Burton is at his classical best, Eastwood is a superstar one man death machine, Mary Ure is alluring and Derren Nesbit makes a fantastic villain. What can I say? My father took my brothers and I to see this on a third run at the pictures in 1976/77 and it has remained one of my unbridled joys ever since. True there are more serious war films, but with dense plotting, good characterization and simply stunning action this is the best of the 'WW2 guys on a mission fims' that were so beloved in the sixties. Has there ever been a better cinematic doulble act than Smith and Schaffer? Probably not. Sheer genius!
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The play uses the metaphor of describing english working classes as bears for men and squirrels for women ,it even shows them as fluffy toys and mary ure and burton enact the 2 animals very animatedly ,which is very overdone but interesting as this whole movie is an exercise in a mock protest rather than reality.
It is a very condescending view of the english marriage and character ,at times contemptible of it's characters which rather translates to a selfish love of the same low-lifes as the script evolves .
You will hear the Jazz score and the trumpet blaring angrily but nothing will prepare you for the very entertaining venomous outbursts by burton -who is a candy stall keeper in a market.
The play uses the metaphor of describing english working classes as bears for men and squirrels for women ,it even shows them as fluffy toys and mary ure and burton enact the 2 animals very animatedly ,which is very overdone but interesting as this whole movie is an exercise in a mock protest rather than reality.
It is a very condescending view of the english marriage and character ,at times contemptible of it's characters which rather translates to a selfish love of the same low-lifes as the script evolves .
You will hear the Jazz score and the trumpet blaring angrily but nothing will prepare you for the very entertaining venomous outbursts by burton -who is a candy stall keeper in a market.
Burton is at his classical best, Eastwood is a superstar one man death machine, Mary Ure is alluring and Derren Nesbit makes a fantastic villain. What can I say? My father took my brothers and I to see this on a third run at the pictures in 1976/77 and it has remained one of my unbridled joys ever since. True there are more serious war films, but with dense plotting, good characterization and simply stunning action this is the best of the 'WW2 guys on a mission fims' that were so beloved in the sixties. Has there ever been a better cinematic doulble act than Smith and Schaffer? Probably not. Sheer genius!
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Burton is at his classical best, Eastwood is a superstar one man death machine, Mary Ure is alluring and Derren Nesbit makes a fantastic villain. What can I say? My father took my brothers and I to see this on a third run at the pictures in 1976/77 and it has remained one of my unbridled joys ever since. True there are more serious war films, but with dense plotting, good characterization and simply stunning action this is the best of the 'WW2 guys on a mission fims' that were so beloved in the sixties. Has there ever been a better cinematic doulble act than Smith and Schaffer? Probably not. Sheer genius!
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Burton is at his classical best, Eastwood is a superstar one man death machine, Mary Ure is alluring and Derren Nesbit makes a fantastic villain. What can I say? My father took my brothers and I to see this on a third run at the pictures in 1976/77 and it has remained one of my unbridled joys ever since. True there are more serious war films, but with dense plotting, good characterization and simply stunning action this is the best of the 'WW2 guys on a mission fims' that were so beloved in the sixties. Has there ever been a better cinematic doulble act than Smith and Schaffer? Probably not. Sheer genius!
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So utterly, utterly disappointing. A big widescreen roadshow picture that has been given the cheapest mediocre transfer to DVD possible. Washed out colours, scratchy original film; tinny, harsh sound. Was it in stereo; quality so poor it's difficult to detect. And a dreadful pan-and-scan transfer that destroys all the original wide screen vistas. These big films of the '60s &'70s deserve to be appraised on a good transfer to DVD.
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Burton is at his classical best, Eastwood is a superstar one man death machine, Mary Ure is alluring and Derren Nesbit makes a fantastic villain. What can I say? My father took my brothers and I to see this on a third run at the pictures in 1976/77 and it has remained one of my unbridled joys ever since. True there are more serious war films, but with dense plotting, good characterization and simply stunning action this is the best of the 'WW2 guys on a mission fims' that were so beloved in the sixties. Has there ever been a better cinematic doulble act than Smith and Schaffer? Probably not. Sheer genius!
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Burton is at his classical best, Eastwood is a superstar one man death machine, Mary Ure is alluring and Derren Nesbit makes a fantastic villain. What can I say? My father took my brothers and I to see this on a third run at the pictures in 1976/77 and it has remained one of my unbridled joys ever since. True there are more serious war films, but with dense plotting, good characterization and simply stunning action this is the best of the 'WW2 guys on a mission fims' that were so beloved in the sixties. Has there ever been a better cinematic doulble act than Smith and Schaffer? Probably not. Sheer genius!
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Burton is at his classical best, Eastwood is a superstar one man death machine, Mary Ure is alluring and Derren Nesbit makes a fantastic villain. What can I say? My father took my brothers and I to see this on a third run at the pictures in 1976/77 and it has remained one of my unbridled joys ever since. True there are more serious war films, but with dense plotting, good characterization and simply stunning action this is the best of the 'WW2 guys on a mission fims' that were so beloved in the sixties. Has there ever been a better cinematic doulble act than Smith and Schaffer? Probably not. Sheer genius!
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