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Starring
Johnny Weissmuller Johnny Sheffield
After a series of savage killings in the jungle, Tarzan uncovers a murderous tribe of 'Leopard Men' and their leader, the high priestess. Lea ACQUANETTA
Director Kurt Neumann
• FILMS: pages 51-64

Contributors

Unknown:
Johnny Weissmuller
Unknown:
Johnny Sheffield
Director:
Kurt Neumann
Tarzan:
Johnny Weissmuller
Boy:
Johnny Sheffield
Jane:
Brenda Joyce

Starring
Margaret Rutherford Ron Moody
When Miss Marple disagrees with her fellow jurors at a murder trial she decides that the only way to prove her point is to establish the man's innocence. Her investigations take her to a second-rate theatrical company where one of the cast is a murderer.
Director George Pollock
0 FILMS: pages 51-64

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Rutherford
Unknown:
Ron Moody
Director:
George Pollock
Miss Marple:
Margaret Rutherford
Driffold Cosgood:
Ron Moody
Detective Inspector Craddock:
Charles Tingwell
Justice Crosby:
Andrew Cruickshank
Mrs Thomas:
Megs Jenkins
Ralph Summers:
Ralph Michael
Bill Hanson:
James Bolam
Mr Stringer:
Stringer Davis
Sheila Upward:
Francesca Annis
Maureen Summers:
Pauline Jameson
Eva McGonigall:
Allison Seebohm
Theatrical agent:
Dennis Price
PC Wells:
Terry Scott

Carmelo. Set in a shanty town in Bogota in Colombia, this short drama reflects the reality of life for millions of children forced to live on their Wits. Carmelo gets involved with the drug mafia and kills the Minister for Justice in cold blood. Surrounded by armed police his short, tragic life comes back to him.
Written and directed by Ciro Duran

Contributors

Directed By:
Ciro Duran

Leonard Bernstein at
Harvard
4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity. Bernstein continues to look at the nature of music through the romanticism of Berlioz, the magic of Wagner and the 'dreaminess' of Debussy. The programme includes the ball scene from Romeo and Juliet by Berlioz, the Prelude and Lovedeath from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, and Debussy's Prelude a l'après-midi d'un faune, performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Bernstein , (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Leonard Bernstein
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein

An adventure for under-5s. The Pieman and Piewife return from the seaside to find the Piepilot waiting for the last songpie before his holiday! With Chloe Ashcroft ,
David Hargreaves and Ben Thmias , (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Chloe Ashcroft
Unknown:
David Hargreaves
Unknown:
Ben Thmias

The Glass Engraver.
Denis Mann 's work in glass is largely inspired by his surroundings - the cliffs and seashores of Caithness. His sculptures reflect the elemental forces of wind and sea on rock while his glass engraving demonstrates a subtle delicacy of line and form. This programme shows him at work and explores his relationship with his environment.
Producer Ken MacGregor (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Mann
Producer:
Ken MacGregor

Three Miles High. The highest railroad in the world climbs the Peruvian Andes. Then it's the night steamer across Lake Titicaca. Journey's end was to have been La Paz , but it was not to be.
Introduced by Miles Kington . Producer Tony Morrison
Series producer Roger Laughton (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lake Titicaca.
Unknown:
La Paz
Introduced By:
Miles Kington
Producer:
Tony Morrison
Producer:
Roger Laughton

Starring Elvis Presley Two years after the sensational success of his first record, Elvis made his film debut in this dramatic western. In the last days of the Civil War a Confederate troop hijacks a Union payroll.
Director Robert D Webb
0 FILMS: pages 51-64

Contributors

Unknown:
Elvis Presley
Director:
Robert D Webb
Clint:
Elvis Presley
Vance:
Richard Egan
Cathy:
Debra Paget
Siringo:
Robert Middleton

Starring Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Sarah Pickering
The second part of Christine Edzard 's critically acclaimed version of Dickens's masterpiece.
Born among the wretched hovels of the Marshalsea debtors' prison, Amy Dorrit's childhood is consumed by the responsibility of caring for her egocentric father and self-seeking family.
Film Booklet: price £2.95. Cheques made payable to BSS and sent to [address removed]
Films: pages 51-64
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Based:
on the novel by Charles Dickens
Director:
Christine Edzard
Arthur Clennam:
Derek Jacobi
William Dorrit:
Alec Guinness
Little Dorrit:
Sarah Pickering
Frederick Dorrit:
Cyril Cusack
Mrs Clennam:
Joan Greenwood
Flintwinch:
Max Wall
Affery:
Patricia Hayes
Flora Finching:
Miriam Margolyes
MrPancks:
Roshan Seth
Daniel Doyce:
Edward Burnham
Fanny Dorrit:
Amelda Brown
Tip Dorrit:
Daniel Chatto
Mrs Merdle:
Eleanor Bron
Mr Merdle:
Michael Elphick
MrCasby:
Bill Fraser
Mr Meagles:
Roger Hammond
Minnie:
Sophie Ward
Tite Barnacle:
John Savident
Dr Haggage:
Heathcote Williams
Mr Plornish:
Christopher Whittingham
Mrs Plornish:
Ruth Mitchell
Bob:
Howard Goorney
Mrs Bangham:
Liz Smith
Maggy:
Pauline Quirke
Lord Decimus Barnacle:
Robert Morley
Bishop:
Alan Bennett

Starring
Robert Donat
Madeleine Carroll
Hitchcock's 1935 version of John Buchan 's classic adventure story remains one of the most popular British films by the acknowledged master of suspense and mystery. Richard Hannay , pursued by the police for a murder he did not commit and by an international spy-ring for information he does not know, finds himself fleeing across the desolate Scottish moors - handcuffed to a beautiful blonde!
Screenplay by Alma Reville and Charles Bennett based on Producer Michael Balcon
0 FILMS: pages 51-64 0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Donat
Unknown:
Madeleine Carroll
Unknown:
John Buchan
Unknown:
Richard Hannay
Play By:
Alma Reville
Unknown:
Charles Bennett
Producer:
Michael Balcon
Hannay:
Robert Donat
Pamela:
Madeleine Carroll
Miss Smith:
Lucie Mannheim
Professor Jordan:
Godfrey Tearle
Crofter's wife:
Peggy Ashcroft
Crofter:
John Laurie
Mrs Jordan:
Helen Haye
Sheriff:
Frank Cellier
Memory:
Wylie Watson

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