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[struth]

The Spy in Black , 1939. This was the first collaboration between the British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson and Sebastian Shaw, with Marius Goring and Torin Thatcher as two German submarine officers. Grant Sutherland, a minister in Powell's The Edge of the World (1937), appears in this film as a Scottish air raid warden. Bernard Miles has a small uncredited role here; he was knighted in 1969, and was created a life peer as Baron Miles, He was only the second British actor to receive a peerage, after Laurence Olivier..






The Spy in Black was filmed at Denham Studios, with location shooting at Northchurch Common in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire and in Orkney, Scotland. The film wrapped production on 24 December 193 and was released in the U.K. on 7 August 1939 – just weeks before the country again went to war with Germany. Its American premiere was held in New York City on 5 October of that year, and it went into general release two days later.

this is the restored version from a dvd and then onto my plex. pic is rather good too

[struth]

Vertigo, 1958, directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring James Stewart and Kim Novak.





This movie is often credited or blamed for creating or popularizing the misconception that vertigo means a fear of heights. For the record, the proper name for that condition is "Acrophobia", whereas vertigo is "a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height" (Oxford Dictionary).

[struth]

The Matrix Reloaded, 2003.

[struth]

Poirot series 1(tv series)1989. David Suchet plays the title role....fabulously

more of this today. as Barry said, he made the role his own really. Hugh Fraser did a super job as Hastings too, as did Philip Jackson as Japp.

[struth]

Insignificance, 1985. directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Gary Busey, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, and Will Sampson.





Adapted by Terry Johnson from his 1982 play of the same name, the film follows four famous characters who converge in a New York City hotel one night in 1954: Joe DiMaggio, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, and Joseph McCarthy—billed as The Ballplayer, The Professor, The Actress and The Senator, respectively.

This is the Bluray version

[walpurgis]

As 'The Ipcress File' has just started on BBC 2, I'm watching it. Excellent movie!

[struth]

As 'The Ipcress File' has just started on BBC 2, I'm watching it. Excellent movie!

great film geoff..

[struth]

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006.

[Barry]

As 'The Ipcress File' has just started on BBC 2, I'm watching it. Excellent movie!

The first and the best. I have it on DVD.

[Barry]

Insignificance, 1985. directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Gary Busey, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, and Will Sampson.





Adapted by Terry Johnson from his 1982 play of the same name, the film follows four famous characters who converge in a New York City hotel one night in 1954: Joe DiMaggio, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, and Joseph McCarthy—billed as The Ballplayer, The Professor, The Actress and The Senator, respectively.

This is the Bluray version

I love the bit where Marilyn explains/confirms some aspect of relativity theory to Einstein, after which he says "I'm so glad".