CaptainWaggett

Can't speak for all the squirrels (I wonder if they managed to avoid future type-casting) but the tasters weren't CGI. As for the Oompa Loompas - did I miss something then? Wasn't there was only one?

The 1971 version has always struck me as unpleasantly garish and vulgar. I guess if people grew up with it, they might feel a nostalgic affection but I don't think it has much adult appeal and the fate of the children has always struck me as extremely sadistic (yes, I know that's the point). The death penalty for chewing gum and watching tv?

Steve Crook

There were chorus lines of Oompa Loompas

It is cruel to the children, even to Charlie, but so are many children's stories and fairy tales. But that's OK as long as there is some sort of redemption and/or happy ending. Children like being scared, as long as they feel safe when it happens and that it doesn't happen for an extended period

Steve

CaptainWaggett

But weren't the Oompa Loompas all Deep Roy? Wasn't that kind of the point?

Yesterday I watched When Thief Meets Thief in which debonair cracksman Douglas Fairbanks Jr alternates playing the violin with leaping tall buildings in a single bound and Valerie Hobson gets tried for murder in a very peculiar courtroom where nobody wears wigs (presumably so as not to confuse Americans) and defence counsel Basil Radford receives the latest evidence in the Times while in mid-speech. It was terrible.

Steve Crook

I fast-forwarded through them when I saw them doing what sounded like an attempt at a (c)rap number

The IMDb Trivia page says: Deep Roy played every Oompa-Loompa himself, repeating the same movements several hundred times. While these were then put together digitally, each Oompa-Loompa represents a separate performance by Roy. In recognition of this, Roy's salary was raised to $1,000,000.

Steve

Moor Larkin

On the imdb message boards some have been suggesting that the 'film remake' of The Prisoner should have, as the butler, someone or something called 'Deep Roy' from the chocolate film....... Now I know what they're on about.

Clearly he would be unaffordable........ thank heavens for small...... mercies

CaptainWaggett

Deep Roy is fabulous. I actually recognised him from his numerous appearnces in Blake's 7 and Doctor Who so it was great to see him get a proper part. He deserved a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for Charlie. Seriously.

smudge

Wasn't it Deep Roy in the NEW AVENGERS episode TARGET, as Keith Barron's stooge...?

Smudge

Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

Lord Brett

That's the feller! One of the best episodes of The Avengers in any of its guises, and aparantly the story which sold the series in the USA.

Gazza

Monday 31 March, Sally Potter's Orlando.

It's a beautiful film and Tilda S is wonderful in it, a sort of porcelain vulnerability, whatever her gender.

stevie boy

Hue & Cry, superb. Jack Warner had that dodgy laugh again that he had in the first hugget film. Alistair Sim is just fantastic and good to see Harry Fowler again. I am sure he made a reasonable living but he never did become a big star. The location shots of bombed London are very humbling.

Lord Brett

I'm looking foward to reading the book again, but I'm reading some earlier Woolf at the moment.

dremble wedge

The Boys a curiosity from 1962 with four 'teenagers' (all in their mid to late 20s!) accused of murder.

Some nice locations, very familiar faces throughout but hampered by an unconvincing plea for tolerance for 'misunderstood kids' and overlength.

CaptainWaggett

I read an interview with Harry Fowler where he said that Jack Warner congratulated him on being a character actor at 18 and told him he'd be able to work until he was 90. Which has more or less turned out to be true!

batman

A double bill of Johnny Weismuller films (Tarzan Triumphs and Jungle Jim) followed by the Edgar Wallace film Clue of the Silver Key with Bernard Lee and Patrick Cargill. A highly predictable plot and some dodgy acting (except from the great Mr Lee) could not prevent this from being an entertaining entry in the series.

The Weismuller films fall into this category as well!

I wish I had claws.

Joenoir

It is indeed Sir Bruce Seton.

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.