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The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
First Losey-Bogarde collaboration anticipates The Servant
Before I knew that this was a Joseph Losey film, I did notice a similarity with his film "The Servant ". Dirk Bogarde playing a sinister infiltrator in a private house. American noir set in 1950s England with 2 US actors in starring roles. Psychiatry was a cool profession then and of course Bogarde's character is miraculously cured in the last reel. Strangely the real anachronism (ANC for me the draw of watching a65 year old movie on TV) is the depiction of the low Soho "dive" with an all black bebop jazz combo providing dance music for frantic jiving couples, with blokes sporting Tony Curtis haircuts. Bit too long but very interesting.
Some People (1962)
Awful Patronising Movie That Reeks of the Fifties
Although I was 15 when this film came out, somehow I never got to see it. I remember the theme tune but thought it was a bit b-sideish. So I was intrigued to watch it on Taking Pictures channel on TV recently. It had a Cliff Richard's feel to it. Not just that the laughably inept guitar band aped the Shadows but there was a good two shoes fifties style for most of it. This movie was not sure whether it was a British biker film or a bad advert for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. The cold breath of the 1950s was evident in upper middle class Kenneth Moore and a fictional daughter patronising working class Ray Brooks and David Hemmings characters. Some the pop music involved was based on the then recently copyright free work of Gilbert and Sullivan. At least the film was shot accurately on location in Bristol. A Hard Days Night was shot just 2 years after this; it looks like it was made 2 light years after. Awful!