AN UNGENTLEMANLY ACT is a drama about the invasion of the Falklands, starring Ian Richardson as Sir Rex Hunt. I've just discovered a couple of nine minute clips of this excellent film on YouTube. If you like thema and want to see the whole thing, it's available on DVD for £4.48 HERE.
What I do quite like about you, ol' Dale, is that you, Mr Busy (very much unlike me), finger in hundreds of busy-bee pies, newly declared candidate for Mayor of London, media star (well, sort of, but jolly busy anyway), blogger, commentator, all-round Christ-does-he-never-stop-he's flippin-everywhere-always-with-a-new tie, still seem to have time to dig up this kind of stuff on YouTube. I thought it was just old reprobates like me who spent hours wasting their time when they should be working on this kind of stuff.
ReplyDeleteBut, am grateful.
And now (portentuously, voice being cleared, listen carefully there at the back), consider this if you would.
Two weeks ago, memories of the Falklands being fresh, Blair asserted that had he been faced with the choice facing Thatcher in 1982 he, too, would have ordered the dispatch of the Taskforce to the Falklands, he being, so obviously, the man of destiny, steely eyed, resolute, not shying from the touch choices, the heir to Thatcher, etc.
Ha! Ha! and Ha! again.
He may not have expected it but he now has exactly the chance to show he meant it. To wit, 15 poor sods banged by up by a bunch of unprincipled Iranians and then paraded on telly while apparently confessing to their crimes.
Blair's response? It isn't Thatcherite. And that's putting it mildly.
It is astonishing how he fools himself. Does he seriously expect ANYONE to take him seriously?
Meanwhile, La Beckett girds her loins (not literally – or at least I hope not) for another pointlessly wet statement.
What have we been reduced to.
The Falklands, John Knott & Clive Ponting - that was so Yesterday.
ReplyDeleteGordon Brown's divorce is much more interesting but being so mainstream you could NEVER break that news
A very good film - the characterisations are excellent. The chap playing the Royal Marine commander of the island was particularly good.
ReplyDeleteStrange that no-one talks about the simple facts about the Belgrano, by the way. It was after all the Navy who insisted that she was sunk - it took several hours to persuade the War Cabinet/Maggie to go ahead....
I think I'll pass on buying that DVD, or even viewing the YouTube links.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong, it's just that in the light of current events, it hurts me too much to compare what we were back then with what we have become today.
Iain,
ReplyDeleteit's clear this morning that the pensions scandal is intensifying. Brown is now so scared that he is prepared to sacrifice Balls over a charge of lying about the CBI's alleged role in all of this.
Balls is fighting for his political life this morning.
Time for a new Brown thread eh?
The last one proved very popular.
The film shows chickens wandering around at night feeding. They never do - they always roost at night.
ReplyDeleteIf the film producer can't get that silly detail right, why should any other part of it be believed?
Thank you anon for pointing out the chickens error. I keep chickens and of course they would be roosting, and probably cowering in terror. Somebody obviously chucked them into the seen just before the director shouted "action".
ReplyDeleteStill, I was glad to see them. Chickens are under represented in mainstream cinema, and the use of inappropriate language such as "chickening out" is pollophobic.
All very boys own stuff,I am sure, being shot at is not very pleasant, especially when some idiot in the accounts department of the MOD has supplied you with duff ammunition from Pakistan to shoot back with. This sort of stuff keeps the flag wavers happy.
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