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Post by Del Boy on Nov 6, 2019 23:40:58 GMT
Got a good bargin there Candy. I always give this one a watch every so often. Having seen the locations especially Blackhall Rocks it makes it a better view.
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Post by Sparky on Nov 7, 2019 19:45:43 GMT
Got a copy of this too Arthur. Not read it for years - but will start it once I finish reading "Regan" and "The Knowledge".
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Post by Sparky on Nov 7, 2019 19:51:14 GMT
Making Get Carter Top Picture: Laid down on platform in white pull-over - is Dusty Miller. (Lighting Cameraman on Sweeney/Minder) To his RH side - Mike Hodges (Director)
Bott Picture: RH side in Red Hat - Doreen Soan (Continuity / Script supervisor) - also on a couple of Sweeney episodes. LH centre turned towards back of camera, behind focus puller - Dusty Miller LH directly behind camera - Mike Hodges. Bhind Hodges - with Megaphone will be the 1st Assistant Director.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 8, 2019 9:01:34 GMT
Ted Lewis is well worth reading. I've read quite a few of his novels, aside from the Carter books, the one that really works is...
'GBH'
This is what I wrote whilst reading it a few years back and posted elsewhere....
'GBH' is Ted Lewis slap bang back to his best - at nearly the halfway point I declare it’s right up there with 'Get Carter' (1970, aka 'Jack's Return Home’).
After the discernible decline in quality that was 1977’s 'Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon (1977)’ I wondered if that book was the moment Ted lost his mojo. So far, it would appear emphatically not, 'GBH’ (1980) is classic Ted Lewis.
Sadly it was published just two years before his untimely death.
Brian Greene came up with this list that makes me smile. It's things which frequently come into play in Ted Lewis's crime novels:
* Music * Pornography * Revenge * Homosexuality * Violence * Drinking (people never stop drinking, at all times of day and night) * Car Names * Rivalry * Hideouts * People taking baths while cooling out after a big crime
Something else that makes Lewis's books stand out is that there are generally no characters in them that are likeable
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 8, 2019 17:37:15 GMT
Yes I've seen your reviews on goodreads Lord E
I read 'GBH' last year ( mentioned it on a different thread on the book about Lewis 'Getting Carter' ), not sure I've read anything quite so grim & black.
A few months ago I read his earlier novel 'Plender' which is like a user friendly version of 'GBH'. I got 'Jack Carter's Law' recently which I've not read yet.
I read that there were plans to film 'Plender' with Mike Hodges but he opted to do 'Pulp' instead, a pity.
Another of Lewis's novels 'Billy Rags' is more or less exactly the same as 'McVicar', Lewis acquired the prison manuscript of John McVicar's biography & basically lifted it. Quite fitting that a man in prison for robbery should be robbed himself.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 8, 2019 19:33:51 GMT
Thanks Arthur
I've got Billy Rags and Plender on my shelf waiting for the appropriate moment
I didn't know about the backstory to Billy Rags though - that's a great bit of triv
Jack Carter's Law is pretty good. I'm sure you'll enjoy it
So what's your name on GoodReads?
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 8, 2019 20:01:06 GMT
I'm not signed up to goodreads Lord, I have come across your reviews whilst looking up a few authors though.
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Post by Brown Granada on Nov 8, 2019 21:19:55 GMT
I recently stayed in Newcastle and our hotel was right by the building used when Jack chases Thorpey in to the dance hall. This is the back of it as taken from our hotel nowadays. and from the front. How it was:
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Post by Gene Hunt on Nov 8, 2019 21:47:26 GMT
What a marvelous vantage point BG. Thanks for posting these photos up (I've taken the liberty of editing a still from the film into your post to show how The Oxford looked at the time of filming) Gene.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Aug 29, 2021 21:42:32 GMT
I always think of GC and the Likely Lads when I use the East Coast line, even if I'm not going to Newcastle/the North East.
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