A deliciously clever British mystery with an almost absurdly good cast. Alistair Sim, Robert Newton and Trevor Howard are all terrific, with Newton bringing his usual volatile charm and Howard wonderfully brooding. Alistair Sim's eccentric Inspector Cockrill really is having a ball, everyone is on top form. It's really a cracking little thriller: witty, atmospheric and beautifully acted. One you'll recommend, just like i am now! ✌️😊
First time i heard it was on Mark & Lard while at work.. was everything you wanted it to be.. blew away all the pretenders.. i've never stopped playing it.. and it still sounds brilliant!! see you on My Star! 🙌
...I remember buying the cassette version for my new walkman!! I was walking the mean streets (usually out of my nut!) with this dark masterpiece ringing in my ears over and over.. and have lit up rooms with this a good few times too.. people forget just how good it is... not me.. all you other fkrs.. ✌🏻😏
Reggae Got Soul — Toots & The Maytals
Always been a favourite track and album of mine. Toots & The Maytals were absolutely cooking around this time, knocking out album after album that was damn near unmissable — and somehow it still sounds just as vital today.
Toots is good for what ails you!! There’s something about that voice, that rhythm, that sheer warmth and life in the music. And it sounds even better when you're riding along at the crest of a wave.
Reggae got soul. Yes it does!!! 🙌
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands — great recommendation. What a strange, grubby little film.
Burt Lancaster basically swedgin his way through a supposedly post-war London underworld, looking like he could either punch through a brick wall or pull people limb from limb.. i mean, eventually, he gets sentenced to prison and to the cat-o'-nine-tails!! — nine knotted cords used as a flogging whip. Not exactly community service. and yes it was a thing, that and birch
And then Robert Newton turns up and completely owns the fucking thing. What a man. He had that extraordinary ability to make a character seem like he'd been dragged in from some genuinely disreputable pub rather than written in a screenplay. There's something wonderfully unhinged about him.
Apparently Newton was a pretty serious character behind the scenes too — he'd insist on two days' notice before shooting so he could get himself properly into character. Lancaster and producer Harold Hecht were apparently so impressed with him that they were already looking at another film for him while they wethere still editing this one.
Also fascinating how much of that grim London was actually Hollywood pretending to be London. Somehow they pull it off.
Really enjoyed this one. Properly tough, atmospheric noir, and Newton is fucking brilliant in it.
Such an overused word.. but if Ray wasn't a musical genius.. i don't know who could qualify! He sings blues to cure your blues.. 💙
Heard less than a minute of this in the background of some obscure vintage documentary, latched right on, and just loved it immediately! Used phone, and hey! the single was on the same label as the Captain! I'm in!! Ordered for under a 5er and sounds absolutely pristine!
..it's a really fantastic emotive song, a little of kilter.. so good!
First pair in over 30 years.. but i needed cheering up!
New boots for summer. yes please! 😎👌🏻
Been a big fan since the early ep.. and i am not really one to pick favourites.. but if i could only keep one Arcade Fire album this might be the one.
Production is sublime, just when you think they couldn't get any better... amazing.
Remember when this dropped, there was nothing like drivin round with your little crew, up to skullduggery with this absolutely shakin the windows..smoked out.. seems now like we never stopped laughing.. 😂
I am definitely mostly an album guy, but there are a few greatest hits/ best of collections that can not be dismissed!
They are absolutely mad for it!! You'd think they were starving the way they go at it😯 😅
Marlene Dietrich having a ball in 1957's Witness For The Prosecution. Looks like a good night! 🍻🍻
Noticed a particular couple who seem to be nesting in the bush out the front. Two neighbours in the street have feeders, but I thought I'd grab this for the "newly weds" looked out about an hour later an saw it got very popular! 😄
Has to be in top 5 Manchester albums, and that's just one of the lists it should be in.. if you don't know this, you really need to do yourself a favour.. it's miles better than the stuff you know.. 🙃✌🏻
Woo hoo! Love an early delivery.. top marks Pat!
3rd copy of this.. first time on vinyl, definitely got at least 2 or 3 more Cure albums to get to be content on that front. What do you think, what are the others i must own?! ✌🏻🙃
EDIT: That'll teach me, sold as vg+, its in an awful state 😖😡.. ☹️
Really nice shirt had a mark, so i decided to try to save it with dye... looked great while it was still wet.. but it's drying all patchy. What went wrong.. salt,dye,water, heat, ratio off? Or do these things not work too well at changing colour, more to liven up faded colours the same as dye? So annoying... ☹️