Alexander McKendrick was perhaps about as pure a director as film ever turned out. He made every film absolutely for himself, the devil take the hindmost. As for the pair chasing the others in the truck, the one with the mustache you will recognize as one of the cricketeers from Lady Vanishes, the other was a very fine addition to The Man in the White Suit. Ahh the Brits and comedy, alas nothing like any of this now. Pure travesty anymore.
@doctornoooo Ahh the man in the white suit. I saw this as a kid and what a wonderful film it was. I found a youtuber whos got this and am downloading it as I type this, Thanks for the brain tweak on a classic I'd nearly fogotten about. :)
the last eight minutes or so of this film is as tight as comedy ever got: matched only by the Ladykillers Dr Strangelove The Bank Dick and a very few others. That is has
so few viewers yet here is something of a surprise. Some of the film lags, but when it is good it is much much much better than good. Perhaps I will go back and alert
the viewers at the first to Gods ake give it a roll of the dice. It will come up seven more than enough to keep them in the game.
the guy in whisky I mentioned who's also in white suit: look for him as one of the
men who suffer under one one of the explosions in the factory: just as in this movie
this guy is truly funny: he was not in much even with Ealing but he never overplays
or underplays: he's just damned damned funny.
doctornoooo 1 year ago
Alexander McKendrick was perhaps about as pure a director as film ever turned out. He made every film absolutely for himself, the devil take the hindmost. As for the pair chasing the others in the truck, the one with the mustache you will recognize as one of the cricketeers from Lady Vanishes, the other was a very fine addition to The Man in the White Suit. Ahh the Brits and comedy, alas nothing like any of this now. Pure travesty anymore.
doctornoooo 1 year ago
@doctornoooo Ahh the man in the white suit. I saw this as a kid and what a wonderful film it was. I found a youtuber whos got this and am downloading it as I type this, Thanks for the brain tweak on a classic I'd nearly fogotten about. :)
videomonkey2009 1 year ago
the last eight minutes or so of this film is as tight as comedy ever got: matched only by the Ladykillers Dr Strangelove The Bank Dick and a very few others. That is has
so few viewers yet here is something of a surprise. Some of the film lags, but when it is good it is much much much better than good. Perhaps I will go back and alert
the viewers at the first to Gods ake give it a roll of the dice. It will come up seven more than enough to keep them in the game.
doctornoooo 1 year ago
this ending is one of the best from Ealing: for about a decade they just could
do no wrong with their comedies: easily, no make that far and away the best
burst of comedies in the history of conema. Quite an amazing standard: and
just watch the guy hand the other one his fingernail clippers as a pair of
wire cutters, very quietly of course. It doesn't get any better.
doctornoooo 1 year ago
@doctornoooo Thanks for comment. Yep the nail clippers are rather ironic.
videomonkey2009 1 year ago