Sun, Sep 17, 1978
Barry Norman returns with a fortnightly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie-world. Grease: John Travolta, in his first film since Saturday Night Fever, co-stars with Olivia Newton-John in a 1950s-style musical. The Wild Geese: Richard Burton talks about the filming in South Africa of this story about a group of mercenaries who attempt to rescue a deposed African President. Heaven Can Wait: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and James Mason star in a remake of the 1941 fantasy Here Comes Mr Jordan, which tells of a young athlete called to Heaven before his time.
Sun, Oct 1, 1978
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. An Enemy of the People: Steve McQueen returns to the screen after a four-year break in a film version of Henrik Ibsen's play. The Legacy: American actress Katherine Ross stars in a thriller set in the English countryside. The Fury: Brian De Palma's new film about the supernatural features Kirk Douglas and John Cassavetes in an elaborate game of mind control.
Sun, Oct 15, 1978
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. The Driver (1978): Ryan O'Neal plays a getaway driver and Bruce Dern the detective who sets out to trap him in writer/director Walter Hill's action adventure. Watership Down (1978): a behind-the-scenes look at the making in London of an animated film version of Richard Adams 's best-selling book. Girlfriends (1978): the first commercial feature film to be financed from American public funds was directed by a woman, Claudia Weill, and stars Melanie Mayron as a young Manhattan photographer.
Sun, Oct 29, 1978
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Death on the Nile (1978): Peter Ustinov is the new Hercule Poirot with Bette Davis, David Niven, Mia Farrow and Maggie Smith as co-stars in a film version of Agatha Christie 's famous thriller. The Greek Tycoon: Jacqueline Bisset and Anthony Quinn star in a thinly-disguised film biography of Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis. The Thirty-nine Steps: actor Robert Powell , producer Greg Smith and director Don Sharp explain why they are re-making an already successful 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock.
Sun, Nov 12, 1978
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Hooper: Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent and Brian Keith star in a story of three generations of Hollywood stuntmen. Stevie: Glenda Jackson re-creates her stage characterisation of the eccentric English poet Stevie Smith. Newsfront: Australian director Phillip Noyce's highly-acclaimed film about the life of a newsreel cameraman opens this year's London Film Festival.
Sun, Nov 26, 1978
Piranha: Bradford Dillman, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn and killer fish are the stars of Roger Corman's latest disaster movie. Black and White in Colour: an Oscar-winning French film tells how colonials in West Africa reacted when they heard about the outbreak of World War I - a year late. The Spaceman and King Arthur: Kenneth More plays King Arthur in the latest Disney film being made at Pinewood Studios.
Sun, Dec 10, 1978
Jaws 2: Roy Scheider as the island police chief once more fights the indifference of the mayor when another great white shark threatens. Every Which Way But Loose: Clint Eastwood in Texas talks about his change of role in this comedy adventure. Force 10 from Navarone: Alistair Maclean's sequel to The Guns of Navarone stars Robert Shaw. No Bed of Roses: Hollywood actress Joan Fontaine on her recently published autobiography. Watership Down: The soundtrack album features music by Mike Batt and Art Garfunkel.
Sun, Jan 7, 1979
Barry Norman presents a New Year round-up of news. reviews and interviews from the movie world. Capricorn One: a science-fiction thriller about a bogus Mars landing features Elliott Gould, James Brolin and Brenda Vaccaro. The First Great Train Robbery: Sean Connery as an English gentleman and Donald Sutherland as a Cockney pickpocket attempt a gold bullion robbery from a moving train travelling between London and Folkestone in 1855. Players: stars Ali McGraw and Dean Paul Martin. Director Anthony Harvey and producer Robert Evans explain how they used the Centre Court at Wimbledon for the first time ever in a feature film.
Sun, Feb 4, 1979
Foul Plan: Goldle Hawn plays an innocent bystander who becomes involved in murder plots, wild chases and bizarre attempts on her life in this comedy-thriller. Paradise Alley: Sylvester Stallone wrote, directed and stars in this story of three brothers in the slums of New York during the 1940s. Players: stars Ali McGraw and Dean Paul Martin. Director Anthony Harvey and producer Robert Evans explain how they used the Centre Court at Wimbledon for the first time in a feature film.
Sun, Feb 18, 1979
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Too Many Chefs: George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Morley star in a romantic murder mystery featuring several famous European restaurants. Just a Gigolo: Marlene Dietrich, now 78, makes her first screen appearance for 17 years with David Bowie as co-star and David Hemmings as director. Yanks: British director John Schlesinger explains why he has returned to England after seven years to make a love story with a World War II setting, plus comments from two of the film's stars Vanessa Redgrave and William Devane.
Sun, Mar 18, 1979
The Boys from Brazil: Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck star in the film version of Ira Levin's best-selling book about a worldwide plot to create a new Hitler, master-minded by a former Nazi. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Donald Sutherland plays a Department of Health investigator and Leonard Nimoy is his psychiatrist friend in a remake of the 1956 film about living organisms which come to earth from outer space. Murder by Decree: Christopher Plummer, who plays Sherlock Holmes, and James Mason, who plays Watson, explain at Shepperton studios why they are making the 134th film featuring this famous detective.
Sun, Apr 1, 1979
Hair: Central Park is one of the locations used for Milos Forman's film version of the famous stage musical, which has just had its world premiere in New York. The China Syndrome: Jack Lemmon explains the title of this contemporary thriller, also starring Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas. Norma Rae :Sally Field plays a widow in a Southern textile mill who rebels at the cruel conditions. The Wiz: Diana Ross stars in this version, set in New York, of the film classic The Wizard of Oz with Richard Pryor as the Wiz. Just Tell me What You Want: in New York's revitalised Astoria Studios Sidney Lumet is making a romantic comedy about a business tycoon Alan King , and his TV producer girlfriend Ali MacGraw.
Sun, Apr 15, 1979
To celebrate the International Year of the Child, Barry Norman looks at children in movies - from the innocence of the 1920s and 30s to the precociousness of the 1960s and 70s. Child stars appearing are Jackie Coogan, Our Gang, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Temple, Bobby Breen, Freddie Bartholomew, Elizabeth Taylor, Jean Simmons, David Hemmings, Hayley Mills, Jodie Foster and Tatum O'Neal. Also a remake of the 1931 Jackie Cooper picture The Champ, and Britain's latest film featuring children, The Water Babies.
Sun, Apr 29, 1979
Women in the Cinema. 'Sex means big box office and that, by and large, has been woman's role in the movies-to flaunt herself and thus to titillate. But happily, things are now changing.' Barry Norman looks at the changing image of women in the cinema, with the help of film stars Jane Fonda and Dyan Cannon, and the British film critic Margaret Hinxman. Films shown include Dance, Girl, Dance, made in 1940 by Hollywood's only woman director, Dorothy Arzner; Dyan Cannon's Number One; and this year's Oscar-winning Coming Home. Other actresses featured include Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft and Melanie Mayron.
Sun, May 13, 1979
Barry Norman presents a roundup of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Movie Movie: George C. Scott plays two roles in this spoof nostalgic double-feature complete with trailers and Movietone News. In Baxter's Beauties of 1933, he plays a Broadway producer, and in the classic boxing story Dynamite Hands, he plays a trainer. The Lady Vanishes: Elliott Gould. Cybill Shepherd and Angela Lansbury star in a remake of the classic 1938 Hitchcock movie. Agatha: A fictionalised solution to the mystery of why Agatha Christie, played by Vanessa Redgrave, disappeared for 11 days in 1926. Dustin Hoffman plays the journalist who tracks her down.
Sun, May 27, 1979
Barry Norman with his final programme in the present series. Moonraker - Roger Moore in Rio de Janeiro for the forthcoming James Bond movie, talks about his career as 007. Plus interviews with his co-star Lots Chiles, director Lewis Gilbert and producer Albert R. ('Cubby') Broccoli. Days of Heaven - Richard Gere plays a migrant worker in Texas who harvests wheat for an aristocratic farmer. Director Terrence Malick 's new film recently won an Oscar for Best Cinematography. Big Wednesday - Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt and Gary Busey play three Malibu surfers in director John Milius ' latest film, set in the 1960s.