batman

Follow Me Quietly - an abslutely superb 1949 RKO B-thriller with William Lundigan on the trail of a serial killer known as The Judge. This rattles along at a tremendous pace and doesn't waste one second of it's 59m running time. Director Richard Fleischer creates one more of true eerieness in a film which leaves you wanting more. Highly recommended.

Jingle bells Batman smells ... I heard that at school Daddy.

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Third Man

Fleisher was an interesting talent, I've been rewatching some of his film-noirs lately and they are incredibly fresh for the time they were done in - a couple of nights back I watched Armoured Car Robbery which definately prefigures films like The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing and of course you have the seminal film-noir The Narrow Margin and an array of really ahead of their time films like Soylent Green and Fantastic Voyage not to mention a very brave a fresh take on the war genre Tora! Tora! Tora! - a very interesting film career one that could easily be a project for a college or uinversity course.

He also worked with Attenborough for 10 Rillington Place, actually I could go on listing his fine achievements but I'll have to stop somewhere

Simon

Simon

retroman

Very very few , the whole point about the two tone movement was that it was anti racist. I lived in Coventry in the Specials hey-day - and went to a couple of their gigs. I'm not saying that there weren't any racists, because a collection of skinheads is always going to have an extreme minority but I think if there was any element of that, it tended to be more with fans that followed Madness at the time rather than Specials. I remember at one event where both groups were billed there was a confrontation between NF and the Anti-nazi league , got very nasty.

I found This is England interesting I suppose but I can't say I enjoyed it. I agree with others that some themes were implausible, particularly the age barrier. Thomas Turgoose was good, and repugnant though his character was, Stephen Graham as Combo I thought was convincing

"I've agreed with you from the first about the danger. But now I think you are utterly mistaken".

batman

Armored Car Robbery and Narrow Margin are two of my favourites .... especially as they feature Charles McGraw. I am also rather fond of Violent Saturday and Bodyguard. Fleischer certainly knew how to crank up the tension in those early thrilers.

Jingle bells Batman smells ... I heard that at school Daddy.

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dremble wedge

The Boston Strangler was pretty good mid-period Fleischer.

Third Man

McGraw was good, even his voice scares me, they just don't do those type of characters anymore in films.. well maybe Micael Madsen is a throwback to that type .

Simon

lupinpooter

I seem to remember that certain of the NF crowd referred to The Specials as "Specials plus two" because they wouldn't acknowledge the black members of the band

Very envious of you retroman: I would have loved to have seen them live. One of the few bands I still enjoy as much today as I did when I were a lad.

john audley

Last evening I watched the DVD of the original BBC Quatermass and the Pit - must say that the young actress really gets duffed up in it, manhandled all over the place.

'You should be kind to us normals, there are not many of us left you know'!

Windthrop

The Reptile - companion piece to The Plague of Zombies, Hammer's Cornish duo of films. As ever the Hammer sets are very obvious but the film quite atmospheric and I agree with David Pirie's observation that the two films are best seen one after the other.

Thats the joke that killed the Music Hall !

batman

Episodes of Special Branch (You Don't Exist) and Public Eye (The Fall Guy) .... two programmes featuring high quality acting and writing. Excellent stuff.

Jingle bells Batman smells ... I heard that at school Daddy.

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wadsy

Dr Strangelove, a film Iv'e never really enjoyed, regardless of the

brilliance involved! Then I recorded Carry on Screaming but once

again the technology ( my new DVD recorder) got the better of me & I

only got the first 12 minutes!

CaptainWaggett

Doctor Who, obviously. I was a little disappointed in the resolution to the two-parter. Obivously HandcuffedTennant is something I'd like to see more of but it didn't put me through the emotional wringer in the way last year's Family of Blood/Human Nature did. But Catherine Tate impresses as an actor more every week.

Steve Crook

I agree fully. Much as I admire the writing of Steven Moffat I don't think that one lived up to his other Doctor Who stories or his other writing.

The basic idea of creatures that lived in the shadows was very clever ("Not every shadow is dangerous, but any shadow can be dangerous"). But the zombie walk and the repetitive "Hey, who turned out the lights" soon began to get tired. Maybe they overloaded it with references to Alex Kingston having been of some huge significance to the Doctor in her future even though he hadn't met her yet.

Steve

ronald colman 1

THE SCAMP 1957
Thanks to Movies For Men we seem to be getting at least 4 or 5 British Films everyweek.
I found it very entertaining .

penfold

It worked for me....and the sooner Alex Kingston returns and Donna gets bumped off the better for me, though I would miss Bernard Cribbins...
There was all sorts going on in there....the nature of life and death, of memory, could we be downloaded at the point of death into a hard-drive 'heaven'....nothing incredibly original, I'm sure Philip K. Dick tackled it, but then he wasn't writing for Who....and proper emotion at the end... best episodes of this series, definitely.
Sweet dreams everybody.

Bit of a Bay Window, what??