"Above Us the Waves" from the John Mills Collection vol II. Not a bad war film, although it would have benefitted from a better budget. James Robertson Justice had a memorable cameo as an admiral.
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Thank God that Harold Wilson never sent any UK troops.
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Lauent,
this serves as another warning that
unless you start posting something on a more a positive side,
and not bringing politics into every thread,
your posts in future may be moderated, it's up to you!!
I just wanted to know whether the film took a view of the war. Even Mrs Thatcher was strongly against it. -
Laurent,
I have asked you before not to drift off-topic
and make some reason to mention the politics of the actors.
The threads are for discussion not a platform for your political views
I'm sure you are aware that Douglas Bader was a very controversial figure in the UK, particularly in the 1960s onwards. -
Don't know if Track of the Cat counts as a western. Robert Mitchum was very good as the villainous middle brother, but when he was offscreen it was a bit talkative and studio-bound. There were some great snowy locations though.
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If you let that kind of stuff affect your enjoyment of a movie, your not allowing yourself the pleasure of the story. I watch a film to be entertained, not to pick apart the flaws. Unless they have a 52 year old actor playing a teenager, I never really take notice of such things. I watch a film to be entertained, and most times, I am. Just my opinion
Mark
Fair enough, but it was a bit funny seeing 42-year-old More playing Bader as an 18-year-old cadet.
Bader was a Conservative and a friend of Churchill, which is why Burton turned the film down.
I was reading a book about the New Wave of British films in the late 1950s like Room at the Top and Look Back in Anger. It suggested the success of movies like Reach for the Sky and The Cockleshell Heroes was due to audiences looking back nostalgically on the war years as a time when people knew their place and when the UK seemed like a world power. Of course, 1956 and the Suez Crisis proved this was no longer the case. -
How anti-war was this movie? I know Eastwood condemned Reagan's invasion of Grenada as "stupid" in an interview.
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I read Richard Burton refused to play Bader for political reasons. He would have been much more suitable age-wise.
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"The Long Memory", a rather strange film made in the town of Gravesend in Kent with John Mills as a convict. Only available as part of the John Mills Centenary Collection Volume II.
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Or filmed it on location.
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Kenneth More was far too old to play Bader.
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At least the girl was the right age in the new version.
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I was unaware that the two contributed to this dreadful condition.
Just to say, this thread is about Glen Campbell, and not
a discussion on 'alcohol and drugs'
Many people have been asking whether it's really Alzheimer's he has or alcoholism-induced dementia. -
Peck had been absent from the screen for three years promoting left-wing causes.
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Do you think it was all the alcohol and drugs that caused his illness?
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Awful film. Heard Steve McQueen turned it down as well.
