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Old 24-05-2008, 01:09 PM
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Battle of the V-1 (1958) R.2. DVD. Starring Michael Rennie and David Knight, Christopher Lee gets high billing but strangely only appears briefly in a couple of scenes. Using wartime footage and a modest budget, Eros manages to tell the story well. Rennie and Knight play members of the Polish underground persuing vital information on the first terrifying V weapon, and the story rattles along nicely.

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Aitch may be able to give more info on this but the Union rate for shaving off your moustache used to be IIRC about £30, £75 for shaving your hair off.

Baz doesn't look like Baz without his 'tache ....
Seriously? It's true that there might have been some potential loss of earning because, as well as Jamaica Inn looking really terrible on his cv, presumably his 'tache would have taken a few weeks to grow back and he would have been unemployable without it. It's quite hard to recognise him until he starts talking but maybe he thought that was a good thing...

I think it's his only film appearance sans 'tache.

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Old 24-05-2008, 03:07 PM
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Battle of the V-1 (1958) R.2. DVD. Starring Michael Rennie and David Knight, Christopher Lee gets high billing but strangely only appears briefly in a couple of scenes. Using wartime footage and a modest budget, Eros manages to tell the story well. Rennie and Knight play members of the Polish underground persuing vital information on the first terrifying V weapon, and the story rattles along nicely.
All filmed around Brighton and Hove!
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Old 24-05-2008, 03:13 PM
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I think it's his only film appearance sans 'tache.
I think Terry-Thomas only went barefaced in The Wild Affair.
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Old 24-05-2008, 03:21 PM
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Niv's only nekkid film is The Elusive Pimpernel, I think. Anton Walbrook bared all in Queen of Spades. Did James Robertson Justice ever shave?
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Scott of the Antarctic - early doors.
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Old 24-05-2008, 04:03 PM
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The Passions of Vaughan Williams (BBC 4)
A very interesting documentary about the composer, his passions, and his music.

Ralph (pron. Rafe) Vaughan Williams, composer of the music for 49th Parallel (and given a prominent credit for it), Scott of the Antarctic and others ...

Never a very religious man, he was English after all, he wrote a lot of great hymns and other church music. A very English composer, the equal of Elgar and any others you can think of.

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Piccadilly Third Stop (1960) DVD-R. Excellent heist picture starring Terence Morgan, John Crawford and a terrific turn by William Hartnell. The tension is excellently handled by director Wolf Rilla, and I loved the way "The Colonel" Hartnell's accent slipped from clipped tones of Sandhurst to the East End of London.
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Piccadilly Third Stop (1960) DVD-R. Excellent heist picture starring Terence Morgan, John Crawford and a terrific turn by William Hartnell. The tension is excellently handled by director Wolf Rilla, and I loved the way "The Colonel" Hartnell's accent slipped from clipped tones of Sandhurst to the East End of London.
I watched this the other day ....

"Piccadilly Third Stop with Terence Morgan, John Crawford, Yoko Tani and William Hartnell, directed by Wolf Rilla. Top-notch early 60s caper yarn enlivened by some good performances and a cracking soundtrack. Highly recommended."

.... it really is a very good film.
Daddy .... the frisbee has gone in the water .... what a finger puppet drama queen I am!
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Puppet on a Chain (1971) R.2. DVD. Instantly forgettable enterprise from the pen of Alistair MacLean, not helped by a less than charismatic central performance in the the lead role by Swedish thesp Sven-Bertil Taube. The supporting cast includes reliables Alexander Knox, Patrick Allen and the always sinister presence of Vladek Sheybal. It is rescued from tedium somewhat by the use of Amsterdam as the location, including a memorable chase sequence.
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North by Northwest. Brilliant!!!
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Grip of the Strangler - variation of Jekyll and Hyde and though the film is in places a bit daft it does contain a truly compelling performance from Boris Karloff. He worked with the same director again in Corridors of Blood. Again not a great film but contains another great Karloff performance.
Thats the joke that killed the Music Hall !
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Pink String and Sealing Wax (1946) R.2. DVD. My film marathon continues Not the best Ealing film ever made but not bad either, especially good performances by Mervyn Johns and Googie Withers. The problem with it for me is the ease of the denouement, and the sub-plots to the main story.
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Old 27-05-2008, 09:41 AM
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Spent a rainy Bank Holiday afternoon hiding behind the sofa, cowering from the diplodocus that stalked The Land that Time Forgot.
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Watched Captain Blood (1935) with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland and loads of supporting British stalwarts, such as the redoubtable EE Clive. Although those swashbucklers were Hollywood they had a real British air, perhaps because of all those expatriate actors.
"I've come a long way you know!" "Equally long way to go back..."
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