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I am looking for a copy of this film. Can anyone help please? I am not sure if it has been shown on TV since video recorders became available.
Any help appreciated.
Many thanks.
Jim Broughton

Hackett

Jim you mean the "WARWICK PRODUCTION" with Alan Ladd I've got a copy I taped off the t.v a long time ago (its that old I think Leo Genn is in short trousers) send me a private message we can have a chat. Heard a great story about Alan Ladd on the radio, Dick Vosbrower (sorry about the spelling) it was. When Ladd had his own production company which was run by his very formidable wife. A studio executive was unsuccessfully trying to negotiate with her. As a parting shot, referring to Mr.Ladd, he quipped "ITS NO GOOD I'LL JUST HAVE TO GO UNDER YOUR HEAD". I hope its true but if nobody said it they should have.

Polynikes

In the USA, it's known as "Paratrooper" and was on the action channel last night....

I don't think it's on DVD or VHS yet....

Channel 4 is bound to show it again soon though.

Hackett

Polynikes, please tell me more, what is and where can one get "THE ACTION CHANNEL"?. It sounds fantastic.

Polynikes

HACKETT:
It's not all that great but in Georgia where I currently live, there are over 200 cable channels, 35 of which are "movie channels".

One company is called "Encore" which shows older films. There's:

The Love Channel: Magnificent Obsession etc.
The Mystery Channel: Agatha Christie movies etc
The Western Channel: You wouldn't believe the number of singing cowboy movies Hollywood made in the 40's & 50's.
The True Channel: Movies relating to real events like "Sink The Bismarck" or the excellent "Conspiracy" or "13 Days".
The Action Channel: Everything from Jurassaic Park to Schwartzenegger. It showed a film I had almost forgotten about a few months ago - Michael Caine as a German Mercenary in the 30 years war "The Last Valley". Have you seen it? Did you know that James Clavell wrote & directed it?
The Independent Fim Channel: Shows films that most (Americans) wouldn't normally hear of like "Run Lola Run" and "Topsy Turvey".
The Family Channel: Disney Movies and Doris Day etc.

There's also a couple of general movie channels it runs.

Hackett

When SKY started over ten years ago they advertised "NICK AT NIGHT" was coming to our screens. It never did. I love British B/W films best but also American B/W films and t.v. You are very lucky to have so much choice.

Polynikes

To make my life complete, I wish the BBC would actually run BBC1 and BBC2 as channels over here...and to make my life REALLY complete, I wish I could get Sky Sports 1, 2 & 3.

Without doubt, there's a lot more choice, my American wife couldn't believe there's only 5 British TV channels (actually 6 as I lived in Wales at the time but who counts S4C?)

My father has Sky TV and IIRC, there are something like 20 movie channels plus PPV movie channels too.

DAVID RAYNER

The Red Beret (1953) has been shown on Channel 4 in the UK quite a few times. There's something very odd about their copy, though. Stanley Baker's voice is dubbed in it by another actor who sounds like John Van Eyssen. Even more oddly, when the film was shown on Harlech television in the UK in the 1970's, it was again under its original British title, but Stanley Baker's voice wasn't dubbed by anyone else. The film is not available on video and the only way to get a recording of it is to tape it off air when next it's shown on television.

Captain Casper

Hi all.

Started watching this excellent film on C4 and just been called out to a urgent repair so I'm gonna miss the last 20 minutes!

Has anyone recorded it by any chance?

aphra

I have recorded it. Send me a PM and let me know if you have a trades list/