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Paulo Cavalcanti
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« Thread Started on Jun 29, 2012, 4:51pm »

This movie, starring Freddie and The Dreamers, were considered "lost". But it was released now on DVD.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cuckoo-Patrol-DV....0985208&sr=1 -1

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Re: Cuckoo Patrol
« Reply #1 on Jul 10, 2012, 5:00am »

Is it Freddie and the dreamers or just Freddie ?

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« Reply #2 on Jul 10, 2012, 8:17am »

Dunno, it's from 1967 it seems.

I'm waiting for the rediscovery of "Oliver in the Overworld"...

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« Reply #3 on Jul 10, 2012, 10:55am »

You're thinking of Little Big Time, which Oliver was a continuing feature within. I used to watch it myself. Kal turned up one edition in the Monkhouse collection.

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« Reply #4 on Jul 10, 2012, 12:11pm »

Strange to learn this elusive film was made later on after the hits had ended since by 1967, they were pretty much reduced to appearing in seaside revues and cabaret so why anybody would had wanted a Freddie and The Dreamers movie in 1967 - not least one about them joining the Boy Scouts - is frankly, baffling. A part of me is definitely curious to check it out... it sounds rather awful!

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« Reply #5 on Jul 10, 2012, 12:22pm »

Yes, but "O in the U" was also a stand-alone programme.

There are two soundtrack LPs, one on EMI/Starline and a later one on CBS, I have the latter. (The former has "Gimme Dat Ding", but that song didn't feature in the 'full' show)

Most of the songs are Hammond/Hazelwood, and are (mostly) pretty good.

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« Reply #6 on Jul 12, 2012, 4:43pm »

Apparently it was made in 1965 but not released till 1967. 1965-1967 is about the equivalent of about 20 years in today's culture so no wonder it flopped, Freddie Garrity's boat had definitely sailed by then and black and white films, commonplace in '64/'65 were by then becoming very rare.

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« Reply #7 on Jul 17, 2012, 3:25pm »

(Posts on colour / b&w TV moved to their own thread).

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« Reply #8 on Jul 18, 2012, 3:06pm »

Thanks Laurence, great thread by the way - however my point was about cinema and black and white/colour. There are many examples of reasonably famous/popular films made in black and white in 1965 - from 'Replusion' and 'Darling' and 'The Hill' and 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' to 'Carry on Spying' and 'The Big Job', I could go on. However, in 1966 they are becoming very rare and 1967 virtually extinct, so releasing a black and white film to cinema audiences just those two years later, especially one that features an artist that hadn't had a recent hit - it was understandably not a success.

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« Reply #9 on Jul 18, 2012, 3:52pm »

That's always been a fascination of mine as well. You can find plenty of b/w "mainstream" films in 1965 but they had all but gone two years later. There are a small number from '66 but I can't think of any after that offhand. Things changed very quickly indeed.

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Re: Cuckoo Patrol
« Reply #10 on Jul 18, 2012, 4:08pm »

Ulysses? That was 1967, wasn't it?

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« Reply #11 on Jul 18, 2012, 4:26pm »

It's not unknown for quite big name films to get delayed/go into limbo.I think that there might still be a few Peter Sellers film yet to be released.Perhaps the big question is how this film ever came to be released?
Seriously,Freddy seems to have been popular enough with the kids,and it's not as though the group took themselves too seriously.It's not a great leap from 'Who Wears Short Shorts'? to a boy-scout film.Freddy was never seen as a great lover.(The Great Lover is the movie with Bob Hope as a scoutmaster.I finally had to go to IMDB.No wonder I couldn't remember the title!).
Investors would have wanted their money back,even if they were surprised to the rush to colour.

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Re: Cuckoo Patrol
« Reply #12 on Jul 18, 2012, 4:28pm »

Jul 18, 2012, 4:08pm, Ray Langstone (was saintsray) wrote:

Ulysses? That was 1967, wasn't it?

Was it? Ah, not familiar with that one (TV is my specialist subject, after all!)

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« Reply #13 on Jul 18, 2012, 4:41pm »

Ulysses is the one with Molly Bloom's lascivious soliloquy.Still haven't seen it all the way through.I prefer Milo O'Shea in Barbarella or even Steptoe and Son Ride Again.
An Art movie,Ulysses,based on James Joyce's novel,filmed in B&w.

Talk about delayed releases.Though it was shown in private clubs in Eire in the 70's,Ulysses wasn't granted a certificate there until 2000.A longer delay that The Cuckoo Patrol...which I assume didn't have flippin' four-letter words!

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« Reply #14 on Jul 18, 2012, 4:57pm »

I was wondering what the last B&W production by a Hollywood studio, The Train (1964) must have been one of the last.

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