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Can You Name This Film You can remember the plot briefly but can't recollect the films name?


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Old 13-08-2007, 11:37 PM
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Thanks for the previous answers to my queries. This subject has now got under my skin, namely to collect British films showing, however briefly, British jazz musicians with an emphasis on the 50's and 60's. (surely the golden age of british jazz). Can anyone think of other titles that fit the bill?

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I shall mention this in case, but I am sure that you must have heard of ALL NIGHT LONG the (1961?) jazz reworking of Othello - again currently available on DVD. Almost everybody in the scene at the time appears to be in this one...

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There is also It's Trad, Dad! (GB 1962) Dick Lester's inventive musical fantasy which featured The Temperance Seven, Kenny Ball and Chris Barber among others.
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Billed as 'One of the greatest trad jazz films of all times', Band of Thieves (1962) starring Acker Bilk.

Which other ones?

'You did say, 'However briefly'

Live It Up (1963) with an appearance by Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen
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Okay, well there is more of a brief glimpse of Roy Castle and others in......."Dr Terrors House of Horrors" The jazz sequences are quite good and Kenny Ball is in it as well, they must have been having a right good laugh doing it !
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Okay, well there is more of a brief glimpse of Roy Castle and others in......."Dr Terrors House of Horrors" The jazz sequences are quite good and Kenny Ball is in it as well, they must have been having a right good laugh doing it !

Yes I have not seen that in a while, must make the time to do so again
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Thanks for these replies. Can I say that it makes a real change to chat to people who actually know what they are talking about. My history is more with the music than the films, but I'm sure you'll agree there's a strong link. I have played with a lot of these people and have had them play at jazz clubs that I have staged and it is so good to see them again even if it is on film.
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Thanks for these replies. Can I say that it makes a real change to chat to people who actually know what they are talking about. My history is more with the music than the films, but I'm sure you'll agree there's a strong link. I have played with a lot of these people and have had them play at jazz clubs that I have staged and it is so good to see them again even if it is on film.
There's so much 'mood' jazz - particularly in the 50s b&W smoky nightclub settings - that the link is almost inextricable. I believe the great Tubby Hayes recorded a fair bit of this mood music himself. You may be able to confirm this, Essaljay, with your broader knowledge of your specialist subject.

I gave a friend a ride home one night after a meal and she had the nerve to call my John Dankworth CD 'lift music' !! LOL

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What about the 80s thriller Stormy Monday? Can't remember how much there was in the way of actual performances, but there was certainly a jazzy vibe. Sting played a club owner in Newcastle who booked a (somewhat avant) Polish ensemble to play.

Isn't there some jazz action in Look Back in Anger too?
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Set in the late '50s early '60s the Agatha Chrisite adaptation 'Ordeal by Innocence' features a prominant jazz track in keeping with the era the film is set
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Not 50s or 60s and not strictly even jazz, but rather 'jazzesque' - I absolutely the loved the original Barrington Pheloung music to Dalziel and Pascoe - but it was dumped for just more non-descript dribble when they decided to re-vamp i.e. ruin the original format of the whole show.
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I agree. That was a nice sound. I have just seen "doggin' around" again for the upteenth time. It stars Elliot Gould as an american jazz pianist come over to England to play, he thinks, at Ronnie Scotts when in fact he is booked to do a tour of the midlands. The music in this film is superb. It is also very funny.
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Try Kenny Baker's Dozen in Hammer's Face the Music (available on US DVD under US title The Black Glove ), Ted Heath in What a Wonderful World......
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Dearden's Nowhere to Go (1958) featured a jazz score by Dizzy Reece and Tubby Hayes - the first British film (so far as I know) to have modern jazz background music.

Also Maggie Smith's debut film.

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The Temperance Seven crop up in THE WRONG BOX, if that's any good. VERY brief appearance.
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