#Jack Gold

[davidhudson]

At work on the set of The Medusa Touch (1978), directed by Jack Gold (June 28, 1930 – August 9, 2015).

[mariocki]

Play for Today: Bavarian Night (BBC, 1981)

"These bloody middle class parents, ooh, they do get up my nose! You can work yourself blue in the face for them, go out of your way to accommodate them, but it's no use! They're just out to carve and criticise and try to make a fool out of you! Oh, I felt like - I'm ashamed to tell you what I felt like."

"Giving her a good hiding?"

"Yes, somebody should have done, I don't mind saying so! Oh, they make me sick! Always had their own way, always had the best of everything; she should have been brought up in our house, my dad would've had her sorted! I'm sorry, Estelle, this isn't like me, I know. Well, that's my evening spoilt for a start!"

"But what about the sausages?"

[haverwood]

The Reckoning Jack Gold UK, 1970 ★★★ Alright, whose reckoning are we talking about here?

[moratoirenoir]

[lobbycards]

The Medusa Touch, Italian lobby card (Fotobusta), 1978

[thespoliarium]

The original Death of Stalin character introduction scene. 😌

RED MONARCH, 1983. (dir. Jack Gold)

[movie-titlecards]

Aces High (1976)

My rating: 7/10

Damn, but this one's a stone cold bummer. Really rather good, though, mostly due to a solid cast led by a (despite his 33 years) still heartbreakingly baby-faced McDowell.

[motionpicturelover]

"The Medusa Touch" (1978) - Jack Gold

Films I've watched in 2022 (205/210)

Full film:

[rwpohl]

praying mantis, jack gold 1982

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praying mantis, james keach 1993

[waitinglistbooks]

The Tenth Man

The Tenth Man is a book written by Graham Greene. I really don’t know what he’s most well known for, because the first time I remember hearing his name was around the time that the movie “The Quiet American” opened, back in 2002. I don’t remember watching the movie, but my parents had an old cheap print of the book, and that I did read. I loved the book. It was a tiny one, like this I’m talking about today, but very well written. It drove me to try and find more books from Greene. I don’t remember how I got to “The Tenth Man”, though. Greene wrote many novels, travel books, and also a few screenplays, amongst them is “The Third Man”, dated c.1949, directed by Carol Reed and with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles.

The print I got is a Vintage Classics Edition, from 2000. I bought this one at G David Bookseller, an old bookshop in Cambridge, UK, that has lots of antiques, but also many new editions at very tasty prices. A bookshop I highly recommend. Their website is here.

Anyway, I bought it back in 2017, but only got to it now (February 2023)…as you do, when you have hundreds of unread books, that you hoard every year. I had no idea what The Tenth Man was about until I actually started reading it a few weeks ago.  Graham Greene wrote it around 1944, when he was bounded to a contract with MGM at the time. It’s actually Greene that tells you about how “The Tenth Man” came about, and the short stories he wrote previously.

The Tenth Man is the story of Jean-Louis Chavel, a Second World War prisoner, who exchanges his life, due for execution, for everything he owns. He survives, but at what cost? This is not a book that shows you the usual context of war, as we usually see. The focus is on the individuals, more precisely Chavel. What makes him offer all of his possessions in such a hopeless situation? What’s his homecoming like after the War? We can feel the suspicion mood against the countrymen that returned unharmed, the change that the lingering Americans caused in France, after the War.

Because it’s a very small book, we don’t have the time to go into the deep thoughts and reflections regarding why people do what they do, while you’re going through the motions of the story, but after that? Maybe. I wish it was a longer and more developed novel.

The book was later adapted to cinema (1988) and turned into a film with the same name, directed by Jack Gold, and with the actors Anthony Hopkins, Kristin Scott Thomas and Derek Jacobi. It was unheard of by me until now, but just got onto my waiting list.

“The Tenth Man” written by Graham Greene, Vintage Classics, 2020 ISBN: 9780099284147

[cinemaocd]

Jack Rackham is my favorite character in Black Sails because Toby Schmitz is the only actor who realizes he is in a prequel for Muppet Treasure Island...

[ninjautizm]

I don't remember this but HOLY FUCKING SHIIIIIITT LLOYD WAS CONFIRMED TO BE AT LEAST 9 YEARS OLD HERE AND HE WAS ABLE TO DO THAT??? JESUS FUCK

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[lobbycards]

The Medusa Touch, Italian lobby card (Fotobusta), 1978