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Watched She Wore A Yellow Ribbon with John Wayne on the tellybox this morning. I hadn't realise “all pissed up and going to Wemberleeee, Wemberleeee” came from that ( cavalreeee, cavalreeee ). As my ol' dad said you learn some'ink new every day son.
I love him in Brannigan, the 1975 cult action thriller, where he plays a Chicago cop let loose on the streets of London. The car chase near the end is just bonkers. One minute they’re flying over Tower Bridge only to emerge in the next sequence about to enter the Piccadilly underpass.
And when a bomb reduces his apartment in Prince of Wales Drive, Battersea, to rubble, a view of the South Bank Lion on Westminster Bridge is revealed from the POV of the now devastated living room.
A similar thing happened in one of the Sweeney films when a newspaper office that appears to be located in what is actually Tommy’s Hospital, explodes to reveal a view of the Albert Memorial, Kensington.
It’s entirely possible that I’ve got these the wrong way round, of course, but the point still stands.
I installed two-way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood and he came to the door in a dress.
Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.
I love him in Brannigan, the 1975 cult action thriller, where he plays a Chicago cop let loose on the streets of London. The car chase near the end is just bonkers. One minute they’re flying over Tower Bridge only to emerge in the next sequence about to enter the Piccadilly underpass.
And when a bomb reduces his apartment in Prince of Wales Drive, Battersea, to rubble, a view of the South Bank Lion on Westminster Bridge is revealed from the POV of the now devastated living room.
A similar thing happened in one of the Sweeney films when a newspaper office that appears to be located in what is actually Tommy’s Hospital, explodes to reveal a view of the Albert Memorial, Kensington.
It’s entirely possible that I’ve got these the wrong way round, of course, but the point still stands.
True story…..
Back in the day, when ‘the Duke’ was staying in the hotel by the chain bridge in Marlow, the guys trying to make the Tower Bridge jump, were making a scale model (at Pinewood) of the bridge.
The car used was a Corgi model, sprayed yellow for the film.
Tower Bridge was perfect in every way, and was modelled with the bridge up for the film.
Come the day, I was on set watching the guys literally do what we kids at school did, clasp your hand over the car, bring your hand back, and propel the model forwards and up the ramp (filming was done using a high speed camera so that it would look more ‘authentic’ when moving at a scale speed.
Now, the yellow capri just didn’t want to ‘play ball’ as when it got to take to the air, it would tip left, right, nose down, ass down, etc
Sometimes, a door would open, and it didn’t matter which, as the capri wasn’t fussy.
The Capri would sometimes hit one of the towers, but you couldn’t guarantee to miss the towers every time.
After 4 days, (and on the very day I was on set) the camera rolled, the lighting was perfect, as I saw the yellow capri take to the air, and come down perfectly onto the other ramp.
All were happy.
As they had no further need for the bridge model, I was offered it, but refused. Mum would have gone spare seeing it in the house, so it was left to be got rid of by whomever threw these things into a skip.
However, the yellow capri, was offered to me, and me being a complete tool, I took the stupid stance of ‘I don’t play with toys) and rejected the kind offer.
Needless to say, I never refused anything from Pinewood or Bray again.
Thinking back to coming home from school or early days of working, watching country and western films on BBC2, and John Wayne would be in a great majority of them.
A very relaxing way to spending a night with dad watching these classics. Not connected to any kind of real life situation, was a good way to unwind if it had been a stressful day,
Agreed - 'that'll be the day' - also the man who shot Liberty Valance was a classic.
I'm sometimes a bit gullible to some humour, but the pedant in me wants to point out that Tony Orlando's song was 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon' -not the Arsenal song.
Agreed - 'that'll be the day' - also the man who shot Liberty Valance was a classic.
I'm sometimes a bit gullible to some humour, but the pedant in me wants to point out that Tony Orlando's song was 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon' -not the Arsenal song.
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It won’t have escaped anyone’s attention that my ‘humour’ can be a bit ‘Curate’s egg’, Hants, TBF.
I was probably deliberately, and performatively, attempting to ‘misunderstand’ your earlier post. First to acknowledge I can get rather carried away sometimes.
Total respect for the ‘pedantry’, though. Am a big fan of it!
By the way, the title of the song is Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole (sic) Oak Tree, not Tie A Yellow Ribbon.
It won’t have escaped anyone’s attention that my ‘humour’ can be a bit ‘Curate’s egg’, Hants, TBF.
I was probably deliberately, and performatively, attempting to ‘misunderstand’ your earlier post. First to acknowledge I can get rather carried away sometimes.
Total respect for the ‘pedantry’, though. Am a big fan of it!
By the way, the title of the song is Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole (sic) Oak Tree, not Tie A Yellow Ribbon.
It's a fair cop. I was only 25 when it was released, so memory might have faded a little.
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