"Idiot Heroes" - Britmovie

dylan · 28-11-2007, 09:04 AM

Which cinema/theatre writer/actor wrote in 1957:

"It [the Labour Party] would be worried if the corrupt, dishonest symbols that move people, by the rubbish turned out by the British film industry, with its emotional dishonesty, its false, implicitly Tory values, and idiot heroes."

D.

DB7 · 28-11-2007, 10:17 AM

Bernard Miles?

Windthrop · 28-11-2007, 10:29 AM

Emlyn Williams ?

Hackett · 28-11-2007, 10:57 AM

Harold Pinter

dylan · 28-11-2007, 12:48 PM

None of these but Pinter is close.

D.

Pricey · 28-11-2007, 01:26 PM

John Osbourne? Ken Tynan?

JamesM · 28-11-2007, 01:28 PM

Someone who cannot string a full sentence together?

dylan · 28-11-2007, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pricey

John Osbourne? Ken Tynan?

Correct. It was Osborne writing in Reynolds News of 27 Feb 1957.

In later years he moved to the right and became a fan of Coward and Rattigan.

D.

VladTheImpala · 28-11-2007, 11:36 PM

I didn't know the answer but I was pretty confident it wasn't written in 2007.

28-11-2007, 09:04 AM	#1
dylan has no status. Moderator Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: London Posts: 517 Country: iTrader: (0)	"Idiot Heroes" Which cinema/theatre writer/actor wrote in 1957: "It [the Labour Party] would be worried if the corrupt, dishonest symbols that move people, by the rubbish turned out by the British film industry, with its emotional dishonesty, its false, implicitly Tory values, and idiot heroes." D.

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DB7 is just a prescription talkin' Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Shrops Posts: 6,090 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (10)	Bernard Miles?

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dylan has no status. Moderator Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: London Posts: 517 Country: iTrader: (0)	None of these but Pinter is close. D.

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Pricey has no status. Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Lewes Posts: 84 Country: iTrader: (0)	John Osbourne? Ken Tynan?

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28-11-2007, 11:36 PM	#9
VladTheImpala has no status. Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: East Midlands Posts: 88 Country: iTrader: (0)	I didn't know the answer but I was pretty confident it wasn't written in 2007.