The Poolie Bunker

Films are getting retrospectively censored now.

You aren't allowed to watch the original version of "Outback" these days as the brief glimpse of Jenny Agutter's tits and muff was filmed when she was 17 - which is illegal now.

I'm pretty sure we saw it at school back in the day.

Wish I had gone to your school, never sen it at mine.

its a new version of the 1930,s hollywood hayes code. doubt they,d bother sensoring it if 17 year old gays were concerned or male frock wares.

The film's called Walkabout BTW, not Outback.

The only thing it aroused in me was to make me bloody thirsty.
It went on a bit.

My brother reminded me of our dad, he went out of his apprenticeship and into the Merchant Navy in 1940 and saw some sights, but he always blew his top over Yank war films especially at sea in submarines where the crew were dressed like cast of West side story complete with manicured officers and crew in white T shirts with coiffured hair and submarines the size of Ballrooms.
He did enjoy Dass Boot though, oddly enough in German

funny saying that as i have heard many who were in the war that hated the yanks as much as the germans especially those based in this country. any yank habits their kids picked up was knocked out of them in the 50,s and early 60,s.

I think most people think they’re just like us, but they don’t see us the way we see them, we really are just another country, so forget the ‘Special relationship’ it really is just bollocks’

The Krays 1990 era with the kemp brothers in from Spandeau Ballett.
Where jackthehat kicks there lass out the car for talking to much.
Quality .

I've worked with the yanks. The relationship is indeed closer than any other nation. Long may it remain so.

I assume you’ve worked with them in the forces, which is a different ball game, but the average yank is quite insular and isolationist still.

Safe House was a good watch at the weekend with Denzel in. Couldnt believe id not seen this one.

Came across a film on Saturday night called ‘Close Quarters’ made in 1943 about a British submarine at war…what was odd was it had no actors, all those taking part where the actual Navy personnel, a sort early documentary drama, but it was gripping …well to me it was .

seeing it was at war was their a warning before it started of the possible scenes of violence that could occur and it was made in a different era that could cause offence to modern day snowflakes.

The old feller used to criticise Yank war films like shit…..their submarine films were pure Hollywood bollox….the submarines were huge inside, the crew all in brilliant white T shirts and you could tell the engineer even though they too had a brilliant white T shirt, by the slightest smudge of oil on his forehead.
He loved how they treat the officers as equals…as if

i,m exactly the same with yank films when looking them up on you tube. just swerve em all to find something made in england. can take their film noir but thats it and they can keep their lasses with big eyes, big gobs and those turn off little snub noses with voices that grate like car brakes that need new pads.

In my opinion, the best British 1950s fillum ever is "Hell Drivers" from 1957.

Watch the recently-restored HD version for free on YouTube, and then tell me I'm talking shite. https://youtu.be/Nmv5vK96KXY

Sure it's "of its time", but the cast is outstanding. Putting that cast together 10 years later would've cost 10x more quids.

Of course the lorry-driving sequences are speeded-up, but it still packs a decent punch 67 years later.

agreed. we used to call it part of the bus drivers teaching manual and a few tried to copy it. no names but lets say i was a stanley baker fan.

Bloody good film that….makes a change from squealing tyres and power pufff explosions.
Love ‘ The League of Gentlemen’ as well, wanted them to get away with it.

was always on the side of the baddies in all films. always thought that the lasses who played bad girls always looked more good looking and sexy that the mousy goody goody ones. possibly thats why i have been divorced three times.

Watching any action film as kids with me dad was when a female appeared in a war film and he cry out “Aw no, a bloody woman in it “…he got more aroused by the depth charges going off.

that was the diversity, inclusion and equality of the day. remake the same film today they,d bring all of todays present subjects into it. pre war they always had some fool and idiot inserted to any crime, horror or suspense film that spoiled it for me and those who saw them first time around.

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Never saw her like that when the wife’s watching her in ‘Call the Midwife’….must have missed that episode

Casino.

It will always be Zulu.
Its on the tv most days on some obscure channel.

Watched that twice on the pictures at the Forum. Had battle fatigue at the end.

like all films based on fact you know the ending before you watch them even if hollywood try their best to confuse you.

If there is a repeat of the film The Longest Day i wonder if those who went to ebbsfleet on saturday will watch and compare it to their saturday.

If you like a bit of dark humour, then may I recommend "The Legend of Barney Thompson" which is free on ITV X at the moment.

Robert Carlyle is the lead character Barney - and also produced and directed the film - and the rest of the cast are all faces you'll know. Emma Thompson does a fantastic turn as Barney's mother, and her Glasgow accent is exceptional for an English actress.

Ray Winstone is in it too, playing a London-born copper who hates Jocks - and he basically does a completely over-the-top impression of Ray Winstone throughout the entire film, and that is very funny too.

But the acting honours really have to go to Tom Courtney who plays the Chief Police Commissioner of Glasgow. He's only on the screen for about 15 minutes in total, but he nails it.

Won't be to everyone's taste, but if you don't mind a bit of sick humour you should enjoy it.

The best film yet to get released is " Carry on Regardless Mr Sarll "

Unfortunately it;s not a comedy.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, is my particular favourite.

no country for old men comes into mind when thinking about pools.

At a loose end tonight and noticed the third man on iPlayer. I've always enjoyed it, watching it again tonight it just blew me away... Got to be one of the greatest films of all time, made in 1949 when special effects weren't even a consideration, films relied on script, story line, performances and camera angles. The third man is just quality from beginning to end. Trevor Howard as Major Calloway is utterly brilliant, Orson Welles is Orson Welles and Alida Valli is probably my favourite vintage film perv. It's up there.

join the club. cannot remember the number of times i have seen that film and can remember many of the lines now due to it. nothing has ever bettered the so called cuckoo clock speach by orson welles on the prater wheel. even the extras and bit part players did their job successfully and looked the part down to the old balloon seller. no blood and guts or special affects but shadows used to keep the atmosphere. i need to get my arse in gear to obtain a passport and visit vienna for their third man tour of the locations. those who have never seen it i,d make the effort quickly.

The Vikings, Kirk Douglas and Tiny Curtis.

Ten o clock tonight BBC 2 Deliverance, great film, squeal piggy squeal.

I didn’t know Tony’s kid brother was in the Vikings.

Your sharp today Snowy.

Went to see Gladiator 2 yesterday...it was shit!!!

Couldn’t resist it.

Went the day well Germans pretending to be British soldiers

I've just watched a stonker of a fillum on TPTV called War Of The Planets (1977), I saw some of it at the weekend and it was so bad I had to watch it in it's entirety this afternoon.

It's an Italian made Sci-Fi which is truly awful, special effects are dismal, as is the camera work and film quality, then the acting..... although at my age I must admit some of the figure hugging outfits of the females did help keep my attention active.

A film I never wanted to watch but recently ended up watching was ‘ From Here to Eternity’ and found it a cracking storyline, worth a watch.

thats like many who flatly refuse to watch any film thats not in colour. as if colour itself affects the story line or subject of the film itself. just a lot of colour is used to pan a film out showing scenery.

Black and white films can be just as atmospheric as any colour film….it’s not the colour for me it’s the lighting that counts.

Mississippi Burning. Always cheers me up.

is that about the cuts in the american fire service.

I watched a bonkers Clint Eastwood film the other night on Amazon Prime.

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. I couldn't make out if it was comedy or a road trip or crime caper or "Buddy" fillum. In some ways it was all these things, in some ways it worked and in other ways I felt it didn't. Some good scenery though as it was shot in Montana, 1974.

The one scene in a film I like is the old black and white ‘Ice Cold in Alex’ At the final scene where after trekking across the North African desert, they arrive and the famous Carlsberg scene ensues with the Ice cold lager with the condensation running down the side of the glass….it could make you take up drinking.
Barry Norman reported back when it was made actually in Libya and that they got pissed filming it.