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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Neil Forbes 21st Oct 2015		Cinema The Spider Woman (Sherlock Holmes And The Spider Woman) (1944) (1944)	@Monolith, it's titles like this that play right in to my "dry" sense of humour... How dry? As dry as the Simpson Desert in "outback" Australia!
Neil Forbes 20th Oct 2015		Cinema The Spider Woman (Sherlock Holmes And The Spider Woman) (1944) (1944)	Er... would that be a "black widow" perchance? How far can we "spin" this one out? Ay, RC!
Neil Forbes 20th Oct 2015		Cinema The Spider Woman (Sherlock Holmes And The Spider Woman) (1944) (1944)	Oh, look! Here's someone else with her own "website"! ha-ha.
Neil Forbes 20th Oct 2015		Cinema Francis In The Haunted House (1956) (1956)	Twistin! Down the road from where I live is the city of Newcastle(on Hunter, not Tyne). When Americans visit, they pronounce the name with the 'a' taking the same sound as in "plank", If I correct them and they subsequently pronounce it as I prompt them, I acknowledge it by saying "Thahnk" you(the 'a' as in "car"), thus sending myself up! All for a laff - er... laugh!
Neil Forbes 16th Oct 2015		Cinema The Ghost And Mrs. Muir (1947) (1947)	Yes, RC! It did tend to "haunt" ABC's 6.00pm timeslot in the early 1970s(that's ABC Australia, by the way).
Neil Forbes 16th Oct 2015		Cinema The Ghost And Mrs. Muir (1947) (1947)	I've seen both the movie and the TV series based(loosely, very loosely) upon it. The actor who played the ghost, Capt. Gregg in the TV version, Edward Mulhare, was strikingly similar in appearance to Rex Harrison, who played the ghost role in this movie.
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		Cinema Private Potter (1962) (1962)	Harry got drafted, ay? I know he could fix the baddies..... Winguardian Leviosa!!!!(yeah, I know it's not THAT Potter, but I'm not gonna ruin the punch-line over that!)
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		Cinema Haunted Honeymoon (Busman's Honeymoon) (1940) (1940)	@RC, the movie might've been a "classic", but I want to know what its storyline(plot) was!
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		Cinema Haunted Honeymoon (Busman's Honeymoon) (1940) (1940)	As soon as I saw the "Haunted" in the title, I took this to be a type of ghost story. Was I correct?
Neil Forbes 10th Oct 2015		Cinema Carry On At Your Convenience (1971) (1971)	Yes, thirty movies, each in their own DVD case(with slicks), but then packaged into boxes of three movies each. What I'd like to know is: what was the make-up of Packs 6 to 10? I've already given the details of Packs 1 to 5.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Francis In The Haunted House (1956) (1956)	Ha-ha? Shouldn't that be "Hee-Haw"?(Ooooh I'm awful, ain't I? - don't answer that!)
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Carry On At Your Convenience (1971) (1971)	Yes, Pack 2, as per the list I provided.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Francis In The Haunted House (1956) (1956)	Yeah... Francis made a real "ass" of himself! ......And for Americans, "Ass" is a donkey or mule, a person's backside is colloquially referred to as an "arse"!
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Carry On At Your Convenience (1971) (1971)	That means the collection ran to ten packs! But I never saw the packs 6 to 10 anywhere.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Judgment At Nuremberg (1961) (1961)	Werner Klemperer was also in this movie, five years before he became internationally known for his role as Kommandant Klink in "Hogan's Heroes". Likely the only time you'd see him in a serious role.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Carry On At Your Convenience (1971) (1971)	It is!, there were five packs, each containing 3 DVDs in their own plastic cases under the heading "The Carry On Collection" issued by Magna Pacific. They were as follows: Pack 1:Carry On Doctor/Carry On Up The Khyber/Carry On Again Doctor. Pack 2:Carry On Abroad/Carry On Up The Jungle/Carry On At Your Convenience. Pack 3:Carry On Matron/Carry On Girls/Carry On Dick Pack 4:Carry On Behind/Carry On England/Carry On Henry. Pack 5:Carry On... Don't Lose Your Head/Carry On Camping/Carry On Loving. The packs weren't in chronological order, as far as I can ascertain, but it was a good representation of the Rank-era. There was another set put out by Studio Canal+ through Universal that carried the earlier Anglo-Amalgamated Carry On movies but I don't have the whole set. There was one, Follow That Camel(starred Phil Silvers in a Bilko-like character) but as far as I know, it hasn't been issued on DVD... or has it?
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema The Duchess And The Dirtwater Fox (1976) (1976)	One of the first VHS movie tapes I owned when the distributor was still branded as "Magnetic Video"(later 20th Century Fox Video, then CBS-Fox... and the saga continued....). Good movie, went a long way toward helping Goldie Hawn shed her old "Laugh-In" dumb blonde image.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Carry On At Your Convenience (1971) (1971)	I have this on DVD... still good for a laugh!
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Carry On At Your Convenience (1971) (1971)	Kenneth Cope was in this, playing the part of the union organiser, alongside Bernie Breslaw. Cope had been in "Randall & Hopkirk(Deceased)" prior to his two Carry-On appearances.
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Cinema Scaramouche (1952)	.....Thunderbolt and lightning, very very fright'ning me.....! ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Cinema Escape To Paradise (1939)	The boy in this movie, Bobby Breen, was the first to record "Rainbow On The River" a song given to Jamie Redfern to record in 1972 because his voice was similar to that of Breen. A pity really because Jamie Redfern should've been given more contemporary songs to do back in 1972.
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Cinema Fun In Acapulco (1963) (1963)	This, along with "Follow That Dream" were typical of the crap that Presley was forced to do, he hated doing them. They were so contrived. Presley wanted to be an actor but his manager(parasite, more like it) Cl. Tom Parker kept shoving him into these rubbishy films. The only time he really got to do a meaty role was in *Charro* where, apart from the theme song(perhaps), he wasn't required to sing in the movie.
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Cinema Death Becomes Her (1992) (1992)	Had its moments.... not a particularly great comedy, though. Hawn and Streep have had better roles.
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Cinema Police Academy (1984) (1984)	I have a 20th-Anniversary issue DVD of this, and somewhere else I have the original Australian VHS issue of this, as well as PA2. I should get my DVD out and give it a play. Classic moment: when(Lt. Harris) G.W. commandeers a motorbike but hits a car in front of him and goes flying over the handlebars toward a horse float - occupied! *Get the picture?* Total crack-up!(Mike Winslow's sound effect afterward made it doubly funny).
Neil Forbes 7th Oct 2015		Cinema Giant (1956) (1956)	Well.... he was a Giant... But then he spent far too long in the shower.... and shrunk!(ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Cinema Von Ryan's Express (1965) (1965)	I don't think I have access to IMDB, sorry.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Cinema Dances With Wolves (1990) (1990)	I think they did a New Zealand version of this, "Dances With Sheep"! Sorry, I'll take that ba-a-a-a-ack!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Cinema Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 3D) (2011) (2011)	@RC, all eight movies in this series are gems in their own right. Well worth owning!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Cinema Von Ryan's Express (1965) (1965)	That train ride sequence. I think there may have been a props glitch. I can vaguely remember seeing a late 1960s Australian Holden station-wagon in the shot as the camera pans right and downward to a shot of a gully near the train track. How it got there is a bloody-good question. Certainly it wasn't intended to be there as the movie was set in WW2 Germany..... Hmmmm!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Cinema Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 3D) (2011) (2011)	Taken together with Part 1, the end of the line for the Harry Potter saga. The mood of each successive movie got ever darker, compared to the near-comedic first two films, Philosopher's Stone and Chamber Of Secrets. But these movies(I have all eight) serve as good viewing over the Aussie Summer when the TV is filled with nothing but dross.

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