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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 21, 2016 22:10:12 GMT
I was very skinny as a lad, could see all my ribs & spine, I got a set of vinyl weights & a Bodysculpture bench from Argos, the weights are long gone but the bench I still have. Some good moments in the episode, even the weaker ones are usually redeemed by some memorable dialogue or character. A bit too ambitious this episode, has gold bullion ever been stolen & then disguised so easily? Two dozy guards fooled by a dodgy looking Dudley Sutton & dodgier looking bungling blaggers. Not sure you'd be able to walk into a bank today disguised as a cleaner & make off with gold bars Lavender Hill Mob Arthur Yeah, you have a point there Steve. Looking at the writer of Golden Boy's imdb credits, he was involved in writing the mini series 'The Gold Robbers' with Peter Vaughan.
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Post by Andy on Jan 11, 2018 12:24:00 GMT
Whenever i watch this one i always find myself wishing that Thorpe had been in a few more.
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Post by Cartman on Jan 11, 2018 13:10:50 GMT
Excellent episode this one I thought. A few plot holes as Arthur said, but satisfying and enjoyable. I liked the drunk informant and the scene where jack got the pen pusher drunk in the pub at lunchtime. More great London location shots from late 74 too.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 2, 2019 16:57:31 GMT
Been taking a closer look at the script pages for this episode ( see 'Sweeney Scripts' thread ), you can just make out at the top of one of the pages that the early 'Pong' arcade machine is described as an 'automatic ping pong game'. Can't be many of these knocking about today, '.Ally', odd name for the machine, I'm sure I've seen similar Pong machines on old tv shows somewhere with curious names like that.
The Jack Russell joke Regan is at the end of telling Bradshaw is described in the script as 'a clean John Thaw joke'. In the script Carter says 'you rotten bastard' in response to Regan describing how he's getting Bradshaw drunk, in the episode he says 'what a toff' instead. Also Regan talks about someone called 'Crosswall', in the script this is 'Cresswell'.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 27, 2019 14:58:38 GMT
This is my next rewatch
Pretty sure I've seen it in the last three years and, so far as I can recall, it's one of the less successful episodes from Series 1. I'll report back later.
Dudley Sutton was certainly a fairly familiar face in the 60s and 70s, I wonder if his slightly unusual appearance meant he got less parts than other more conventional looking actors?
Was Mick Hucknall related to him?
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Post by Gene Hunt on Nov 27, 2019 15:15:01 GMT
This is my next rewatch
Pretty sure I've seen it in the last three years and, so far as I can recall, it's one of the less successful episodes from Series 1. I'll report back later.
Dudley Sutton was certainly a fairly familiar face in the 60s and 70s, I wonder if his slightly unusual appearance meant he got less parts than other more conventional looking actors?
Was Mick Hucknall related to him?
Either him or Charlie Drake.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 27, 2019 18:01:33 GMT
Just occured to me that Sutton played a similar role in the 1970 film 'The Walking Stick', in this he's involved in the robbery of an auction house.
In Sutton's introduction to the episode on the dvd he mentions his hair & talks about a dodgy character called Ronald Milhench who was in the news at the time & had a similar appearance-
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 27, 2019 20:18:27 GMT
They do look quite similar Arthur - thanks as always
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 27, 2019 20:31:19 GMT
This is my next rewatch
Pretty sure I've seen it in the last three years and, so far as I can recall, it's one of the less successful episodes from Series 1. I'll report back later.
Dudley Sutton was certainly a fairly familiar face in the 60s and 70s, I wonder if his slightly unusual appearance meant he got less parts than other more conventional looking actors?
Was Mick Hucknall related to him?
Finished watching it.
I remembered most of it quite clearly
Not one of the better episodes but still plenty to enjoy
Whilst the plot is ridiculously convoluted...
Would the blaggers really melt the gold down to resemble iron gym weights? And how did they do it? And so quickly?
I liked the drunken Harry Fuller character, spotted by Regan in the pub flush with money, and the annoying Bradshaw, sent to streamline the paperwork who they got so drunk he had to be taken home.
Whilst not one of the better episodes, even average Sweeney is still always worth a watch, or rewatch
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 28, 2019 0:07:09 GMT
The ease with which they rob the bank is hard to swallow today, it's harder to log on to your online bank account than it was for them to steal that gold. They turn up as a very unlikely looking mob of cleaners & manage to smuggle welding gear in laundry baskets past a couple of dozy security men, they seem to be in & out within minutes of arriving.
If you think about gold being stolen in films you think of elaborate, meticulously planned heists such as in The Italian Job, in Golden Boy it just looks far too easy.
Funnily enough the writer of this episode was script editor on the tv mini series 'The Gold Robbers' - 'Tough cop Detective Chief Superintendent Cradock is assigned to track down and bring to justice the criminals behind the daring theft of five and a half million pounds worth of gold bullion from an airfield in the South of England'.
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