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Man in a Suitcase: Sweet Sue (1.7, ITC, 1967)
"Oh, you're a detective! A cheap, prying, flat-footed peephole specialist."
"I'm not cheap."
#man in a suitcase#sweet sue#1967#itc#classic tv#robert tronson#phillip broadley#richard bradford#judy geeson#george a. cooper#david cole#peter blythe#ian mcculloch#jacqueline pearce#terence donovan#lewis teasdale#john clive#not an episode i really remembered anything about‚ which could be a bad sign‚ but actually this proves to be a very solid ep on rewatch#the third ep in production‚ but the shifted transmissions mean that really this is the first time we see McGill on an ordinary (ie. without#personal stakes) case (even Sitting Pigeon involved him being blackmailed into taking the assignment). it means we get to see a slightly#different side of Bradford's performance; he's more laid back throughout much of this episode‚ even clearly having fun in some of the#earlier scenes. of course it all builds to a typically violent showdown (a truly brutal fistfight and a classic bloodied McGill). Bradford#was deeply involved in arranging and producing these fights but developed a reputation for being a little too rough‚ worrying some of the#other actors; he was also responsible for the graphic makeup and wound effects that he apparently applied himself. a strong supporting cast#includes a young Geeson (just 19 and at the start of an impressive career) and Cole and Blythe make for good sneery public schoolboy types#albeit both are just a little old for the part (both in their 30s in roles clearly intended to be closer to Geeson's age). director Tronson#had already heard horror stories about Bradford but in the end the two got on very well (and both wrote kindly of the other in later life)#it was from around this time that Lew Grade (as well as American financiers from ABC) began to keep a closer eye on production‚ concerned#by reports of Bradford's difficulty and deviations from scripts. but it doesn't show here‚ in a well directed and punchily scripted ep
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Jeremy Brent-Ina Balin "Act of reprisa!" 1964, de Erricos Andreou, Robert Tronson.
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Preview- Ring of Spies (Bluray)
Preview- Ring of Spies (Bluray)
There have always been spies – men and women who have pried for patriotism, for religion, for love… or for money. This tense drama is based on the true story of the Portland spy ring – an unlikely Soviet operation that took place in southern England and which was active during the late 1950s/early ’60s. Directed by Robert Tronson and starring Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack and…
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EL SANTO ---Capítulo 14
EL SANTO —Capítulo 14
Título original
The Saint (TV Series)
Año
1962
Duración
60 min.
País
Reino Unido
Dirección
Leslie Charteris (Creador), Leslie Norman, Roy Ward Baker, Jeremy Summers, John Gilling, Roger Moore, Peter Yates, John Llewellyn Moxey, Jim O’Connolly, Robert S. Baker, James Hill, John Paddy Carstairs, John Ainsworth, Robert Tronson, Michael Truman, Freddie Francis, Robert Asher, Ray Austin
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Leslie…
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Samedi 25 août 1917
Samedi 25 août 1917
Paul Hess
25 août 1917 – Visite à Reims, d’une mission composée de quinze à dix-huit officiers des pays neutres ; ils passent à la mairie.
— Le soir, à 21 h 1/2, je suis obligé de me lever précipitamment et de descendre à la cave, 10, rue du Cloître, par suite de l’arrivée subite et de l’explosion de trois obus dans le voisinage Immédiat, dont un chez Pelonceaux (propriété mitoyenne), un sur la…
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Anunţ pentru şoferi: sa mărit viteza de circulaţia în Bucureşti la 70 km/h. În ce zonă - Realitatea
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Man in a Suitcase: Variation on a Million Bucks - Part Two (1.5, ITC, 1967)
"So, money and women make fools of us all. Which is making an idiot of you, Mr. McGill?"
"Both."
"Then you are twice damned."
#man in a suitcase#blood tw#variation on a million bucks#itc#classic tv#1967#stanley r. greenberg#robert tronson#richard bradford#ron randell#yôko tani#anton rodgers#norman rossington#gay hamilton#harry landis#warren stanhope#jeremy wilkin#simon brent#harry tardios#ricardo montez#a neat wrap up to probably McGill's biggest adventure. of all the two parters ITC tried out in the late 60s with an eye to editing for#cinema release‚ i think this is perhaps the most successful. it does suffer bc of the revised transmission order‚ like part 1: US#intelligence explicitly know that McGill is innocent of the treachery he was accused of 6 years previously‚ something which will only be#revealed as a twist at the end of the next episode (in fact the pilot). I'd forgotten how downbeat the series could be‚ marking it out as a#real change in style and tone from ITC's previous fare; McGill rarely wins‚ and isn't always the most likeable lead. notably this ep#touches briefly on bigger themes about greed and the value of money‚ as well as obsession and mortality. it's also another fairly bloody ep#with McGill getting stabbed before act 1 is even over. also of note is McGill's killing of a man in the ep's conclusion; where The Saint#and others brush over this kind of standard violence for adventure tv‚ it's treated here as a serious issue with potential fallout that's#only avoided bc of the interference of the US government (likewise McGill seems to treat it more somberly than Simon Templar or such would)#a rare straight role for sitcom stalwart Norman Rossington as the corrupt ship's captain who smuggles McG into Lisbon
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Man in a Suitcase: Web with Four Spiders (1.23, ITC, 1968)
"Why me? With your name all you have to do is pick up your telephone, you'd be up to your neck in nice, keen, young Harvard-trained security boys. Probably drum and bugle corps to boot."
"Yes, and those photographs would be in the FBI dossier."
"Or a private one. I could make copies. See what they'd buy me."
"Oh no, you've already answered that. My name is Norbert; you are a discredited American agent. No one will accept your word against mine."
"Good. But I'm expensive. I call it my self-respect bonus."
#man in a suitcase#web with four spiders#classic tv#edmund ward#robert tronson#richard bradford#ray mcanally#jacqueline ellis#ralph michael#simon oates#warren stanhope#john savident#lawrence james#edward evans#philip bond#edward rhodes#robert macleod#frank forsyth#david cargill#geoffrey reed#katie fitzroy#tony doonan#douglas jones#perhaps the episode I've remembered least so far‚ the whole thing felt almost new to me. probably i didn't really understand it as a kid;#Ward's plot is unashamedly dense‚ with multiple parties vying for for intelligence and shifting allegiances throughout. watching it now#this is actually a brilliant‚ mature bit of tv: the script is blisteringly sharp‚ with Ward content not to spoofeed the answers and allow#the viewer to connect the dots. dialogue is excellent throughout‚ from a particularly flippant and darkly sarcastic McGill in act 1 through#to a bleakly downbeat wrapup. notably this is perhaps the only episode in which McGill fails his case; he failed to prevent bloodshed in#both 1.15 and 1.21‚ but at least exposed the villains. here his failure is absolute (though not really his own fault) and it's writ large#across Bradford's performance in those final scenes‚ as he quietly fumes and skulks and snarls his few lines. an excellent episode.
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Man in a Suitcase: Find the Lady (1.12, ITC, 1967)
"I'm very sorry."
"I like to watch you when you say that. Your face is not accustomed to apologising."
"You're not making it easy."
#man in a suitcase#find the lady#1967#itc#classic tv#phillip broadley#robert tronson#richard bradford#patrick cargill#maxwell shaw#jeanna roland#john garrie#robert rietty#norma foster#clive cazes#guido adorni#carlos douglas#an early episode in production terms‚ it was around this time that Bradford began to become really frustrated with the attitudes of the#producers and money men involved in the series. as in the pilot‚ he significantly redacted his dialogue to make it punchier and more#realistic‚ and he was still busily applying his own gratuitous bloody make up for the aftermath of fight scenes; but bts tensions were#building and the star even offered to buy himself out of his contract at one point. regardless of the drama behind the camera and#regardless of a rather bland plot‚ this episode does do some character building on McGill very well. he's been in Italy before whilst with#US Intelligence‚ he balances the value of his life by the potential reward of a case as well as its possible dangers‚ he admits to feeling#afraid and finding it difficult to trust. most notable of all is his reaction to a character death in this episode; he's visibly shaken‚#finds it difficult to talk and even appears to be close to tears. it's a rare moment of real deep emotion and not the kind of naturalistic#reaction to violent death that you often find in an ITC series (and it's a very good performance by Bradford too)#Cargill was a familiar face on british tv in the 60s but this is a fairly rare big role for Maxwell Shaw‚ who often played smaller supports#that could have something to do with the fact he was married to the series casting director... as with several other episodes this was#retitled late in production‚ having been shot under the title My Brother Julio (the renaming was particularly good here)
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Man in a Suitcase: The Girl Who Never Was (1.9, ITC, 1967)
"Well, my fee's usually three hundred a week, plus expenses, but... you I'll charge double."
#man in a suitcase#the girl who never was#1967#robert tronson#donald jonson#richard bradford#bernard lee#priscilla morgan#harold goodwin#annette carell#david garfield#basil dignam#derek smee#raymond smith#jack bligh#vicki woolf#charles laurence#roy vincente#opens with one of the best pre credits sequences itc ever pulled off: a title card tells us it's noon‚ then that we're in San Vincenzo‚ and#only then‚ as the disconcerting image of ww2 soldiers emerging from smoke makes itself clear‚ do we get the year; 1944. what follows is an#impressively staged and presumably fairly costly battle scene‚ all the more bewildering for going straight into the opening titles without#any explanation of how this will involve McGill. it's a tale of wartime intrigue and buried secrets‚ hinging on a looted art treasure worth#a small fortune. Annette Carell is superbly sly as the wicked dealer employing McGill (but just as happy to cut him out of any profits) and#Goodwin a sympathetic traumatised old soldier. it's been a pleasant surprise so far to reference Pixley's bible and in fact find that#contrary to popular opinion‚ many guest stars had a high opinion of Bradford; unfortunately i knew going into this one that it wasn't the#case. Bernard Lee is perhaps the best known of the bust ups Bradford had behind the scenes; Lee was an alcoholic by this point and by#director Tronson's account arrived drunk and belligerent on set. a confrontation occurred‚ the details of which are lost to time (or have#been politely forgotten) but suffice to say that there was no love lost between Bradford and Lee‚ and despite only sharing one scene their#working relationship was so sour that it spiralled both men against each other (Lee's perceived unprofessionalism making Bradford angrier#which made Lee drink more which made Bradford angrier which made Lee drink more...). sadly it does show a little in stilted performances
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The Saint: The Persistent Parasites (4.5, ITC, 1965)
"You are obviously a woman of exceptional intelligence, subtlety, sophistication..."
"I cook borscht well, too."
#the saint#the persistent parasites#leslie charteris#itc#1965#norman hudis#robert tronson#roger moore#cec linder#jan holden#ann gillis#annette carell#sonia fox#arnold diamond#brian mcdermott#jeremy longhurst#donald hewlett#david garth#keith smith#classic tv#we're on the French riviera which can mean only one thing: Col. Latignant‚ France's answer to Insp Teal. writer Hudis had been responsible#for the wittiest Saint scripts and had done a similar dysfunctional family set up in 3.10‚ but this one is slow to come alive. once#Latignant appears‚ however‚ the interrogation scenes are dynamite. that's as much down to the three women playing the ex wives of Simon's#old friend Cec Linder; Holden was a regular face in genre tv who always did great work‚ Gillis delivers a superb comic performance which#is the polar opposite of her previous Saint appearance (2.18) and finally there's the ever wonderful ever lovely Annette Carell (who would#die‚ much too young‚ just two years later). with the three of them onscreen the male guest actors don't get much of a look in and the#issue is confused further by the casting of Longhurst and Keith Smith in the same episode (they look so alike they could be twins)#not a hugely memorable outing perhaps‚ but it did keep me guessing (well‚ for the secondary villain anyway) and it also apparently produced#a series of very cute bts photographs of Roger Moore and Sonia Fox horsing around (not included here is the weird one where he's holding#her by her hair like a role reversed Salome and John the Baptist; very weird)
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Ring of Spies (Shadow of Treason, 1964)
"To think of all the great books of the world, reduced to a dot. A full stop. The Iliad, War and Peace... specks of dust."
#ring of spies#shadow of treason#british cinema#1964#spy film#robert tronson#peter barnes#frank launder#bernard lee#margaret tyzack#william sylvester#david kossoff#thorley walters#nancy nevinson#derek francis#hector ross#george pravda#patrick barr#justine lord#gillian lewis#philip latham#newton blick#apparently shot in 61 but tied up in legal red tape for a couple of years as the real life Portland Spy Ring case upon which it is based#played out in the UK courts; as a document of the cold war quite literally torn from the headlines‚ this is mostly a surprisingly balanced#drama shot in a quiet‚ documentary style. avoiding character judgements or even overt politicising‚ it simply presents some facts for our#entertainment. the effect is entirely undone by an opening and (particularly) closing narration which desperately urges the viewers to#beware of potential spies; perhaps in this very theatre?! it's absurdly over the top and in no way in keeping with the dignified 90 minutes#that have preceeded it. a fine cast is headed by Bernard Lee (in a role that feels like it was written for a younger and more attractive#man tbh) and with all manner of familiar faces popping up uncredited (Geoffrey Palmer! Paul Eddington!). this had a timely rerelease in#1970 to tie it in with the prisoner exchange of some of the real Portland spies for counterparts held in Russia
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Villains: Billy Boy (1.13, LWT, 1972)
"Your father talked about you occasionally. I had the feeling he would like to have seen you."
"He did. I was handcuffed to a screw at the time. Can you imagine? Being led through a ward of geriatrics? Christ, how they stared. Even those on their last legs, eyes like organ stops. Hardly recognised him at first. 'Hello, Dad', I said, 'It's Billy Boy'. He stared straight through me. 'Who?', he said, 'I don't know any Billy Boy'."
"You broke his heart."
"Had to keep telling myself that that was my father lying there, could have been any old man. I remember, he had some grapes alongside the bed, I picked one off and ate it - that's when the screw turned on me. 'Don't you touch those', he said, 'They belong to your father, I didn't bring you here to stuff yourself'. Oh, that really got through to the old man. He thought that very amusing: laughed like a drain. Even while he's laughing, he starts to choke, he coughs up blood and all sorts. Anyway, that's... that's when a nurse rushed in, and I was dragged out and taken away. Nobody bothered to inform me when he died; was Eric worried I might have been let out for the funeral?"
#Villains#Billy Boy#classic tv#andrew brown#Robert Tronson#William Marlowe#David Daker#Alex Marshall#David Burke#Vanessa Payne#Herbert Ramskill#George Baizley#A.J. Brown#Peter Whitaker#Andy Devine#And so this brilliant‚ strange‚ completely unique series draw to its close. How like Brown to end the series in such an unexpected manner:#How like this series to open its final episode with the only major player still at large‚ William Marlowe's Bill‚ already in prison. What#Might reasonably have been expected to be a suspenseful tale of how Bill evades capture instead becomes a sharp character study explaining#Why he never could. Brown's script is one of the simpler in plot (although still featuring the multiple time lines characteristic of this#Series) but his dialogue is beautiful (not least the speech I've quoted above‚ which is much more affecting in performance)#Marlowe is incredible here; his story has in many ways been the one most central to this series and this episode perfectly strings together#The various glimpses of his life and personality that have been established so far‚ and simultaneously bringing the series to a logical#But deeply upsetting conclusion. Split between the present and prison‚ and the past and Bill's final day of freedom with his estranged#Family. These home scenes are a straight four hander which are played beautifully by all concerned (always fun to see a young David Burke#Rock up‚ even if he never did look that young) and shout out to Payne who's an excellent child actor. And then just as suddenly as it began#It's over. A mystifying‚ unpredictable‚ unique series. There are other shows that examined a single event and used individual episodes to#Study single characters (The Gold Robbers is a good example‚ and quite similar in set up) but none were so experimental and none blended#Genres and pushed the boundaries of the medium in the way this series did in some episodes (still not over some of them). At the same time#It isn't perfect‚ there are misses as well as hits‚ and for me Knocker is an awkward odd one out that fits badly with the rest of the serie#But that's old TV! It's never perfect‚ even the very best of it! And in a way it makes the rest so much better! What a series! What a world
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Ina Balin-Jeremy Brett “Act of reprisa!” 1964, de Erricos Andreou, Robert Tronson.
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Villains: Move In, Move On (1.8, LWT, 1972)
"You're a studious fellow, aren't you?"
"D'you know, my old man wanted me to go into accountancy. Either that, or civil engineering."
"So why didn't you?"
"Well I have. I've sort of combined both, haven't I."
#Villains#classic tv#LWT#1972#Robert Tronson#Andrew Brown#Robin Chapman#William Marlowe#David Daker#Martin Shaw#Tom Adams#Alun Armstrong#Patrick Durkin#Michael Culver#Jim Norton#Bob Hoskins#Gwyneth Powell#Marion Mathie#Johnny Shannon#Geoffrey Lumsden#Joan Peart#Beryl Cooke#Eight episodes! Eight episodes in and we finally get a look at the robbery which has been at the heart of this series. Our lead is Bill#Marlowe who's been perhaps the most visible of the gang so far. We flit between him in his foreign hideaway after the escape (presumably#Mexico) and back to the planning and execution of the robbery. We get to see more of the gang together (altho Bob Hoskins scenes are still#Filmed in such an awkward way that I can only assume he wasn't available at the time and was spliced in later) whilst in the present we get#To see Marlowe suffer at an expat dinner party full of awful snobs. Classic Chapman fare as he invites us to wonder who is the moral#Villain in this story; the bank robber who worked hard for a small payout or the awful privileged types who condemn him as a leach when#They have contributed nothing to society themselves. A solid episode and its a treat to see the various stars act against one another#For once (as much as I have enjoyed the format so far its just nice to get actors like Marlowe Daker and Shaw all in a room together)
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Villains: Sand Dancer (1.6, LWT, 1972)
"It all happened in the spur of the moment. We went to Brixton for the appeal, y'know... And I heard we were gonna be sprung. The others had plans, see. Well, it's worth it for them, they've still got their whack. Hey, thirty-thousand quid, you should've seen what that looked like! I used to sit in me room and just... open the case up, sit and stare at it. Stacks and stacks of bloody fivers. It looked that new though, I used to have to go and wash me hands afore I'd dare touch it. Funny, really. I never quite felt it belonged to me, y'know? Anyway, the law broke in, grabbed me, and grabbed the money. I thought at first, well, I'll serve me time, y'know, keep out of trouble and try and get all the remission I can. But there we were: in the middle of this bloody tunnel, free, and I thought to hell with it - I'll come and see you."
#Villains#Sand dancer#classic tv#LWT#1972#Robert Tronson#Andrew Brown#Alun Armstrong#Rosalind Elliot#Catherine Terris#John White#Malcolm Terris#Sylvia Barter#Gorden Kaye#Gwendolyn Watts#Polly Adams#Alfred Bell#Anthony Dutton#Richard Steele#John Malcolm#One of the ways in which this series is most successful is in its ability to switch from theme to theme and tone to tone across episodes#Whilst retaining a kind of overarching cohesion. This ep is lovely: a real change of mood and pace as we meet the most likeable of the gang#By far in Armstrong. Unlike the others he wasn't overly bothered about escaping but finding himself on the outside decides to visit his gf#And so the whole episode deals really with that journey north. And so likeable is Armstrong's character that he relies not on criminal#Cunning or on underworld contacts but on simple luck and his own charm to get by. And don't get me wrong this isn't exactly a comedy#Episode or even particularly lighter (the final moments although on the surface hopeful are definitely shot in a manner that's unsettling#And indicative of the darker themes at play in this series). It's just a nice change of pace and a chance for Armstrong to shine as a#Straightforward and genuine character. With the episode so heavily focused on him and his journey it's difficult for anyone else to steal#Focus but there are a few brief turns by the likes of John Malcolm and Malcolm Terris as cops. Oh! And Gorden Kaye plays a gay man! And his#Character is fairly positively portrayed! And depending on yr reading of 1 scene Armstrong's character may be bisexual! So that's all cool!
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