is attending the Normal School of Science in Kensington.
and Weather
Ken Russell directing his latest film Savage Messiah, which opens on Thursday in London, with comments from its star Dorothy Tutin, costume designer Shirley Russell and associate producer Harry Benn.
Also extracts from earlier Ken Russell films: Women in Love, The Music Lovers, The Devils and The Boyfriend.
Starring Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken
with William Demarest, Diana Lynn
Trudy Kockenlocker hit her head jitterbugging and can't remember anything except she thinks she married a soldier. Pregnant and with no evidence of a wedding, she tells her childhood sweetheart, Norval Jones, who tries to help - and how!
So begins the story of the wildest of all the Preston Sturges comedies. As well as hilarious performances from the stars, two fugitives from The Great McGinty - Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff - put in guest appearances.
(This Week's Films: page 11)
