An excellent recommendation👍. More people should watch this one. Although he didn't marry Valerie Leon, he did get to marry Vanessa Howard 😛. Arthur Lowe was hilarious and up for anything. What a star! Diana Coupland is always good fun too. And you're right.... Cook looked 70+ in those late TV appearances. 🍺🍺🍺 Cheers!
@@steve4films thanks Steve. It’s ahead of its time just like a lot of the things that Monty python and Peter cook did. But smoking makes you look so cool, like Humphrey bogart.
As you say this seems like perfect Indicator (or BFI) fare. Indicator seem to have fallen off the British comedy / drama that they were on a few years ago. You had me sold on the Python script writers and as usual - I've never heard of it! :)
@@chrismohan thanks Chris. Hope you're well. It's full of great lines that zip by if you don't catch them and cook is perfect as the empty hollow uncaring shell of a 'human ' who is power hungry but constantly says he doesn't want power. We'll have to do a collab at some point. If you want, obviously.
It had been over ten years since I last viewed my WarnersArchive dvd of "The Rise and Rise..." so I re-watched it earlier today before responding. I, too, thought the film a lot of fun and, unfortunately, somewhat prescient, as it predated the rise of the U.K. version of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, who began, and furthered the task of wiping out the social and economic domestic advances that came into being, under the Labour government of Clement Attlee, at the end of WWII. I've never understood how the British voting public allowed the reversal of all the progress that had been achieved, but, then, I have no idea what the U.S. voting public are thinking when they silently watch as the privatization of government programs (schools, post office, etc.) continues, unabated, while the government engages in endless military actions. And now the U.K. has a knighted Labour PM, after the party rid itself of leftist leaders, like Jeremy Corbyn, who had led the Party, for years. One wonders how history will remember Sir Keir Starmer, P.M. Unfortunately, my dvd is completely bereft of any extras; it would have been nice to have had a commentary or even an English subtitle offered, to help an outsider understand some of the more subtle plot complexities. I'll check out my copy of "Bedazzled," as you recommend; I bought that copy in 2007 and (I'm guessing) probably haven't watched it in 17 years. Thanks for your review; it's great to be reminded of films that I've bought and watched, but somewhat forgot...especially when the internet use has made such Public Relations "Big Lies" such a common occurrence now, in the 21st century. Who knew it was all going to come true?
@skellys1948 Thanks for your excellent comments, and sadly, it's another 'old' film that could have been made yesterday. Apart from nobody is clever enough.
I love thsi film, cheers!
An excellent recommendation👍. More people should watch this one.
Although he didn't marry Valerie Leon, he did get to marry Vanessa Howard 😛. Arthur Lowe was hilarious and up for anything. What a star! Diana Coupland is always good fun too. And you're right.... Cook looked 70+ in those late TV appearances. 🍺🍺🍺 Cheers!
@@steve4films thanks Steve. It’s ahead of its time just like a lot of the things that Monty python and Peter cook did. But smoking makes you look so cool, like Humphrey bogart.
As you say this seems like perfect Indicator (or BFI) fare. Indicator seem to have fallen off the British comedy / drama that they were on a few years ago. You had me sold on the Python script writers and as usual - I've never heard of it! :)
@@chrismohan thanks Chris. Hope you're well. It's full of great lines that zip by if you don't catch them and cook is perfect as the empty hollow uncaring shell of a 'human ' who is power hungry but constantly says he doesn't want power. We'll have to do a collab at some point. If you want, obviously.
It had been over ten years since I last viewed my WarnersArchive dvd of "The Rise and Rise..." so I re-watched it earlier today before responding. I, too, thought the film a lot of fun and, unfortunately, somewhat prescient, as it predated the rise of the U.K. version of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, who began, and furthered the task of wiping out the social and economic domestic advances that came into being, under the Labour government of Clement Attlee, at the end of WWII. I've never understood how the British voting public allowed the reversal of all the progress that had been achieved, but, then, I have no idea what the U.S. voting public are thinking when they silently watch as the privatization of government programs (schools, post office, etc.) continues, unabated, while the government engages in endless military actions. And now the U.K. has a knighted Labour PM, after the party rid itself of leftist leaders, like Jeremy Corbyn, who had led the Party, for years. One wonders how history will remember Sir Keir Starmer, P.M.
Unfortunately, my dvd is completely bereft of any extras; it would have been nice to have had a commentary or even an English subtitle offered, to help an outsider understand some of the more subtle plot complexities. I'll check out my copy of "Bedazzled," as you recommend; I bought that copy in 2007 and (I'm guessing) probably haven't watched it in 17 years. Thanks for your review; it's great to be reminded of films that I've bought and watched, but somewhat forgot...especially when the internet use has made such Public Relations "Big Lies" such a common occurrence now, in the 21st century. Who knew it was all going to come true?
@skellys1948 Thanks for your excellent comments, and sadly, it's another 'old' film that could have been made yesterday. Apart from nobody is clever enough.