What's on this week or so


Television

Carry On Constable (1960)

Number four and Sid arrives and instantly takes charge. He's a police sergeant whose entire station is down with flu. So he has to take on some trainees: Connor, Hawtrey, Williams and Leslie Phillips. Cue mayhem.  

5.00 pm Film4 Thur 15 Aug

Scott of the Antarctic (1948)

John Mills plays the ultimate stiff-upper-lipped hero in this wonderful re-creation of the doomed expedition. The visuals are grand and Vaughan Williams' score is one of the best in the movies.

6.00 am Talking Pictures TV Fri 16 Aug

Hue and Cry (1946)

When a gang of kids suss that their weekly comic, The Trump, is being used by crooks for coded communication, they decide to round up the villains.

11.00 am Film4 Sat 13 Aug

Carry On Constable (1960)

Number four and Sid arrives and instantly takes charge. He's a police sergeant whose entire station is down with flu. So he has to take on some trainees: Connor, Hawtrey, Williams and Leslie Phillips. Cue mayhem.  

11.00 am Film4 Sun 18 Aug

Carry On Girls (1973)

Feminism hits the Carry Ons with Sid trying to put on a beauty contest to promote a fading seaside town. June Whitfield is the counsellor leading the feminist protest. As a film it's a perfect compendium of seventies sexism but you still have to side with Sid.

11.10 am ITV3 Sun 18 Aug

Doctor at Large (1957)

Number three in the series finds Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) leaving St Swithins in a huff and trying his hand at being a country G.P. There's still life in the series but Bogarde looks like he'd rather be elsewhere.

8.40 am Talking Pictures TV Tues 20 Aug

They Came to a City (1944)

Nine archetypal characters visit an ideal city.

Talky drama which flopped but now seems an essential articulation of the social discourse of the era. Still not much of a film though.

11.55 pm Talking Pictures TV Thur 22 Aug

Ha'penny Breeze (1950)

Back from the war, a couple of pals find the home village of one of them has fallen into disrepair and poverty. They decide to revive its fortunes by starting up a yachting business and the first step is to get an old boat back into working order.

Rather a mild tale which is more about the lovely landscape around Pin Mill on the Orwell than the drama.

11.00 am Talking Pictures TV Fri 23 Aug

NFT

The Scapegoat (1958)

An Englishman is tricked into impersonating his French double - who's plotting a murder.

Odd drama which never comes together satisfactorily.

2.00 pm NFT1 Mon 19 Aug

Forbidden (1948)

A patent medicine seller plots the murder of his wife so he can be free to pursue a pretty young thing.

George King's last film as a director is one of his best.

6.20 pm NFT3 Thur 22 Aug


 

 

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