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A feature film in two parts based on short stories by JOSEPH CONRAD and STEPHEN CRANE.
Starting with The Secret Sharer starring
James Mason.
The first short movie - based on a Joseph Conrad story - stars Mason as a ship's captain who deliberately shields a fugitive murderer.
Screenplay by AENEAS MCKENZIE Directed by JOHN BRAHM and followed by 2.50pm The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky starring Robert Preston. The second story, loosely taken from Stephen Crane , stars Preston as a lawman who leaves town to find a bride and returns to find the town drunk of Yellow Sky spoiling for one last fight.
Screenplay by JAMES AGEE
Directed by BRETAIGNE WINDUST
3.35 pm
Hotel Reserve starring
James Mason
Lucie Mannheim.
A dashing young
James Mason stars in this rarely seen British thriller set in the south of France just before the outbreak of the Second World War. While on holiday at the Hotel Reserve, Peter Vadassy is wrongly charged with espionage. He is forced to search for the real spy among the hotel's guests.
Screenplay by JOHN DAVENPORT Directed by VICTOR HANBURY.
LANCE COMFORT and MAX GREENE
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Contributors

Stories By:
Joseph Conrad
Stories By:
Stephen Crane.
Unknown:
James Mason.
Unknown:
Joseph Conrad
Unknown:
Aeneas McKenzie
Directed By:
John Brahm
Unknown:
Robert Preston.
Unknown:
Stephen Crane
Unknown:
James Agee
Directed By:
Bretaigne Windust
Unknown:
James Mason
Unknown:
Lucie Mannheim.
Unknown:
James Mason
Unknown:
Peter Vadassy
Unknown:
John Davenport
Directed By:
Victor Hanbury.
Directed By:
Lance Comfort
Directed By:
Max Greene
Captain:
James Mason
Archibold:
Gene Lockhart
Swimmer:
Michael Pate
First Mate:
Albert Sharpe
Second Mate:
Sean McClory
Ship's COOk:
Alec Harford
Sheriff:
Robert Preston
Bride:
Marjorie Steele
Bad man:
Minor Watson
Drummer:
Dan Seymour
Saloon keeper:
Olive Carey
Prisoner:
James Agee
Peter Vadassy:
James Mason
Suzanne Koche:
Lucie Mannheim
Duclos:
Raymond Lovell
Beghin:
Julien Mitchell
Mary Skelton:
Clare Hamilton
Walter Vogel:
Martin Miller
Andre ROUX:
Herbert Lom
Schimler:
Frederick Valk
Chemist:
Ivor Barnard
Skelton:
Valentine Dyall
Odette ROUX:
Patricia Medina
Henri Asticot:
David Ward
Hilda Vogel:
Hella Kurty
Major Clandon-Hartley:
Anthony Shaw
Police Commissaire:
Lawrence Hanray
Jacqueline:
Patricia Hayes
Albert:
Josef Almas

Embassy World Professional Championship from the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green.
Will five times champion Eric Bristow (3) be able to make a comeback?
Other players on form are British Professional champion Jocky Wilson (5), John Lowe (2) and, of course, the current champion
Bob Anderson.
Tony Gubba introduces live coverage. Commentators
SID WADDELL. TONY GREEN Television presentation
KEITH MACKENZIE. PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH PHILLIPS

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Bristow
Unknown:
Jocky Wilson
Unknown:
John Lowe
Unknown:
Bob Anderson.
Introduces:
Tony Gubba
Unknown:
Sid Waddell.
Unknown:
Tony Green
Unknown:
Keith MacKenzie.
Unknown:
Peter Hayward
Producer:
Keith Phillips

Two Tales of Endeavour.
Britain was never closer to winning the America's Cup. In 1934, Sir Thomas Sopwith won the first two races: his yacht was Endeavour.
In 1978, John Amos , sailing enthusiast and boat restorer, bought a rusted, forgotten and half-flooded hulk. Both stories are sagas of endeavour. Narrator Alexander John. Film editor RICHARD ROBERTS
Producer RICHARD ROBINSON (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Thomas Sopwith
Unknown:
John Amos
Narrator:
Alexander John.
Editor:
Richard Roberts
Producer:
Richard Robinson

Africa Fête from Pare de la Villette, Paris. The tenth anniversary concert of Africa Fete brought together a host of major stars in a glittering celebration of African music and culture. The event took place over two nights at the former railway terminal at La Villette in Paris.
All the artists in tonight's Rhythms of the World come from West Africa and their contrasting styles are indicative of the enormous range and vitality of the music now reaching us from the African continent. Producers BOB PORTWAY and JENNY CATHCART
Series editors NIGEL FINCH and ANTHONY WALL

Contributors

Producers:
Bob Portway
Producers:
Jenny Cathcart
Editors:
Nigel Finch

Film director Terence Davies introduces the first of two early features by this outstanding film-maker. Paths of Glory starring Kirk Douglas Adolphe Menjou. First World War.
Ordered into an attack against an impregnable German position,
French troops fall back after only a few yards.
General Mireau, who sees every skirmish in terms of his own prestige, decides to court martial three men for cowardice. Their commander,
Colonel Dax, discovers that political fighting can be just as deadly as the front line.
Screenplay by STANLEY KUBRICK . CALDER WILLINGHAM and JIM THOMPSON , based on a novel by HUMPHREY COBB
Produced by JAMES B. HARRIS Directed by STANLEY KUBRICK
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10.30pm Killer's Kiss Film critic and author Alexander Walker introduces a love story set in the tough world of boxing.
Starring
Jamie Smith , Irene Kane Frank Silvera.
When boxer Davy Gordon becomes friendly with Gloria Price he makes an enemy of her employer, dance-hall owner
Vincent Rapallo. And Rapallo turns out to be a violent enemy.
Written, produced and directed by STANLEY KUBRICK
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Contributors

Introduces:
Terence Davies
Unknown:
Kirk Douglas
Unknown:
Adolphe Menjou.
Play By:
Stanley Kubrick
Unknown:
Calder Willingham
Unknown:
Jim Thompson
Novel By:
Humphrey Cobb
Produced By:
James B. Harris
Directed By:
Stanley Kubrick
Introduces:
Alexander Walker
Unknown:
Jamie Smith
Unknown:
Irene Kane
Unknown:
Frank Silvera.
Unknown:
Davy Gordon
Unknown:
Vincent Rapallo.
Directed By:
Stanley Kubrick
Col Dax:
Kirk Douglas
Col Paris:
Ralph Meeker
Groulard:
Adolphe Menjou
Mireau:
George MacReady
Lt Roget:
Wayne Morris
Major Saint-Auban:
Richard Anderson
Pte Ferol:
Timothy Carey
Pte Amaud:
Joseph Turkel
Girl:
Susanne Christian
Sgt Boulanger:
Bert Freed
Priest:
Emile Meyer
Capt Rousseau:
John Stein
Col Judge:
Peter Capell
Rapallo:
Frank Silvera
Davy Gordon:
Jamie Smith
Gloria Price:
Irene Kane
Albert:
Jerry Jarret
Hoodlums:
Mike Dana
Hoodlums:
Felice Orlandi,
Hoodlums:
Ralph Roberts
Hoodlums:
Phil Stevenson
Owner of mannequin factory:
Julius Adelman
Conventioneers:
David Vaughan,
Conventioneers:
Alec Rubin

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