I see that Channel 4 are having a P-P season starting Monday 1st September.

Films for that week are

Monday         The Spy in Black

Tuesday        One of our Aircraft is Missing

Wednesday   A Matter of Life and Death   (hooray!)

Thursday      Black Narcissus  (hooray again!)

Friday          The Battle of the River Plate

They're being screened at lunchtime so the Record button will come in useful

Reiner, I'm assuming they'll come later in the 'season'. The Grauniad didn't say how long it would be. Not that it helps you  much:(

I'm wondering if they'll show Peeping Tom. I've never seen it but would like to. Perhaps 'like' isn't the right word, given the subject,  'interested' is probably better.

WHAT!!? Is there more information about this season on The Grauniad site, cos there ain't anything in The Guide.

I'll be teed off if they have Guess all will be revealed next week, otherwise this is going to be a pretty sparse showing. Hardly a 'season'. Tsk, I'm being prematurely testy

Can't say I've seen all of the P-P films, but I can recall a BBC2 season from late 1980, when they showed most of their stuff.  I find a lot of their films outstay their welcomes - A Matter Of Life and Death and The Red Shoes in particular.  The former, in particular, is full of some really sick-making toadying toward the Americans.

Peeping Tom is interesting, but very unpleasant. Karlheinz (son of Karl) Bohm gives a great performance in the title role and Anna Massey is good, too.  But the scenes with the spike at the end still give me nightmares....

er, I'd wager not at that time slot!

Ted - The Battle of River Plate is not that bad (esp. for a daytime screening). It was made in the decade of so many other british masculity-massaging war films. Christine Geraghty has a chapter on these films in her excellent book on 50's british cinema. From memory, part of it's derring do is the portrayal of the last ever naval battle without the aid of radar, thus proving Brits were better at war the old-fashioned way AS WELL AS being clever so and so's for developing radar to help gain victory in the battles that will follow. I guess, what I'm saying here is that P&P were caught up in the masculine moment - at a time when the real british male was losing so much of his true (imperial) power - just like many other filmmakers in that decade.

Hello ahh. I'm afraid we must agree to differ over BotRP. It is perhaps the most conventional piece  P&P made being a fairly straight forward R.N war film. I have nothing at all against 1950s British war films in fact I love them, but this film is not in the same league as "the Cruel Sea" " Morning Departure" etc.
  A few things I have against it :- the colour, fine for "Red Shoes" or "AMoLaD" but much too OTT for a gritty, realistic war story. The acting, pretty bad e.g the scene below deck where the captive British sailors from differerent ships meet up is painfully scripted but the acting even worse-it must be the poorest performance Bernard Lee ever gave you wonder if the actors will ever reach the end of the scene without drying-up. The studio set of the bridge could come out of a Hitchcock film. The film itself does not gel since it is partly a serious story about the character of the human and humane German Captain and his moral dilemma while the British are still in some gung-ho movie of their own.( Which I guess is saying much the same as you are at the end of your post.) Lastly the closing scene between Finch and Griegson has no chemistry whatsoever (although Finch looks first-rate) Since P&P characters are usually so rounded and sympathetic I can only think they lost interest in the film and just wanted to get it in the can. Sorry if I've been going on a bit!