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Three Bad Company songs.

 

L & H's last British tour?


Sounds like an excellent premise for a filum, that.

 

The documentary on sky arts the other week was brilliant.
Brought a tear to my eye.
Stan n olllie had so much love for each other.
Worth a watch

 

It is indeed worth a watch. Very informative as well. Made you appreciate how good they were and the effort that went into it in the early days of movies.

 

I love all those old movies Charlie Chaplin, abbot & Costello, my fave is Buster Keaton - the stunts he performed without any tricks or CGI are mind blowing. Just incredible

 

Quality.

But it doesn't trump the 'Bowie had a flat on Greatfield' myth though.

 

What, no CGI in 1920? Unthinkable!

 

Buster Keaton was, in my opinion anyway, far superior to Chaplin.As you say the stunts were brilliant. Clever use of new techniques possible with film. A
few examples here-

 

Nah!! It's got to be Harold Lloyd!!

 

Like him as well. Amazing how we were entertained by those as kids 40 years or so later, then our kids and now I have seen my grandkids laughing at them. The only things in black and white they would contemplate watching. Don't think most of the current comedy will age as well.

 

Yes that's true I also found The Munsters was good for the kids as well.
Always made them laugh

 

Apparently those scenes where the only colour was the girl's red coat were, at the time, fantastically expensive to do.

My kids would watch those old black and white comedies but the eldest now he is older and his partner won't contemplate anything in black and white. I told them their ridiculous attitude prevents them watching some of the best films ever made, including my own all time favourite The Third Man.

 

Indeed, some of the best films ever made.

Something about this time of year, must be nostalgia, always gets me watching The Phil Silvers Show again.

 

One of those rare films where a septic is made to seem naive and foolish by a British character (played by Trevor Howard)

 

Another legend

 

The deputy headmaster of my lads' school used to go in my pub. He was a leftie who disliked the film intensely as it was less than flattering about the Soviets. Sad.

As my dad said the first time I saw it, Vienna was still in ruins yet the bars were open until 3 am and later whilst back in this country we were still going home at 10.30pm, 10pm on a Sunday. My uncle found the same thing stationed in Munich at the end of the war, observing this lot lost.

 

In Germany for a funeral until Saturday. Any chance we'll have new owners when I get back?
































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