Publication day today!!! Thank you very much for all the kind messages, pre-orders & general loveliness - very different to any of my other books, but it’s out there now! 💎📚 @RoutledgeHist@watsonlittle
Star of the day and his seven best. Some of his most famous are not here...
Atlantic City
Brute Force
Crimson Pirate, The
Criss Cross
Killers, The
Mister 880
Sweet Smell of Success
"From the dew-soaked hedge creeps a crawly caterpillar
When the dawn begins to crack
It's all part of my autumn almanac"
The quintessentially English
songwriter #RayDavies
Today's thread will be my last one for a while about Exeter. It's about some of the historic houses & buildings that line the city's streets that survived despite the passage of time, bombing & redevelopment etc. Starting with Tiddy House, on Tudor Street. #tudortuesday 1/6
TODAY on @SkyArts (#Freeview Ch 11)
3pm Discovering: Forest Whitaker
8pm Film Noir: Origins of Noir (1922-40) 1 of 3
10:40pm The Directors: John Huston
11:40pm I Am Bruce Lee
#Cinema#Film#Hollywood#FilmNoir
8pm TODAY on @SkyArts
Film Noir
Ep 1 of 3, Origins of Noir (1922-1940)
The exploration of the movie genre begins with a look at the origins of the cinematic term, stemming from pulp fiction crime novels and owing a visual debt to the German expressionist films of the silent era
#HistoryWritersDay22 it’s arrived! Over the weekend I’ll be posting stories about some of the more colourful characters who’ve appeared in my 12 history books.
1: Col. Frank ‘Howlin Mad’ Howley, US commandant in Berlin: dynamic, ebullient, he saved Berlin from the Soviets
TBC, Hidden-in-Sight is just me, ex-cop who retired to do international undercover ops. helping animals. Now training other cops, lawyers etc on why investigating crimes against animals is important. 13 countries, 5 continents so far. Also Campaign Manager for @Naturewatch_org
Fans of the Dark Stuff alert!! The first of a three part series on #FilmNoir starts tonight at 8.00pm on @SkyArts with the usual suspects @IanNathan2 @SArmstrong1984 and @NJStreitberger. Pour three fingers of Four Roses and settle down. Trenchcoats and fedoras optional.
1) During construction work on Amphipolis Archaeological Museum in 1976, workers uncovered a cist tomb cut into the bedrock, still sealed and unlooted. Curiously, the burial was located inside the city walls near the marketplace of Amphipolis. Lifting the blocks, they found...
Beginning this Sunday at 8pm - our journey through some of most provocative and visually stunning films ever made.The midnight world of Film Noir. On #SkyArts.
Colourful character 2:
Paul Dukes, British spy extraordinaire, whose four disguises enabled him to infiltrate every part of the new-born Soviet regime. (and the only spy ever to be knighted for services to espionage)
#HistoryWritersDay22@Books2Cover#RussianRoulette