the long and the short and the tall ( film )
2012 the long and the short and the tall ‘the long and the short and the tall’ by willis hall was presented at bovey ...
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‘the long and the short and the tall’ by willis hall was presented at bovey tracey town hall from the 24th to the 27th october 2012. the play was directed by david wilson .
he death of willis hall a year ago this month has prompted something of a reappraisal. liverpool playhouse delivered an enjoyable revival of billy liar, which hall wrote in tandem with his long - standing collaborator, keith waterhouse. the long and the short and the tall is one he wrote on his own, before he later turned to writing scripts for the television series worzel gummidge .
the title is derived from the lyrics of a popular wartime ballad bless' em all. this is, indeed, a war picture, set in malaya. the british troops encamped therein believe they' ve gotten a break when they capture a japanese scout (kenji takaki) - - but it' s all part of an enemy trap. the rest of the film concentrates on a battle of wills rather than bullets, though a few spurts of action keep the war - film aficionados happy. played against the larger tapestry of the world conflict are the fluctuating tensions among the british soldiers themselves. adapted from a play by willis hall, the long and the short and the tall was released as both the long the short and the tall (big whoop) and jungle fighters in the united states. ~ hal erickson, rovi
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to my knowledge, the long and the short and the tall has only been released on dvd in the uk so far. that disc presents the film full frame, which is clearly not how a movie coming out in 1961 would have been shot. imdb suggest 1. 85: 1 as the correct ratio and that sounds correct to me. aside from that, the film looks pretty good with nice contrast and little or no distracting damage visible. sadly, there are no extra features whatsoever offered. i suppose some might complain about the studio - bound setting but i can’t say i found it problematic, the story is of the intimate, powder - keg variety so it works well enough. personally, i find war films a fine vehicle for raising ethical conundrums and a means of focusing attention on our view of fellow men. in terms of setting and moral complexity the long and the short and the tall shares some features with hammer’s yesterday’s enemy, and both movies would make for an interesting double feature .
meanwhile, south african actors are good enough for the other roles. we see this happen over and over. tomorrow there will be a film about walter sisulu, and then what? no one is short enough ?
the religion of high - school football commingles with plain old - fashioned religion in “when the game stands tall, ” an inspirational sports drama (from sony’s inhouse, faith - based label affirm films) that goes long on rectitudinous sermonizing but comes up short on gridiron thrills or genuine love for the game. save for a couple of fine performances relegated to [ … ]
drawing upon his wartime experiences in malaya, hall' s play brings together an englishman, an irishman, a welshman and a scotsman. it sounds like the ingredients for a terrible joke, and there is a fair sprinkling of unreconstructed racial attitudes throughout the play. the particularly prejudicial tone taken towards the japanese enemy makes it doubtful whether the long the short and the tall stands up to modern scrutiny, yet josie rourke' s production has an unflinching honesty which gives the play a disturbingly familiar gloss .
the film of long walk to freedom has been in the pipeline for years and elba' s casting is yet to be confirmed by its producers. lee said almost all the other roles, including mandela aged seven and 16, would be played by south african actors .
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mandela, a towering figure in every sense, is 6ft 4ins (1. 93 metres) tall: actors in south africa just don' t measure up, says moonyeenn lee, who picked british - born elba – star of the wire and luther – for a planned film adaptation of mandela' s autobiography, long walk to freedom .
. as any film noir buff will tell you, poor set design can often be concealed by imaginative lighting and camerawork, but alas these are also lacking from this film, so that visually it resembles a mediocre tv drama from the 1950s. it is hard to suspend your disbelief when so little effort has apparently been made to disguise the fact that the film was recorded in a studio. not surprisingly, the film' s most intense and credible scenes are those that take place within the cramped bamboo hut, the one and only realistic set offered by the film .
was originally performed at the edinburgh festival fringe in 1955, where film producer michael balcon saw it and resolved to acquire the film rights. it was only after the play had triumphed on the london stage that hall agreed to a film adaptation. wolf mankowitz was hired to redraft hall' s play and the task of directing it was given to leslie norman (father of the well - known uk film critic barry norman), who later directed some of the most popular tv series of the' 60s and' 70s -
the play tells the story of a small british patrol in the malayan jungle in the second world war just before the japanese invaded the peninsula and eventually singapore. on a routine patrol they take refuge for a short break in an abandoned miners hut .
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sello maake ka - ncube, a south african actor who won a regional theatre award for his portrayal of mandela in the drama rivonia trial – and is 1. 8m tall – said :
beauty is in the eye of the beholder. i don' t think we are too short for anything. but i respect the director' s vision .
but the short, stocky actor will be best remembered for his portrayal of wing commander guy gibson in the acclaimed war film, the dam busters. todd was himself a war hero, one of the first british officers to parachute into normandy during the d - day landings in 1944, and he re - lived some of that experience when he played major john howard in the film the longest day (1962). his private life was marked by the tragic suicides of two of his sons .
todd enjoyed his role in never let go (1960) starring peter sellers (
i loved doing it because it was a character part for me, playing a scruffy little salesman whose car has been stolen
), but he
loathed
making the screen version of the play the long, the short and the tall (1961) .
i didn' t enjoy working with laurence harvey... i took it for granted that they would cast peter o' toole, who was marvellous on stage, but they said they wanted a' name' .
this film, made in the traditional british style for the period displays a rare realism of a conflict where the main characters are
other ranks
. many british war films of this type invariably starred well known actors playing the stiff upper lip officer with character actors playing
other rank
in subordinate roles. the latter being patronised as salt of the earth types. the film being reviewed seems to me to be a forerunner of the more realistic school of film - making in later decades .
henry roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets the beautiful lucy. they hit it off and henry think he' s finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short - term memory loss and forgets him the very next day .
for political and budgetary reasons, filming on location in the jungles of asia was infeasible and so the entire film had to be shot in a studio mock - up. whilst it can be argued that this is what gives the film its stifling aura of oppression, the fact that the studio sets are more redolent of kew gardens than the burmese jungle does diminish its realism somewhat. likewise, the impact of the sequences in the partially flooded mine is greatly undermined by the fact that the cast appear to have taken a wrong turning and wandered onto the set of
a separate film project, winnie, provoked controversy by casting hollywood stars terrence howard and jennifer hudson as nelson and winnie mandela. the casting of morgan freeman in invictus was also criticised .
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this is already a sore point for local performers, and now salt has been rubbed in the wound. why do they never get the chance to play their national hero? because they are too short, according to the country' s top casting agent .
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the play transferred to london' s west end, where it became a huge success. the then little - known peter o' toole played bamforth. balcon recounts in his autobiography how he eventually secured the film rights, in conjunction with abpc. experienced screenwriter wolf mankowitz adapted the play, retaining some of hall' s own draft screenplay, and the film was directed by leslie norman .
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thanks for getting back after viewing the movie, jeff. harvey often came across as cold, and it works well in certain films, but there’s none of that on show here. i found his work in the early part of the film very broad and affected, and harris was straying close to that too. the second half picks up a lot though and the performances settle and improve as the drama intensifies .
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the religion of high - school football commingles with plain old - fashioned religion in “when the game stands tall, ” an inspirational sports drama (from sony’s inhouse, faith - based label affirm films) that goes long on rectitudinous sermonizing but comes up short on gridiron thrills or genuine love for the game. save for a couple of fine performances relegated to the sidelines, no one really brings their “a” game to this lazily executed late - summer programmer — a “friday night lights” for the sunday - school crowd graced by little of the storytelling craft and skillful emotional manipulation that have distinguished the recent wave of superior disney sports pics. after an opening weekend that may see a bump from church - group sales, expect “game” to do most of its rushing and passing on home screens .
a simple but effective set showed the action well and the different personalities of the different members of the patrol were well portrayed by the cast with some very realistic accents. black humour made the audience laugh at times and the drama of the situation kept them involved throughout the performance. a good addition to the canon of the players work .
i was free to cast a south african, and i auditioned some extraordinary local actors ,
lee told the sunday newspaper city press .
but the main problem is the height. mandela is a particularly tall man. on average, south african actors are not 1. 9 metres .
willis hall was a comparatively unknown playwright when his play was produced at the edinburgh festival fringe in 1955, where it was seen by michael balcon. balcon, now working at the elstree studios of the associated british picture corporation, following the sale of ealing studios, made hall an offer for the film rights. theatre producer oscar lewenstein, however, offered hall a london production provided that the film rights were unsold .
colin one of the best jungle warfare films i’ve seen in the last while is the 2006 australian production, kokoda. it is about the brutal fight for the kokoda trail in new guinea in 1942. this is one mean and nasty war film, and well worth a look in my opinion. review up of course. gordon
a good old fashioned british made war film... ideal for a lads night in... well made and a good story line. . good value
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one of the better transfers of a stage play to film in my humble opinion. nice write up. watched this for about the 5th time just a few months ago. what a great cast and fine work by them as well as the crew .
yeah, plays don’t always work as pieces of cinema and the stage origins can be quite distracting at times. this film, however, skips round that particular artistic pitfall early on and then settles down to providing good, absorbing drama .
the british army in the far east was a popular film subject, especially in the 1950s, and was also treated memorably in peter nichols' privates on parade (d. michael blakemore, 1982). class tensions and personality clashes among servicemen were also the subject of john mcgrath' s the bofors gun (d. jack gold, 1968) .
the country also lacked experienced actors, as a consequence of apartheid, lee added .
the younger actors have had a chance to go and study and learn and work with internationals. the older actors, growing up during apartheid, had to deal with the cultural boycott, [ with ] very few roles on television and almost none in film. there simply aren' t enough actors to choose from .
nice review, colin, of a film i too have never seen. not sure why. i always liked richard todd but not so keen on richard harris (in his younger days) or laurence harvey – maybe that has something to do with it. that said, i really enjoyed harvey in the 1954 film “the good die young” which also starred stanley baker, john ireland and a great cast .
a film based on the successful play by willis hall about a british patrol in burma who are determined to kill an innocent japanese prisoner in a mad revenge for atrocities against british prisoners .
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the theme song of the film, from which the title was taken, is a british army song from 1916, known as
bless' em all
. this title however, is from the sanitized commercial version first recorded in 1940 by george formby. the lyrics were originally
fuck' em all
, the version still sung in the british army to this day .
worst of all was the casting of bamforth, the central role. balcon had wanted either o' toole, or another up - and - coming young actor called albert finney. this was unacceptable to the americans, who had put up some of the money and wanted a' name' that would play in the american market. laurence harvey was cast - a most unlikely cockney. he gives a' star' performance, all
professional mimicry and forceful personality selling
, as the monthly film bulletin review put it. only kenji takaki, playing the japanese scout tojo, survived from the london stage production. alongside experienced british film actor richard todd, however, the cast boasted some names that would soon become household - richard harris and david mccallum .
in 1953 he told the bbc of his ambition to play heathcliff in wuthering heights, and a television version was quickly arranged, with nigel kneale given one week to write the script. todd returned to hollywood to star as the reverend peter marshall, the scotsman who became chaplain for the us senate, in the screen biography, a man called peter (1955). todd was superb as the charismatic preacher, delivering his sermons with flair and fervour, dealing with tuberculosis and maintaining a warmly loving relationship with his wife (jean peters). the film was a big hit in the us, and todd then co - starred with bette davis in the virgin queen (1955), as sir walter raleigh, with joan collins as raleigh' s sweetheart. the film was initially titled sir walter raleigh, and planned as a starring vehicle for todd and collins, but when davis was cast the emphasis shifted to her character and the title changed (though her role took only 12 days to shoot) .
another aussie ww2 film worth a look is the last bullet from 1995. it is about a small unit action in the last days of the war. it is set in borneo during the mopping up operations in 1945. again, write - up at the usual place. i love war films set in unfamiliar places .
i bought this film to see one of my mother' s favorite actors, laurence harvey. the talent was certainly there, so i will try to find other films for which he is better known. i also learned the words to the song, from which the title was derived !
the play illustrates the dilemmas faced by the soldiers and their ncos and the tensions that arise between a mixed bag of reluctant heroes who don’t really want to be there. the situation becomes more complicated when they capture a lone japanese soldier, and the decision has to be made as to what to do with him .
even balcon had to admit that the result was disappointing. the political situation at that time precluded filming the exteriors on real south - east asian locations, and the studio jungle looks unconvincing. by alternating interior shots with exterior' action', the claustrophobia and much of the suspense of the play is lost .
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political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in malaya, after the close of the second world war .
her explanations have gone down badly with the body representing actors, the creative workers union of south africa. its president, mabutho
kid
sithole, told the city press :
we are not impressed. so, no one is tall enough: there' s always some reason to avoid using south african actors, and having other people tell our stories. they use these stars for commercial reasons and the problem is, south african business is not funding our own films .
now the positions are reversed; the japanese soldiers find tojo' s water bottle on whitaker, and the cycle of suspicion starts all over again .
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offers both a probing examination of the morality of war and a compelling study of the psychology of warfare. the film shows how a poorly led group of british soldiers loses its cohesion and sense of purpose as a result of the moral conflict that arises when a japanese man is taken prisoner. whereas some members of the group see a dangerous enemy (because he is wearing a different uniform), others see only another human being, reminding us that the objectives of war and the interests of humanity are mutually incompatible. the anti - war message may be far from subtle but it is remarkably effective and prompts the audience to reflect on whether there can ever be a moral basis to any war. as they ruminate on the fate of their prisoner, the british soliders' moral undulations resemble a pendulum swinging between civilised behaviour and barbarity, and the outcome is all too predictable .
the tragic story of seven british soldiers who, trapped behind japanese lines, are so concerned with arguing out their own destinies that the enemy has to take second place. when they capture a lone japanese scout and argue over his fate as well, the film shows with a terrible truth that in war there can be no second chances .
i remember reading the play in second year of secondary school. i was impressed by the portrayal of soldiers as human beings not as heroes, as was common in war films of the time. a difficult subject dealt with brilliantly by great actors. a film which is a powerful antidote to the hollywood - style of jingoistic bombast .
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i have lots of respect for those who research the aspect ratios and fight to have the right choices presented. as a viewer though, my head starts to spin with the onslaught of technical minutiae that often accompanies such discussions, and i fear there’s always the danger of missing the wood for looking at the trees .
( 1967). the other players - david mccallum, ronald fraser, john meillon, john rees and kenji takaki - are no less deserving of praise and give the film much of its humanity and psychological realism. the end result may be more theatrical than cinematic, but it is nonetheless a powerful anti - war piece, one that compels its spectator to confront some problematic moral issues, to which of course there are no easy solutions .
early on, i wanted victoria to be the mom ,
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a shot at redemption hovers in the form of a ballyhooed game against a long beach team with a 330 - pound offensive tackle. but as this sluggish film winds its way toward that inevitable showdown, it generates little in the way of rooting interest. in adapting neil hayes’ nonfiction book, screenwriter scott marshall smith (“men of honor”) and david zelon (who receives a story credit with smith) have painted nearly every character into a blandly stereotypical corner, whether it’s the golden - boy running back (alexander ludwig) with a hard - driving booster dad (a snarling, mustache - twirling clancy brown); ladouceur’s own wide - receiver son (matthew daddario), on hand mainly to grouse things like, “when i needed a dad, i got a coach, and now when i need a coach, you want to be a dad”; and ladouceur himself, the kind of secular saint who tosses lucrative college coaching offers into the trash bin as if they were yesterday’s fish wrap. (doing by far the best work in the film, michael chiklis and laura dern manage to suggest glimmers of inner lives as, respectively, ladouceur’s longtime assistant coach and acquiescent wife. )
like most entries in this particular genre, “when the game stands tall” traffics in the usual tropes of scrappy heroes and come - from - behind victories — except that, in this case, the underdogs are more like alpha dogs, and they don’t go from last to first so much as from first to second and back again. but then, there’s more to life than just winning — a mantra the movie announces with such frequency and fervor that if you don’t leave the theater with it ringing in your head, you should head straight for the nearest ear doctor. when our story begins in the fall of 2003, the de la salle high school spartans of tree - lined concord, calif. , are coming to the end of yet another undefeated season that has left them with the longest unbroken winning streak — 151 games — in american sports history. but dark clouds loom on the horizon: a large chunk of the team’s starting lineup is due to graduate in the spring, and the underclassmen waiting to take their places seem to lack a certain team spirit .
5. some of the cast knew early on that the mom would die .
on the last day of shooting at elstree studios, todd was spotted by director vincent sherman, who was preparing a film version of john patrick' s play the hasty heart and felt that todd would be ideal casting as the dour, truculent soldier lachlan mclachlan, who initially rejects the attempts at friendship made by fellow patients in a military hospital in burma (the scottish actor gordon jackson had already been tested for the part .) though his co - stars, ronald reagan and patricia neal, gave fine performances, todd was outstanding as the dying scot, later commenting ,
i had seen boys in the war in much the same state and i knew what he was feeling ,
and he won an academy award nomination as best actor (losing to broderick crawford in all the king' s men) .
the noise immediately gives away their position. cornered, the patrol fights bravely but hopelessly. when the smoke clears, only johnstone and whitaker are left alive. they surrender .
this was a strong performance well up to the players usual standard, and the director had assembled a very capable cast who illustrated clearly the mundane side of soldiering as well as the very real horrors of jungle warfare .
a group of british servicemen, fighting the japanese in the jungles of south - east asia during world war ii, confront the enemy within when class tensions and personal rivalries erupt .
in 1942, a group of british soldiers is sent on a mission in the malaysian jungle and gets lost into the japanese controlled zone .
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carter, a proficient journeyman director who did a modestly more energetic job with 2005’s high - school basketball drama “coach carter, ” never seems to get inside the world of the movie. his football scenes lack any visceral, bone - crunching impact, and when he ventures off the field, the movie fails to foster the sense of family and community that drive the best sports dramas. carter’s leafy nocal suburbs and their adjacent war - torn ghettos have all the neighborhood feel of the warner bros. backlot .
five stents later, ladouceur is good as new, but somehow the spartans’ mojo isn’t quite working. some of the cocky new players don’t seem to understand that there’s no “i” in “team, ” and everyone is shattered when beloved linebacker terrance t. k. kelly (stephan james) is killed in a random act of urban violence (foreshadowed by risibly cliche images of malt - liquor - swilling revelers bumping and grinding to montell jordan). still, “when the game stands tall” has already been on the screen for nearly an hour by the time the spartans finally lose, during an away game against a national - championship seattle team — the proverbial inciting incident that most screenplay manuals tell you to include no later than page 15 .
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this plays quite regularly on tv here in the u. k. but i’ve always avoided it for the very silly reason that we had to study the play when i was in school. i have a built - in aversion to spending leisiure time with things i was compelled to write essays about when i was 15! it’s time to put this foolishness to one side and to watch it. i’m sure that my school essays about it were incredibly insightful and intellectually rigorous (!! ?) 🙂 but the plain fact is that i’ve long forgotten the details. i will pick up the dvd asap. regardless of everything else, i always enjoy richard todd’s performances. i’m convinced that he had the straightest back in british cinema. i challenge anyone to find a todd role where there’s even the slightest indication of a slouch in his posture! thanks for the review colin .
macleish and smith are sent out to reconnoiter, and discover a japanese scouting party nearby, in search of their missing comrade. macleish and smith manage to kill one of them, and escape. back at the hut, bamforth is set to guard the prisoner, who he nicknames tojo. despite the language barrier, bamforth discovers that tojo has a wife and family, and sees his photographs of them. johnstone breaks up their' conversation', still thirsting for the prisoner' s blood. there is another radio message from the enemy, this time in english, letting the patrol know that they are coming! mitchem decides it is useless to keep the prisoner alive, and resolves that he must be killed .
bamforth delights in taunting the other men, drawing out their weaknesses and making them doubt the fidelity of their womenfolk back home. he hates the army and is always putting on funny voices, singing songs and generally' performing' to his captive audience. even the composition of the patrol is like a music hall joke - there is an englishman, an irishman, a welshman, a scotsman ...
i’ve been meaning to catch up with this one for ages. really enjoyed the review (and thanks, as ever, for the general avoidance of spoilers) and am now ordering this one as i speak …
during the japanese invasion of 1942, a seven - strong british patrol beds down in a dilapidated store - hut in the burmese jungle. hindered by a malfunctioning radio, the men do not know whether or not to move on and the situation takes a turn for the worse when a lone japanese scout stumbles across the hut - leaving the soldiers with a moral dilemma. second world war drama, starring laurence harvey, richard todd, richard harris and david mccallum .
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todd then returned to the uk to star in his most famous role, that of guy gibson in the dam busters (1955), which he considered
the best military war picture ever made
. gibson trained the crews of the aeroplanes with the responsibility of precisely releasing the
bouncing baby bombs
that would destroy the hitherto unassailable ruhr dams that supplied the power needed to run the large german factories. though todd never met gibson, he spent time with the inventor barnes wallis .
they got the technical details about the bomb itself from him, although some of that had to be cheated a bit because it was still secret .
one of my favorite films. not so much anti - war but anti the cheapening and dehumanizing of
enemies
, very stagey and little action. the characters are clearly delineated and well acted, particularly laurence harvey as both the pro and antagonist. the dialogue and ensemble work is excellent. unfortunately the print is fullscreen, not it' s original 1: 66 - 1 aspect ratio. this omission doesn' t make a huge difference. print quality is slightly above average. recommended if you like films that propose questions with no easy answers and deal with issues that i' m sure to this day every soldier on the front lines has to deal with .
even a better director, though, might have been at a loss to solve a problem like caviezel. when the real ladouceur appears in documentary footage under the movie’s end credits, he seems a stern but folksy, avuncular figure, a bit like a more athletic garrison keillor. but caviezel turns him into a dour ascetic who scarcely cracks a smile and suffers profoundly for each of his players who fails to grasp the true meaning of “those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. ” it’s a comically self - serious turn, but at least it’s interesting in a way that little else in “when the game stands tall” manages to be. it is sometimes said that a great actor can take dross and make it sound like shakespeare. here, caviezel takes “hoosiers” and plays it as though he were still nailed to the cross .
this movie is an incredibly hilarious movie, no matter how many times you watch it. it' s true that it' s profane, violent, and stupid, but in this film, that' s what makes it so funny! the timing is just perfect. it' s a great movie to watch with friends for the first time, especially for the fact that you will be quoting lines with them randomly for quite a while. i have seen it over 30 times, and i still laugh. this is adam sandler at his very best. great random characters, such as the
jackass
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bamforth is now the only member of the group who opposes tojo' s death. the prisoner has inadvertently revealed an unexpected streak of compassion in him. but while bamforth is striving desperately to avoid a cold - blooded killing, the enemy patrol is getting closer. at a crucial moment, the radio crackles into life with enemy voices. the prisoner, springing to his feet, begins to gesticulate and speak rapidly in japanese, and whitaker, in a panic, grabs a gun and shoots him .
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i like the foundation of the story, that these men come to the gradual realization that they are in a lot of trouble, and i thought the battle sequences were good, despite being shot in studio. overall, an ok watch, but not a great movie .
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in alfred hitchcock' s stage fright (1950) todd played a villain on screen for the first time, as the former boy - friend of an acting student (jane wyman) who comes to her for help, describing in a vivid flashback his involvement with a musical star (marlene dietrich) who has killed her husband. hitchcock' s use of a flashback that turns out to be a lie was heavily criticised, and despite a strong cast the film is not among the director' s best, with todd a dour killer .
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hitchcock was a strange man ,
he recalled ,
not a lot of help to his actors .
todd was also a not very sympathetic character in his first hollywood - made film, king vidor' s mystery drama lightning strikes twice (1951), as a man wrongly suspected of killing his wife, but he regained his popularity with three period romps for walt disney, the story of robin hood and his merrie men (1951); the sword and the rose (1953), a fanciful account of the love of a commoner (todd) for mary tudor (glynis johns), sister of henry viii; and rob roy – the highland rogue (1953), for which todd once more assumed a scottish brogue .
hannigan says the whole process of finding the right actress to play the mom was
very secretive
and caused some suspicion around set when trailers that would
never be locked
suddenly were. hannigan says she first met the mother, cristin milioti, in a makeup trailer because producers wanted to see how the pair looked side by side .
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lee rejected the union' s criticism .
they must look at the height ,
she told the guardian .
it' s always been a problem .
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a major star of the british cinema in the 1950s, richard todd won an oscar nomination for his portrayal of a taciturn dying scot in the hasty heart (1949), played robin hood and sir walter raleigh on screen, and was ian fleming' s first choice to play his creation, james bond .
i was initially intrigued by seeing laurence harvey’s name on it. although i generally consider him a fairly limited actor, he is front and center of two films that are on my indispensable list – manchurian candidate, and room at the top. i generally like his movies. this one was a real departure for him, as his usual coldness wasn’t evident, but i found him distracting early on. you hit the nail on the head exactly – it’s a “stagey”, over the top performance. likewise with harris – i felt that the tension between johnstone and bamforth was a construct. they hate each other because the plot dictates it, and for a great deal of the 1st half of the movie, neither seems like a real person .
i fully sympathize with the desire to see things as near to correct as possible but i can’t personally summon up the enthusiasm to argue over those small differences either. zoomed open matte does bug me, and panned and scanned scope is just a total disaster .
a troop of british soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. as they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a japanese broadcast. they now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a japanese camp! the tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted
non - hero
private bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially corporal johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for bamforth). when a japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colors of each man comes to the surface ...
a troop of british soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. as they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a japanese broadcast. they now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a japanese camp! the tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted
non - hero
private bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially corporal johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for bamforth). when a japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colors of each man comes to the surface ...
in an asian jungle during world war ii, a seven - man british patrol led by sergeant mitchem captures tojo, a japanese scout. mitchem wants to take tojo to headquarters for questioning, but his men (including corporal johnstone, second in command) want to kill him. none of the men, however, is able to commit the deed. private bamforth, one of the instigators, is ordered to guard the prisoner, and soon tojo and he become friends. a rockslide blocks the patrol' s only means of escape from japanese - held territory; desperate, and enraged by evidence of tojo' s looting, the men renew their determination to kill him, and private whitaker finally does. the gunfire brings nearby japanese troops upon them, and after a brief battle only johnstone and whitaker are left alive to be taken as prisoners. the japanese, finding tojo' s water bottle on whitaker, begin to threaten him, and another situation of misunderstanding develops .
yes, the alamo was the other one i was going to add. he was also a terrific columbo villain as an overly - competitive chess champion. on the other hand, watching dandy is aspic was a wretched experience, just so dour and depressing
the drama centres on a british patrol, stranded behind enemy lines, who take a japanese soldier prisoner. the mute, frightened captive becomes variously a threat, a source of fascination, and the subject of bored amusement. when one of the company jocularly remarks
this one' s almost human
one is reminded instantly of the humiliation of iraqi captives in abu ghraib .
on demobilisation, he returned to dundee rep before signing a seven - year contract with associated british films. he made his screen debut in cavalcanti' s for them that trespass (1949), giving a strong performance as an ex - convict wrongly imprisoned for murder .
my first film didn' t light any fires ,
he told the historian brian mcfarlane ,
but cavalcanti taught me a great deal about techniques to overcome my faults and, really, the rudiments of screen acting .
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the jungles of asia during wwii. sergeant mitchem is in charge of a seven - man patrol engaged on sonic warfare exercises to mislead the japanese. he is fighting to regain his self - respect, following the loss of a stripe for losing a former patrol, while trying to ward off the naked disrespect of his second in command corporal johnstone. he is also plagued by the dour monotonous war - by - the - rules preaching of lance corporal macleish, and above all, losing patience with the relentless tilting against authority of private bamforth, the' barrackroom lawyer' of the patrol. the other three men, privates whitaker, smith and evans, have no particular axe to grind; they just want to return in one piece to their old lives back in civvy - street.
the long and the short and the tall ( released as jungle fighters in the usa and canada ) is a 1961 british war film directed by leslie norman , which stars richard todd , richard harris , laurence harvey , david mccallum and ronald fraser . the film , which is based on a 1959 play with the same name , by willis hall , takes place in a burmese jungle in 1942 during the malayan campaign . the title comes from the second line of the first world war song " bless 'em all " , which became very popular during the second world war . 
the long and the short and the tall (released as jungle fighters in the usa and canada) is a 1961 british war film directed by leslie norman, which stars richard todd, richard harris, laurence harvey, david mccallum and ronald fraser. the film, which is based on a 1959 play with the same name, by willis hall, takes place in a burmese jungle in 1942 during the malayan campaign. the title comes from the second line of the first world war song " bless'em all ", which became very popular during the second world war.
the long and the short and the tall (released as jungle fighters in the usa and canada) is a 1961 british war film directed by leslie norman, which stars richard todd, richard harris, laurence harvey, david mccallum and ronald fraser. the film, which is based on a 1959 play with the same name, by willis hall, takes place in a burmese jungle in 1942 during the malayan campaign. the title comes from the second line of the first world war song " bless'em all ", which became very popular during the second world war.