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Post by althea on Jun 13, 2019 14:37:39 GMT
I have watched The Go Between several times,it is a classic.
Sadly,with Ultra HD,the quality of the old films is very poor. They look a bit fuzzy.
I don't mind it myself, but my family have no patience with less than perfect clarity.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 14, 2019 6:39:59 GMT
12:10 SPARROWS CAN'T SING (1963) *
14:00 RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY (1983) Premiere
17:00 SHADOWS (1975) Premiere
19:15 THE FLYING SQUAD (1940) Premiere
21:30 BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB (1971) Premiere
23:20 DULCIMA (1971)
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Post by polly on Jun 14, 2019 10:22:36 GMT
I watched again The Go-Between last night and enjoyed it. Tonight I shall watch Dulcima. I love this film although I feel a little bit uncomfortable about it - you know, older man plus younger woman. And the ending is sad. Poor John Mills is driven to madness that he is losing his young woman. Just out of interest, I looked up the female equivalent of virile (which is what John Mills isn't but Carol White is in the film!), and came up with Muliebrity. I have never seen this word before!  |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 14, 2019 12:02:42 GMT
I watched again The Go-Between last night and enjoyed it. Tonight I shall watch Dulcima. I love this film although I feel a little bit uncomfortable about it - you know, older man plus younger woman. And the ending is sad. Poor John Mills is driven to madness that he is losing his young woman. Just out of interest, I looked up the female equivalent of virile (which is what John Mills isn't but Carol White is in the film!), and came up with Muliebrity. I have never seen this word before! from Latin mulier ‘woman’ |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 15, 2019 6:44:33 GMT
James Norval Harald Justice (15 June 1907 – 2 July 1975) was a popular British character actor in British films of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. The son of an Aberdeen-born geologist who was named after his father, James Justice was born in Lee, a suburb of Lewisham in South London, in 1907. Educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, Justice studied science at University College, London.  |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 15, 2019 7:15:58 GMT
Sat 15 Jun 1906:00Oh, Mr Porter!1937. Comedy. Directed by Marcel Varnel. Stars Will Hay, Graham Moffatt & Moore Marriott. A hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster of Buggleskelly.Sat 15 Jun 1907:40The Lure of the Wilderness1952. Adventure. Director: Jean Negulesco. Stars: Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter & Constance Smith. In a Georgia swamp, a hunter stumbles across a wanted fugitive and his daughterSat 15 Jun 1909:30All Done By Electricity1968. Documentary. Director: Edith & Francis Williams. An award-winning film that outlines the potential dangers of electricity in the home. Part of the Women Amateur Filmmakers collection.Sat 15 Jun 1909:40Devil Girl From Mars1954. Sci-Fi. Directed by David MacDonald. Stars Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott & Hazel Court. A female alien, accompanied by a menacing robot, comes to Earth to collectEarth's men as breeding stock (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)Sat 15 Jun 1911:15The Headless Ghost1959. Comedy. Director Peter Graham Scott. Stars: Richard Lyon, Liliane Sottane, David Rose. Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head.Sat 15 Jun 1912:30The Iron Maiden1962. Comedy. Directed by Gerald Thomas. Starring Michael Craig & Joan Sims. An aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines, designs a new supersonic jet plane to sell to America.Sat 15 Jun 1914:30Cairo Road1950. Drama. Director: David Macdonald. Stars Eric Portman, Laurence Harvey & Maria Mauban. The Egyptian narcotics bureau unit investigate the murder of a rich colonel.Sat 15 Jun 1916:20The Ghost of St. Michael's1941. Comedy. DirectorMarcel Varnel. Stars Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Felix Aylmer. A school has been evacuated to a remote Scottish castle, which, is reputedly haunted.Sat 15 Jun 1918:00High Flight1957. Drama. Directed by John Gilling. Stars Ray Milland, Bernard Lee, Kenneth Haigh & Anthony Newley. An R.A.F C.O must deal with a testing cadet, but the Cadet reminds the C.O of his younger self.Sat 15 Jun 1919:45The Flying Squad1940. Crime. Director: Herbert Brenon. Stars Sebastian Shaw, Phyllis Brooks, Jack Hawkins. Bradley of the C.I.D. Flying Squad is out to break a drug smuggling gang.Sat 15 Jun 1921:00The Cotton Club1984. Drama. Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Stars: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane & Nicholas Cage. The Cotton Club was a famous night clubin Harlem, famous for its visitors and Jazz music.Sat 15 Jun 1923:35And Soon the Darkness1970. Horror. Director: Robert Fuest. Stars Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice & Sandor Eles. Two young women go cycling in the French countryside, but one goes missing...Sat 15 Jun 1901:40Morgan: A Suitable Case For...... Treatment. 1966. Comedy. Directed by Karel Reisz. Stars David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave & Robert Stephens. After his wife leaves him for his friend, a failed artist begins his descent into madness.Sat 15 Jun 1903:45Dance Hall1950. Drama. Directed by Charles Crichton. Stars Diana Dors, Petula Clark, Jane Hylton & Natasha Parry. Four young female factory workers escape the monotony of their jobs at the the Chiswick Palais. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)Sat 15 Jun 1905:251958 -S.G. Iron, HullInteresting public information filmmade in1958onS.G.Ironand the difference betweenS.G.Ironand the future of CastIron, Great shots of 50s London andHull.Sat 15 Jun 1905:45Bring on Bing1932. Drama. Directed by Leslie Pearce. Stars Bing Crosby, Marjorie Kane & Dick Stewart. Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's pen-pal, a billboard model, goes to school.
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Post by althea on Jun 16, 2019 15:04:51 GMT
I used to love "The Road" films with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.Recently I watched one of these films and found it dated. It just didn't seem nearly so funny.Some films stand the test of time and some don't.
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Post by polly on Jun 16, 2019 20:50:03 GMT
Althea, when my brother and I were young, we loved the ROAD films. We would watch them on television -The Saturday Matinee usually. We also always looked out for, amongst the many, films such as Going My Way with Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald , and The Bells of St. Mary's with Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman.
Earlier this evening I watched Other Men - a public information film about road safety. I think it was called Other Men! The little children stole the show. One classroom scene reminded me so much of my little primary school. I loved playing in the Wendy House.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 17, 2019 8:38:55 GMT
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Post by ARENA on Jun 18, 2019 8:34:02 GMT
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Post by polly on Jun 18, 2019 13:11:16 GMT
Thank you, Arena, for the listings.
I have just watched SOS Titanic.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 19, 2019 7:41:11 GMT
10:10 CUCKOO PATROL (1967)
14:00 RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY (1988) Premiere
15:05 THE GHOST OF ST MICHAELS (1941)
17:00 SHADOWS (1978) Premiere
18:30 THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (1961) *
20:30 PUBLIC EYE (1971)
00:05 A DOGS RANSOM (1978) Armchair Thriller Premiere....A quiet, middle-aged couple living in Chelsea start to receive threatening letters through the post - and then things take a sinister turn as their beloved poodle, Tina, is kidnapped. Should they comply and pay up the ransom?
* Michael Caine and Norman Chappell have very small parts.......................ooh, Matron!
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Post by aubrey on Jun 19, 2019 9:10:43 GMT
10:10 CUCKOO PATROL (1967) 14:00 RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY (1988) Premiere 15:05 THE GHOST OF ST MICHAELS (1941) 17:00 SHADOWS (1978) Premiere 18:30 THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (1961) * 20:30 PUBLIC EYE (1971) 00:05 A DOGS RANSOM (1978) Armchair Thriller Premiere....A quiet, middle-aged couple living in Chelsea start to receive threatening letters through the post - and then things take a sinister turn as their beloved poodle, Tina, is kidnapped. Should they comply and pay up the ransom? * Michael Caine and Norman Chappell have very small parts.......................ooh, Matron!
The Day the Earth Caught Fire is a great film - I thought it would be like The Night of the Big Heat or something like that, but it's really well done, and really well thought out.
Leo Mckern is pretty much the star of it - I know there's a hero with a bigger role, but Leo gets all the best lines - and the editor of the Daily Express plays himself - a bit stiffly (I've just thought he was probably too restricted in the language he could use) but reasonably well.
But anyway, I watched it a few weeks ago and it is very worth seeing.
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Post by polly on Jun 19, 2019 9:22:19 GMT
I quite like the short drama Shadows. I had never seen or heard of it before. It is so dated but the few I have recently watched have been enjoyable. The special effects remind me of a favourite series for children - The Box of Delights with Patrick Troughton and Devin Stanfield. My daughter and I used to watch it together years ago. There is something about the likes of The Box of Delights and Shadows that gives me a strange but nice feeling - probably a reminder of the happy past.  |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 19, 2019 9:49:01 GMT
I quite like the short drama Shadows. I had never seen or heard of it before. It is so dated but the few I have recently watched have been enjoyable. The special effects remind me of a favourite series for children - The Box of Delights with Patrick Troughton and Devin Stanfield. My daughter and I used to watch it together years ago. There is something about the likes of The Box of Delights and Shadows that gives me a strange but nice feeling - probably a reminder of the happy past.
There's the texture of the film/video used, the way it's directed, the style of the sets and the acting, even the actors' accents - things you don't notice at the time because everything was like that - but do 20-30 years later.
I watched the Waiting Room with Jenny Agutter on Youtube a few weeks ago - pretty bad quality reproduction but still good.
I will try to get to see Box of Delights (I have the TV tie-in edition of the novel, by John Masefield, or I did). There are others that are sometimes on Youtube, in better versions - The Enchanted Castle, Escape into Night, Kizzy, Tom's Midnight Garden, Carrie's War - all good stuff, and all with that texture.
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