| Author | Message | ||
     Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 269 Registered: 05-2005 |
Callan is still my favourite ever TV show - due mainly to Woodward's brilliant turn as the disaffected British spy. Also wonderful in The Whicker Man and Breaker Morant. Sad. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 181 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think you mean The Wicker Man Mark, unless you are referring to the Alan Whicker Man in Viz. Definitely his most memorable performance. He is also of course inadvertently responsible for one of the great/worst jokes of our time (Ewar Woowar) | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 271 Registered: 05-2005 |
Doh. I didn't know that Viz had an Alan Whicker based character Cosmo - must check it out! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1668 Registered: 01-2005 |
Sad indeed! Some Breaker Morant quotes from Edward Woodward: Live each day as though it were your last; one day you're sure to be right. It's all right, Major. I've had a good run. There's nothing for me in England anymore. And back in Australia, well they say if you need a couple of stiff drinks before you climb up on a wild horse, you're finished. It really ain't the place nor time to reel off rhyming diction, but yet we'll write a final rhyme while waiting crucifixion. For we bequeath a parting tip of sound advice for such men who come in transport ships to polish off the Dutchman. If you encounter any Boers, you really must not loot 'em, and if you wish to leave these shores, for pity's sake, don't shoot 'em. Let's toss a bumper down our throat before we pass to Heaven, and toast a trim-set petticoat we leave behind in Devon. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3237 Registered: 05-2005 |
They played the clip of that last one on NewsRadio here yesterday morning Michael. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1673 Registered: 01-2005 |
They picked a good one to play then Padraig! It's been years since I watched EW's Whicker Man from the 70's. I refused to check out the remake with Nick Cage. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1710 Registered: 09-2006 |
Just the descriptions of the remake I read were enough to make me cringe. The original really holds up, and Woodward is flawless, especially in the final scenes. He also had a nice late-in-life role doing a slight self-parody in "Hot Fuzz." |