FILMS OF THE DAY; Wednesday TV.THREE SECRETS ***CH4 1.35pm It might seem like typical daytime telly fare, but this emotional drama knows how to tug on your heartstrings. When a five-year-old adopted boy emerges as the sole survivor of a plane crash, three mothers realise he could be their child. Eleanor Parker and Patricia Neal star. HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS ** SKY MOVIES COMEDY 6pm Comedy adventure about a family who accidentally run down the legendary Bigfoot in their car while returning home from a camping trip. When the creature comes around, they discover it is highly intelligent and actually very friendly. John Lithgow stars. FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE ***** FIVE 9pm Clint Eastwood returns as The Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's follow-up Western to the classic A Fistful fist·ful n. pl. fist·fuls The amount that a fist can hold. Noun 1. fistful - the quantity that can be held in the hand handful containerful - the quantity that a container will hold of Dollars. Here, the infamous gunslinger Gunslinger A high-strung portfolio manager who, looking for high returns, invests in very high-risk stock. Notes: Stay away from these guys, or they could end up shooting you in the foot! forms a shaky alliance with a military veteran as they track down a notorious outlaw. However, tensions begin to rise as their very different reasons for hunting the fugitive put them increasingly at odds. Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volonte star. SCARFACE ***** SKY MOVIES DRAMA 10pm Small-time Cuban crook Tony Montana immigrates to the US with a unique vision of the American Dream that involves gaining wealth by any means necessary By any means necessary is a translation of a phrase coined by the French intellectual Jean Paul Sartre in his play Dirty Hands. I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. . Joining the inner circle of a Miami drug lord, he goes on to take over his boss's empire. However, his increasing paranoia and cocaine addiction threaten to bring everything crashing down around him. Al Pacino (top) is on career-defining form, alongside Michelle Pfeiffer. UNFAITHFUL ** BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. 1 10.45pm A New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of woman with a seemingly perfect marriage risks everything when she is drawn into a passionate affair following a chance encounter with a charming Frenchman. However, as time goes on, her husband grows suspicious and eventually confronts her lover - but even he is not prepared for the level of anger he proves to be capable of. Thriller, starring Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez and Richard Gere (above). CAPTION(S): RISKING ALL... Unfaithful THE BAD GUY... Scarface |
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