You'll have nightmares!
is what my mother would say if she saw us watching those shows.
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You'll have nightmares!
is what my mother would say if she saw us watching those shows.
there was a time, yes...:D its actually rather well done and with a nice tinge of humourQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Something lighter now, the link being Ian Charmichal.. From 1960, School for Scoundrels, starring the aforementioned Ian Carmichael, Alastair Sim, Edward Chapman, Jannette Scott and the great Terry-Thomas.
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Based on the Gamesmanship series by Stephen Potter. Although the film only credits its producer, Hal E. Chester, and Patricia Moyes for the screenplay, it was co-written by Peter Ustinov and Frank Tarloff. Its director, Robert Hamer, was sacked during filming due to his return to drinking and the enterprise was completed by Chester and an (uncredited) Cyril Frankel. Hamer did not work in the film industry again, and died in 1963.
Great fun movie and one of my favourites from that period, along with 'Two-Way Stretch'.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
yeah, both good films you can watch umpteen timesQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, 2011. directed by Guy Ritchie and stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.
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Though the film received mixed reviews from critics, it was commercially successful, with a worldwide gross of over $545 million. A third film was originally set for release on December 22, 2021, with Downey and Law set to return, although its status is uncertain.
running this from my youtube videos to a chromecast i got in black friday.. picture is decent
I think the 'antique mirror' story is from "From Beyond the Grave", the last of the Amicus anthology horror fims. It is the first of four stories, and is called 'The Gatecrasher':Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy S
Edward Charlton (David Warner) buys an antique mirror for a knockdown price, believing that he has tricked the proprietor into accepting that it is a reproduction. Charlton holds a seance at the suggestion of his friends and falls into a trance. He finds himself in an other world where he is approached by a sinister figure (Marcel Steiner) who appears to stab him. Charlton wakes up screaming. Later the figure's face appears in the mirror and orders Charlton to kill so that he can "feed". Charlton butchers people until the apparition is able to manifest himself outside the mirror. The figure then explains that Charlton must do one more thing before the figure can walk abroad and join others like him. The figure says he will take Charlton "beyond the ultimate" and persuades Charlton to kill himself by impaling himself on a knife. The mirror stays in Charlton's flat for years after his death, until the latest owner also decides to hold a seance. Charlton's hungry spectre appears in the mirror.
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Dad's Army, 2016.
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new version but top quality
just watched that. its not one i was thinking of alas. sure it might have been an old picture and you could go into it and out again. starting to think it is my imagination lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
The Black Cat, 1981. directed by Lucio Fulci and stars Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, Al Cliver, David Warbeck, and Dagmar Lassander. The film is based loosely on the 1843 story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe.
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The film's original shooting title was Il gatto di Park Lane (transl. "The Cat of Park Lane"). It was shot on location in the villages of West Wycombe, Chalfont St Giles and Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, and at various studios in Rome. Filming took place between 11 August and 28 September 1980.
The Black Cat was distributed theatrically in Italy by Italian International Film on April 4, 1981. It was released theatrically in the United States in February 1984.
From the Arrow films streaming channel on prime.
well that was terrible lol..Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
King Solomon's Mines, 1985. fourth of five film adaptations of the 1885 novel of the same name by H. Rider Haggard. It stars Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom and John Rhys-Davies. It was adapted by Gene Quintano and James R. Silke and directed by J. Lee Thompson. This version of the story was a light, comedic take, deliberately referring to, and parodying Indiana Jones.
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that was as bad.. serves me right..:doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Something quality and safe now. Cat Ballou, 1965.
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The film was selected by the American Film Institute as the 10th greatest Western of all time in its AFI's 10 Top 10 list in 2008.
Lee Marvin won an Oscar for his dual role, and film was nominated for 4 more..
That was one of my favourite movies made around that time, along with 'Mash', 'The French Connection' and of course, the unbeatable 'Cool Hand Luke'.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Another classic from the era... Dr. Strangelove, 1964. directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick and stars Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and Slim Pickens.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
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In 1989, the United States Library of Congress included Dr. Strangelove as one of the first twenty-five films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Kubrick's biographer John Baxter explained, in the documentary Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove:
As it turns out, Slim Pickens had never left the United States. He had to hurry and get his first passport. He arrived on the set, and somebody said, "Gosh, he's arrived in costume!", not realizing that that's how he always dressed ... with the cowboy hat and the fringed jacket and the cowboy boots—and that he wasn't putting on the character—that's the way he talked.
Pickens, who had previously played only supporting and character roles, said that his appearance as Maj. Kong greatly improved his career. He later commented, "After Dr. Strangelove the roles, the dressing rooms, and the checks all started getting bigger."
"Gentlemen - you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."
we'll meet again, some sunny day.
Murder By Death, 1976. All star cast for this broad parody of the traditional country-house whodunit, familiar to mystery fiction fans of classics such as Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
Directed by Robert Moore and written by Neil Simon and stars include Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, and Estelle Winwood.
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Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the film had one of Simon's "nicest, breeziest screenplays," with James Coco "very, very funny as the somewhat prissy take-off on Hercule Poirot" and David Niven and Maggie Smith "marvelous as Dick and Dora Charleston, though they haven't enough to do."
Hope And Glory, 1987. directed by John Boorman and based on his own experiences of growing up in London during the Second World War. It stars Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Sammi Davis and Ian Bannen.
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Hope and Glory was a critical and commercial success; it won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It also received 13 BAFTA Award nominations, winning for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Susan Wooldridge).
How to Murder Your Wife, 1965. directed by Richard Quine, that stars Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, and Terry-Thomas.
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The comic strip art featured in the film was credited to Mel Keefer, who drew newspaper comic strips such as Perry Mason, Mac Divot and Rick O'Shay. Comics artist Alex Toth did a teaser comic strip in Keefer's style that ran in The Hollywood Reporter and in several newspapers promoting the film for ten days prior to its theatrical opening.
Virna Lisi was quite stunning in her day..https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...93edc693_b.jpg
Dressed To Kill, 1946. the last of fourteen films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.
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Joe Versus the Volcano, 1990. directed by John Patrick Shanley and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
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Strange and quirky little movie that I liked lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
yeah i like it too. nothing else out there like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
The Left Hand of God, 1955. directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Buddy Adler, from a screenplay by Alfred Hayes, based on the novel The Left Hand of God, by William Edmund Barrett. it stars Humphrey Bogart and Gene Tierney, with Lee J. Cobb, Agnes Moorehead and E. G. Marshall.
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Bogey is good in this otherwise wayward screenplay. This is from my Apple film collection.
Great Expectations, 1946, directed by David Lean and stars John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan, Anthony Wager, Jean Simmons, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt and Alec Guinness.
A classic Dickensian tale; probably the best film adaptation of any.
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Dickens based Joe Gargery's house on the forge in the village of Chalk, near Gravesend, Kent – a replica was erected on St Mary's Marshes on the Thames Estuary. Pip and Herbert Pocket arrange to meet Magwitch and help him escape at Chatham Docks where slip 8 was used for the scene as well as exterior shots of the prison hulk ships. The River Medway and the adjacent St Mary's Marshes appear in scenes where Pip and his friend, Herbert Pocket, row their boat to a small inn whilst waiting for the paddle steamer to arrive. The ship used in the film was called Empress, dating from the latter half of the nineteenth century and owned by Cosens & Co Ltd of Weymouth. She was brought down to the River Medway for the shoot. "New masts were stepped-in with square rigging and dummy sails, the funnel was lengthened and the paddle-boxes enlarged until it looked exactly right."
When I was about 10 my mum and dad (who were very much hippies/weirdos) used to have a craft stall on a Saturday in Norwich, and I’d get given 50p to take my little sister somewhere to keep us out of their hair. Just across the road was Cinema City, and they would always be showing old films, many in black and white, and therefore much cheaper than “proper” modern cinema. Great Expectations at Cinema City is one of my most vivid childhood memories! Great film. Saw many classics back then, Jason and the Argonauts being another I remember very well.
Ten Bob was a man's daily wage when I was young. Lol
First Blood, 1982. directed by Ted Kotcheff, and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, who also stars as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. Co stars are Richard Crenna and Brian Dennehy..
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First Blood topped the U.S. box office for three weeks in a row, and its $6,642,005 opening weekend was the best October opening at the time. The film grossed $125 million worldwide, against a $15 million budget. It was notably the first major Hollywood blockbuster to be released in China, where it was released in 1985. It sold 76 million tickets in China, the highest for a foreign Hollywood film up until 2018.
Top film that, first film I ever saw on the new-fangled VHS tape.
being able to rent films from the off licence was ace. We forget now but back then that was one of the best things ever. Nothing on the telly? Just nip down the shop and rent a film.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, 1989. directed by Arthur Hiller, and stars Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance, Anthony Zerbe and Kevin Spacey.
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Oft said to be a poor collaberation and a worse script, which was reworked by Wilder, but its slapstick really so many find it silly.
i think i had it on vhs myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
12 Monkeys, 1995. directed by Terry Gilliam.
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The film was released to critical praise and grossed $168.8 million worldwide. Pitt was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he won a Golden Globe Award for his performance. The film also won and was nominated for various categories at the Saturn Awards.
Five Easy Pieces, 1970. directed by Bob Rafelson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, and Ralph Waite.
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The film was nominated for four Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards, and in 2000, was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and recommended for preservation.
This is the remastered Criterion bluray.
Quality film, I love the ending.
Excellent movie. It's in my DVD collection.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
"hold the chicken"
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High Anxiety, 1977. Directed by Mel Brooks who also stars, along with Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman, and Madeline Kahn.
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Brooks took great pains to not only spoof Hitchcock films, but also to emulate the look and style of his pictures. In an interview he said, "I watch the kind of film we're making with the [director of photography], so he knows not to be frivolous. He's got to get the real lighting, the real texture. For High Anxiety, it was 'What is a Hitchcock film? What does it look like? What does it feel like? How does he light them? How long is a scene? What is the cutting? When does he bring things to a boil?' We just watch everything."
After viewing the film, Hitchcock sent Brooks a case containing six magnums of 1961 Château Haut-Brion wine with a note that read, "A small token of my pleasure, have no anxiety about this."
I fact the two became firm friends and apparently met every Friday for a while .... apparently Hitch was a fan of Brooks as much the other way.
Sticking with Mel and the much loved by me (and Hitchcock), Blazing Saddles, 1974. Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. The cast includes Slim Pickens, Alex Karras, and David Huddleston, as well as Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, and Harvey Korman. Bandleader Count Basie has a cameo as himself, appearing with his orchestra. Brooks has 3 smallish parts too.
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The film is full of deliberate anachronisms, from the Count Basie Orchestra playing "April in Paris" in the Wild West, to Slim Pickens referring to the Wide World of Sports.
Roger Ebert gave the film four stars out of four, calling it a "crazed grab bag of a movie that does everything to keep us laughing except hit us over the head with a rubber chicken. Mostly, it succeeds. It's an audience picture; it doesn't have a lot of classy polish and its structure is a total mess. But of course! What does that matter while Alex Karras is knocking a horse cold with a right cross to the jaw?"
Yes - a good film. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Play It Again Sam, 1972. written by and starring Woody Allen, based on his 1969 Broadway play of the same name. The film was directed by Herbert Ross.
Stars Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jerry Lacy and Susan Anspach.
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Quentin Tarantino said on his commentary track for True Romance (1993) that the character of Elvis Presley as portrayed by Val Kilmer, who appears to Christian Slater's character and gives advice and assurance, was based on the Bogart character in this film.
Another good film there Grant.
Total recall, 1990.
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Being There, 1979. directed by Hal Ashby and stars Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine, and features Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, and Richard Basehart.
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The film holds a score of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 55 reviews, with an average rating of 8.56/10. The critical consensus reads: "Smart, sophisticated, and refreshingly subtle, Being There soars behind sensitive direction from Hal Ashby and a stellar Peter Sellers performance." In 2003 The New York Times placed the film on its Best 1000 Movies Ever list.
According to MacLaine, "(Peter) believed he was Chauncey. He never had lunch with me... He was Chauncey Gardiner the whole shoot, but believing he was having a love affair with me."
This is the Criterion remastered Bluray.
The emphasis is on subtle. I know several fans of Peter Seller films who just don't get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
It's a bit special.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Barry
yes its a vey good, yet strange film i guess. either you get it on not. Thought Shirley Maclaine was outstanding.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Starman, 1984. directed by John Carpenter and stars Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen.
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Jeff Bridges was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, making Starman the only film by John Carpenter to receive an Academy Award nomination.
I loved that film and have the DVD. Not watched it for years though.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
(actually, it reminds me of 'K-PAX', which I also haven't seen for ages)
The Odessa File, 1974, adapted from the 1972 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth. It stars Jon Voight, Mary Tamm, Maximilian Schell and Maria Schell and was directed by Ronald Neame.
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Not the best Forsyth adaption but its ok.
The film's title song, "Christmas Dream", written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, was sung by Perry Como and the London Boy Singers.
An old fav now, Throw Momma from the Train, 1987. Great performance from Anne Ramsey as 'Momma', with Billy Crystal and Danny Devito, who also directed.
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Branford Marsalis and Kate Mulgrew both have roles as well
Good fun film...