Aaryk Noctivagus

'Duck Amuck' Directed by the great Chuck Jones

smudge

That's the one !

But back to the plot...

Just watched FACE THE MUSIC, one of Hammer/Exclusive's noirish movies of the 50s with Alex Nicol as a famous trumpeter who gets mixed up in murder. Another Terence Fisher directed picture, this is quite an effective little murder mystery which keeps you guessing right up to the end. Acting honours are stolen by Eleanor Summerfield as the victim's sister. Good support by Paul Carpenter and a little comic relief from John Salew.

Look out for a short cameo from Hammer producer/director Michael Carreras...

Smudge

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

Joe Fraguela

Watched The Young & The Guilty (1958) starring Andrew Ray, Janet Munro, Phyllis Calvert, Edward Chapman, Hilda Fenemore & Campbell Singer. It's all about young love between Andrew Ray & Janet Munro, although both sets of parents are trying to make out it's a scandal that they should be going out together at their age. Young schoolboy Eddie Marshall (Andrew Ray) is the son of an ambitious mother (Hilda Fenemore), and a father (Campbell Singer) considered stupid and selfish by his nagging wife, Eddie has always found peace and satisfaction in his studies. And then he meets Sue (Janet Munro), shy, dreamy and well-to-do and is also a fellow pupil at his school, and the two fall deeply in love. Each day they write long, poetic letters, but when Sue's father (Edward Chapman) finds and reads one of the letters he immediately jumps to the wrong conclusion. Sue's mother (Phyllis Calvert), tries to re-assure him that it's just a passing phase and won't last. After Sue's father has laid down the law, Sue reluctantly agrees never to see Eddie again. However, Eddie sneaks out at night and visits Sue in her bedroom, Sue's father bursts in and finds them embracing and blows his stack and threatens to call the police. Eventually, Sue's mother persuades him not to call the police, instead they call Eddie's father to come round and sort this out once and for all. The ending was a bit disappointing, but nevertheless still watchable, a film of it's time.

julian_craster

<< Just watched FACE THE MUSIC, one of Hammer/Exclusive's noirish movies of the 50s with Alex Nicol as a famous trumpeter who gets mixed up in murder. Another Terence Fisher directed picture, this is quite an effective little murder mystery which keeps you guessing right up to the end. Acting honours are stolen by Eleanor Summerfield as the victim's sister. Good support by Paul Carpenter and a little comic relief from John Salew.>>

There are some stills of Paul Carpenter and 'Kenny Baker's Dozen' at:





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Moor Larkin

Some years since I first saw this. So glad I got the matches out and propped the eyelids open. I remembered the gadgetry world they created but I had forgotten how they made the people kind of, Repressed Citizens of the 1940's/1950's. Very very clever.........

Bob deNiro had a bigger part than I remembered.... oooh matron.......

Over recent years I've read people comparing the ending with the prisoner's Fall-Out and I can see what they mean now. Amazing what you see when you look for it. The final twist is not so gut-wrenching as when I first saw it - are clever endings ever as clever as the first time? - but very good nonetheless.....

Is it British?

clitheroekid

I think it IS British. Gilliam is certainly a British citizen.

thirdlady

mock of the week on BBC2 it was funny!

A.S.Carroll
"Happiness isn't sold in bottles you have to achieve it in your own lifetime!"

batman

Mock The Week
Outrageously funny at times, the only programme I regularly watch these days.
Saxondale
That difficult second episode .... disappointing.

Bats.

I wish I had claws.

Aaryk Noctivagus

My only use for 'Mock the Week' is as a 'Have I Got News For You' replacement (though I find some of the comments on Mock rather unfair).

batman

HIGNFY is funny .... MTW is also funny .... I enjoy both. The unfair comments on MTW are no worse than what sometimes comes out of Hislop's mouth .

Bats.

I wish I had claws.

Aaryk Noctivagus

Maybe... but out of Hislop's mouth seems OK. Kind of like a rude garden gnome!

Actually Hislop is informed in what he has to say, whereas, on MTW, it seems it is more out of bigottry on the part of some of them. The comment on the Queen not working hard got my goat this week. Like the Queen or loathe her, she does work hard... and I certainly would not like her job.

batman

Oh no ... we're back in the territory of it's not what is said, but the way it's said and who says it. The last time this issue reared its head was when Bernard Manning died.

Exit Batman.

Bats.

I wish I had claws.

Aaryk Noctivagus

I do not think I involved myself in said discussion though I was aware of it.

Actually, my first line was meant in humour and the main point is the second half of my post.

batman

I realised your first line was meant as a joke and took it as such. Apart from agreeing that the Queen does work hard, I disagree with everything else in your post.

'Nuff said.

Bats.

I wish I had claws.

Rob Compton

Back on topic...

"The One That Got Away" Fairly familar to many on here no doubt, but well worth an hour or two...

The One That Got Away (1957)