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[BR14]

oh, - morning

25 C here, and windy, - very pleasant

[BR14]

It must be said that there's been very few good films made of Mr McBain's excellent books.

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I agree, - the books are great, but i haven't seen a good film based on them.

as disappointing as reacher I and II

[NickFitz]

Why can't you ask the landlord to have the windows unstuck?? - i certainly would have done that at the time they were painted shut.

It requires erecting scaffolding to reach them - it's too high to do with a ladder, particularly as the ground beneath is rather uneven.

And when it happened, I was working in London during the week (or maybe it was when I was in Bristol) and the scaffolding was already being taken down when I got home at the weekend and found they were stuck

Here's my post illustrating the situation. We don't have tarmac out front though; that property belongs to the council, who were able to give themselves permission to knock down the garden wall and ruin the garden to create parking spaces despite being in a conservation area where everybody else is forbidden to do just about anything to the fronts of the houses, not even put up a satellite dish

[DoctorStrangelove]

I agree, - the books are great, but i haven't seen a good film based on them.

as disappointing as reacher I and II

There's 3 1990s made for tv films that are adequate: Ice, Lightning, and Heatwave:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116166/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112931/?ref_=tt_rec_tti

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119047/?ref_=tt_rec_tti

The one with Randy Quaid is by far the weakest, but even saying that none of them are stellar.

Not forgetting "Fuzz" wtih Burt Reynolds & Raquel Welch

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068617/?ref_=nv_sr_2

It looks as if some of the 1958 tv production is available.

I wonder what they're like.

Presumably proper black & white.

Dunno about the 1950s films but the 1960 tv series was available, but not any more.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ed-McBains-...=87th+precinct

[NickFitz]

Freshly baked sausage rolls for lunch

I seem to have hit on the exact combination of gas mark, oven shelf, and cooking time to make this lot absolutely perfect

[DoctorStrangelove]

One dvd was "Blood Relatives" an Ed McBain 87th Precinct epic starring the rather miscast Donald Sutherland as Steve Carella.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076313/?ref_=nv_sr_1


It must be said that there's been very few good films made of Mr McBain's excellent books.

Curiously, it is set in Montreal.

Very odd.

Not a bad story though it dragged a bit in the middle.

It looked as if it was dubbed here & there, which I suppose is possible considering that some of the actors are French Canadian.

It's a Carlton "Silver Collection" so a very basic transfer, 4:3 FFS, and the film itself is pretty worn in places.

Mr Sutherland acquitted himself reasonably well and Donald Pleasence appeared sans white cat as a pederast.

David Hemmings played an oily bank manager person, the rest are unknown, at least to me.

Apparently it's the director's hidden gem.

And Bert Kling is referred to as Sgt Det Klinger.

I thought I was watching MASH for a while there.


In other news, the deluge returned, at one point with such enthusiasm and accompanying bangs and flashes, that I had to turn the volume up on the telly.

[NickFitz]

PROPER RAIN!

Loads of it, too - it's been absolutely tipping down out there for about fifteen minutes now, and shows no sign of stopping

[DoctorStrangelove]

Today's 2nd feature is a little known film "From Russia with Love" with someone called Sean Connery.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057076/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Turns out that the film poster featured there in is for

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056897...nm_flmg_act_39

which is something I've never known before.

Well there's a thing.

I have very little memory of most of this film, so it's quite enjoyable without the level of nonsense in the later ones.

Today's 3rd feature was "The Next Three Days" with Russell Crowe.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1458175/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

The latter third was quite exciting.

TFBSZ.

[DaveB]

PROPER RAIN!

Loads of it, too - it's been absolutely tipping down out there for about fifteen minutes now, and shows no sign of stopping

Same here. Properly raining, not just a quick torrential downpour and then gone again.

[NickFitz]

We got some good thunder too, but it's moved on now.

Not to worry though - there's some more fine, wet, thundery weather heading this way. Should be arriving in an hour or so