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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2020 16:53:46 GMT
Murphy Mob was out in the early 80's. It had Gary Holton singing the theme like Jimmy Pursey.
I remember all those shows but Murphys Mob was about a group of yobs made into a football team managed by a Scottish manager played by Ken Hutchinson(he of 'Straw Dogs' fame).
Better than all that English middle class mince.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2020 17:40:40 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Aug 1, 2020 14:37:31 GMT
A Canterbury Tale (1944) is on Talking Pictures on Tuesday afternoon It's a Powell and Pressburger wartime classic
Tue 04 Aug 20 @ 17:00
It features Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price and Sgt. John Sweet; Esmond Knight provided narration and played several small roles. Much of the film's visual style is a mixture of British realism and cinematographer Erwin Hillier's German Expressionist style that is harnessed through a neo-romantic sense of the English landscape. The concept that 'the past always haunts the present' in the English landscape was already part of English literary culture e.g. in works by Rudyard Kipling such as Puck of Pook's Hill, and would become a notable trope for British novelists and film-makers from the 1960s onwards. A Canterbury Tale takes its title from The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, and loosely uses Chaucer's theme of "eccentric characters on a religious pilgrimage" to highlight the wartime experiences of the citizens of Kent, and encourage wartime Anglo-American friendship and understanding.
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Post by personunknown on Aug 3, 2020 6:14:11 GMT
Billy Liar
23.00 today.
Tom Courtenay as the eponymous fantasist in a northern small town. Rodney Bewes and Julie Christie co star. Bittersweet.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Aug 3, 2020 8:42:51 GMT
What a wonderful film that is PU. I've watched it a few times over the years and it never fails to hit the spot. I'll set the recorder.
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Post by personunknown on Aug 3, 2020 8:52:12 GMT
What a wonderful film that is PU. I've watched it a few times over the years and it never fails to hit the spot. I'll set the recorder. It is really wonderful. I still live in hope that the early seventies tv series with Jeff Rawle as Billy will one day get a rerun. |
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Post by johnnyoi on Aug 3, 2020 10:57:49 GMT
Great film and tv series.Based on the book by Keith Waterhouse.I recall reading the book and the sequel “Billy Liar on the Moon” years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2020 18:11:43 GMT
What a wonderful film that is PU. I've watched it a few times over the years and it never fails to hit the spot. I'll set the recorder. Me too as I've never seen it🙂 |
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Post by personunknown on Aug 13, 2020 13:20:44 GMT
The Boys from Brazil 23.05 today
Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck in a classic tale of Nazis and cloning.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Aug 13, 2020 15:18:54 GMT
The Boys from Brazil 23.05 today Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck in a classic tale of Nazis and cloning. Thanks PU I remember it being around (plus the book) but not sure I've ever seen it |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Aug 16, 2020 19:57:19 GMT
The Likely Lads (1976)
Rodney Bewes, James Bolam
Saturday 22nd August 6:00pm
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2020 21:59:46 GMT
The Boys from Brazil 23.05 today Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck in a classic tale of Nazis and cloning. A fantastic piece of tosh and Gregory Peck is a right nasty piece of work in it. I always remember tha last scene growing up as it was pretty brutal. Nearly as good as the Odessa File👍 |
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Post by personunknown on Dec 31, 2020 13:53:03 GMT
Just noticed.
Dead of Night 6.50 pm
First of the horror anthologies and probably never bettered. Four segments by acclaimed directors. Best remembered for Michael Redgrave and his malevolent ventriloquist doll.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 31, 2020 14:05:05 GMT
Just noticed. Dead of Night 6.50 pm First of the horror anthologies and probably never bettered. Four segments by acclaimed directors. Best remembered for Michael Redgrave and his malevolent ventriloquist doll. Good shout PU Dead of Night (1945) is a chiller and no mistake Dead of Night is a 1945 British anthology horror film, made by Ealing Studios. The individual segments were directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer.
It stars Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes and Michael Redgrave. The film is best remembered for the concluding story, which features Redgrave and concerns a ventriloquist's malevolent dummy.
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Post by personunknown on Jan 10, 2021 12:09:46 GMT
Talking Pics plumbs the depths tonight.
Yesterday's Hero 12.00am
Risible junk from Jackie Collins. Ian McShane plays a washed up footballer given a second chance by pop star club chairman Paul Nicholas. Interspersed with Forest at Wembley clips which bear little relation to the storyline. I saw this at the cinema on first release and it must go down as one of the worst, cliched films ever.
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