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Your Favourite British Films Name your favourite British film or make a case for an underrated classic.


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Old 09-05-2008, 05:30 PM
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I can carry on pedanting (that would have been an awesome film, set at one of the new universities with Sid James brought in as the new Vice-Chancellor) if you really want. There's been a radio adaptation as well.
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Think of it as a learning experience.
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Old 09-05-2008, 05:35 PM
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Well it certainly taught me a lesson! Stay away from pedants!
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Old 09-05-2008, 09:34 PM
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Well it certainly taught me a lesson! Stay away from pedants!
Aww, we'll miss you
There are lots of pedants around here

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Old 10-05-2008, 07:57 AM
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There are lots of pedants around here

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Surely, as a pedant, you should have said 'a few pedants' .... I think 'lots of' is over-stating your case somewhat.
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What slightly annoys me about the 1978 version is that Robert Powell has a stupid 70's style bouffon. Why didn't he have a proper hair cut?
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Old 17-06-2008, 04:24 PM
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What slightly annoys me about the 1978 version is that Robert Powell has a stupid 70's style bouffon. Why didn't he have a proper hair cut?
Because it was the 1970s

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Because it was the 1970s
But the film is set in 1914.
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I'm sure that the Donat version is probably technically the best, but for me it's the Kenneth More version every time. I think it's More himself - he always had a wonderfully laid-back, relaxed and natural way about him.
And if there's a scene in which he prods someone with his pipe, so much the better.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps began as a cheap thriller, but its appeal has lasted nearly a century. Now Hollywood is remaking it once more. Geoffrey Macnab reports

Friday January 16, 2004
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DB7 or anyone. I have not seen any news of a remake, if it is like other recent remakes of British classic films, I hope I do not, but I would like to know if our resident eggheads have news on progress of the remake.
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Old 11-10-2008, 05:20 PM
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DB7 or anyone. I have not seen any news of a remake, if it is like other recent remakes of British classic films, I hope I do not, but I would like to know if our resident eggheads have news on progress of the remake.
It's been announced, that seems to be all.
According to the IMDb it's "sort of on the back burner."

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Last October, my mum and myself spent a week in London. We saw four theatre productions and by far and way the best - and the one which had the least spent on it in set design - was the 39 Steps at the Criterion in Piccadilly Circus.

With only four actors playing all the oparts, and an inventive and ingenious use of the barest minimum of props and sets, it was rollicking good fun.

Not long ago, I saw a bit of the Kenneth More version and the stage play seemed very close to it.
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Very pleased to see so many people here speaking up for the Kenneth More version. I thought I was the only one in the world who preferred it.

There's another -- quite consciously, in fact self-consciously -- Hannayish edge-of-the-seat conspiracy-minded one-damned-thing-after-another adventure story available on DVD, the 1990 British TV production "Never Come Back," based on a thriller that was written by a young writer who died in World War II in the RAF and that was actually reviewed, sort of favorably, by George Orwell. Unfortunately, though it references John Buchan, it isn't terribly good, and the hero, played by Nathaniel Parker, isn't very appealing.
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Last October, my mum and myself spent a week in London. We saw four theatre productions and by far and way the best - and the one which had the least spent on it in set design - was the 39 Steps at the Criterion in Piccadilly Circus.

With only four actors playing all the oparts, and an inventive and ingenious use of the barest minimum of props and sets, it was rollicking good fun.

Not long ago, I saw a bit of the Kenneth More version and the stage play seemed very close to it.
It's a brilliant play (it's won awards and everything) .... it openly acknowledges it is based on Hitchcock's film of which the More version is a straightforward remake.
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It's a brilliant play (it's won awards and everything) .... it openly acknowledges it is based on Hitchcock's film of which the More version is a straightforward remake.

Agree it is a fabulous show, must get around to going to see it again
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