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Post by Dr Strange on May 25, 2021 18:57:28 GMT
A friend sent me this trailer and I have to say it looks pretty cool--about a young woman of the present day who suddenly starts having flashbacks to a past life in the mid 1960s. Star is Anya Taylor-Joy, not a name I know--my friend says she's very talented. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB9WUIv9KH8"Last night in Soho" is the title. Diana Rigg's final film.
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Post by Swampirella on May 25, 2021 19:04:16 GMT
I agree the Denholm Elliott episode of Hammer House of Horror is a corker. That series got a Saturday night slot when it was first shown on UK TV in 1980. Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense on the other hand seemed to be always on really late at night during the week in the mid 80s. I thought there were some decent episodes, Child's Play has already been mentioned, but there were two others I enjoyed particularly, Black Carrion and And the Wall came Tumbling Down. Hammer also produced a series circa 1968 called Journey to the Unknown, which is worth a look. I would recommend the surviving episodes of the BBC's 1972 series Dead of Night: Return Flight, A Woman Sobbing and The Exorcism. There was a very popular series in the 60s made by the BBC called Out of the Unknown. It was mainly science fiction, but in its last series circa 1971 became more horror based. Sadly, many episodes were wiped, including one which terrified me when I saw it as a young boy, The Chopper. The episode To Lay A Ghost used to be on YouTube, but appears to have been taken down. It is highly recommended and once seen you will never forget it, so if you get the chance, please give it a go. One in the BBC's Ghost Story for Christmas series was The Stone Tape, written by Nigel Kneale. It's rightly thought of as a classic of supernatural television. Just finished watching "Black Carrion" - excellent!
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Post by ripper on May 25, 2021 22:18:13 GMT
I agree the Denholm Elliott episode of Hammer House of Horror is a corker. That series got a Saturday night slot when it was first shown on UK TV in 1980. Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense on the other hand seemed to be always on really late at night during the week in the mid 80s. I thought there were some decent episodes, Child's Play has already been mentioned, but there were two others I enjoyed particularly, Black Carrion and And the Wall came Tumbling Down. Hammer also produced a series circa 1968 called Journey to the Unknown, which is worth a look. I would recommend the surviving episodes of the BBC's 1972 series Dead of Night: Return Flight, A Woman Sobbing and The Exorcism. There was a very popular series in the 60s made by the BBC called Out of the Unknown. It was mainly science fiction, but in its last series circa 1971 became more horror based. Sadly, many episodes were wiped, including one which terrified me when I saw it as a young boy, The Chopper. The episode To Lay A Ghost used to be on YouTube, but appears to have been taken down. It is highly recommended and once seen you will never forget it, so if you get the chance, please give it a go. One in the BBC's Ghost Story for Christmas series was The Stone Tape, written by Nigel Kneale. It's rightly thought of as a classic of supernatural television. Just finished watching "Black Carrion" - excellent! I'm pleased that you enjoyed it. It's an episode which seems to divide people, although I am firmly in the camp that likes it.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 26, 2021 11:23:01 GMT
Captain Clegg was to have been an adaptation of Russell Thorndyke's 'Doctor Syn'. However, Disney released an animated version (which I have not seen, but would very much like to), which I expect was toned down a great deal from Thorndyke's gritty original. I do like 'Captain Clegg', with the great, great Peter Cushing as the Reverend Blyss, demonstrating what a superb actor he really was, by turning from mild-mannered to terrifyingly savage in a heartbeat.A Hammer swashbuckler that I have always enjoyed, along with 'The Devil Ship Pirates'- Christopher Lee's death stagger after being shot, is worth the price of a ticket alone! Below is George Arliss (on the right) in his last film as the eponymous Doctor Syn (1937). On the left is Graham Moffatt as Jerry Jerk (I'm not making this up). There's also a character called Doctor Pepper! Very well directed by Roy William Neill who make most of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films it's a lively watch. Perhaps Doctor Syn's wizened visage is due to the marsh ague he claims he suffers from.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 26, 2021 12:33:20 GMT
Captain Clegg was to have been an adaptation of Russell Thorndyke's 'Doctor Syn'. However, Disney released an animated version (which I have not seen, but would very much like to), which I expect was toned down a great deal from Thorndyke's gritty original. I do like 'Captain Clegg', with the great, great Peter Cushing as the Reverend Blyss, demonstrating what a superb actor he really was, by turning from mild-mannered to terrifyingly savage in a heartbeat.A Hammer swashbuckler that I have always enjoyed, along with 'The Devil Ship Pirates'- Christopher Lee's death stagger after being shot, is worth the price of a ticket alone! Below is George Arliss (on the right) in his last film as the eponymous Doctor Syn (1937). On the left is Graham Moffatt as Jerry Jerk (I'm not making this up). There's also a character called Doctor Pepper! Very well directed by Roy William Neill who make most of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films it's a lively watch. Perhaps Doctor Syn's wizened visage is due to the marsh ague he claims he suffers from. I was going to point out that Disney's THE SCARECROW OF ROWNEY MARSH (1963) is live action, not animated, but then I noticed that I already did so six years ago.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 26, 2021 12:43:29 GMT
Below is George Arliss (on the right) in his last film as the eponymous Doctor Syn (1937). On the left is Graham Moffatt as Jerry Jerk (I'm not making this up). There's also a character called Doctor Pepper! Very well directed by Roy William Neill who make most of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films it's a lively watch. Perhaps Doctor Syn's wizened visage is due to the marsh ague he claims he suffers from. I was going to point out that Disney's THE SCARECROW OF ROWNEY MARSH (1963) is live action, not animated, but then I noticed that I already did so six years ago. And here he is:
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Post by helrunar on May 26, 2021 13:23:46 GMT
Miss Scarlett-- I don't know if this teleplay by Anne Valery (1926-2013) would be your flagon of mead: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgUiptn1DIkI was so delighted by this that I had to look her up. Valery was the wife of fabulous artist Robin Jacques, whose drawings always intrigued me in various library books, many of them fantasy themed novels or anthologies, back in the late 60s and early 70s. As an actress, she appeared in the now legendary film Kind Hearts and Coronets (which starred Alec Guiness). Valery seems to be best known for scripting episodes of a WW II Prisoner of War drama (set in one of the camps run by the Japanese in Singapore, where JG Ballard, Peter Wyngarde and others were interned), Tenko. Valery worked on these with her writing partner, Jill Hyem. The episode linked is a three part story in the series Crown Court (which seems tohave run forever on Granada in the Seventies) and plays like a fruity, absurd parody of the kind of English country house crime story already lampooned by Dorothy L. Sayers and others in the 1930s. The piece de resistance comes in part 3 with character actress Barbara Hicks' portrayal of one Lady Dupuis, an arrogant, more than slightly crazy New Age herbalist who is the wife of blustering (and positively antediluvian in his country squire posturing) lord of the manor Sir Harold Dupuis played by Denis Carey. Also quite distinctive is fabric-mad adulterer Jasper "Forty" Fortesque as portrayed by Frank Middlemass. This one has it all. There's even a weepy Germanic housekeeper with an accent you could cut with a knife a la Cloris Leachman in Young Frankenstein and a "what's all this then" local constable who makes P.C. Plod look like dramatic realism. I wonder if people wrote letters in to complain, but I doubt it. The whole thing seems designed to demonstrate just how out of touch and downright mad members of the peerage are. cheers, H.
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Post by Swampirella on May 26, 2021 13:26:59 GMT
Miss Scarlett-- I don't know if this teleplay by Anne Valery (1926-2013) would be your flagon of mead: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgUiptn1DIkI was so delighted by this that I had to look her up. Valery was the wife of fabulous artist Robin Jacques, whose drawings always intrigued me in various library books, many of them fantasy themed novels or anthologies, back in the late 60s and early 70s. As an actress, she appeared in the now legendary film Kind Hearts and Coronets (which starred Alec Guiness). Valery seems to be best known for scripting episodes of a WW II Prisoner of War drama (set in one of the camps run by the Japanese in Singapore, where JG Ballard, Peter Wyngarde and others were interned), Tenko. Valery worked on these with her writing partner, Jill Hyem. The episode linked is a three part story in the series Crown Court (which seems tohave run forever on Granada in the Seventies) and plays like a fruity, absurd parody of the kind of English country house crime story already lampooned by Dorothy L. Sayers and others in the 1930s. The piece de resistance comes in part 3 with character actress Barbara Hicks' portrayal of one Lady Dupuis, an arrogant, more than slightly crazy New Age herbalist who is the wife of blustering (and positively antediluvian in his country squire posturing) lord of the manor Sir Harold Dupuis played by Denis Carey. Also quite distinctive is fabric-mad adulterer Jasper "Forty" Fortesque as portrayed by Frank Middlemass. This one has it all. There's even a weepy Germanic housekeeper with an accent you could cut with a knife a la Cloris Leachman in Young Frankenstein and a "what's all this then" local constable who makes P.C. Plod look like dramatic realism. I wonder if people wrote letters in to complain, but I doubt it. The whole thing seems designed to demonstrate just how out of touch and downright mad members of the peerage are. cheers, H. Thanks for thinking of me; I'll give it a go later today or tomorrow....
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Post by Swampirella on May 26, 2021 16:03:22 GMT
Miss Scarlett-- I don't know if this teleplay by Anne Valery (1926-2013) would be your flagon of mead: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgUiptn1DIkI was so delighted by this that I had to look her up. Valery was the wife of fabulous artist Robin Jacques, whose drawings always intrigued me in various library books, many of them fantasy themed novels or anthologies, back in the late 60s and early 70s. As an actress, she appeared in the now legendary film Kind Hearts and Coronets (which starred Alec Guiness). Valery seems to be best known for scripting episodes of a WW II Prisoner of War drama (set in one of the camps run by the Japanese in Singapore, where JG Ballard, Peter Wyngarde and others were interned), Tenko. Valery worked on these with her writing partner, Jill Hyem. The episode linked is a three part story in the series Crown Court (which seems tohave run forever on Granada in the Seventies) and plays like a fruity, absurd parody of the kind of English country house crime story already lampooned by Dorothy L. Sayers and others in the 1930s. The piece de resistance comes in part 3 with character actress Barbara Hicks' portrayal of one Lady Dupuis, an arrogant, more than slightly crazy New Age herbalist who is the wife of blustering (and positively antediluvian in his country squire posturing) lord of the manor Sir Harold Dupuis played by Denis Carey. Also quite distinctive is fabric-mad adulterer Jasper "Forty" Fortesque as portrayed by Frank Middlemass. This one has it all. There's even a weepy Germanic housekeeper with an accent you could cut with a knife a la Cloris Leachman in Young Frankenstein and a "what's all this then" local constable who makes P.C. Plod look like dramatic realism. I wonder if people wrote letters in to complain, but I doubt it. The whole thing seems designed to demonstrate just how out of touch and downright mad members of the peerage are. cheers, H. They don't make tv programs like they used to, by gum! A great ensemble of character actors; the whole series looks excellent.
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Post by helrunar on May 26, 2021 16:31:01 GMT
They're courtroom dramas but seldom attempt to even bother with lipservice to narrative plausibility. If you can get through it, this one, "To suffer a Witch," has a great turn from hip, saturnine Patricia Haines (who died way too young--I think from cancer) as a professional Witch "High Priestess." I think she comes on again in episode 3. Yes, she goes on trial for hexing a man to death. Really bonkers scenario. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YHp7D3kWqw&t=27sH.
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Post by Dr Strange on May 26, 2021 18:58:39 GMT
I remember watching Crown Court as a kid in the 70s - it was daytime TV, so I only saw it during the school holidays. At least in the early series, the verdicts were unscripted and the juries were made up of members of the public.
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Post by helrunar on May 26, 2021 19:48:21 GMT
That's interesting, Dr Strange. I've seen a few of them in recent months, never having heard of the series. With the ones I have seen on the Tube, it's obviously all scripted and rehearsed. With the very first one, I wasn't sure what I was watching and then I suddenly went, "oooh, it's Madge Ryan!" She plays an Irish working-class lady who works as a nursing home matron under a very snooty toffee-nosed bee eye tea see aitch (upperclass English I think for the latter). Ryan always gave such brilliant, committed performances.
cheers, H.
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Post by Dr Strange on May 26, 2021 19:57:33 GMT
Everything was scripted apart from the verdict. I think they filmed two different endings, one for a "guilty" and the other for a "not guilty" verdict. Or at least that's what they said.
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Post by bluetomb on May 29, 2021 1:44:53 GMT
To add to old British anthology episodes worth a look, I've recently been getting into Tales of the Unexpected reruns, and though they are a very mixed bunch and generally more crime/dark humour, I found the Ruth Rendell adaptation Bosom Friends a veritable minor masterpiece of deep discomfort, practically a genteel conte cruel.
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Post by Swampirella on May 29, 2021 17:31:43 GMT
To add to old British anthology episodes worth a look, I've recently been getting into Tales of the Unexpected reruns, and though they are a very mixed bunch and generally more crime/dark humour, I found the Ruth Rendell adaptation Bosom Friends a veritable minor masterpiece of deep discomfort, practically a genteel conte cruel. I just watched it; "masterpiece" is not to high praise! I could have happily strangled Emma in her private hospital bed. I suppose the house, car & annuity would go on legal fees, but I'd be a guest of Her Majesty afterwards so always have a "home".
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