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- Sat Jan 26, 2019 12:33 am
- Forum: THE PASSING PARADE
- Topic: Windsor Davies RIP
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Windsor Davies RIP
If you blended James Finlayson and John Cleese you might arrive at Windsor Davies, magnificent actor and comedian who bellowed hilariously at his castmates as the ever-raging Sergeant Major for eight seasons of the BBC's IT AIN'T HALF HOT MUM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=susYm-fdZq4 https://www....
- Fri Feb 03, 2017 10:00 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: THE HARRY LANGDON SCRAPBOOK now on Amazon
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7739
Re: THE HARRY LANGDON SCRAPBOOK now on Amazon
Fascinating and stunning through and through. If you don't have it, do yourself a favour!
- Thu Sep 22, 2016 12:19 am
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Forthcoming Harry Langdon volume
- Replies: 0
- Views: 13612
- Mon Apr 25, 2016 11:05 pm
- Forum: SOUND MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Cinevent Past Notes: SUSPENSE (1946)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16218
Re: Cinevent Past Notes: SUSPENSE (1946)
Just saw TRUMBO, and was a little taken aback by the cartoonish portrayal of the King Bros. as fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants cheapie grinders (though I always enjoy John Goodman and Stephen Root, whatever they're doing). Seemed rather unfair to me, I thought the people behind WHEN STRANGERS MARRY, GU...
- Thu Mar 31, 2016 11:59 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: eve arden manicurist?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6893
- Mon Feb 22, 2016 11:49 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: William K. Everson discusses Chaplin jumping the shark
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16560
Re: William K. Everson discusses Chaplin jumping the shark
One wonders where that print of RECREATION is now... Reading Bill Everson's notes for THE PILGRIM, screened for the Huff Society earlier that year in a dodgy, hard-to-watch print, I feel extremely privileged to have a decent rendering of this film and so much else available at the push of a button: ...
- Sun Dec 20, 2015 11:00 pm
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: OUR GANG: A Racial History of The Little Rascals
- Replies: 0
- Views: 34368
- Sun Nov 22, 2015 11:24 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Billy Gilbert & Co. at Nitrate Film Interest Group
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9299
Re: Billy Gilbert & Co. at Nitrate Film Interest Group
Most interesting, and thank you Richard!
- Sun Nov 22, 2015 8:11 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Billy Gilbert & Co. at Nitrate Film Interest Group
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9299
Billy Gilbert & Co. at Nitrate Film Interest Group
Frames from some 16mm footage with Billy Gilbert and three other blokes, the one with the largest part after Gilbert being a dialect comic named Gene Schuler, have been posted by the Nitrate Film Interest Group: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nfig/22574495769/ This was screened at Cinefest in Syracus...
- Sun Nov 15, 2015 11:56 pm
- Forum: THE PASSING PARADE
- Topic: Warren Mitchell RIP
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11269
Re: Warren Mitchell RIP
Marvelous he certainly was. And matched by the equally great Dandy Nichols, who as his calmly disaffected wife Else could be counted on to skewer her screaming husband with just a couple of well timed words. Johnny Speight remembered that the series became "unstuck" and declined rapidly wh...