tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post8723859701381412890..comments2024-03-27T16:39:43.522+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Powell and Pressburger week on Channel 4Jonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-41530884693909455202008-08-27T21:26:00.000+01:002008-08-27T21:26:00.000+01:00Yip yip yip. I first saw most of the P&P films...Yip yip yip. I first saw most of the P&P films on Channel 4 in the mid 1980s when Leslie Halliwell was programming their films, though the Arts Cinema in Cambridge managed to have a retrospective at the same time, which meant I saw I know where I'm going in the cinema at exactly the same time as it went out on television.<BR/><BR/>I agree about One of our aircraft. I also found it very moving -- it begins with a book of remembrance for the Dutch resistance fighters, which means you know that they're all going to die for helping the RAF men. I think the resistance leader is Pamela Brown, and Googie Withers is in a fairly minor role. Brown is most famous as the crazed nun in Black Narcissus.<BR/><BR/>The Spy in Black (P&P's first collaboration) is also a minor classic. The great Conrad Veidt does a pretty good job as a decent German, romantic hero and occasional comedian, and Valerie Hobson is nearly sexy. Also includes an early appearance of Darth Vader. The follow-up, Contraband, also with Veidt and Hobson as a comedy-romantic couple, is even harder to find, and a lot artier, but well worth looking out for.HE Elsomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03923699019741758255noreply@blogger.com