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Old 30-03-2007, 05:46 PM
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The Appointment (1981)
A very 80s goes chiller starring Edward Woodward that feels like an extended Hammer House of Horror episode. Incredibly slow-burning, atmospheric but ultimately unfulfilling.

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Old 31-03-2007, 08:48 PM
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This afternoon actually.
The Man Who Never Was
Very curious national identity crises evident. The soldier who remarked that the dead boy would be performing great service for England...... his father tersely pointing out that his son was Scottish, but that the English always thought that Britain was England. Plus an Irish republican (Stephen Boyd) prepared to die to help the Nazi's defeat England/Britain/the enemy.

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Old 31-03-2007, 09:41 PM
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based on a idea by ian (rebus) rankin this was an excellent way to spend 75mins. well written, directed and acted. a very rare piece of original quality drama .... in fact the only thing, apart from 'life on mars', worth watching on bbc this year!

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Just watched it - and wish I'd recorded it! Brilliant, and so much of Edinburgh, including Old College!
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PRISONER OF ZENDA... after waiting an extraordinary 4 weeks since it's release date, I was happy to get this set containing the 1937 Ronald Colman version. (And cough cough, also the 1952 Stewart Granger version.)
Yes!!! I also have the 1922 silent! I'm very interested in Ruritania - have various illustrated editions of the books, too. I'd have liked to have seen Fairbanks jr as Michael, though (he's meant to be in his mid-20s!), and perhaps Flynn (at his smarmiest) as Rupert?

I have a Ruritanian Resistance website...

There is also a LJ group: Ruritania Journal. With luck, the DVD releases may bring in more folk...
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Taped from last Sunday ... Sherlock Holmes and the Baker St Irregulars ... brilliant ... will watch today's episode later tonight

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Too Late The Hero, DVD, great, have never seen it before, good ensemble cast, nice twist at the end.
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THE FAMILY WAY 1966

Lovely slice of family life/kitchen sink drama call it what you will .Characterizations are spot on, acting splendid from all( Boultings regulars fill the screen) .The plot ,consumating a marriage and family secrets,the cast, stellar, John Mills, Barry Foster,Hywel Bennett Wilfred Pickles............

and I almost forgot Hayley Mills having a bath in the scullery showing her bum,

bliss.....................

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Old 17-04-2007, 10:55 AM
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Innocent Bystanders

Stanley Baker's last major film is this hit-and-miss international espionage drama. Rather than Bond, this is from the writer of Callan and Baker's agent shares similar world-weary characteristics with the role made famous by Edward Woodward. Baker's assignment is to track down a Russian scientist recently escaped from Siberia - but his controller has sent two younger agents (Derren Nesbitt & Sue Lloyd) on the same mission.
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Old 19-04-2007, 05:17 PM
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This is England

The specter of Alan Clarke's Made in Britain hangs heavy over Shane Meadows' latest feature. Set in Thatcherite Britain during the Falklands war, a 12-yr-old who lost his father in combat finds kinship with a gang of skinheads, not the NF variety but rudeboys into Ska and fashion. Then enter 'Combo', a recently released from prison racist who seeks to take over leadership of the gang and involves them in NF meetings, spraying racist graffiti and attacks on local Asians. The impressionable young boy is soon seduced by Combo's rhetoric and posturing but tragedy awaits.

A stark rites-of-passage story that will resonate with those the grew up during the late 70s/early 80s and only let down by an abbreviated ending.
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Innocent Bystanders = Stanley Baker's last major film
I watched Stanley's A Prize of Arms (which I acquired via this forum). I hadn't seen it for years and thoroughly enjoyed it again. Gritty location filming and some wonderful acting from a great cast (inc Tom Bell) lift this into the 'above average' category'.

In a great evening of film watching I followed that with the sublime 'Blackout' (again acquired via this forum) with my hero Maxwell Reed, Dinah Sheridan, Eric Pohlman, Patric Doonan and those two classic Britmovie faces Michael Balfour and Michael Brennan. More excellent location filming and a hero with a smart mouth make this a really enjoyable way to spend an hour and a bit.

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Old 20-04-2007, 08:45 AM
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superb and excruiating in equal parts, but being English and war time what is there not to like?? Miles Malleson(bless him) made an appearnce and their was a superb line. Jimmy Hanley offered a sandwich or cake and the young lady said and I quote"don't mind if I do, I am fair famished" Brilliant
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Watched a somewhat charming film lastnight "Smallest Show on Earth". Talk about beauty, we had all forgotten Virginia MacKenna! And what a lovely cast, dear Margaret R. a drunken Peter Sellars and an unrecognisable Bernard Miles, a charming chap, Leslie Phillips I think and a beautiful old cinema. Does anyone know if it was real or a studio reconstruction?
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Old 25-04-2007, 09:15 AM
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Taste of Fear (1961)

Amongst the best of the Hammer psychological thrillers and a real shame that BBC2 tucked it away in the middle of the night (with a US print). Inspired by Les Diaboliques, Seth Holt's unnerving chiller is atmospherically lensed by Douglas Slocombe and charts a wheel-chair bound Susan Strasberg beginning to question her own sanity on the French Riviera.
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This "US Print" thing bothers me, along with Image's Pam Nash horrors.

When the NIGHT-CURSE OF DEMON was released with both versions, I thought this was great. And the same with THE BIG SLEEP (Bogart-Bacall) which has both versions on it. And Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, too. Criterion's release of EQUINOX went so far as to track down the original, unreleased version to include as well.

These are so wonderful for collectors and fans, and why would anyone who doesn't have some collector-mentality buy any DVD?

I wish the DVD producers would recognize that fact, and give us more, not less.
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Old 25-04-2007, 04:42 PM
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I wish the DVD producers would recognize that fact, and give us more, not less.
I believe it is available on a Japanese boxset. Some of the Hammer crime 'b' films are slowly being released on dvd but not yet those I'd like a decent copy of such as The Snorkel and Cash on Demand.

According to the BBFC Scream/Taste passed without cuts so the only difference should be the title credits. (unlike Night/Curse of the Demon)
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