On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 14:17:20 +0000, JNugent <jennings&co@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>On 19/03/2022 09:11 am, Martin wrote:
>
>> JNugent <jennings&co@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>> On 18/03/2022 09:12 am, Martin wrote:
>>>> Ar <Ar@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>>>> On 15/03/2022 23:42, JNugent wrote:
>>>>>> On 15/03/2022 09:08 pm, Ar wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> So everyone's given up with this group? Sad.
>>
>>>>>> Why not start a discussion about something TV-related? ;-)
>>>>>> The current remake of "The Ipcress File", perhaps?
>>
>>>>> I've not seen it, and reading the newspaper reviews, a lot of people
>>>>> also wish they hadn't seen it.
>>
>>>> The reviews I read were positive;
>>
>>> Indeed.
>>
>>>>> You can't remake a Michael Cane film. Case in point "The Italian Job",
>>>>> the remake is crap.
>>
>>>> The original Italian Job was a better made film than Ipcress File. The Ipcress
>>>> File film looks like a low budget film.
>>
>>> It was a low-budget film. But the only bit that really suffered from
>>> that was the improbably damaging psycho-torture sequence.
>>
>> I can't remember the book after more than 50 years, but I assume in the book he
>> did actually go to Germany. He does in the TV version and doesn't in the film.
>> The significance of him being one of the Glorious Gloucesters is probably lost
>> on the younger generation. They were captured by the N Koreans and tortured,
>
>I take it you've watched the whole thing?

We have only watched two episodes. We had recorded the 1965 film that was
broadcast fairly recently and watched it after the first episode. Palmer
mentioned that he had been in the Gloucester Regiment in Korea in the TV
version. I've only ever met one person who had been in the Korean war. He was a
65 year old Dutchman who did a parquet floor for us decades ago. There is an
American film based on Korean POWs being brain washed - The Manchurian candidate
made around 1960, starring Frank Sinatra. There's also a remake that I haven't
seen.

>
>I haven't done that.
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Martin in Zuid Holland