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Mr Jinx

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The Ghost of Peter Sellers

A film about a film that never saw the light of day called Ghosts in the Noonday Sun. It starred Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, was filmed on location in Cyprus in 1973 and was beset by problems. The end version was so bad the studio refused it and it never saw the light of day; it was beyond rescuing. Of the clips that they do show, you can see why. It was an awful mess.

The film was probably more of an insight into the mind of Peter Sellers, who, when it came to it, was a bit unhinged and quite a piece of work. Spike Milligan on the other hand was just completely batty. Not a good combination especially when Sellers practically sacked everybody on set leaving the Director with everything on his shoulders.

Quite fascinating and a bit sad at the same time.

8/10
 

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The Two-Headed Spy 1958. Jack Hawkins , Gia Scala., Felix Aylmer.And very small bit parts for Michael Caine as a Gestapo agent and Donald Pleasence as a German General. Hawkins plays a British spy who’s been masquerading as a German General since well before the war , passing information to the British. Very well done and well worth a watch ( it’s on YouTube.) 9/10
 

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The Two-Headed Spy 1958. Jack Hawkins , Gia Scala., Felix Aylmer.And very small bit parts for Michael Caine as a Gestapo agent and Donald Pleasence as a German General. Hawkins plays a British spy who’s been masquerading as a German General since well before the war , passing information to the British. Very well done and well worth a watch ( it’s on YouTube.) 9/10
Sounds a perfect film for TPTV. 🙂
 

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Sounds a perfect film for TPTV. 🙂
An odd title admittedly.I came across it accidentally looking for something else on YouTube. I’d never seen it before but it compares well with other Jack Hawkins’ stuff like The League of Gentlemen which was made two years after.At only just over an hour and a half , it was a tight , exciting , well made little story which kept moving until the end.Well worth a watch.It looked like it had been taken off the American version of TCM looking at the logo.
 

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Shining Through (1992). Starring Melanie Griffith as an unlikely spy, and Michael Douglas. It kept us entertained but it was not of great quality especially in terms of scripting and the acting wasn't much better. One reviewer said "What kind of razzle brain at the studios gave the go-ahead for this imbecilic film? It makes absolutely no sense, is quite senseless, terribly corny and so unforgivably cliche-ridden that it truly defies description". So go watch it and tell us we're wrong! 5/10.
 

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An odd title admittedly.I came across it accidentally looking for something else on YouTube. I’d never seen it before but it compares well with other Jack Hawkins’ stuff like The League of Gentlemen which was made two years after.At only just over an hour and a half , it was a tight , exciting , well made little story which kept moving until the end.Well worth a watch.It looked like it had been taken off the American version of TCM looking at the logo.
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Was going to make a comment on your post. Realised it was irrelevant.
 

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Was going to make a comment on your post. Realised it was irrelevant.
No worries.
 

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Uncle Frank (2020). In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina, for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover, male Walid. Quite enjoyable film, dealing with the problems of being gay in the 1960s and 1970s and having to keep it secret from his family, which he hadn't completely succeeded in doing. 8/10.
 
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