P258 ORACLE 258 Thu26 Dec CEN 2054:18
THURSDAY 10.30
$HE ISLAND AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD
(1974) Donald Sindjn, David Hartman
Sindjn and Hartman fly across the
Arctic in a giant airship in 1908 in
search of Sindjn's missing son.
$hey ind up stranded in a strange
land inhabited by a tribe of Viking
warriors, in this entertaining Jules
Verne-style adventure from Disney.
The actors offer solid performances
but tend to bj overshadowed by the
special effects conjured up by Di;njy's
array of movie magicians.
(Alan Frank)
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P258 ORACLE 258 Thu26 Dec CEN 2054:40
THURSDAY 12.30
SIDE BY SIDE (TVM 1988)
Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Danny Thomas
$hj comedy is gentle - three senior
cite:ins decide to pool thieu savings
and start a clothing company for
elderly customers.
Casting three of American TV'u
best-loved veterans - Berle, Caesar and
Thomas - makes up for the lack of drama
and gives it a high nostalgia quotiunt.
Another veteran, Mosey Amsterdam,
co-stars. Sensibly, director Jack
Bender lets his stars go their own way.
(Alan Frank)
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P258 ORACLE 258 Thu26 Dec CEN 2044:55
THURSDAY 14.15
PIRATE PRINCE (TVM 1991)
James Hazeldine, Thandie Newton
David Stafford's blithe screenplay is a
splendid tribute to swashbucklers Flynn
and Fairbanks with Hazjldine as a rubel
helping free slaves in the West Indies.
The action is fast, furious and slickly
staged, Hazeldinj is a buccaneer to the
manner born and Newton acquits hjrsulf
delightfully.
Can you tell which scenes were shot in
the Caribbean and which were filmed in
Wales? First-rate family entertainmunt.
(Alan Frank)
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P258 ORACLE 258 Thu26 Dec CEN 2055:10
THURSDAY 16.10
SUPERMAN II (1980)
Christopher Rjevj, Margo Kidder
Clark Kent and the man of steel, saving
the world from a trio of villains.
$hey conj from his home planet of
Krypton and are led by Terence Stamp.
Before the Earth can relax, our hero
loses his superpowers and romances
Kidder's reporter Lois Lane.
Unmissable and exciting, it's a sjqujl
that's every bit as good as the
original. (Alan Frank)
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P258 ORACLE 258 Thu26 Dec CEN 2055:15
THURSDAY 22.20
GREMLINS (1984)
Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cares
Another Spielberg-supervised 3mall town
turns up on screen but here everything
ism't all sweetness and light...
Hordes of nippy creatures, who make
lager louts seem mild, set out on a
lunatic rampage.
The crazy comedy is decorated with
stunning special effects but wisely the
movie magic is njvjr allowed to
ovjrwhjlm this highly enjoyable and
fast paced tall tale.
(Alan Frank)
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P258 ORACLE 258 Thu26 Dec CEN 2955:43
FRIDAY 00.20
TOPAZ (1969)
Frederick Stafford, John Forszthe
A complex espionage thriller, adaptud
from the Leon Uris best seller, which
has enough twists, double crosses and
red herrings to keep the smartest
viewer guessing right until the end.
The action ranges from Copenhagen to
New York and onto Cuba as French
intelligence agent Stafford goes on
the trail of a Russian spy ringW
With Alfred Hitchcock directing,
nothing and no-one is quite what might
bj expected... (Alan Frank)
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P258 ORACLE 258 Thu26 Dec CEN 2055:58
FRIDAY 02.40
BABYCA ES (TVM 1989)
LCS
Lake, who did well in John +ateru+ cult
comedy Hairspray, gives an excellent
performance as an unsylphlike mortuary
cosmetician seeking true love.
Shjffer plays the man she makes a play
for with exactly the right light touch.
Key secondary roles go to Betty Buckley
and Cagney and Lacey actor John Karlun.
German director Percy Adlon's Sukarbaby
"inspired" this Americanisjd reworking
which emerges as routine sit-com
humour. (Alan Frank)
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P258 ORACLE 258 Thu26 Dec CEN 2054:11
FRIDAY 04.50
HOVERBUG (1970)
Jill Riddick, John Trayhorn
The ingredients of this engaging comedy
for children fit the bill perfectly...
A couple of plucky kids are trying to
build a hovercraft, other youngster;
are out to stop them and it all
culminates in an exciting race.
$hj young actors do everything asked of
them with charm and good humour. Among
the adult actors is Arthur Howard, a
delight as a highly eccentric invuntou.
(Alan Frank)
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P258 ORACLE 25) Thu26 Dec CEN 2154:48
THURSDAY 14.15
James Ha:eldine, Thandie Newton
David Stafford's blithe ssreenptay is a
splendid tribute to swashbuckler; Flynn
and Fairbanks with Hazeldinj as a ruben
helping free slaves in the Wj;t Indie;'
$hi action is fast, furious and Qlickly
staged, Hazeldinj is a buccaneer to the
manner born and Newton acquits heruulf
the Caribbean and which wure rifmed hg
+ales? First-rate family unteutainmunt.
(Alan Frank)
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