Welcome to the Army Rumour Service, ARRSE

The UK's largest and busiest UNofficial military website.

Join ARRSE (free) to join in and remove this advertising

Page 9 of 20 FirstFirst ... 789101119 ... LastLast
Like Tree65Likes
Discuss Films you never see on the telly these days… in The NAAFI Bar on The Army Rumour Service; I was the third man on the balcony....
  1. #81
    Senior Member Beduff's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Posts
    99
    I was the third man on the balcony.
    AlienFTM and fencer90 like this.

  2. #82
    Senior Member mmm-babies-heads's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2007
    Posts
    708
    Quote Originally Posted by Onetap View Post
    I was thinking that. The very old silent films (Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, etc) and the Marx Brothers used to be on regularly when I was young, but I don't think I've seen any of them in 20 years. Now that we've got about 80 channels of 24 hour-a-day shite, I'd have thought someone would broadcast that old stuff.

    Anyone know why it's not seen now?
    Sad times are these when a chap has to go out to HMV and part with 50 squid to purchase a box set of W.C. Fields at his best. I'm not that feckin' old to remember him but a finer mysoginist,kid and dog hater you will find hard to represent the thoughts of many a red blooded male.
    "Say... did I spend 20 dollars in here last night? (local bar) Why ,yes you did! Thank god for that, I thought I'd lost it for a moment there" (as near as dammit!)
    Onetap and LancePrivateJones like this.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]]

  3. #83
    Senior Member Onetap's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2005
    Posts
    2,961
    Quote Originally Posted by mmm-babies-heads View Post
    Sad times are these when a chap has to go out to HMV and part with 50 squid to purchase a box set of W.C. Fields at his best.
    Quite. I bought one of my kids Duck Soup for a few pounds, thinking he'd Frisbee it because it wasn't the Cartoon Network/Disney Channel CGI shite. He watched it until he knew most of the lines by heart.
    Peccavi.

  4. #84
    Senior Member mercurydancer's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Posts
    3,162
    Quote Originally Posted by Onetap View Post
    Quite. I bought one of my kids Duck Soup for a few pounds, thinking he'd Frisbee it because it wasn't the Cartoon Network/Disney Channel CGI shite. He watched it until he knew most of the lines by heart.
    The Marx brothers were funny. Groucho had possibly the quickest mind of any comedian.
    First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
    Martin Niemoeller

    I'm speaking out before they come for me.

    MD 2010.

  5. #85
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    May 2012
    Posts
    1,383
    The Great Escape.



    No.



    Wait.
    In my 50's and thus a grumpy old man. Just so long as you realise that I'm right and you're wrong, we'll get along just fine, OK?

  6. #86
    Senior Member King_of_the_Burpas's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2005
    Location
    Bongo Bongo Land
    Posts
    4,865
    Images
    2
    Quote Originally Posted by mercurydancer View Post
    The Marx brothers were funny. Groucho had possibly the quickest mind of any comedian.
    Karl was funnier, imho.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

  7. #87
    Senior Member Oddbod's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2004
    Location
    In sight of Vannin
    Posts
    3,450
    Quote Originally Posted by King_of_the_Burpas View Post
    Karl was funnier, imho.
    He certainly had the last laugh.

    Anyfink wif Oliver Reed in is OK in my book.
    Ying tong iddle I po.

  8. #88
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2010
    Posts
    187
    A couple of films that no longer seem to appear on the box these days,
    'Cast a Crooked Shadow', where Richard Todd claims to be the brother of a heiress. Herbert Lom, adding good value (as he usually did in any film that he was in) as the local police chief.

    And 'Libel', where Dirk Bogarde plays three parts in a court-room drama.

    Not to be confused with 'Victim', where Bogarde plays a blackmailed homosexual lawyer, which seems to crop up at least once a month.

  9. #89
    Senior Member mush_dad's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2011
    Posts
    1,131
    The Devil Rides Out

    Christopher Lee, Patrick Mower, Charles Gray, and Paul Eddington. What more could you want
    LancePrivateJones likes this.
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    There are 26 million people in the UK who support Liverpool - Taxpayers.

  10. #90
    Senior Member jungman's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2011
    Location
    In the land of the sweaty sock
    Posts
    140
    Wild Geese or Pimpernel Smith, Both epic

Page 9 of 20 FirstFirst ... 789101119 ... LastLast

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •