Eamonn Griffin

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UK quad poster for 1975's THE DROWNING POOL starring Paul Newman

US poster for 1975's THE DROWNING POOL starring Paul Newman

Newman was a little superstitious about his successful movies having an H in the title (Hud, The Hustler etc), and was coming to the project straight from a flop, so he had his character's name changed from the source novel's Lew Archer to Harper.

A sequel - THE DROWNING POOL - came out in 1975.

UK quad poster for 1966's THE MOVING TARGET a.k.a HARPER, starring Paul Newman

US release poster for 1966's HARPER, starring Paul Newman

Anyway, tonight's movie? 1966's HARPER (released in the UK as THE MOVING TARGET).

Director Jack Smight (handpicked for the job by Paul Newman) was so nervous on set - it was his first big movie - he was accompanied each day by his wife for support.

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That's a point. Hope he's not checked into one of Vlad's penthouse apartments with stunning views.

Three of those at lunchtime should skew things nicely.

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Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)

Best Seller (1987)

Point Break (1991)

Army of Thieves (2021)

A history of Richard Nixon masks in the movies in four images.

YouTube video by Muncheon Movies 4 Clowns (1970)

4 Clowns - full movie (just about): www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDzn...
Oliver! - UK trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1-Q...
Airport - original trailer, heavy on star power and the popularity of the original Arthur Hailey novel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PACK...

UK quad poster for 1970's Airport, directed by George Seaton, and starring Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, and George Kennedy as series stalwart (he's in all four flicks) Joe Patroni.

UK poster for 1968's Oliver! - I'm guessing this is a re-release poster as it's got the Oscar wins front and centre on it.

US poster for 4 Clowns

BBC1 Christmas Day movies advent calendar, day 7: 1976.

Slapstick, a decent musical, and right soapy all-star disaster gubbins. Perfect.

11.45am: 4 Clowns - a documentary on the silent era comedy of Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton, and Charley Chase
4.15pm: Oliver!
8.45pm: Airport

Ah, I pronounce it scone.

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"Scusi, but which ward for Miss Fretful Porpentine off of the BlueSky?"

On it, boss.

Careful. You'll have Americans turning up with peach cobbler if you're not cautious.

See? Much more straightforward all around.

*reserves a cadre of Italian models to silently smoke exotically / rend garments / stand there all sultry-like / leave single roses as applicable for any funeral.

Of course, they can be re-tasked to pop round the ward to do much the same should you decide to stick around a while longer.

Feel free to call my previous comment an apple grumble.

No-one in the history of anything says "custard and apple crumble". It's apple crumble and custard, except if the custard is with the apple under the crumble topping in which case we should all give up and go home.

Obviously you're not a golfer.

Stunt grifters posing as radicals as per. They dumped some poo under the Ritz Hotel Xmas tree a couple of days ago, and now want to monetise their hobby/campaign to, er, have a people's assembly with which to tax the super-rich.

Ta! More tomorrow (assuming I don't mess up the thread again)

YouTube video by La Cinémathèque Trailer - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Restored)

Butch Cassidy trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWTA...
The Wizard of Oz 1939 trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=njdr...
Pack Up Your Troubles 1932 trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJbU... plus a colourised version of the full movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMR8...

UK quad poster for George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sunshine Kid. The image is a bit of a spoiler.

Late 1950s reissue poster for The Wizard of Oz

Trade promo poster for Laurel and Hardy's 1932 Pack Up Your Troubles

BBC1 Christmas Day movies advent calendar, day 6: 1975.

A three-movie day!

12.20pm: Pack Up your Troubles with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
4.05pm: The Wizard of Oz (first showing on British TV)
8.45pm: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (billed as a world television premiere!)

[I messed up the thread, so Day 5 will forever float alone, disconnected]

Mad that he turned out to be the Zodiac.

a man in a suit is standing next to a christmas tree in a living room . Alt: Cary Grant as Dudley the angel, magically decorating a Christmas tree in 1947's The Bishop's Wife.

Not saying that Christmas is inveigling its way into proceedings, but The Bishop's Wife is on the telly.

YouTube video by Classics of World Cinema Buster Keaton - One Week (1920) Silent film

That's Sybil Seely co-starring with Keaton - the movie's called One Week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd6d...