What was the last film you watched?
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The Punch And Judy Man
It was on TV yesterday evening. The first time in many a year I've watched something with adverts, so it was a nostalgic experience as well as a captivating film.
Note to self: must explore more of Tony Hancock's work.
It was on TV yesterday evening. The first time in many a year I've watched something with adverts, so it was a nostalgic experience as well as a captivating film.
Note to self: must explore more of Tony Hancock's work.
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Tony Hancock was a very big name in the fifties and sixties. More known for radio and TV than movies though.
I don't know if it's available but try to check out Hancock's Half Hour. I think you'll find that the so-called revolutionary Seinfeld bears more than a little resemblance to it.
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Thanks for the tips.
It is rather an oddity, because I very much enjoy vintage British comedy - film, television and radio - and yet Hancock's shows have passed me by. Even reading books on the subject, his name comes up again and again as a legend, and Hancock's Half Hour is viewed as a comedy benchmark. He's worked, too, with many artists and writers whose work I enjoy (Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Galton & Simpson).
Exploring his work seems like a no-lose prospect, really. And truthfully I feel a little incomplete for not having done so yet.
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Tommy the Toreador, starring Tommy Steele.
I knew Tommy Steele from Half a Sixpence and the Disney movie The Happiest Millionaire and it was interesting to see him in an earlier lower-budget musical. I also shouldn't have been surprised to find that his hit song The Little White Bull came from this film
And, @Mel O’Kalikimaka , also in the cast was British comedy stalwart and sometime Tony Hancock sidekick Sid James doing an absolutely atrocious Spanish accent.
I knew Tommy Steele from Half a Sixpence and the Disney movie The Happiest Millionaire and it was interesting to see him in an earlier lower-budget musical. I also shouldn't have been surprised to find that his hit song The Little White Bull came from this film
And, @Mel O’Kalikimaka , also in the cast was British comedy stalwart and sometime Tony Hancock sidekick Sid James doing an absolutely atrocious Spanish accent.
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Sid James doing an absolutely atrocious Spanish accent.
Two of my favourite things together! This just made my viewing list.
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I just saw an unedited 14 HOURS (1951) on broadcast TV with Barbara Bel Geddes -- she not in much of it, but she's such a cutey! Sometimes I wish she'd played Bill Holden's girlfriend in SUNSET BLVD instead of Nancy Olson.
Anyway, even Grace Kelly had small role in 14 HOURS! And it's a good movie.
Anyway, even Grace Kelly had small role in 14 HOURS! And it's a good movie.
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
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IT (1990)
