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I don’t feel good about the ending of True Detective.
This is a good episode of Curb. “Lemons are a fungible citrus.”
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The film is loosely based on this infamous event: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souain_corporals_affair
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I've just watched Paths of Glory and Benjm might be interested to know that one of the main cast members, Richard Anderson, went on to play Oscar Goldman, who he referenced earlier on another thread.
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Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View PostThat's quite the cast list - I'm not sure how often Joan Greenwood and Herbert Lom found themselves in the same production.
Directed by Cy Endfield, I see. I mainly know him for Zulu. Had to quit Hollywood after being blacklisted.
Apart from having been a great actor, Lom must still hold the record for length ratio of real and stage surnames.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostNot a lot. He is a popular source for new cheap scifi films and TV largely because they don’t have to pay him royalties.
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
Can you imagine what kind of residuals Jules Verne would be getting if he was still alive?
I’m not sure if that was true in the Golden Age when Disney made 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.Last edited by Hot Pepsi; 18-02-2024, 21:29.
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Originally posted by Benjm View Post
I always get distracted when Sid James turns up in minor character roles in non-saucy drama films. I watched a 1950s film last week called Campbell's Kingdom, about a struggle over land rights in Canada. Dirk Bogarde and (the great) Stanley Baker were fine as the leads, Sid and James Robertson Justice more, well, incongruous in their supporting parts. Anyway, nice location photography, worth a watch.
Yes, I can't quite handle the cognitive dissonance that creates. Leonard Rossiter in 2001, Leslie Nielsen in Forbidden Planet...
All just so wrong.
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Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View PostThat's quite the cast list - I'm not sure how often Joan Greenwood and Herbert Lom found themselves in the same production.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostIt doesn’t make a lot of sense that they take off from Richmond and end up over the Pacific Ocean. That is about 3,000 miles and at least three mountain ranges away.
But now I want to see it.
Apparently, there are at least four film versions of it, including a TV series with Patrick Stewart.
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That's quite the cast list - I'm not sure how often Joan Greenwood and Herbert Lom found themselves in the same production.
Directed by Cy Endfield, I see. I mainly know him for Zulu. Had to quit Hollywood after being blacklisted.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostIt doesn’t make a lot of sense that they take off from Richmond and end up over the Pacific Ocean. That is about 3,000 miles and at least three mountain ranges away.
But now I want to see it.
Apparently, there are at least four film versions of it, including a TV series with Patrick Stewart.
Yes, it's fair to say that there one or two plot details that don't quite add up!
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Originally posted by Benjm View PostThat sounds like Mysterious Island, NS. It turns up now and again on Talking Pictures, Legend and other thriftily budgeted digital channels.
Great stuff! I'll keep an eye out for it.
Talking of the less celebrated film channels, Paths of Glory is on Great!action, or however it styles itself, at 7.05 this evening.
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It doesn’t make a lot of sense that they take off from Richmond and end up over the Pacific Ocean. That is about 3,000 miles and at least three mountain ranges away.
But now I want to see it.
Apparently, there are at least four film versions of it, including a TV series with Patrick Stewart.Last edited by Hot Pepsi; 18-02-2024, 17:46.
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That sounds like Mysterious Island, NS. It turns up now and again on Talking Pictures, Legend and other thriftily budgeted digital channels.
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This has stirred a bitter childhood memory.
I would often be enjoying a TV programme in the early evening, only to be told to turn it off and go to bed. My mum kept strict bedtime hours and was fairly inflexible about them. One film has stuck in my mind - a bunch of American Civil War POWs escape from a camp in a balloon and end up in some sort of land that time forgot. Obviously I don't know the story proceeded from there.
Ring bells with anyone?
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Originally posted by Sits View PostAh, sounds fantastic. I was thinking of The Land That Time Forgot possibly same stable.
But it’s just awful.
The guy who used to be on Good Morning America gives the most wooden performance I’ve ever seen.
The main “eskimo” is a stereotype of the simple-but-helpful asian sidekick.
The special effects are awful even for 1974. The “Old Norse” spoken by the Vikings is just modern Swedish and Norwegian.
Good performance by the dog.
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‘When Bob Marley Came To England’ documentary on BBC iplayer is very good.
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Ah, sounds fantastic. I was thinking of The Land That Time Forgot possibly same stable.
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I’m watching The Island at the Top of the World. (1974)
Breathtakingly terrible film.
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Originally posted by DPDPDPDP View PostI watched both series of Trigger Point (starring Vicky McLure fron Line of Duty). After the first couple of episodes, I thought that this is going to be crap. It did improve, but not significantly.
We are now watching the latest iteration of Dalgliesh starring Bertie Carvell in the role Roy Marsden owned so well. Considering the odious character he played in Doctor Foster, Carvell does a decent job. It’s not groundbreaking but sits comfortably in the Morse zone. And not everything has to be relentlessly grim.
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