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Post by Arthur Pringle on Sept 5, 2020 14:13:09 GMT
'Went The Day Well?' is on tptv at 6pm today, 'The Eagle Has Landed' was based on this film, it's the story of an English village invaded by Nazi soldiers.
I saw it recently & I thought it was one of the best & most shocking war films I've seen, it begins like a gentile Ealing film & then it changes into something very different. I now have to rate it as one of my favourite films. Definitely record it or watch it if you can.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Sept 5, 2020 18:12:54 GMT
Maybe not a coincidence they showed this film as the LWT series 'Enemy At The Door' starts tomorrow at 9pm, this is about the Nazi occupation of Guernsey.
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Post by Three Litre on Sept 5, 2020 18:26:39 GMT
Maybe not a coincidence they showed this film as the LWT series 'Enemy At The Door' starts tomorrow at 9pm, this is about the Nazi occupation of Guernsey.
Didn't that guy end up in the show about a holiday camp, Butlitz?
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Sept 23, 2020 17:44:06 GMT
Good escapist double bill of films on tptv tonight, at midnight 'Girl With A Pistol' is on, an Italian film filmed in parts of London, Edinburgh, Bath & Brighton, Monica Vitti stars as a Sicilian woman who has been 'wronged' by a man & travels to Britain to track him down. This unusual film also stars Stanley Baker & 'scouse git' Anthony Booth, down the cast list is Johnny 'Mike Baldwin' Briggs.
Prior to it at 10pm is Peter 'Italian Job' Collinson's version of 'And Then There Were None' with a very good international cast, great soundtrack by Ennio Morricone's mate Bruno Nicolai & an interesting Iranian location.
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Post by Steve Austin on Sept 23, 2020 19:25:57 GMT
Good escapist double bill of films on tptv tonight, at midnight 'Girl With A Pistol' is on, an Italian film filmed in parts of London, Edinburgh, Bath & Brighton, Monica Vitti stars as a Sicilian woman who has been 'wronged' by a man & travels to Britain to track him down. This unusual film also stars Stanley Baker & 'scouse git' Anthony Booth, down the cast list is Johnny 'Mike Baldwin' Briggs.
Prior to it at 10pm is Peter 'Italian Job' Collinson's version of 'And Then There Were None' with a very good international cast, great soundtrack by Ennio Morricone's mate Bruno Nicolai & an interesting Iranian location.
I watched "Girl With A Pistol" when it was on a few weeks ago. A strange film but worth watching as you say Arthur.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Sept 25, 2020 16:37:19 GMT
If you want to see Dennis Waterman fighting a vampire 'Scars Of Dracula' is on tonight at 11.45pm though the film before it, 'Night Of The Eagle', at 10pm is a lot better, Peter Wyngarde stars as a teacher whose wife dabbles in the Black Arts, a much better film than this silly American trailer implies-
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Post by Vienna on Sept 25, 2020 18:09:03 GMT
If you want to see Dennis Waterman fighting a vampire 'Scars Of Dracula' is on tonight at 11.45pm though the film before it, 'Night Of The Eagle', at 10pm is a lot better, Peter Wyngarde stars as a teacher whose wife dabbles in the Black Arts, a much better film than this silly American trailer implies-
Arthur, isn't 'Scars of Dracula' often regarded by fans and critics as the poorest of all the Hammer Dracula films? I don't think Dennis was particularly suited to playing an upper-class character in the movie. No Peter Cushing either in this one which probably doesn't help! 'Night of the Eagle' is certainly the better watch. Vi
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 25, 2020 18:26:15 GMT
Any film called Burn, Witch, Burn gets my vote
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Sept 25, 2020 19:42:17 GMT
Yes Vi, it's cheap looking sets in particular don't do it any favours. Funny though, there is an audio commentary with Christopher Lee & Roy Ward Baker & at one point Lee talks about how good the film looks! Dracula's death scene is very poor. At one point in the commentary Lee asks about Dennis Waterman 'wasn't he a singer?' Clearly he'd never seen The Sweeney or Minder. I quite like Patrick Troughton as Dracula's sadomasochist assistant Klove & the part where Dracula crawls up the wall of the castle, but Dennis was miscast.
Christopher Lee also mentioned Bob Todd who plays the burgomaster, he said he thought a Benny Hill sketch where Todd plays Fanny Cradock's drunk husband Johnnie was the funniest thing he's ever seen. The sketch is on this facebook page-
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Post by Peter Picard on Nov 15, 2020 20:34:18 GMT
Watched a short film entitled Snow showing how British Rail coped with the big freeze of 1963. There was no narration, just incidental music.
British Transport Films made it in 1963 and it was nominated for an academy award in 1965. People named in the credits included
Wolf Suschitzky - Camara Johnny Hawksworth - Music Ron Purdie - Assistant Director
Well worth watching out for if it's repeated.
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