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  • It will be awful, all remakes generally


    Another leftie
  • iaitch said:

    Is it only Ian Lavender that's still going?

    I think Frank Williams, the vicar, is still alive and the actress who played Pike's mum.
  • Well at least Rudolph Walker is still around for that.
  • Love Dads Army, favourite episode has to be the one where they take the U-boat crew prisoners. "I like my chips, crisp und light brown"

    Hopefully they do a good job on this new film.
  • looking even better now more cast members have been announced. If you read the article it's in beinb Yo

    According to the local news this will be filmed on location in Yorkshire, about which some are already creaming themselves! The original was filmed in Norfolk.

    Can't see why it needs to be done. Bit like PL games being played abroad. Mystifying.

    If you read the article seems like some funding is coming from "Screen Yorkshire".

    Great casting, hope it's good.
  • edited October 2014
    LenGlover said:

    iaitch said:

    Is it only Ian Lavender that's still going?

    I think Frank Williams, the vicar, is still alive and the actress who played Pike's mum.
    Frank Williams, yes but Janet Davies who played Pike's mum died in 1986 - just 59 years old.
    But Pamela Cundell who played Mrs Fox is still alive. (A co-incidence, maybe, that she was married to Bill Fraser who played Sgt. Snudge in the comedy The Army Game and its sequel about national service.)

    Edited to say Liz Fraser, who played Mrs Pike in the 1971 film is also still alive.
  • That show is bloody cursed! So many of the cast have died. However I think the actor who portrayed Raymond the butchers boy may still be alive.
  • Greenie said:

    Greenie said:

    Again, why?.......just why????????

    Oh yes....the filthy lucre....

    Isn't that why just about 99% of films are made.

    Certainly not meant to be high art.

    I know PC lefties like you don't like the idea of making a profit but if people like the film it will make money and if they don't it won't. That's capitalism for you but you socialists don't like that and would rather we had to watch czechoslovak cartoons about singing ringing trees.
    Oh Henners you're such a card .
    I've never been called PC before even as a wind up!
    I think I love You.
    Had no idea you were a PC leftie Jim! :-)
  • Decent cast, but will all hinge on having a script that's good enough and also original. The doubter in me can't shake off visions of Russell Brand in St Trinians.

    Can't wait for the Love thy neighbour re-make....................

    I'll 'ave 'arf
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  • Rumours that Pamela Cundell has passed away, as yet unsubstantiated.
  • Oh shame, if true. That would leave just Pikey and the Vicar. I believe.

  • cafcfan said:

    LenGlover said:

    iaitch said:

    Is it only Ian Lavender that's still going?

    I think Frank Williams, the vicar, is still alive and the actress who played Pike's mum.
    Frank Williams, yes but Janet Davies who played Pike's mum died in 1986 - just 59 years old.
    But Pamela Cundell who played Mrs Fox is still alive. (A co-incidence, maybe, that she was married to Bill Fraser who played Sgt. Snudge in the comedy The Army Game and its sequel about national service.)

    Edited to say Liz Fraser, who played Mrs Pike in the 1971 film is also still alive.
    I read somewhere that Liz Frazer was brought in, as Janet Davies was not considered 'sexy' enough for the film.

  • Oh shame, if true. That would leave just Pikey and the Vicar. I believe.

    Yes, that's my understanding too.
  • From the filming of the new film

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    Would be a great prop to display in the museum Henry.
  • Oh shame, if true. That would leave just Pikey and the Vicar. I believe.

    Wow! That show must have been cursed if so many are dead.....
  • There is a war on.
  • edited February 2015
    Yes - Pamela Cundell's obituary was in The Times today. Married to Bill Frazer.

    So, just Pikey and The Vicar left now, or if you're a true connosieur of the show, Mrs Mainwaring also:-)

  • This sort of film will be best enjoyed by those who have never seen the original series.

    How do you replace Arthur Lowe, or Clive Dunn, or Ian Lavender..? Arthur Lowe truly was... and always will be..... Captain Mainwaring. Nobody else could play that part with such loveable pomposity. Who could possibly throw a panic like Corporal Jones?

    To those who have never seen the original series, the new film might be entertaining and have a cast that they recognise and relate to, but I'm afraid I won't. Whoever tries to play the part of the long suffering Sergeant Wilson, I would sit there thinking "Not as good as John Le Mesurier. I wouldn't be able to stop myself from making the comparison and finding the new bloke wanting.

    Sorry, but it just won't work for me.
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  • WSS said:

    But at least you're giving it a chance.

    We have been here before... Huge fan of the series, looking forward to seeing a new take on it.
  • This does look good
  • edited October 2015
    Must be me. I think it looks awful.
  • Must be me. I think it looks awful.

    Not just you. The only good line was 'No need for Latin, Wilson' at the end. Other than that, the script looks really poor, typified by that '...slipped her a sausage' innuendo.
  • From the filming of the new film

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    Is that how they used to spell Folkestone?
  • Looks pretty good to me.
  • Looks pretty good, the line about Mainwaring meeting Churchill was a cracker, could easily have come from the original series. I shall reserve judgment until I have seen the whole film though.
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