ollie

Just to continue the crisp theme a little,i used to like HORROR BAGS fangs,bones,and another one that escapes me,you could save up tokens and get gifts like a gorgons head,skull etc.the things you remember!

cheers Ollie

"Bullseye !!"

smudge

LMAO

My schoolday crisps, Hackett, were CHIPMUNK crisps (brand, NOT flavour !) and you used to get stickers and collector cards in 'em.

I vividly remember HORROR BAGS too Ollie, Fangs were sort of Barbecue, Bones were Salt & Vinegar - I too cannot recall the other one but am sure there were three...

Anybody remember (mid 70s?) TUDOR CRISPS ? This was the advent of weird flavours - the first one was Hot Dog & Mustard. This was rapidly followed by that Hedgehog (flavour AND brand) crisp controversy....

SMUDGE

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Steve Crook

See http://hedgehoghollow.com/hedgehog_crisps.html. They were really just ahead of their time. One of the first organic crisps. And no, they didn't really make them from hedgehogs.

Steve

Steve Crook

PaPAS

smudge

As I recall, they didn't taste much of anything ; maybe ever so lightly beefy/meaty ? The 'adverse' publicity of the time didn't harm sales though, did it ?

Didn't realise at the time that they were organic - and the trouble I take nowadays to buy organic stuff... blush

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David Brent

A great atmospheric whodunnit starring the incomparable Alistair Sim and a great array of Brit character actors.
Including Leo Genn, Trevor Howard, the reliable Megs Jenkins and Moore Marriott.
A sinister story of murder committed in a country hospital during WW2.
It has a strong storyline and Alistair Sim's performance is one of his best.
A great film to watch late at night or on a dark and rainy day.

Dave.

smudge

Can't argue with that Dave !

A much loved and eminently re-watchable movie.

As a kid I was gobsmacked when I realised it was THE Moore Marriott (aka Harbottle) from those brilliant Will Hay movies in this. SO different...

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Nick Dando

As a kid I was gobsmacked when I realised it was THE Moore Marriott (aka Harbottle) from those brilliant Will Hay movies in this. SO different...

Watch out for him in a larger part in Millions Like Us. It is difficult to resolve the two sides of his acting personality in seeing them back to back. He's almost unrecognisable from his more famous persona as Harbottle. And then to see him as Harbottle's Dad in Ask a policeman! Although he wasn't in it, don't you think that he could have been Sir Roderick Femm in The Old Dark House?

Nick

foha80

I have lost count of the times that I have seen this movie and I never saw Moore Marriott,off to Check


Terry

Steve Crook

He plays the postman.

Steve

Rob Compton

Then again Moore Marriott in "The History of Mr Polly" is a cross patch version of his "Oh Mr Porter" character!

If anyone hasn't seen the former, its a lovely little film starring Sir John Mills, with Sally Ann Howes, Finlay Currie and the lovely Megs Jenkins, directed by Anthony Pelissier.

rgds
Rob

theuofc

Question about the two DVD releases for "Green for Danger": I posted the Network DVD release of Dirk Bogarde's "Victim" (1961) with a postscript that Network has a five-year agreement with Granada/Carlton, now merged, giving Network access to and the release rights to some/all? of the G-C ITV television library holdings and their "Rank, Romulus and Rohauer film collections."

JameM asked this interesting question: "I'm puzzled as to why exactly DD and Network are releasing the same Granada titles, such as Green for Danger."

I'd like to know also.

I don't see an inherent difference between the two. So why the two releases? Granted, Network re-released Granada's Jan 2004 special edition of "Victim," but that had been deleted in Feb. 2005 giving a year's interval between Network's release on 10 April 2006.

Network's print will undoubtedly come from the Granada-Carlton Library; I can't tell where the DD release came from. Unless DD's print is inferior, what is the sense of Network's re-releasing it so quickly on the heels of DD's release? Is Network picking major titles from the Granada Ventures library with their contract in mind and rolling out the titles regardless to establish their G-C profile.

Thanks,
Barbara
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1. NETWORK release: Green For Danger
Release date: April 17, 2006. Not yet available: you may still order this title.
Certification: PG
Duration: 90 mins
Format: DVD
Region: 2
Cat. No: 7952429(NETWORK)
Category: Drama:General

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2..DD Home Entertainment release: Green for Danger
Certification: PG
Duration: 92 mins [probably not accurate]
Format: DVD
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Cat. No: DD22001(DD HOME ENTERTAINMENT) [Classic British Film]
Category: Drama:General

Steve Crook

Amazon & Sendit are just shops, they would have just copied the run times from the publicity sent with the DVDs and it's likely that the blurb for the Network release just rounded it down to the nearest 5 or 10 minutes.

DVD production companies never seem to put much stock on running times and often just seem to copy them from other sources. Sometimes the cinematic run time or the run time of the American release with the added confusion that brings.

I always ignore advertised run times until I can see it for myself.

Steve

theuofc

I suspected it was a casual run time, but it's good to hear it confirmed, plus the rationale behind it. Can you figure out why two DVD releases in such a short time?

Best,

Barbara

penfold

If you want a real contrast, wait to you see Moore Marriott as Sweeney Todd in the silent version from'28....a close-cropped, muscular psychotic thug....a younger Ray Winstone!!!

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

spinalman

Green For Danger is one of my favourites too.
I am also curious about the locations used. Clearly a huge proportion is on a studio set, but there are some exteriors that seem perhaps too expansive for the studio or back lot. The hospital walkways are very similar to those of the between the wars TB sanatoria - either they found a real location or had good set designers.
Curiously the first time Alistair Sim's character arrives the exteriors looks North of England.
has anyone any insight on this film?

Paul