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 Quatermass: The Quatermass Xperiment aka The Creeping Unknown (1955 film)
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 27-05-2023 16:00
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Date: Thursday 1st June Time: 7.45pm Starring American actor Brian Donleavy as the maverick head of the British Rocket Group, Bernard Quatermass. He is ably supported by Jack "evening all" Warner as Inspector Lomax. The story: without permission, Quatermass has sent 3 men into space. When they come crashing back to earth, 2 are missing and 1, Victor Carroon, is seriously and mysteriously ill. A locked room mystery in a rocket in space becomes a monster chase on earth. Based on the tv serial written by Nigel Kneale, Hammer employed Brian Donleavy to play the great Professor much to Kneale's disgust. You must decide how well he fills the boots of Britain's Best Boffin. There are appearances from some of Britain's best character actors: Gordon Jackson, Lionel "Cavor" Jeffries, Thora Hird & Sam Kydd. We'll also see Donald "Colonel White" Gray and a very young Jane Asher as the poshest sounding little girl you are ever likely to find playing on the docks of London. Music is provided by James "Dra-cu-la" Bernard and the director is genre favourite Val Guest. It was filmed in and around Bray, Berkshire, home of Hammer's studios. The Quatermass Xperiment is amongst the best of British SF. It was a huge hit both as the film we will be watching and as the original tv serial - which kept people off the streets and inside their homes in front of the box up the corner in a cabinet. If you don't already have your own copy, use this link: https://youtu.be/swoq1pbpb3k In case the 1st link doesn't work: https://youtu.be/ripPMeAdVH0 Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:42
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Or you could have both links running, with a small time distort between the two... Hail, fellows and 'tis well met, I trust? "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:45
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Just us 2?
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:45
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Are we doing it?
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:46
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I detect a 3rd person!
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:46
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Possibly. CB said he might, but I suspect most people are outside having bbq'S this lovely June evening, How's the book trade, OSP?
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:47
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Are we starting?
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:47
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Hey, Anne's online...let's start at 10 to.
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:47
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Possibly. CB said he might, but I suspect most people are outside having bbq'S this lovely June evening, How's the book trade, OSP? Busy. Covid was so last year! Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:48
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Hey, Anne's online...let's start at 10 to. Yes boss Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:49
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10 to would be good, as the first link is working, but only giving me about a quarter of the screen - the rest taken up with 'other films you might like'. How do I get rid of them? |
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:49
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Possibly. CB said he might, but I suspect most people are outside having bbq'S this lovely June evening, How's the book trade, OSP? Busy. Covid was so last year! Glad I'm out of it now. Bookshops, libraries, done them all, didn't get a t-shirt and they still charge me fines if the books are overdue. "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:50
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Ha, no, it works, as long as I don't try to go for full screen. |
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:50
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10 to would be good, as the first link is working, but only giving me about a quarter of the screen - the rest taken up with 'other films you might like'. How do I get rid of them? Try the 2nd. Posted 2 links cis I thought 1 wouldgo wrong Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:51
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10 to would be good, as the first link is working, but only giving me about a quarter of the screen - the rest taken up with 'other films you might like'. How do I get rid of them? Maybe if you start it you'll get a 'full screen' option? Edited by M1795537OCVirn on 01-06-2023 18:51 "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:51
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A courting couple - why do I feel that they are doomed? |
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:51
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Possibly. CB said he might, but I suspect most people are outside having bbq'S this lovely June evening, How's the book trade, OSP? Busy. Covid was so last year! Glad I'm out of it now. Bookshops, libraries, done them all, didn't get a t-shirt and they still charge me fines if the books are overdue. Our fines are back in july...but hey...STARTED! Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:52
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Well, going indoors helped lot.
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:53
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Why does he say get diwn? Is it a blokd thing? I'd have been running too.
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:54
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Go home? it's the most exciting thing that's happened there since forever...
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:55
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If a rocket fell in my town, they'd have it stripped down for parts befire the emergency services got there
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:55
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The days when the government could say 'there is no immediate danger' and expect to be believed! |
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:59
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And the days when research was done by dangerously maverick mad scientists, and not multi-institution research groups with health and safety studies done well in advance. |
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:59
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The days when the government could say 'there is no immediate danger' and expect to be believed! These days if the tv man said there's a nuclear leak at sellafield (or wherever) half the country would jet off to Oz the other half would be on the scene changing their status to in peril... Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-06-2023 18:59
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Who is the woman? Q's assistant? Think I missed a bit.
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:00
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But I am reassured that the mad scientist appears to be American. Reckless lunacy obviously an American quality. |
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:00
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Who is the woman? Q's assistant? Think I missed a bit. The wife of one of the astronauts? |
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:01
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And the days when research was done by dangerously maverick mad scientists, and not multi-institution research groups with health and safety studies done well in advance. I don't believe h and s studies are done as often as is made out... Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:01
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How convenient that the door wasn't buried.
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:01
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Who is the woman? Q's assistant? Think I missed a bit. The wife of one of the astronauts? Mrs Carroon, wife of Victor astronaut. Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:02
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When you think of all the care that went into the actual Apollo missions . . . Although Yuri Gagarin, I think, came down in a field, and was immediately surrounded by a crowd of curious locals. Edited by AnneArthur on 01-06-2023 19:04 |
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:02
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How convenient that the door wasn't buried. That's the back door for putting the rubbish out in the space bin Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:03
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Oxygen, morphine, glucose... the forerunner of A&S?
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:03
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When you think of all the care that went into the actual Apollo missions . . . Have you seen Apollo 13? Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:04
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Oxygen, morphine, glucose... the forerunner of A&S? Could have done with some at work today Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:04
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When you think of all the care that went into the actual Apollo missions . . . Have you seen Apollo 13? Yes, why? |
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:06
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When you think of all the care that went into the actual Apollo missions . . . Have you seen Apollo 13? Yes, why? I'm thinking of the faulty workmanship. Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:06
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But I am reassured that the mad scientist appears to be American. Reckless lunacy obviously an American quality. Yes, good move. Much more believable that an American would do it. "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:08
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Hand clenching like Gan in Breakdown....
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-06-2023 19:09
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When you think of all the care that went into the actual Apollo missions . . . Have you seen Apollo 13? Yes, why? I'm thinking of the faulty workmanship. I suppose so. I suppose I was thinking of the quarantine they put the crew of Apollo 11 through, just in case they had picked up something nasty. And this whole thing of Quatermass setting off the rocket without telling anyone . . . |
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