arty-dave

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Sgt Dudfoot

I watched Old Mother Riley M.P. and thoroughly enjoyed it. I suppose Arthur Lucan is an aquired taste, but at his best Lucan was a superb comedian. Living near Hull as I do, I often have a cup of tea in Skelton's bakery where there is a memorial to Arthur (Skelton's occupies the spot of the old theatre where Arthur passed on. He's was also buried in Hull).

mysteriesofedgarwallace

'The Gelignite Gang'

An absolute little belter of a film.
Filmed in and around Hove/Brighton (made at Brighton studios), pretending to be London.
An insurance investigator is on the hunt for a gang of notorious safe-blowers.
A few nice twists and turn with sone street musicians.
Needless to say; as in all 60's second features; the Police arrive in their black Wolseleys to sort it all out.
A gem [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

samkydd

I've been working my way through the boxed set of Sharpe for a few weeks now. It's just good honest adventure with the working class hero showing them upper class fops of officers a thing or two, and it has a recurring baddie played by the ultimate upper class cowardly cad Michael Cochrane! Great entertainment! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

I also watched Bravo Two Zero last night which also starred Sean Bean, but it wasn't quite what I expected.

These cold winter evenings are great for staying in the house in front of a roaring fire watching DVDs.

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

Iain1962

Hi there.

I've been raving about Unearthly Stranger for ages. Most of the people who worked on it went on to work on the shot-on-film The Avengers series. John Krish is considered the unsung hero of the British documentary movement and also made some of those often brilliant public information films of the 70s. Also Gabrielle Licudi turns in a quite astounding performance in this film. The guy who wrote it, Rex carlton also made The Brain That Wouldn't Die, among others. MGM reportedly had the rights to this but let them drop. I think there should be a box set of black and white British sci-fi of the 60s which should include stuff like Unearthly Stranger, The Earth Dies Screaming, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, The Night Caller and Invasion (another favourite of mine).

Although Tales That Witness Madness features the involvement of Milton Subotsky, I don't think it's an Amicus picture, but rather from World Film Services who made the previous years' The Creeping Flesh.

Cheers.

Iain

Steve Crook

It always surprises me that the book was such a success and that the author is now regarded as an expert on special forces. After all, he did fail in his mission!

As for the film, it was Sean Bean's second outing as an SAS failure. His first was in Ronin the year before.

But I do like Sean Bean as Sharpe.

Steve

arty-dave

That film sounds just great - I bet it's really atmospheric [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

mysteriesofedgarwallace

SUPERB taste! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

Unearthly Stranger is a fabulous film.
Although I have all of them, a boxed set of all of the titles you mention (plus 'X The Unkown') would be a dream come true.
Including Interviews with Alfred Burke and Edward Judd. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/notworthy.gif[/img]

ollie

Thanks For the extra info Iain,
like you say a box set of these 5 would be great,there are quite a few fans on here,earth dies screaming is also great if a little abrupt ending i've mentioned it before i'd have liked about another 15 mins [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

As for tales,i just asumed(wrongly) it was amicus,i was thinking more of the genre than the company. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

cheers Ollie.

"Bullseye !!"

ollie

I am going to watch X the unknown,for the first time tonight! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] all the above mentioned along with the quatermass films,village of the dammed/children of the dammed,and Hammers/ joseph loseys 1962 The Dammed are excellent. i Wished that there had been a b+w 50s/60s version of day of the triffids without howard keel [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif[/img] and an authentic war of the worlds would have been great.

If there are anymore films of this genre not mentioned/overlooked please someone list them. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

cheers Ollie. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

"Bullseye !!"

mysteriesofedgarwallace

Ollie, a few more spring to mind:-

Timeslip (1956)
First Man Into Space (1959)
Island of Terror (1966)
Night of the Big Heat (1967)

The others have been mentioned here before, but:-

Timeslip (1956)
First Man Into Space (1959)

I don't think have been.
Timeslip is very atmospheric, and a Merton Production too

mysteriesofedgarwallace

X The Unkown is a quality film.

Children of The Damned has the added benefit of Alfred Burke. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

ollie

Thanks M,
Island of terror is firmly on my list [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img] and i vaguely recall Night,i shall investigate futher [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

oops Doomwatch is great,ian bannan judy Geeson . [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

cheers Ollie.

"Bullseye !!"

mysteriesofedgarwallace

To continue my recent feeding frenzy, I watched two films I have already, but have just obtained much better copies of:-
The Challenge (1960)
The Third Alibi (1961)

The Third Alibi has been discussed here before, it's a little contrived, but excellent.
The Challenge, if you look past Jayne Mansfield, and it's very corny first few moments, it has an excellent cast (including Anthony Quayle, Edward Judd and Peter Reynolds) and is a cracking film.
It would have been better without Jayne Mansfield (possibly Delphi Lawrence would have been better)
Edward Judd steals the show as a very film noir detective.
Sadly, Peter Reynolds doesn't have too much to do.

Also watched these as I was copying them for someone:-
Blackout (1950) and
Blind Spot (1958)

Which are basically the same thing.
Blind Spot is well known as being a early fairly decent sized role for Michael Caine.

Harbottle

Inspector Hornleigh (1939) (thanks aphra [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img] ) Most enjoyable film starring Gordon Harker and Alistair Sim, nice mixture of mystery and comedy.

Out of the Unknown episode This Body Is Mine (1971) from the rather good BBC TV series. Starring Jack Hedley and John Carson, where Carson uses his invention to exchange “minds” with wealthy businessman Hedley to try and gather significant funds to further his bank account and research while inside Hedley’s body [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif[/img]