Heads up – British War Films in Daily Mail

Went the Day Well? is today’s offering.

If you’ve not seen it, it’s an early, and more believable, take on The Eagle Has Landed.

I think I might indulge myself.

Moggy

Above us the Waves today

I’ll give that a miss.

Moggy

I do agency driving work for a company near to me,and guess who one of their biggest customers is?

Yes.The Daily Mail.

The weekend magazines are printed and put together,in Leeds and Sheffield by Polestar,and then delivered to newspaper wholesalers,including Smiffs,so although I have missed the dvd’s so far this week,becasue I’ve been working for another customer,if I’m there on Saturday,I may be able to get myself a complete set,because if they have any left over,they are often destroyed after they have finished their circulation.

Ken.

Lads, I have the first two DVD’s from Saturday / Sunday here if anyone would like them. They are : disc 1 ; ‘A Matter of Life And Death’ / ‘The Heroes of Telemark’ while disc 2 contains ‘Return From The River Kwai’.
If anyone would like them, please feel free to e-mail me at [email]gary@yesterdaysracers.com[/email] .
All I ask in payment is three first class stamps. Thank you!

Hey Paul C cos your getting two I (and Moggy) don’t get one 😡

My local Tesco had run out – and considering the amount of petrol used to get there and back I’m not a happy bunny.

Roger Smith.

….it fortunately lacked that certain Hollywood indescribable syndrome, whatever it is, it has a certain affect on films, this one managed to distance itself from it.

I think I know what you mean…
I call it “Big budget-itus”…a sense of self importance common to a lot of big budget films….
Like “Those Magnificent Men and their Flying Machines” and even the sainted “Battle of Britian”…IMHO.

No ‘Aces High’ for me.

Smiffers had plenty of papers, but no DVDs left by 2.00pm today.

Moggy

Shame on you, I abandoned my drain design and watched it this afternoon, I actually have to admit that I don’t recall seeing it in it’s entirety before, not a bad film, I prefered it to the ‘Blue Max’, it fortunately lacked that certain Hollywood indescribable syndrome, whatever it is, it has a certain affect on films, this one managed to distance itself from it.

No ‘Aces High’ for me.

Smiffers had plenty of papers, but no DVDs left by 2.00pm today.

Moggy

My local Tesco insist on giving me two copies everyday for some reason! fortunatly only the one paper though.

Paul

www.paulcouper.co.uk

Don’t throw it away. What I do is buy the paper in the main WH Smith here in Hull, when its busy. They don’t have time to cut out the coupon. I then go down to the other WH Smith and get a second DVD using the same newspaper/voucher.

Do your local police know about this scam?:cool:

I’ve just nipped up to Tescos and got it, I’ve got a project on to complete before Friday, so it will have to remain dormant…..well……..we’ll see about a quick glimpse.

Curses, I just nipped into town for some odds and sods and completely forgot about it.
Looking at IMDB, ‘Aces High’ has quite a cast, filmed in the days when Malcom McDowell and Simon Ward appeared in just about everything between them, I haven’t seen the film for a while and had forgotten that the great Hollywood Welshman, Ray Milland was in it, he must have been over 70 when they filmed that.
I also note that it was filmed at Booker, how many of the a/c survive I wonder.

One of the Stampes (the ID of which I forget), and the replica Fokker Eindekker, for certain. Both of which were at the late Blue Max Museum at the airfield.

I seem to recall the replica Avro 504 that was used in it is now kept at Brooklands – I remember seeing it the one and only time I was there, a few years ago.

Curses, I just nipped into town for some odds and sods and completely forgot about it.
Looking at IMDB, ‘Aces High’ has quite a cast, filmed in the days when Malcom McDowell and Simon Ward appeared in just about everything between them, I haven’t seen the film for a while and had forgotten that the great Hollywood Welshman, Ray Milland was in it, he must have been over 70 when they filmed that.
I also note that it was filmed at Booker, how many of the a/c survive I wonder.

I always liked Aces High. I know it has its detractors, but I really quite like it for some reason. The flying sequences with the “S.E.5As” are nice and not so staged as The Blue Max, yet they’re not so unrealistic, either, especially when compared to more recent efforts such as Flyboys…..

Wednesday – “Aces High”

Trip to Tescos (ugh!) tomorrow (Wednesday) then – it’s “Aces High”

Roger Smith.

I have my “In Which…” DVD in front of me.

I tried reading the paper – it’s awful.

Moggy

Don’t throw it away. What I do is buy the paper in the main WH Smith here in Hull, when its busy. They don’t have time to cut out the coupon. I then go down to the other WH Smith and get a second DVD using the same newspaper/voucher.

Then again…

I bought yesterday’s Daily Mail from Tesco, and the wonderful person behind the customer service desk, cut out my voucher. So I could only get the one DVD. Cheeky I know…

Great film, I only wish my DVD player worked.

Several have said they “throw the paper away”
Well yesterday (Monday) you will have missed the “Letters” page with two letters from ex-RAF Bomber Command veterans – Jack Dixon and Stan Hollingsworth.
I’ll put the rest of this post on the thread running to petition the Prime Minister for a Campaign Medal for Bomber Command vets.

Roger Smith.

Interestingly enough, I had great trouble trying to buy a copy of the paper here in Braintree, they seem to have sold out everywhere, I had to buy a copy in Sainsburies, the only place I could find any, then redeem the voucher in W H Smith, perhaps the great British public is more astute than we think.
Wow, ‘Reach for the Sky’ for only 45p, sad in a way, I wonder how much the Mail had to pay for the rights to do this. As far as I was concerned, I bought the paper, ripped out the relevant page and threw the rest in the bin, I would imagine that most of you will do the same, in which case the whole thing is defeating the object of getting hooked on the paper, but who knows.
One film that really interests me is ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’.
Many, many, years ago we used to go to our local fleapit, ‘The Moulin Rouge’, in Nottingham, that dealt in ‘X’ films only, they didn’t seem to care that we were only 13, and we got in to see anything, in our case, mainly horror films.
I recall going to see ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, we thought it was an awsome film, OK an American film of German life at the front, but very well done for it’s time, and very well considered for it’s attitude towards the ‘enemy’.
The thing is, an alternative version was made involving experimental colour, hopefully this is the version that they are trading in the Mail, if it is, it’s not modern computer technology and well worth the 45p, well all these classic films are worth more than that, aren’t they.

Great movie – looks like a trip to Smiffs.

Moggy