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  • Originally posted by lynn cates View Post
    Hello Jeff, Robert. Entirely agree about Will Hay. Seen this?

    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.


    Cheers.
    LC
    Thanks Lynn, I'll take a look at Windbag later.

    Hay was an interesting man in his own right - he was a distinguished amateur astronomer.

    Jeff

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    • Since I mentioned my growing liking for Mr. Hay and his crew, I have to also admit a growing liking for George Formby. But I have to see more of his films.

      Formby, as you can expect, is in the "Ukulele Hall of Fame".

      Jeff

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      • Hi Jeff and Lynn

        I do prefer Hay to Formby, though the latter isn't bad.

        Formby made many films, and I heard that each of them featured a different actress as the romantic interest. This was because Formby's wife was determined that no attachments should develop. Fairly soon after she died he remarried, but died himself soon after.

        He did of course play the uke, but the banjo-like instrument he played was apparently not a banjo but a banjolele.

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        • Films set in Scotland in whole or part:

          Macbeth (1949)
          Macbeth (1969)
          Mary of Scotland
          Mary, Queen of Scots
          The Ghost Goes West
          Bonnie Prince Charlie
          The Master of Ballentrae (1953)
          Kidnapped (1935)
          Kidnapped (1962)
          Rob Roy
          Mania
          The Doctor and the Devils
          The Greed of William Hart
          The Body Snatcher
          Greyfriars Bobby (1960)
          Journey to the Center of the Earth (1960)
          Hatter's Castle
          On Approval
          The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
          I Know Where I'm Going
          Terror By Night
          Whiskey Galore / Tight Little Island
          The Bridal Path
          The Battle of the Sexes (1960 - Peter Sellers)
          The Maggie
          The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

          Jeff

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          • Originally posted by Mayerling View Post
            Films set in Scotland in whole or part:

            Macbeth (1949)
            Macbeth (1969)
            Mary of Scotland
            Mary, Queen of Scots
            The Ghost Goes West
            Bonnie Prince Charlie
            The Master of Ballentrae (1953)
            Kidnapped (1935)
            Kidnapped (1962)
            Rob Roy
            Mania
            The Doctor and the Devils
            The Greed of William Hart
            The Body Snatcher
            Greyfriars Bobby (1960)
            Journey to the Center of the Earth (1960)
            Hatter's Castle
            On Approval
            The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
            I Know Where I'm Going
            Terror By Night
            Whiskey Galore / Tight Little Island
            The Bridal Path
            The Battle of the Sexes (1960 - Peter Sellers)
            The Maggie
            The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

            Jeff

            G'day Jeff

            What about Braveheart.
            G U T

            There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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            • The Ghost of St Michael's (Hay)
              Geordie
              Ring of Bright Water (both Bill Travers)
              The 39 Steps (especially the version with Robert Powell)

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              • Dark Star

                Hello All. I say, one of my favourite surreal comedies is absent. That would be John Carpenter's 1974 "Dark Star."

                Anyone seen this cult classic?

                Cheers.
                LC

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                • Hi Lynn

                  Yes and no. I went to the cinema but the screen never lit up. I came away thinking that it was truly dark.

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                  • must see

                    Hello Robert. Thanks.

                    Hmm, you MUST see this one. Quite humourous.

                    Cheers.
                    LC

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                    • link

                      Hello (again) Robert. May have found a slightly edited version here.

                      Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.


                      Given your taste for cartesian philosophy, you'll appreciate the conclusion which relies on the cogito and observations about the external material world.

                      Cheers.
                      LC

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                      • Dark Star was probably my favourite film for part of my childhood. Mostly due to the sentient bomb, and the orange alien life form.
                        Written by Dan O'Bannon, of course, who later wrote a slightly different version of an alien, in "Alien".

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                        • OK Lynn, I'll try to watch it when I can.

                          BTW, there was an extremely short Yiddish version of Cartesianism. Its sole proposition was 'Cogito ergo schtum' and the philosophy wasn't developed further.

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                          • Originally posted by GUT View Post
                            G'day Jeff

                            What about Braveheart.
                            G'Day GUT,

                            You are right - I'm afraid I did forget Braveheart (so far the only film about Wallace and Robert the Bruce I know of). I also left off Laurel & Hardy's "Bonnie Scotland", which for the first half hour is in a Hollywood style Scotland, but spends the bulk of the film in India for odd plot reasons.

                            There was also a silent film called "Annie Laurie" which I believe starred Lillian Gish, but I can't fully recall it.

                            I did include several films connected to the West Port Murders of Burke and Hare (one, "The Greed of William Hart" starred Tod Slaughter, but for some reason the last name of Burke was changed). I forgot to include "Madeleine", a David Lean film that starred his then wife Ann Todd as Madeleine Smith.

                            Jeff

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                            • Originally posted by Robert View Post
                              The Ghost of St Michael's (Hay)
                              Geordie
                              Ring of Bright Water (both Bill Travers)
                              The 39 Steps (especially the version with Robert Powell)
                              I never saw the Hay comedy and "Ring of Bright Water". I did forget The 39 Steps, but I just am familiar with the Donat/Hitchcock version.

                              Jeff

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                              • Hi Jeff

                                Another two : Tunes of Glory (John Mills and Alec Guinness)
                                The Wicker Man (Christopher Lee)

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