(1533) Afternoon all. Situation’s this … had a bit of a turn earlier and am still in it. Blogging would be out, except the sshots are ready to load, so easy enough. That’s going to be it for today. Every so often, I’ll post a further item, till later. MMutR is aware and we are in phone contact.
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15. Chagos … it gets worse
14. Moo corner
13. Apparently she was badmouthing the Cross of St George
12. For your convenience
11. Poor Ireland
“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
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.
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.”