Jack Hawkins

[MrT]

A couple more noted at the Play.com website for 2010:



Man against the sky (1957) Jack Hawkins



Play.com (UK) : Man In The Sky (Ealing) : DVD - Free Delivery



The pot carriers (1962) Ronasld Fraser



Looks like 2010 is going to yield a lot more interesting releases



MrT

[Tomwhisky]

No one portrayed British culture better for me than Jack Hawkins

[orpheum]

just bought his autobiog off amazon.what a tragedy for an actor to loose his voice.He always seemed so courageous in his final years.

[Gerald Lovell]

name='orpheum']just bought his autobiog off amazon.what a tragedy for an actor to loose his voice.He always seemed so courageous in his final years.

A great actor. After his operation, I think his voice was dubbed by Charles Gray and sometimes Robert Rietty.

[Number Six]

name='Tomwhisky']No one portrayed British culture better for me than Jack Hawkins

It always makes me smile to watch that scene in League of Gentlemen when he does the washing up with Nigel Patrick - complete with pinny - a quintesentially British moment! The end-of-raid party with Robert Coote as Bunny is great too!

[Tomwhisky]

Yes Number Six! But what a great sketch altogether with the second British actor in my view to echo British culture - Nigel Patrick saying 'they queued behind me at Dunkirk'! Great humour.

The whole scene at the army cookhouse - wondeful - with the looks between both when sampling the food.

[Number Six]

name='Tomwhisky']Yes Number Six! But what a great sketch altogether with the second British actor in my view to echo British culture - Nigel Patrick saying 'they queued behind me at Dunkirk'! Great humour.

The whole scene at the army cookhouse - wondeful - with the looks between both when sampling the food.

Not forgetting Hawkins' remark to Patrick about his wife - 'I regret to say the bitch is still going strong'!!

[paul clifton]

I wrote to a few of the gents that were still alive about 7 years back. Got them to sign some stills of the film for me. Got Norman Bird, Terrance Alexander, Dickie, Bryan Forbes. Was gonna get them framed but never got round to it.

[Number Six]

name='paul clifton']I wrote to a few of the gents that were still alive about 7 years back. Got them to sign some stills of the film for me. Got Norman Bird, Terrance Alexander, Dickie, Bryan Forbes. Was gonna get them framed but never got round to it.

Fantastic memento! You must get it framed. There's only two of them left now - very sad.

[paul clifton]

Yeah I should. i have a stack of photos all signed to me by Bryan Forbes. Also a one of Bird and Alexander sitting behind the "men at work" stand. Signed to me by both of them. I was just getting round to writing to Moore when i heard he had died

[Number Six]

name='paul clifton']Yeah I should. i have a stack of photos all signed to me by Bryan Forbes. Also a one of Bird and Alexander sitting behind the "men at work" stand. Signed to me by both of them. I was just getting round to writing to Moore when i heard he had died

What a shame. Still, having a photo signed by arguably the two of our greatest film makers (if not THE greatest) - Bryan Forbes and Richard Attenborough - can't be bad!! Certainly worth looking after.

[smudge]

At last - a proper release for MAN IN THE SKY! Great news.



Smudge

[paul clifton]

name='smudge']At last - a proper release for MAN IN THE SKY! Great news.



Smudge

yeah great film. I have a pretty good copy but it will be nice to have a proper one. I just hope Optumum dont balls it up

[Tomwhisky]

name='Number Six']Not forgetting Hawkins' remark to Patrick about his wife - 'I regret to say the bitch is still going strong'!!

This does remind me of a constant thought. That comment could well mean his

problems with 'Sarah' in a previous film Fortune is a Woman with what must be a rather comical script throughout.

[Number Six]

name='Tomwhisky']This does remind me of a constant thought. That comment could well mean his

problems with 'Sarah' in a previous film Fortune is a Woman with what must be a rather comical script throughout.

A little bit of trivia for you - the portrait of his wife hanging on the wall next to him as he makes that comment is actually the portrait of Deborah Kerr that was originally used in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943).

[Steve Crook]

name='Number Six']A little bit of trivia for you - the portrait of his wife hanging on the wall next to him as he makes that comment is actually the portrait of Deborah Kerr that was originally used in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943).

Someone recently suggested that although they're very similar, they're not exactly the same.



Steve

[christoph404]

name='Gerald Lovell']A great actor. After his operation, I think his voice was dubbed by Charles Gray and sometimes Robert Rietty.

It was the other way around, Robert Rietti dubbed Hawkins in more than a dozen films and Charles Gray for one or two only,though the popular misconception is that Charles Gray was the voice of Hawkins after his operation.

[CaptainWaggett]

name='Steve Crook']Someone recently suggested that although they're very similar, they're not exactly the same.



Steve

Do movie props normally stick around in warehouses for 15 years waiting to be reused? (I can't think of any other examples) Is there anyone who was involved with both films (props boy promoted to second unit director perhaps)? You'd think that Deborah might have wanted the original picture herself.

[paul clifton]

name='CaptainWaggett']Do movie props normally stick around in warehouses for 15 years waiting to be reused? (I can't think of any other examples) Is there anyone who was involved with both films (props boy promoted to second unit director perhaps)? You'd think that Deborah might have wanted the original picture herself.

im pretty sure on the se dvd for League of gents, that Bryan Forbes commentry mentions that its a portrait of Kerr

[CaptainWaggett]

name='paul clifton']im pretty sure on the se dvd for League of gents, that Bryan Forbes commentry mentions that its a portrait of Kerr

Oh, it's been known about for a long time - I'm just curious as to why that particular painting would have been used