Newman that is !!!Ex US navy WW2 just in case your not aware!
Didn't end well for the chap I assume?Tiananmen Square, without the happy ending...
Another underrated John Candy movie is The Great Outdoors.I’ll chime in with:
“Uncle Buck.”
John Candy.
Is Buck responsible enough to babysit his brother’s children?
And “Summer rental” also John Candy.
Family vacation beset by mishaps - underdog movie.
For me it would have to be Water, with Micheal Caine, Billy Connolly, Leonard Rossiter and Fulton Mackay. Well worth a watch if you can find it online.
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Water (1985) - IMDb
Directed by Dick Clement. With Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Leonard Rossiter. A British diplomat to a West Indian island nation finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when a large American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.m.imdb.com
The leader of the mercenaries in Water was played by Paul Heiney who was a presenter on That's Life. He was making a series called In At The Deep End, which saw him and the other bloke, Chris Searle, doing various jobs. The only other one I remember is Searle becoming a professional snooker player, and Steve 'Interesting' Davis telling him that he would never be a pro.For me it would have to be Water, with Micheal Caine, Billy Connolly, Leonard Rossiter and Fulton Mackay. Well worth a watch if you can find it online.
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Water (1985) - IMDb
Directed by Dick Clement. With Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Leonard Rossiter. A British diplomat to a West Indian island nation finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when a large American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.m.imdb.com
I know it. Michael Caine, Omar Shariff, Brian Blessed, etc., Even read the book.
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The Last Valley (novel) - Wikipedia
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In the same vein,BAT 21, with Gene hackman and Danny Glover.84C MOPIC - a very low budget Vietnam War film about LRRPS. Normally low budget means cheap and nasty but this is well done and atmospheric. Technically it's a 'found footage' film - done way before Blair Witch was even thought of
The leader of the mercenaries in Water was played by Paul Heiney who was a presenter on That's Life. He was making a series called In At The Deep End, which saw him and the other bloke, Chris Searle, doing various jobs. The only other one I remember is Searle becoming a professional snooker player, and Steve 'Interesting' Davis telling him that he would never be a pro.
I'd forgotten about that bit.I remember Heiney going to Ollie Reed for tips on being a nasty bastard and getting slung out on his ear after about ten minutes.
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Cracking film.An old Ealing production
the bells go down 1943 with Tommy Trinder,James Mason,william hartnell and many other greats from the period
made as a homage to the volunteers of the AFS
My father used to work at Imperial College, one of the old boys there had joined the AFS as a youngster, the film came up in conversation, he said that was how it was, we was all mates, we did our best
we lost good mates
but we never thought of giving in
My Late Uncle , Bomber Command, said to me, those men were the ones who deserved all the praise, we had guns and bombs to fight back with, he recalls going through the city, and seeing fire hoses trailing everywhere, a burnt out fire appliance, and a young nurse trying to get a fireman to drink cold tea while her friend rubbed cream on his badly burnt face, 2 days they had been there and never gave up
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The Bells Go Down (1943) - IMDb
Directed by Basil Dearden. With Tommy Trinder, James Mason, Philip Friend, Mervyn Johns. Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.www.imdb.com
I prefer the black and white version, but had never seen this oneI posted this on the internet thread but it works just as well here.
"The Plank" was originally a short black and white film starring Eric Sykes and Tommy Cooper, but was remade in 1979 in colour starring Eric Sykes and Arthur Lowe as the main characters, and a host of well know faces of the time in minor parts. On the whole the film is silent, yes there are sounds and voices of minor characters, but the main two don't say a word.
What makes it great therefore are the facial expressions and body gestures, matched with in many cases pure slapstick comedy that you can see coming a mile off. Nowadays comedy needs a swear word in every sentence, so where did we go wrong?