Films On Tv (19th+ February)

[DB7]

The Captive Heart

12:30 on Tuesday 20th February on Channel 4.

Buster

00:15 on Tuesday 20th February on BBC 1.

Fanny by Gaslight

12:30 on Wednesday 21st February on Channel 4.

The Devil Rides Out

22:00 on Sunday 25th February on ITV4.

[Brief Encounter]

We're not getting many, are we?

[Philip Eno]

I very nearly brought Gladiator in the Virgin Sale on Saturday, but did not. On the way home checking the TV Guide, I discovered it was to be shown on Channel 4, of which I did not watch.

[marker]

yes films seem to be getting very thin on the ground these days

[DB7]

name='Brief Encounter']We're not getting many, are we?

Nope, I've stopped including some as they turn up every few weeks. First on CH4, then More4, then FilmFour, then back on terrestial. The BBC appears to have worsened and we rarely get a film in the afternoon. Sigh.

[Steve Crook]

FilmFour are showing The Silver Fleet (1943) tomorrow. That doesn't get shown very often.



Powell & Pressburger are only credited as the producers but Emeric wrote the original story - and then withdrew his name from it when they didn't make the Nazis nasty enough. It's a good tale, well told, with some very good performances.



Steve

[DB7]

name='Steve Crook']FilmFour are showing The Silver Fleet (1943) tomorrow.

I'm working on a remake:

[Rob Compton]

name='Steve Crook']FilmFour are showing The Silver Fleet (1943) tomorrow. That doesn't get shown very often.



Powell & Pressburger are only credited as the producers but Emeric wrote the original story - and then withdrew his name from it when they didn't make the Nazis nasty enough. It's a good tale, well told, with some very good performances.



Steve

I'm still interested in some of the locations used in "The Silver Fleet" especially the school and the walkway with trees beside the park - they seem very distinctive, somehow. I think some of the scenes were shot in Kings Lynn - not a town I know, does it have some Dutch type architecture?



Bob

[Rob Compton]

...then there's the shipyard scene with a very large building (like a cathedral or church) way off in the background - Dundee, maybe? But what's the large building?



Anyway, great film, especially Esmond Knight's "interrogation" scene with the little girl!



rgds

Rob

[Steve Crook]

name='Rob Compton']...then there's the shipyard scene with a very large building (like a cathedral or church) way off in the background - Dundee, maybe? But what's the large building?



Anyway, great film, especially Esmond Knight's "interrogation" scene with the little girl!



rgds

Rob

It was the cat what done it



It could well be Dundee dockyard, but remember how clever/sneaky The Archers were as film-makers. There's a scene of a point-to-point in Gone to Earth which was filmed at Eyton, Shropshire. But the scenes show Ludlow Castle in the near background, even though it's really miles away. It must be a clever fake like a hanging miniature or matte. They could have used the same trick to put an impressive building behind the dockyards.



I still want to do a location hunt around Boston & King's Lynn. Some old atlases still show that part of Lincolnshire as "Parts of Holland" because the landscape and architecure do (did?) look very Dutch in places.



Steve