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Found this rather delightful image of Ewen and Keith crossing swords in the 1968 TV series. I think it must be some sort of publicity shot, rather than an actual still from the episode. For one thing, I don't remember that burn running by - and for another, poor Keith is so not looking that well-kempt by this stage of the proceedings!
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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 8 / 10
Título Original: Jack the Ripper
Año: 1988
Duración: 182 min
País: Reino Unido
Dirección: David Wickes
Guion: David Wickes, Derek Marlowe
Música: John Cameron
Fotografía: Alan Hume
Reparto: Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Ray McAnally, Lewis Collins, Ken Bones, Susan George, Jane Seymour, Harry Andrews, Lysette Anthony, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Peter Armitage, Desmond Askew, Trevor Baxter, Mike Carnell, Ann Castle, Michael Gothard, Hugh Fraser, George Sweeney, Jonathan Moore, Jon Laurimore, Michael Hughes, Richard Morant
Productora: Coproducción Reino Unido-Estados Unidos; Thames Television, Lorimar Television, Euston Films. Emitida por: CBS
Género: Drama; Crime; Mystery
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095388/
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Die Screaming Marianne | Pete Walker | 1971
Barry Evans, Jon Laurimore
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Die Screaming Marianne (1971)
"Be careful, young man - be very, very careful. For your own sake."
"They've abolished the death penalty, mate. Or didn't anyone tell you?"
#Die screaming marianne#pete walker#british cinema#1971#films i done watched#susan george#Barry Evans#Christopher Sandford#Leo genn#Judy Huxtable#Kenneth Hendel#Paul Stassino#alan curtis#Anthony Sharp#Jon Laurimore#Martin Wyldeck#Cyril Ornadel#Murray Smith#I... Huh. I've been meaning to watch this for a long time and finally got round to it. It turns out to be a very different film to the one#I was expecting it to be. I've seen a few of Walker's films; like Norman J. Warren Walker was cutting a swathe thru the hammer and amicus#Dominated field of brit horror in the 70s having made his way up from directing soft core skinflicks. His films are generally pretty sleazy#But clever and stylish. This isn't a horror film at all tho (perhaps it was just the title that made me think it was for all these years?).#It's a weird psycho thriller which tones down the sleaze considerably. It's a weird cerebral sort of proto giallo except English. At times#The plot is irritatingly obscure but the cast are all game and if its a tad drawn out then it's only by a couple of minutes. Murray Smith#(shortly to write for the XYY Man and ultimately the key creative mind behind the subsequent Bulman shows) provides a script which is#Intricate and generally compelling (if as I say a little too cryptic at times). George was on the cusp of stardom here but she's well#Supported by some smaller status character actors. There's a wonderfully disconcerting scene with Jon Laurimore as a smiling but murderous#Policeman which channels Fragment of Fear for sheer mind bending unsettling weirdness. A partly successful film. One to mull over I think
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Gillian Wray, Gerald Harper and Jon Laurimore, in “Gazette”
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Can't lie, though, one of the best parts of FOTH '68 was the fact that the guy playing Keith also plays this absolute plonker in I, Claudius:
He's the toady senator who, when Caligula falls ill, tells Praetorian Prefect Gimli that he has offered the gods his own life in exchange for the emperor's. Here pictured when the fully recovered Caligula inevitably asks him, "Soooo what are you going to do about it? We shouldn't both be alive right now." :)
The contrast with Keith "FUCK YOU, I WILL REPAY MY INSANE DEBTS OF HONOUR, EVEN TO THE DETRIMENT OF MY CAREER, PEACE OF MIND, AND ACTUAL LIFE" Windham is one I find most amusing. 😁
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Storyboard: King & Castle (2.1, Thames, 1985)
"How come you're a karate expert?"
"It's aikido, actually."
"Yeah, well, whatever you call it."
"When I was eighteen, I joined the Royal Navy. Nobody liked me in the navy and you can't run away on a ship. So I learnt self defence."
"You learnt it well!"
"It's a science."
"Oh yeah, it's the science of killin' people, very 'andy."
#storyboard#King and Castle#King & Castle#Single play#1985#Ian Kennedy Martin#Richard bramall#nigel planer#derek martin#Martin fisk#James lister#John challis#Eric Mason#Wensley pithey#Liz crowther#Jon laurimore#Andrew cruickshank#Kate fahy#Peter cellier#John pierce Jones#Catherine Harding#Harry fielder#I've designated this episode as 2.1 but the issue with this show is that it didn't conform to standard series set up. The first six#Storyboards were shown weekly in 83 in a traditional fashion but then it disappeared for two years; there were two in 85 just one the#Following year and then another brief run in 89. Still if imdb can call them seasons I will too. This is a good one and another that made#It to a full series but I would say that this feels the most self consciously pilot like. The whole episode is about setting Planer and#Martin up as an odd couple working pair and it ends just as they agree to work together. Maybe Kennedy Martin was confident of a full#Series or maybe this was a back door pilot and it was already arranged. Idk. But it's fun enough and made me interested in looking out the#Full series. The two leads are good and there's a wealth of minor roles for old hands like Pithey and Cellier. Also nice to see Harry Aitch#Fielder (one of the most prolific uncredited background actors of all classic TV) get an actual credit and a couple of lines to boot
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Gazette: In Loving Memory (1.7, Yorkshire Television, 1968)
"You don't care who gets hurt, as long as you get your story!"
#gazette#classic tv#hadleigh#1968#yorkshire television#peter moffatt#j. p. hill#jon laurimore#michael blackham#gillian wray#frank barrie#reginald barratt#gretchen franklin#marti webb#john murray scott#edmond bennett#bill pilkington#another hadleighless episode#the focus is on bill spence again#and again the contrast between the fleetstreet nationals and the local rags#bill is the most ambitious of the reporters on the gazette#where sue is the soul#and walters the tired brain#frank barrie is a nasty piece of work here#and a very young marti webb pre stage stardom#but with walters in the background and hadleigh absent this episode is lacking a bit of bite#blackham is a fine actor but harper and laurimore are the heavyweights#also susan is given some truly horrible dialogue#this seems to be j. p. hills only credit on the imdb#perhaps it's a pen name
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Gazette: Between The Lines (1.6, Yorkshire Television, 1968)
"I'm told they're after my newspaper."
"You're in one action already, don't talk yourself into another. Did you come here to argue, or to sort this out?"
#gazette#classic tv#hadleigh#1968#yorkshire television#gerald harper#jon laurimore#michael blackham#gillian wray#ralph michael#douglas wilmer#norman claridge#vivienne burgess#donald sumpter#diana chappell#isla blair#frank williams#mark shelley#kendrick owen#bay white#duncan taylor#john frankau#robert barr#a quick moving densely scripted episode#in which really very little actually happens#but much legal wrangling is discussed#it feels more like the main chance tbh#although that show was still a year away at this point#sumpter is marvellously repellant as a privileged young oik#and isla blair is similarly horrible
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Gazette: Arrival (1.1, Yorkshire Television, 1968)
"No doubt, but does any of this justify a protracted telephone call over such vast distances?"
"Look, I'm not speaking from Siberia."
"No, but you are speaking in my time - in a double sense - and at a rate per minute which I hope my paper can afford, and even then, doesn't indulge in often."
#gazette#classic tv#hadleigh#yorkshire television#1968#gerald harper#jon laurimore#michael blackham#gillian wray#ralph michael#norman claridge#christopher hodge#michael landy#robert barr#elwyn jones#often when starting a new series it will take a few episodes to get the feel or to become accustomed to it#this was love at first watch#it belongs resolutely to the greatorex ward school of tv writing#sharp witty and frantically fast#dialogue heavy with little action#but you hang on every word#harper as hadleigh appears at first glance to have retained some of his adam adamant tics#and the speech in particular is similar#but then as the episode progresses he is more clearly a new distinct character#colder and harder than adam#and with a different sort of pompousness that is less likeable#he's very good tho#laurimore is excellent as the editor of the local rag which hadleigh owns#he should have been a bigger actor#this has a similar feel to the first series of the main chance
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Gazette - ITV - August 2, 1968 - October 25, 1968
Drama (13 episodes)
Running Time: 60 minutes
Stars:
Gerald Harper as James Hadleigh
Jon Laurimore, as Frank Walters
Ralph Michael as Colonel Chamberlayne
Gillian Wray as Susan Jackson
Michael Blackham as Bill Spence
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Gazette: Stranger (1.11, Yorkshire Television, 1968)
"She was well off, engaged to be married... Then she walked into a strange cottage, sat in an armchair and poisoned herself. There must be a reason!"
#gazette#hadleigh#classic tv#yorkshire television#1968#robert barr#christopher hodson#jon laurimore#michael blackham#gillian wray#david robinson#hilda barry#robin ford#brenda lawrence#anthony may#arthur hewlitt#pamela ann davy#ingrid sylvester#geoffrey hooper#simon spedding#jeffrey gerald#this is hodson's only episode as director#he... isn't as subtle as some of the other directors to work on the show#sue goes to see a fortune teller and witch at one point#the scene is introduced with sinister music a bat and a hooting owl#every stereotype under the sun#the score at some points is similarly over the top#still its a good script and quite different to most of the other episodes#and the fortune telling witch is played by pamela ann davy#who is always a delight
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Gazette: It's All Happening (1.5, Yorkshire Television, 1968)
"I'm inviting you to lunch."
"Ah ha. On press day?"
"Yes of course on press day, a good lunch, set you up."
"Where?"
"The Constitutional Club."
"To meet Mullins?"
"To have lunch with me, to be seen having lunch with me!"
"Solidarity?"
"You know, I've never quite known what that means."
#gazette#classic tv#hadleigh#yorkshire television#1968#gerald harper#jon laurimore#michael blackham#gillian wray#reginald marsh#ivor salter#eric longworth#will leighton#patrick waddington#janet davies#david robinson#pamela manson#arthur spreckley#roy barraclough#robert barr#brian parker#frank and hadleigh's relationship in this one is difficult to read#hard to say for much of the action whether they're on the same team or at loggerheads#nice to see reginald marsh as a local councillor#although the script suggests he's a tory council member which would horrify arthur sugden#marsh's character from the plane makers#bill seems to have been influenced by the big city reporters from the last episode#he's more cunning and underhand here#although actually i think episodes four and five were swapped after production#so it's just serendipity
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