Movies, good and bad

[Uncle Sparky]

This movie is on a lot of critics all time favourites lists. The humour, while cutting edge when it came out, is dated now. More a series of vignettes than a traditional story, the cast also included Sir Richard Attenborough, Spike Mulligan, and Yul Brynner (in drag, singing Noël Coward).

If no one answers today, I'll be a good Christian and give an easy hint tomorrow. It isn't magic.

[Uncle Sparky]

I still have zero idea what you are talking about, but you have my full attention.

Here is a safe still from that scene.

[Uncle Sparky]

Although the movie's title is the name of a (supposed) luxury ship, Capt. Bligh does not sing ___ Lovin' Spoonful's hit "Do you believe in ______" to Fletcher _________.
(Fill in the blanks...)

[SlowwHand]

The Magic Christian.

[Guynemer]

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Here is a safe still from that scene.

Mother of God.

[molly bloom]

(Molly will know this one)

The soundtrack more than the film. British films could be very surreal in the 60s... I give you 'The Bed Sitting Room' :

Set in post-nuclear-holocaust England, where a handful of bizarre characters struggle on with their lives in the ruins, amongst endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, muddy plains, and heaps of dentures and old boots. Patriotically singing "God Save Mrs. Etheyl Shroake, Long Live Mrs. Etheyl Shroake", they wander through this surrealistic landscape, forever being warned by the police to "keep moving", and prone to the occasional mutation into a parrot, cupboard, or even, yes, a bed sitting room with "No Wogs" scrawled in the grime on it's windows. In particular, this story revolves around the odd "love story" of a girl who lives with her parents in one compartment of a London Underground train, the commuter in the next compartment, and the doctor they meet after returning above ground in search of a nurse for the heavily pregnant girl.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064074/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

Mother of God.

-Guynemer

Eh. Seen her in 'Myra Breckinridge' ?

[Uncle Sparky]

The Magic Christian.

Correct - since you were first, it's you're turn! ... and try to find a way to see The Magic Christian- in many ways it's the transition between The Goon Show & Monty Python.

... as for the publicity shot ot Welch and Starr - the scene is in the 'engine room' of the Magic Christian, which is powered by a very large number of attractive, topless galley slaves.

http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-ph...l-welch-in-the

[Uncle Sparky]

We... are we getting a new movie?

[molly bloom]

We... are we getting a new movie?

If Slowwie doesn't post soon, give us another one your own good self, sirrah.

[Uncle Sparky]

I'll go, so this won't die... This should be easier -


Lost under a stage in Cleveland. Not... f*cking... Stonehenge.

[Guynemer]

This Is Spinal Tap

[Guynemer]

Here's one that is almost as easy.

A well-known symbol of France plays a crucial role in this film noir.

[Tuberski]

The Maltese Bippy!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064627/

ACK!

[Guynemer]

Ummmm... no.


Don't let me become Rollo Tomassey by stumping you all.

[Uncle Sparky]

A View to a Kill isn't film noir, so I need another hint.