#Norman Rossington

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A Hard Day's Night (1964) Richard Lester

July 14th 2024

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DEATH LINE

UK

1972

Directed by Gary Sherman

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Note: - Foot & Algernon are the two evil scientists, yes the character's name is actually Foot. - The TV director is Victor's character who has the wool jumper.

These are based on my view watching the films, as obviously in the 1960s they were a lot more subtle.

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John Lennon, Dudley Moore and Norman Rossington.

On Wimbledon Common John filmed part of a sequence for Dudley Moore’s forthcoming TV show "Not Only… but Also".

November 20, 1964.

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Death Line (1972)

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Norman Rossington-Juliet Mills-Tim Dale "Nurse on wheels" 1963, de Gerald Thomas.

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Tina Williams, Prue bury, Ringo Starr, Pattie Boyd, Norman Rossington (Norm), Wilfrid Brambell (Paul's Grandfather), Paul McCartney and John Lennon in the luggage cart during I Should Have Known Better performance in a scene from A Hard Day's Night on March 11, 1964 at Twickenham Studios. The film crew rocked the stage to mimic a moving train🌸🌸🌸

"When I first saw George, I thought he was extraordinarily good looking, very charming and, like me, very shy. He had an amazing sense of humour, not in a practical-joke-sort-of-way like Paul, but with words, in a very dry way.”🌸🌸

Via @thebeatleswomen on Instagram🌸

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Norman Rossington as Sergeant Major Corbett in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

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'A Hard Day's Night' with The Beatles at 60 on Max and Criterion Channel

In 1964, jukebox movies featuring pop stars weren’t supposed to last to the end of the month, let alone into the next century. But then, neither was the pop music itself. Apparently, no one told The Beatles or their director Richard Lester that when they made A Hard Day’s Night (1964), a fantasy ‘day in the life’ of four lads from Liverpool (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo…

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Man in a Suitcase: Variation on a Million Bucks - Part Two (1.5, ITC, 1967)

"So, money and women make fools of us all. Which is making an idiot of you, Mr. McGill?"

"Both."

"Then you are twice damned."

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Death Line (Raw Meat) (1972) Gary Sherman

July 30th 2023

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Adult Movie Poster Raw Meat (1972) - Death Line (1972) When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident. Gary Sherman - Ceri Jones - Donald Pleasence - Norman Rossington - David Ladd - Sharon Gurney

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The Beatles with Pattie Boyd, Prudence Bury, Norman Rossington and William Bramble, on the train at South Molton, Devon, for the filming of A Hard Days Night, 5 March 1964. © Mirrorpix

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July 6, 1964 - The Beatles' first feature film, A Hard Day's Night, had its première at the London Pavilion.

A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 British musical comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring the Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—during the height of Beatlemania. It was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United Artists. The film portrays 36 hours in the lives of the group.

The film was a financial and critical success. Forty years after its release, Time magazine rated it as one of the all-time great 100 films. In 1997, British critic Leslie Halliwell described it as a "comic fantasia with music; an enormous commercial success with the director trying every cinematic gag in the book" and awarded it a full four stars.[The film is credited as being one of the most influential of all musical films, inspiring numerous spy films, the Monkees' television show and pop music videos. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked it the 88th greatest British film of the 20th century.

The movie's strange title originated from something said by Ringo Starr, who described it this way in an interview with disc jockey Dave Hull in 1964: "We went to do a job, and we'd worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, 'It's been a hard day ...' and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, '... night!' So we came to A Hard Day's Night."

PLOT

Bound for a London show from Liverpool, the Beatles escape a horde of fans ("A Hard Day's Night"). Once they are aboard the train and trying to relax, various interruptions test their patience: after a dalliance with a female passenger, Paul's grandfather is confined to the guard's van and the four lads join him there to keep him company. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr play a card game, entertaining some schoolgirls before arriving at their desired destination ("I Should Have Known Better").

Upon arrival in London, the Beatles are driven to a hotel, only to feel trapped inside. They are tasked to answer numerous letters and fan mail in their hotel room but instead, they sneak out to party ("I Wanna Be Your Man", "Don't Bother Me", "All My Loving"). After being caught by their manager Norm (Norman Rossington), they return to find out that Paul's grandfather John (Wilfrid Brambell) went to the casino. After causing minor trouble at the casino, the group is taken to the theatre where their performance is to be televised. After rehearsals ("If I Fell"), the boys leave through a fire escape and dance around a field but are forced to leave by the owner of the property ("Can't Buy Me Love"). On their way back to the theatre, they are separated when a woman named Millie (Anna Quayle) recognizes John as someone famous but cannot recall who he is. George is also mistaken for an actor auditioning for a television show featuring a trendsetter hostess. The boys all return to rehearse another song ("And I Love Her") and after goofing around backstage, they play another song to impress the makeup artists ("I'm Happy Just to Dance with You").

While waiting to perform, Ringo is forced to look after Paul's grandfather and decides to spend some time alone reading a book. Paul's grandfather, a "villain, a real mixer", convinces him to go outside to experience life rather than reading books. Ringo goes off by himself ("This Boy" instrumental). He tries to have a quiet drink in a pub, takes pictures, walks alongside a canal, and rides a bicycle along a railway station platform. While the rest of the band frantically and unsuccessfully attempts to find Ringo, he is arrested for acting in a suspicious manner. Paul's grandfather joins him shortly after attempting to sell photographs wherein he forged the boys' signatures. Paul's grandfather eventually makes a run for it and tells the rest of the band where Ringo is. The boys all go to the station to rescue Ringo but end up running away from the police back to the theatre ("Can't Buy Me Love") and the concert goes ahead as planned. After the concert ("Tell Me Why", "If I Fell", "I Should Have Known Better", "She Loves You"), the band is taken away from the hordes of fans via helicopter.

From beatlesbible:

The première was attended by The Beatles and their wives and girlfriends, and a host of important guests including Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon. Nearby Piccadilly Circus was closed to traffic as 12,000 fans jostled for a glimpse of the group.

“I remember Piccadilly being completely filled. We thought we would just show up in our limo, but it couldn't get through for all the people. It wasn't frightening - we never seemed to get worried by crowds. It always appeared to be a friendly crowd; there never seemed to be a violent face.”

~ Paul McCartney, Anthology

It was a charity event held in support of the Variety Club Heart Fund and the Docklands Settlements, and the most expensive tickets cost 15 guineas (£15.75).

After the screening The Beatles, the royal party and other guests including The Rolling Stones enjoyed a champagne supper party at the Dorchester Hotel, after which some of them adjourned to the Ad Lib Club until the early hours of the morning.

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Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon in A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester, 1964) Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfred Brambell, Norman Rossington, John Junkin, Victor Spinetti, Anna Quayle, Deryck Guyler, Richard Vernon. Kenneth Haigh. Screenplay: Alun Owen. Cinematography: Gilbert Taylor. Art direction: Ray Simm.   Film editor: John Jympson. Musical director: George Martin.  In that post-Kennedy-assassination, Goldwater-haunted, Cold War summer of '64, watching John, Paul, George, and Ringo larking about at the movies allowed for a breath of optimism, a sense that youth could conquer the world. It didn't quite turn out that way. This is, of course, one of the great film musicals, packed with engaging songs. They may be more lightweight than the Beatles' later oeuvre, lifting the heart rather than stirring the imagination, but they're impossible to resist. It also slyly, cheekily makes its point about the generation the Beatles are trying to leave behind: the ineptly bullying managers, the fussy TV director, the marketing executive sure that he has a handle on What the Kids Want, the Blimpish man on the train who tells Ringo, "I fought the war for your sort." Ringo's reply: "I bet you're sorry you won." Celebrity is closing in on them, epitomized by the wonderfully elliptical dialogue in John's encounter with a woman who is sure that she recognizes him but then puts on her glasses and proclaims, "You don't look like him at all." John mutters, "She looks more like him than I do." Alun Owen's screenplay, written after hanging out with the Beatles, absorbing and borrowing their own jokes, was one of the two Oscar nominations the film received, along with George Martin's scoring. None of the songs were nominated. Neither were Richard Lester's direction, Gilbert Taylor's cinematography, or John Jympson's editing, all of which kept the film buoyant and fleet.

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Z Cars - Quiet as the Grave (4 November 1974)

It's a seemingly quiet Sunday night at Newtown police station but while the police are bored, complaining about the rain and their wages while using the quiet as a chance to catch up on paperwork, a gang of robbers led by Macy (Norman Rossington) who are working for London gangsters Sharkey (John Junkin) and Vernon (Harry Landis) are trying to drill into a bank from an abandoned property, but will the noise they make attract police attention?

Quiet as the Grave, written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin is an extremely solid episode of Z Cars that balances it's 2 plotlines nicely. The dark robbery scenes are extremely well directed by Derek Martinus and there's a certain amount of tension not just between the gangster bosses and Macy's gang but also over whether the robbers will reach the loot before daybreak and if the patrolling PC Quilley (Douglas Fielding) will discover what they're up to...

The quiet police station scenes are played rather humorously and after having found DS Miller (Geoffrey Whitehead) rather dull in Friends, he's a lot better this time particularly in the scenes he shares with DC Skinner (Ian Cullen) while Sergeant Culshaw (John Challis) and PC Quilley also have some great scenes together particularly with Quilley reluctant to continue patrolling in the rainy night weather.

Eventually the police see some action as an old homeless major (Alan Foss) complains of being unable to sleep due to noises he hears in the place where he's currently squatting, could these noises be connected to the ongoing robbery?

The only flaw I can think of is that the endless chatter of Lee (Norman Beaton) can be just as annoying for the viewer as it is to his fellow robbers, but this is a minor irritation. Overall, an excellent and enjoyable episode that provides a welcome mixture of tension, humor and character moments.