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Old 07-08-2008, 11:25 AM
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This is worth seeing for Dennis Price doing his best impression of Eric Portman in bluff Yorkshire mode. Did he attempt a regional accent again? The disaster movie finale is quite impressive too.
Quite a lot of the other cast members try their best to perfect the Yorkshire accent.

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Old 07-08-2008, 11:50 AM
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I watched Blow.
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Old 07-08-2008, 04:24 PM
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The Man In The Road - a far-fetched but very entertaining spy thriller with Derek Farr. Good direction from Lance Comfort keeps it moving as a fair pace and the cast are in good form. Recommended.
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Old 08-08-2008, 06:00 AM
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown:

This delightful 1960s animation from Mendelson-Melendez brought back some very happy childhood memories of summer afternoons spent in the sun with the work of Charles. M. Schulz...

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Old 08-08-2008, 06:01 AM
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Watched Montgomery Tully's 60's B thriller " The House on Marsh Road", starring Tony Wright as a potentially murderous husband.

Nice little film nothing too special but worth seeing.
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Old 08-08-2008, 07:08 AM
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Derailed (2005). Plenty of twists
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In Broad Daylight (a present from Mrs Bat) - a typical Brian Dennehy true story TV movie, but well written and acted and never less than interesting. Dennehy is superb as usual.
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Old 08-08-2008, 08:37 AM
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Re 'The Thirties in colour' - I've been watching this - I'd encourage anyone to do so. I wasn't expecting the level of insight to be gained from it. They've managed to get their hands some extremely telling film footage - quite often, what is being captured was done so quite unwittingly by the amateur film maker.

I think the Guardian is describing it inaccurately here - it's extremely hard hitting in places.

TV ratings - July 16: Nostalgia show The Thirties in Colour watched by 650,000 on BBC4 | Media | guardian.co.uk
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Old 08-08-2008, 08:37 AM
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Old 08-08-2008, 11:47 AM
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" One of Our Aircraft is Missing. I was enthralled by the opening parts and the bombing raid on the Mercedes factory at Stuttgart, but it all went a bit strange after they met up with the Dutch after bailing out. "

Uh huh. Since WW2 was pretty serious, Powell and Pressburger did the damndest thing: they actually showed us the suspicion between people in occupied countries and uniformed strangers.

The "safety pin" code was a start, followed by the inquisition in the town, and a bloody great argument about how much risk Hollanders would take to rescue the RAF men.

If ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT is still believable, it is because P&P dared to show how dangerous it was for civilians to support foreign warriors. Later propaganda movies, mostly from USA, glossed over the terror that people were subject to - but this movie dared to show there were cowards amongst our gallant allies. Which made the courage of true heroes more impressive.
Another one worth watching is The Silver Fleet. Directed by Vernon Sewell & Gordon Wellesley, produced by Powell & Pressburer with Pressburger writing the original story but withdrawing his name as a writer because the directors wouldn't make the Nazis brutal enough for his tastes.

Set in Nazi occupied Holland and starring Ralph Richardson as Jaap van Leyden, the owner of a shipyard. He is told he'll have to start making submarines for the Nazis and a lot of the Dutch people accuse him of collaboration. But it does show the Nazi methods used to force the ship-builders back to work, if they don't work then their families don't eat. And it shows a bit more about life in an occupied country from the position of the occupied and the occupiers.

Googie Withers plays Helène van Leyden, Jaap's faithful wife. Their son is played by Willem Akkerman who was one of the children that found the airmen in the tree in One of Our Aircraft is Missing.

The Silver Fleet is alos interesting because it's Esmond Knight's first film role after he got out of hospital, having been badly wounded, and effectively blinded, by the Bismarck. Esmond was the deck gunnery officer on the Prince of Wales and the last things he saw clearly was the Hood blowing up, then the Bismarck turned her guns on the Prince of Wales and Esmond was a bit too close to one of the Bismarck's shells. In The Silver Fleet Esmond plays Von Schiffer, the head of the occupying forces.

It's been commercially released on DVD in the past (ITV / Granada Ventures) but is currently unavailable. But second hand copies might be found

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Old 08-08-2008, 11:53 AM
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The Silver Fleet turns up on Film4 several times a year - it's on twice this month

Wed 13th Aug. 13:00-14:50 on Film4 (105m)
Mon 18th Aug. 13:00-14:45 on Film4 (105m)
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Old 08-08-2008, 12:20 PM
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The Silver Fleet turns up on Film4 several times a year - it's on twice this month

Wed 13th Aug. 13:00-14:50 on Film4 (105m)
Mon 18th Aug. 13:00-14:45 on Film4 (105m)
Very helpful for most folks, Cap'n, but slightly less so for Keechelus in Canada...

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Murder by Decree that sees Holmes and Watson tackle Jack the Ripper in Foggy London Town.

Hadn't seen it for about 15 years and whilst still enjoyable (nothing more so than James Mason's Watson even if he is 20 years too old for the part) it was a little flat in places, though surprisingly effective in others.
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Old 08-08-2008, 05:34 PM
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The Silver Fleet turns up on Film4 several times a year - it's on twice this month

Wed 13th Aug. 13:00-14:50 on Film4 (105m)
Mon 18th Aug. 13:00-14:45 on Film4 (105m)
Thanks Captain ,It's nice to get advance warning in order to set up the recorder
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