blossie33
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Can't say I've heard of it - looks interesting, there's a clip on YouTube.
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blossie33
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No, it was just a clip I found, is that the whole film - I'll give it a watch sometime, thanks!
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Haven't checked in the thread whether this one's been posted, but it's one I've never forgotten whenever I think of Alec Guiness:
Last Holiday (1950) directed by Henry Cass
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Last Holiday (1950) directed by Henry Cass
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Virginia McKenna, Margaret Rutherford (&Stringer), Peter Sellers, Leslie Phillips 
amongst others, a charming little film, bad v. Evil, David v Goliath; the smallest show on earth. It's even about the cinema!
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amongst others, a charming little film, bad v. Evil, David v Goliath; the smallest show on earth. It's even about the cinema!
The Smallest Show on Earth - Wikipedia
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The Blue Lamp (1950) is up on Talking Pics
gave it a watch - a really interesting film
Made in conjunction with the Met Police - the first film to do so - its not exactly post-war neorealism, in fact its out and out softcore police propaganda, but it does have a lot of realist elements in it, the best of which being the many shots of london, postwar poevrty, and urhcins running around in the streets. if you like old footage of london its a must. and the whole thing is shot beautifully and the story moves along at a good pace. a few classic sequences in there, especially towards the end. Won BAFTA best film award in 1950
Its seems quite ground breaking in being a police 'procedural' , though the police dont really do much realistic detective work, most of the clues land in their laps. A key cop character in it went on to spawn Dixon of Dock Green which ran for twenty years and 400 odd episodes.
Oh and the first spoken use of the word "bastard" on film!
gave it a watch - a really interesting film
Made in conjunction with the Met Police - the first film to do so - its not exactly post-war neorealism, in fact its out and out softcore police propaganda, but it does have a lot of realist elements in it, the best of which being the many shots of london, postwar poevrty, and urhcins running around in the streets. if you like old footage of london its a must. and the whole thing is shot beautifully and the story moves along at a good pace. a few classic sequences in there, especially towards the end. Won BAFTA best film award in 1950
Its seems quite ground breaking in being a police 'procedural' , though the police dont really do much realistic detective work, most of the clues land in their laps. A key cop character in it went on to spawn Dixon of Dock Green which ran for twenty years and 400 odd episodes.
Oh and the first spoken use of the word "bastard" on film!
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The Blue Lamp (1950) is up on Talking Pics
gave it a watch - a really interesting film
Made in conjunction with the Met Police - the first film to do so - its not exactly post-war neorealism, in fact its out and out softcore police propaganda, but it does have a lot of realist elements in it, the best of which being the many shots of london, postwar poevrty, and urhcins running around in the streets. if you like old footage of london its a must. and the whole thing is shot beautifully and the story moves along at a good pace. a few classic sequences in there, especially towards the end. Won BAFTA best film award in 1950
Its seems quite ground breaking in being a police 'procedural' , though the police dont really do much realistic detective work, most of the clues land in their laps. A key cop character in it went on to spawn Dixon of Dock Green which ran for twenty years and 400 odd episodes.
Oh and the first spoken use of the word "bastard" on film!
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Pickman's model
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I watched this the other day - very enjoyable indeed. the whole film is on youtube:A little suspense and drama, a cheeky crook, Peter Cushing, a low budget Hammer film, a charming little number; Cash On Demand
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Just noticed this is on Youtube with Courtney Pine's soundtrack from the 2007 DVD release.
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This is good fun on Talking Pictures right now
Legend Of The Witches
Video Description:1970. Docu-drama. Directed by Malcolm Leigh & Narrated by Guy Standeven.
Originally X-rated, the famous cult film about witches and witchcraft in Britain.
Exploitation flick shot in 1969, nudity being the titillation. IMDB review:
The later part of the 1960s was a watershed in terms of censorship.The power of the Lord Chamberlain to censor the stage was abolished.Shortly after that the all nude revue Oh Calcutta was staged.At about the same time there was a furore about the showing of a females pubic hair.The film was shown uncut at the NFT.The censor,John Trevelyan wanted to keep in step with public tastes,so full frontal nudity was allowed.So all of a sudden producers were allowed to show everything,though there were and still are things they couldn't show.So give the audience a large dose of education and you could put in a reasonable amount of nudity.So that is clearly what happened here.It is actually quite entertaining
---If you turn the lights down on a dark winters night theres some moody entertainment to be eeked out here
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Interesting film. It features Alex and Maxine Sanders, who 'conjured up' the 'Alexandrian' school of Wicca that's named after him. They also appeared in other films, wrote popular paperbacks and turned up fairly regularly in the newspapers, and occasionally on TV. Their 'rituals' often involved being 'skyclad' (undressed), particularly when there were any cameras present. The film's relationship to exploitation is thus a complex one.
IMO they were probably more influential in attracting people to forms of Christianity in opposition to what they stood for, than to Wicca. However, the many different 'new age' and fringe Christian networks, which developed from the 1950s onwards, did so in a symbiotic relationship with one another.
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really interesting
Satanic Bible was published the same time as this film - 1969 - my reading of that book was basically self-therapy deprogramming from Christianity - at a time when the church still had a lot more social power
context is a lot
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Great, lovely, touchy feely film complete with Alex Guinness, just finishing on talk TV.
Last Holiday (1950 film) - Wikipedia
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Digressing slightly and apologies.
The Titfield Thunderbolt, 1953 was the first Ealing film in technicolour. The Titfield Thunderbolt - Wikipedia
In a similar vein, I have just watched some of the runaway railway. A very silly film, low budget film starring Ronnie Barker made 1in 1966 in black and white. Runaway Railway (1966) - IMDb
The Titfield Thunderbolt, 1953 was the first Ealing film in technicolour. The Titfield Thunderbolt - Wikipedia
In a similar vein, I have just watched some of the runaway railway. A very silly film, low budget film starring Ronnie Barker made 1in 1966 in black and white. Runaway Railway (1966) - IMDb
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bejesus, ive seen the Titfield Thunderbolt...just did a search on urban and so have loads of urbanites - the state of us 
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I've seen some of the filming locations, while riding in a steam train to Bathbejesus, ive seen the Titfield Thunderbolt...just did a search on urban and so have loads of urbanites - the state of us
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i dont care about trains but youtube suggested this to me yesterdayI've seen some of the filming locations, while riding in a steam train to Bath
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I've just watched Private Information, it has cracking subject matter; corrupt council, poor standard housing, poor materials used by crap contractors, jobs for the boys etc.
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Currently watching Two Way Stretch on Talking Pictures. Comfortable old comedy with great cast, if very corny, which adds to it.
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I have just caught the end of the Fast Lady, a feel good romantic comedy with lots of faces in it The Fast Lady (1962) 
6.1 | Comedy
I moved on to the biography of James Robertson Justice. Forget his role as Lancelot Spratt. He had Lots of different jobs, 20 + languages. The list of stuff credited to him is endless. Amazing.
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Btw at 97, Stanley Baxter is still going.
6.1 | ComedyI moved on to the biography of James Robertson Justice. Forget his role as Lancelot Spratt. He had Lots of different jobs, 20 + languages. The list of stuff credited to him is endless. Amazing.
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Btw at 97, Stanley Baxter is still going.
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Now that's what you call a life livedI moved on to the biography of James Robertson Justice. Forget his role as Lancelot Spratt. He had Lots of different jobs, 20 + languages. The list of stuff credited to him is endless. Amazing.
James Robertson Justice - Wikipedia
blossie33
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Wow yes, I never knew he'd done all that stuff before he started acting!Now that's what you call a life lived
Sad about his son
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Another old black and white Hitchcock film made in Britain; Rich and Strange. Not suspense more of a romantic comedy. A bored married couple with issues come in to money and take a cruise.....
