Showing posts with label Tom Courtenay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Courtenay. Show all posts
Thursday, 18 May 2017

Bright shiny Sixties people

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Fab pic of some groovy 60s people: theres Susannah York, Joe Orton, Tom Courtenay, Twiggy and more ..... must find out who the others are...
Friday, 24 March 2017

Sixties rarity: The Day The Fish Came Out, 1967

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There MAY  be a more bizarre 1960s movie than THE DAY THE FISH CAME OUT , unleashed in 1967, but I can hardly think of one, apart from THE ...
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Monday, 19 September 2016

The Tom boys

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This glut of new Toms on the acting scene makes one think any young actor starting out should change his name to Tom. Early Toms were Tom ...
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Saturday, 16 January 2016

45 years

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A married couple preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary receive shattering news that promises to forever change the course of t...
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Saturday, 5 September 2015

Julie goes shopping, plus ...

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I came across this a few weeks ago in a British paper I will not name, and I felt I should ignore it, but it ties in with some other stuf...
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Saturday, 14 March 2015

The Dresser, 1983

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Finally, THE DRESSER from 1983, a successful play and film, which somehow I never saw until now - this is a feast of acting and another gr...
Sunday, 4 January 2015

Tom and Pattie ...

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Here's a terrific photo from a 1963 fashion shoot with rising young actor Tom Courtenay, for one of those glossy fash mags like VOGUE...
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Sunday, 21 December 2014

Christmas TV treats: Tom, the Royles, Mapp & Lucia

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Here at the Projector we love Tom Courtenay as Billy and Helen Fraser as Barbara his nicer than nice, too perfect but bossy girlfriend (B...
Saturday, 12 July 2014

British double bill

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THE ANGRY SILENCE . One 1960 British film I had not seen before from that 'kitchen-sink' era, but I remember it well as it attrac...
Monday, 2 September 2013

Forgotten '60s movies: Otley

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OTLEY , 1968. Another spy spoof giving Tom Courtenay one of his best roles as the drifter Otley, getting involved with spies. Alan Bad...
Friday, 26 July 2013

Quartet - and some I don't want to see ...

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Finally, the dvd of QUARTET gets an airing - this is the recent one with Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay, directed by Dustin Hoffman (not...