Reel Britannia
Reel Britannia - a very British podcast about very British movies...with just a hint of professionalism This week, an episode that has been eleven years in the making. At last, our dear friend Maurice, host of See Hear and Love That Album joins Scott and Steven via Skype from Melbourne Also joining us are Scott's co hosts from The Stinking Pause podcast, Paul and Charlie A word of warning, Scott has manged to bleep out most of the profanity... but this episode is still a little bit sweary! McVicar (1980) John McVicar (Roger Daltrey) is an...
info_outline Episode 156 - Hammer Britannia 015 - The Damned (1962)Reel Britannia
Reel Britannia - a very British podcast about very British movies...with just a hint of professionalism This week...more from the great Hammer studios as we continue our Hammer horror retrospective The Damned (1962) The brutality of modern society is fast encroaching on the picturesque seaside town of Weymouth. American tourist Simon Wells (Macdonald Carey) is looking for a relaxing holiday but he is mugged by the psychopatic King (Oliver Reed) and his gang of thugs. Wells escapes with King's sister, Joanie (Shirley Anne Field), and they stumble upon a sinister establishment...
info_outline Episode 155 - The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)Reel Britannia
Welcome to Reel Britannia-a very British podcast about very British movies ...with just a hint of professionalism. Back to the seedy side of sixties Soho this week featuring a powerful performance from Anthony Newley This week, Scott and Steven are joined by Anthony, the host of the Film Gold podcast The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963) The Small World of Sammy Lee is a 1963 British crime drama film directed by Ken Hughes. The story unfolds in the seedy underbelly of London's Soho district, focusing on the life of Sammy Lee, a strip club compere and hustler who...
info_outline Episode 154 - Sitting Target (1972)Reel Britannia
Reel Britannia podcast - a very British podcast about very British movies...with just a hint of professionalism. Scott and Steven are joined this week by their dear friend Mark, host of The Good, The Bad and The Odd podcast, to discuss an overlooked movie from 1972 starring Oliver Reed, Edward Woodward, Ian McShane, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones and Jill St John. Revenge, car chases, prison escapes...what more you could ask for? Sitting Target (1972) A killer has one more victim on his hit list – his faithless wife! Oliver Reed snarls and seethes his way through a brute-force 70’s...
info_outline Episode 153 - Up In The World (1956)Reel Britannia
Welcome to Reel Britannia-a very British podcast about very British movies ...with just a hint of professionalism. Back to 1956 this week and some classic comedy featuring Norman Wisdom Up In The World (1956) Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can’t remember Norman’s heroic stand Norman: "I'm Norman. The new window cleaner." Maj. Willoughby:...
info_outline Episode 152 - Saturday Night and Sunday MorningReel Britannia
Welcome to Reel Britannia-a very British podcast about very British movies ...with just a hint of professionalism. Classic kitchen sink drama this week featuring a powerful performance from Albert Finney This week, Scott and Steven are joined by Anthony, the host of the Film Gold podcast Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, released in 1960, still remains one of the finest of the Angry Young Men movies that emanated from England in the late 1950s and ’60s. In his first starring...
info_outline Episode 151 - Hammer Britannia 014 - The Phantom of the Opera (1962)Reel Britannia
Reel Britannia - a very British podcast about very British movies...with just a hint of professionalism This week...more from the great Hammer studios as we continue our Hammer horror retrospective The Phantom of the Opera (1962) Composer Lord Ambrose D'Arcy (Michael Gough) and his backer, Harry Hunter (Edward De Souza), struggle to find a replacement for the female lead in their new opera after she quits in the wake of a gruesome murder. When a new prospect, the nubile Christine Charles (Heather Sears), disappears, Harry cautiously investigates. Meanwhile, a mysterious masked...
info_outline Episode 150 - The Nanny (1965)Reel Britannia
Reel Britannia podcast - a very British podcast about very British movies...with just a hint of professionalism. Scott and Steven are joined this week by Antony, host of Film Gold, Glass Onion : On John Lennon, and Life and Life Only to discuss one of the great movies from the legendary Hammer studios for our 150th episode. The Nanny (1965) A nanny (Bette Davis) is hired to look after a ten-year-old who has just returned from a mental institution. The boy's mother has just been poisoned and he believes the nanny is to blame. When his aunt arrives and hears the boy's accusations...
info_outline Episode 149 - The Constant Husband (1955)Reel Britannia
Welcome to Reel Britannia-a very British podcast about very British movies ...with just a hint of professionalism. Back to 1955 this week and a classic starring Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall The Constant Husband (1955) Charles Hathaway (Sir Rex Harrison) wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist, he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the...
info_outline Episode 148 - Hammer Britannia 013 - The Curse Of The Werewolf (1961)Reel Britannia
Reel Britannia - a very British podcast about very British movies...with just a hint of professionalism This week...more from the great Hammer studios as we continue our Hammer horror retrospective The Curse Of The Werewolf (1961) A man with brutal and macabre origins, Leon Corledo (Oliver Reed) was raised in the home of Don Alfredo Corledo (Clifford Evans), his kind and loving adopted father. When he leaves Don Alfredo to find work, Leon discovers that he has increasingly violent urges. Although these tendencies are calmed by Leon's love for the beautiful Christina (Catherine...
info_outlineReel Britannia podcast - a very British podcast about very British movies...with just a hint of professionalism.
Scott and Steven are joined this week by their dear friend Mark, host of The Good, The Bad and The Odd podcast, to discuss an overlooked movie from 1972 starring Oliver Reed, Edward Woodward, Ian McShane, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones and Jill St John.
Revenge, car chases, prison escapes...what more you could ask for?
Sitting Target (1972)
A killer has one more victim on his hit list – his faithless wife! Oliver Reed snarls and seethes his way through a brute-force 70’s crime thriller in the tradition of Get Carter.
Douglas Hickox, who would go on to helm such memorable films as Theatre of Blood and Zulu Dawn, brings his filmmaking intensity to a story of revenge set in a London as bleak and brooding as the prison from which convicted killer Harry Lomart (Reed) and his fellow inmate (Ian McShane) escape.
Once free, Harry sets out to exterminate his seductive wife (Jill St. John), who carries another man’s child. Armed with a handgun, fueled by rage, Harry draws closer to his sitting target. Also closing in: a police inspector (Edward Woodward), who’s determined to protect the hunted woman.
Reed and McShane – one grim, one voluble, and both steeped in violence -- make an intimidating tough-guy team.
"Bastard must be made out of concrete!"
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