I'd been meaning to watch this for a while as I'd never seen it. (yeah I know!) It was too hot yesterday to do anything except be a couch potato so a three hour film was perfect! Kirk Douglas was brilliant, along with everyone else. Jean Simmons looking beautiful as always. I was delighted to see Herbert Lom. There's nothing I could write that would do this film justice. Many here are a lot better at movie reviews than I am. I came away thinking that history does sadly keep repeating itself, and how much stronger in spirit the oppressed can be than the oppressors.
Carry On Up The Jungle (1970). Suffice to say that this will probably never get a terrestrial showing in the UK ever again ) . Frankie Howerd joins the gang, minus Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Barbara Windsor. Bernard Bresslaw stars as a blacked up native. A lot of near the knuckle double entendres in the usual Carry On style, this time spoofing the Tarzan movies. The last act is reminiscent of Hammer’s “Prehistoric Women”!
50 years old now and totally un-pc. I love it!
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Carry On Up The Jungle (1970). Suffice to say that this will probably never get a terrestrial showing in the UK ever again ) . Frankie Howerd joins the gang, minus Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Barbara Windsor. Bernard Bresslaw stars as a blacked up native. A lot of near the knuckle double entendres in the usual Carry On style, this time spoofing the Tarzan movies. The last act is reminiscent of Hammer’s “Prehistoric Women”!
50 years old now and totally un-pc. I love it!
I love the carry ons and this was one of the best imo and yes soooo un-pc )
ive smelt that aftershave before and both times ive smelt a rat
Not seen it for years so i decided to watch Eraserhead on my "dodgy" firestick. If you haven't seen this film and you like weird than this is one you should watch, you will be sickened and amused at the same time and by the end you will be both baffled and bemused
ive smelt that aftershave before and both times ive smelt a rat
I watched several good films over the weekend but the pick of the bunch for me was Anatomy of a Murder. I found it to be a gripping drama, well over 2 and a half hours in length but at no point did my interest wane and I felt the time went by quite swiftly. Jimmy Stewart plays the lead role of a lawyer defending Ben Gazzara's character in a murder trial, up against a formidable legal opponent in George C. Scott's character. Despite the serious nature of the drama, there are refreshing moments of levity sprinkled throughout, in many cases provided by the judge who is presiding over the case. The score is provided by Duke Ellington, and the main titles designed by Saul Bass are legendary and iconic. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and was quite surprised to realise that this is the first film that I have seen that was directed by Otto Preminger. There are a few more of his that are on my watchlist.
Carry On Up The Jungle (1970). Suffice to say that this will probably never get a terrestrial showing in the UK ever again ) . Frankie Howerd joins the gang, minus Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Barbara Windsor. Bernard Bresslaw stars as a blacked up native. A lot of near the knuckle double entendres in the usual Carry On style, this time spoofing the Tarzan movies. The last act is reminiscent of Hammer’s “Prehistoric Women”!
50 years old now and totally un-pc. I love it!
I love the carry ons and this was one of the best imo and yes soooo un-pc )
I've never seen a Carry On film
What's the best one? What's the best one to start on?
Carry On Up The Jungle (1970). Suffice to say that this will probably never get a terrestrial showing in the UK ever again ) . Frankie Howerd joins the gang, minus Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Barbara Windsor. Bernard Bresslaw stars as a blacked up native. A lot of near the knuckle double entendres in the usual Carry On style, this time spoofing the Tarzan movies. The last act is reminiscent of Hammer’s “Prehistoric Women”!
50 years old now and totally un-pc. I love it!
I love the carry ons and this was one of the best imo and yes soooo un-pc )
I've never seen a Carry On film
What's the best one? What's the best one to start on?
My personal recommendations are Carry On Up the Khyber and Carry On Cleo as good ones to start with from the 'historical' ones, and Carry On Camping or Carry On at Your Convenience from the ones in a contemporary setting.
I also like a couple of the early black-and-white ones, Carry On Spying is obviously enjoyable as an early Bond/spy spoof which also reference the likes of The Third Man, and Carry On Cabby is a good, underrated film.
Carry On Screaming is another filme which is very popular, although it's not one of my personal favourites but if you're into Hammer horrors and the like, it might be one for you.
Sound recommendations, all, but a hospital based film is a cert, as three were set there, the best perhaps being Carry On Doctor.
Many of them simply spoof the big film of that day - Carry On Screaming is Hammer Horror, for instance (looks up.. as previous poster acknowledges). Carry On... Follow That Camel is an odd one, as it stars Phil 'Bilko' Silvers and was aimed at breaking the US market - it failed to do so, but it's really a spoof on The Four Feathers, where a spurned coward goes off to foreign climes to prove his bravery. To be fair, many of these work best in the context of being a kid surrounded by your family laughing at the jokes.
Late Fred Astaire vehicle and as Bond fans we can - seeing as it's mostly set in Paris - compare how a leading man in his late 50s romances a 27 Audrey Hepburn, still it's the movies, just like the creaky Moore going after 30-year-old Tanya Roberts in AVTAK.
A good few films fail the MeToo test these days. Fred, who plays a fashion photographer, just kisses Hepburn while she's in conversation at their first meeting after the fashionistas just take over her book shop for a shoot. Actually, Hepburn does get generally abused and put upon during this film and it's meant to be funny.
That said, she sings her own songs here unlike in My Fair Lady where she was dubbed - Hepburn also does a brilliant spiky punky New Wave dance in Paris Montmatre.
This is really an excuse to show Astaire again - whose dancing is still very good indeed - and sing some old songs and show Paris again and that's good enough for me. It lacks a third wheel in the form of an Eric Blore - who died two years after this film I believe. I suppose there's no getting away from the idea that Woody Allen would love this film that said one shouldn't always judge a movie through the prism of the present; it was a bit of fun at the time and Astaire is clearly meant to be younger. It's around the same time as Vertigo, where of course Stewart was really too old for Novak and while that played well in France, Hitchcock blamed his star's age for its poor showing elsewhere.
Thanks for the recomendations. I've started watching "up the Khyber" since I'm a history buff
Hi number 24, The carry on films are very British humour,i notice you are Norwegian so it would be interesting to hear if carry on films can appeal to a wider audience, my recommendations would be Camping, Cruising and screaming...Enjoy!
ive smelt that aftershave before and both times ive smelt a rat
Generaly we are used to British humor and often prefer it. We've been brough up on Allo' alllo', Fawlty towers, Blackadder, Yes minister/Prime Minster and so on.
Hi number 24, The carry on films are very British humour,i notice you are Norwegian so it would be interesting to hear if carry on films can appeal to a wider audience, my recommendations would be Camping, Cruising and screaming...Enjoy!
Not forgetting, of course, the classic Bond spoof Carry on Spying! (Note how the gunbarrel shape differs in the two posters which clearly mimic the FRWL poster) -{
The Carry On films are often on tv (in UK). Carry on Cruising is the last one I watched. Very good. I think my favourite is Carry On Screaming. There is also a film called What a Carve Up! (1961) It has Sid James and Kenneth Connor in and is very funny.
This is my first "Carry on". Please forgive me.
After watching CR-67 this is a perfect example of how a comedy can be colourful and crazy and still have a plot ... even be coherent!
In short the movie is set in the Raj (colonial India). It's been discovered the regiment guarding the gateway to India (please shut the gate) are wearing underwear under their kilts, proving they aren't as fearless as the locals feared, The Burpas attack!
"Up the Khyber" is full of double entendres, brownfaces and other very PC behaviour and it's only highbrow in the Roger Moore sense.
The only thing I didn't like was some of the humor that was childish falling over type humor, but the "Carry on" series is a part of the British cultural heritage I'll continue exploring.
This is my first "Carry on". Please forgive me.
After watching CR-67 this is a perfect example of how a comedy can be colourful and crazy and still have a plot ... even be coherent!
In short the movie is set in the Raj (colonial India). It's been discovered the regiment guarding the gateway to India (please shut the gate) are wearing underwear under their kilts, proving they aren't as fearless as the locals feared, The Burpas attack!
"Up the Khyber" is full of double entendres, brownfaces and other very PC behaviour and it's only highbrow in the Roger Moore sense.
The only thing I didn't like was some of the humor that was childish falling over type humor, but the "Carry on" series is a part of the British cultural heritage I'll continue exploring.
I haven’t seen this for years and can’t remember if it’s detailed in the film, but for those not born in London, the title is an in-joke connected to Cockney rhyming slang - Khyber (Pass) = Arse (backside).
I would recommend Cabby, Cleo (infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me!), Doctor, Camping, Convenience. The latter ones after Sid James’s death are not worth bothering with though.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Continuing the Carry On theme, I watched Don't Lose Your Head last night, also known as Carry On...Don't Lose Your Head.
Not one of my favourites I'm afraid, but I'm glad to have ticked that one off the list. It's one of the few that I don't own on DVD, and I managed to watch it on the ITV hub site before it expired last night. The only ones that I still haven't seen are Sergeant, Teacher, Dick and Columbus.
Judi Dench plays Joan who was arrested for passing secret material to the Russians post WWII. Shown in flashbacks with a younger Joan played by Sophie Cookson and Tom Hughes as a love interest. Joan's reason for giving the Russians these secrets were very weak imo. I won't say more as I don't want to spoil it for anyone. An interesting film although I was expecting a bit more suspense.
Brightburn. The premise: a childless Kansas couple find a spaceship containing a human-looking baby boy. They adopt him, and as he enters puberty he begins to display incredible powers. Sound familiar? Well, this ain't no comic book adaptation--it's a HORROR movie, and the "super" boy wants to graphically kill people and take over the world. Not a great film, but if you like superhero flicks and horror movies, this just might be your jam!
The dope on this movie is that it's swell!
It's about the motor torpedo boats (MTB) in the Pasific in WWII. Robert Montgomery was actually a captain on a MTB during the war and several of the cast and crew had navy backgrounds. This probably a large part of the reason this movie feels realistic. The movie isdirected by John Ford (Captain USNR), once again proving he didn't just make westerns. He brings his favourite actor John Wayne who co-stars with Montgomery. The pace of "They were expendable" is strangely leasurely for a war movie, but this doesn't make it boring I think. Instead we get to spend time with the characters and their environment. The patriotism is also more toned down than many war movies of the time.
The dope on this movie is that it's swell!
It's about the motor torpedo boats (MTB) in the Pasific in WWII. Robert Montgomery was actually a captain on a MTB during the war and several of the cast and crew had navy backgrounds. This probably a large part of the reason this movie feels realistic. The movie i directed by John Ford (Captain USNR), once again proving he didn't just make westerns. He brings his favourite actor John Wayne who co-stars with Montgomery. The pace of "They were expendable" is strangely leasurely for a war movie, but this doesn't make it boring I think. Instead we get to spend time with the character and their environment. The patriotism is also more toned down than many war movies of the time.
That sounds like one to watch, I'll add to my list
I note that it was directed by John Ford, whose films I have always enjoyed although I am mostly familiar with his westerns.
You do that. I'm going to mention two scenes in particular:
I like the scene in the night club whern the news of the attack on Pearl Harbour is annoced because of the reactions of different people, including the Japanese-American singer.
There is also a good scene set in a military medical station that focuses on the strain on the doctors and nurses. Good character moments.
During WWII British submarines attack the German battleship Tirpitz which was anchored in a Norwegian fjord. I wish there had been subtitles for when German was spoken. An interesting scene with a sea mine. They really are odd looking things.
Thanks for the tip! Now I've seen it too, and it was really interesting and at times very tense. It's been years since I read about this mission, but I think it's reasonably accurate. Some of the same equipment was used in hte film as the British divers used in real life. The production never left England, but I think they did a good job with what they had. I know some German and gernerally they're saying what you suspect they are saying. No Norwegian is heard, but they did get a Swede to play a Swedish policeman.
The boat that towed the manned torpedoes accross the North Sea was actually "Arthur", captained by the legendary Leif "Shetland" Larsen of the equally legendary Shetland Gang. In "Above us the waves" it's claimed the boat was unarmed, but actually machine guns were hidden in oil barrels on deck.
've writen a couple of posts on the subject on the linked page: https://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/45415/soe-special-operations-executive/page/7/
The boat in the film is called "Ingebord", clearly a mistype. It's meant to be "Ingeborg", a common woman's name.
The title song for the TV series Outlander" is used several times, proving time travel once and for all
A bit of the underwater score reminds me of what they used for the same in TB.
I think the movie tells a fantastic story in a businesslike manner and if you're interested in the topic you should watch it!
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Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga
This is Will Ferrell’s love letter to Eurovision…Will plays Lars, an Icelander that has always had a passion for the song contest ever since he watched ABBA win in 1974…Rachel McAdams plays Sigrit - who forms the duo Fire Saga with him. Sigrit loves Lars but he’s so focused on winning Eurovision he can’t see it - or at least refuses too until they win.
The format to the official song contest isn’t adhered too but this a fun movie if you like Eurovision...there are some great performances (Dan Stevens especially), it also features Pierce Brosnan as Will Ferrell’s father (Erick)...he’s still a good looking fella but his accent wanders all over the globe ) Graham Norton plays himself, so no wonder he’s excellent
The songs are pure Eurovision Dan Stevens plays Alexander Lemtov the Russian entrant - who’s definitely NOT gay :007) His song is called Lion of Love and is perfect Eurovision
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I'd been meaning to watch this for a while as I'd never seen it. (yeah I know!) It was too hot yesterday to do anything except be a couch potato so a three hour film was perfect! Kirk Douglas was brilliant, along with everyone else. Jean Simmons looking beautiful as always. I was delighted to see Herbert Lom. There's nothing I could write that would do this film justice. Many here are a lot better at movie reviews than I am. I came away thinking that history does sadly keep repeating itself, and how much stronger in spirit the oppressed can be than the oppressors.
50 years old now and totally un-pc. I love it!
I've never seen a Carry On film
What's the best one? What's the best one to start on?
My personal recommendations are Carry On Up the Khyber and Carry On Cleo as good ones to start with from the 'historical' ones, and Carry On Camping or Carry On at Your Convenience from the ones in a contemporary setting.
I also like a couple of the early black-and-white ones, Carry On Spying is obviously enjoyable as an early Bond/spy spoof which also reference the likes of The Third Man, and Carry On Cabby is a good, underrated film.
Carry On Screaming is another filme which is very popular, although it's not one of my personal favourites but if you're into Hammer horrors and the like, it might be one for you.
Many of them simply spoof the big film of that day - Carry On Screaming is Hammer Horror, for instance (looks up.. as previous poster acknowledges). Carry On... Follow That Camel is an odd one, as it stars Phil 'Bilko' Silvers and was aimed at breaking the US market - it failed to do so, but it's really a spoof on The Four Feathers, where a spurned coward goes off to foreign climes to prove his bravery. To be fair, many of these work best in the context of being a kid surrounded by your family laughing at the jokes.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Late Fred Astaire vehicle and as Bond fans we can - seeing as it's mostly set in Paris - compare how a leading man in his late 50s romances a 27 Audrey Hepburn, still it's the movies, just like the creaky Moore going after 30-year-old Tanya Roberts in AVTAK.
A good few films fail the MeToo test these days. Fred, who plays a fashion photographer, just kisses Hepburn while she's in conversation at their first meeting after the fashionistas just take over her book shop for a shoot. Actually, Hepburn does get generally abused and put upon during this film and it's meant to be funny.
That said, she sings her own songs here unlike in My Fair Lady where she was dubbed - Hepburn also does a brilliant spiky punky New Wave dance in Paris Montmatre.
This is really an excuse to show Astaire again - whose dancing is still very good indeed - and sing some old songs and show Paris again and that's good enough for me. It lacks a third wheel in the form of an Eric Blore - who died two years after this film I believe. I suppose there's no getting away from the idea that Woody Allen would love this film that said one shouldn't always judge a movie through the prism of the present; it was a bit of fun at the time and Astaire is clearly meant to be younger. It's around the same time as Vertigo, where of course Stewart was really too old for Novak and while that played well in France, Hitchcock blamed his star's age for its poor showing elsewhere.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Not forgetting, of course, the classic Bond spoof Carry on Spying! (Note how the gunbarrel shape differs in the two posters
This is my first "Carry on". Please forgive me.
After watching CR-67 this is a perfect example of how a comedy can be colourful and crazy and still have a plot ... even be coherent!
In short the movie is set in the Raj (colonial India). It's been discovered the regiment guarding the gateway to India (please shut the gate) are wearing underwear under their kilts, proving they aren't as fearless as the locals feared, The Burpas attack!
"Up the Khyber" is full of double entendres, brownfaces and other very PC behaviour and it's only highbrow in the Roger Moore sense.
The only thing I didn't like was some of the humor that was childish falling over type humor, but the "Carry on" series is a part of the British cultural heritage I'll continue exploring.
I haven’t seen this for years and can’t remember if it’s detailed in the film, but for those not born in London, the title is an in-joke connected to Cockney rhyming slang - Khyber (Pass) = Arse (backside).
I would recommend Cabby, Cleo (infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me!), Doctor, Camping, Convenience. The latter ones after Sid James’s death are not worth bothering with though.
Not one of my favourites I'm afraid, but I'm glad to have ticked that one off the list. It's one of the few that I don't own on DVD, and I managed to watch it on the ITV hub site before it expired last night. The only ones that I still haven't seen are Sergeant, Teacher, Dick and Columbus.
Sergeant- They hadn't quite settled into the formula
Teacher- They had!
Dick- Past their peak
Columbus- Unfortunate epilogue
Judi Dench plays Joan who was arrested for passing secret material to the Russians post WWII. Shown in flashbacks with a younger Joan played by Sophie Cookson and Tom Hughes as a love interest. Joan's reason for giving the Russians these secrets were very weak imo. I won't say more as I don't want to spoil it for anyone. An interesting film although I was expecting a bit more suspense.
The dope on this movie is that it's swell!
It's about the motor torpedo boats (MTB) in the Pasific in WWII. Robert Montgomery was actually a captain on a MTB during the war and several of the cast and crew had navy backgrounds. This probably a large part of the reason this movie feels realistic. The movie isdirected by John Ford (Captain USNR), once again proving he didn't just make westerns. He brings his favourite actor John Wayne who co-stars with Montgomery. The pace of "They were expendable" is strangely leasurely for a war movie, but this doesn't make it boring I think. Instead we get to spend time with the characters and their environment. The patriotism is also more toned down than many war movies of the time.
That sounds like one to watch, I'll add to my list
I note that it was directed by John Ford, whose films I have always enjoyed although I am mostly familiar with his westerns.
I like the scene in the night club whern the news of the attack on Pearl Harbour is annoced because of the reactions of different people, including the Japanese-American singer.
There is also a good scene set in a military medical station that focuses on the strain on the doctors and nurses. Good character moments.
During WWII British submarines attack the German battleship Tirpitz which was anchored in a Norwegian fjord. I wish there had been subtitles for when German was spoken. An interesting scene with a sea mine. They really are odd looking things.
The boat that towed the manned torpedoes accross the North Sea was actually "Arthur", captained by the legendary Leif "Shetland" Larsen of the equally legendary Shetland Gang. In "Above us the waves" it's claimed the boat was unarmed, but actually machine guns were hidden in oil barrels on deck.
've writen a couple of posts on the subject on the linked page: https://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/45415/soe-special-operations-executive/page/7/
The boat in the film is called "Ingebord", clearly a mistype. It's meant to be "Ingeborg", a common woman's name.
The title song for the TV series Outlander" is used several times, proving time travel once and for all
A bit of the underwater score reminds me of what they used for the same in TB.
I think the movie tells a fantastic story in a businesslike manner and if you're interested in the topic you should watch it!
This is Will Ferrell’s love letter to Eurovision…Will plays Lars, an Icelander that has always had a passion for the song contest ever since he watched ABBA win in 1974…Rachel McAdams plays Sigrit - who forms the duo Fire Saga with him. Sigrit loves Lars but he’s so focused on winning Eurovision he can’t see it - or at least refuses too until they win.
The format to the official song contest isn’t adhered too but this a fun movie if you like Eurovision...there are some great performances (Dan Stevens especially), it also features Pierce Brosnan as Will Ferrell’s father (Erick)...he’s still a good looking fella but his accent wanders all over the globe
The songs are pure Eurovision
I really enjoyed it -{