[1952] The Card - Today’s Sunday afternoon film is this charming story of Edward Machin, an Edwardian-era young rogue of lowly origin, who decides he must do what he can to raise his living standards in order to see the world and shape his own destiny.

Starring Alec Guinness and Glynis Johns.

https://youtu.be/1sywG6jrXEk

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[1964] Becket - Your Sunday afternoon film is Becket.

King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honour by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.

Starring Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips and John Gielgud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u9VmtQUmoM

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[1954] Hobson's Choice - Your Sunday afternoon film is David Lean's "Hobson's Choice".

Widower Henry Hobson is a successful bootmaker and a tyrannical father of three daughters who all want to leave him by getting married, but he refuses because marriage traditions require him to pay out settlements.

Starring Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson and Prunella Scales.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92PE_pWssdU

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[1954] Hobson's Choice - Your Sunday afternoon film is David Lean's "Hobson's Choice".

Widower Henry Hobson is a successful bootmaker and a tyrannical father of three daughters who all want to leave him by getting married, but he refuses because marriage traditions require him to pay out settlements.

Starring Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie
Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson and Prunella Scales.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92PE_pWssdU

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[1966] The Wrong Box - Your Sunday afternoon film is this comedy based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so.

Starring John Mills, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Nanette Newman, Tony Hancock and Peter Sellers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PprS91tvx0

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[1966] The Wrong Box - Your Sunday afternoon film is this comedy based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so.

Starring John Mills, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
Dudley Moore, Nanette Newman, Tony Hancock and Peter Sellers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PprS91tvx0

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[1945] Brief Encounter - Your Sunday afternoon film is this romantic drama directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life.

Starring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, and Joyce Carey, it follows a passionate extramarital affair in England shortly before World War II.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LguRis_h1qc

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[1969] The Magic Christian - Your Saturday afternoon film is "The Magic Christian".

The world's richest man and his adopted hobo son set out to test the limits of human vanity and greed through a series of "money games".

Starring Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans, Richard Attenborough, Christopher Lee and Spike Milligan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE2zTnOJ94I

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[1963] This Sporting Life - Your Saturday afternoon film is this drama based on the 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey. It recounts the story of a rugby league footballer, Frank Machin, in Wakefield, a mining town in Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting life. Starring Richard Harris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9KOD8WNb6I

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