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Old 07-09-2005, 09:37 AM
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Goodbye Gemini

A 70s exploitation horror in Swinging London incorporating incest, murder, transvestitism and just about anything else possible. Some like these kookie films but its kitsch value can't compensate for poor direction and dialogue. Both an ageing Michael Redgrave and R&H's Mike Pratt appear.

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Bulldog Drummond Escapes(1937) - Ray Milland and the rather delectable Heather Angel. Great fun. You can buy a DVD of three of these films from Amazon and elsewhere for £4.99 or so, not good quality but I remember these films from a late night series on C4 years ago. One of my favourite actors as Hugh Drummonds butler - E E Clive.

Also watched the first two British Transport short films on their newish DVD (Vols 1 and 2 combined in one product.)

Blue Pullman (1959), and
Elizabethan Express (early 50's). Both fascinating - I'm looking forward to "John Betjeman goes by train" on the same DVD. Betjeman has long been a hero of mine.

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Old 07-09-2005, 03:28 PM
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Well, I watched "Journey to the Unknown" an episode called "Somewhere in the Crowd" starring David Hedison and a young Jane Asher. You may remember this sci-fi/horror/supernatural series made by Hammer and a US partner in the late sixties. The opening moments of the show had been ingrained in my mind since I was a nipper. It always started with the camera going through a turnstile at night, the deserted funfair and then the whistling and that spooky theme music. Classic stuff, full of familair British and American actors from the sixties. It hasn't been shown on TV for years as I recall and is sadly unavailable on DVD..... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.gif[/img]
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Old 08-09-2005, 02:44 PM
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Someone at the Door

A spooky comedy from Hammer notable only for an opening sequence that reveals the cast and crew.
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The Business

Oh dear, imagine Guy Ritchie directing an episode of the BBC's Eldorado with gangsters. There's an 80s soundtrack and loads of farkin Cockney narration like "so ard even 'is nightmares are scared of 'im" but it's ultimately soulless and banal.
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CAPTAIN CLEGG aka NIGHT CREATURES.

One of the few Peter Cushing movies I have never seen before. Very enjoyable and Peter is on top form. :)
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Hi there.

From what I remember hasn't Mandy Miller got a niece who works in Hollywood? Amanda Pays, I think (who is married to Corbin Bernsen). Also wasn't director Guy Green was a cinematographer?

Bizarrely, there was also an actress who used the name "Randy" Mandy Miller in the 80s. I think that like Mary Millington she may have been a "protege" of David Sullivan. I think she was the star of Emanuelle in Soho. Anyone admit to seeing this?

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Old 16-09-2005, 10:26 PM
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THE GHOST OF ST. MICHAEL'S (By request of Mrs. Smudge.... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] )

Will Hay and Claude Hulbert being quite hilarious in an evacuated public school story from 1941. Not as LOL as MY LEARNED FRIEND, but some nice little throwaways, viz ; the lobster claw 'Scottish' method of rat catching, and the following exchange,

(RAYMOND HUNTLEY) "Have you given your backward boys Physics yet ?"

(CLAUDE HULBERT) "Why ? They seemed perfectly alright to me..."

Throw a young Charles Hawtrey into the mix and you have an easy 1hr 18 (approx) of mirth and spirit lifting. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

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THE GHOST OF ST. MICHAEL'S (By request of Mrs. Smudge.... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] )

Will Hay and Claude Hulbert being quite hilarious in an evacuated public school story from 1941. Not as LOL as MY LEARNED FRIEND, but some nice little throwaways, viz ; the lobster claw 'Scottish' method of rat catching, and the following exchange,

(RAYMOND HUNTLEY) "Have you given your backward boys Physics yet ?"

(CLAUDE HULBERT) "Why ? They seemed perfectly alright to me..."

Throw a young Charles Hawtrey into the mix and you have an easy 1hr 18 (approx) of mirth and spirit lifting. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

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I love that post modern ending to it (though was post-modernism invented then?) when Hay/Hulbert address the audience. :)

Last night I watched 'Beau Brummell' which oddly gets a bit of a hammering in the new biography of Stewart Granger. Granger's watchable as always, while Ustunov steals the picture as Prince George. Not a classic but oddly touching.
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(/quote) [Last night I watched 'Beau Brummell' which oddly gets a bit of a hammering in the new biography of Stewart Granger. Granger's watchable as always, while Ustunov steals the picture as Prince George. Not a classic but oddly touching.
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I have never seen it mentioned on any 'movie mistake' web sites, but according to my history books, King George IV died ten years before George Brummell. In the last scene of the film, the monach visits Beau Brummell (in Caen where, in fact, he did die) on what must be presumed is his death bed. Considering this film was chosen for a Royal Command Performance, surely I must have it wrong!!
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I love that post modern ending to it (though was post-modernism invented then?) when Hay/Hulbert address the audience. :)

Yes LPC, the very last second direct to camera is very good - and off they go. Another favourite of mine in that vein is when Alistair Sim tries to quell the swell of the orchestra at the 'sincerity' finale of SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

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The Sleeping Cardinal (1931)

An early Conan-Doyle adaptation pitting Holmes against Moriarty in within the stagebound confines of Hagen's Twickenham. Interesting take on the popular franchise if you can shake Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett interpretations from your mind for an hour 'n half.
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ASK A POLICEMAN - More classic Will Hay for Mrs Smudge ! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

Favourite sequences ; Moore Marriott's addled rememberance of the smugglers rhyme, "Lickety-split, lickety-split" and his Dad, filling in the blanks, "Urrgh - blackcurrant ! I always put them back !" [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rotfl.gif[/img]

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Strangely enough, smudge, I also watched Ask a Policeman last night - even though I've seen it many times before, I still laugh at all the jokes every time! I too like the blackcurrant one! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rotfl.gif[/img]

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Strangely enough, smudge, I also watched Ask a Policeman last night - even though I've seen it many times before, I still laugh at all the jokes every time! I too like the blackcurrant one! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rotfl.gif[/img]

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