Favorite Movies

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The Mouse that Roared

The Cheap Detective

Murder by Death

[rogruth]

The Carpetbaggers and The Blue Max. Two with George Peppard. IMHO a very underrated actor probably best known for the A Team.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The Blue Max.

Quite an interesting cast all around in that one......

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The Mouse that Roared...

That's an old memory, but if I recall correctly, as a boy, I enjoyed the opening-credits, which had a woman looking like a stylized Statue of Liberty pick up her skirt and scream as she ran away due to a mouse having been under it. Then I think the mouse roared his triumph. Or do I have two movies blended in a mix-up?

[G3750]

The Carpetbaggers and The Blue Max. Two with George Peppard. IMHO a very underrated actor probably best known for the A Team.

Don't forget his appearance in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The Mouse that Roared...

That's an old memory, but if I recall correctly, as a boy, I enjoyed the opening-credits, which had a woman looking like a stylized Statue of Liberty pick up her skirt and scream as she ran away due to a mouse having been under it. Then I think the mouse roared his triumph. Or do I have two movies blended in a mix-up?

What I recall of this movie best is Peter Sellers again doing 3 characters: Duchess Gloriana XII; Count Rupert Mountjoy, the Prime Minister; and Tully Bascomb, the military leader all of that great powerhouse domain, The Duchy of Grand Fenwick. Jean Seberg was in it, too!

So was William Hartnell later to become the 1st Dr. Who and also Leo McKern who I always associate with as being No. 2 in several episodes of The Prisoner

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Primal Fear

A great performance by Edward Norton

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Leo McKern who I always associate with as being No. 2 in several episodes of The Prisoner

Also, Rumpole of the Bailey

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...Also, Rumpole of the Bailey

Oh yes, I remember enjoying that series very much.
Have you seen "Downton Abbey"?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...Also, Rumpole of the Bailey

Oh yes, I remember enjoying that series very much.
Have you seen "Downton Abbey"?

Never really cared for either; no idea why on Rumpole and some episodes I did find fun; Downton Abbey just presented all too many horrid characters; people that I found repugnant in the extreme....

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Anything with Helen Mirren in it, present or past.

Blue Max was one of my favorites. It's actually kinda based on a true story, at least of the airplane (also my favorite WWI plane).

The Germans developed the Fokker E.V., but after a few fatal crashes they made modifications (rumor was they had the wing ribs or spar upside down) and renamed it the Fokker DVIII.

Within the past few years there was a German who built 5 or so of them from scratch, using original blueprints and tools. I think his name was Achim Engels. I think this is his website or at least photos of the builds:

http://www.collectors-edition.de/f-t-s_zeichnungen_FokkerDVIII_english.htm

I built a 1/6 model of one back in the 70s, flew it once and put it up. I still have it but my son got hold of it and it's pretty much wasted now. I still have the blueprints and would really like to build another.

BobD

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...Also, Rumpole of the Bailey

Oh yes, I remember enjoying that series very much.
Have you seen "Downton Abbey"?

Never really cared for either; no idea why on Rumpole and some episodes I did find fun; Downton Abbey just presented all too many horrid characters; people that I found repugnant in the extreme....

You got it. That's the whole idea! and you gotta admit, having a pompous Turkish narcissist die in mid-coitus was a nice touch.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Oh yes, I remember enjoying that series very much.
Have you seen "Downton Abbey"?

Never really cared for either; no idea why on Rumpole and some episodes I did find fun; Downton Abbey just presented all too many horrid characters; people that I found repugnant in the extreme....

You got it. That's the whole idea!

I get enough interaction with repugnant people in real life - must be why I found that series so horrid.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

In the spirit of having side-threads to the main topic, how 'bout mentioning some TV shows and series.
As we "speak," I am tip-tapping this out sitting next to my wife as she thoroughly enjoys a relatively new series, "Lucifer."
Doesn't grab me at all , but I did catch a moment wherein a statuesque woman was addressed as "the wife of God, " which she took issue with by stipulating "...the EX-wife...". (She's the mother of Lucifer in this drama.) Wow. You don't hear that every day.

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...Also, Rumpole of the Bailey

Oh yes, I remember enjoying that series very much.
Have you seen "Downton Abbey"?

Never got hooked on ones that needed watching week after week to keep up with the plot!