The Saint: The Damsel in Distress (3.13, ITC, 1964)

"We're finished."

"Yes, and perhaps the Saint is finished too."

"Guido, we must do something!"

"Yes! Let's go and eat."

"No! Aren't we men of courage?"

"Aren't you hungry?"

The Knack ...and How To Get It (1965)

The Knack ...and How To Get It by #RichardLester starring #RitaTushingham and #MichaelCrawford, "a charming, funny and beautifully shot bit of cheekiness"

RICHARD LESTER Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB United Kingdom, 1965. Woodfall Film Productions. Screenplay by Charles Wood, based on the play by Ann Jellicoe. Cinematography by David Watkin. Produced by Oscar Lewenstein. Music by John Barry. Production Design by Assheton Gorton. Costume Design by Jocelyn Rickards. Film Editing by Antony Gibbs. A number of British Invasion movies remain popular today…

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ON THIS DATE (58 YEARS AGO)

July 29, 1965 - The Beatles' second movie, "Help!" premieres in London with Queen Elizabeth II in attendance.

Help! is a 1965 film directed by Richard Lester, starring The Beatles–John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Roy Kinnear and Patrick Cargill. Help! was the second feature film made by the Beatles and is a comedy adventure which sees the group come up against an evil cult. The soundtrack was released as an album, also called Help!.

SONGS

The songs played during the film are:

"Help!"

"You're Going to Lose That Girl"

"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"

"Ticket to Ride"

"I Need You"

"The Night Before"

"Another Girl"

"She's A Woman"

"A Hard Day's Night" (played by Indian band - instrumental)

"I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" (bike-riding scene)

"You Can't Do That" (instr. during the Austrian Alps sequence)

The seven main songs formed the first side of the British release of the Help! album. The second half consisted of other new Beatles songs recorded at the same time or shortly afterwards.

#thebeatles #help

help!

isnt that a a 1965 British musical comedy-adventure film directed by Richard Lester, starring The Beatles and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Roy Kinnear and Patrick Cargill. The second film starring the Beatles following Lester's A Hard Day's Night, Help! sees the group struggle to protect Ringo Starr from a sinister eastern cult and a pair of mad scientists, all of whom are obsessed with obtaining a sacrificial ring sent to him by a fan.[3] The soundtrack was released as the band's fifth studio album under the same name.

Help! had its Royal World Premiere at the London Pavilion Theatre in the West End of London on 29 July 1965 in the presence of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon and the Earl of Snowdon. While not reviewed at the time with the same high level of admiration as their first film, Help! is now credited with influencing the development of music videos.

George Clooney in Hail, Caesar! (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2016)

Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum, Frances McDormand, Jonah Hill. Screenplay: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. Cinematography: Roger Deakins. Production design: Jess Gonchor. Film editing: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. Music: Carter Burwell.

With Hail, Caesar! Joel and Ethan Coen return to Old Hollywood, the scene of one of their earliest films, the dark horror-comedy Barton Fink (1991), this time to give us what appears to be a cotton-candy fantasia on movie genres. But Hail, Caesar! in its sly way it reveals the grip that Hollywood myth and history have on our imaginations, using parodies of Hollywood genre films not just to send up their absurdities but also to show how deeply they color our dreams. At the same time, it explores Hollywood history -- the hold the old studios had on actors' lives, the role of publicity and gossip in creating and destroying stars, the interaction with politics during the Red Scare of the late '40s and '50s -- and combines it with the parody sequences to create a movie that turns out to be a parody of movies about The Movies, a genre that includes everything from the many versions of A Star Is Born to Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952) to, well, Barton Fink. The individual parodies -- the biblical epic, the drawing room drama based on a Broadway hit, the singing-cowboy Western, the Esther Williams extravaganza, the sailors-on-a-spree musical -- are all spot on. But it takes a special audacity -- something the Coens have never lacked -- to send up the anti-communist hysteria that led to the HUAC investigation and the blacklist. The Coens do it by treating the paranoid suspicion that left-wingers were undermining the American Way of Life by injecting Marxism into the movies as if it were real. So we have a communist cell made up of writers who kidnap a movie star for ransom, and another star who defects to the Soviets when the writers row him out to a submarine at night. It's a reductio ad absurdum of Cold War hysteria, as brilliantly handled by the Coens as it was by Stanley Kubrick in Dr. Strangelove (1964). The Coens also tease us by dropping the names of real people into the script. Josh Brolin plays a studio production chief and fixer named Eddie Mannix, which is the name of a real-life Hollywood fixer who kept wayward stars out of the headlines, and he reports to a studio executive in New York named Nick Schenck, the name of the president of Loew's, Inc., which owned MGM. One of the members of the communist cell in the film, a professor "down from Stanford," is called Herbert Marcuse (John Bluthal), the name of a Marxist philosopher popular with the New Left of the 1960s. It's a film of wonderful cameos, including George Clooney as the kidnapped star, Scarlett Johansson as the Esther Williams equivalent, Ralph Fiennes as the director Laurence Laurentz, and Channing Tatum emulating Gene Kelly as the singing and dancing sailor. Tilda Swinton plays the film's competing gossip columnists, Thora and Thessaly Thacker, based on the notoriously powerful Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons. By making them twins, the Coens seem to have conflated them with the competing advice columnists Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers, née Pauline and Esther Friedman. Hail, Caesar! got a mixed reception from critics and was a box office disappointment, but I think it's ripe for rediscovery.

Ironically, and sadly, Roger Lloyd Pack died before both John Bluthal and Trevor Peacock

In the year 2062, the cosmos is kept safe by the World Space Patrol, based at Space City on an island in the South Pacific. One of its key ships, Fireball XL5, is commanded by the brave Colonen Steve Zodiac. He is joined on his adventures by co-pilot Robert the robot, navigator/engineer Professor Matthew Matic, and medical officer Doctor Venus as they protect Sector 25. The ship has a gravity activator, so the crew does not have to deal with the effects of antigravity. The ship uses the detachable nose cone of the ship, dubbed Fireball Jr, for most landing purposes.

Help! (1965) Richard Lester

October 17th 2021

Roger Lloyd Pack as Owen Newitt, the much loved, slightly unhygienic farmer from the Vicar of Dibley sitcom. (1994-2007)

Bad movie I have A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 1966

The Great McGonagall (1975)

William Topaz McGonagall, the world's greateset poet. Unfortunately the whole of the rest of the world disagreed. His talent made him a sort of Victorian Chris Evans but without the cash.

Man in a Suitcase: Jigsaw Man (1.22, ITC, 1968)

"Look, I have to pay for all this luxury I live in here."

"Middle class morality. I've never done an honest day's work in my life."

"It shows, too."

The Fifth Element (1997)

You know how we always sing the traditional christmas carols?

- Everything you create, you use to destroy. - Yeah, we call it human nature.

The Fifth Element, Luc Besson (1997)

JOHN BLUTHAL (1929-Died November 15th 2018,at 89).Polish-born Australian actor,best known to British viwers as the bumbling parish secretary Frank Pickle,in the hit sitcom The Vicar of Dibley (BBC 1994-98).He was noted for his six-decade career internationally in Australia, England and the United States. He started his career during the Golden Age of British Television, where he was best known for his comedy work in the UK with Spike Milligan, and for his role as Manny Cohen in the television series Never Mind the Quality, Return of the Pink Panther,Feel the Width,and as Professor Marcuse in the Coen Brothers' film Hail, Caesar! (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bluthal