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Post by ROBERT M. » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:47 pm

Talking of war films, what about the great "Dambusters" such a very British movie. Could the original ever be bettered?? well we might find out soon, as Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings and King Kong fame) is producing a "Dambusters" re-make. Could be very good.
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Post by Gray » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:35 am

Marty / Mike

Adorning the wall next to me as I sit at my computer is a framed 1996 re-issue movie poster of Vertigo - a masterpiece.
Hitchcock is my all time favourite director, I never tire of watching his films.
North By Northwest would have to be his best work, for me.

The last film I watched was at the weekend - Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy, I've seen it before, but it was a long time ago, BBC4 were showing it so i caught it again.
I really want to go and see Scorsese's The Departed at the flicks as his films are usually made with such passion.

I picked up Mona Lisa with The Times on Sunday! Free! A film like Mona Lisa - free! Couldn't believe it!
Another great Bob Hoskins performance, Lena & Harry!

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Post by Lena & Harry Smith » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:25 pm

Gray, we also like director Alfrd Hitchcock films, and it's a well known fact that he made an appearance in every one of his films, often very brief.
Bob Hoskins remembering his great acting again as a sheet music salesman in the TV series from the 70s" Pennies From Heaven. :lol: :lol:

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Post by Marty » Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:45 pm

Gray wrote:Marty / Mike

Adorning the wall next to me as I sit at my computer is a framed 1996 re-issue movie poster of Vertigo - a masterpiece.
Hitchcock is my all time favourite director, I never tire of watching his films.
Gray
This is one of the favourite movie posters in my collection, Gray

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My favourites from Hitch include the one above of course, Vertigo which is one of the finest movies ever made and the lesser known "Lifeboat" (in which the director cleverly puts himself in a newspaper advert for his cameo appearance)
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Post by Gray » Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:42 am

Fantastic, Marty.

Lifeboat is a cracking film.

I watched Rear Window for the first time at the cinema, hmm, it would of been around 1983 (-ish), I was but a spotty faced schoolboy and I remember dragging a friend to see it.
"But why are we off to see a film from the 1950's" was his plea, "Because it's Hitchcock!" came my reply.
I'm happy to report the cinema was full, and even my pal loved the film.

I watched Topaz (again) on dvd at the weekend, even his less successful movies still have something about them.

Thanks for sharing the picture Marty.

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Post by michduncg » Thu Nov 16, 2006 8:00 pm

Wow - not checked this thread for a while either! Lena & Harry - you knew everybody didn't you! Fancy you having a De Havilland link as well. It was a real tragedy about the Comet crashes, as well as the loss of our lead in aviation, but then we threw away numerous other chances as well in the 50s n 60s. But don't get me started on those!

'Rear Window' is nothing short of a masterpiece - claustrophobic, sultry and real edge of the seat stuff. The climax is still quite chilling, with the footsteps approaching Jimmy Stewarts apartment, and the struggle in the dark.

If we are talking about great British films, lets not forget the original '39 Steps', with Robert Donat.

James Mason was such a charmer but also could be so cold - he played the cad like villain very well.

Kenneth Moore was always, well, Kenneth Moore! Loved 'Reach for the Sky', And he is the epitome of an English Officer in the 'A Night to Remember', not at all the way the James Cameron portrayed British Officers in 'Titanic'! and of course the Dam Busters is superb stuff (even without Kenneth Moore)
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Post by mariana44 » Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:47 pm

My husband George really loved "Titanic" the film, but even he admitted that "A night to remember" in black and white, with Kenneth More was far superior to the remake. Actually I think there were several versions of this disaster movie, but I guess they were the 2 best known.

A completely different kettle of fish for Kenneth More was "Genevieve"--also starring Kay Kendall, another lovely actress, who died much too soon.
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Post by michduncg » Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:22 pm

Indeed Marian, 'Geneiveve' is one of those quintissentially English films of the period - a bit like 'The Titfield Thunderbolt'. It makes me chuckle at the start when the young couple are 'slumming it' in some little mews house, which are actually just off Eaton Sq in London and now worth a fortune! I hadn't realised Kay Kendall had died young too. Thats very sad. Not like Dinah Sheridan who is another national treasure, but now very much in retirement. I still chuckle at her in 'Don't wait up' hen it is repeated on ITV3 or ITV4!

Indeed there have been several 'Titanic' movies, starting in the 1930s with 'Atlantic', through 'Titanic' in 1953 with Barbara Stanwick & Clifton Sturges in a soap-style version. But 'Night to Remember' was far more factual and was based on the hit book of the same name. I liked the fact that James Cameron's' film was shot in colour, and that he paid so much attention to detail of the fittings of the ship. It was breathtaking after years of seeing only black and white images, but the story got in the way after a while, until the amazing scenes at the end. Nobody had realised that the ship almost certainly broke up on the surface, until the wreck was found in 1985. So all the other films, right up to SOS Titanic in 1979 (shot in the Queen Mary so totally the wrong era!) show Titanic sinking in one piece.
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Post by ROBERT M. » Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:27 pm

Kay Kendall, a Yorkshire lass. Born in Withernsea on the east coast 1926-1959 -leukemia :cry:
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Post by Lena & Harry Smith » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:37 pm

Yes, we remember when Kay Kenall was very ill and then died with leukemia.
She was the grandaughter of the old time musical star Marie Kendall.

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Post by Mark Fox » Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:27 pm

:D
Great SINATRA film on TCM Satellite UK TV next week-THE TENDER TRAP.not yet on DVD release-a classic FAS film!

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Post by mariana44 » Wed Nov 22, 2006 2:28 pm

Hi Mark--yes that was a great one--unfortunately although I have Sky, I do not subscibe to the film channel. Wonder why this one is not on dvd when so many others are--love the theme song !!
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Post by Lena & Harry Smith » Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:49 pm

Just been looking at some reviews on this film. Here's one of them....

It is great and enjoyable for me to see what good movies were before so much trash was put into them.
This movie is fun without using sexual innuendo or swearing.
Thiis is a movie the whole family can sit and watch and enjoy.

From a Teenager :shock:

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Post by jon » Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:13 pm

Only just noticed this thread. I see Mike refers to Dinah Sheridan. I used to see her a lot in Safeways supermarket on Kensington High Street: she always seemed to be buying strawberries.

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Post by Anita » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:38 pm

My husband David's all time favourite film is `Casablanca`, starring of course the great actor Humphrey Bogart, We have the DVD but if it comes on normal television we have to watch it, they usually show it a least a couple of times a year. if it is being shown at the cinema, guess what! we go and see it. nothing beats seeing your favourite film on the big screen.

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