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Old 05-12-2007, 07:28 PM
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I too for many years visited Amersham and have had a "few" beers in the local, especially in Old Amersham where many of the Miss Marple adventures were filmed. But at that time, early to late 70's, none of it was relevent as it is now. I always had a strong love for movies, especially good British movies, but now being so far from home and the chances of seeing them here are one in a billion, I really appreciate and look back with very fond memories of visiting a little piece of film history.

I once visited a pub just "a few" miles away in Aldenham one Thursday evening which just happened to be the quiz evening, the pub being The Three Compasses, and one of the questions asked was "In what British war movie was The Three Compasses featured in?" I had no idea and put down The Black Windmill. Obviously being wrong, I later found out it was for one of my fave war movies 633 Squadron.

Has anyone ever written a book based on British movie locations? It would be a mammoth of a job and would probably take years to do. I know there are many websites dedicated to British movies, but books you can take most places.

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For a town of its size, Amersham - certainly top or new Amersham - is not that well served by pubs. I think it had something to do with the landowners.

Brian Penreigh had a book out of movie locations a few years back. I failed to buy it and haven't seen it since. Tony Reeves has brought out 2 books on movie locations - The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations and The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations Presents London. Then there's the Movie Traveller by Allan Foster. Last but certainly not least Tony McKay's terrific Guide to Avengerland

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Margaret Rutherford is an icon, a British and English icon, yes, but also an icon who reveals how wondrous it is to be human and not "in the loop" of power.
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Absolutely brilliant. A total one-off who graced every film she ever appeared in. Agatha Christie may have had her reservations about her as Miss Marple but, for me, she was the best. I always thought that the late Leslie Halliwell summed her up superbly in his Filmgoer's Companion with the two words 'garrulous and shapeless'. Hardly words that you would normally associate with star quality but, then, that was the wonder of the wonderful Miss Rutherford.
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Must say that it was a delight last Sunday to be surrounded by snow (our garden thaws rather slowly) have a full Sunday lunch just laid out and the unmistakable strains of Ron Goodwin's 'Miss Marple' theme drifting in from the living room, announcing the arrival of MURDER AT THE GALLOP.

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I am also a big fan of Margaret Rutherford.

I once saw a photo of her sat in a deckchair on a beach. Next to her on the sand was a young Tony Benn (Anthony Wedgewood Benn as was) the politician. He looked to be about 12 or 13 at the time.

Am I right in thinking that Tony Benn was her nephew? I know he is a prolific diarist and wondered if he ever made reference to his aunt Margaret in his memoirs?

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Am I right in thinking that Tony Benn was her nephew? I know he is a prolific diarist and wondered if he ever made reference to his aunt Margaret in his memoirs?

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They were cousins.

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I can see it now - Wedgwood: a TV series where an octogenarian pipe-smoking socialist solves crimes in the sleepy village of Westminster...
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While not ignoring the ishoos.
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I can see it now - Wedgwood: a TV series where an octogenarian pipe-smoking socialist solves crimes in the sleepy village of Westminster...
At least he wouldn't need a sound recordist!
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Ah, wonderful films! We've got all four on DVD and regularly wheel them out for a 'Sunday afternoon' session.
Margaret Rutherford was superb at this sort of part. She may not have had a great range, but what she did she did to perfection.
In my book, she IS the proper Miss Marple, and all the later ones are merely pretenders.
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she was a one off , wonderful funny lady. wrote in other thread about her how her and her husband adopted an actor in his twenties,

Dawn Langley Pepita Simmons (1937 – 18 September 2000) was an intersexed transsexual woman born Gordon Langley Hall in Sussex as the illegitimate son of Vita Sackville-West's chauffeur and another servant. She was raised by her grandmother and then adopted by Margaret Rutherford and her husband Stringer Davis in 1962, when she was already 25 – among her later published works being a biography of Rutherford. Then, after having one of the first sex-change operations in America, she married a black chauffeur in Charleston, in one of the first interracial marriages in South Carolina.
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I am just surprised that the name Peter Cushing is never heard of or spoken about anymore in this country. I "met" him first in my native Chile. I was always deeply impressed by his acting and appearance.
In my opinion his one of UK's best actors, but not recognized as so though. I am trying to collect as money movies of his as I possibly can. Unfortunately, not all of them are out there available for purchase. All of the above aplies to Basil Rathbone, who in my opinion was the very embodiment of Sherlock Holmes. Hopefully, there's a way to get all of his movies, or most of them, on DVD.
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I am just surprised that the name Peter Cushing is never heard of or spoken about anymore in this country. I "met" him first in my native Chile. I was always deeply impressed by his acting and appearance.
In my opinion his one of UK's best actors, but not recognized as so though. I am trying to collect as money movies of his as I possibly can. Unfortunately, not all of them are out there available for purchase. All of the above aplies to Basil Rathbone, who in my opinion was the very embodiment of Sherlock Holmes. Hopefully, there's a way to get all of his movies, or most of them, on DVD.
Don't forget to include 49th Parallel in the collection

Peter Cushing had gone to Hollywood before the war, but things hadn't worked out too well, and he ended up doing a variety of odd jobs, which is how he came to be making props (not acting) on 49th Parallel. One day he had the job of making flags for model boats to be pushed around a map, and he made a lot of swastikas and laid them out in his digs. They were found by his landlady who promptly called the police

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I am just surprised that the name Peter Cushing is never heard of or spoken about anymore in this country. I "met" him first in my native Chile. I was always deeply impressed by his acting and appearance.
If that is true,then I am surprised. He was one of the most revered actors in British movie history.
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