Do people have favourite film actors who only appeared in a handful of films, but are totally memorable? I was watching "Brief Encounter" again the other day,...
Barker, Matthew
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Aug 1, 2008 12:31 pm
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.. and talking of Brief Encounter, I see Mr Preview (Andre Previn) has done an opera which premiere's next year - see ...
Barker, Matthew
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Aug 1, 2008 1:11 pm
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On BBC4 next week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/listings/programme.shtml?day=thursday&filename=20080807/20080807_2100_4544_18328_60&service_id=4544 Travellers'...
Many thanks for the info about the book, Barbara ! I am greatly looking forward to reading Sir Dirk's letters in book form, especially those from the 1940s,...
I'm sure there will e more to come, from us and from others. But this does seem to be one of the first. All the other reviews out there seem to be the one...
In a message dated 8/1/2008 11:08:07 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Hello, Roger, Thanks very much for the enthusiasm, which I share! I should add that the ...
I'm not sure I'd call him a favourite film actor but your posting did make me think of Harold Russell, the real-life double amputee who played the character...
Reminder from: PnP Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PnP/cal Crown Vs. Stevens opened Sunday August 3, 2008 All Day (This event repeats every year.) ...
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The first excerpt from EVER, DIRK. And a great, great photo of Dirk et al. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/08/03/sv_dirkbogarde .xml...
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/08/the_effect_of_effects.html Roger Ebert talking about special effects and how they can be used well, or badly Steve...
From Roger We have been seeing a lot of PnP fave esteemed ancient Scottish actor John Laurie during the BBC 'Dad's Army' celebrations over the weekend, and...
Two nice deliveries this morning The Michael Powell episodes of Espionage From Network http://www.networkdvd.net/product_info.php?products_id=654 The Frantick...
We are looking forward to your review of the ESPIONAGE set.... As such tv series tend to be very formulaic (the producer Yankee Herb Brodkin having much more...
I just watched "The Frantick Rebel" - as Roger suspects, a fairly workmanlike production although there's a couple of flamboyant touches (particularly the...
It has a vegetarian heroine - how could you not like it? And the bit where Graeme Crowden and his sidekick decide they're in a musical comedy is very funny. ...
surely not the same belly poundage as in Col. Blimp, one hopes... -Dan ==== Sent: Monday, August 4, 2008 3:15:56 PM Subject: Re: [PnP] Re: DVD deliveries I...
I recently saw one of Bette Davis's early films called Fog over Frisco. Margaret Lindsay, who has a role as Bette's character's half-sister, stands out...
Thank you for asking the question. By the way, I also enjoy seeing the letters, IKWIG. Steve taught me to use them when I first wrote to him about the film. ...
What Roger calls "formulaic" is what these shows were supposed to be. The producers hired writers and directors based on how well they thought they could fit...
randolph man
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Aug 4, 2008 8:39 pm
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True, but Margaret Lindsay hardly qualifies as an "unknown" since she was in constant demand at Warners in the early 30s. She would play the "nice" girls (as...
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Aug 4, 2008 8:57 pm
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I'm afraid my early schooling in physics came to the fore during "Never Turn Your Back on a Friend". The Professor said that he could make a bomb from a pile...
Reminder from: PnP Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PnP/cal The Phantom Light opened Tuesday August 5, 2008 All Day (This event repeats every year.) ...
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Aug 4, 2008 10:58 pm
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I quite liked The Frantick Rebel, but I knew from the beginning that the American revolutionaries would win out in the end, no matter how clever the British...
Here is some more dope on Albert Bassermann, whose fabulously rare 1941 US film Passport to Heaven I reported on a while back. This is a firsthand account of...
randolph man
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Aug 5, 2008 11:03 pm
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Neal reminds me that tonight's episode of The Thirties In Colour (BBC4 21:00) is to feature footage from Jack Cardiff's travelogues. Steve...
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