[Film] Great Escape on Channel 4

[The Clamp]

Remake The Great Escape?
Who looks at that film and thinks, hmmmm yeeeeah I mean it’s good but Bradley Cooper would do a better job than McQueen !?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Remake The Great Escape?
Who looks at that film and thinks, hmmmm yeeeeah I mean it’s good but Bradley Cooper would do a better job than McQueen !?

We definitely need a 'This Is Sarcasm' emoji on here. I'm guessing you were fine with Alan Carr playing Shuey Mcfee in my post.

 

[The Clamp]

We definitely need a 'This Is Sarcasm' emoji on here. I'm guessing you were fine with Alan Carr playing Shuey Mcfee in my post.

Him or Julian Clary.

I have just seen that it was your post. Had I clocked that before I would have known it was tongue in cheek!

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Remake The Great Escape?
Who looks at that film and thinks, hmmmm yeeeeah I mean it’s good but Bradley Cooper would do a better job than McQueen !?

Indeed. We tried to watch the Papillon remake. Switched off after about 20 minutes.The acting was shocking compared to the original with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. Odd really because dramas are much better these days but there are a few actors and films from the past that just can’t be surpassed.
Happy New Year Clampy.

 

[rogersix]

Never tire of this movie classic.

A plethora of A listers, hard to imagine that they started filming only 18 years after the actual escape.

I appreciate times have changed, but I hope there never comes a time when they deliberately don’t show this film due to a TV exec thinking it’s ‘inappropriate’?[/QUOT

It gets pulled probably by the cretins on hear first. As a supporter of the Albion since 1976 I am embarrassed by the morons on this message board. God bless gulls eye.

were your other 290 posts of a similar standard?

 

[rogersix]

So you justify being a sad sack by a spelling mistake.

your slapdash education has really held you back

 

[Worthing exile]

Never mind The Great Escape, when are we getting a remake of Crossroads?

They did recently for an episode of Morse. Quite well done actually.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Angus Lennie. He was in a play with my dad at the Gardner Centre in the 60s and he was a lovely bloke. I was hanging around waiting for my old man and he was amazingly friendly ... and that was before I'd seen the Great Escape. It was a shock to see him gunned down

Angus died many times during the war.
On barbed wire, in a mosquito, to name just 2.
Then popped up in the Crossroads kitchen.
Remarkable man.

 

[chaileyjem]

Its also 47 years since The Likely Lads made a joke about it being on TV every Christmas ...in their 1974 TV special.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9GYz9udLU

 

[The Clamp]

Indeed. We tried to watch the Papillon remake. Switched off after about 20 minutes.The acting was shocking compared to the original with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. Odd really because dramas are much better these days but there are a few actors and films from the past that just can’t be surpassed.
Happy New Year Clampy.

Charlie Hunnam cannot act. And Remi Malek is too boss-eyed to be credible. One eye is off to the shops , the other is coming back with the change. Papillon remake was gash.
And a happy new year to you too sir!

 

[portlock seagull]

Angus Lennie. He was in a play with my dad at the Gardner Centre in the 60s and he was a lovely bloke. I was hanging around waiting for my old man and he was amazingly friendly ... and that was before I'd seen the Great Escape. It was a shock to see him gunned down

Brilliant story, how lucky you were to meet the famous wee man. Another actor, Tom Adams, who features in TGE, was a regular at a nearby pub. He was so pickled one night he enjoyed a 10min or so chat with my dog at the bar! Silly old sop, by all accounts a nice bloke. He was always in there when I visited it, not sure if that means I was in there too much or him?!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Wouldn't happen in Germany

 

[portlock seagull]

The Guy Martin recreation this evening on More 4 was a fascinating insight into the events. A few points that I didn't know about:-
1) it resulted in the greatest atrocity against British troops during WW2
2) The mass escape resulted in a mass escapee recovery plan by the Nazi, which captured 14,000 other escapees. There were no further mass escape attempts. The Germans preferred 1's and 2's escapees as it caused less disruption to their operations.
3) The commandant of Stagluff 13 paid for a memorial out of his own pocket, and provided tools to build it to the prisoners of Stagluff on conditions the picks and tool were not used for further tunnels. The prisoners did not try again, as it was not worth the loss.

Point 1 can’t be true? As early as the Dunkirk campaign, many more than 50 POWs were executed. Wormhout for example. And I think the Japs killed more than 50 nuns and medics never mind POWs in numerous incidents following the fall of Singapore?

Never knew point 3, that’s truly humbling. Not all Germans were bad, though they were all complicate.

 

[marlowe]

Angus died many times during the war.
On barbed wire, in a mosquito, to name just 2.
Then popped up in the Crossroads kitchen.
Remarkable man.

Not forgetting the time he was gunned down outside the Gardner Centre in Brighton in front of a shocked [MENTION=25]Gwylan[/MENTION]

 

[KZNSeagull]

Point 1 can’t be true? As early as the Dunkirk campaign, many more than 50 POWs were executed. Wormhout for example. And I think the Japs killed more than 50 nuns and medics never mind POWs in numerous incidents following the fall of Singapore?

Never knew point 3, that’s truly humbling. Not all Germans were bad, though they were all complicate.

Quite. Over 8000 British and Australian POW's died building the Burma - Thailand railway for a start. Not an execution as such, rather a long, lingering, painful death.

 

[marlowe]

This thread has made me fully appreciate the breadth of British acting talent which they managed to pool together to create such an ensemble and stellar cast which has helped make the film the classic it has become known as today...

 

[Mr Bridger]

Your going home like Sandy Richardson.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

That wasn't Benny, it was the Crossroads chef Shughie McFee.

Yes, the sight of Benny from Crossroads getting shot while trying to scramble over a barbed wire fence wearing his wooly hat and dungarees, and then gasping out "aah Miss Diane" with his dying breath would have detracted further from the films credibility, but it didn't happen.

Next you'll be trying to tell us that Meg Richardson's disabled son Sandy tried to make an unsuccessful dash for it in his wheelchair.

He did!
The tunnel was so well thought through that they even put rails in it so they could push Sandy along it.
Also, one of the German guards was played by Arthur Brownlow

 

[marlowe]

He did!
The tunnel was so well thought through that they even put rails in it so they could push Sandy along it.
Also, one of the German guards was played by Arthur Brownlow

And David Hunter was the camp Commandant

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

He did!
The tunnel was so well thought through that they even put rails in it so they could push Sandy along it.
Also, one of the German guards was played by Arthur Brownlow

This thread has taken an massive and surprising turn for the better. Some of the posts have had me in stitches