"The Wrong Arm Of The Law " - Peter Sellers
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The hi viz jacket "culture" is getting silly imo. Once it was just plod (who are now anything but the once friendly, harmless bobby on the beat they once were) that wear them, now everyone from marshals at events, station guards, airport staff, road sweepers, postmen (together with their shorts), traffic wardens, and even children accompanying their teacher on a school trip wear them.
Speaking of Peter Sellers films, but I think one of Sellers most underrated film, and least forgotten as far as I'm concerned, is Never Let Go from 1960, also starring Richard Todd. Very solid and serious performance from Sellers in one of his often forgotten roles as an hardman as opposed to the familiar stereotyped clichéd comedy character that most seem to remember him for. In it he plays a crooked car salesmen. Why this film rarely gets mentioned among Sellers performances I don't know, because he played a terrific villain and a very believable one. Can't remember the last time it was ever shown on TV.
Speaking of Peter Sellers films, but I think one of Sellers most underrated film, and least forgotten as far as I'm concerned, is Never Let Go from 1960, also starring Richard Todd. Very solid and serious performance from Sellers in one of his often forgotten roles as an hardman as opposed to the familiar stereotyped clichéd comedy character that most seem to remember him for. In it he plays a crooked car salesmen. Why this film rarely gets mentioned among Sellers performances I don't know, because he played a terrific villain and a very believable one. Can't remember the last time it was ever shown on TV.
uk66fastback said:
Forgot that I have a huge pic from Two Way Stretch in my garage! Got it done about 25 years ago! It's our heroes when they're at the station on the train and Lionel Jeffries is looking for Soapy ...
WAotL locations ...
http://www.reelstreets.com/extras/wrong_arm_brian_...
I think I'm going to have to hunt these films out, a bit before my time, but they sound great.WAotL locations ...
http://www.reelstreets.com/extras/wrong_arm_brian_...
Oh, and your 240Z looks familiar/similar!
Jukebag said:
The hi viz jacket "culture" is getting silly imo. Once it was just plod (who are now anything but the once friendly, harmless bobby on the beat they once were) that wear them, now everyone from marshals at events, station guards, airport staff, road sweepers, postmen (together with their shorts), traffic wardens, and even children accompanying their teacher on a school trip wear them.
Speaking of Peter Sellers films, but I think one of Sellers most underrated film, and least forgotten as far as I'm concerned, is Never Let Go from 1960, also starring Richard Todd. Very solid and serious performance from Sellers in one of his often forgotten roles as an hardman as opposed to the familiar stereotyped clichéd comedy character that most seem to remember him for. In it he plays a crooked car salesmen. Why this film rarely gets mentioned among Sellers performances I don't know, because he played a terrific villain and a very believable one. Can't remember the last time it was ever shown on TV.
There are numerous long forgotten Sellers films like this, mostly the ones he made between The Ladykillers and the first Pink Panther film. One which springs to mind (I can't remember the title though) is where he played a very gentle vicar with a delicious Brummie accent in a quaint little village called Magna Parva or something similar. I caught it on a weekday afternoon about thirty years ago. There's another early one where he plays quite an unlikable character with a marriage problem from c.1960 / 61.Speaking of Peter Sellers films, but I think one of Sellers most underrated film, and least forgotten as far as I'm concerned, is Never Let Go from 1960, also starring Richard Todd. Very solid and serious performance from Sellers in one of his often forgotten roles as an hardman as opposed to the familiar stereotyped clichéd comedy character that most seem to remember him for. In it he plays a crooked car salesmen. Why this film rarely gets mentioned among Sellers performances I don't know, because he played a terrific villain and a very believable one. Can't remember the last time it was ever shown on TV.
Wrong Arm Of The Law and Two Way Stretch though, both are absolute gems.
A great period film. Of course 41 DPX is a DB4GT and was Sellers own car. He blew it up in the filming and it was replaced with the factory demonstrator. If you look closely the last scene with it featured shows the car turning into the lane up towards Denham Aerodrome and you can see the later car has lower bonnet scoop and different front grill. I think it may also not have the Cathedral lights of the early GTs. I also think this car is currently for sale on JD Classics website. I nearly bought it in the early 90s after it had come back from New Zealand. It was restored by a UK company for a friend of mine and has the rare extra feature of two small child seats in the back. No doubt to appease PS Missus, who was probably Britt Ekland at the time!
A great period film. Of course 41 DPX is a DB4GT and was Sellers own car. He blew it up in the filming and it was replaced with the factory demonstrator. I you look closely the last scene with it featured shows the car turning into the lane uptown Denham Aerodrome and you can see the later car has lower bonnet scoop and different front grill. I think it may also not have the Cathedral lights of the early GTs. I also think this car is currently for sale on JD Classics website. I nearly bought it in the early 90s after it had come back from New Zealand. It was restored by a UK company for a friend of mine and has the rare extra feature of two small child seats in the back. No doubt to appease PS Missus, who was probably Britt Ekland at the time!
It is Heaven's Above where he plays a vicar of a village with a Brummie accent. I've seen that film regularly on Film4 during the afternoon; it may've been shown on Talking Pictures TV, not entirely sure. I think Heaven's Above is a comedy. Never Let Go, which features the song "Johnny Comes Marching Home", has never been shown for years. I remember my dad in the early-mid 80s having to re-tune the TV to receive the Yorkshire region in order to watch a showing of it late one night and recording it which I still have somewhere. I think it had been shown years later but can't recall when. I'm surprised you can get it on DVD it's that unknown. My dad recalls watching it at the flicks when he was a teenager with a friend who owned a genuine Jaguar D-Type.
Edited by Jukebag on Wednesday 24th May 20:36
Vanquish Spirit, what's your source that after Sellers blew his car engine it was replaced by the factory demonstrator for the canal bridge jump when one frame shows the car airborne. In the monochrome film it is a grey DB4 with upright headlights shallow bonnet scoop and no front number plate, definitely not a DB4 GT
I would have to view the film again which I last did about 10 years ago. However, it is well known in AM land that the car was replaced for the final scenes with a factory GT demonstrator. You are of course quite correct that the bridge jump was a standard DB4, thank Goodness! If you view the last scenes as I mentioned you will note that the car is still a GT with the covered headlights and if I recall correctly, doesn't even carry the correct 41DPX plate, but that of the factory car. 40 MT? Don't make me go and dig out my DVD! ( I have an unhealthy interest having owned 0164/R DB4GT for many years)
edit. The replacement car was not uses until the last scene, the bridge jump was a standard DB4 presumably as Sellers did not want to banana his own car. However, the engine gave out towards the end of filming. Its fact.
edit. The replacement car was not uses until the last scene, the bridge jump was a standard DB4 presumably as Sellers did not want to banana his own car. However, the engine gave out towards the end of filming. Its fact.
I've got Never Let Go and Wrong Arm on DVD. Haven't seen for many years but looking forward to a showing now. I remember being impressed with Sellars' villain, a whole new dimension to his acting skills. I'll have to look up Two Way Stretch as well.
I have long been a Goons fan and remember Spike Milligans' scripts used to piss-take his good mate Sellars love for all things high tech and especially his need for cars, cars, cars. "I've got to buy a new Rolls Royce Jim" "-why?!" "It's facing the wrong way" etc.
I have long been a Goons fan and remember Spike Milligans' scripts used to piss-take his good mate Sellars love for all things high tech and especially his need for cars, cars, cars. "I've got to buy a new Rolls Royce Jim" "-why?!" "It's facing the wrong way" etc.
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