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Old 05-12-2008, 02:14 AM
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Three Smart Girls. I love Binnie Barnes' role in that movie as Donna Lyons. Wish I had more of her work on video. I used to have a Your Show of Shows VHS with her appearance on it. She and Sid were very funny together in it.

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Old 05-12-2008, 10:46 AM
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The Walking Stick (1970) (DVD-R). Touching film about love trust and disappointment, starring Samantha Eggar as physically damaged young woman who keeps everyone at arms length and David Hemmings a struggling artist who falls in love with her, but are things what they seem? Eggar and Hemmings are superb, the interplay between them is so real and natural. Unexpected to hear Stanley Myers 'Cavatina' strike up during the film as I always assumed that was written for 'The Deer Hunter'.
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Old 05-12-2008, 10:59 AM
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Vatel which was on BBC 4 earlier this week.

A big flop when released but I quite enjoyed the courtly machinations as Louis XIV comes to dinner at a chateau for three days and head steward Gerard Depardieu worries about the vittles.

It is slightly odd that it's in English though...
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Old 05-12-2008, 11:00 AM
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Christopher Strong 1933.

An American film with a young Katherine Hepburn starring but interesting in that

her leading man was Brit Colin Clive in the title role. A curio about the lives

& loves of English upper classes in the 1930's.I'd only ever seen Colin Clive in

Frankenstein so this was quite a surprise. He looked a lot older than his age (35).
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Old 05-12-2008, 12:49 PM
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Christopher Strong I'd only ever seen Colin Clive in

Frankenstein so this was quite a surprise. He looked a lot older than his age (35).
Wasn't he a morphine addict? He looks absolutely terrible in Mad Love, unless heroin chic is your bag.

I watched Warn That Man, an excellent little comedy-thriller that Rob Compton mentioned a while back. Raymond Lovell plays an English-speaking German actor hired to impersonated a (usefully bearded) English lord who is hosting a conference which That Man (apparently Churchill, rather than Tommy Handley or Hitler) is attending. Alas, for Lovell's dastardly plans - Gordon Harker and Finlay Currie turn up looking for overnight lodgings and quickly work out that something fishy is going on.
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Old 05-12-2008, 01:22 PM
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Loved the stage show and was pleasantly suprised with the film!

Boy, can Meryl Streep sing! I'm sure young Amanda Seyfried will go on to be huge. Great fun to watch, the guys dancing in flippers on the jetty was a hoot!

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Old 05-12-2008, 02:11 PM
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Wasn't he a morphine addict? He looks absolutely terrible in Mad Love, unless heroin chic is your bag.
He was a chronic alcoholic and died of tuberculosis and pneumonia. There is no evidence AFAIK of morphine addiction. He was actually only 33 when he made Christopher Strong ..... he died aged only 37.

He was a very fine actor IMHO.

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Old 05-12-2008, 03:59 PM
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The Walking Stick (1970) (DVD-R). Touching film about love trust and disappointment, starring Samantha Eggar as physically damaged young woman who keeps everyone at arms length and David Hemmings a struggling artist who falls in love with her, but are things what they seem? Eggar and Hemmings are superb, the interplay between them is so real and natural. Unexpected to hear Stanley Myers 'Cavatina' strike up during the film as I always assumed that was written for 'The Deer Hunter'.
Yes, this one of my favourite Hemmings films and as you say Harbs very touching
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Old 05-12-2008, 04:05 PM
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Watched a modern dvd last night Vantage Point starring Dennis Quaid and William Hurt in a tale of an assination attempt on a US president told from different vanatge points, slickly done and very enjoyable
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Watched a modern dvd last night Vantage Point starring Dennis Quaid and William Hurt in a tale of an assination attempt on a US president told from different vanatge points, slickly done and very enjoyable
We watched that a few eeks ago .... not bad at all.
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Old 05-12-2008, 07:58 PM
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The Court Martial of George Armstrong Custer - a fascinating 'what if ...' drama about the aftermath of the Little Big Horn massacre. In the story Custer survives the carnage and is put on trial. Brian Keith is excellent as the defence lawyer but James Olsen is a trifle dull as the flamboyant Custer. A good solid entertaining production.

Also, two episodes from series one of Special Branch with Derren Nesbitt. Marvellous!
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Old 05-12-2008, 09:36 PM
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Count Five and Die (1958) (DVD-R). Decent enough counter-espionage story set during WW2. Nigel Patrick leads a team attempting to convince the Germans that the intended impending Allied invasion destination is set for Holland. A film that would have been improved by a rather more dynamic performer than wooden Jeffrey Hunter in the lead role.
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Old 05-12-2008, 10:06 PM
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I watched Warn That Man, an excellent little comedy-thriller that Rob Compton mentioned a while back. Raymond Lovell plays an English-speaking German actor hired to impersonated a (usefully bearded) English lord who is hosting a conference which That Man (apparently Churchill, rather than Tommy Handley or Hitler) is attending. Alas, for Lovell's dastardly plans - Gordon Harker and Finlay Currie turn up looking for overnight lodgings and quickly work out that something fishy is going on.
Glad you enjoyed it, Captain - one of my favourite films.

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Old 06-12-2008, 03:46 PM
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Watched the stunning Diana Dors in Yield to the Night. It's been a very long time since I last saw this classic and the 90 minutes just flew by. Totally captivated by the story and the excellent acting.
It's just one of those days when you're feeling a little...dead.
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Old 06-12-2008, 04:58 PM
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Watched the stunning Diana Dors in Yield to the Night. It's been a very long time since I last saw this classic and the 90 minutes just flew by. Totally captivated by the story and the excellent acting.
That was a breakthrough movie for her that let people know that she wasn't just a blonde bombshell, but that she could act as well.

She had done a bit of a similar role as 2nd lead in The Weak and the Wicked (1954). Another "women in prison" drama with Glynis Johns as the lead. That was also directed by J. Lee Thompson. But Yield to the Night is by far the better performance.

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