> on 6/13/03 2:32 AM, Nigel Algar at
montana@dircon.co.uk wrote:
>
> [...] For the last twelve years or so,I've worked on
film-related programmes
> for British TV, and a couple of years ago made BIG
SHOTS, a 50 minute doc on
> the British gangster movie from BRIGHTON ROCK to
LOCK, STOCK etc. The last doc
> I made was on the very unhardboiled Bing
Crosby...
You're
probably just the person to ask: Is the '40s film
version
of NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDSISH as bad as they say, or
are
there any virtues to it? Do you stand with Leslie
Halliwell
("one
of the worst films ever made") or my Time Out Film
Guide
("redolent
of a short-lived maturity attained by British cinema
in
the late '40s")? Being, myself, a fan of the later
Aldrich-directed
GRISSOM GANG, I've a certain
curiosity.
I
also must admit that I'm none too knowledgeable about
pre-GET
CARTER British crime movies. I love Losey's THE
CRIMINAL-a.k.a.-THE
CONCRETE JUNGLE. I've heard good things
about
HELL IS A CITY, PAYROLL, NOWHERE TO GO, and the
Greville-dorected
NOOSE, but apart from that ... Any titles,
not
counting BRIGHTON ROCK, that you'd care to recommend?
Chris
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