batman

The Peter Finch version was similarly objective, with a better lead actor too.

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Geoffers

No, he was the cook sergeant in the mess who has to quickly "improve" the day's menu when an inspection of the food suddenly threatens. He only had a few lines.

The car repairer was Norman Bird, another great character actor.

Santonix

You're right and the AA patrol man was an uncredited Bruce Seton.

alan gowdy

He does not use the F-word but rather something contrived to sound very like it. Can't remember exactly - must have another look (listen?)

Hackett

The word is an old army exprestion "mucking". As used in "VON RYONS EXPRESS" when the soldier in hospital tells Col. Ryan to "Muck off" with his view on stopping all escape attemps. Norman Rossington makes it sound more like the F word by using his own Liverpool accent.

Windthrop

Actually I think Morley was despite being overage for the part was better - bon vivier, wit and dramatist etc he brought things the the part a mere 'actor' couldn't. The Finch movie is a typical example of a scope/colour 'romp' - all dressed up and nowhere to go. The only advantage it has is a genuinely malevolent Bosie unlike John Neville - though that is the fault of Sewell Stokes Script.

The trial scenes are much less melodramatic in Ratoff's version and therefore more affecting for it. Hughes' film is too overblown trying to make a personal tragedy into an 'epic'.

Harleybloke

Yeah, but if 'Buster' and 'Ronnie' had been Mp's.............sorry! Now I'm just being cynical.......!

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

harryfielder

I love to watch these old films and to watch out for background artists of the past. One guy caught my eye in the canteen was Joe Dunn (see IMDB) who went on to be one of our top stunt men..
And as for Camp Ollie ....('nuff said)

Aitch,

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batman

If he did that onscreen today he'd get his own chat show!

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

orpheum

Norman Rossington definately uses the f word.Trevelyan must have had a long liquid lunch before watching this film.How it got through i do not know.Other similar examples being stupid fakhir in both OK for Sound and Carry On Up The Khyber.

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Santonix

I don't remember "stupid fakhir" in Khyber, just "fakhir off", I must watch it again.

alan gowdy

I hate to disagree but Rossington uses a similar sounding substitute for the F word.

stevie boy

I again watched this classic last night. The dialogue is superb, I can and do watch this film time and time again. Bunny Warren's entrance is brilliant, Bryan Forbes is a genius.

Arthur Linden-Jones

There's an episode of Dad's Army where L/Cpl Jones relates a tale of being captured in the desert. In a flashback, where Jones's former army pals are played by Dad's Army actors, Jones relates the tale of being cursed by an "old fakhir" ... "Clear off, you old fakhir" ....

Also in Sink The Bismark, there is a scene aboard one of the British warships that has just been mistakenly attacked by torpedo planes off the Ark Royal (?), one of the officers on the bridge clearly, distinctly mouths the curse agaisnt the planes as "f*cking b4st4rds".

This is war Wilson, not Sainsburys!

Lady Lois

Brit films (and TV - think of Father Ted with feck and fup) have always used substitute swear words - and mouthing swear words - which got past the censors. Sometimes the censors got fed with the blatant substitution, such as not allowing the word 'bogger' for 'bugger' in Saturday Night, Sunday Morning. BUT watch any war film (from the time) and you will usually find at least one bastard and several humourous mouthings or horn toots! And Olivier's Henry V gleefully enunciates each and every instance of 'bastard' - there are about 3 or 4 in one scene...