#michael goodliffe

[crewman-penelope]

💻 Tanner Day 💻

Extra:

Charles Robinson, Chief of staff in Tanners absence:

#Tanner Day #team civilian #teamcivilian #Michael goodliffe #James vallier #Michael kitchen #Rory Kinnear #Tanner #Bill Tanner #Tanner tuesday #mi6 cafe

[of-fear-and-love]

Yvonne De Carlo in Sea Devils (1953)

#yvonne de carlo #sea devils #1953 #1950s film #50s movies #costume design #historical costuming #I don't know if this is remotely accurate costuming lol but there's some interesting stuff going on #michael goodliffe #raoul walsh #pirate movie #spy movie #napoleon movie #historical movie #swashbuckling

[mariocki]

Man in a Suitcase: All That Glitters (1.10, ITC, 1967)

"But I understand that. Cos I help people too."

"Out of kindness."

"For money."

"How much money?"

"Well, how much help do you need?"

"My friend told me that you were difficult. And rude."

"Well, you have very well informed friends."

#man in a suitcase #all that glitters #classic tv #herbert wise #stanley r. greenberg #richard bradford #barbara shelley #michael goodliffe #eric thompson #dorothy edwards #derek newark #norman wynne #duncan lamont #alan baulch #kevin stoney #peter bennett #dickie owen #larry cross #kathleen st. john #the second episode to go into production‚ and after the exposition heavy pilot this was to act as a kind of blueprint episode to show #McGill's world and the kind of life he lived and the jobs he took. he's notably more morally grey here‚ with a mercenary attitude that's at #odds with many of the contemporary brit tv heroes of the time; his fee given here is £100 a week plus expenses (usually altered to #the comparable 300 dollars in subsequent episodes) but his additional offer (1000 pounds to find an abducted child‚ 2000 more to get him #back alive) is startlingly dark. being an early production ep‚ there are several references to McGill's troubles with US Intelligence and #his shady past. the end of the ep is again quite remarkably violent in comparison to ITC contemporaries but Bradford didn't take the idea #lightly: in interviews at the time he stated that he didn't want McGill to always rely on a gun‚ and that if he did use one then he wanted #there to be a sense of the seriousness and of the consequences of that decision. a starry guest cast includes horror icon Babara Shelley in #a role clearly written to be slightly critical of her characters money brains and guts in contrast to her weaker politician husband (it #doesn't work‚ she's just too sympathetic and the criticisms are dumb and misogynistic) and Goodliffe as her spineless husband. all of them #are acted offscreen by that icon of Road Sense (and ig maybe other stuff) Eric T in a powerhouse performance as a gangland creep

[claudia1829things]

"A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" (1958) Review

"A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" (1958) Review There have been many versions about the April 1912 sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic. Many versions. And I have personally seen at least five of them. One of them happened to be the 1958 movie, "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER".

Directed by Roy Ward Baker, "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" is based upon historian Walter Lord's 1955 book about the historical sinking. Since the 1958 movie was based upon a historical book instead of a novel, Baker, producer William MacQuitty and screenwriter Eric Ambler approached the film's plot in a semi-documentary style. Even the movie's leading character turned out to be the Titanic's Second Officer, Charles Lightoller, who was portrayed by actor Kenneth More. The movie also featured other historical figures such as J. Bruce Ismay, Thomas Andrews, Captain Edward J. Smith and Margaret "Molly" Brown. Due to this semi-documentary approach, "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" is regarded as the best movie about the Titanic. I cannot deny that there is a great deal to admire about "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER". Not only do I feel it is an excellent movie, I could see that Roy Ward Baker did his best to re-create that last night aboard the Titanic. He and Ambler gave the audience glimpses into the lives of the ship's crew and passengers. The movie also went into great detail of their efforts to remain alive following the ship's brief collision with an iceberg. Some of my favorite scenes include the Irish steerage passengers' efforts to reach the life boats on the upper decks, the wireless operators' (David McCullum and Kenneth Griffin) efforts to summon other ships to rescue the passengers and crew, and passenger Molly Brown (Tucker McGuire)'s conflict with the sole crewman in her lifeboat. But my favorite scene has to be that moment when the Titanic's stern rose high before the ship sank into the Atlantic Ocean. For a film shot in black and white during the late 1950s, I must admit that "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" looked very handsome. Legendary cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth's phtography struck me as sharp and very elegant. I do not know if Yvonne Caffin's costume designs for the movie's 1912 setting was completely accurate, but they certainly did add to the movie's late Edwardian atmosphere. Especially those costumes for the first-class passengers. I do have to give kudos to the special effects team led by Bill Warrington. He and his team did a superb job in re-creating the ocean liner's historic sinking. I am even more impressed that their work still manages to hold up after fifty-four years. The cast of "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" was led by Kenneth More, who portrayed Second Officer Lightoller with his usual energetic charm. More was ably supported by the likes of Laurence Naismith as Captain Smith, Michael Goodliffe's poignant portrayal of ship designer Thomas Andrews, Frank Lawton as J. Bruce Ismay, George Rose as the inebriated survivor Charles Joughin and Tucker McGuire's colorful portrayal of American socialite Molly Brown. The movie also featured future "AVENGERS" and Bond veteran Honor Blackman; David McCullum of "THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E." and "N.C.I.S." fame; and Bernard Fox, who will also appear in James Cameron's 1997 movie about the Titanic sinking. Even Sean Connery made an uncredited appearance in the film, but I never did spot him. But despite the numerous good performances, I honestly have to say that I found nothing exceptional about any of them. Like many others, I used to believe that "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" was the best movie about the Titanic. After this latest viewing, I do not believe I can maintain that opinion any longer. In fact, I am beginning to suspect there may not be any "ultimate" Titanic film. And "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" is not perfect, as far as I am concerned. Many have applauded the filmmakers for eschewing any fictional melodrama or using the sinking as a backdrop for a fictional story. Personally, I could not care less if a Titanic movie is simply a fictional melodrama or a semi-documentary film. All I require is a first-rate movie that will maintain my interest. "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" began with a montage of newsreel clips featuring the Titanic's christening in Belfast. One, the ship was never christened. And two, I could see that the newsreel footage used in the movie dated from the 1930s. The movie tried its best to allow the audience to identify with some of its characters. But due to "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" being a docudrama, I feel that it failed to give an in-depth study of its more prominent characters . . . making it difficult for me to identify with any of them. I realize that "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" was a British production, but I was amazed at the low number of American passengers featured in the cast. The 1953 film, "TITANIC" suffered from a similar malady - the only British characters I could recall were members of the crew. I do remember at least three Americans in the 1958 movie - Molly Brown; Benjamin Guggenheim, portrayed by Harold Goldblatt and a third passenger, whose name escapes me. I was satisfied with McGuire's performance as Molly Brown and the nameless actor who portrayed the third American passenger. But Goldblatt portrayed Guggenheim as a member of the British upper class in both attitude and accent. It almost seemed as if the filmmakers wanted Guggenheim to be viewed as a British gentleman, instead of an American one. Walter Lord's book made it clear that one of the last songs performed by Titanic's band was NOT "Nearer My God to Thee". Yet, the filmmakers chose to perpetrate this myth in the movie by having the remaining passengers and crew sing the song en masse before the ship began to sink in earnest. This pious attitude continued in a scene aboard the R.M.S. Carpathia, in which the survivors listened to a religious sermon. Instead of projecting an air of melancholy or despair, the survivors, thanks to Ward Baker, seemed to project an air of the British stiff upper lip cliche. I feel that a melancholic air among the survivors would have made the scene seem more human. I cannot deny that "A NIGHT TO REMEMBER" is a first-rate look at the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic. More importantly, the movie and especially the visual effects still hold up very well after half-a-century. But the movie possesses flaws that make it difficult for me to regard it as the best Titanic movie ever made. Perhaps . . . there is no best Titanic movie. Just bad or well-made ones.

#s.s. titanic #titanic #a night to remember #a night to remember 1958 #roy ward baker #kenneth more #michael goodliffe #laurence naismith #kenneth griffith #david mccallum #tucker mcguire #frank lawton #richard leech #anthony bushell #alec mccowen #ronald allen #jill dixon #george rose #john merivale #honor blackman #bernard fox #sean connery #russell napier #desmond llewelyn #jeremy bulloch #geoffrey bayldon #peter burton #norman rossington #period drama #period dramas

[perfettamentechic]

20 marzo … ricordiamo …

20 marzo … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2023: Anita Thallaug, cantante e attrice norvegese. Thallaug è apparsa in musical, cinema e programmi televisivi. Sotto il nome di Vesla Rolfsen, all’età di sette anni, si esibiva al teatro Spider di Oslo.È apparsa spesso nei programmi per bambini della NRK degli anni ’50. La sorella Edith Thallaug era un’attrice e cantante d’opera. (n. 1938) 2023: Terry Norris, attore e politico australiano. Ha…

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#20 marzo #Anita Thallaug #Armando Testa #Cabailero #Carmencita #Caterina Irene Elena Maria Imperiali dei Principi di Francavilla #Isaac Newton #Katie Boyle #Kenneth Donald Rogers #Kenny Rogers #Lawrence Barrett #Lawrence Brannigan #Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe #Marco Tulli #Michael Goodliffe #Nomi da ricordare #Personaggi importanti #Persone da ricordare #Primo Marco Tulli #Primo Marcotulli #Ricordiamo #Terry Norris #Vesla Rolfsen

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The Small Back Room (Hour of Glory) (1949) Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

February 5th 2024

#the small back room #hour of glory #1949 #michael powell #emeric pressburger #david farrar #kathleen byron #jack hawkins #leslie banks #michael gough #cyril cusack #milton rosmer #emrys hughes #michael goodliffe #Renée Asherson #anthony bushell #sid james #favourite

[cinemaquiles]

QUENTE COMO O INFERNO: O FILME SOBRE O DIA EM QUE A TERRA DERRETEU DE TANTO CALOR!

#The Day the Earth Caught Fire #sci fi #Val Guest #Edward Judd #Leo McKern #Janet Munro #Michael Goodliffe #Gene Anderson #Bernard Braden #nuclear war #nuclear #apocalypse #Youtube

[raynbowclown]

The Gorgon

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#1964 #Alister Williamson #Barbara Shelley #Christopher Lee #Hammer Studios #Jack Watson #Jeremy Longhurst #Joseph O&039;Conor #Joyce Hemson #Michael Goodliffe #Michael Peake #Patrick Troughton #Peter Cushing #Toni Gilpin

[silveragelovechild]

Bill Tanner is M’s chief of staff in the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). He was occasionally in Ian Fleming original James Bond novels. Tanner appeared more frequently in the followup novels by John Gardner.

Tanner has appeared in eight of the films:

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) - Michael Goodliffe plays Tanner in one scene but is unnamed until the end credits

For Your Eyes Only (1981) - Bernard Lee who had played M in Al previous Bond films died before his scenes could be filmed. Out of respect, M was not recast and the character Tanner gave Bond his instructions. Tanner was played by James Villiers.

GoldenEye (1995) & The World Is Not Enough (1999) - Michael Kitchen played Tanner opposite Judi Dench as M.

Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), & No Time to Die (2021) - Rory Kinnear played Tanner in four of the five films with Daniel Craig.

#Ian Fleming #bill Tanner #Judi Dench as M #James bond #007 #Daniel craig #chief of staff

[byneddiedingo]

Edward Judd in The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Val Guest, 1961)

Cast: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Michael Goodliffe, Bernard Braden, Reginald Beckwith, Gene Anderson, Renée Asherson, Arthur Christiansen. Screenplay: Wolf Mankowitz, Val Guest. Cinematography: Harry Waxman. Art direction: Anthony Masters. Film editing: Bill Lenny. Music: Stanley Black. 

Screenwriters Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest (who also directed) find a way to send a message about nuclear disarmament and government secrecy in The Day the Earth Caught Fire. They let the newspapers (remember them?) do it. Much of the movie was actually filmed in the old Daily Express building on Fleet Street in London, and the real editor of the Express, Arthur Christiansen, played the fictional editor in the film. The result is that a lot of the exposition is carried by the actors playing the reporters for the newspaper as they try to figure out what the hell is going on with the planet. It seems it was knocked off its axis by two simultaneous nuclear test explosions at the poles, one by the United States, the other by the Soviet Union. The immediate result is disastrous climate change, but the greater threat comes when scientists realize that the Earth's orbit has changed so that the planet is reeling closer to a fiery death by crashing into the sun. The protagonist, Peter Stenning (Edward Judd), is a hard-drinking newspaper columnist who uses some unethical methods to disclose the coverup. There's a romantic subplot, of course, involving Stenning's liaison with Jeannie Craig (Janet Munro), a pretty clerk in one of the government offices. And much of the swift, quippy dialogue is between Stenning and his editor, Bill Maguire (Leo McKern). These players make the most of their stereotypical characters, keeping the film lively as the tension builds over whether the world is really catching fire, and whether the proposed fix for the crisis -- a tremendous blast of nukes in Siberia to right the planet on its axis -- is going to work. The movie feels less dated than it once did, because the scenes of climate disaster evoke our current concerns about the Earth and the fear that governments are too secretive and inept to save us. It's a well-made movie whose budgetary inadequacies show but are mostly overcome by the use of camera tricks and stock news footage. The ending is ambiguous, though tilted in the direction of hope by the sound of church bells, which are said to have been introduced by the American distributor, Universal, which wanted a less somber ending. 

#The Day the Earth Caught Fire #Val Guest #Edward Judd

[cleoenfaserum]

OPENHEIMER

The following article, which I highly recommend, has a negative view of the film Openheimer, which you should read or listen and or both in the link beñpw:

Oppenheimer: The glorification of mass murder

(which I think he is, a mass murderer-MP) by Hamid Dabashi

Zelensky, Disgusting Man ... Only a joker would laugh at his own stupidity.

Who is this comedian mass murderer:

SCOTT RITTER: ZELENSKY TAKING IN F-16 CRAP...HERE IS WHY...

A curious 1961 English movie...

REF: 706 NOTES

#Youtube

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Films watched in 2021.

289: The Gorgon (Terence Fisher, 1964)

★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

“The spirit of Megaera roams this forest.”

#Films watched in 2021 #The Gorgon #Terence Fisher #seis #1964 #horror #peter cushing #christopher lee #fantastic #hands #writing #sculpture #gorgon #megaera #Richard Pasco #Barbara Shelley #Michael Goodliffe #death #smoke #science #stone #back #art #artist #painting #paintings #book #books

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#the end of the affair #deborah kerr #van johnson #john mills #peter cushing #stephen murray #nora swinburne #charles goldner #michael goodliffe #edward dmytryk #1955

[mariocki]

The Saint: The Invisible Millionaire (2.22, ITC, 1964)

"I'm afraid we weren't expecting you."

"Am I ever expected in this house? I see you've got another new car."

"Yes."

"Lovely to be rich, isn't it?"

"I like it."

#the saint #the invisible millionaire #1964 #itc #leslie charteris #kenneth r. hayles #jeremy summers #roger moore #katharine blake #michael goodliffe #nigel stock #eunice gayson #jane asher #basil dignam #mark eden #charles morgan #john gabriel #ian ainsley #frank atkinson #peter lawrence #michael mckevitt #a pretty strong episode with a few interesting notes. i shan't spoil the (really pretty obvious) twist‚ but i doubt it would have kept a #contemporary audience guessing much; for one thing‚ this episode bears a striking similarity to The Avengers episode Death of a Great Dane #which had aired in late 62 (one of the few early episodes to be essentially remade‚ the basic plot was used again in 67 for The £50000 #Breakfast). i haven't read Charteris' short story so I can't comment on which direction the cribbing went in. unusually this episode #features the onscreen murder of a woman; only 2.5 The Elusive Ellshaw springs to mind as having featured such a scene previously (and even #more curiously‚ the aforementioned £50000 Breakfast would be one of the only Avengers episodes to depict a woman's death onscreen) #a strong guest cast including old fave of mine Nigel Stock as a delightfully pathetic conman and future Callan costar Goodliffe as a #mysterious doctor. my goodwill towards a decent script and a lively episode was dashed in the final minutes‚ as Simon quite literally #threatens to punch a woman. not even bothering to hide that misogyny anymore‚ huh‚ Mr Saint?

[ludojudoposts]

Callan - S2E4 - Little Bits And Pieces Of Love

#anthony valentine #callan #little bits and pieces of love #1960s #1969 #michael goodliffe #edward woodward #toby meres #meres #screencaps #screengrabs #my edits

[blueiskewl]

A Night to Remember 1958

A Night to Remember is a 1958 British historical disaster drama film adaptation of Walter Lord's 1955 book, which recounts the final night of RMS Titanic. Adapted by Eric Ambler and directed by Roy Ward Baker, the film stars Kenneth More and features Michael Goodliffe, Laurence Naismith, Kenneth Griffith, David McCallum and Tucker McGuire. It was filmed in the United Kingdom and tells the story of the sinking, portraying the main incidents and players in a documentary-style fashion with considerable attention to detail. The production team, supervised by producer William MacQuitty (who saw the original ship launched) used blueprints of the ship to create authentic sets, while Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall and ex-Cunard Commodore Harry Grattidge worked as technical advisors on the film. Its estimated budget of up to £600,000 (£14,120,882 adjusted for inflation [2019]) was exceptional and made it the most expensive film ever made in Britain up to that time.

#a night to remember 1958 #1958 disaster film #roy ward baker #kenneth moore #michael goodliffe #laurence naismith #kenneth griffith #david mccallum #tucker mcguire #titanic #superyacht