Comments on: Keeping the British End Up http://blogs2.moviemail-online.co.uk/cheapseats/2007/11/27/keeping-the-british-end-up/ Someday a real rain will come and wash the scum off the streets. Will James Oliver do until then? Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:05:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: bronco http://blogs2.moviemail-online.co.uk/cheapseats/2007/11/27/keeping-the-british-end-up/#comment-87 bronco Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:04:10 +0000 http://blogs2.moviemail-online.co.uk/cheapseats/2007/11/27/keeping-the-british-end-up/#comment-87 <strong>bronco</strong> Thanks for the nice read, keep up the interesting posts bronco

Thanks for the nice read, keep up the interesting posts

]]> By: James Oliver http://blogs2.moviemail-online.co.uk/cheapseats/2007/11/27/keeping-the-british-end-up/#comment-13 James Oliver Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:57:37 +0000 http://blogs2.moviemail-online.co.uk/cheapseats/2007/11/27/keeping-the-british-end-up/#comment-13 [b]"The Seventh Survivor"[/b] Sounds interesting - thanks for the heads up. [b]”The Seventh Survivor”[/b]
Sounds interesting - thanks for the heads up.

]]> By: Chris Cooper http://blogs2.moviemail-online.co.uk/cheapseats/2007/11/27/keeping-the-british-end-up/#comment-11 Chris Cooper Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:55:35 +0000 http://blogs2.moviemail-online.co.uk/cheapseats/2007/11/27/keeping-the-british-end-up/#comment-11 Nice to see that you are a fan of British films. So many of our films appear not to be available any longer in the UK although ironically they may be available in USA. The one that comes immediately to mind is "The Seventh Survivor", an earlier but similar story, and in my view equal if not better than, Hitchcock's "Lifeboat". Unfortunately "The Seventh Survivor" is not available on DVD and copies of the VHS NTSC version are no longer advertised. Do you know if this film is still available from any source in the UK? I would be very interested. Chris Cooper Nice to see that you are a fan of British films.

So many of our films appear not to be available any longer in the UK although ironically they may be available in USA.
The one that comes immediately to mind is “The Seventh Survivor”, an earlier but similar story, and in my view equal if not better than, Hitchcock’s “Lifeboat”.
Unfortunately “The Seventh Survivor” is not available on DVD and copies of the VHS NTSC version are no longer advertised.

Do you know if this film is still available from any source in the UK?
I would be very interested.

Chris Cooper

]]> By: Graeme Hobbs http://blogs2.moviemail-online.co.uk/cheapseats/2007/11/27/keeping-the-british-end-up/#comment-4 Graeme Hobbs Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:10:24 +0000 http://blogs2.moviemail-online.co.uk/cheapseats/2007/11/27/keeping-the-british-end-up/#comment-4 The Tawny Pipit is an interesting, if minor, film. It's basically a piece of wartime propaganda from 1944. Niall MacGinnis is the airman convalescing in a Cotswolds village, whose nearby meadow which has received 'a pair of distinguished visitors from abroad', ie a rare breeding pair of Tawny Pipits. Therefafter the airman, a land girl (Rosamund John) and the village boys do their best to protect the eggs until they hatch. They haven't counted on the egg thieves... It's all thoroughly English and very symbolic of course - of welcoming and protecting foreigners in Britain, of protecting the innocent, of being on the lookout for fifth columnists etc. Bernard Miles plays the local squire, Colonel Barton-Barrington, who gets carried away at the local fete where the special guest is Russian soldier Lieutenant Bokalova. 'I myself have shot over a hundred Hitlerites' she says, 'and I'm looking forward to shooting many more!'. 'What a woman, eh vicar?' says colonel Barton-Barrington. As if the alliance between the Red Army and an English squire weren't enough, the village's school choir then sing 'The Internationale'. It's never been available on dvd. It was available for a while on vhs inthe 1990s, in VCI's British Classics series, along with Robert Hamer's The Spider and the Fly, which has also never seen the light of day since, more's the pity. The Tawny Pipit is an interesting, if minor, film. It’s basically a piece of wartime propaganda from 1944. Niall MacGinnis is the airman convalescing in a Cotswolds village, whose nearby meadow which has received ‘a pair of distinguished visitors from abroad’, ie a rare breeding pair of Tawny Pipits. Therefafter the airman, a land girl (Rosamund John) and the village boys do their best to protect the eggs until they hatch. They haven’t counted on the egg thieves…

It’s all thoroughly English and very symbolic of course - of welcoming and protecting foreigners in Britain, of protecting the innocent, of being on the lookout for fifth columnists etc. Bernard Miles plays the local squire, Colonel Barton-Barrington, who gets carried away at the local fete where the special guest is Russian soldier Lieutenant Bokalova. ‘I myself have shot over a hundred Hitlerites’ she says, ‘and I’m looking forward to shooting many more!’. ‘What a woman, eh vicar?’ says colonel Barton-Barrington. As if the alliance between the Red Army and an English squire weren’t enough, the village’s school choir then sing ‘The Internationale’.

It’s never been available on dvd. It was available for a while on vhs inthe 1990s, in VCI’s British Classics series, along with Robert Hamer’s The Spider and the Fly, which has also never seen the light of day since, more’s the pity.

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