ALAN FRANK'S TELLY MOVIES.

(From The Daily Star)

CALAMITY JANE (1953) **** ITV 9.5511.50am. Classic comedy musical. Feisty tomboy Wild Westerner Doris Day sets out to make herself more alluring when she falls for hunky lawman Wild Bill Hickok played by Howard Keel. Featuring Allyn McClerie, Dick Wesson and Oscar-winning song Secret Love. HALF A SIXPENCE (1967) **** Five 12.30-3.20pm. Period musical. Draper's assistant Tommy Steele rises in the world and moves into high society after receiving an unexpected inheritance but life among the upper crust is not what he expected it to be. Also starring Julia Foster and Cyril Richard. ZULU (1964) **** ITV 1.30-4.05pm. Fac t based action. A handful of British soldiers stand fast against hordes of hostile Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift in South Africa in 1879. Costarring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine. 3.10 TO YUMA (1958) b/w **** BBC2 1.35-3.05pm. Western. Farmer Van Heflin has a tense time when, after witnessing a holdup, he agrees escort cocky outlaw Glenn Ford and hold him prisoner until it is time to put him on the train that will take him to prison in Yuma. Also starring Felicia Farr. SEABISCUIT (2003) **** BBC1 2.204.30pm. Drama. One-eyed jockey Tobey Maguire joins forces with over-the-hill trainer Chris Cooper and owner Jeff Bridges to train a hopeless Depression Era steed and transform him into a winning racehorse. CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981) **** Five 3.20-5.30pm. Fantasy adventure. Ancient Greek hero Harry Hamlin sets out to battle strange creature and win the love of a beautiful woman before the gods force her to be sacrificed to a monster. Also starring Laurence Olivier, Ursula Andress and Maggie Smith. CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (1968) **** ITV 4.15-6.45pm. Family fantasy musical. When eccentric inventor Dick Van Dyke revamps a derelict car so that is can fly and float on water, a greedy nobleman is determined to stop at nothing to get ...