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John Wayne Henry Fonda
Lt-Col Thursday, aggrieved at being demoted from his Civil War rank of General, is posted as commanding officer to Fort Apache, a remote outpost in the Arizona desert. He tightens up discipline and eventually shows his ignorance of Indian behaviour - resulting in a massacre of his troop.
Screenplay by FRANK S. NUGENT Produced by JOHN FORD and MERlAN c. COOPER Directed by JOHN FORD
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A short season of British comedies today starring Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers and Danny Green.
Mrs Wilberforce is one of London's nicer landladies. A little vague perhaps, but definitely not the sort of person to have a gang of desperate criminals in her house. Unfortunately, Professor Marcus and his friends are not the musical society she supposed and their plans are anything but harmonious!
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with Cliff Richard and Sally Magnusson.
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First in a five-part series.
Earlier this year nearly 1,000 people entered this BBCtv and Radio Times competition for amateur film and video makers. Today, and on the next three afternoons,
Tony Robinson presents a selection of the best entries, and on Friday the winners of the £9,000 in prizes to be awarded will be announced. Today's programme also includes an interview with the screen writer
Trevor Griffiths , who was one of the Showreel judges.
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A breathtaking flight around the entire coast of England, Scotland and Wales.
Narrated by John Westbrook, Sally Magnusson and Clay Jones, this gull's-eye view of Britain flies anticlockwise from Land's End to Dover, north to John O'Groats, west to Cape Wrath, down through the Western Isles to Wales, back to Land's End. Expert guides describe a coastline packed with more variety than anywhere else in the world. People who live on the coast tell of the royal nude bather, the harbour British Rail sold for £1, and the castle that inspired the Dracula stories.
3.21 Land's End; 3.45 Dover; 4.00 The Humber; 4.15 Aberdeen; 4.30 Cape Wrath;
4.45 The Clyde; 5.00 The Lleyn Peninsula.
Studio sound BRENDAN SHORE
Videotape editor MIKE TAYLOR
Producer LAURIE JOHN
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An award-winning animated film.
Each evening in a fabulous city a divine bird performs a dance of illusion and magical transformation for its Emperor. And each evening a blackbird from a neighbouring forest watches the pampered creature with envy... This hauntinglybeautiful film was nominated for an Academy Award. Directed by ISHU PATEL
starring
Placido Domingo Katia Ricciarelli Verdi's opera is thrillingly brought to the screen by Zeffirelli. Filmed almost exclusively on location in Crete and in southern Italy, Otello unites Zeffirelli's dramatic and visual flair with magnificent performances from Domingo and Ricciarelli.
Araldo sung by GIANNICOLA PIGLIUCCI
ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF THE
TEATRO ALLA SCALA (MILAN) Music produced and conducted by LORIN MAAZEL Produced by MANAHEN GOLAN and YORAM GLOBUS
Directed by FRANCO ZEFFIRELU
(Italian film with English subtitles. First showing on British television)
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A Bookmark special. With
100 million readers worldwide, Reader's Digest is the most successful magazine in history. Its philosophy of optimism and self-improvement prompts its chief executive, based in Pleasantville, USA, to pronounce it 'the greatest force for good in the modern world'. To its critics, however it is a powerful and unwelcome agent in the 'Americanisation of the intellect.' Contributions include Howard Jacobson ,
John Wells , Farrukh Dhondy and Monica Dickens.
Film cameraman RICHARD ADAM
Film editors BOB PORTWAY. LES FILBY Producer CHARLES CHABOT Director JULIAN BIRKETT
starring Burt Lancaster Peter Reigert Denis Lawson with Jenny Seagrove Fulton Mackay.
The giant American
Knox Oil Corporation has its eye on the remote
Scottish village of Ferness - intended as the site of a new refinery. Maclntyre - an ambitious young executive - would seem to be just the man for the job of negotiating a 'fair' price with the villagers. But Ferness can have a strange effect on its visitors as Maclntyre discovers. A delightful and magical comedy from the producer of Chariots of Fire and the director of Gregory's Girl.
Produced by DAVID PUTTNAM
Written and directed by BILL FORSYTH
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'The truth is just a plain picture.'
In 1965, documentary film-maker D. A. Pennebaker followed
Bob Dylan on a concert tour of Britain and what emerged was a remarkable portrait of the singer-songwriter feted as the spokesman for his generation. Pennebaker's cinema verite style captures Dylan on stage, in hotel rooms, in the company of other musicians and mixing with a press and public that expected him to have all the answers. Dylan's reactions are surprising, mischievous and, sometimes, cruel. This 'plain picture' provides a unique insight into one of rock music's most private and enigmatic figures. Produced and directed by D. A. PENNEBAKER
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