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Film choice

- Swordfish

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) ITV4, 9.00PM ★★★★

 Christophe­r Lee steals the show as the titular assassin, Francisco Scaramanga, in this classic Bond adventure. Roger Moore’s secret agent, in his second outing as 007, must pursue him, with the help of sidekick Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland), to the villain’s island lair in order to prevent him harnessing the power of the Sun for evil. The confrontat­ions between Moore and Lee are easily the film’s highlights. TCM, 9.00PM ★★ (2001)

 The most often quoted bit of trivia about this film is that Halle Berry was paid an additional £500,000 to go topless. It’s rather lucky she agreed because she’s probably the most appealing aspect of this frenetic thriller. John Travolta and Hugh Jackman put on testostero­ne-fuelled displays as a morally dubious counterter­rorist agent and the hacker he blackmails into accessing billions of dollars of government money. Some Like It Hot (1959, b/w) SKY ARTS, 9.30PM ★★★★★

 When two musicians (Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis) witness a mob hit, they flee the state disguised as women in an all-female band, but further complicati­ons arise in the form of demure ukulele player Sugar Kane, superbly played by Marilyn Monroe. Billy Wilder’s classic comedy is effortless­ly wacky and clever. Before, at 9pm, is Urban Myths, which imagines what happened on the set of this romcom.

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