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Did rainbow used to start with this too? I loved this logo and music as a 5 year old

"Seya next time!"

smudge

Me too !

SMUDGE

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

penfold

Master and Commander on Channel Four. Pretty decent, with a strong British character actor support. The battle scenes were more 'Saving Private Ryan'ish than the usual, and highly effective.

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

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Master and Commander on Channel Four, never seen this! Was I out every week I ask myself?

"Seya next time!"

WiseFilms

Finally got around to looking at Night and the City Sunday. What a nice glimpse at the seedier parts of Post-War London! Sort of a companion to the thoroughly New York Force of Evil in that way.
Style gets an 8 / out of 10 , for me, particularly the nimble location work that Max Greene's camera immersed itself in. Acting was uneven, say 7 / 10.
Although Jo Eisinger did fairly well under the gun, to make something reasonably compelling -that had next to nothing to do with the Gerald Kersh book- unfortunately, it too often feels thin and derivative. Plot is 5 / 10.
There's a good documentary that comes with the DVD, which compares the UK & US versions, especially the differences between the original Frankel score to the amped up Waxman score. I say with no National pride tining my ear or fogging my eye, that the US version is the better in all respects.
Why could not I have had a dream of Gene Tierney (one of the weaker points of the film) last night, then some queasy phantasmagoria to do with an aged Martin Balsam (60+ years old) inciting me to kill the manager of Nordstroms (a department store that I don't believe exists anymore here) so we could seize power. But I didn't want to kill the manager, because he reminded me of Strother Martin? Or was it Martin Sheen???
Anyway, how can you watch Master and Commander on the small screen!?
Do they at least letterbox it on Channel 4 ?!

penfold

I think they did, and it is a reasonable-sized widescreen telly. If you hear of it being shown in a cinema, let me know...

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

DB7

Watched the first three episodes of the BBC's Maelstrom... or I did until the picture froze on the 3rd episode.... spooky...

Moor Larkin

Watched one of my old Danger Man ITC videos, pairing Colony 3 with The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove. Colony 3 was an outing for the paranoid Cold War village of spies concept, whilst Lovegrove was a complexly written play-of-imagination.

Both these 'unusual' episodes of the hour-long Danger Man were written by strangely anonymous authors. Donald Johnson is credited with Colony 3, and apart from one or two other ITC jobs, seems not to have prolonged a career in writing. David Stone is credited with the complex Lovegrove stream of unconciousness. This story could easily have become unhinged but he tied it all together brilliantly. He seems to have been involved in a movie with Polanski but then, if the New York Times is to be believed, drifted into Latino political documentaries. I wonder if he was an American.

David Stone surely deserves a special BAFTA for managing to get Patrick McGoohan, as John Drake, to remark to the casino-tease, Adrienne Corri:
"Have you ever been spanked in public?"

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Harbottle

"The House on Nightmare Park" (1973). Hugely enjoyable thanks to the presence of the one and only Frankie Howerd, and it has to be said an excellent cast including Ray Milland, Kenneth Griffith and Hugh "Swine" Burden. Old creepy house, mad mummy in the attic and a fiendish plot (and dialogue :)

DB7

Eyewitness
Fast-paced thriller set in Malta. Maybe it's due to winter SAD or Lionel Jeffries jovial uncle routine, but for some reason I was rooting for the baddies to get Mark Lester and suspend him upside down over a cliff edge for being more annoying than Jon Whiteley.

Susan George looks gorgeous and is criminally underused by John Hough.

Good commentary by Hough and Forbes; who largely ignore the film and talk about Forbes' time as head of Elstree.

foha80

Hello Moor
Leaving aside the price,do you know if the region 1 boxset 'Secret Agent(aka Danger Man) is a worthwhile purchase in regards to quality Etc

Terry

Moor Larkin

Hi.......Sorry I have no idea personally...........

I've been watching my old videos for some years.... on and off. I have read that the quality of the US set is not quite as good as the issues that went out with the recent Granada Ventures/de Agostini magazine. However I would imagine this is all a bit like the old HiFi buffs waffling about direct-drive turntables and gold-plated amplifier connectors.

This review seems typical of most that I have read.
Sound And Vision Magazine - DVDs: Danger Man

A whole swathe of this collection hit the BUY IT NOW boards on e-bay today, oddly enough.......

There are constant rumours of Network or someone putting them out on Region 2. From what I've read of the Umbrella release of Series One - they seem to be the best of all, from the point of view of quality and interesting extras. Whether they'll be doing the hour series I know not. When I finally get the urge to trade in my video-tapes of Series One, I expect that will be the DVD edition for me.

My own opinion is that for a DVD release, the Mega-set seems a bit light on 'extras'. But then I've got a fair few episodes already......so I'm in the mood for extras......

Didn't get you very far did I....:

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Moor Larkin

bugs...Bugs...BUgs....BUGs.....BUGS......BUGS - FilmFour

If you enjoyed Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth, you'd have loved this. Imagine my chagrin at the end credits when I realised it was made by frogs!

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foha80

You were in fact most helpful,many thanks

Terry

DB7

Two great little films. Clash by Night, the tale of a highjacked prison bus with its memorable barn scene, and The Women in Black, a Vidtorian chiller in the same vein as A Warning to the Curious.