foha80

The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)

Alistair Sim, Margaret Rutherford,Joyce Grenfell (call me sausage) it dosn't come any better or funnier.
Worth a revisited if you haven't saw it for a while.



Terry

arty-dave

Top of the Form night on BBC4 - wonderful stuff!

DB7

Expose (1975)

Straw Dogs style thriller set in the picturesque Norfolk countryside. A plagiarising author unwittingly employs a vengeful woman as his secretary. Cue murder, a naked Fiona Richmond, rapist Karl Howman and a plot with more holes than Swiss cheese.... and inclusion to the DPP's video nasty list in the 80s.

smudge

My god - somebody else watched it ! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

This is one of Mrs. Smudge's fave naff movies (basically 'cos it has Udo Kier in it.) No matter how many times she sees it, she howls at the 'sexy' scenes with Ms. Richmond ! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

The best thing about that film is that it prompted us to look for the locations one day when we were out there - a nice morning's drive.

And finally...what was the point of the rubber gloves ? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif[/img]

Good job there's no Video Naffty Act - this might top the list ! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif[/img]

SMUDGE

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

DB7

I took it as being symbolic of his guilt over plagiarism. In the early nightmarish visions there's hands smashing through the window, a knife in his hands and blood runnning downs his palms. (despite Hayden saying her hubby committed suicide)

And how long is Karl Howman lying injured in that field for?

TBH I can't see why it's deserving of the 'nasty' tag as it's fairly tame - although Howman's bare bum is a bit upsetting! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blushing.gif[/img]

ollie

AKA The house on straw hill,i like aspects of this film [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blushing.gif[/img] it is naff and clunky but i might watch it again, (wears the rubber gloves,yes it does) [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

cheers Ollie.

"Bullseye !!"

smudge

Yes, KH must have been wounded for a week or more ! The editing is abysmal - the near closing scene in the bathroom makes no sense whatsoever (come to think of it, why am I LOOKING for sense ?)

There was supposed to be a Region 1 definitive edition of this, but it hasn't turned up yet ; it would be interesting just to see if there were any extra bits...

SMUDGE

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

DB7

Think there were 2 minutes of cuts by the BBFC. Most probably the shower scene (which I think may have been a nod to Psycho), maybe Kier striking Fiona Richmons and the rape scene as the editing jumps when Hayden begins toching the shotgun.

It's like Alex Cox on Moviedrome revisited [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

Harbottle

Halfway House (1944)

Propaganda it may have been but a delightful film I think, even allowing for one or two slightly overwrought performances, for example I could certainly have done with rather less of Sally-Ann Howes. There really is no doubting that Mervyn Johns and Glynis Johns characters are supposed to Welsh is there…. Look You.

djdave

Saw The Italian Job again last night.

Still one of the best films ever made....'nuff said. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

A Pemberton

Meantime (1983)

Mike Leigh story of surviving in 80s Britain ,20 odd years on and still evocative ,though I had forgotten how bad the soundtrack was ,the same few bars of music repeated throughout the film,probably some meaning for that is too deep for me.The cast is something to behold ,Tim Roth,Gary Oldman and Alfred Molina ,where are they now? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

DB7

Tony Draws a Horse (1950)

Tepid John Paddy Carstairs directed marital farce similar to those churned out by Rank during the 50s.

DB7

Hancock's Half Hour - Volume 3 (looking vidfired and edited) and Scully.

penfold

Nice double-bill at the NFT....the freshly (and very well) restored semi-sound version of Arthur Robison's 1929 The Informer...the dialogue section (the last third of the film) is and was then criticised for the voices - the Dublin-based IRA cell is awfully well spoken - but you are already sunk into the film by then, so the effect is not as horrendous as raw clips from that section might indicate..
...with the Hollywood-made but British-starring and ultra-British subject....'The Better 'Ole' , starring Syd Chaplin (yes,his elder brother) as Bruce Bairnsfather's Old Bill...terrific, made with a real love for the original cartoons (the print we had was sepia-toned, as were the cartoons, and there was a 'Bystander' in-joke) with a couple of inspired sequences, notably a panto horse routine, and another with a german guard's unco-operative legs...

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

penfold

And this morning....Murder! (1931) a half-forgotten Hitchcock whodunnit, newly released on the Arthaus label in Germany...the DVD is well presented, a fine restoration of the English version, extras including an alternate, more complete, ending, the completely recast German version 'Mary' and a section of Hitch's interview with Truffaut. Murder! at Amazon.De
The cast of 'Murder!' is top-rate...a pre-Hollywood Herbert Marshall, stalwarts like Edward Chapman, Donald Calthrop, Una o'Connor, Miles Mander, Esme Percy - as a half-caste trapeze drag act!...and the aristocratically beautiful Norah Baring, in one of her rare roles; but as in her Asquith silents Underground and A Cottage in Dartmoor, mesmerising...she seemed to specialise in 'troubled young woman'roles...here she is a convicted muderess about to hang...but is she actually guilty?? The plot is a bit creaky, but Hitch works it well, puts in a quick appearance...he doesn't do much to disguise Herbert's limp (he had only one leg), Lubitsch covered it better in 'Trouble In Paradise', but all in all, very highly recommended.
'Mary' stars Alfred Abel and Olga Tschechowa, newly returned to the continent after British silent work such as 'Moulin Rouge...no English subtitles, though...

Bit of a Bay Window, what??