Sun, Sep 25, 1977
Barry Norman returns with a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. New York, New York: Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro star in Martin Scorsese's latest film set in the post-war big band era. Exorcist II - The Heretic: Linda Blair and Max Von Sydow repeat their roles in a sequel to The Exorcist directed by John Boorman. The Medusa Touch: Star Richard Burton and director Jack Gold talk at Pinewood Studios about their latest venture into telekinesis.
Sun, Oct 9, 1977
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Slap Shot: Paul Newman plays a professional ice hockey player in director George Roy HilFs latest comedy-drama. Valentino: Rudolf Nureyev makes his screen acting debut in Ken Russell's film about the legendary silent screen star. March or Die: Gene Hackman, Terence Hill and director Dick Richards are interviewed in Spain during the making of their Foreign Legion film.
Sun, Oct 23, 1977
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Equus: Richard Burton and Peter Firth star in director Sidney Lumet's film version of Peter Shaffer 's successful stage play. Demon Seed: Julie Christie is attacked by a rebellious computer in a fantasy-horror movie set in the not-too-distant future. Alex and the Gypsy Jack Lemmon in Hollywood talks to Barbra Paskin about his latest role as a bail bondsman who befriends a gypsy.
Sun, Nov 6, 1977
Welcome to L.A. (1976): Sissy Spacek, Keith Carradine and Sally Kellerman star in a Robert Altman production which opens London's new cinema, Screen on the Hill. Voyage of the Damned (1976): The story of 937 German Jewish refugees who sailed in May 1939 in a bid for freedom, features Faye Dunaway, Malcolm McDowell, Max Von Sydow and Orson Welles. Prey (1977): This location report shows how a group of film technicians banded together to make their own sci-fi horror movie.
Sun, Nov 20, 1977
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. The Amsterdam Kill: Robert Mitchum plays a discredited US cop who tries to break up an international drugs ring. Chinese Roulette (1976): the prolific German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's latest film which charts the emotional entanglements of a group resident in a castle over a long weekend, is premiered tomorrow at the 21st London Film Festival. The Last Remake of Beau Geste: Marty Feldman, on location in Madrid, talks about his first film as director, writer and star with comments from his co-stars Michael York, Ann-Margret and Peter Ustinov.
Sun, Dec 4, 1977
Barry Norman presents a roundup of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Dominique (1979): Cliff Robertson, Flora Robson, Simon Ward, Jenny Agutter and director Michael Anderson talk about a new film now being made at Shepperton Studios. Golden Rendezvous (1977): Richard Harris and David Janssen star in Alistair Maclean's latest adventure about drug smuggling in South Africa. The Black Panther (1977): Donald Sumpter plays the title role in Ian Merrick's film dramatisation of the notorious 1975 kidnapping case.
Sun, Dec 18, 1977
Barry Norman presents a round-up of films and film books for Christmas. The Gauntlet - Clint Eastwood, star and director, talks in New York about his latest film in which he plays a loner cop who is framed by a corrupt superior. Star Wars - Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing and Alec Guinness star in director George Lucas 's space fantasy which has already become the world's biggest box-office attraction. Rollercoaster - George Segal plays a safety inspector turned detective, Henry Fonda his boss and Richard Wid mark a special agent in the latest disaster sensurround movie set in an American amusement park. The Deep - Jacqueline Bissett, Robert Shaw and Nick Nolte star in a film version of Peter (Jaws) Benchley's book about a search for treasure in the waters off Bermuda. The Entertainers - Hirschfeld's book of drawings features such stars as Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Mae West and Elvis Presley.
Sun, Jan 15, 1978
Barry Norman presents a New Year round-up of news, reviews and interviews. International Velvet: Child star Tatum O'Neal and director Bryan Forbes talk about the sequel to the 1944 MGM classic, National Velvet, which they are making at Pinewood Studios. The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training: The famous kids' baseball team goes to Texas and recruits William Devane as coach for a big game. The Glenn Miller Story: James Stewart and June Allyson star in the 1954 biography of the famous band leader which opens London's new Plaza 4 cinema, devoted to re-issues of famous Paramount movies.
Sun, Jan 29, 1978
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Julia: Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave star in Fred Zinnemann's new film based on the American writer Lillian Hellman 's memoirs. The Choirboys: Robert Aldrich directs the film version of Joseph Wambaugh's best-selling novel about a group of hard-drinking cops who patrol the streets of Los Angeles. The Class of Miss Macmichael: Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed on location in South London, talk about their third film together, a black comedy set in a school for maladjusted teenagers.
Sun, Feb 12, 1978
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: Frankie Howerd, making his first film in Hollywood, talks about his unusual role in this pop/rock film. Candleshoe: Jodie Foster, David Niven and Helen Hayes star in the latest Disney suspense comedy set in England. International Velvet: child star Tatum O'Neal and director Bryan Forbes talk about the sequel to the 1944 MGM classic, National Velvet, which they are making at Pinewood Studios.
Sun, Feb 26, 1978
Silver Bears: Cybill Shepherd, Michael Caine and Stephane Audran star in director Ivan Passer's comedy involving a 'friendly' Swiss bank. The Four Feathers: Beau Bridges, Robert Powell, Simon Ward and Richard Johnson star in a remake of this classic romantic adventure. The Swarm: Henry Fonda, Richard Chamberlain, Michael Caine and producer-director Irwin Allen comment in Hollywood on their disaster movie about killer bees.
Sun, Mar 12, 1978
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Looking for Mr Goodbar: Diane Keaton stars as the good/ bad girl who teaches by day and cruises the singles bars by night. The Stud: Oliver Tobias as The Stud himself; actress Joan Collins and her writer sister Jackie Collins talk about the film they are making based on Jackie's best-selling novel. Swept Away: Giancarlo Giannini stars in Italian director Lina Wertmuller's film about a man and a woman cast away on an island.
Sun, Mar 26, 1978
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. The Goodbye Girl: Richard Dreyfuss is an aspiring actor and Marsha Mason an ex-chorus dancer in Neil Simon's latest comedy set in New York's theatreland. Saturday Night Fever: John Travolta, who has been hailed as America's latest sex symbol, plays a salesman who comes to life only on Saturdays at the local disco. The Hound of the Baskervilles: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore comment on their latest film based on the famous Sherlock Holmes story, which is now being made at Bray Studios.
Sun, Apr 9, 1978
Telefon: Charles Bronson and Lee Remick star in Don Siegel's spy thriller about a KGB agent sent to America to find a demented Russian traitor. Roseland: director James Ivory's new film is set in New York's ornate dance-hall, Roseland, where Teresa Wright, Geraldine Chaplin, Lou Jacobi and Christopher Walken live out their fantasies for a few hours a day. Jaws 2: Roy Scheider and Lorraine Gary once again play husband and wife in the sequel to Jaws which they are making in Florida. Barbra Paskin talked to them about the problems of trying to repeat the success of the original.
Sun, Apr 23, 1978
A Film 78 special in which Barry Norman looks back over 50 years of science fiction films, including The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Day the Earth Caught Fire and Stanley Kubrick's 2001 - A Space Odyssey. Film director Richard Fleischer explains why he directed 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Soylent Green. Science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov talks about robots and androids.
Sun, May 7, 1978
To coincide with a season of Woody Allen films at the National Film Theatre, this Film 78 special, introduced by Barry Norman, presents an interview with the writer-actor-director Woody Allen, whose film Annie Hall won this year's major Oscars. Woody Allen talks, wittily and candidly, not only about his work in the cinema, but on subjects ranging from philosophy to phobias, from psychiatrists to sex. Allen: I've been going to an analyst for about 22 years now.' 'How's it going?' 'Slowly.' Plus extracts from his most successful films.
Sun, May 21, 1978
Barry Norman presents news and reviews from the movie world. High Anxiety: Mel Brook's comedy is a spoof tribute to Alfred Hitchcock starring of course, Mel Brooks with Madeleine Kahn. Coming Home: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight and Bruce Dern star in a love story set against the background of the war in Vietnam. The Betsy: Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross are in Harold Robbins's best-seller about power struggles in the car industry. Gray Lady Down: a preview of Charlton Heston, David Carradine and Stacy Reach involved in the rescue of a nuclear submarine trapped 1,500ft beneath the ocean.
Sun, May 28, 1978
A Film 78 Special in which Barry Norman talks to 84-year-old journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns in Desert Hot Springs, California, about the personalities she has known - THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WINDSOR; Western hero Wyatt Earp; pioneer director D.W. Griffith; silent screen stars RUDOLPH VALENTINO, MARY PICKFORD, JOHN GILBERT and TOM MIX; Hollywood stars GARY COOPER and JEAN HARLOW; Senator HUEY LONG and ex-President RICHARD NIXON.