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Post by pulphack on Apr 11, 2008 7:48:25 GMT
that's the trilogy, alright (and smashers they are, unlike a ot of the birds in 'em, mate, etc). but i stand trumped by She'll Follow You Anywhere - think i may have seen it once, on late mnight tv about eighteen years ago? but a very rare and obscure piece of crud. if i was wearing a hat, john, it'd be off to you...
keith barron AND kenneth cope. form an orderly queue, girls...
have you ever seen that film that Derren Nesbit wrote, directed and starred in? it had diana dors (oh, they all did...) and Nesbit also did the novelisation (!!). i think it's called 'The Amorous Milkman', or Adventures Of... or something. i'd love to see that (and read it), but it's thus far eluded me. i just love the idea of Derren Nesbit (Victim, Special Branch, etc) going from hardman actor to renaissance man of british grot.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 11, 2008 15:13:04 GMT
Yup - I saw She'll Follow.. on late night ATV many years ago - it featured the only other film role for those Twins of Evil Madeleine & Mary Collinson if I remember correctly. ATV used to be quite good for digging out obscure crap. It's the only channel I know to show the Robert Hartford-Davis shocker 'Corruption' - a really nasty late 60s sleazy Brit pic
The Amorous Milkman has been on Channel 4 a few times but I've never been in a sufficiently forgiving frame of mind to watch it.
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Post by carolinec on Apr 11, 2008 16:10:28 GMT
It's the only channel I know to show the Robert Hartford-Davis shocker 'Corruption' - a really nasty late 60s sleazy Brit pic Ooo, is that the one starring Peter Cushing as a cosmetic surgeon (I think?) who tries to repair his beloved's badly burnt face by using fresh head transplants (or it was something like that anyway)? I remember seeing that quite a few years ago - it was truly awful. But what stands out about it is just how motivated an actor Cushing was. He acted his socks off in that one to try to make it bearable for the viewer! I remember one scene where there's a recently severed head in the fridge. He is SO enthusiastic in trying to stop someone from opening the fridge door and finding it, that scene has stuck with me! It's got a dreadfully acted ending where everyone gets killed by a laser beam whizzing around the room! Or are you talking about a completely different film, in which case you might not have a clue what I'm talking about?
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 11, 2008 17:11:16 GMT
No Caroline you're absolutely spot on! It's very hard to find these days and was really quite nasty, not least in the fact that absolutely none of the characters are likeable except perhaps Kate O'Mara's
And the link to the Vault is......
The novelisation was by "Peter Saxon"! I've got the Sphere tie-in version with Peter Cushing holding a knife on the front and a chap being led around on the end of a lead by a young lady on the back
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Post by justin on Apr 11, 2008 17:58:23 GMT
The Amorous Milkman, Derren Nesbitt, NEL, Feb 1973
"When Davey Canning became a milkman he hoped he would see more than crates of milk and cartons of cream. But he got more than he bargained for when he was innocently drawn into the lives- and arms- of his lonely customers.
Did he really love any of these women? The lovely young Janice, the willing and eager Margo- or was it the shy and elusive Diana?
Here is the first, highly-entertaining novel by top film and television star- Derren Nesbitt."
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Post by jkdunham on Apr 11, 2008 18:19:10 GMT
And here's the cover; The film was written and directed by Derren Nesbitt but, despite featuring prominently on the cover of this paperback, he didn't star in it. The 'part' of Davey in The Amorous Milkman ("Are you getting plenty? ...if not ask your mikman!") was played by Brendan Price, who'd previously appeared in Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Apr 12, 2008 8:06:56 GMT
No one championing It's A 2' 6" Above The Ground World (with censored poster) or Keep It Up Downstairs? I did see Adventures Of A Private Eye at the cinema - supporting Food Of The Gods (see When Animals Attack On The Big Screen). All I can remember is Jon Pertwee and a very brief cameo by Shaw Taylor (I obviously wasn't concentrating). The daughter of a friend of my mum's went with her boyfriend to see Adventures of a Taxi Driver. They returned a couple of hours later looking shocked and stunned. They'd gone to the wrong cinema and sat through Martin Scorsese's scorching Taxi Driver. "Bloody 'orror film!" True story!
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Post by pulphack on Apr 12, 2008 20:54:07 GMT
derren nesbit - how could you resist, girls? i know he was a big name inthe uk, but you would have thought nel would have used something from the film, or a suitably saucy shot. thanks for that info and the scan, chaps.
ah. corruption. a very nasty sleazy version of the 'yeux sans visage' riff, with david lodge giggling like an acid crazed kray bruv at the end. the laser scene smacks of 'how the hell do we end this?'. i like it, but it is poor fare in many ways. mr cushing is superb as always, and it does have kate o'mara and sue lloyd (the horrid wife, but still a stunner in my book). just think, a mere two years before the makers of this gem had given the world 'gonks go beat', where beatland and ballad isle go to war, with the beats represented by the graham bond organisation, and the ballads reprsented by - er - charlie from casualty and his sisterr, aged about 12. with terry scott, arthur mullard, and kenneth connor as a spaceman who is sent to unite them. with gonks.
keep it up downstairs? francoise pascals arse double, willie rushton looking like he'd rather be somewhere else, and neil hallet as a randy butler. he's a very slimy bloke, so i find it hard to warm to this. but it does have diana dors, of course.
the adventures films are a mixed bunch. private eye is my favourite as it has a michael armstrong script and veronica doran (a very underated actress, mate of armstrong's, and perhaps best remembered as eddie yate's other half in coronation st). plumber is really seedy. taxi driver is odd in light of what happened to barry evans (but look, there's diana dors again!) - i am, however, now taken with the idea of mr evans with a mohawk and a magnum, laying waste to sarf lahnden scumbags...
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Post by dem bones on Apr 13, 2008 8:43:19 GMT
Blimey! It's only now I realise what a sheltered, deprived life I've had. No Sex Please, We're British and The Ups & Downs Of A Handyman are as hardcore as it's got so far. Good to see the Vault Globeswatch droolers rediscovering their form. Have now braved Don't Just Lie There, Say Something a second or, possibly, third time and discovered hidden depths! Fulsome review possibly imminent.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 8, 2021 18:37:27 GMT
+ Vault Great Christmas Present idea + Vault Great Christmas Present idea + Vault Great Christmas Present idea + The box set remains elusive, but here, perhaps, the next worst thing — 1973's final series over 2 DVD's. By now Arfur had quit, and Stan would join him seven episodes in, whereafter, despite best efforts of remaining cast, it got a bit desperate and miserable. "Bonus" features are The Best Pair of Legs in the Business, "a single play from 1968 starring Reg Varney," and the first episode of Don't Drink the Water, "an On the Buses spin-off featuring Blakey."
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Post by pulphack on Dec 9, 2021 6:44:33 GMT
All pretty grim by then, although they still had stalwart sit-com writers at work in Layton & Lynn, who'd worked on (and been in) the Doctor series. Wolfe & Chesney on reduced duties, and I see Stephen Lewis and Bob Grant tried to salvage the situation - but in truth, Verney was the starring name, and Michael Robbins was vital (as he was to most things he was in - a supporting actor who could carry a duff star vehicle for the floundering star). Some 'what did they do next?' names as well, of seemingly vanished writers. When you have that many on one short series and it's not a writers room but teams working in isolation (which is how Brit sit-com worked - most being short runs by one writer, very few being long run with several writers, as the Doctor series were), then it's not boding well...
Of course, this is talking about an almost forgotten and not very good at times sit-com from half a century ago, but for those of us who were kids then it was pretty big.
The extras look interesting though - the film of 'Best Pair Of Legs...' is pretty grim and gritty in a good way about the era. It would be interesting to see what the original TV version looked like. 'Don't Drink The Water' was a terrible waste of Lewis, Pat Coombs and Derek Griffiths in my view - however, my mate Leon's wife, who is Czech, discovered it on youtube the other year and absolutely loves it. Make of that what you will - certainly it;s made him wonder how she views the British -and by extension, him!
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 9, 2021 12:29:29 GMT
+ Vault Great Christmas Present idea + Vault Great Christmas Present idea + Vault Great Christmas Present idea + The box set remains elusive, but here, perhaps, the next worst thing — 1973's final series over 2 DVD's. By now Arfur had quit, and Stan would join him seven episodes in, whereafter, despite best efforts of remaining cast, it got a bit desperate and miserable. "Bonus" features are The Best Pair of Legs in the Business, "a single play from 1968 starring Reg Varney," and the first episode of Don't Drink the Water, "an On the Buses spin-off featuring Blakey." It all seems miserable, so how grim were the last ones. That spin-off seems a very strange idea, and pointless really, as it doesn't use the potential of the Blakey character at all. He should have been moved to another job in a different industry maybe, to be put upon again, and suffer from the Marxist shop stewards that dominated British industry back then. That would play to the character's strengths and offer new surroundings. In this one he is probably a British idiot abroad, interacting with native stereotypes. Naturally I haven't seen it, so I might be talking rubbish, but there you go. Can people name the oddest spin-offs of TV shows? I saw one once where a very old man in a leather jacket, who said yeeaahhh a lot and gave the thumbs up, flew around space in a flying saucer, but to be fair it was in a cartoon.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 16, 2021 19:39:50 GMT
Yeah, right. Of course you ain't green with envy. Craig Walker - On the Buses: The Complete Story (Apex 2009) Acknowledgements Foreword by Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney Introduction About the Cast On the Buses - A Brief Synopsis Episode Synopsis: Series 1 - 7 Crew Details The Producers Filming Locations The Films Film Synopsis Film Crew - Production Team The Directors The Composers Film Locations Supporting Cast - The Complete A-Z SummaryBlurb: On The Buses was a classic British situation comedy, created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, which ran for seven series from 1969 to 1973, and introduced a host of much-loved memorable characters. The Series followed the ups and downs of life 'on the buses' as portrayed by two work-shy busmen, Stan Butler (played by Reg Varney) and his mate Jack Harper (Bob Grant) as they invented new scams to wind up their long suffering boss, inspector Cyril ‘Blakey' Blake (Stephen Lewis). This book tells the whole 'On The Buses’ story from its inception through to the three spin-off feature films it spawned. It includes details of cast, crew, locations and the many famous faces and catch phrases which made-up one of the most popular sitcoms ever to appear on our TV screens. On The Buses aired in an era where entertainment was unrestrained by politically correct rules but hilarious scripts and quality acting guaranteed the series a legion of loyal fans around the globe. This book is a must have for anyone interested in learning more about On The Buses - an example of British sitcom at its best.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 16, 2021 21:15:18 GMT
Yeah, right. Of course you ain't green with envy. Craig Walker - On the Buses: The Complete Story (Apex 2009) Acknowledgements Foreword by Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney Introduction About the Cast On the Buses - A Brief Synopsis Episode Synopsis: Series 1 - 7 Crew Details The Producers Filming Locations The Films Film Synopsis Film Crew - Production Team The Directors The Composers Film Locations Supporting Cast - The Complete A-Z SummaryBlurb: On The Buses was a classic British situation comedy, created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, which ran for seven series from 1969 to 1973, and introduced a host of much-loved memorable characters. The Series followed the ups and downs of life 'on the buses' as portrayed by two work-shy busmen, Stan Butler (played by Reg Varney) and his mate Jack Harper (Bob Grant) as they invented new scams to wind up their long suffering boss, inspector Cyril ‘Blakey' Blake (Stephen Lewis). This book tells the whole 'On The Buses’ story from its inception through to the three spin-off feature films it spawned. It includes details of cast, crew, locations and the many famous faces and catch phrases which made-up one of the most popular sitcoms ever to appear on our TV screens. On The Buses aired in an era where entertainment was unrestrained by politically correct rules but hilarious scripts and quality acting guaranteed the series a legion of loyal fans around the globe. This book is a must have for anyone interested in learning more about On The Buses - an example of British sitcom at its best.There must be at least one Christmas episode of this for you to watch on Christmas Day. You should make it a special theme day, and dress as Blakey, and to make it really realistic turn off your electricity when it gets dark to simulate the 1970s and the constant power cuts, and go around by candlelight. Repeat after me: "I hate you Butler!"
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Post by ripper on Dec 30, 2021 21:09:52 GMT
After On the Buses ended, Stephen Lewis starred in Don't Drink the Water, as has been mentioned already, and Varney starred in Down the Gate, set at Billingsgate fish market. I can't remember that much about it other than not liking it nearly as much as On the Buses.
I definitely saw Mutiny on the Buses and Holiday on the Buses at the pictures, maybe On the Buses as well, but can't be certain.
Posts from many years ago have mentioned Go for a Take. I saw it once on ITV probably early 80s when it was shown onne weekday afternoon when ITV would screen films rather than reality progs. The Best Legs in the Business was also shown in the same slot, again in the early 80s. Neither has stayed in my memory to any great extent other than Legs wasn't the comedy I was expecting.
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