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drives everyone to distraction Hello and welcome to goon pod
this week. I am joined once again by
returning. Guest Scott Phillips, Scott is a
podcaster par Excellence. He is co-host of podcasts.
Such as real Britannia, the stinking paws podcast, and the
official talking pictures TV podcast.
So bound up, is Scott in his podcasting activities that if
his family want to communicate with them, they have to dress up
and reenact scenes from Crooks and Oysters to engage his
attention. So this week Scott and I are
talking about a what I would class as an undervalued and
underappreciated kind of Forgotten sellers film Peter
Sellers film from the 1950s. But before we got talking about
that, I asked Scott why he'd been under the weather The
dreaded covid motor. And yeah, I mean it's getting to
the point where I think everybody is going to be struck
down or affected by in some point.
And unfortunately, he made the 17th of December.
Ouch, ouch. So the 10-day isolation period
covered all of Christmas. It was horrible dear.
Well yeah, I mean you're not alone.
I mean I somehow we somehow managed to avoid it, although I
don't know if I mean, I'm not quite My speech anyway.
But i'm particularly so today because I'm a, I've got a bad
head cold. I don't think it is covid.
I had a few couple of done a couple of tests.
But yeah, but but you know, as I say doctor greasepaint up to
theater. Show must go on.
We must go on. But if I'm coughing and
spluttering and dribbling into the microphone, I do apologize.
Ladies and a lady in gentlemen's.
So today, today, you've come to talk about a film which has a
goon connection of Course, it's always a wouldn't be on this
podcast for this and it kind of gets overlooked.
I feel, but I would say it's to me the second best Peter Sellers
black and white British film. Yeah, there's a few, there's a
fuming. It's the one that's overlooked.
I think which is surprising. Considering the cast roots in it
and the pedigree that's there. I think if you were to put that
out to people, what's your favorite?
You know, black and white Peter Sellers movie many would say.
I'm all right, jack? Or even two-way stretch.
I think the be up there but this one as I say because of who's in
it? It's surprising.
Is it shown on TV, fairly regular thing talking pictures
TV mayor of the riots for the moment but not to the extent.
It would have been, you know, 20, 30 years ago when it would
have been a staple of the Sunday afternoon, BBC, Two schedules or
ever. It's right.
And we wee bit, but I think it is.
I mean, people know what it is. A tank.
It's it's the naked truth from 1957.
Yes. Did you know add an alternate
tile? I did?
Which was a bit risque. I don't know if it was the
American Title lawyers just dropped with.
Am I right in thinking, it's all good.
Something like your pasty showing your pastor showing yet.
Yeah. That was the American Title.
I'm guessing because they were a bit iffy about having the word
naked in a film. Yeah.
Probably, you know, they're makes sense.
It makes sense with their The time to film censorship and that
yeah the highest code was probably still in force to
certain to go. Yeah fully been relaxed at it at
this point. So another good 10 years of
steam. Yeah.
Awesome. Till sort of like the Bonnie and
Clyde era wasn't it? Yeah, that famous or 67 onwards.
Yeah, yeah, so this film Peter Sellers regarded it as his first
starring vehicle but technically he's not the star I mean it's an
ensemble piece to a degree but Terry Thomas is top, Builders
name. I think he would have had to
have been at this stage 1957. It's certainly one of the
earliest films where sellers gets a chance to really let rip
and sort of explore every aspect of his repertoire.
Yes. Because he's given a dozen
characters to play almost, you know, amongst a stellar cast.
You know, it's incredible that cellar.
Is almost doing a Alec Guinness, you know, he's great hero.
You know, it's almost doing a kind hearts and coronets because
there's about four or five different characters, he plays
or impersonates, you know, and movie absolute.
And speaking of kind of hearts and coronets comes, we have the,
the superlative Dennis Price. I love Daddy's, I loved about.
Yeah. And the thing is, if he never
plays anybody, particularly nice, Ice.
He's there is always some dark side to every tennis price
character even his later life. I mean, he died early 70s, but
he would appear in some of these Amicus horror films and things
and he was never a nice character, but you always sort
of a dinosaur gravitated towards him because I think he just had
some sort of presence that was quite, you know, formidable
on-screen at least another another case, I think he's quite
overlooked, when people go back to the Sierra and we talked
about the James Roberts and justice.
Still all the Terry Thomas or, you know, those sort of
character actors and he doesn't get mentioned and he should be.
I think a little bit more. Absolutely.
Because he was, he appeared in a number of films with sellers.
Well, he painted so many films. He reminds me a bit of he.
Right? He played the sort of roles that
denim Elliot would play, sort of 15-20 years later.
Yeah, that's sort of slightly raft.
Fish discrepant, herbal chance, almost yeah, bureaucrat as well.
Sometimes Liquor Cabinet member or yes I'm sort of minister or
something went to a good school and he can display impeccable
breeding. But touchy for a fiver
Shootings with a bag full of brown ale.
Yes. So and you can sort of see as
his career, went on his face became quite puffy and Jalen
did. That's it.
Yeah, you do you do see that? Yeah.
So yeah. So this is, this is probably the
first, I mean, yeah, I'd say this is the first of major
starring vehicle for sellers in the sense that he, he said, in
1957 that he wanted to be a star like mad and You know this this
ambition that he had was to be fulfilled.
In fact, he and Peggy Mount who's also in this film?
Yes. They they shared the same agent
at the Time. Gentleman called Montague, Lion
of jermyn Street. Yeah, well, Monte lion and she's
soshe new sellers before they had before they worked together
on the film. And she recalled him talking
about how he was going to be a huge star.
And She kind of just scoffed at them, the very notion, she just
thought. Yeah.
But, you know, he he, he had the talent, he had the ambition and
he proved it and they absolutely, I mean, this is
still two years after ladykillers.
Yeah, which is where he really made his mark on the big screen,
you know, that, you know, he done a couple of them peel, we
know he did down among the dead men and the who knows he's
ladykillers was the one that brought Some sort of scream
recognition. There's not a lot, you know, in
the build-up to this. I mean the the film immediately
before this was the smallest Show on Earth.
Yes, which was the bezel didn't directed movie were built
Travers and Virginia McKenna. And I think Margaret Rutherford
was even a couple of others which was a bit of a departure
for didn't because deardon was the king of the social problem
movie, he made things. Yeah.
Things like Sapphire and pool of Eden, as well as League of
gentlemen, you know? And he go on to do the Roger
Moore, The Man Who Never Was or the main haunted himself, you
know, in the early 70s, it was his last meal.
Yeah. Did he do yield to the night?
No, I don't think he did. That's the Diana dors one, isn't
it? I don't think he actually
directed that one. But it's is that sort of era and
he saw picked up, it's sort of what we described in the real
but only podcast as the precursors to the kitchen sink
here. Mmm-hmm there was this whole
gamma of what they refer to as social problem movies.
Didn't direct you to think of violent playground with David
McCallum instead. Hmm.
Yeah. It's he said about juvenile
delinquents and the and the Demonic effects of rock and roll
on the nation's youth, you know, it's a very bizarre thing where
you see David McCallum, going to this land, zombie-like trance,
just listening to rock and roll music and setting fire to
buildings and there's an armed Siege at the end.
It's bizarre very bizarre film but did and directed This
Morning Show on Earth did a few comedies he did.
The league of gentlemen, you know, which is my officially my
fourth favorite film of all time.
The whole you actually got it, ranked a view of the whole area.
I couldn't actually do that. As one of the things people ask
Mike, was any a couple of movie podcast?
What's your favorite film? Or what's your top Tech?
It's an ever-changing list. But one thing that's constant is
Peter Sellers, you know, when you look at trying to rank,
Peter Sellers movies, as a two-way, stretch is my favorite,
the sellers movie of all time closely.
Followed by ladykillers is very hard.
To actually sort of split, those two, you know, when you get to
things like this when when you watch these after a while and
it's like, oh my God, I forgot about the Naked Truth or you
know, you'll go back and you might watch the mouse that
roared or something like that and you think actually that's
quite good. I forgotten how good that was.
And that's that's the beauty of sellers work is so much.
They're spending a 30-yard year Korea.
You're going to find some undiscovered Gems or
rediscovered, some stuff as well.
Yeah. And I like it was Watching this,
for the first time, I looked back on letterboxed where I love
all my movies for the for the podcast.
I realized I'd only watch this about 18 months ago on a
completely forgotten. Yeah, I can't remember.
When I first saw this, it would have been during the white heat
of my goon Obsession. When I was a teenager.
It wasn't to the best of my recollection.
It wasn't the didn't, by the way, I'm in the conservatory,
recording this. And next door's, dog has decided
to come. Bar can hear it.
That's how I'm daddy must be a you must you must be a fan of
the Hancock podcast and not mine.
So hopefully he will be dragged into the house shortly.
But anyway, we'll carry up and those it didn't form.
Part of the there was a channel for themed or series of Peter
Sellers films back in 91 92. Yeah, and it was, it was the
British era Sellers and I'm sure that wasn't Part of that, but I
would have seen it. I don't know where I would have
seen, or where I saw, but I've certainly seen a number of times
over the years and I absolutely adore.
And it's if for me, it's sellers first opportunity to really Flex
his acting chops. His action myself.
So it was, it was released on 3rd of December 1957.
I was just doing a little bit of research, obviously, little bit
of research, you know, doing that.
The, the heavy research for this.
And I was looking at a release date and I just noticed by the
This completely unrelated but release third of December 1957.
Now, the day before 2nd of December 1957, the day before
this film was released. It was it was a day very
significant for the actor. Harrison Ford.
You know why that would be what? That one he couldn't have been
born? Surely because he's in his 70s
Now. Isn't he mmm-hmm?
Well, he died. Harrison Ford, hmm?
Yeah. Not the Harrison Ford that we
know but there was another actor, totally confusing me
then. What do we do this?
Harrison Ford for anything famous at all anything.
Knowable, the technical term is bugger, all he was in a number
of films back in there, you know, I guess, 20s 30s,
whatever. But he wasn't the big star.
But I just noticed that when I was, you know, you look at it
timelines and things of the said Harrison Ford diet.
Harrison Ford died. I thought somebody died.
So there is this IMDb trivia is that they're accurate, you know,
anyway this this film, so it's directed by Mario's MP who by
the way Morris Woodruff. He was Peter Sellers, rather
ropey spiritual advisor and suppose you'd call them and he
would often advise someone's on what projects to take.
Yeah. And yeah, he was getting
backhanders from movie producers.
And what not, but he advised sellers that he would be making
a film with someone who had a zed in his name.
Okay. Alright.
Okay. And I think that possibly had
some bearing on why sellers accepted this, this this role
because director, Mario's and p.m. but I think they believe it
or not. I think they clashed imagine
that imagine such a thing sellers clashing with the
directly with anybody. Yeah, it's written by Michael
Pertwee. Brother, John and older brother.
Now, he also wrote for fans of the goons.
He wrote Digby. The biggest dog in the world as
well, which features Spike that is that the gym, the gym
Del-One. Jim Dale one.
Yeah. Yeah, I know it.
I know it well, and by the way, quite topical, because at the
time of recording, we're hearing all about this operation.
Save big dog. But yes it's a showcase, the
film as a showcase, for his talents, he plays ostensibly, he
plays we Sunny McGregor, who is a what we think he's Scottish.
But his accent when he's when he's not performing as Sonny he
his accent sort of ears all over the place here is a very yeah
it's it's a very broad Scottish accent when he's on stage it's
almost like cartoon-like hogmanay performance when On
stage, you know, but when he's backstage talking to his
personal assistant and things like, it almost drifts into
Welsh, which he does when he does the Irish accent a little
bit later, which we might might get.
Yes, but he does, it, does it does vary in quality, which I
don't know if it's deliberate because you know, you'd expect a
man of sellers talents to be pretty on the ball with that
sort of thing, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
He's deliberate or not, but yeah, it's very good qualities.
Yes, Walter that thick skin while is for you.
Because folks, every week, we give one of these beautiful
prizes away. Absolutely free and for nothing
but Walter what used to you is a pigskin wall.
If it's empty, it's no use to you, is it, is it, right?
So you know what I'm gonna do for you Walter?
I'm going to fill it. I'm going to fill it.
Walter out of my own pocket there, look at that ten,
beautiful new crisp, one-pound notes.
All For You Walter. I've been doing that pocket.
Now Walter. Did you bring it?
Did you well? Let's see it.
Where is it? He's brought his, he has his
pennywhistle way. Good ideas.
But no bit about his land. All right.
Well, that boy, it's all yours. Did you hear that Largos handle?
What's he trying to do? Pinch my life saw something that
stupid on it. I'll give you the give a pricey
of the plot. Yeah.
Like Mala Nigel Dennis approaches many of society's
most notable figures threatening to air their dirty laundry in
public by publishing. The salacious details.
It is new magazine entitled. The Naked Truth, a muckraking
scandal sheet. Each of them has two weeks to
cough up 10,000 pounds. We Publishers in a month, our
film focuses on. For his targets, Lord, Henry,
mainly television personality, we Sunny McGregor, author,
Flora, Ransom and model Melissa, right, with none of the, for
either willing or able to stump up the cash.
What follows is a series of doomed attempts by them each to
deal with the Dennis problem once and for all At least of
plot, I don't think would have been covered previously.
He is quite a unique idea, isn't it?
Because I don't think that the Tabloid sort of Scandal Sheets
Were a thing in this country back.
Then it was, it was definitely an American idea.
Was, I'm getting that idea of. Yeah, I think it was.
I think it was. So we've touched on a couple of
the cast already but I'll just run through the principles
again. So we've got Terry Thomas
Playing Lord, Henry meili. Whoo, I didn't quite pick this
up, but is he he's obviously sort of landed gentry of some
description or sort of middling. Yeah, there's, there's some
point where his wife refers to something in his past.
I couldn't make out exactly what he does or gets up to its comes
for philanderer, you know, he's got some sort of dark side to
him there but he's definitely Definitely some form of nobility
because he is referred to as Lord, isn't he?
Lord making. So yeah.
But he also seems to be selling insurance on the side.
This is the thing. Do you mean to say that?
I get all, that was such a small premium.
Yes. So he's obviously fallen on hard
times or he's not that's high up in the nobility rankings as we
expect him to be. I don't know.
It, that was the bit. That confused me.
I was looking at earlier that a few sort of like, synopses of
the movie. From work it out, but it doesn't
give anything away. There's nothing to sort of
indicate what he actually is. I'm just looking now Wikipedia,
and it just refers to him as Lord Henry meili.
That's all. It says it doesn't even say what
his job is. So I think you can make of that,
what you will but there's definitely something some form
of insurance salesmen within him.
Yeah, and you mentioned his wife.
Now I know her only from an episode of The Prisoner And I
think that's about all she ever did.
There was a much in her filmography from what I can
remember. Yeah, Georgina cookson.
Yeah, yeah. Funny enough.
I just binge watch the whole of the prisoner just before
Christmas. Right.
First time I'd actually sat and watched it in such a short space
of time. Normally I would I'd watch its
or spread over a year or something.
Just watch the other episodes. Fascinating story still holds up
that that series? Absolutely, yeah.
Let me she spends her character. Lady Mae Lee, I suppose she's
Ian. She spends the film wandering
around this large house in London, in a dressing gown or
whatever. Yeah, being rather sort of surly
towards her husband. Yeah, it did.
You get the impression? She's put up with him and he's
whatever. He's bad habits are like, I'll
give the impression in there. And now we're talking about it
that perhaps he, you know, he's He's a title gentleman, but
they'd fallen on hard times. He's resorted to selling
Insurance. She's completely resentful of
him and situation. She's been putting.
I might be reading too much. He actually thinking about it
because he has to do. He has to drum up this 10,000
pounds. Pretty pretty smartish.
Yeah. And there is a scene where he's
I don't know easy folding his father-in-law's nursing home to
check that the old boy still with us.
Obviously the wife's Father is Rich.
There you go. And that's what he's pinning.
His hopes on for his future, happiness by sleekly.
Yes? Yeah, yeah.
And you've got so you got obviously.
Peter says, you've got Peggy Mount.
Who plays Flora, who is this crime novelist?
Yes. Now she I think is one of the
best things in the film. Peggy Mount.
I know predominantly from sitcoms more than ya think.
Ya refreshing to see Peggy Mount.
Not playing a bass. Battle axe as such because you
know, good things you're thinking of a lot, George and
the Dragon, we just did the seed James in the late 60s, and the
pack Coons. One, that was the late 70s,
early 80s in the, nursing home which name.
I cannot remember for the moment.
Oh, yes, you're correct. It's a play on the Bond film.
Are you ready? You're only dead One Source.
You're only young so young, something like that.
Men spend Saturday afternoon, trying to think of a 19th
century. Sitcom title will remember in a
second I think you're right with.
You're only young once as well. That's what it is.
But that was how, you know, you mentioned the name Peggy Mount
and that's the first thing old. She's you know, this battle axe
character, that's, you know, rolling pin in her hand and a
penny, you know. Yeah.
But she's not, you know, she actually has quite a significant
role in this, you know, What a fair amount of screen time.
And yeah. She's one of the best things in
the movie. Absolutely.
You know more efficient. Why I want some Mickey, Finn's a
Real McCoy Mac before. Hostile questions.
Then we have the lovely Shirley Eaton feet and turned 85 this
week. I'll so she still with us.
Then he is still with us. Yeah, it turned out you five
this week a couple years before dr.
Landers it. Yeah.
Goldfinger Goldfinger. Yeah.
The coupling well, quite a few years before that, but in the
run-up to that should be in a couple of the early carry-ons
carry on Nurse current start. And I think she might Lean in,
as well as a lot of her filmography is quite extensive
actually, particularly the 50s. There's a lot of movies like
this that she appears in this type of gentle black and white
British comedy, you know, in the run-up to a Hollywood stardom.
Yeah, so you've got these for so you've got Terry Thomas, Peter
sighs, Peggy Mount surely, they've all been approached
while many people willing to believe that many people at the
sort of top strata of society. Hmm.
More or entertainment or whatever in the country have
been approached by Dennis prices character Nigel.
Dennis. Yes.
And he's got some some, some sort of smutty gossip about them
that he's threatening to expose and we focus on these four
characters. Now male, he's been Indiscreet,
Lord meili has been Indiscreet with someone in Regent's Park
and I'm assuming it's a female but that's never made.
Clear. No, that's true.
That's true. You know what I mean?
It's kind of when they say someone's been in.
Great in a park sometimes it's got connotations, hasn't it?
Cool TV, Serie, then again, there's that scene where Shirley
in turns up at the doorstep and the wife says, it's another one
of your girls arrived or something true, but you never
know. When Sonny McGregor is, is a
much-loved television personality and the old people
love him, but he's secretly a slum landlord.
Yes, and he has this these this property or properties in East
itch. Remember what I said but yet to
me that's a bizarre plot sort of Point that he's a slum landlord,
you know, they could have come up with something a bit more
salacious, you know, and it's just a bizarre choice of what to
Blackmail somebody with. But yeah, but we'll go with it.
Will quite well, I guess he's looking, you know, it could be
the ruination of his career because he is, you know,
pensioners live in those slaves. And if it got out that he was
the, I don't know that the equivalent of From the 50s or
the 60s, a Tracker. If it got out that he was like
that, then it could ruin his career completely course.
And he's on-screen Persona is that he's missed the generous
isn't he's giving the £10 to the competition winners of these
been claiming back on expenses or trying to claim 10 guineas
back from the temple. Well, that's the first is what
we see salads first. As we City McGregor, he's on
stage and he's all smiles and he's he calls out this There's
old Chelsea. Pensioner who's won that?
Week's prize Talent contest contest.
You never said, oh no, he plays a Penny Whistle.
That's what it is badly. He's going to play.
We're going to play Largos handle on that.
It was it Largos had dog. And then, of course, sellers,
while the pension is playing sellers goes off stage and is
attended to by wonderful Kenneth Griffith and underneath
Griffith. Prisoner alumni.
Yep. Achilles Griffith.
Appeared in about five or six films with sellers over the
years. Earlier sellers, not surprising,
not surprising. On my knee was still acting into
his 70s and 80s. He appeared in Four Weddings and
a funeral Kenneth Griffith. Yeah.
So he plays McGregor's assistant, essentially his
gopher, I suppose. Yeah.
But sellers dresses up as a Chelsea pensioner, and goes out
onto the stage, and it's this transformations in it.
Is he's pretty That he is a man of a thousand faces.
Yes. Even though the voice sounds
like my, yes, any goons fan will recognize the voices as sellers
dust around this food. Just very quickly, quickly going
down the cars, we've got Jones Sims, who plays Ethel who is
Peggy, mounts, daughter and Jones.
Sims seems to spend the whole film screaming right to the
carry-ons and actually the early carry-ons Jones, Sims cornered,
the market. In differing DP Limelight.
Teenagers early, 20 year old female characters.
She was never given an intelligent role to play until
the mid Carry On series. If you look at the early carry
on, she's always like the dippy teacher and carry on.
So yeah, sure. You know, she's the, the student
nurse in carry on Nurse as always the bumbling nurse.
You know, she's the one that's always falling over the trolley.
Please and stuff like that, but she made a career pre carry-on
out of that character and she shines at it.
I mean, Tony one of my co-host on Rule Britannia says it's his
favorite carry on actress and then when he goes back and looks
at stuff like this, he's got a real fondness for her.
Whereas most people when you ask them about Carry On movies, it's
all about the said James, the Kenneth Williams, the Barbara
Windsor, you know, but for him, it's always and will be Joan.
Seems when you look at these you can see There was a lot more to
her than the carry-ons. Yeah, I always think of Jones
Sims in carry on at your convenience which I think is one
of the best where she's just she's very matter-of-fact and
she's she knows exactly what she's doing.
Yeah takes No Nonsense but she do at heart, she's got a big
heart see I mean you know those later ones you know carry on
abroad where she's just the ever suffering, said James wife or
whatever their their sins and she does that sometimes So
naturally, but in the run-up to the Joan seems that we know from
those Carry On movies. There's a there's a good 10-year
career before this in 1957 almost of constant work for a.
So you know I'm not going to go through the film scene by scene
but I'll sort of chat through what years essentially.
What happens. So you've got Dennis Price, this
blackmailer, he's obviously causing a lot of suicides which
is quite startling for a Dark seventh film?
Yeah, all these people committing suicide or having
heart attacks because you know he's running amok, threatening
to expose their dirty secrets and we see we see early on Peggy
Mount as as Flora she even attempt suicide by jumping out a
window. Does that she fall out the
window at one point and then lands on that.
I weighed some Michael rippers fruit stall, isn't it?
Is my career? Yeah.
Yeah, he's not even ready to I think, actually, You know, I'm
Point Shirley Eaton. When we get to her, she's
putting a head in a gas oven. Yeah.
But it's been cut off the gas. But as you say the piggy bank is
literally swinging out of the window and stops herself before
eventually falling out by accident.
There's so many layers to this movie.
You know, you've got that dark. Very black humor.
Yes, with a little bit of knockabout was quite a bit of
knockabout slapstick in this. Actually when we when we get
through, Yes, particularly Sellers.
And then you, and then we meet Terry Thomas, log meili and he's
visited by Dennis Price and Dennis Price.
Gives us the plot. He basically.
Well, first of all, he shows terry-thomas, I'm just going to
call him Terry Thomas, he shows Terry Thomas, this American
magazine called scandalous and Terry Thomas looks at it and is
he's a sort of. Did he do his nostrils flare
when he says oh, I think I'll enjoy reading this.
And then, and then Dennis Price presents this Us.
I guess it's a mock-up of a magazine he intends to publish
which is called The Naked Truth and one page there's a sort of a
puff piece I suppose about Lord meili and then on the opposite
page, there's a story which doesn't name anybody but it's
just the right side of it. As British law stands.
The public must not be able to identify directly.
That Lord mail is the person referred to, in the salacious.
Yeah, but, you know, you'd have to be pretty thick not to do,
you know? This is the there's a loophole
in the law, isn't it? Basically that he's in, he's
sort of like exposing and the left hand side of the article is
the public Persona and it's quite flattering.
Yes. And then the right hand side is
the dark real truth behind the man sort of thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so we see him some basically
saying pay up in two weeks or by publishing a month I want.
Thousand pounds, a few you afraid, you'll have to pull the
best expose you and by doing that rather than further story
is true, don't you? Dare you reset.
This is a must be a way that is an immediate cash gift of 10,000
pounds, to the distressed genders Association of, which I
am the founder, the treasurer, and the so far.
The only member would I'm shops where the editor myself, to
suppress this particular issue. It is blackmail.
That's different. Of course, is different.
Either way I make money. Dial up, some in quechua by
raking in royalties will sell like hotcakes.
And then, when we see Sonny McGregor, and we've already
talked about the television show, and as sellers, or is
sunny, McGregor is leaving the studio, he's mobbed by yeah fans
and it's very interesting that scene.
If you notice, he study, McGregor's Peter Sellers playing
slowly McGregor, but Sonny McGregor in real life is quite a
narcissistic. Quite a sort of selfish petty,
man. It was here, who's got an eye
for the ladies. So you see, you see some of
switching character and mood very quickly, from being flirty,
to being quite Kurt, to being cheeky, to being quite Blythe,
to suddenly being startled and troubled when Dennis Price
Scholars, mm and mentions. Yeah.
And mentions this property in each Stitch and you see sellers
see Sonny I should say His his, his face, change his mood, and
his voice changes. Just it just from the studio
door, to the car. Yeah, there's the whole gamut of
emotions and acting range. Literally, within seconds there,
isn't there quite right? Yeah.
And we don't know what Dennis
Price has on Flora, but I want to say Flora Robson, but it's
not fly around. So we don't know what, he's got
to know exactly what I would later on in the film.
It's Ingested that I don't know what she some sort of Goodtime
girl in Shanghai, back in a youth, there's something to do
in Shanghai. Again these accusations are
quite vague on there, you know, it's and again, you know, modern
sensibilities. How how scandalous would these
things be today? Compared to 1957 Florent some, I
can't see exactly what it was. She was accused of well we don't
know at all. What we don't know what Shirley
instead. No, no, no.
I think we need to go back and have a little look.
I think try and work out exactly what the what the issues are in.
Any case, it's important enough that Flora wants to bump him off
this year. She either doesn't want to or
can't pay him and well, obviously she doesn't want to
but she, she immediately when he's told her of his intentions
and threat, you know, threatens to expose her as being this.
Let's just say it would Time go back into.
Yeah yeah she she immediately decides that she's going to have
to know deal with them in a pretty final way and because
there's a reference to an old trunk up in the Loft and she
says to me I will go and get that trunk and then Ethel sort
of glances down. And one of her books is lying on
the couch and it's something like the body in the trunk.
Was the toll, yell, the trunk murders, or something wrong?
He said, yeah. And then we see we see Sonny
Sonny. Burning him and he's got a guest
who comes out and, you know, they're doing it a bit for the
audience and then the the Old Gentleman says that he's from
East ditch quite innocently. Yeah.
And this, this is the only bit of the film that I felt.
The whole film is unrealistic. Let's face it.
But this little film Jarred with me because you've got sellers as
Sunny losing his rag because the guy mentions that he's from each
Stitch. This he's got the there's no
insinuation there but Sonny just thinks that it is and and flies
into a rage for no reason whatsoever basically.
Yeah, yeah. So So now you've got Sunny
deciding that he also wants to bump off Dennis Price.
I guess, the first cell is transformation he plays an old
Boatman doesn't he? Because yeah yeah, an inspector
of the waterways or something or every describes himself as
doesn't need. Actually.
Yeah, it what he says he's from the lung.
I didn't shut it all down, London, Euro of boats, barges
and breaks that was it. And it's, and it's sellers
dressed as as old geezer. With a West country accent, I
think. And he says, and he goes to
Dennis prices, barge, I gather you're getting pressured.
Dennis Price hasn't got two pennies to rub together, really?
Because he drives a bubble car and he doesn't yet, he seems to
be, but he's that kind of character that that's on his up
as I suppose. Yeah.
But so sellers disguised as this, Boatman goes and says that
his boat is dry rot and there's a bit of a kerfuffle And
adjusted this down because you see silence doing what I would
call his nervous. Acting his nervous, stick right
by that. I mean, it's when one of his
characters. I don't know how to describe it.
The best way I could describe describe it in my favorite
salads film which is a shot in the dark from 64.
Right? At the end Dreyfuss is revealed
as being the the man who's been killing All these people of
course. Yeah.
In a vain attempt to kill closer.
Yeah. And right at the end he
completely breaks down and has a, he goes Stark staring mad, he
starts attacking Graham Stark. Ricey clue Saints, suckers.
He's pleased as a system. Yeah see.
Clue. So kind of trying to sort of
dragged him off, but then sort of stepping back and then only
wine. Oh yeah, right stepping back.
Kind of very nervous kind of and you've got the, you've got
sellers as the boat men doing that as well, Ms. And sellers
does that in a number of, I've seen them do that in a number of
roles but essentially, I think what is what he's trying to do.
He's trying to well, I guess he's trying to kill Dennis Price
by Soaring a gangplank almost in half?
Yes, good car. A good cartoon cloth.
Yes, isn't it? That's a Wily coyote type sort
of Like yeah, you should yeah, but of but of course the wrong
person gets in the drink. It's Terry Thomas.
And that's the first time that Terry Thomas, log meili, and
sunny McGregor meat. And and while this is going on,
you've got Flora who I can't remember how she hears about
this but she someone mentions about the existence of Mickey
Finn's, right? Basically she was a a book
signing or a murderer's writers conference and there's that
rather imposing woman with the large glasses in the blond hair.
Oh yes. The Agatha Christie Avatar.
Yeah. And she Rings up her no base.
She goes into the chemist and she asked for knockout drops.
Oh yes she does. And the chemist.
Says you mean a sleeping draft and she says you having trouble
sleeping? She's no, I'm sleeping.
Quite well, thank you very much because she has no luck at the
chemist. She then brings up this other
writer colleague of hers. And she says if you wanted to
bump somebody off what do you use to knock them out with?
And she's been over Mickey Finn. She says that's what you need a
Mickey Finn and where would you get them?
And then this author says, well, I usually get mine from.
Is it Monty fish? This is the third call Monty
fish. I think Marie Marie.
Fish Maury fish? Yes, the Lime House.
Tavern in the East End. Yes.
So she sent so she sent off to try and get these illicitly
somewhere or another. Yes does she disguises herself
in a bear a as as I'm not quite sure what accent?
She's got. She tries to do an East End X
and because then she walks into the bar, she's going to ask for
a gin and orange or something. Then she realizes Is where she
is and changes it to a port and lemon.
So we see Terry Thomas who's fallen into the canal.
Hmm he creeps into his house. He's soaking wet as wife catches
and his wife just seems to be permanently prowling around the
house and she went actually now I think yeah I think that's what
it is. And she informs him that one of
his girls as phone. So she's obviously used to his.
There we go. Yeah.
Discretions near Delicacies in Fidelity's.
And she's almost kind of amused by it.
It's a bit of a game, isn't it? Because if you think about it,
if she manages to divorce him, he's not going to see a penny of
her inheritance. Is he?
No, she's probably trying to catch him out with some concrete
evidence at the end of the day, and she says, the school has
taught telephone, she said she's in trouble which obviously had
was quite suggestive back. And here's yeah.
And of course, this is because Shirley Eaton has been to the
barge and she's managed to break into the filing.
Cabinet that. Yeah, as the the mock-up
magazines and she seen Lord meili protons here.
So she turns up and she basically, I think she just
wants to go to the police and lay it all bear in.
Obviously, Terry. Thomas doesn't matter what to do
that. So he says, buys himself some
time. He's got some sort of half plan
hatching, I guess. It's like this we're doing a job
in London. Dizzy Albert, Ayler tile.
And we've run right out of the jelly and with this filled with
They could truth. I think it's best known seen
Sonny. We study McGregor going over the
water, to Dublin to procure some gel at night to build a bomb.
Yes, jelly, do you want to describe the scenes?
He walks into a bar, the does he actually go to Dublin?
I got the impression that, you know, when he's sort of
discussing where he can get explosives from there, so we
don't have to go to Ireland. He says, hang on.
I've got I've got a better idea. I'm all right, possibly not.
Then possibly just at the Irish bar somewhere close to what he
thinks is. Yeah, what is inhabited by Irish
punters? You know, and it turns out that
picks the wrong people, but he turns up in this bar in a
disguise and I can only describe it to Modern audiences that
those that watch the last season of the Alan Partridge show,
where he has the Irish get remember this?
I do. Yes.
And it is a very similar Style. Makeup with the heavyset
eyebrows, I don't know if he's got a false teeth in, but he's
got this thick, black hair. I think there's sideburns is
quite thick, seti appears thicker set than usual.
And he's got this outrageous higher exact same thing about go
away and Donegal the blardy blar, you know?
But he's also, he's got the nose as well and he had, yeah,
because when he gets punched, it gets spread across his face, it
quits, Goes up to two guys that he thinks are obviously going to
be Irish in these Irish bar, and in the ask them, you know, I'm a
yes we says, I'm over here doing a job so that made me think he's
come over from Ireland to London.
So he's either in an Irish bar and he said, I need to get hold
of some jelly. And it turns out that as one of
the guy stands up and punches him.
That, that was. What does he say?
Does he say? He says it in an English accent.
Doesn't need the guy that punches him or something.
There is an entire issue at all. Hold the country.
So nice, a bloody Englishman or something.
There's no, it's got these nice Irish because he goes in and he
taught all intense purposes is an Irishman, but then he starts
speaking Welsh. Yes, he does.
That that long town named did goddamn, doesn't it?
Yeah. And he wants some some jelly
because he wants to build up the butthole and where does he refer
to it? The Albert it's the Albert Hall
at all. Hold at all.
That was it? Yeah, excellent.
Yeah and I think I'm blind straight away.
There was a problem, like gets punched in the face.
Punched in the nose, an English man.
All right, I like to think that character
is maybe an uncle Or even the father of the character that
cell has played in that episode of Sykes.
You see also blimey? Yes.
Yeah, because he's got the hair, he's got the nose is quite heavy
set and it's not an Irish accent.
Be does play it with an accent, doesn't he?
He's not playing it out. He's a nice tent, is a cockney.
That was I knew there was some accented, because I always get
that mixed up, nothing came back of Leonard.
Rossiter in the Steptoe episode where he breaks Child, uh-huh.
Yes because Leonard Rossiter Play.
Somebody similar, doesn't he plays this East End?
Like villain? That's broken out of jail.
He's Johnny. Johnny somebody.
Yes, yeah, yeah, the Desperate Hours.
I think, was that the episode? Yeah, yeah.
So we have, we have sellers, obviously the bomb idea didn't
come off so he, they're not going to happen.
He decides to visit a gunsmith and try and secure a rifle.
It's It's almost it's like one of those farces, you know the
bedroom farce is where there's like four different plots going
on at the same time and you know they're all going to meet at
some point. Yeah.
With you know equal amounts of confusion and kerfuffle going
on. Yes.
And it you're just waiting because you know the four of
them are going to jail at some some point it's all going to
come together. Yeah we'll see seat.
So Terry Thomas Lord mainly hizmet's.
Only McGregor, he has met Shirley Eaton.
And he goes for good and sufficient reasons.
He goes to Flora ransoms house and gets Mickey finned by
mistake. My go into that.
There's an interesting saying though where you have David
Lodge mind, what else? By policemen, they pleased to
announce not, you may not know this but about five years ago,
with my good friends over at a podcast, jaffa cakes for proust.
All right. We recorded an episode which is
basically all about David Lodge, playing policeman in films.
I bet there's a few, there's I remember checking at the time,
they're at least 17 18 policeman, he played in his
career and we covered about. What was it?
Three four films. We talked about, and sure enough
in the Naked Truth, he turns up as a policeman was going to meet
and you have this great scene where Salazar Again disguises
The Boatman hmm. He's trying to avoid his eye and
trying to look innocent trying to look circumspect.
Yeah, but just ending up looking thoroughly thoroughly
suspicious, beautiful evening, Constable beautiful evening
whether that there's a point where he catches sight of him
and David Lodge actually spins around in a complete circle to
take a second. Look at him, it's amazing.
And another thing is, I mean, you've seen all the bloopers and
the outtakes from The Pink Panther movies where they're
corpsing you know because the pair of them couldn't look each
other in the eye and is similar with his relationship with Spike
as well. When he appeared in the Q&A and
you know all those other q-series he played policeman in
probably a dozen of those as well.
Not including the the movies. Yeah and such was the friendship
with him Sellers and Spike, you know that they just Couldn't
work together without laughing all the time.
Like and just imagine that, you know, he was brought on board
because they were great friends. And yeah, you can just see the
twinkle as well within the relationship with them.
You know, you'll find half of the people that you spot on the
screen are not listed but you know their name you know David
Lodge you know Ed Martin you know Mario for Britt.
See Wilfred Lawson was the contestant on the TV show if you
look underneath that make But that's a famous face that
Michael Ripper. We mentioned earlier.
You know, he's not credited. Yes.
Yes, I'd also playing Cedric playing the fiance of Flora.
Rob of Flora, Manson is the, the wonderful cherubic looking miles
medicine. Oh, good morning!
Mrs. Ransome, approaches out, but we are expecting a back and
get come in. Well, I am Zahra die.
Stop. I wasn't on a little inquiry but
I'm missing Kevin, he trusts in him, see red zones position, I
don't feel no, no, I have no idea but I'm sure my sister.
And the boy is the relationship there because Joan seems refers
to him as daddy. He's I think I believe he's
Flores betrothed because her first, right?
Died out in Asia. All right, I think, and and
Miles mellough soon, I think it's one of those sort of
permanent engagements because I couldn't quite well that I knew,
they were close friends and and Joan seemed refers to him as his
daddy. And I'm thinking, well, he's
that her father and they're divorced, you know, the parents
are divorced, but there's no indication of that, you know.
It was just weird. Trying to work out.
Yeah, she said mi malleson cropped up in Wyoming.
Quite recently, we reviewed dead of night.
I'm Roberto. Yes.
Yeah he plays The Undertaker room for one more inside, you
know, that's in there. Yes, coronets as well.
That's it. The generally plays clergyman or
yes. Well he's magistrates and
things. Yeah, he's always cheerful
confused. I'm all right jack as senior,
his father at one point but I think he is in that
as well. He's definitely one.
I think he was probably in every single Peter Sellers film of the
50s and early 60s. Let's face, it wouldn't surprise
me. Yeah.
So, yes, as you sort of alluded to that the four of them
eventually do come together. Yeah.
More by accident than, by Design course and they hit upon this
idea. This plot was planned to not to
kill. Dennis Price but to basically
ship him off to South America. Yeah.
Now this would be the point. I would say we're because up
until this point, the film has been just a series of almost
like a series of sketches I guess.
But we're now into the third act essentially and this is where in
fact it's pretty the last 20 minutes of the film essentially.
Yeah just all comes together. Doesn't it of this point you
know? Yeah.
Terry Thomas and Peter Sellers contrived this plan where
they're going to somehow I guess kidnap, Dennis Price.
Bundle them onto a boat to Colombia or somewhere like that.
I think somewhere in South America, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah. And there is there's a scene
where again, sellers dressed as the old boat, man, has broken
into the, barge into Dennis prices, barge, I forget what
he's trying to do, but he's, here's someone.
Coming. So he hides under the bed and
then you see this pair of feet coming and sitting on the bed?
Yeah. Eight.
And then, and I want to ask you about this because at this, I've
never understood this. You see from sellers POV.
So from that you don't see see from under the bed.
You see another pair of feet turning up and it's clearly a
female. Because we're yeah.
Use. Yep.
And they clearly, they kiss. Because she does that thing with
her leg where she raises it? Yes.
What the hell is all this? I've never understood that.
That's it. That's just signify kissing.
Isn't it pretty much? Yeah, and then you then get the
feeling he's there for quite an extended period of time all
night. I think so is he's obviously on
the wrong boat. No, he's not.
He's not. All right boat but Dennis Price
had let it the day before. Oh that's what it was right.
Oh God because he's there. All night.
Just basically stuck until he can make his bid for Freedom.
Yeah. Well They're presumably making
whoopie all night because it's a young couple.
Anyway, the police arrest Dennis Price because I think, by this
point Shirley Eaton, may have tipped them off.
So they arrest Enterprise, but, and he ends up in prison at,
this is what I don't understand because it's like, has there
been a trial? I don't know if this is the
thing up to this point is cracking along nicely.
You know, we've got these three or four separate stories.
We've got a wonderful plot that you're engaged in It starts to.
I'm not saying the film fail spectacularly, but it starts
crumbling a little towards the end, trying to find a denouement
to the whole thing. You can see why.
I mean, it was nice, but we weren't his right knee was
thinking, right? I've got all of this happening.
How do I, how do I resolve this? And it does become where you
mention something was a little bit.
Unbelievable becomes very unbelievable in the very final
scene. And it is, it's just like, okay
well I've got all of these ganging up on him.
I'm trying to get their revenge and to prevent him doing what
he's supposed to be doing. How do I achieve that and it
just becomes a bit patchy this began which is the only failure
of the movie in my opinion. You know.
It's the only thing that lets it down.
Yeah. So all that people need to know
is that with the collusion of what to 300 other people because
there's so many people. That's right.
Because yeah, the filing cabinet, they get everybody
involved. And then there's this elaborate
Scheme to get the police. This was it, wasn't it to get
the police engaged somewhere else, they're all making fake
telephone calls? Yes, yeah, by 999 or whatever,
to get the police distracted. Is that how it works?
Yes. So that so that, yeah, Sellers
and Terry Thomas can kidnap, Dennis Price and they take them
onto a boat, and then they take him on to her again.
I don't understand this, they take him on to an Airship.
This is the bills to say is just like this, just the convenience.
Tie up the whole thing. You know, I wrote in my notes.
No, Shirley in other words, you've got, you've got Flora,
you've got sunny and you've got Lord meili and Dennis Price on
this Airship. But Melissa, she's not there.
She's not there. Dennis Price.
Wakes up doesn't realize, he's on an Airship.
He says that he wasn't going to expose them anyway, and they've
destroyed all the evidence against him.
So up yours essentially walks out the door, but doesn't
Realize that he's twenty thousand feet up above the ocean
and and we presume parishes and it's a happy ending or is it
because for some reason sellers has a loaded pistol and shoots
it and much like a balloon, whether the air deflates from
it. It the the Airship sort of
skitters around the sky and we presume that they all die as
well. Yeah, I can only assume that
that last 5-10 minutes was written by somebody else.
I don't know. He just doesn't fit in.
It's just, as I say we were doing so well up to this place.
Yeah, I still I still, I'm still, I still go with it that
way. I think they left as a says, at
the end and the titles at the end, were the end dot dot dot?
Or is it so possibly? They were leaving open for a
sequel. Now, I was thinking the possible
matter right back in the day, you know, you couldn't end a
film where the bad guys product So I'm assuming that because
let's face it, the three of them, they were fairly ropey
individuals. Let's face.
It are whiter than why are they so clean?
We didn't put it. They won't hit there.
Weren't heroic. That's Maya may be wondering
that. Is that why surely Eaton's
character wasn't on the Airship? Because she seemed to be the
only one who had any sort of the scintilla of decency about or
sensibility. Yeah.
Because she was the one that was originally going to go to the
police where all the others were just going.
Trying to exact their own Revenge killing.
Yeah. Yeah, it's just bizarre perhaps.
They'd it just seems that ending was tacked on and if it was
tacked on, was it a point where surely wasn't available for
filming? You know could be something as
simple as that. It may have been a completely
Rewritten leading to what was planned you know possibly.
Yeah. Because it does seem yes it does
seem like you're right. It does seem like it's from a
different film completely. Yeah.
And it could have been shot very quickly.
I guess. Us in case only one scene is
literally two minutes at the very most.
Yeah, that's, that's my theory thinking about it.
Now, talking to you, I hadn't really thought about it, but I
just knew there was something the bugged me about, you know,
you've got this elaborate staging of all the people
calling 999 and setting all of this up and you think this is
gonna be great. You know, there's going to be
this massive great crowd by sort of like Revenge.
You know, they'll get him or whatever.
I don't know. And it just did just Fizzles
towards the end in something that's not quite as satisfying
as you You know, you'd hope it's Abby.
Yeah. It doesn't have an ending like
for example two-way stretch which to me is a satisfying
ending. Exactly absolutely.
Yeah, and apparently during takes during this film peg him
out like to knit and she knitted blue jumpers for the whole cast
that sleepy Mount doing that actually?
Yeah. That that Rings true.
Yeah, so overall I Apart for the last fifteen, twenty minutes.
I think this film is solid, I like it very much.
Yes, for sellers performance, I do like Terry Thomas.
I've never been a huge terry-thomas only say, although
my favorite performance of his is in the going to get it wrong.
The Amicus portmanteau film that he was in V of horror, or is V
of horror, I think, where he's living in this, Early modern
house for 1974 year. Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, because I always get those small ones mixed up.
Always turn to theater of blood or yeah, okay.
Dennis price of it. Yes, he did, you did amongst
others, Robert Morley and all those guys didn't fall of
Horrors, the one with Tom Baker and Michael Craig and all those
guys. Isn't it on villains in it.
Cut, your organs is. Yes, it's got ya.
He's the man whose Name Escapes me at least Jones, who was the
mother in Mary Poppins. Yes, she ends up murdering
terry-thomas. I'm sorry, spoilers here folks,
but, but she murdered him and dismembers.
His entire Anatomy just members here lately and Bottles it.
Also going to possibly little jars, doesn't she would labels
on them and stuff. But the great little thing
little touches that the camera set of scans on this as eyeballs
with this is Aires. And look, there's his teeth with
The Gap. Exactly.
Yeah, exactly brilliant. Because if I remember rightly,
there's something, he's nagging. Her is only because she isn't a
very neat and tidy person, but the final scene is that
everything. His neatly placed in jars.
Everything's cassia everything is all organized and organized
at the end, but that was his big bug bear with her.
That she wasn't an organized neat and tidy person.
He had extreme OCD. Can't you do anything.
They can't. You do anything meekly.
So yes. So overall thoughts.
Anything else you want to say about this film?
Taking this one. Going to agree exactly what you
said. I mean, for me, you know, a big
fan of British movies and particularly this era.
The 50s is just an untapped full of great stuff.
You know, we've got that this is almost a golden age.
You know, when we go through that cast, and as we said at the
beginning, Being a surprising that this isn't mentioned as
much as it should be, but then perhaps it is because of that
last five minutes, ten minutes or so that people of sat through
an hour and 20 and gone. That's that spoil it for me.
You know, I think of that ending have been slightly different and
I think this would be held up there with those other movies
that have these great ensemble cast that we always turn to yes.
You know, and it's a shame, it's a shame.
But if you can Put up with that last five minutes.
It's not it's not excruciating, me, bad.
We're not saying that. By any way, shape or form.
You're going to be in, for a good 90 minutes of solid
entertainment. We've got a great performance
from Sellers. As you say, we get the full
range, you know, he's given free rein to doing a huge number of
accents and comic personas Terry Thomas.
I do like Dennis Price, we spoke at length, solid Dependable, you
know, And so very early performances for Shirley Eaton
and Joan seems who again you know, this early stage of their
career tend to get overlooked because they're better known for
their latest stuff. Yes, go back and watch it highly
recommended. Absolutely, yeah, she really was
in carry on Nurse, wasn't she? Yeah, I think she may have had a
bit part in Sergeant as well. I think she worked in the came
team. She wasn't the one in carrier
nurse Who placed the daffodil? Will she do?
We know I do food. Hide Wilfried?
Hi Dwight, it might be this, two of them, that played the trick
on him. I can't remember.
Who is nothing? Joan seems might be one of them.
Yeah, great, it's one of the better carry on Films.
Again, people tend to gravitate towards that color stuff, you
know, sort of post Cleo Cleo to can pigs or the era.
But I would really urge people to go back and look at nurse
Regardless Constable cabbie is absolutely fantastic.
You know. Yes.
Some of them a lot better than what you think of carry on film
actually is. Yeah.
Yes it was. It was the guy Hugh Des kind of
thing, a name that broke Norman yet, normal duties.
She foretold what Rothwell got his Matty, pause on the secret
sect change, changed it all completely then and the thing
is, as well, I think Shirley Eaton appeared in carry on
Admiral the year before this, which wasn't a Real hell, yeah.
Yeah, Scott. Thank you so much again, for
taking the time to speak to me and talk about this, this, this
fine film. Now, I know, obviously you've
been on before, you've talked about it before, but there will
be people that have not heard your first appearance.
So do you want to just talk us through the plethora of podcast?
You, I will be with us as quick as I can on this one.
The first one I started its in its ninth year, was the stinking
paws. PA, you SE and, and that was
just a general review of classic movies, but we go right up to
date with that. You know, and that's just myself
and a couple of friends we get together and we just review a
movie every month that was swiftly followed by real
Britannia. Which is, I think we're, you
know, we got to know each other through that podcast which is a
separate entity but it focuses completely on British movies
from the silent era and we'll go right up to modern day.
That you know, but in between, we've got the kitchen sinks, the
carry-ons, you know the John Mills stiff-upper-lip, war
movies, Norman wisdoms, you name it, you know, covers everything
right up to the film for stuff. You know, we doing everything in
regards to that. We're just doing a major sort of
hammer horror retrospective at the moment, Rainbow Valley is a
60s documentary podcast. I started about five six years
ago haven't put one out for about a year because I'm totally
Bogged down with all these other ones at the moment that is still
going. There's an episode I'm working
on at the moment about the making of zulu.
So that will be the next episode coming up for that, right?
And the most recent project I was very lucky, very honored to
be asked two years ago to be co-host on the official talking
pictures TV podcast, which is the official podcast of the
greatest and Best Loved archive move.
In TV channel, this country has got to offer.
If you haven't you must have heard of it and they're listed
as you know, it's this type of movie will always be on that
channel plus a lot of stuff you forgotten about.
Yeah it's on demand as well as it there is an on-demand service
called TP T v-- Encore. Yeah it's on Freeview sky
freesat. This sort of movie is the staple
of it is the bread and butter of the channel as well as some
classic old British dramas that you'd always.
Forgotten about their on the TV, you know, secret army and those
kind of things, you know, the mind of mr.
JG reader. I think big?
Yes, that's all there. It's in any case.
Sorry that I've been so snotty and banged up and sounding even
more. What's the word and a dime
adenoidal is that the welder they would do a double take it,
that's for Anodyne as well applies.
Thank you so much Mom. Again, thank you very much
tighter. Cheers, bye, bye.
Thanks again to Scott. Thank you for listening as
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