films

[happy daze john in oz]

Thank you Doc, Only read the book "Old man and the sea"

Cappy like yourself suggested the correct name of the film in which I bawled my eyes out as a youngster one Sunday afternoon around 1966

I think you will find Marian that the film is the life story of Cappy, well the old man bit fits quite well.

[happy daze john in oz]

Another was Hitchcock's films "39 Steps" brilliant but the one I cannot watch ever again was "Psycho" scared the living day lights out of me.......and I'm here alone....blooming heck will have to change the subject........ very quiet on this thread... me thinks they are checking out Emanuelle

Go and have a shower, that will liven you up.

[Peter F Chard]

What about " The Wages of Fear " -- A French film of trying to get three truckloads of nitro glycerine across the Sahara desert to an oil rig and Brigit Bardot, who starts the film with hardly any clothes on progressively discards them and finishes up almost naked, however her hair is hardly messed up and her make-up is just like she came out of the beauty saloon and she arrives at the destination still a virgin. The men are total wrecks !!. Regards Peter in NZ.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Peter I think that most of us who may have wished to travel across the Sahara with Bridget Bardot (as she was then) and could not touch her, would have ended up as gibbering wrecks, looking back at some of the things we did touch in our sailing days it may have been wiser to cross the desert with Bridget!

[Captain Kong]

I enjoy the `Mutiny on the Bounty` with Charles Laughton as Bligh. I have the DVD. and having been to Tahiti and Pitcairns I enjoy it all the more.
The later films are not very authentic.
One, Brando as Christian is burned and killed on the same day. He did have many children and I have met his Great grt grt grandaughter, Jacqi Christian, a few weeks ago.,
Richard Harris, one of the sailors, is on Moorea with its famous huge mountain saying what a good place is Pitcairns Island, Pitcairns does not have a mountain.
I have a video of `The Long Voyage Home` an old black and white with John Wayne as a teenage Norwegiianseaman. The only phony bit, the rest of the crew very authentic, they are attacked by German planes but make it home to London. They pay off, go into the first alehouse on the dock road and the women are all over them and next morning all broke, walking up the gangway to sign on again. she is later torpedoed with all hands dead.
Cheers
Brian

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi shipmates. Watch "The Deep" a true story about an Icelandic fisherman , who lived to tell the tale... Many of the bygone films are still the best, classic war films "Above us the waves john mills and john Greson, and the cast. In which we serve .Neol coward and john mills, and all the great musicals, and the dancers, no one will be that good again... not in my life time...

[Doc Vernon]

Not a B&W one this oldie but must be rated amongst the all time greats,well for me it is anyway!
Bogart and Hepburn in "The African Queen" I have it on VHS and watch it quite often!
Another old Film,well in the 50's that really took me was "The Robe" Victor Mature!
Lawrence of Arabia was another great Epic! O'Toole was such a great actor! Does anyone recall him in the old movie called "Rouge Male" another good one!
Cheers

[Captain Kong]

I think Peter O`Tooles best movie was `Lord Jim` by Conrad. after his ship wreck, his village life in the East Indies was very similar to the life we had in the Spice Islands. I would like to see it again, but cannot find it anywhere,
Cheers
Brian

[John Pruden]

horatio horn blower Gregory peck sink the bismark the sea chase the hunt for red October titanic?just a few.jp

[gray_marian]

#18, Film "Lord Jim" Advertised on Amazon £5.29 + pp. 10 left, you'd better hurry up Capt'