Out

[Three Litre]

I did see this on its first run and remember thinking it was well made. However I always have a problem really liking TV and films that paint nasty, violent, criminal men who just happen to look and dress smart and display loyalty to their own kind, as some kind of heroes. 

The great train robbers were career criminals who were quite prepared to hurt and maim people to fund their big job.

I just think all these people are low life and prey on those who are weaker than them of who they manage to get the drop on.

The Hatton Garden job was similar, one of those guys poured petrol all over an innocent person on a previous job to get him to get them access to a vault or something.

[Vienna]

Dec 22, 2019 6:22:05 GMT Lord Emsworth said:

Dec 20, 2019 8:26:24 GMT Lord Emsworth said:

I've only got hazy recollections but what a discussion you've started here

Tom Bell is always good value

Just ordered the DVD

Thanks

Looking forward to getting my mitts on it

And now it's arrived

Hurrah

Xmas is complete - I know the in laws will love a bit of Euston Films 70s grit to help digest their Xmas lunch

I'll have to take a look at this series in the near future...

A bit off topic here, but I have just spotted you Lord Emsworth on a US Blu-ray release...




Vi

[Arthur Pringle]

Funnily enough there is a kind of Christmas dinner scene in Eraserhead with chickens instead of a turkey.

As for Frank Ross, I can understand him wanting to get even with who he thinks grassed him, but he was a thief so he had no cause to be mad at the police, as hardnosed as they were, as he would've got 8 years for robbery regardless of whether he was grassed or not.

To Trevor Preston's credit he makes the damage Ross's life of crime has done to his family central to the story. In fact it's less about crime as the consequences of it, I think that's true of Preston's Sweeney stories as well, they are cautionary tales.

[Lord Emsworth]

Dec 22, 2019 16:49:33 GMT Vienna said:

A bit off topic here, but I have just spotted you Lord Emsworth on a US Blu-ray release...

Well spotted Vienna

Eraserhead is a pretty out there film. I've not seen it since it's original theatrical release. I recall some scenes really vividly to this day, including the chicken scene Arthur mentions above.

Radiator lady anyone?

Right, let's get back to Out before we get a well deserved yellow card apiece

[Sam Tyler]

Dec 22, 2019 18:08:24 GMT Lord Emsworth said:

Right, let's get back to Out before we get a well deserved yellow card apiece

Yes, I'm watching you.....



Sam.

[Sparky]

Dec 20, 2019 15:41:02 GMT Villain said:

Dec 20, 2019 11:44:06 GMT Lord Emsworth said:

Thanks Villain - will get hold of Fox too then

Four episodes of Out last night? That's some binge - were you necking the Scotch all the way through?

Thanks also for your thoughts - it certainly sounds absolutely essential and right up my street. And, as you say, it's an amazing cast too.

I think nigh on four hours of knocking back the old Scotch would have had me in a coma, I'm such a lightweight...  . Watching it again has certainly left me wanting more, I think it's one of Euston Films' best pieces of work. Hope you enjoy it, and 'Fox' too of course.

Villain 

Fox has been on my shopping list for a while.

I have never seen it, or any trails - but was aware of the programme.

So - it's something new.

[Lord Emsworth]

Dec 23, 2019 10:19:25 GMT Sparky said:

Fox has been on my shopping list for a while.

I have never seen it, or any trails - but was aware of the programme.

So - it's something new.

Complete series DVD is £5.99 on Amazon UK

#bargain

#snapitup

If this five star review on Amazon from James Hayes doesn't sell it to you then nothing will...

Frank Ross has just got out of nick after doing an eight stretch: although he was caught bang to rights pulling a bullion job, he is set on finding out the filthy grass what shopped him. Over six episodes Ross tracks down his former members of his old firm, while causing plenty of aggravation to the two slags now running his South London manor, and the bent filth who put him away. He also has to deal with a wife and son sent dysfunctional by his prolonged absence at Her Majesty's pleasure...

Possibly Trevor Preston's - and Euston Films' - finest hour outside of 'The Sweeney', the screenplay and acting are taught and assured, and every performance crackles with cred. Watching this for the first time in 30 years, I found I could recall stretches of dialogue as though I'd heard them only last week. My only reservations are 1) having spent the first 29 years living in and around Frank Ross's locale, I'd say much of the slang is more East- than South London; b) the casting of John Junkin as Ross's buddy/heavy - he just doesn't look tasty enough to put down geezers half his age; c) the final episode is a bit compressed, as Preston pulls all the plotlines together, and the action hurtles toward a slightly uneven denoument.

As with a lot of telly of that era, characters carelessly booze and smoke their way through scenes. The 1978 16mm print could have done with a bit of superficial restoration, but generally it holds up well. Superb theme and incidental music by George Fenton at a fairly early stage in his esteemed career.

So if you like brown lambskin car coats, green Ford Granadas, wide-lapelled suits with flaired trouser legs, talk of slags, aggravation, faces round the manor, then forget 'Life On Mars' et al - this is the real deal.

[Villain]

That's an excellent summing up of the series, spot on  . Thinking about it, it would make a really good stand alone feature film, condensed into say, no more than two hours....

Villain 

[Three Litre]

John Junkin was a strange choice as a heavy. I mean, he was heavy ............... but in the wrong way!

[Arthur Pringle]

Happened to be watching a Christmas edition of the comedy 'Peep Show', Lynn Farleigh who plays Frank Ross's ex wife Anne & Clive Merrison who plays Ross's current wife Eve's doctor appear as husband & wife.