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The film ended with Fincham’s words, “I told you once Ryan if only one gets out it’s a victory”. After Gortz shot Ryan he gave a look of satisfaction that seemed to indicate that “if only one gets stopped it’s a victory”
Hi Gary. You’re right in what you say. It may interest you to look at the threads that appear under “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” “The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes” and “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes” as your thoughts are covered in more detail there. “The Reigate Squires” is the story that I should like to have seen adapted.
Sir Lancelot “What are you in this hospital for Wendover?”
Wendover (Arthur Haynes) “Shrapnel moved. In the war a grenade exploded nearby and the shrapnel got me right up the ...”
Sir Lancelot: “Rectum?”
Wendover: “Well it didn’t do them much good”
I agree with the post, albeit 5 years later. Arthur Haynes owned every scene he was in
Mr Bernstein’s great scene with Thompson “A fella remembers a lot of things you wouldn’t think he’d remember.”
I enjoy watching Oliver!
“Who Will Buy?” happens to take place at the only time In his life when Oliver knows happiness. Maybe Carol Reed and Ossie Morris wanted this number to be the one segment of the film that should be both exuberant and shot in glorious colour.
Yes I thought The Test was the verger’s shining hour.
Verger: “I’m taking your name for that. Gross impertinence and sarcasm.”
Mainwaring: “You don’t book people in cricket.”
V: “I do.”
V: “24 runs Mr Blewett”
M: “You can’t award 24 runs. It was a lost ball.”
V: “you just threw it in.”
M: “we only just found it.”
V: “well it wasn’t lost then.”
SPOILER
Hi Holmes (2)
No, we leave “The Abbey Grange” where Captain Crocker is found not guilty by the Watson jury and Holmes acquits him. We don’t know how their lives turned out afterwards, though I’m sure they lived happily ever after.
I wonder whether the scene you are referring to is the conclusion of “The Dying Detective”, which does feature Holmes and Watson (with Mrs Savage and her daughter) on the lawn of a fine country home. This is episode 2 of the first season of “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.” Hope this helps.
I much enjoyed Sydney Greenstreet’s screen debut (at the age of 61) in The Maltese Falcon.
Greenstreet was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor but lost out to Donald Crisp in How Green was My Valley.
Remember the scene fairly early in the movie just after the train heist. Zuckie was in agony with his face swathed in bandages when Cody and the gang were going to make their getaway. Zuckie’s pal Cotton asked Cody “Did you mean what you said about sending a doctor to take care of Zuckie?” Cody replied “Sure. I’ll send him a Specialist. You. Go back in there and make it easy for him.”
I agree (even two years later) Dr Mac. Robert Middleton played Kobish. He was a splendid character actor. One of my favourite roles of his was as Gary Cooper’s cheerful “Methodist” neighbour in Friendly Persuasion.
I agree it was unusual. The conclusion I drew was that Sophia Loren’s husband is Carlo Ponti the film’s producer.
Network are releasing Volume One (13 episodes) on 11 February 2019.
You’re absolutely right. It’s a crucial point to show Scrooge’s repentance and it was a flawed decision to omit it here. That’s scripwriters, editors, producers and directors for you I’m afraid. Maybe it was filmed and edited out. Like you, I feel this should have been given priority over other scenes. Let’s hope a Director’s Cut will be available someday.
Burny Mattinson (Bravo!) included this incident in “Mickey’s Christmas Carol” although that film was only some 26 minutes long.
Here in The English Midlands I never tire of watching this film about New York. Here are three of my favourites lines.
As the policemen with the sack of money we’re walking towards the train the one said to his mate “Four sub machine guns in front of us and all these jokers behind. I feel like I’m walking into the effing OK Corral.”
“Listen to me you dumb sonofabitch if you don’t do what I tell you you’ll be having dinner tonight with Caz Dalovicz”.
“Hey dude. Long as you’re going downtown would you mind dropping me off at Fulton Street?”
This conversation is making me think perhaps more than I should about this great movie. Billy was on the Building and Loan Board while his brother Peter (presumably the brains of the outfit) was CEO. It was called the “Bailey Brothers Building and Loan” company so perhaps there was some “family money” left to the brothers that they invested in the Building and Loan Company to help the people of Bedford Falls. George himself admitted to Potter that while his late father was an honourable man, he was not a businessman. The other members of the board would have sold out to Potter after Pa Bailey died unless George would take his father’s position. They clearly felt that Billy wasn’t the right man to take the Building and Loan forward. What a good decision. To your not unreasonable point of the wisdom in entrusting Uncle Billy with that amount of money. Probably not, but remember this section of the film is the culmination of all that has gone before. I would suggest that Uncle Billy made the walk from his office to the bank (with a great deal of money) more than once a week for all those years probably without mishap. Unfortunately this was the day when he was overexcited because of his nephew Harry being awarded the Medal of Honour and Mr Carter the austere Bank Examiner came to pay a visit. His boasting to Potter was the mistake, and why he couldn’t remember this conversation when walking back with George has always puzzled me. Sorry to go on, but while we’re on this point George went to see Potter and told him (twice) that HE had misplaced eight thousand dollars. What a guy!! Potter not owning up at this stage was despicable. Anyway thanks for the conversation. There’s so much depth about this film that we could write an essay about every scene and every character. Let’s enjoy the movie again between now and Christmas.
Remember the section in the film when Clarence showed George what would have happened to his loved ones had he never existed. Mrs Bailey told George that Uncle Billy had been in the insane asylum for years, right after he had lost his business. You are right to say that Uncle Billy had his weaknesses, but George’s kindness and decency saved him from himself.
“The tide is full and the wind is with us.”
Mainwarning again. In “Sons of the Sea” he is saying goodbye to his men after encouraging them to make their own way back across the channel. He comes to Godfrey, pauses and says “You stay with me Godfrey. I’ll get you home” although he knew it would mean they wouldn’t make it very far.
There was a minor but telling incident in the kitchen that I should like to pitch. The raptor jumped onto the counter and tapped her elongated claw a few times (a Shere Khan gesture if ever there was one) on the metallic surface as though she was taking a second to think where her prey might be hiding. Brilliant Spielberg.
Ranch Hand on seeing Chisum sitting on his horse on a hillside: "What's he doing just sitting there?"
Pepper (Ben Johnson) : "I don't THINK you'd understand."