samkydd

I enjoyed an old Ealing comedy on DVD which I'd not seen since I was a wee boy watching Sunday afternoon television, The Maggie. Clean, simple and entertaining. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

I remember Paul Douglas from The Solid Gold Cadillac from around the same era, and he plays the part of an exasperated American businessmen very well. Hubert Gregg reminds me a bit of Nicholoas Parsons.

Some of the best film comedies over the years seem to have been set in Scotland.

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

Fellwanderer

Little gem [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

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arty-dave

You're a right little tinker, aren't you?

samkydd

Yes I should have added 'low budget' to my previous post!

Mrs samkydd is from north of The Wall, and her parents fit the stereotype (or monotype, they're too tight to have a stereo). My father-in-law can peel an orange in his pocket, and his missus is tighter than a roll of cling film!

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

smudge

You'll get!!

SMUDGE

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DB7

Cheers Aphra [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] . Any idea where it was shot Al? Think it says B&P Studios which without looking I would guess is British Paramount?

plasticjock

Which Wall Sam?
Antonine's or Hadrian's?
Where I came from, anything south of Perth is considered to be England. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wallbash.gif[/img]

My brother-in-law can also peel an orange in his pocket AND keep both hands in view! Last time he bought a round he paid with shillings. Needless to say, he's English, "annn' prahdovit!"
He went pub crawling once in Hamburg with some of his squaddie mates and had to get taken back to the married quarters in an ambulance he was so far gone. He brags that the fiver he went out with was still in his pocket when he checked the next day.
Far be it for me to say he is uncouth but he won't watch a film if it's black & white. And he still wears a Liverpool top with 'Souness' on the back....the tw*t!

Fellwanderer

Fair's fair. He wasn't that bad a player - though he's dire as a manager and I roll round laughing when the barcodes latest exploits are publicised. Boy, was I glad he went there.

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samkydd

He was much better when he was in Boys From The Blackstuff.

I started to watch another Ealing great last night It Always Rains on Sunday. Very atmospheric in post war Bethnall Green; Anderson shelter still in the garden, no cars parked on the street, no traffic, young men dressed like old men! A good supporting cast as well with the likes of John Slater, Sydney Tafler, Alfie Bass, Jimmy Hanley. A bit different from today's London, it looked almost tranquil in those days!

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

Fellwanderer

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Saw that for the first and only time when it was broadcast a few months ago. Very good.

Fortunately for me, I avoid London like the plague. Mind you, I avoid all cities like the plague - save for Durham itself, of course!

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samkydd

Having been brought up in a very rural area; nearest shop a half hour walk, bus service twice a week, no street lights, no pavements, zero amenities, 18 miles to school every day, every flint cottage bought up by Londoner weekenders from Crouch End with Volvo Estates, matching dalmations and horrid children called Hannah and Oliver, I now appreciate the benefits of living in a big town. It's not perfect by any means, but having a nice beach, the countryside just down the road in all directions you can at least try and have the best of both worlds. I drive to work through the New Forest, which is fantastic at this time of year, but I wouldn't want to live there.

We're off up the coast to Beer and Sidmouth at the weekend, walking part of the coastal path, fish and chip lunch, then a trip to the Axminster factory and home in time for the football results! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

Fellwanderer

I have to admit that my views have modified a little recently - although it is really the lack of cultural amenities [no tittering at the back, Sam!] that I'm beginning to miss. It's only about 12 miles into Newcaslte or Durham so there isn't really any excuse.

Well, the coastal path I can relate to. Always meant to do that -especially one particular section. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]

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smudge

It was shot at Denham. D&P ; which, IIRC, was when Denham & Pinewood travelled together. D & P was the company set up when J. Arthur Rank got control of Denham in '39 after Korda's 'love affair' with the insurers ended and they refused to cough up anymore cash to prop him up. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blushing.gif[/img]

SMUDGE

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smudge

15 mins of Ep 2 of HYPERDRIVE, then turned off.... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sleeping.gif[/img]

Anybody else bother to try it again ?

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Harbottle

Those damned children! Yes a two night festival here taking in The Village of the Damned (1960) and Children of the Damned (1963). Not seen either film for ages, the original is a very effective piece of horror on a tiny budget with especially good performances by George Sanders, Barbara Shelley and Martin Stephens. COTD started rather well but went rather flat I thought and the ending was a disappointment, still enjoyable though with an excellent performances by Alan Badel and Alfred Burke, Ian Hendry’s Welsh accent was slightly disturbing though. Oh yes in between those I tried to watch The Ghost Train (1941) (thanks ollie [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] ), I found Arthur Askey especially trying in this one so had to up stumps about half way in. Otherwise enjoyable especially the engaged couple and Kathleen Harrison, will watch the rest tomorrow.