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I can't believe there isn't already a thread for these splendid cricket-loving chappies.
Does anyone remember the 1980s series with the same characters starring Michael Aldridge and Robin Bailey?
By popular request, a place to celebrate two of the most celebrated character actors of the 1940s. Here's a favourite piccie of them both - tragically from a play rather than a film, but how exciting for the lucky audience members
I can't believe there isn't already a thread for these splendid cricket-loving chappies.
Does anyone remember the 1980s series with the same characters starring Michael Aldridge and Robin Bailey?
I do - it's very good and the version circulating in collector's circles has the bonus of Vincent Price telling our Canadian cousins about publich schools and cricketOriginally Posted by didi-5
Interestingly it seems that Launder and Gilliatt had given up the copyright on the characters (to Hammer?) by 1985 which accounts for a few continuity errors
The Times, Saturday, Jan 19, 1985
And here the fair sex comes between them
Basil going solo in Whisky Galore (1949), Sir Bruce pictured here with Captain Waggett.
About to help Sexy Rexy in Night Train to Munich [notable for the prominence of Basil R's scar acquired during WW1]
Now where's my pipe.
And here as men from the ministry
Is that what he said? Looks like the result of an op to unblock a salivary gland!
Last edited by batman; 24-10-11 at 08:29 PM.
Captaining the Home Guard, being golf champs, kidnapping Nazis, running the country, piloting planes - was there anything they couldn't do?
BTW what do we think of Arthur Lowe and Ian Carmichael as C&C in Cybill Shepherd's Lady Vanishes? Ian Carmichael always good, but lost most of his lines to Lowe, which wasn't unusual for funny actors performing alongside him.
Our two stars this time as scientists with the ever lovely Joan Greenwood....
They're the best thing in the film but, unlike Our Heroes, Messrs Lowe and Carmichael (or the writers) aren't confident enough in their masculinity to do thisBTW what do we think of Arthur Lowe and Ian Carmichael as C&C in Cybill Shepherd's Lady Vanishes? Ian Carmichael always good, but lost most of his lines to Lowe, which wasn't unusual for funny actors performing alongside him
Reunited as Charters and Cadicott in Crooks Tour (1941).
Bloody* marvelous duo!
*(apologies for the bad language)
I'm sure that was just story Mr Radford put about so as not to draw attention to his heroismIs that what he said? Looks like the result of an op to unblock a salivary gland!
Yes - first class!
Simply wonderful in The Lady Vanishes.
It seems apposite to re-post this smashing article re C & C by Matthew Sweet which appeared in The Guardian some time ago.
Do you have a definitive list of their appearances together, Captain?
The Lady Vanishes
Night Train to Munich
Crook's Tour
The Next of Kin
Millions Like Us
Dead of Night
A Girl in a Million
Quartet
Passport to Pimlico
It's Not Cricket
Stop Press Girl
(Helter Skelter just has a blinkandyoumissit clip from It's Not Cricket)
Plus two stage plays and a radio series every year throught the 1940s (including an adaptation of Three Men in a Boat)
Last edited by Nick Dando; 25-10-11 at 09:13 AM.
Thanks, Cap'n. Do any of those radio shows still exist? Were they live comedies with an audience or dramas?
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