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Post by The Collector on Jan 13, 2009 11:59:47 GMT
Now I have Someone who may Agree that these films are underrated pieces of British Film...I should make my love of them clear... Films like The Confessions series, The Adventures series...The Mary Millington films and SO many more put Bums in seets in the local Fleapits of the 70's but for a few years were forgotten except by their makers and people like Simon Sheridan who's book 'Keeping the British End up'  Is The bible of these films I love 'em there cheap, tacky but loveable in a strange way...any more fans? |
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Post by dougie on Jan 13, 2009 19:31:10 GMT
Yep, I love them for all the same reasons as you. I love everything about them, the weird acting, the 70's birds (them are PROPER tits!) and seeing all those well known actors like Tony Booth, Arthur Askey and Bob Todd amongst others, in the films. Simon's book is indeed the doggies dangly bits, my only claim to fame is having my name in the aknowledgements of said tome. Simon's bio of Mary Millington is essential reading also.  |
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Post by The Collector on Jan 14, 2009 12:51:46 GMT
I'd like a copy of that...What did you do for Keeping...? Was watching 'Come play with me' last night - Complete Rubbish...I loved it.... This is Wiki's page for it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Play_With_Me |
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Post by dougie on Jan 14, 2009 22:00:59 GMT
I'd like a copy of that...What did you do for Keeping...? Was watching 'Come play with me' last night - Complete Rubbish...I loved it.... This is Wiki's page for it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Play_With_MeTo be honest, I did nothing. I'd made contact with Simon after reading the Millington biography and startting the Askwith website and I gave him my thoughts on the MM movies ('The Playbirds' is her best IMO). I agree CPWM is entertaining rubbish, the song and dance section is as bizarre as it gets. I love the story about the film's backer David Sullivan promoting the film as 'the UK's first mainstream hardcore film' in his mucky mags (which was of course a complete lie, although hardcore scenes may have been filmed) and the film kept getting interrupted by Equity demanding to know if this was true, and the director eventually exploded with rage and said 'Yes, I'm about to film Alfie Bass firing it up Irene Handl!'  Now that is an image.... |
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Post by The Collector on Jan 15, 2009 12:40:16 GMT
I'd like a copy of that...What did you do for Keeping...? Was watching 'Come play with me' last night - Complete Rubbish...I loved it.... This is Wiki's page for it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Play_With_MeTo be honest, I did nothing. I'd made contact with Simon after reading the Millington biography and startting the Askwith website and I gave him my thoughts on the MM movies ('The Playbirds' is her best IMO). I agree CPWM is entertaining rubbish, the song and dance section is as bizarre as it gets. I love the story about the film's backer David Sullivan promoting the film as 'the UK's first mainstream hardcore film' in his mucky mags (which was of course a complete lie, although hardcore scenes may have been filmed) and the film kept getting interrupted by Equity demanding to know if this was true, and the director eventually exploded with rage and said 'Yes, I'm about to film Alfie Bass firing it up Irene Handl!' Now that is an image.... Thank's Ive now got that in my head... I've got Playbirds on VHS...It is the best of the Sullivan films...The Worst to me is David Galaxy... |
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Post by dougie on Jan 16, 2009 23:07:31 GMT
David Galaxy - man that was pish!
Nearly as bad were the What's Up Nurse/Superdoc combo and the strippers with Bernie Winters film (can't remember the title). That said, they're still all entertaining in a strange way.
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Post by The Collector on Jan 18, 2009 17:13:38 GMT
The Mary Millington World Striptease Vid?...I've been looking out for that one!...I have the Bernard Manning!...  |
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Post by dougie on Jan 19, 2009 21:18:59 GMT
That's the one, I had an old pirated VHS copy a few years back, I'll have a rot about see if it's still there. Winters is absolutely awful though.
The one with big Bernie isn't much better, a fake stripshow, fake prizes and a truly awful duet with Su Pollard. I usually loved big Bernie in show but this was bad.
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Post by The Collector on Jan 20, 2009 12:49:12 GMT
Had a look on YOUTUBE for the clip of Bernard and Su 'singing' thankfully for the rest of you it isn't there... |
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Post by The Collector on Feb 3, 2009 12:35:55 GMT
Walking past a local DVD/VHS stall...spotted out of the corner of my eye...in the 50p VHS trays
The Love pill - a 1971 film...I've never seen it so I invested...
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Post by dougie on Feb 6, 2009 21:41:33 GMT
50p for 'The Love Pill'? Good deal.
Another to watch out for is 'Emmanuelle in Soho', the last of Sullivan's movies (I think). It's also worth about 50p!
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Post by The Collector on Feb 2, 2012 16:53:11 GMT
Ah - Emmanuelle in Soho - Not one of the best...See the below... giallo-fever.blogspot.com/2011/07/emmanuelle-in-soho.htmlEmmanuelle in Soho Young couple Paul and Kate (Julie Lee) and their bisexual flatmate Emanuelle (Angie Quick, billed as Mandy Miller) are short of money. Paul and Emmanuelle try their hand at glamour photography, while Kate gets a job as a stripper at a nude review, Hang About Sebastian. Paul takes his photos to Bill (John M. East), who tells Paul that they are not really what the punters are after and kindly offers to take them off his hands for £50, then sells them for several times this. After Bill has worked this scam several times, Paul realises he is being conned and schemes his revenge. He invites Bill and his secretary cum mistress Sheila to a party, also attended by the cast and artistic crew of Hang About Sebastian. Inevitably, several of the guests pair off, including Bill. Paul secretly films Bill, then blackmails him... Released to cinemas thirty years ago this month, Emmanuelle in Soho pretty much marked the death of the British sex film as a theatrical form. The film was bankrolled by porn baron David Sullivan as a vehicle for Julie Lee. She was a half-Chinese model who was being groomed as the successor to Mary Millington, who had committed suicide two years earlier and whose legacy it was becoming harder for Sullivan to exploit. Lee was originally cast as the Emmanuelle character. This could have suggested more of a connection, however tenuous, to the unofficial Emanuelle cycle from Italy insofar as these had similarly stressed the exotic appeal of 'Black' Emanuelle and 'Yellow' Emanuelle. Any sense of Oriental(ist) fantasy is however immediately dispelled when Lee opens her mouth and reveals her broad Yorkshire accent; had it been an Italian film, shot silent and post-synchronised, this could of course have been avoided. Lee and Miller swapped roles when it became apparent that she really could not act. Think about that: One model in a sex film being replaced by another because the quality of her performance was not up to scratch! It is not, however, that the rest of the cast are much better. The actor playing Paul -- I use the term loosely -- performs primarily through raising his eyebrows, while producer and co-writer East reprises his Max Miller comedy routine from the Millington cash-in Queen of the Blues, firing off gag after gag, mostly unfunny. The direction from first and only timer David Hughes is perfunctory. There is however the odd moment, such as the rack focus from Paul and Emmanuelle in a potentially compromising situation to Kate as she enters the room positioned in the back of the frame, in between them, which suggests someone making an effort. The version under review ran barely an hour, with much of the running time padded out by the various performance and softcore numbers -- or, depending on your point of view, there is not enough of these and too much of plot stuff. Internationally it was also released with a documentary type introduction to Soho and with hardcore inserts. For the present day viewer, meanwhile, its interest is more as a classic piece of trash and for the incidental historical, social and cultural details, ranging from dialogue indicating a pre-AIDS fashionability of bisexuality (though other lines predictably suggest this was exclusively for women); to the giant top-loading VHS machine that was killing off this kind of cinema; to the size of flat the three supposedly impoverished friends have; to Paul's massive bouffant cum mullet. Lee tragically died less than two years later after crashing her car and suffering massive burns. She was on her way home from a beauty contest in which, as the Monopoly card has it, she won second place...  Miller, Lee & Kevin Fraser |
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