I have the book waiting to be read. Been going through the Chandler novels, fine stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
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I have the book waiting to be read. Been going through the Chandler novels, fine stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
ive got it as an audio book
From the sublime to Carry On Cowboy, 1965.:D
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some great character names too... Sid James as Johnny Finger/The Rumpo Kid, Kenneth Williams as Judge Burke, Jim Dale as Marshal P. Knutt and Charles Hawtrey as Big Heap.
classic lines like; someone's dropped one.:eek:
On the Fiddle, 1961. It stars Sean Connery, Alfred Lynch, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Eric Barker, Mike Sarne, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Kathleen Harrison, Victor Maddern and John Le Mesurier.
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The fighting scenes in the woods were shot in and around "The Sandpit" on Horsell Common near Woking, Surrey. Interiors were completed at Shepperton Studios, Surrey.
The film was not released in the United States until 21 May 1965, retitled "Operation Snafu" and later "Operation War Head" by the US distributor American International Pictures. The only purpose of the US release was to capitalise on the popularity of Sean Connery, who by then had become world-famous as James Bond in Dr No, From Russia with Love and Goldfinger.
Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968. Classic spaghetti from the master.
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Fabulous cast here and maybe the best western ever.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest; 4k. 2006. Second in the series this one.
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Captain Davy Jones had originally been designed with chin growths, before the designers made the move to full-blown tentacles; the skin of the character incorporates the texture of a coffee-stained Styrofoam cup among other elements. To portray Jones on set, Bill Nighy wore a motion capture tracksuit that meant the animators at Industrial Light & Magic did not have to reshoot the scene in the studio without him or on the motion capture stage. Nighy wore make-up around his eyes and mouth to splice into the computer-generated shots, but the images of his eyes and mouth were not used. Nighy only wore a prosthetic once, with blue-colored tentacles for when Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) steals the key to the Dead Man's Chest from under his "beard" as he sleeps. To create the CGI version of the character, the model was closely based on a full-body scan of Nighy, with Jones reflecting his high cheekbones. Animators studied every frame of Nighy's performance: the actor himself had blessed them by making his performance more quirky than expected, providing endless fun for them. His performance also meant new controls had to be stored. Finally, Jones' tentacles are mostly a simulation, though at times they were hand-animated when they act as limbs for the character.
The Kraken was difficult to animate as it had no real-life reference, until animation director Hal Hickel instructed the crew to watch King Kong vs. Godzilla which featured a live octopus crawling over miniatures. On the set, two pipes filled with 30,000 pounds (14,000 kg) of cement were used to crash and split the Edinburgh Trader: Completing the illusion are miniature masts and falling stuntmen shot on a bluescreen stage. The scene where the Kraken spits at Jack Sparrow does not use computer-generated spit: it was real gunge thrown at Johnny Depp
Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961. directed and produced by Stanley Kramer and starring Judy Garland, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, William Shatner and Montgomery Clift.
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The film depicts the "Judges' Trial", the trial of Nazi judges for their role in the Holocaust. Abby Mann wrote the role of Judge Haywood with Tracy in mind; Tracy called it the best script he had ever read. At the end of the film, Tracy delivered a 13-minute speech. He recorded it in one take and received a round of applause from the cast and crew. Upon seeing the film, Mann wrote to Tracy: "Every writer ought to have the experience of having Spencer Tracy do his lines. There is nothing in the world quite like it." The film met with positive reviews and a large audience; Tracy received an eighth Oscar nomination for his performance.
Ladies Who Do is a 1963 British comedy film directed by C.M. Pennington-Richards starring Peggy Mount, Robert Morley and Harry H. Corbett.
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Good British cast for this light hearted comedy
Too Many Crooks, 1959. directed by Mario Zampi and stars George Cole, Sidney James, Brenda de Banzie, Terry-Thomas and Bernard Bresslaw.
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Another good British comedy from the days when we were good at it.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 1947. starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
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Charles Lang received a 1947 Academy Award nomination for his black-and-white cinematography on the movie.