'Lunchtime Movies’ for fortnight

Press, 9 May 1983, Page 19

'Lunchtime Movies’ for fortnight

Because today is the beginning of the school holidays, the regular soap operas will be replaced by “Lunchtime Movies” on One for the next two weeks.

This week’s films range from the uncertainties associated with gambling in “The Monte Carlo Story” starring Marlene Dietrich, to a documentary examining Hollywood’s view of the Wild West hosted by such well-known cowboys as John Wayne, Glenn Ford, and Robert Mitchum.

Still in the wide-open spaces, only this time in Kenya and with lions instead of horses or cattle, is the Wednesday movie, “Born Free”. Thursday’s fare is the 1943 classic, “Old

Acquaintance”, starring Bette Davis as a woman involved in personal and professional rivalry that extends over a 20-year period.

The first week of the “Lunchtime Movies” will end with Dick van Dyke playing a butler up to no good in an attempt to help his employer in “Fillywilly”. In another change for the duration of the school holidays, “Freetime” will replace Oily Ohlson and the “After School” team. “Freetime,” with host Margaret Campbell, formerly a presenter on “Spot On” and “Wildtrack”, will be quite different from any of the programmes that have replaced “After School" in the past.

While still retaining the numerous links between the programmes, the opening link of each day will feature a musical item from some of Auckland’s best-known young singers. Included will be young entertainers such as We Three, Lewis Collins, Quentin Martin, Robin Rode, Arthur Kaupua, and the Jackson Sisters.

Among a variety of material to be played is a version of “Mull of Kintyre” played on bagpipes, “Puppy Love”, and a rendition of “E Ipo”, the song that pushed Prince Tui Teka to the top of New Zealand’s entertainment tree in 1982.

“Freetime” will begin its two-week run today at about 3.30 p.m. on One.