'60s/'70s child. I ❤️ sport; tennis & big 🏇 racing fan. ❤️ I have some sheep @tatties4two ❤️ Classic British TV/film/comedy. To thine own self be true.
Get ready to record or watch on this rainy day the 1946 film David Lean’s Great Expectations @BBCTwo 10.20 am.
There are so many reasons to add this great film to your viewing.
David Lean had seen a stage play version of Charles Dickens novel and brought it to film directing it and was one of the writers.
Part of the set was built at Denham Studios, where my father worked after being demobbed and worked with David Lean at the studios.
The cast list is a glorious role call of British stars, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons and two of my favourites, Alec Guinness who is supreme as Herbert Pockets, and the wonderful Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham. Both unsurpassed by any production of Dicken’s masterpiece since, in my opinion.
Both Guinness and Hunt came from the stage to reprise their roles on film.
In a poll it came 5th in the top 100 great British films.
David Lean is a titan of film. My uncle John worked with him and my dad too. They both told of a perfectionist who knew what he wanted and would wait for the right weather to achieve it. He was the very best at what he did, he had no rivals - they both agreed.
Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.
Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.
She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.
I would like to point out that Starmer has now managed to alienate the extreme centre
His plans for the evisceration of English culture will be outlined in a new Labour publication called 'Der Starmer'
@DreyfusJames What galls me is the gutless Labour MPs, divested of any sense of conscience and duty in order to ride a gravy train that will see them well clear of the consequences of their obsequious obedience.