Watching GE again for the first time in ages.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 November 2023 20:08 (two years ago)
Feel like everything about it is great, except for John Mills that is.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 November 2023 20:15 (two years ago)
Alec Guinness is awesome though
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 November 2023 20:32 (two years ago)
Don’t care about Valerie Hobson as grown Estella. Much prefer the younger version played by Jean Simmons which was her breakout, star-making role. Don’t know what happened to the young Pip actor, Anthony Wager, who I also liked.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 November 2023 21:00 (two years ago)
Jean Simmons played Miss Havisham in a later version!
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 November 2023 21:01 (two years ago)
i feel exactly the same about Valerie Hobson
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 November 2023 21:01 (two years ago)
Seems like Jean Simmons’s next role but one was in Black Narcissus!
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 November 2023 22:03 (two years ago)
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 November 2023 22:21 (two years ago)
Seems Valerie Hobson was also in the 1934 version but her scenes were cut.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 November 2023 22:32 (two years ago)
I just found out today that Francis L. Sullivan was in it too, also playing Mr. Jaggers!
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 November 2023 22:39 (two years ago)
He’s the only actor from GE also in Lean’s OT, although Kay Walsh who played Nancy, at the time Lean’s wife, worked on both in a writing capacity.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 November 2023 22:41 (two years ago)
Unless I missed something.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 November 2023 22:43 (two years ago)
Finlay Currie’s Magwitch just dropped in from NSW it’s like a…um,er… breath of fresh air.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 November 2023 22:46 (two years ago)
Wonder if I am wrong to assume that this stuff was on the telly all the time when you were coming up.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 November 2023 22:52 (two years ago)
Here’s something else interesting: Martita Hunt and Alec Guinness had originally played their roles a in stage adaption by Guinness which inspired David Lean to make the movie.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 November 2023 22:57 (two years ago)
Torin Thatcher’s Bentley Drummle also steals every scene he is in.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:05 (two years ago)
Valerie Hobson also plays Molly, uncredited.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 12:03 (two years ago)
Ha, I like the way IMDb mentions this.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 12:15 (two years ago)
They also put forward some alleged other casting choices for grownup Estella but I haven’t seen them elsewhere.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 12:16 (two years ago)
Hobson is too bland, not cruel enough i think
the film as a whole is wonderfully dreamlike in places
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 November 2023 13:56 (two years ago)
Yes to both.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 13:59 (two years ago)
Hobson didn’t like her own performance either and had major issues with Lean’s direction.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 14:15 (two years ago)
Also TIL that Chad is the UK version of Kilroy.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 14:16 (two years ago)
And that there was a pre-Code US version of Oliver Twist starring Dickie Moore.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 14:52 (two years ago)
And that Carol Reed was Oliver Reed’s uncle.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 14:54 (two years ago)
lol at this from Wikipedia:
but from the mid-1970s his alcoholism began affecting his career, with the adding: "Reed had assumed 's mantle as Britain's thirstiest thespian".
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 14:56 (two years ago)
Aargh, vanishing links. Need to c+p from different app, sorry.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 14:57 (two years ago)
but from the mid-1970s his alcoholism began affecting his career, with the BFI adding: "Reed had assumed Robert Newton's mantle as Britain's thirstiest thespian
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 14:59 (two years ago)
Robert Donat wanted to play Bill Sikes!
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 15:05 (two years ago)
The same guy who did Alec Guinness’s Fagin makeup did the makeup for Chewbacca, Yoda and everybody else is Star Wars: The Original Trilogy.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 15:17 (two years ago)
I guess people might already know about John Howard Davies.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 16:02 (two years ago)
TIL that Notting Hill Gate used to be called Kensington Gravel Pits.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 07:50 (two years ago)
In the US you can also get audiobooks from your library through the apps Libby and Hoopla.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 November 2023 00:08 (two years ago)
The BBC Radio Drama Collection seem like a pretty enjoyable in-between length from a two hour movie and the whole unabridged books. Listening to the adaption of Great Expectations right now and digging it, Pip is making up what happened at Satis House for Uncle Pumblechook and Mrs. Joe.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 November 2023 00:13 (two years ago)
Here’s a nice obsolete term from NN I think deserves a comeback: cartel of defiance.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 November 2023 00:51 (two years ago)
One of the audiobook readers does the voice of Fagin in a way that sounds like Gollum. I am wondering how intentional this is and if it’s kind of circular since Gollum might be based a bit on Fagin.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:42 (two years ago)
Using various libraries and non-Naxos subscriptions I can easily listen to multiple audiobooks of NN for each week’s reading which may say seem like overkill but I actually find helpful for absorbing.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 22:32 (two years ago)
Dickens really was a (nick)name-generating machine. It’s fun to know that before the hotblooded OMF schoolmaster was Bradley Headstone he was Amos Deadstone. He gave his kids nicknames like Lucifer Box, Chickenstalker, Ocean Spectre, Sampson Brass and Plorn.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 01:42 (two years ago)
Ocean Spectre was also Hoshen Peck and finally Little Admiral.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 01:52 (two years ago)
Sampson Brass was also Skittles
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 01:53 (two years ago)
Forgot about Mild Glo’ster.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 01:56 (two years ago)
And Young Skull.
Master Floby
Plorn had many longer variations.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 01:57 (two years ago)
Plornishghenter.
Plornish-Maroon, with or without hyphen, the same way Edward Bulwer-Lytton (who Plorn was named after) used a hyphen but his estranged wife, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, didn’t.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 02:00 (two years ago)
Plornishmaroontigoonter
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 02:03 (two years ago)
https://daily.jstor.org/charles-dickens-minor-characters/
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 02:06 (two years ago)
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 02:58 (two years ago)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n15/tim-parks/how-does-he-come-to-be-mine
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 03:05 (two years ago)