“A man is released from jail after serving 12 years for a murder he didn’t commit. Determined to seek revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment, he at first shuts himself away in a deserted barge on the Thames Estuary where he is kept under police surveillance and hounded by pressmen after a story. Only a pathetic refugee girl is slowly able to get through to him.”

Wiki:

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: “The story of The Long Memory is one of improbable if ingenious contrivance; one might have expected a fast and fairly exciting melodrama to have been made from it. The director, however, has chosen a slow, slightly portentous and fairly inflexible style with which to frame his events; he has spot-lighted characters and motivations and, by doing so, exposed them. For the truth is that the people are superficially and unconvincingly drawn, and further handicapped by some undistinguished acting. The attempt at a Quai des Brumes (1938) atmosphere barge setting, the outcasts’ shack, the love affair of the embittered man and the pathetic refugee – appears strained and unreal. Some good small-part acting (by Vida Hope, Thora Hird, Geoffrey Keen and Harold Lang) and the excellent location work in and around Gravesend are not enough to disguise a confected intrigue among wooden characters. There are obviously intelligent talents at work, but they are misapplied.”^[13]

Screenonline wrote, “visually it is an extraordinary film, which makes exciting use of the desolate landscape around the Thames estuary” and which is “uncompromising in its treatment of human suffering and injustice.”^[14]

(1108) Elevenses, folks. Cunning plan is that I must head off just after 1200, so there’s time for this post, I have to have lunch, shall throw in today’s first film and then catch you later. Had a quick look at MDave, Toods, other droppers … not sure I need re-run those just now. (1120)

 

10. The Jutes

9. Moo corner

8. Reza Pahlavi

7. Drug pushers

 

This follows yesterday’s Venus of Avenue D and will conclude tomorrow with Just Your Friends.

Point of this mini-series is not that it’s the greatest music ever … it’s very good as far as this indefinable genre goes … but that it appeared when it did, written and sung by a gruff, asocial mess of a Latino … and yet it had/has a cult following on the Continent and in many corners of the UK … interesting.

(1035) Replying to an act of stupidity by two supposedly intelligent “leaders”. (1039)

 

Eff off, Argentina and Trump

What a stupid move by both:

 

(0632) Greetings all. Having done the necessaries to commemorate the Day, onto our own doings. The sky out there currently has chem trail planes criss-crossing it, laying their poison. (0655)

 

5. Scumbags like Hermer

4. Steve at 1363

• US Department of War Planning Retribution for Failing Allies, Including Suspending Spain From the Alliance and ‘Reviewing’ UK’s Claims to the Falkland Islands (JH: He can just eff off on the Falklands … nowt to do wi’im.)
• Italian Plans to Send Failed ‘Asylum Seekers’ to Albanian Camps Get Green Light by EU Court Adviser
• Historic New York City Church Burns in Five-Alarm Fire
• UK Police Arrest a Pastor for Preaching the Gospel
• Iran’s Nightmare Just Came True As Third Aircraft Carrier Arrives
• Russian Army About To Hit Ukrainian Logistics In Zaporizhzhia
• Greek court awards 300,000 Euros for death after AstraZeneca COVID vaccination
• Euthanasia is now 6% of all deaths in the Netherlands, experts urge caution against youths choosing to die
• Much more.

3. In the light of Sat 1 … this

2. DAD at 1363

a) Paris and wider France is being shaken to its core by serious allegations of sexual abuse within Paris’ after-school care system (“périscolaire”).

b) Europe’s quiet acceptance of Euthanasia as Routine Medical Practice. (JH: Thank goodness for the Lords two nights ago.)

c) More than €100,000 of European Union money has been spent on an electric vehicle charging station that currently sits in the middle of a meadow with no access road, rendering it unreachable by car.

1. Woke left Fabian females are most certainly consigned to hell

… completely brainwashed, incapable of anything useful. Woke Males too of course but they’ve been about far longer.

 

In the spirit of Anzac Day (as I’m not going to be around tomorrow) I would like to thank all the servicemen and women for serving and wearing the uniform proud. For those that we have lost in battle serving this great country, you will never be forgotten.

Lest We Forget 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 pic.twitter.com/SipCaNMvmX

— Stef™️🎗️ (@PROTAGONIST1970) April 24, 2026

Gallipoli was fought between the Allies — Britain, France, Australia, NZ, India and Newfoundland — and the Ottoman Empire/Germany.

If 1901 formalised Aus, 1915 blooded her. Lest any forget or the globopolitical class try to kill off their sacrifices, which the deep state is trying to do.

(1726) Evening all.

 

18. Yes, we’re now in the realm of ethical versus unethical

… pretty clear which is which:

17. A quiet read for all

16. Over at NOWP 1363 just now

Going to arrange this differently this time:

5. IYE, Sonia Poulton, Esther Rancid….

4. Torquaymada on those ‘disappeared’ scientists….

3. Steve: Hearts of Oak: Pastor Steve Maile – UK Police Handcuff Pastor for Preaching: A Disturbing Sign for Free Speech….

2. Andy and an interesting article about the benefits of humming. Particularly for those who suffer from shortness of breath.

1. Torquaymada and the seafarers that drop into the Tavern from time to time. 

 

The radio play version of this I think was the original episode … this is the film version:

“Send for Paul Temple (1946) is a British “quota quickie” mystery, directed by John Argyle and featuring Anthony Hulme as the famous radio sleuth. It is generally reviewed as a charming, fast-paced “B-movie” that effectively brings the Francis Durbridge radio character to the screen, focusing on a, “Green Finger” diamond heist plot.”

 

This is what I call another hiding to nothing post but there are certainly elements of interest to singer, band, venue and that he’ll be dead one year later. Why a hiding to nothing? Well, just as most men and some ladies will simply not go for this music, just as happened to Willy de Ville himself, as in a Wiki comment:

American Hit Network said of the (debut) album hin 77), “Under-promoted, under-appreciated and ultimately under-sold, Cabretta is a sleeper masterpiece that sounds as good today as it did in 1977.”

… also mentioned was that the singer was tough but tender, lived on the street but wore his heart on his sleeve, as can be seen and heard in the songs … melodic, Spanish style, redolent of westside story, very 50s but released right in the punk era … the music is one thing and in this recording late in his life, he has a super band behind him, reminding me of The Wrecking Crew, but on tour …

… trouble is, the drug and booze addled life has caught up, a harsh voice for such songs, even if written by him … and they just did not grab the public quite enough in the “modern” era, certainly in America, he had some currency in Britain but where his main base was increasingly found was on the continent, esp. in Germany. This recording is from 1988 at the Rockpalast, Bonn:

… and the lady posting it is Agnes, whom I think can be seen right at the end of the third song (coming up Sunday), front row … I’d put her in her mid 40s, a very nice age. There are all sorts of elements … he seems shy, asocial, no graces, does not engage the audience, yet throws flowers to them at the end (Sunday). At one stage, he readies the guitar and a roadie tries to plug it in, W looks back, gruffly … this whole tough-tender-unaware motif.

Frankly, there are too many discordant elements to satisfy us and our musical preferences … and yet the band is very good. One of his regular openers was Venus of Avenue D, tomorrow is a mid performance Spanish Stroll, Sunday finale is Just Your Friends, run a few times at the old N.O.