Ice Cold in Alex

[cazzer]

Just started on channel 4

[Nicholas Blair]

Sky+ last night

[Robbo66]

top 10 for me

[davepoth]

Always makes me want lager.

[smac]

worth waiting for

[Mr_B]

Anyone remember the old Holsten Pils TV ad with which used this ?

[TEKNOPUG]

Mr_B said:

Anyone remember the old Holsten Pils TV ad with which used this ?

Nope.

I remember the Carlsberg one though.

[Mr_B]

TEKNOPUG said:

Nope.

I remember the Carlsberg one though.

Scenes from the film were used in a late-1980s television advertising campaign for the German Holsten Pils lager. Each advertisement mixed original footage from a different old film (another example was The Great Escape) with new humorous material starring British comedian Griff Rhys Jones and finishing with the slogan "A Holsten Pils Production". In retaliation, rival Carlsberg simply lifted the segment in which Mills contemplates the freshly poured lager in the clearly Carlsberg-branded glass, before downing it in one go and declaring, "Worth waiting for!" This was followed by a variation in the usual Carlsberg tag-line: "Still probably the best lager in the world."

[Chimune]

love it, but as good as the carlsberg scene is, the best bit is the truck rolling back down the hill.

Speaking of which - one of my other fave b&w films is Sean Connery in The Hill. Anyone know it ?

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[Cotty]

Chimune said:

Speaking of wich - my other fave b&w file is Sean Connery in The Hill. Anyone know it ?

Yep seen it a few times.

[Mr_B]

The scene where the C/O drives off in his car ranting and waving his arms at the Germans, only to get hit by a shell. Mills says " my gin" and Harry Andrews says " my tool box". Always found that amusing.

[TEKNOPUG]

Chimune said:

love it, but as good as the carlsberg scene is, the best bit is the truck rolling back down the hill.

Speaking of which - one of my other fave b&w films is Sean Connery in The Hill. Anyone know it ?

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Roy Kinnear is in it.

[TheHeretic]

Superb film, one of the best WWII films in my opinion. Saying that, most of Mills' films tend to be on the 'frikkin' sweet side of the bed. Dunkirk, The Colditz Story, etc.

[cazzer]

Can't remember who said this originally but...

"When I was a kid, the war was in black and white and won by John Mills"

Sums it up

[Simpo Two]

And John Gregson and Bernard Miles!

[kdri155]

[quote=chimune- one of my other fave b&w films is Sean Connery in The Hill. Anyone know it ?


[/quote]

The Hill is available to view on YouTube along with other classics such as;
The Long and The Short and The Tall
Oh What a Lovely war

And many other British classic movies.

[motco]

John Mills in 'The Long Memory' is worth a look.

[TheHeretic]

kdri155 said:

The Hill is available to view on YouTube along with other classics such as;
The Long and The Short and The Tall
Oh What a Lovely war

And many other British classic movies.

<runs off to YouTube to favourite a few!>