#Derren Nesbitt

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[crabbyhellfire]

Please just accept another round of prisoner sketches and don’t ask me what my oc is doing there… she’s real to me..

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[ruleof3bobby]

FLAWLESS (2007) Grade: C+

Bad title to start. Even for a heist film it was a predictable and not believable. Wasn't a fan of #DemiMoore as the female lead. Ending was a snooze.

[mariocki]

Man in a Suitcase: Dead Man's Shoes (1.11, ITC, 1967)

"You're losing your touch, that report could make you a great deal of money."

"Well, I'd probably just spend it anyway."

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

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Strongroom (1962) Vernon Sewell

January 28th 2024

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Special Branch  -  ITV  -  September 17, 1969   -  May 9, 1974

 Police Drama (53 episodes)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Derren Nesbitt as Detective Chief Inspector Elliot Jordan (1969–1970)

George Sewell as Detective Chief Inspector Alan Craven (1973–1974)

Morris Perry as Charles Moxon (1969–1970)

Fulton Mackay as Detective Chief Superintendent Alec Inman (1969–1970)

Patrick Mower as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Haggerty (1973–1974)

Roger Rowland as Detective Sergeant Bill North (1969–1974)

Keith Washington as Detective Constable John Morrissey (1969–1970)

Paul Eddington as Strand (1974)

Frederick Jaeger as Commander Fletcher (1970–1974)

Wensley Pithey as Detective Superintendent Eden (1969)

Jennifer Wilson as Detective Sergeant Helen Webb (1969)

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A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Laura Quinn: Demi Moore Mr. Hobbs: Michael Caine Finch: Lambert Wilson Ollie: Nathaniel Parker Eaton: Shaughan Seymour Jameson: Nicholas Jones Fenton: David Barras Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft: Joss Ackland Reece: Silas Carson Sinclair: Derren Nesbitt Trudy: Kate Maravan Penelope: Rosalind March Lewis: Kevan Willis Henry: Stanley Townsend Boyle: Jonathan Aris Bryan: Ben Righton Cassie: Natalie Dormer Secretary: Claire Thill Ballroom Quartet: Violaine Miller Ballroom Quartet: Carole Bruere Trudy’s Friend: Roya Zargar Film Crew: Director: Michael Radford Writer: Edward Anderson Producer: Mark Williams Original Music Composer: Stephen Warbeck Director of Photography: Richard Greatrex Editor: Peter Boyle Casting: John Hubbard Production Design: Sophie Becher Set Decoration: Christina Schaffer Costume Design: Dinah Collin Producer: Michael A. Pierce Co-Producer: Albert Martínez Martín Co-Producer: Jimmy de Brabant Movie Reviews:

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Number 6 was a Plant: It's Your Funeral

The introduction to this series of posts considering the theory that Number 6 didn't really resign and is a 'plant' in the Village may be read here: https://www.tumblr.com/culttvblog/738540162388213760/number-6-was-a-plant-introduction

I bet you all thought I couldn't manage to twist It's Your Funeral round to the plant idea didn't you? I wasn't that sure I could, actually but think I've found a way of doing it. To be honest it didn't really help that the plot of this one is a bit of a mess: I mean, Number 6 is manipulated so that he has to save Number 2 from an assassination plot which may or may not be fake, for the sake of everyone else? Come on, this is getting out of hand.

Apparently Derren Nesbitt said in an interview that when he was making this he had literally no idea of what was going on. Annette Andre commented that Patrick McGoohan was unbelievably difficult about everything (king) and from memory I think this might have been the one where he unceremoniously sacked the director in the middle of production.

Anyway it's not that apparent what's going on but I suspect that's the point.

I am interested that the title is 'it's your funeral,' which is proverbially said to someone considering some unwise course of action and indicating that they will have to live with the consequences. The point, of course, being that Number 6 is determined that it isn't going to be his funeral or anyone else's, and it seems like he's the only person who will.

I have tended in this series of posts to the view that Number 6 probably appeared to resign of his own initiative and so part of what he has discovered is the true nature of the business he has been involved in. If his being planted had been initiated by his superiors he would have some back-up, but instead has found that they're all in on it. He has planted himself in the Village he has heard about, possibly because of concerns he had heard about it, and has had all his illusions shattered one after the other. I have been tending to see the things he has learned as being revelations about the work place, which is of course of more moment than many jobs, in the case of the Villagers.

It is not contradicting his self-imposed plant status at all, therefore, to see that in this episode he has learned something else utterly shattering about his previous trade. This is that horrifying workplace realisation that you are the only sensible person there, and are therefore obliged to do something to stop some disaster happening. The show so often follows the intelligence community's script so closely, that the people who hold certain knowledge are too valuable to be let loose and must be contained. This episode turns it round so that the entire intelligence community are a set of cabbages, with petty politicking, anything for a quiet life, some staggering incompetence and irresponsibility, and so on.

Number 6 can only be a plant, because he's the only sensible one there at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.

Another interesting perspective on this episode can be found in the Free for All Podcast (https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/free-for-all/3737640) where Cai Ross and Chris Bainbridge have some very interesting things to say about the technology used and particularly comparing the activity prognosis to contemporary social media algorithms.

I am predicting from this point on that the episodes will become increasingly difficult to manipulate to fit the plant theory, purely because while I love the theory and think it's a convincing explanation of what is happening, I honestly don't think it was probably in the mind of anyone writing the show! I may therefore change to covering a couple of episodes in a blog post but will still continue to the bitter end.

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Ooh... You Are Awful | Cliff Owen | 1972

Dick Emery, Cheryl Kennedy, Derren Nesbitt

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Clint Eastwood and Derren Nesbitt during a (staged) snowball fight on the set of "Where Eagles Dare"

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Jennifer Wilson as Det. Sgt. Helen Webb in Special Branch (S1, Thames TV, 1969).

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Where Eagles Dare (1968) The Greatest War Film Ever Made - #FILMTALK Movie Review

Where Eagles Dare (1968) The Greatest War Film Ever Made – #FILMTALK Movie Review

In this special edition of #FILMTALK we celebrate the greatest war film ever made, at least in our opinion. Where Eagles Dare was released in 1968 and has become a classic with an appeal that endures with audiences around the world to this day. Continue reading

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Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)

"But what use is a kingdom to you if you kill your friends?"

[ludojudoposts]

Victim (1961) Dir: Basil Dearden

Some of the main actors in Victim.

1-Peter McEnery; 2-Anthony Nicholls, Peter Copley; 3-John Cairney, John Barrie; 4-Sylvia Syms; 5-Derren Nesbitt, Margaret Diamond; 6-Charles Lloyd Pack, Frank Pettit, Mavis Villiers; 7-Donald Churchill; 8-Nigel Stock, Dirk Bogarde; 9-Norman Bird; 10-Dennis Price