A comedy adventure starring David Niven
"Major" Bradbury is a naturally timid tutor who has invented a heroic past to impress his
Japanese pupil. But then he becomes entangled in a terrorist plot and has to deal with a dangerous situation.
Director Ken Annakin
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The acclaimed Frederick
Wiseman documentary, celebrating New York's
Central Park and the people who pass through it.
First showing on network television of this unusual comedy.
A boy who can talk to horses is hounded by a trio of unscrupulous gamblers.
With Butch Jenkins ,
Peter Lawford , Charlie Ruggles and Edward Arnold.
Director Fred Zinnemann
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The enchanting
Oscar-winning Lerner and Loewe musical version of George Bernard Shaw 's play Pygmalion, starring Rex Harrison
Audrey Hepburn
Henry Higgins , the famous professor of phonetics, boasts to his friend Pickering that he could teach a Cockney flower girl to speak like a duchess.
Then Eliza Doolittle arrives.
Eliza's songs sung by Marni Nixon. Director George Cukor
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The definitive concert version of Leonard Bernstein's operetta based on Voltaire's fictional hero Candide, and his quest for the "best of all possible worlds". It was recorded at London's Barbican
Hall in 1989, with the composer conducting what was, sadly, to be his final London performance.
With the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Director Humphrey Burton
Executive producer Harry J Kraut
(Stereo)
Simultaneous Broadcast: Radio 3
With Andrew Harvey. Followed by Weather
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The first showing on network television of this triumphant celebration of Chuck Berry's 60th birthday party concert in 1987. Bo Diddley, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis are among the music industry greats who pay tribute to the man who some believe single-handedly changed the sound of contemporary music.
And in the historic Fox Theatre in Berry's home town of St Louis, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Etta James, Julian Lennon, Keith Richards and Linda Ronstadt salute his achievements. The concert's musical director was Rolling Stone Keith Richards, a big Chuck Berry fan. Director Taylor Hackford
(Stereo)
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The 1991 Pet Shop Boys world tour combined theatre and drama in an inspired musical spectacle and featured some of the duo's greatest hits, including It's a Sin and Suburbia.
Fact meets fiction in Wim Wenders 's film inspired by the life of Dashiell Hammett , the author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man.
Starring
Frederic Forrest San Francisco, 1928: Hammett, a former Pinkerton agent turned author, is caught up in a complex Chinatown murder-mystery, involving an ex-partner in detection, stag movies, blackmail and a missing teenage girl.
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