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Post subject: Classic British Sci Fi Movies
 Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 08:41 PM
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If you register and install Veoh Player, you can watch or download some classic British Sci fi classic movies
such as Island Of Terror.Starring Peter Cushing, which is probably one of his best performance.Also there is The QuatermassXperiment, and X the Unknown,( These two movies are in Black and White).
There's also a very odd sci fi Movie, from the U.S starring Walter Koenig "Moontrap"made in 1989. 
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Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 09:04 PM
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The Cush!
I love this movie(I. Of Terror). Kind of an anti-climatic ending though. But you're right. This is The Cush at his cushiest.
Unrelated to this, but I saw saw Richard Burton in "Look Back in Anger" last night. Donald Pleasance had a funny role in L.B.I. Anger. One of my favorite parts was when Burton just walked into the theater and took to the stage with a surprise, inpromptu monlogue. Every show in every theater should grant the man on the street a chance to say what's on his mind!!
Right after that movie was The Ragman (1925). I think more movies should be silent & shown in theaters with a live orchestra. Let the audience supply the dialogue, like Mystery Science Theater.
The Cush: #1
Eric Sykes: #1
Richard Burton: #1 in the anger and booze dept. |
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Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 09:13 PM
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We had a really great movie making industry, from the 1950's to the early 1970s, then it seemed to just vanish.
We had some of the biggest Stars in the world, Alec Guinness,Peter Cushing, Richard Burton, Peter Sellers, and many many others,making great 'homegrown movies', and really breaking new ground in acting and film making. As well as great T.V shows made to give social commentary, the "kitchen sink dramas",had big star names,in them back in those days.Being seen on T.V in those dramas, kick started a few famous careers as well.
I think in the last 20 years or so we have had a good few sucess stories, and had a few good British movies do well worldwide, such as the Harry Potter films But i think the hayday of great movies from studios, that brought us the classics, like Hammer and Ealing, have long gone. |
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Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 09:44 PM
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| britstarfan wrote: | We had a really great movie making industry, from the 1950's to the early 1970s, then it seemed to just vanish.
We had some of the biggest Stars in the world, Alec Guinness,Peter Cushing, Richard Burton, Peter Sellers, and many many others,making great 'homegrown movies', and really breaking new ground in acting and film making. As well as great T.V shows made to give social commentary, the "kitchen sink dramas",had big star names,in them back in those days.Being seen on T.V in those dramas, kick started a few famous careers as well.
I think in the last 20 years or so we have had a good few sucess stories, and had a few good British movies do well worldwide, such as the Harry Potter films But i think the hayday of great movies from studios, that brought us the classics, like Hammer and Ealing, have long gone. |
Going back farther, British silents were very successful. A lot of great actors came to the U.S. to make movies when the talkies came in. Cary Grant, Larry Oliver, Roland Young to name a few. Hitchcock's films, silent and talkies are great.
I wonder if those days will return, given the big void. The lack of great films being made in the U.S.. |
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Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 10:58 PM
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| If you guys REALLY want movies than check out cinemageddon.org. I mean WHERE ELSE can you download Four Sided Triangle with Barbara Payton, britstarfan? |
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Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 11:53 PM
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If you like weird movies, this one is pretty out there..
Francis Ford Coppola's first film,Under the producing eye of Roger Corman,
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Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 08:23 PM
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Posted: Sep 18, 2008 - 07:05 PM
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| You can watch and download it from Veoh |
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Posted: Sep 19, 2008 - 02:59 PM
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Posted: Sep 19, 2008 - 04:01 PM
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The Royal Mail launched a special set of commemorative stamps on 10 June. The stamps mark 50 years of both the Carry On and Hammer Horror franchises. The six stamps feature the original UK cinema poster artwork from Carry On Sergeant, Carry On Cleo, Carry On Screaming, The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy.
The stamps are available from the Royal Mail's website
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/shop ... at64320039
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Posted: Sep 20, 2008 - 12:55 AM
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Journey to the Far Side of the Sun is another dandy. All hail Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.  And Lord Grade of course. N
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Posted: Sep 20, 2008 - 07:31 PM
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| Nostromo wrote: | Journey to the Far Side of the Sun is another dandy. All hail Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. And Lord Grade of course. N
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and Barry Gray may well be the most underappreciated composer of the 20th century. |
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Posted: Sep 20, 2008 - 07:46 PM
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| Nostromo wrote: | Journey to the Far Side of the Sun is another dandy. All hail Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. And Lord Grade of course. N
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Just a shame it didn't have a British leading man. I guess thats what happens, when you want to sell a British film to America,they want an actor thats known to an American audience. |
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Posted: Sep 21, 2008 - 02:53 PM
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| britstarfan wrote: | | Nostromo wrote: | Journey to the Far Side of the Sun is another dandy. All hail Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. And Lord Grade of course. N
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Just a shame it didn't have a British leading man. I guess thats what happens, when you want to sell a British film to America,they want an actor thats known to an American audience. |
Agreed. Out of curiosity Brits, what British actor of that era would you have picked for the lead?
I know it's not British but what is equally outrageous is what ORION Pictures did to MAD MAX. I remember seeing it first run in the cinema and it was dubbed with American english. Arrrrrgggggh!
When the first VHS copy came out - before the internet and on-line reviews - I took a chance on it being released ala Aussie. Arrrrrrrggggggh! Wrong again. It was only after Gibson became a superstar that subsequent re-issues with original voice tracks were released. N |
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Posted: Sep 22, 2008 - 01:04 AM
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| Nostromo wrote: | | britstarfan wrote: | | Nostromo wrote: | Journey to the Far Side of the Sun is another dandy. All hail Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. And Lord Grade of course. N
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Just a shame it didn't have a British leading man. I guess thats what happens, when you want to sell a British film to America,they want an actor thats known to an American audience. |
Agreed. Out of curiosity Brits, what British actor of that era would you have picked for the lead?
I know it's not British but what is equally outrageous is what ORION Pictures did to MAD MAX. I remember seeing it first run in the cinema and it was dubbed with American english. Arrrrrgggggh!
When the first VHS copy came out - before the internet and on-line reviews - I took a chance on it being released ala Aussie. Arrrrrrrggggggh! Wrong again. It was only after Gibson became a superstar that subsequent re-issues with original voice tracks were released. N |
Thats a good question, actually in the U.K version the star of the film was Ian Hendry,(from The Avengers).Thinnes got the top slot, for the American version,so his role was beefed up,and he was given more screen time.
There are a few 1960's British 'leading men' that i could think of. I don't know if this would have been their 'kind of thing', or if the budget of this film would have been enough to afford them,anyway.A lot of the leading lights,and up and coming actors of the time,were busy,making their names in 'serious movies' and stage plays.I don't think that Sc Fi was really taken much notice of,or appreciated until 1968, when 2001: A Space Odyssey hit the screens,and blew everyone away. |
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