Just Where DO Old Films Go To Die?

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105.4

4,065 posts

70 months

Tuesday 9th February 2021
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Scrump said:
Driving Ambition
Well remembered. I’ll see if there’s anything on YouTube thumbup

thegreenhell

15,115 posts

218 months

Tuesday 9th February 2021
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105.4 said:
Scrump said:
Driving Ambition
Well remembered. I’ll see if there’s anything on YouTube thumbup
It looks like the series is there in full.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjZL-tH-jDU...

GliderRider

2,068 posts

80 months

Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Malcolm - An Australian comedy film about an autistic man (Colin Friel) who gets fired from the Melbourne tram company for making his own single seater tram and running it round the network at dawn.

He's persuaded to take in lodgers to make ends meet; an ex-con and his girlfriend. They then rob a bank...

Its real struggle for breath, tears running down face humour, but I haven't seen it in years.

kowalski655

14,599 posts

142 months

Wednesday 10th February 2021
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TPTV has The Court Jester, the Danny Kaye classic, tomorrow,and The Plank (Eric Sykes,etc,) the day after.

alfaspecial

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1,122 posts

139 months

Thursday 11th February 2021
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Watched this yesterday on TPtv
Tuesday 9th Feb @ 6.55 Sewers of Gold (aka Dirty Money, aka The Great Riviera Bank Robbery) staring Ian McShane - a heist movie, based on actual events, involving (fascist) criminals tunnelling through sewers into a bank's vaults.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079238/
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_%C3%89gouts_du_p...
Actual events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Spaggiari



It was quite 'sweet' seeing how Talking Pictures tv censored the film - was classified as a PG.........

One character mouthed the words 'bd' censored, obviously by TPtv themselves - not any pretence at an 'actors' voice!
AND
When the 'crims broke into the safety deposit boxes they removed some photographs (obviously pornographic), which they pinned to the wall - TPtv had taken the trouble to 'blur' the offensive parts
AND
One of the 'crims was arrested on the beach, sunbathing beside a topless woman - whose 'mammaries' were likewise 'blurred out', in a obviously amateur way ....... quite charming!







droopsnoot

11,810 posts

241 months

Thursday 11th February 2021
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I've a vague idea I've seen that film - was it supposed to be set in the south of France or around that way? I have a memory of them going down a ramp from a fairly main road to get to the entrance to the tunnels.

alfaspecial

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1,122 posts

139 months

Thursday 11th February 2021
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droopsnoot said:
I've a vague idea I've seen that film - was it supposed to be set in the south of France or around that way? I have a memory of them going down a ramp from a fairly main road to get to the entrance to the tunnels.
Yes, that was the one.
The 'crims dropped the tunnellers off at the top of the ramp, when tunnelling, but drove a Land Rover into the tunnel on the night of the actual robbery.
They had a lookout standing on a balcony in a flat opposite - bit bizarre as nothing could possibly look more suspicious than a bloke, with a radio (how far underground would a 1970's walkie -talkie actually work?) spending all night in full public view....
And in real life https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/12/jacq...



It's funny the public demand for films of these 'real life' heist movies.
The Hatton Garden raid has also had at least 3 versions made.
And there must have been dozen 'Great Train Robbery' films............


There have now been 3 versions of this story - two in (about) 1979 - one French, ( Les Égouts du paradis), this one - being an English tv movie. See also the 2008 version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Easy_Way


sgtBerbatov

2,597 posts

80 months

Tuesday 16th February 2021
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Would just like to say thanks to the alfaspecial for this thread, and for pointing people towards the channel.

I told the wife's grandad about the channel, and showed it to him, and he's been watching it. His wife, my wife's grandmother, died this year so he's been at a loose end given restrictions etc. So while the rest of the TV is full of crap he can at least find something semi-interesting to watch for him when Gardener's World isn't on.

No doubt there'll be others of his vintage who aren't aware of the channel, given how far away it is compared to BBC 1 and ITV.


Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Tuesday 16th February 2021
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BBC iPlayer has a number of old 1940s classics available. I watched "The Yellow Canary" last night - made in 1943.

StevieBee

12,795 posts

254 months

Tuesday 16th February 2021
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Scrump said:
105.4 said:
Whilst we’re on a broadly similar subject, although I’m now referring to TV shows as opposed to films, I’d love to see re-runs of

3), a TV show that was on BBC in the early-mid 80’s about a female racing driver. All I can remember is that she was from up North and raced a Mini.
Driving Ambition
Found the whole series on You Tube a few years back. Car was part of the Wendy Wools Special Saloon championship and the show featured the first on-screen work of a certain Tim Roth. I remember watching it on TV and being glued to it but only then for the cars and the racing. As a drama, it's pretty naff!

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Wednesday 17th February 2021
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Eric Mc said:
BBC iPlayer has a number of old 1940s classics available. I watched "The Yellow Canary" last night - made in 1943.
BBC has had a run of good films recently; The Godfather, The Deerhunter, Shakespeare in Love, A Matter of Life and Death. Trouble is by the time I've remembered to get round to watching them they've disappeared off iPlayer.

David-H

144 posts

101 months

Thursday 15th April 2021
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Slight thread resurrection but on Talking Pictures TV at 23:30 The Driver (1978)

Ryan O'Neal as the driver pursued by a detective played by the brilliant Bruce Dern.

I've not seen it in years so hoping it's as good as I remember it being.

spikeyhead

17,225 posts

196 months

Thursday 15th April 2021
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I bought a dvd of Gregory's Girl recently, it's still a great film

BryanC

1,107 posts

237 months

Thursday 15th April 2021
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David-H said:
Slight thread resurrection but on Talking Pictures TV at 23:30 The Driver (1978)

Ryan O'Neal as the driver pursued by a detective played by the brilliant Bruce Dern.

I've not seen it in years so hoping it's as good as I remember it being.
Well spotted and a good shout. A great movie and Ryan O' Neill playing an impassive crook with a very moody girl friend.
Memorable demolition of an orange Merc ( and Pontiac Firebird ? )

Fortunately I have the DVD so my beauty sleep will be preserved. What a silly late time to show it.

irocfan

40,153 posts

189 months

Saturday 17th April 2021
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a few films I'd like to see again:

Silverstreak
Foul Play
Conan the Destroyer

immediately spring to mind - there are doubtless countless others but those three will do (again likely available on Amazon for a silly price but not that bothered)

Wacky Racer

38,099 posts

246 months

Saturday 17th April 2021
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Percy with Hywel Bennett

The goalkeeper's fear of the penalty

The Bofors gun

Soldier Blue

The tawny pipit

Derek Smith

45,514 posts

247 months

Saturday 17th April 2021
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P5BNij said:
In the mid '80s BBC2, ITV and Channel 4 had a phase of showing some long forgotten (in some cases) cult classics late at night, one or two of which have never been shown on terrestrial TV since then, those that I remember watching at the time were....
A lot of my youth there in your playlist.

I was, and remain, a big fan of Baker. Taken too soon.

My father was a bit of a film buff, being a chauffeur to a film star whne in his early 30s. He knew quite a few.

I saw Blow Up being filmed in Greenwich, Charlton and Blackheath. Some friends and I followed it around and one time I spoke with Sarah Miles. She seemed out of it, but not drugged up. Told my father and he said ‘That’s her’. Great film. It was quite enticing seeing the various places I used to go, such as The Point, where the body was, opposite The Green Man. I had an aunt used to live nearby and my brother and I played there as kids. Then there was the riverside walk, and the tennis courts in Charlton Park. Weird seeing it all at the cinema. We knew the shopkeeper where he bought the propeller.

Films such as Up the Junction and Here We Go Round were a must see as they were about common people. Like me. Which was one reason for liking Baker as he was the son of a Welsh coalminer. The only people who were more common than him were those with 17 siblings, like my father.

I was a big fan of Susannah York, but for reasons different to Baker.

I used to call Liz Taylor auntie, and she was an occasional visitor to our house. I was around five at the time, so have only vague memories of her, and they were probably invented given the number of times relatives have talked about her. Once I was in the back of a Rolls Royce with her, with my dad driving. I remember holding onto the partition and seeing her face reflected in the glass.

My father was entranced by her, saying that, although she was quite small, little more than five feet, although officially 5’4”, she dominated any room she went into, no matter how many others were there, or who they were. I tried to see all her films, but was thrown out of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as two kids came in through an exit and sat next to me and Tommy. Well miffed. I had to go to another cinema in another part of London. I thought Newman was cool and would become more famous.

My dad disliked Richard Attenborough, for reasons he did not disclose. However, the secretary of the film star he chauffeured was more of a story teller and she, in later life, was only too willing to say what she thought of him. In later years I used to take new girlfriends to visit her. She would give her opinion at the end. She told me that if I did not marry a particular one I was more stupid that she thought. I did. I don’t know if that made me less stupid. I took one who was, I’m sorry to say, a bit dim and she found it difficult to hold a conversation with her. As I was getting into the car, this prim, proper, well-spoken, highly educated ex-pa to famous film stars, said, ‘I hope she's a good f**k.’

BryanC

1,107 posts

237 months

Saturday 17th April 2021
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quote Derek Smith.....

What a great recollection. I thoroughly enjoyed that. Thanks for posting.

Derek Smith

45,514 posts

247 months

Saturday 17th April 2021
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BryanC said:
quote Derek Smith.....

What a great recollection. I thoroughly enjoyed that. Thanks for posting.
Thank you. P5 took me back. I should have thanked him.

Wacky Racer

38,099 posts

246 months

Saturday 17th April 2021
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Blow up, Here we go round the mulberry bush and Up the Junction are three of my favourite films from that great era in the mid/late sixties.

I loved the scene in Blow up in the mock up of the Ricky Tick club, featuring Jimmy Page, Keith Relf and Jeff Beck in the Yardbirds, and Janet Street Porter on the dance floor.