fred kite

bought this for a fiver in hmv cwmran today....love this film....jack warner killed by dirk then back from the dead in dixon of dock green sheeer british film heaven..........any more info on tommy hanley......or this film would be great ......?????????

Carmel

Hi i think this is a graet film must look in HMV tomorrow.

Harleybloke

For anyone that knows Notting Hill or Westbourne Park, the car chase at the end is surreal..................zippo traffic!!

Ah! The Good old days!

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

sippog

Anyone who likes this film should try to get hold of THE BLACK AND BLUE LAMP, a wonderful BBC 1980's play. It's a black comedy in which the Bogarde character, after his arrest at the end of the film, finds himself projected into a 70's cop show called THE FILTH starring John Woodvine and Ken Cranham.

Mm, now that sounds sorta familiar, doesn't it?

christoph404

Must have been a Sunday morning at about 6am!! I was watching the Michael Caine film "Blue Ice" the other night and he drives through Piccadilly Circus and up Shaftsbury Avenue in his classic Jag and there is absolutley zero traffic on the road!! it looks like a scene from "28 Days Later" very starnge, another Sunday morning 6am shoot I think!

Steve Crook

You can't even do that at 6am on a Sunday any more. There's quite heavy traffic 24/7. For 28 Days Later they hired a lot of marshals to hold back the traffic for 5 or 10 minutes (with permission from the local authorities) per scene. They quickly found that most drivers responded better when the marshals were pretty girls

Steve

christoph404

Im sorry I missed that day of shooting!! I live about a ten minute walk from Piccadilly Circus near Green Park tube in W1, and I have been known to get up very early on a Sunday for my newspaper and pint of milk, its usually completely deserted of people and the roads very empty even at 7 or 8 am, the occasional bus and couple of cars but never the volume of traffic that you get during the week or later in the afternoon. Actually I read an article about the shooting on Vannila Sky in New York's Times Square and that too is more or less deserted between the hours of 5 and 6 on a Sunday morning, the filmakers had about one hour to get the shot of Tom Cruise strolling through a completely deserted Times Square done for real without CGI, the police set up road blocks and marshalls to keep the few pedestrians and cars out but the disruption was minimal. I would think every city sleeps sometime, even London and New York, even if it is only a couple of hours on a Sunday morning!

orpheum

the cinema in The Blue Lamp is the Coloseum Harlesden.It still erxists albeit as a pub.

Welcome To Highbury The Home Of Football

Moor Larkin

Like sailors fighting in the dance-hall.....

stevie boy

do you mean Jimmy Hanley???
Jimmy was a great character and I love it when he pops up and he does regularly. I loved him working with Jack Warner. I can name 4 films,Holiday Camp, here come the Huggets,The Captive Heart and The Blue Lamp.

Bell Bottom George

Jimmy Hanley appears as a young lad in Boys Will Be Boys (1935).

P.S. How High is a Chinaman ?

"What larks we had Mr Pip...........what larks !"

Lady Lois

He's also in the excellent "Gaslight" with Anton Walbrook

batman

A superb film .... much better than the Boyer/Bergman remake.

Bats.

I wish I had claws.

stevie boy

and very good he was too, good film,Will Hay was a genius

stevie boy

The Blue Lamp is on tv this week, very good film, I love Jack Warner & Gladys Henson(mind you I loved Kathleen Harrison as well)