dpgmel

Presumably Bats from your comments it isn't as good as the BBC Borgias series ?

batman

Definitely not ... the BBC series is one of my all-time favourite dramas.

There's a 1949 Borgia film called Bride of Vengeance with Paulette Goddard and Macdonald Carey which is much better than the Italian film. A 2006 Spanish film called Los Borja is also worth a look.

Both of them are not a patch on the BBC series IMHO.

Jingle bells Batman smells ... I heard that at school Daddy.

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Chevyman

"The Devil Rides Out"

40 years old now and, tbh, showing signs of age but still enjoyable. My enjoyment was enhanced by the recent postings on here about the locations

A Happy and Healthy New Year to all

"Don't tread on Greta Garbo, as you walk down the boulevard?"

suzepulcheria

A protegee of Stanley Lupino??????

"I've come a long way you know!" "Equally long way to go back..."

suzepulcheria

Thank you for this. Thinking about it, he had to do that or the plot twist would have been no surprise at all. It was only the flashback that made one trust Richard Todd.

"I've come a long way you know!" "Equally long way to go back..."

batman

I think the flashback 'cheat' is one of the film's strengths .... as you say one trusts Toddy's character and the surprise when you find out the truth is wonderful .... I think the film is great!

Jingle bells Batman smells ... I heard that at school Daddy.

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Windthrop

By todays standards having an unreliable flashback is quite acceptable but in 1950 it didn't come off although the opening title sequence with the proscenium arch does hint at artifice - bit too subtle for audiences then perhaps.

Thats the joke that killed the Music Hall !

Bernardo

I watched two episodes of the Dick van Dyke show. Mary Tyler Moore looked a million dollars, how I fancied that woman in my youth. A lovely Honey I am Home sit com and the fashions were so elegant.
Immediately I started to recall Pleasantville.

Chevyman

"Little Dorrit" which I'm hooked on followed by "The Descent" (DVD) again

A Happy and Healthy New Year to all

"Don't tread on Greta Garbo, as you walk down the boulevard?"

wadsy

Death Drums Along The River1963. Richard Todd investigates murder &

diamond smuggling in Africa. The film's not great but Todd is good as "Sanders of

the River"in this remake of the 1935 film.

Then a classic."The Day of The Triffids"1962. Great British Sci-Fi!

A Pemberton

Mies vailla menneisyyttä 2002


Slightly off track and not British but Mies vailla menneisyyttä (Man without a past) is a delight
A Finnish film(stay with me!.......)that is the most quirky and deadpan and funny subtitled film I have seen in years.
A man loses his memory on a trip to Helsinki and is taken in by down and outs,along the way to finding his past
he romances a Salvation Army worker ,befriends a killer dog, gets involved in a bank raid,and grows potatoes,
Its a superb rich development of basically ordinary if slightly strange people
going about their ordinary boring life in a film that is more often than not laugh out loud funny

Who says the scandinavians arent funny?

Chevyman

"A sense of freedom"

Top film and David Haymans finest hour. The documentary footage which followed is good viewing too

A Happy and Healthy New Year to all

"Don't tread on Greta Garbo, as you walk down the boulevard?"

dremble wedge

Lemming - a French film from 2005 that was hidden away on C4 in the middle of the night last week.

An odd, dreamy semi-ghost story that took it's time to unravel, but enjoyable nonetheless. Charlottes Gainsbourg and Rampling certainly helped.

CaptainWaggett

The lead was also in the excellent Harry - he's here to help by the same director. Both were very good. I loved all the spy-gadgets in Lemming.

dpgmel

From SimplyHE I watched Foxhole in Cairo directed by Mr Moxey of this parish, James Robertson Justice starred in a tale of nazi's ( needless to say JRJ wasn't one of these ) trying to find out where the British would defend Cairo from, also a very young Michael Caine had a reasonably substanial role.