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Post by dem bones on Oct 20, 2016 9:15:22 GMT
Terry Thomas takes tips from the latest issue of Horrible Detective in The Melody Club, 1949.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 20, 2016 15:27:23 GMT
There was something sublime about Terry-Thomas. Whenever he shows up, it's a treat.
H.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2016 20:01:40 GMT
This next courtesy of friend Auld Scratch who writes: A little while back I watched a giallo containing this book as a prop. Funny to see it crop up in HELL HOUSE too The other film it was in was ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK (AllMovie called the film "tiresome", Wikipedia tells me). This blog, Carrie Ann Burns, includes several screengrabs featuring it in ALL THE COLORS... Spooky thing. I have a copy of this book, but didn't realise the fact until Mr. Scratch mentioned it. I honestly have no idea where it came from. If any more books want to materialise on my shelves of shame, please feel free, but preferably something I'm likely to be into next time. Although I've seen the film several times before, I'd never noticed A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF MAGIC AND THE SUPERNATURAL in the Peter Fonda/Warren Oates horror / satanist / action / road movie RACE WITH THE DEVIL until a re-watch over the weekend. I'm not sure how it slipped past me, considering Loretta Swit and Lara Parker proclaim loudly, after taking it from the a shelf in the hick town library, 'Oooh, look, A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural! That could be useful.' (spoiler: it's not)
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Post by helrunar on Nov 23, 2016 3:54:28 GMT
I think that book might have shown up in DEVILS OF DARKNESS (a 1965 UK film) as well... I could be mistaken, but it looks so familiar and I just watched the film again last August.
H.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 7, 2016 9:42:42 GMT
Terry Thomas in the thick of the reading action again (his joy soon turns to despair) in blackmail comedy The Naked Truth, (1957), co-starring Dennis Price, Peggy Mount, Peter Sellers, Shirley Eaton and Joan Sims (pictured below with the latest 'Flora Ransom'/Peggy Mount crime thriller, The Great Trunk Murders).
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Post by dem bones on Jan 28, 2017 13:17:58 GMT
"Oh, yeah. Oh! Outrageous. Phwoar!" Lady Felicia indulges her passion for racy literature in Crackpot of the Empire ( Father Brown, series 4. 2016)
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Post by dem bones on Jan 29, 2017 11:42:27 GMT
Lulu and Lucia returns with a vengeance in Father Brown series 5, episode 5. Suddenly, everybody's reading the new paperback edition, the Honourable Penelope "Bunty" Windermere, the erstwhile Lady Felicia's wildchild of a niece, being a particular fan. Soon even Mrs McCarthy can quote chapter and verse. How did it come to this? From the Gloucester News (undated, c. 1952). It seems that Lulu has no wish to be outed and the latest attempt on Miss Morell's life succeeds where project 'glass vase dropped on head from great height' failed. Madonna has a lot to answer for.
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Post by andydecker on Jan 29, 2017 17:37:08 GMT
They really take their props seriously
Thanks for the pictures. Something to look forward to.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 29, 2017 20:48:34 GMT
They really take their props seriously
Thanks for the pictures. Something to look forward to. Oh to work in a props dept, eh Andy? The Lulu & Lusia 1st edition now tops my wants list. From the reviews sampled, Chesterton purists seem unanimous in their condemnation of the show as a total sell out. Guess it's a lot easier for novices like self to appreciate Father Brown for what it is - Midsomer Murders lite. Several episode titles suggest 'supernatural' and/ or macabre content, and the "racy" (© Franklin Marsh) scenes are charming (you're right. I'm easily pleased). The Resurrectionists - "Father Brown is determined to find out why the body of a young man was taken from his graveyard" - is repeated over here BBC1 Wednesday 1st Feb with mummy outing The Curse Of Amenthop due on the 7th. Will try catch both.
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Post by helrunar on Jan 30, 2017 13:04:04 GMT
More fab photos! Poor E. F. Benson. Yes, I know I have a soft heart.
I found a youtube upload of "The Curse of Amenhotep" but sound and visual quality were so execrable that I switched off after about ten seconds. It was a completely illegal upload--I saw one like this a year or so ago for a TV film adaptation of one of the Merrily Watkins novels.
I told a friend who is a big fan of a lot of the same literature and films, etc. as I am about Father Brown and he said he and his wife have watched and hugely enjoyed all that have been aired to date. He's over here as well so hasn't seen any of the fifth series. They either run on PBS or BBC America here, I gather.
cheers, H.
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Post by helrunar on Jan 30, 2017 13:09:27 GMT
Brilliant selection! Mumbo Jumbo and Me has the ring of homage to my favorite Sixties films. I've been known to observe that it appears to have been an unwritten rule that in every Sixties occult-themed thriller, a character had to scoff, "You're not going on about that MUMBO JUMBO again are you?" followed by some variant of "that voodoo/Witchcraft/vampire/spook/revenant/possessed hoover nonsense?"
Blondes DO like big ones... it's a well known fact, documented in a number of sociological studies.
cheers, H.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jan 31, 2017 12:59:48 GMT
Great stuff re Lulu and Lucia. Picture No 4 had the Mrs gasping 'That's below the belt!' with me adding 'Not 'arf!' before realising that she was commenting on near-nudity and sex on the Beeb in the afternoon. The Barbara Cartland-in-undies was a double-edged sword, in that I wasn't sure whether to Phwoar! or throw up, the bloody murder the icing on the cake. Hopefully we're recording the current screenings of Series 4 so will need to check out what's in the can, so to speak - SERIES 5 SPOILERS - you've still got the club full of strippers and the mobile library saucy snaps episodes to..er...come yet.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 1, 2017 10:33:15 GMT
Great stuff re Lulu and Lucia. Picture No 4 had the Mrs gasping 'That's below the belt!' with me adding 'Not 'arf!' before realising that she was commenting on near-nudity and sex on the Beeb in the afternoon. The Barbara Cartland-in-undies was a double-edged sword, in that I wasn't sure whether to Phwoar! or throw up, the bloody murder the icing on the cake. Hopefully we're recording the current screenings of Series 4 so will need to check out what's in the can, so to speak - SERIES 5 SPOILERS - you've still got the club full of strippers and the mobile library saucy snaps episodes to..er...come yet. Sizzlers! Fear not, FM, I'm on the case. I'm so on the case. The Lepidopterist's Companion ( Father Brown, series 5, episode 9, 2017). Murder, coercion, salacious snap taking, and mobile library hijack. There's a good reason for this being Kembledford Library's most popular loan and it has nowt to do with soppy butterflies. Vital clues to the seedy business. Inside Mrs. Margaret Cartwright's studio of shame. Miss Ada Rawlins. From innocent pawn in the smut-mongers' game ... .... to valiant protector of the Hodder & Stoughton yellow jackets. The 'Private Gentlemen's Club' episode is The Crimson Feather (season 5, episode 8). Murder, blackmail, debauchery, wigs, etc. On initial viewing this one is disappointingly bereft of book action. Bunty goes undercover as a burlesque dancer. X Certificate. A typical night of frightful sordidness at the Crimson Feather. The Honourable Penelope "Bunty" Windermere is .... .... Pepper Seymore. To get us back on track, The Fire In The Sky (series 5, episode 14). Father Brown recruits Nikhil, a young science-fiction fan to help solve a terrifying case of "alien abduction."
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Post by cromagnonman on Feb 2, 2017 10:43:55 GMT
Hang on a mo; that 'Monsters From Mars' is a Frank Kelly Freas. Hasn't this poor painting already suffered enough. Bad enough that it got repainted by John Romita for its original use on Marvel's Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction # 1, but now its been altered again and transposed into the bargain. Shouldn't there be a society somewhere campaigning to prevent such wanton cruelty to great paintings.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 2, 2017 19:55:30 GMT
Hang on a mo; that 'Monsters From Mars' is a Frank Kelly Freas. Hasn't this poor painting already suffered enough. Bad enough that it got repainted by John Romita for its original use on Marvel's Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction # 1, but now its been altered again and transposed into the bargain. Shouldn't there be a society somewhere campaigning to prevent such wanton cruelty to great paintings. As mentioned, Cardinal Films' The Virgin Vampire publicity poster in series 4's The Mark Of A Demon is a composite of The Brides Of Dracula and The Vampire Lovers artwork. Yet more groovy illustrative material from Father Brown. Eugene Bone, rabid publicity-seeker and self-appointed master of hocus pocus, arrives in Kembleford to celebrate The Eve Of St. John. Man, do I feel blessed never to have met anyone like that! Live action mumbo jumbo from the same episode.
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