TP McKenna RIP

[vinteuil]

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Which is the Alastair Sim / George Cole film where Sim is the mad assassin and Cole the vacuum salesman who defeats him??

wiki tells me : The Green Man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Man_(film)

EDIT - merci, mercia - you got there first

... and Raymond Huntley! Arthur Lowe!! Dora Bryan!!! Terry-Thomas!!!!

[Stillhomewardbound]

I love the Sim film, is it 'The Time of Our Lives' where a great cast of loveable schoolboy urchins run riot over a very bombed London and foil a bunch of gang-robbers.

[mercia]

a great cast of loveable schoolboy urchins run riot over a very bombed London and foil a bunch of gang-robbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hue_and_Cry_(film) ??

[Nick Armstrong]

wiki tells me : The Green Man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Man_(film)

... and Raymond Huntley! Arthur Lowe!! Dora Bryan!!! Terry-Thomas!!!!

Sim, Cole, Lowe, Terry-Thomas: it doesn't get much better than that. Four of my all-time, absolute top favourites. Just ordered for under a fiver. I can't believe I have never seen it. Cheers vinchaud

[Stillhomewardbound]

And there was me mentioning 'Hue & Cry' and who should pop up on the latest obituary list but Harry Fowler:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/04/harry-fowler

[Nick Armstrong]

And there was me mentioning 'Hue & Cry' and who should pop up on the latest obituary list but Harry Fowler:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/04/harry-fowler

Oh that's sad. One of those faces one's always known and enjoyed.

(Feel slightly guilty at having had a hand in drawing this thread off the topic of your esteemed pa, shb )

[Stillhomewardbound]

Think nothing of it Caliban ... I love it when threads progress in a very organic fashion.