smudge

Cheers Will -

I shall hold fire in that case...

Smudge

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

Harbottle

The Train (1964) R2. DVD. First rate WW2 yarn which sees railwayman Burt Lancaster attempt to thwart Nazi Colonel Paul Schofield's plan to remove art treasures from Paris at the end of the occupation. Running at over 2 hours its a tribute to all concerned that the film simply flies by as its just so engrossing.

dremble wedge

Absolutely superb, one of my favourite films of the 60s.

batman

That makes three of us ... great film!

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penfold

Four...and features one of my favourite silent-era actors, the wonderful Michel Simon, as the corpulent driver who gets killed in the yard early on. He was a sort of French-language Charles Laughton....probably best known for Boudu Sauvez des Eaux, in the thirties.

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

penfold

I'm only watching them on my portable, and have only seen the first five, but they look perfectly alright thus far. I'll let you know when I'm finished.

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

CaptainWaggett

Is that the one where his alibi depends on whether he's drunk orangeade or lemonade at the dance? You can see why British noir never quite got going as a genre.

batman

Michel Simon was also excellent as the innocent suspect in the first version of Durenmatt's The Pledge.

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batman

That's the one .... there are some pretty good Brit noirs but this one certainly isn't one of them!

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Joe Fraguela

Last night I watched the first four episodes from the first series of the excellent BBC drama series The Brothers from 1972. A brilliant series and Jean Anderson is superb as the Matriarch of the Hammond family. Excellent support from the rest of the cast which included Glyn Owen, Richard Easton, Jennifer Hilary, Robin Chadwick and Hilary Tindall.

CaptainWaggett

You have to admit that it's bit slow to get going though since every piece of information has to be repeated 23 times for new viewers. There's a hilarious scene where Jean Anderson invites her dead husband's mistress round to tea so they can discuss his will and the mistress says 'I know all about the will, I was there at the reading' and Jean says 'Yes, but let me go through it all again in exhaustive detail just in case anyone hasn't quite understood the premise of the series'.

And who knew the 1970s was quite so brown. And alcoholic.

I watched Britain's Home Front at War - London can take it, one of the Imperial War Museum collections of wartime shorts. I thought the most interesting was 'Manchester Took It Too' - I hadn't realised quite how devastating the raids there were, with pretty well every famous building in the city centre hit.

Hackett

Watched a top form Nigal Patrick in "SAPPHIRE" 1959. The story has lost none of its impact in nearly 50 years. Only down side is a very wooden Paul Massie who plays the whole film in a duffelcoat.

arctic

Joes Palace with Michael Gambon.......directed by Stephen Poliakoff....MAJOR FILM!

Steve Crook

The blitz on London, and maybe Coventry got most of the publicity - and continue to do so. But there was hardly a single town of any size that wasn't bombed. Even quite a lot in what you would think were out of the way targets and quite inoffensive places.

But we did similar, if not worse at times, to the towns and cities in Germany.

Bombing wasn't at all accurate back then. If you got it within a mile or two of the target it was usually more by luck than judgement.

Steve

stevie boy

and how good is Bernard Miles in this?? Nigel Patrick was a fabulous actor.