narabdela

A BBC production of "Twelfth Night" from 1979. Felicity Kendal, Robert Hardy, Alec McCowan, Sinead Cusack, Annette Crosbie, Trevor Peacock, Maurice Roeves and Robert Lindsey among others.

A superb production from the Golden Age of television

Third Man

The Spiral Staircase (1945) Robert Siodmak

A US film adapted from the novel "Some Must Watch" by Welsh crime writer Ethel Lina White best known for the “The Wheel Spins” which was made into The Lady Vanishes by Alfred Hitchcock.

A serial killer stalks and murders disabled women and the plot centres on a mute women who becomes his quarry, in the early 20th Century, New England, the original story was set in the UK.

Hitchcock would have been proud if he had made this film, it’s all here malevolent voyeurism, sexual undertones and vulnerable women in fact it could of even prefigured Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom as well. Excellent expressionist camera work by the Film Noir specialist Nick Musuraca who lensed Out of the Past and Cat People give the film a surreal gothic look.

Simon

stevie boy

The Black Rider with Jimmy Hanley, a harmless hours entertainment. England looked so much different then. Good to see Edwin Richfield and of course Leslie Dyer and Lionell Jeffries.

dpgmel

Another episode of "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes" this one starred Ronald Fraser as Mr. Horrocks in a mystey on a cruise liner also featured a young Michael Cashman ( ex-Eastenders ) as his assitant.

Great fun

CaptainWaggett

Marilyn with Maxwell Reed and a lesbian housemaid who didn't get nearly enough screen time.

Dame Starry

I watched a couple of episodes of the second series of Operation Good Guys, an improvised ‘mockumentary’ by Dominic Anciano and Ray Burdis from the late 90s.
The cast includes Ray Burdis and his brother Mark, David Gillespie and Perry Benson who, with others, make up a team of police supposedly being filmed by the BBC and who, of course, are the most useless bunch of coppers you’re ever likely to encounter!
It wouldn’t be everybody’s choice, but it makes me laugh and, IMHO, it did what Gervais did in The Office not only first, but much, much better.

DS x.

Joe Fraguela

Watched last night No Road Back from 1957 another british b-film directed by Montgomery Tully, starring Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton, Margaret Rawlings, Skip Homeier, Eleanor Summerfield, Norman Wooland, Philip, Alfie Bass and Sean Connery.

A blind and deaf woman played by Margaret Rawlings, who runs a small club gets involved with a gang of thieves to pay off her debts. She acts as their fence but decides that enough is enough and wants out. Another enjoyable crime thriller which includes one of Sean Connery's first film performances as a member of the gang called Spike.

Rob Compton

An episode of "George and the Dragon" (b and w ATV TV series) from my newly acquired Network box set - courtesy (eventually...) of Tesco.

Quite good....

rgds
Rob

CaptainWaggett

I think 'of historical interest' is the phrase you are reaching for...

stevie boy

The Holcroft Covenant a freebie Mike Caine. Reasonable film but awful picture and sound quality

didi-5

I'm afraid it was Psychomania. A minor but silly cult 'classic'.

-d-

Lord Brett

Missed it - saw it years ago on Yorkshire Television and since then nobody has believed me that there is a 1950s British b-movie remake/ripoff of The Postman Always Rings Twice/Ossessione.

I'm hoping BBC4 have the rights to at least one repeat screening.

Rob Compton

Quite right, Captain!

Harleybloke

Atonement, dark, dreary, dreadful! Even the beauty of Keira Knightley couldn't lift this tale. A word of caution, if you're ever down in the dumps, don't watch this, it could turn you suicidal.

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

dpgmel

"Khartoum" IMHO one of the best of the 60's epics although historically inaccurate ( Gordon and the Mahdi never met ) still riveting and an excellent performance from Charlton Heston as the enigmatic Gordon.