Good morning everyone it's a much brighter day today dry with plenty of sunshine and much lighter winds.
Enjoy your day everyone 
Slimfern, I hadn't mentioned that the Talking Pictures tv channel is showing "Theatre of Blood" (1973) tonight. A jet black (or should I say red) comedy horror film which has an extraordinary cast:
Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Arthur Lowe, Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Tutte Lemkow, Diana Dors, Joan Hickson, Eric Sykes, Madeline Smith, Dennis Price, & Milo O'Shea.
Price is a Shakespearean stage actor who has been savaged by the critics so he exacts his revenge on them, one by one, with his daughter Diana Rigg. The murders are based on events in the plays.
Too gruesome for me to watch, but Price had said that it was this favourite of his films.
Moonie, I hope your side starts improving soon, 5 points from 9 league games this year 
Cheltenham has got 13 points from 10 games in comparison, only 2 wins but they've drawn all but 1 of the other games.
Cheltenham at home to Crewe, the bottom side, tomorrow. The away fixture at the start of the season was 1-1.
@El Loro posted:Moonie, I hope your side starts improving soon, 5 points from 9 league games this year
Cheltenham at home to Crewe, the bottom side, tomorrow. The away fixture at the start of the season was 1-1.
Thanks El 
We supposedly got Steve Bruce in to help our dire situation. Played 4 games, 1 point 
Our next game is home to Swansea on Monday. That wonât be easy
Great news re Cheltenham
Every point is valuable. Either draws or wins
@El Loro posted:Slimfern, I hadn't mentioned that the Talking Pictures tv channel is showing "Theatre of Blood" (1973) tonight. A jet black (or should I say red) comedy horror film which has an extraordinary cast:
Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Arthur Lowe, Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Tutte Lemkow, Diana Dors, Joan Hickson, Eric Sykes, Madeline Smith, Dennis Price, & Milo O'Shea.
Price is a Shakespearean stage actor who has been savaged by the critics so he exacts his revenge on them, one by one, with his daughter Diana Rigg. The murders are based on events in the plays.
Too gruesome for me to watch, but Price had said that it was this favourite of his films.
I remember watching this with my Mum when I was 11/12 yrs old....I didn't find it very comical at all 
The thing I recall most about those type of films was how red the blood was on our new colour tv 
Think I'll stick to the proper comedy films or b&w if you don't mind EL 
It does have a magnificent cast though
Only Madeline Smith is still alive out of all those you mention 
@Moonie posted:Thanks El
We supposedly got Steve Bruce in to help our dire situation. Played 4 games, 1 point
Our next game is home to Swansea on Monday. That wonât be easy
Great news re Cheltenham
Every point is valuable. Either draws or wins
Thanks Moonie
Cheltenham's main objective this season was to remain in league one and they do seem to be on course to do that fairly comfortably
@slimfern posted:I remember watching this with my Mum when I was 11/12 yrs old....I didn't find it very comical at all
The thing I recall most about those type of films was how red the blood was on our new colour tv
Think I'll stick to the proper comedy films or b&w if you don't mind EL
It does have a magnificent cast though
Only Madeline Smith is still alive out of all those you mention
I didn't think you would want to watch it other than you had mentioned before that you liked Vincent Price's acting 
@El Loro posted:@slimfern Next Monday (28th) at 5.40 in the morning the Talking Pictures tv channel is showing a short 1939 documentary called "A Symphony of London". It's a lovely gem and a must watch. It is on Youtube as "Another Day" but I think the copy that Talking Pictures shows is less fuzzy. Worth setting up to record as it should now be available.
Am about to watch this
Will give my opinion after
''Two's company''
It was a bit of a love story in amongst the hustle and bustle of every day life back in the early 20th century ..very nice El 
Thanks 
@slimfern posted:Tommy & Gill....cute
By the way, BBC Two were showing "The Man in the White Suit" (1951) today and it's on their iPlayer for 29 days.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01sjsx3/
My favourite Alec Guinness film.
@El Loro posted:By the way, BBC Two were showing "The Man in the White Suit" (1951) today and it's on their iPlayer for 29 days.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01sjsx3/
My favourite Alec Guinness film.
Yes it is a good film, I've seen it a couple of times
He was in 'Great Expectations' ..coincidentally...again
I think my favourite of his was 'The Ladykillers'
@slimfern posted:Yes it is a good film, I've seen it a couple of times
He was in 'Great Expectations' ..coincidentally...again
I think my favourite of his was 'The Ladykillers'
Yes, "Great Expectations" was his first credited film role.
"The Ladykillers" is a very good film. That's the original of course, not the remake which I will never watch.
I did watch "A Passage to India" (1984) at the cinema. That was the 6th time Alec Guinness worked with David Lean and was the last time as they fell out during filming and a lot of his scenes didn't make the released film. Lean said "He was deathly afraid of doing a parody of a Peter Sellers Indian. But... I'm afraid he did exactly what he was afraid of doing. We had to cut chunks of it out."
I think it was a mistake to have cast him as an Indian and the only film of his I've seen which I was not like him.
@El Loro posted:Yes, "Great Expectations" was his first credited film role.
"The Ladykillers" is a very good film. That's the original of course, not the remake which I will never watch.
I did watch "A Passage to India" (1984) at the cinema. That was the 6th time Alec Guinness worked with David Lean and was the last time as they fell out during filming and a lot of his scenes didn't make the released film. Lean said "He was deathly afraid of doing a parody of a Peter Sellers Indian. But... I'm afraid he did exactly what he was afraid of doing. We had to cut chunks of it out."
I think it was a mistake to have cast him as an Indian and the only film of his I've seen which I was not like him.
Yes..making an actor up to play an Indian really isn't a good look is it ...a mark of the times I guess.
It would be unrealistic to suppose there would be no falling out between those on a film/tv set, what with all those egos floating about
A friend of mine's father was a security guard at the Pinewood Studios...the stories he could tell of fights, squabbles and flounces....and that was before filming started ...he left after a few years and became a prison officer on Dartmoor 
@slimfern posted:Yes..making an actor up to play an Indian really isn't a good look is it ...a mark of the times I guess.
It would be unrealistic to suppose there would be no falling out between those on a film/tv set, what with all those egos floating about
A friend of mine's father was a security guard at the Pinewood Studios...the stories he could tell of fights, squabbles and flounces....and that was before filming started
As you say, not a good look.
If "A Passage to India" had been directed by James Ivory, I doubt if he would have cast Alec Guinness in that role.
Many of James Ivory's films were produced by the Indian producer Ismail Merchant and the screenplay by the German Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (she married Cyrus Jhabvala and moved to India in 1951). The three made 3 films from E M Forster's books including "A Room with a View" and "Howards End".
My father went to prison a few times many many years ago. He was a choir boy at a church and the vicar and the choir would have gone to the prison to hold services for the inmates.
@El Loro posted:As you say, not a good look.
If "A Passage to India" had been directed by James Ivory, I doubt if he would have cast Alec Guinness in that role.
Many of James Ivory's films were produced by the Indian producer Ismail Merchant and the screenplay by the German Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (she married Cyrus Jhabvala and moved to India in 1951). The three made 3 films from E M Forster's books including "A Room with a View" and "Howards End".
My father went to prison a few times many many years ago. He was a choir boy at a church and the vicar and the choir would have gone to the prison to hold services for the inmates.
Ha! From the forum all I could read from your post was up to...My father went to prison a few times many many years ago. He
Pleased to see the reason why
night EL slim moonsieee velvet
Good morning everyone it's a breezy day to come with some sunny intervals.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning everyone
Some sunshine here at present.
I have an old Science Museum clock in my bedroom, the time is set by an atomic radio control signal. For some reason the time shown advanced by 4 hours during the night. Took out the batteries, put them back in to reboot the time shown and after a while, the signal came through to show the right time. Just as well I didn't have the alarm set as I would have been woken up in the middle of the night.
I hope everyone has a good day
Maybe the atomic clock was hacked. I'd set some cash aside these days too - for everyday transactions.
Good morning all
@velvet donkey posted:Maybe the atomic clock was hacked. I'd set some cash aside these days too - for everyday transactions.
Good morning all
Good morning Velvet
I had the same thought that the atomic clock having been hacked Signal presumably comes from the Anthorn Radio Station in Cumbria. At least it seems to be sorted out now
@El Loro posted:Good morning everyone
Some sunshine here at present.
I have an old Science Museum clock in my bedroom, the time is set by an atomic radio control signal. For some reason the time shown advanced by 4 hours during the night. Took out the batteries, put them back in to reboot the time shown and after a while, the signal came through to show the right time. Just as well I didn't have the alarm set as I would have been woken up in the middle of the night.
I hope everyone has a good day
Do the batteries need changing El?
There were a couple of us still up at midnight, so you wouldn't have been alone
@slimfern posted:Do the batteries need changing El?
There were a couple of us still up at midnight, so you wouldn't have been alone
No, the batteries last years and the figures on the time display fade when the batteries start to wear out so as the display is fine, it's not the batteries.
Clock is old so it might be a sign that the circuit board is starting to fail.
@El Loro posted:
No, the batteries last years and the figures on the time display fade when the batteries start to wear out so as the display is fine, it's not the batteries.
Clock is old so it might be a sign that the circuit board is starting to fail.
I know that feeling well
Grandaughter has just arrived....be back later 
@El Loro posted 01/01/22:Back in November I mentioned that there was a spin-off series called "The Sister Boniface Mysteries" which has yet to be shown,
I think that the series will be shown on the Drama television channel rather than BBC 1.
Amazon mentions that the series will be available on DVD from 21 February, That suggests that Drama nay start showing the series fairly soon.
Series starts on Drama Friday 11th March at 9pm.
Father Brown (Mark Williams) appears in the 4th of 10 episodes.
night EL slim velvet
Good morning everyone it's a very similar day to yesterday with plenty of sunshine and a stiff breeze.
Enjoy your day everyone especially our birthday boy EL
@slimfern possible films on the Talking Pictures tv channel in the coming week:
Tuesday 10.00am "Strange Woman" (1946) period film noir with an interesting cast - Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders & Louis Hayward. Hedy Lamarr was also an inventor, best known as a pioneer in frequency-hopping spread spectrum.
Thursday 11.25am "20 Questions Murder Mystery" (1950) British crime movie. Prior to committing a crime, someone sends in a question to the B.B.C.'s '20 Questions' programme. That was a popular radio programme at the time and the film does feature the regulars (though not as victims or suspects).
Thursday 17.30 "The Winslow Boy" (1948). Classic British film with Robert Donat trying to get a trial for his son who was expelled from a naval school for a theft.
Saturday 12.00 noon "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1935) the classic version starring Leslie Howard.
Sunday 19.20 "One Way Pendulum" (1965) surreal comedy starring Eric Sykes, also George Cole.
TWB and TSP are the best of those 5, 20QMM is quite interesting and with an unusual setting. SW isn't a film I've seen. I've never seen OWP, seems to be a very strange film and a film which some will find fascinating and others unwatchable rubbish.
@Moonie posted:Isnât there a new series starting soon written by the same person but with a nun doing the detecting?
Yes, that's the Sister Boniface series.
She was in the 6th episode if the 1st series back in 2013 "The Bride of Christ". Clip summarising the plot which is read out to pictures from the episode. She is the nun who helps Father Brown in that episode and it's the same actress in the series. The episode isn't available on BBC iplayer.
@Moonie posted:I see your team slipped up yesterday El
It wasn't a good match. I think Cheltenham were flat after their two previous matches having put so much effort into playing them. Luckily they don't have a mid week match this week so have a chance to recover.