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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 17, 2019 21:48:06 GMT
This clip from 1983 contains a trailer for Queen's Pawn-
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Post by Steve Austin on Jan 17, 2019 21:58:50 GMT
Also on that clip is Edward Judd from "Money, Money, Money" doing the "Think Once, Think Twice, Think Bike" advert.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 17, 2019 23:00:53 GMT
Also on that clip is Edward Judd from "Money, Money, Money" doing the "Think Once, Think Twice, Think Bike" advert. Nasty
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jan 17, 2019 23:06:26 GMT
Brilliant seeing that trailer Arthur. A Pretty good one for Jack and George and for one of The Sweeney's best episodes too. Thanks for finding it mate.
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Post by Stan on Jan 18, 2019 1:13:32 GMT
Arthur - thanks for sharing this gem.
Agree with earlier comments - one of strongest episodes.
Script, acting, directing, locations and especially the realism.
The music used is also well selected and fits well with the narrative of the plot and well-cast acting roles.
Recall an earlier meet a number of us noted how the frontage to the Budd's property was much smaller than appears on film. Wide lens camera used to good effect.
Cheers,
Stan
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Post by Ford Consul 75 on Feb 12, 2019 21:45:04 GMT
Spotted John Vyvyan (Albert Millligan in "Faces") in the Creda ad (the one with Eric Sykes).
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Post by Kenny Dalglish 1979 on Feb 15, 2019 10:04:31 GMT
Ranald Graham's first Sweeney script and he'd go on to write some other good ones. His final one, Nightmare, had a bit of a Professionals feel to it, pre-dating series 2 opener Hunter/Hunted. Saw both last year and still as good as ever.
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Post by Sparky on Feb 15, 2019 12:32:49 GMT
Ranald Graham's first Sweeney script and he'd go on to write some other good ones. His final one, Nightmare, had a bit of a Professionals feel to it, pre-dating series 2 opener Hunter/Hunted. Saw both last year and still as good as ever. After his first meeting with Euston Films, Ranald left the meeting under the impression that he was writing the First episode of the "Sweeney" series - and spent weeks slogging away at his typewriter, visualising just what kind of character "Regan" was. He wasn't made aware that "Regan" had already been aired as a Pilot (he hadn't seen it), and other Scripts were already in the production machine anyway.
Both of Ranalds scripts for the series were wonderful. I loved "Queens Pawn". Tony Selby gives a performance of his life.
Ranald passed away in 2010, having Motor Neurone Disease. I think there is an obituary and write up about his "Sweeney" and "Professionals" days in a Union Journal - will see if I still have it and scan it in.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Feb 15, 2019 14:44:38 GMT
Maybe some will remember that after Ranald's death there was a thread on the previous forum, a friend of his came across it & left a few comments, she was a crime novelist, can't remember her name but I believe she partly looked after him. She mentioned the script he did for the 1974 film 'Shanks', a William Castle film starring mime artist Marcel Marceau, she mentioned Ranald's interest in horror films, after mentioning that I was a fan of them she kindly emailed me a copy of a typed interview he did concerning the film. She was full of praise for Ranald, he sounded a well liked person.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 2, 2019 15:14:00 GMT
I came across a script ( it's on the Sweeney Scripts thread ) for this episode which bears the working title 'Fool's Mate', Stone beats Lyon at chess in 4 moves & tells him it's 'Fool's Mate'. Knowing nothing about chess I looked 'Fool's Mate' up, it's actually checkmate in 2 moves & black must start ( Stone is white ), what Stone did is checkmate in 4 moves, this is properly refered to as 'Scholar's Mate', though according to wikipedia "'Fool's Mate' is sometimes used to mean 'Scholar's Mate'".
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