Showing posts with label Sammy Going South. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sammy Going South. Show all posts
Saturday, September 19, 2026

Sammy Going South, Suez and the end of the British Empire

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Written for Terence Towles Canote's 13th Annual Rule, Britannia Blogathon . We British have a habit of turning military debacles into vi...
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Sunday, August 30, 2026

Marjory Allen encounters the ban on child actors in British films

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Embed from Getty Images Returning to Marjory Allen's memoirs after my holiday, I've come across a passage that refers to it being i...
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Alexander Mackendrick, Tony Hancock and Rhinoceros

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Embed from Getty Images One of the many unmade Alexander Mackendrick film projects detailed in Philip Kemp's biography Lethal Innocence ...
Friday, July 24, 2026

A cross between Biggles, Tintin, the Famous Five and Fitzcarraldo

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George Weeks posted the link to this the other day, saying: I love the BBC Archive YouTube channel. So much footage to enjoy. This one is p...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Alexander Mackendrick and Sweet Smell of Success

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At Ealing Studios, Alexander Mackendrick directed one masterpiece, The Ladykillers , and four more of the best films made there: Whisky Galo...
Saturday, July 11, 2026

Gilbert Adair: The orphan has lost not only his parents but his status

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Embed from Getty Images This post is about another essay by Gilbert Adair , but first a quotation from Sammy Going South by W.H. Canaway. I...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2026

"Ahaarrrr!" A voiceover session from hell

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One of my favourite podcasts is the Chelsea Fancast , which has kept me informed and entertained through my club's recent travails. Its ...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

Fergus McClelland was the last illegal major British child actor

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Before Section 37 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 was enacted it was illegal for a child under 13 to appear in a film made in Bri...
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Sammy Going South and the morality of employing child actors

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The director of Trouble at Townsend wasn't the only one to have problems with a child star being too well fed. I've read accounts o...
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Monday, June 15, 2026

The Joy of Six 1533

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James Ball argues that Labour's social media ban for teenagers is an admission of total and utter failure to govern online spaces: ...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Brechtian television: Leo McKern in Galileo (1964)

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"Has anyone ever produced Brechtian television?" I asked when writing about The Exorcism . To an extent, they have. Because here a...
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Thursday, August 09, 2007

The Pumpkin Eater

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Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her. When I wrote about the Romance section of the Summer of British Film I l...