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Blue Murder at St Trinians (1957/8) with Terry Thomas, George Cole, Alistair Sim and Joyce Grenfell. Love these old Trinians films , and the artwork by the great Ronald Searle.
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Tonight we are taking a comedic look at a POW camp , and the getting back to Blighty, of a VERY IMPORTANT PERSON(1961); namely James Robertson Justice, a Scientific Boffin that accidentially got sucked out of a bomber over Germany and Winston Churchill wants back at any cost.
Directed by Ken Annakin of The Battle of the Bulge fame(and also did Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines)..... and also starring a who's who of British comedy, it is one of the most stellar casts possible in a comedy drama and VIP delivers comedic gold by the spadeful.
John Le Mesurier, Richard Wattis, Eric Sykes, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxterand Jeremy Lloyd, who went into writing shows like Are you Being Served and Allo Allo.
Stanley Baxter plays the dual roles of prisoner Jock Everett and Kommondant Stamfel. his wonderful reply to Stamfel's line calling him an "English Swine" was "Scottish Swine"
James Robertson Justice was a tremendous linguist and spoke, among others, fluent German, and ad libbed a line in German to antagonise the Commandant, which translates as " You can kiss my arse, you filthy Nazi " . This, if known would never have been allowed, by either the director/studios, or got past the censors mindful of insulting Germans etc. Justice was on safe ground as no one spoke any German and he got away with his bit of revenge. JRJ always claimed to be Scottish, but he wasn't (Born and died in London actually).
This is one of the last of the great British comedies before the world changed, and it is as fresh today as it ever was. If you get the chance to watch it again, DO!!
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Callan (1974) starring Edward Woodward. a remake of A Magnum for Schneider. Always look forward to Russell Hunters' parts as the smelly Lonely.
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James Mitchell@s books are a must for people like me lol....superb dark tv, and in this case, movie
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A Norwegian drama/thriller about a joint EU and Russian take over of Norway. Norway now ruled by a green party has switched all her oil and gas production off, in favour of a new clean source of power. Russia and the EU demand a turn back on, which is ignored, and Russia leads a takeover of the oil and gas fields.
Interesting idea and so far well executed, but it does suffer from the usual Scandinavian reserve, dead pan flat, matter of fact presentation, so has lacked the tension and dramatic story telling it really needs. If you don't mind this then well worth watching.
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The X Files
Its back and wow................... :eek: :)
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Think its to be chanel no 5 :D
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