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Castles In The Sky is a bio-film about Robert Watson-Watt and his team that struggled to invent and sell the British military on radar in the early days of WWII. Starring Eddie Izzard.
We've long enjoyed so-called spaghetti westerns and now here's a new kiwi western....a New Zealand western called Good For Nothing. This has received many very favorable reviews. A lot of this was filmed in Otago which is where Colin is originally from and it was he that sent this film along for us.
Jimmy's Hall is an Irish film about Jimmy Gralton.
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have To Invent Them.....yes, the title sounds pretty bad in these over-the-top PC days, but it's 2 versions of a teleplay by Johnny Speight who created and wrote Till Death Us Do Part, the inspiration for the USA's All in the Family. Johnny didn't promote racism and sexism, he mocked them. The first one appeared on TV 4 August 1968 in black & white. On 3 March 1974 a new production, in color, appeared on LWT with Bob Hoskins, Leonard Rossiter and Richard Beckinsale, with the latter two just about to begin work on their successful sitcom Rising Damp.
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