was based on a real person and his books parodying self help.. stephen potter, and his fist book, gamesmanshipQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
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was based on a real person and his books parodying self help.. stephen potter, and his fist book, gamesmanshipQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Also the Bellini car was a disguised Aston Martin DB3, that once was owned by Mr Aston himself, David Brown. It was also raced by drivers including such legends as Peter Collins, Roy Salvadori, and Stirling Moss, competing at world-class level in such gruelling races as the Mille Miglia, the Spa Grand Prix and the Nürburgring 1,000kms. it was sold at Bonhams for a small fortune
My Fellow Americans, 1996. Starring Jack Lemmon and James Garner as feuding ex-presidents. With Dan Aykroyd and Lauren Bacall.
Good fun this....
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Survivors, 1975. The original 3 series. Terry Nation.
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To Have and Have Not, 1944... directed by Howard Hawks, loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall; it also features Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Dan Seymour, and Marcel Dalio.
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This my favourite Bogart film! Lauren Bacall made her sultry debut here.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
"You know how to whistle don't you Steve? You just put your lips together - and blow"
Got the DVD. Funny thing is, I can't remember anything about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
it was, at time, classed as a casablanca remake, which although similarities it isnt..Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
yes barry its a real good oneQuote:
This my favourite Bogart film! Lauren Bacall made her sultry debut here.
"You know how to whistle don't you Steve? You just put your lips together - and blow"
Barry
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, 2011. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law star...
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I've seen it and I can't remember it either. And Bogart is my favourite actor.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Original story was from Hemmingway, and screenplay was written by both Jules Furthman and William Faulkner. Bogey was a freelance fisherman in the French W Indies and ended up again on side of right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
The fisherman bit rings a bell because I remember thinking that a Bogart character would never do that for a living. Although I think he was into his sports fishing and owned a yacht. But thats not the same.
yeah it was sport fishing. he rented to rich guys fishing marlin. walter brennan was his sidekick.. a bit loose in head and whisky daft..Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Hemingway was a bit of an extreme character (nutter?). Interesting though, a bit like Jack London in ways. Funny thing is I've read London, but never Hemingway. I tend to enjoy American writers.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
I've read 'A Farewell To Arms' but wasn't that impressed. It's just about him knocking around and eating and drinking, nothing much happens. At least that's my recollection.
Shaun of the Dead, 2004. Stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Co- stars are Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, Bill Nighy, and Penelope Wilton.
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a zombie apocalypse black comedy... did fairly well and is as good in many ways as the fancy serious hollywood versions
Good film that, probably their best one. I was in America in 2004 and several of the indigenous personnel advised me how much they had enjoyed it, as though just by being British I must have somehow been personally involved with making it. I hadn't even seen it at the time.
At 3pm on 'SKY arts' there's a 1988 Pink Floyd concert recorded in New York. Might give that a look!
Thanks for the heads up. I give it a look.
The 'Classic Album' programme about the ;Who Sell Out', shown the other night was very interesting.
Charlie Varrick, 1973. Stars Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker and John Vernon. Directed by Don Segal.
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Great film. Got the DVD.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Yeah it one of his best imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Porridge, 1979....tv film of series...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1967.. directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef..
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One of the Great westerns of all-time imo.
Ruthless People, 1986... directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, and starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Anita Morris, and Helen Slater, with Bill Pullman in a supporting role in his film debut.
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Lots of fun this...
Dead Men Tell No Tales, 2017.
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"No Woman has ever handled my Herchel":eyebrows:
shiver me timbers
That is a good film - made better for us nuts because there's hi-fi in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
So now all you have to do is identify the hi-fi items. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Not seen it in years. All I can remember is the 'MX Dominators'. I don't think they were a real product though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
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Originally Posted by Macca
Ken Kessler : The Dominator is popular with men who like bigger...
Stereo Store Customer : ...equipment?
Ken Kessler : Check it out, my man! This is the Dominator X-10. Thirty inches of thigh-slapping, blood-pumping, nuclear brain damage!
Heavy Metal Kid : Bitchin'! Hey, what's it fucking cost?
Ken Kessler : That's the bitchin' part about it! It don't matter! If you can't afford it, FUCKING FINANCE IT!
[turns it on]
Ken Kessler : So what if it's as big as a Subaru and costs as much? You'll never have to trade this in! This is gonna be with you for the rest of your life! And when you die, they can BURY you in it!
I can remember visiting a friend of a friend of mine, who had the largest pair of speakers I had ever seen. They were Tannoys (of some description) and were so large you could have easily fitted inside the cabinets. :eek: All I know is they weren't Lockwoods and I didn't hear them.
The Big Sleep, 1946. directed by Howard Hawks, and stars Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Elisha Cook.
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Good film - but I think I prefer the later 1978 version with Robert Mitcham. (:sofa: ?)
yeah i like mitch's version too... easier to follow and set in this country. the original big sleep that never got released in cinemas was easier to follow. it was released on bluray in 1997 as a double bill.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Yes - I think your right: Mitchum's version is easier to follow. I have the same difficulty with most of the cop dramas shown on TV. (Except for 'Death in Paradise' where the guilty party is revealed at the end a la Agatha Christie, and it is always the least suspected character!)
The Big Sleep isn't meant to be easy to follow. Even Chandler admitted he didn't know who committed one of the murders and he wrote it!
The Mitchum version is unwatchable IMO, like most Michael Winner films.
Unfaithfully Yours, 1948. Diected by Preston Sturges, and starring Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallée and Barbara Lawrence.
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quite good this.. not everyone's taste of course, as its a darkish subject for the times:D
some pirates fun now i think with the first one from 2003...
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swash
Some puerile carry on now with Again Doctor, 1968.
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Marathon Man, 1976. Stars Dustin Hoffman, Lawrence Olivier and Roy Scheider. It was directed by John Schlesinger.
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Quality thriller, and a real evil baddy...(is it safe?):D
"Is it safe?"
its very safe...:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
King of Thieves, 2018. Directed by James Marsh, the film stars Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Charlie Cox, Jim Broadbent, Paul Whitehouse and Ray Winstone.
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Bit of a 'curate's egg' that one - good in parts. Jim Broadbent is good playing an especially nasty character, whereas Tom Courtenay and Paul Whitehouse are largely wasted.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
We're no Angels, 1955. Directed by Michael Kurtiz. Stars Bogey, Ustinov and Ray, in a rare comedy, and top quality it is.. With Joan Bennett and Basil Rathbone..
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The Big Sleep(again) 1978 this time... Lew Grades' version with Bob Mitcham in the starring role and set in England. The cast includes Sarah Miles, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Harry Andrews and Oliver Reed, also featuring James Stewart as General Sternwood.
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interestingly both mitch and stewart died withing a day of each other in july 1997
The Devil And Miss Jones, 1941. Starring Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, and Charles Coburn. Directed by Sam Wood .... Also stars Spring Byington and Edmund Gwenn
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Was nominated for 2 Academy Awards...
Some Like It Hot, 1959. Directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon; with support from George Raft, Joe E. Brown and Pat O'Brien.
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^ Oscar nominations and rated one of the best comedies ever. IMO its perfection.
"Well no-one's perfect." :lol: