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Post by William Martin on Jun 22, 2008 11:01:43 GMT
saw the film last night and I'd forgotten how many cult tv stars were in it,
Nicky Henson, Mary Larkin, Ann Michelle, Roy Holder, Peter Whitting, Rocky Taylor Robert Hardy, Patrick Holt, Alan Bennion , John Levene and Bill Pertwee
plus music by John Cameron and Frog
by the way I hadn't realised that john levene had been in an adam adamant lives. playing "SS Guard" in a sinister sort of service apparently
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Post by Greg H on Jun 22, 2008 11:32:20 GMT
It is a well awesome movie! Wonderfully of it's time  If it was on the telly I missed it. Must see if theres a good quality DVD release of this on payday  |
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Post by Andy Howells on Jun 22, 2008 11:39:38 GMT
Showing as part of BBCFours B Movie Season this week, there's a showing of The Cover Girl Murders tonight with a pre-Steptoe Harry H Corbett.
Psychomania is quite enjoyable, and I was quite startled to see John Levene and Bill Pertwee (earning some bonus pocket money no doubt between series of Dr Who and Dad's Army) in it.
The accompanying BBCFour documentary is very good (its on a few times this week) lots of great clips and some good reactions from people like roy Hudd and Nicky Henson.
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Post by Reg Long3 on Jun 22, 2008 11:45:59 GMT
I loved the old train movie with the mad driver, very well made I thought. Considering it was a 'quicky'
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Post by Stuart Huggett on Jun 23, 2008 7:37:03 GMT
And June Brown's in there too!
Is the version that was broadcast this weekend as good as copies of Psychomania go? A lot of it looked quite washed-out, and there were sequences with a number of frames missing.
Still in better shape than many of the 70's movies in the accompanying documentary though...
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Post by Daniel O'Brien on Jun 23, 2008 8:25:28 GMT
Is the version that was broadcast this weekend as good as copies of Psychomania go? A lot of it looked quite washed-out, and there were sequences with a number of frames missing. I've never seen a great-looking print of 'Psychomania'. By most accounts, the US Image DVD suffered from substandard picture quality during the first 20 minutes. Perhaps the surviving film elements are in poor shape. Low budget independent films from the early 1970s weren't always well stored. I have an old VHS copy taped off Yorkshire TV in the early 1990s. I'll check out the picture quality, though it's probably from the same source as the BBC4 copy. The version shown on BBC2's 'Moviedrome' opened with a distributor's logo that I've not seen elsewhere, so maybe it was a different print. Not sure it looked any better, though. |
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Post by Greg H on Jun 23, 2008 9:24:16 GMT
I strongly suspect that there will be a decent quality print of this still kicking about; in the unlikely event that its gone there should be quite a lot that can be done in restoration.
It is a British classic of its era, and so deserves decent treatment.
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Post by Stuart Huggett on Jun 23, 2008 11:42:55 GMT
I think the most notable jumps were in the scenes in the Police Station cells if you're gonna check sometime - nothing too distracting, just a few skips. The quality of the film was pretty good overall though, if a bit pale.
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Post by Andrew Martin on Jun 23, 2008 12:35:07 GMT
by the way I hadn't realised that john levene had been in an adam adamant lives. playing "SS Guard" in a sinister sort of service apparently He's also in "D for Destruction", though he's credited under his original name on the PasB. |
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Post by Stuart Huggett on Jun 23, 2008 17:30:06 GMT
The accompanying documentary 'British B Movies: Truly, Madly, Cheaply' is currently on the BBC i>Player, somewhat suprisingly given the number of film clips in the programme. Certainly worth 90 minutes of your time (I'll probably give it another viewing later, seeing as I passed out for 10 minutes somewhere around 'Gonks Go Beat'!)
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Post by Greg H on Jun 24, 2008 7:07:05 GMT
Gonks go beat!!!!! Thats a well hilarious film. Gotta love that vintage British cheese |
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Post by Andy Howells on Jun 24, 2008 16:43:56 GMT
I hadnt seen a lot of the films in the documentary - interesting to see Kenneth Connor was in a few of them!
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Post by William Martin on Jun 27, 2008 16:17:29 GMT
where else could you see Lulu, Keneth connor, Derek Thompson and the Graham Bond Organisation a very odd film
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Post by Daniel O'Brien on Jun 27, 2008 19:03:18 GMT
I think the most notable jumps were in the scenes in the Police Station cells if you're gonna check sometime - nothing too distracting, just a few skips. The quality of the film was pretty good overall though, if a bit pale. The print shown on Yorkshire TV looks a bit washed out, with a lot of minor print damage - scratches, dirt and speckling. I didn't see any obvious jumps. It's an odd movie. I like it but after a certain point it doesn't go anywhere much. The title sequence is probably the most atmospheric scene, though the graveyard comeback is pretty cool. |
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Post by William Martin on Jun 29, 2008 12:21:28 GMT
by the way slightly OT but where does the Billie Davis performance of watcha gonna do come from?
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