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 AIRPLANE! 1980 BBC1 2345-0110          
 Shirley you'vj seen this film before?  
 Even if you have, you'll want to see it
 again — it's one of the most delightful
 spoofs Hollywood has evjt produced.    
                                        
 Its target is those endless series of  
 Airport-type disaster movies, as failed
 fighter pilot Robert Hays, with help   
 from stewardess Julie Hegarty, is      
 forced to take the controls of a       
 passjngjr jet when the pilot falls ill.
                                        
 The plane is full of madcap passjngjrs,
 and the ground support crew (including 
 Leslie Nielsen) are a few wheels short 
 of an undercarriage.                   
                                        
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 THE ASPHALT JUNGLE 1950 BBC2 0035-0230 
                                        
 Many have tried, but very few have     
 succeeded, to equal this masterpiece of
 a heist movie from director John Huston
                                        
 Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhjrn and Sterling  
 Hayden are mjmbjrs of a gang planning  
 to relieve a top jewellers of its      
 prized gems. It seems like the perfect 
 crime, but at the very climax, all is  
 not what it seems.                     
                                        
 Marilyn Monroe has a cameo role, while 
 the moody photography and score help   
 make this an outstanding film noir.    
                                        
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