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Post by andydecker on Sept 18, 2011 9:35:06 GMT
Ah, well, thank you all! Of course I had to order it  Unfortunatly I had to klick around, so now there is also Die screaming, Marianne and Frightmare and Cry of the Banshee on the way. |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Sept 21, 2011 7:56:32 GMT
Franklin, you complete and utter rotter! i'll have to watch it through now, even though i know i'll be constantly checking back to make sure you weren't talking about another film entirely. * not sure i understood "Pete attempting congress with her to Syb’s other bus rage?"* [ Yipes! Sorry, Dem, couldn't resist. You should find that my words refer to VW and VW only, a fillum I obtained quite by chance as it was included in the Tigon coffin box set, along with such greats as Witchfinder General, Blood On Satan's Claw, Beast In The Cellar, erm....The Haunted House Of Horror and *cough* The Body Stealers. I'm sure actual witchcraft was used in the making of this film as a remarkably high percentage of viewers lose consciousness after the aforementioned 20 minutes. We'll have to see how Andy gets on. (Apologies Andy, if my comments above had anything to do with your decision. You may well regret it. ) Yay! Redemption! Eileen Daly! The other bus rage comment was directed at Sybil's ire on discovering Ann Michelle's character turned out heterosexual. |
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Post by pulphack on Sept 21, 2011 9:39:50 GMT
ah, that's a great box set! the extras are pretty good too, with cathedral romping around with eileen daly on the witchfinder general disk, and the excellent documentary about tigon on another, and michael armstrong referring to gerry daly as a 'pig fucker' (i swear that's what he says!) on the commentary for haunted hosue of horror.
the latter and The Body Stealers may not be classics like some of the others, but there's lots of fun to be had from them, and even though the BS is routinely slated, i never find it BORING, which is the cardinal sin and one that Virgin Witch is sadly (and inexplicably, given the ingredients) guilty of.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Sept 21, 2011 10:00:07 GMT
Looks like I'm the only person in the world who didn't find Virgin Witch coma-inducing. Agreed on The Body Stealers - it'a a real WTF romp, what with Neil Connery, and the almost unbelievable in this day and age sexism of Patrick Allen and Allan Cutherbertson. And that oh-so-familiar spaceship.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 21, 2011 10:42:49 GMT
the Tigon coffin box set, along with such greats as Witchfinder General, Blood On Satan's Claw, Beast In The Cellar, erm....The Haunted House Of Horror and *cough* The Body Stealers. Ooh, the Tigon box. Like the Pete Walker Collection this is sadly out of print and too expensive on the marketplace.  At least there was Blood on Satans Claw to buy solo. (Apologies Andy, if my comments above had anything to do with your decision. You may well regret it. ) No apologies needed. I actually watched both versions of Bava´s Lisa and the Devil back to back. VW will be a walk in the park compared to this  Yay! Redemption! Eileen Daly! I love Razor Blade Smile. For all its cheapness this is so much better than Hollywood crap like Underworld. And Miss Daly  |
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Post by killercrab on Sept 21, 2011 14:49:59 GMT
the latter and The Body Stealers may not be classics like some of the others, but there's lots of fun to be had from them, and even though the BS is routinely slated, i never find it BORING, which is the cardinal sin and one that Virgin Witch is sadly (and inexplicably, given the ingredients) guilty of.
I'm a fan of low rent British scifi flicks. Body Stealers is a great example. Another is They Came From Beyond Space - felt tip plague spots and Michael Gough in a cape . where's a decent dvd I cry ?
KC
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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 21, 2011 15:19:28 GMT
the latter and The Body Stealers may not be classics like some of the others, but there's lots of fun to be had from them, and even though the BS is routinely slated, i never find it BORING, which is the cardinal sin and one that Virgin Witch is sadly (and inexplicably, given the ingredients) guilty of.I'm a fan of low rent British scifi flicks. Body Stealers is a great example. Another is They Came From Beyond Space - felt tip plague spots and Michael Gough in a cape . where's a decent dvd I cry ? KC I know! And Zia Moyeddin wearing a colander on his head to defeat the alien mind control! Superb low rent daftness that deserves blu-ray technology. Never mind releasing Star Wars again - where's this? |
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Post by Shrink Proof on Sept 22, 2011 18:08:48 GMT
Reverting to the original theme of this thread, an (apocryphal??) anecdote....
After the Falklands War there was a sizeable British garrison on the islands & pretty soon the officers noticed that the squaddies were referring to the Falkland Islanders as "Bennies". Yep, you guessed it, it was because yer average soldier reckoned that they were all similar to Benny of "Crossroads" - in dress, in stature and, worst of all, in IQ. Recognising that this had the potential to cause serious offence, an order was posted that this would stop immediately & that any soldier heard referring to the locals as "Bennies" would be court martialled. The word was banned. No questions.
And so it stopped. For a bit.
Until one day an officer overheard two squaddies talking about the "stills", and couldn't figure it out. Eventually he asked "soldier, who are the stills?"
"Er....the locals, sir" came the reply.
"And why is that?"
"Well sir, they're still Bennies..."
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Post by ripper on Feb 26, 2015 15:57:39 GMT
I presume that the Crossroads books feature original stories rather than novelising screened stories. I was a watcher of the soap from the early 70s until its demise. A few memories and half-memories...
Anyone remember the "Arthur Brownlow is Innocent" t-shirts that you could buy in the early 80s? These were in response to a storyline in which naughty Iris Scott accused staid, middle-aged Arthur Brownlow of raping her.
A cameo by Larry Grayson as the wedding car chauffeur at Meg's marriage to Hugh Mortimer.
The silent extras playing guests--if they had no lines then ATV could pay them less.
Heather Chasen (Wren Chasen in The Navy Lark and Paula Dane in the Sexton Blake radio series) turning up as siren Valerie Pollard in the last few years of the soap.
I seem to remember a storyline about a female singer who wrote a song or something like that and the song was actually released--probably mid-70s.
Wasn't Hugh Mortimer written out by being murdered by the IRA, while a previous husband of Meg's died in a plane crash?
The first chefs at Crossroads were, I think, Carlos and Mr. Lovejoy.
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Post by pulphack on Feb 26, 2015 16:36:27 GMT
Ah me, Iris Scott, the temptress! Compared to Glenda, anyrate... Kate Robbins was the comedienne (now)/ singer (then), and the song was called something like 'Too Much In Love', although I'm not brave enough to youtube it to see for sure - it was a hit, though! Hugh Mortimer was indeed killed by the IRA, and was played by John Bentley, suave hero of many a Brit b-movie. Not sure about the air crash husband though - didn't he re-emerge at some point?
The novels are taken from scripts at the very beginning of the show, and are very neatly done. I have to say, as someone who wasn't quite born when it began, I liked this as it filled in gaps from before my memories of the show.
Larry Grayson and, indeed, the godlike wit that was Arthur Marshall (a man who once said sagely 'I may like trivial things, but it's not the likes of me you see starting wars', which is as good as anything to live by) made guest appearances as themselves. Imagine having Larry Grayson chauffeur you to your wedding!
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Post by pulphack on Feb 26, 2015 16:40:11 GMT
After Carlos and Mr Lovejoy, we had Mr Booth (who married some young bit who later turned up in 'Allo 'Allo and did the dirty on him at the Motel) and then the wonderful Shughie McFee - Angus Lennie, who died last year and was the last man standing (I think) from the cast of The Great Escape! It may be apocryphal but I have read that he was written out because budget cuts meant that they got rid of the kitchen set and his last year was spent on reception ending every scene by saying 'I must go into the kitchen' and shuffling off stage left!
Forgot that just now!
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Post by ripper on Feb 26, 2015 21:44:23 GMT
Many thanks, Pulphack. I may be getting muddled about the husband dying in the plane crash. Possibly he was just assumed to be dead as you say for a very faint bell is ringing to that effect.
Ah, yes, Mr. Booth. I had forgotten about him and I think you are right about him coming after Mr. Lovejoy and before the wonderful Shughie.
I couldn't remember the actual song, only that there had been one and it had been released. The Kate Robbins song appears to be from 1980, but I thought it was earlier than that, probably around 1975 or so, but surely Crossroads didn't spawn two songs, so it may be my memory at fault.
The funny thing about Larry Grayson being the chauffeur at Meg and Hugh's wedding is that he couldn't drive. I think he was just starting to get noticed as a TV comedian when he did the cameo. I don't remember the Arthur Marshall cameo at all so perhaps didn't see the episode he was in.
One other thing that I remember is that after the episode would end on its dramatic conclusion and the end credits had rolled there would be a cut back to the concluding scene with one of the actors, more often than not David Hunter, staring into the middle distance before the final fade out.
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Post by pulphack on Feb 27, 2015 6:18:31 GMT
God grief, Rip, you're stirring memories... you're right, the Kate Robbins song was 1981 (More Than In Love - googled it), and there was one in 1975. The name Stephanie De Sykes popped into my head, and that proved right - not 'Born With A Smile On My Face', the Eurovision-styled big hit, but 'We'll Find Our Day' which was sung at Meg and Hugh's wedding, but I can't remember at all (and am, like the Kate Robbins, frankly too squeamish to youtube though I bet it's there). I'd forgotten about old Steph until you mentioned it... I also recall that the Kate Robbins song had something to do with Chris Hunter, son of David (and Rosemary, the barmy first wife who shot him YEARS before Dallas I think) setting up a recording studio at the motel. Chris was a real bad 'un - married Diane to fufil a codicil in a will and get some cash, and also got involved with some sort of terrorist group and got shot. For a quiet midlands Motel, a lot of people got shot in Kings Oak. Not sure I'd want to stay there.
And the post credits 'freeze-frame' shots were priceless - Acorn Antiques did these perfectly, and Victoria Wood must have loved Crossroads, or else she couldn't have got it so right!
I need to lie down in darkened room now...
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Post by ripper on Feb 27, 2015 10:59:14 GMT
Spot on, Pulphack. I have just watched it on youtube. It is under "stephanie de sykes - we'll find our day" and lasts just over 4 minutes. The video also includes Sandy Richardson introducing the song at the wedding. De Sykes played Holly Brown in the soap.
I do remember Chris Hunter and his marriage to Diane...I used to fancy her like mad, along with meg's daughter, Jill. It's amazing, but I suppose typical of soaps, how many marriages they had.
I'm sure you are right about Victoria Wood being a Crossroads fan, and she nailed those freeze frames in her Acorn Antiques just right lol.
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Post by dem on Feb 28, 2015 11:16:21 GMT
Oi you two, now look what you've done!!! I'm not sure, but I think this might be a regional thing as down here, Freeview 8 is home to London Live. That being the case, I think Ripper should be sorted but .... who is gonna break it to pulphack?! |
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At least there was Blood on Satans Claw to buy solo.
