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Saturday (August 26th).
Around the World in 80 Days, BBC2, 3.20pm .
Huge, spectacular, highly colourful period costume drama version of the Jules Verne sci fi adventure classic, and multi Oscar winner. Made partly to "launch" the - then new - Todd AO process (which later was incorporated into Panavision).
Very entertaining, and lots of cameo apperarences, you might want to record this, and then playback later, to see how many "famous faces" you can find.
(The piano player is Frank Sinatra, which you don't realise until he turns round. Sorry, I can't remember any others!).
1950s Hollywood film production, at its best!
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_%281956_film%29 .
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd-AO
The Towering Inferno, Ch4, 4.00pm.
The Posieden Adventure came first, but this was much better, and "sparked off" the 1970s disaster movies craze. From Irwin Allen (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea). Great performances (Newman, McQueen). Excellent special effects (after Posieden, more money was available).
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Towering_Inferno_%28film%29 .
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Allen .
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_film.
Die Hard 2, ITV1, 23.10pm.
Excellent slick film making, what Hollywood does best! Bruce willis, doing what he does best ......
This has been shown a lot recently, but being so well made, will stand repeated viewings. As Hitchcock rightly said, it's all about "suspense". The bomb's there, and you know it's going to go off, but the interest comes from the interplay of different characters, watching how people react.
Interestingly, despite the recent real-life air travel terrorism, ITV don't appear to have "pulled" this showing (something the BBC is prone to, eg, cancelling The Wicker Man during the supposed Orkneys child s_x abuse scandal).
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard_2
The Godfather, film4, 9pm.
Also not sci fi, but - if you've never seen it - don't miss! One of the all time greats. Responsible for the catchphrase "make him an offer he can't refuse". Also has Brando in one of his highly eccentric very mumbling performances, but nevertheless very effective.
This is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made, and appears at the top in many lists, IMDB rating it at no 1.
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_godfather .
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola .
Around the World in 80 Days, BBC2, 3.20pm .
Huge, spectacular, highly colourful period costume drama version of the Jules Verne sci fi adventure classic, and multi Oscar winner. Made partly to "launch" the - then new - Todd AO process (which later was incorporated into Panavision).
Very entertaining, and lots of cameo apperarences, you might want to record this, and then playback later, to see how many "famous faces" you can find.
(The piano player is Frank Sinatra, which you don't realise until he turns round. Sorry, I can't remember any others!).
1950s Hollywood film production, at its best!
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_%281956_film%29 .
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd-AO
The Towering Inferno, Ch4, 4.00pm.
The Posieden Adventure came first, but this was much better, and "sparked off" the 1970s disaster movies craze. From Irwin Allen (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea). Great performances (Newman, McQueen). Excellent special effects (after Posieden, more money was available).
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Towering_Inferno_%28film%29 .
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Allen .
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_film.
Die Hard 2, ITV1, 23.10pm.
Excellent slick film making, what Hollywood does best! Bruce willis, doing what he does best ......
This has been shown a lot recently, but being so well made, will stand repeated viewings. As Hitchcock rightly said, it's all about "suspense". The bomb's there, and you know it's going to go off, but the interest comes from the interplay of different characters, watching how people react.
Interestingly, despite the recent real-life air travel terrorism, ITV don't appear to have "pulled" this showing (something the BBC is prone to, eg, cancelling The Wicker Man during the supposed Orkneys child s_x abuse scandal).
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard_2
The Godfather, film4, 9pm.
Also not sci fi, but - if you've never seen it - don't miss! One of the all time greats. Responsible for the catchphrase "make him an offer he can't refuse". Also has Brando in one of his highly eccentric very mumbling performances, but nevertheless very effective.
This is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made, and appears at the top in many lists, IMDB rating it at no 1.
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_godfather .
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola .