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Thursday 31 May 07 06:00 Passage to Marseilles 1949 by Michael Curtiz Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet. Various cast members from 'Casablanca' are reunited for this supposed follow-up, with Humphrey Bogart as a French journalist framed by French pro-fascists. 07:50 42nd Street 1933 by Lloyd Bacon Ruby Keeler, George Brent, Bebe Daniels, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers. Busby Berkeley's definitive backstage musical, with Ruby Keeler dazzling as the anonymous chorus-line girl who becomes a star when the leading lady drops out. 09:20 The Alphabet Murders 1966 by Frank Tashlin Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley, Margaret Rutherford, Maurice Denham. This delightful comic adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic whodunnit sees dapper sleuth Hercule Poirot on the trail of a very methodical killer. Starring Tony Randall. 10:50 Kill or Cure 1962 by George Pollock Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Dennis Price, Lionel Jeffries. British comedians Terry-Thomas and Eric Sykes head the cast of this spoof comedy involving murder and other dastardly deeds at a health farm. 12:20 Son of Lassie 1945 by Simon S Sylvan Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart, Nigel Bruce, William Severn. It's Laddie, rather than his mum Lassie, who hogs the action in this tale of doggy daring-do as he tackles the Nazis alongside bomber pilot Peter Lawford. 14:00 The Prisoner of Zenda 1952 by Richard Thorpe Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Jane Greer, Louis Calhern, Lewis Stone, James Mason. Ruritania rules! Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr and James Mason star in this enjoyable swashbuckler about an Englishman's daring adventures in the kingdom of Ruritania. 15:40 It Happened at the World's Fair 1963 by Norman Taurog Elvis Presley, Joan O'Brien, Gary Lockwood, Vicky Tiu, H.M. Wynant. There's romance in store for Elvis Presley in this actioner set at Seattle's World Fair, with 'The Pelvis' as a daredevil pilot falling for the charms of a pretty nurse. 17:25 That Forsyte Woman 1949 by Compton Bennett Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young, Janet Leigh. Errol Flynn, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon star in this adaptation of John Galsworthy's first 'Forsyte Saga' book - a study of a rich, repressed Victorian dynasty. 19:15 Zigzag 1970 by Richard A. Colla George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach, Steve Ihnat, William Marshall. Edgy thriller, with George Kennedy as a dying insurance man who plans to pin a murder on himself so that his family can benefit from a lucrative payout after his death. 21:00 The Naked Spur 1953 by Anthony Mann James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker. The Colorado Rockies form a magnificent backdrop to this action-packed Western about a Civil War veteran tracking a vicious killer. James Stewart and Janet Leigh star. 22:30 The Hill 1965 by Sidney Lumet Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry, Michael Redgrave, Ian Bannen. There are fine performances from the likes of Sean Connery, Harry Andrews and Michael Redgrave in Sidney Lumet's drama set in a harsh military stockade in WWII Africa.