#RetroTV #60sTV #TheAvengers

Via Neville F Chamberlain @nevillefchambe1

The #BrianClemens written episode “The Correct Way to Kill" from the 1960s cult British spy-fi tv series “THE AVENGERS” was directed by #CharlesCrichton, and starred #PatrickMacnee and #DianaRigg, with #AnnaQuayle and first aired on #ABC on 11 March 1967

#Movies #AFishCalledWanda

Via Neville F Chamberlain @nevillefchambe1

“A FISH CALLED WANDA” (1988) dir. #CharlesCrichton

#JohnCleese, #JamieLeeCurtis, #KevinKline, #MichaelPalin

70 years ago:
The Titfield Thunderbolt (UK)
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts ...
1953-03-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/24381
#TheTitfieldThunderbolt #CharlesCrichton #JohnGregson #HughGriffith #SidJames #EalingStudios #Movies

MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I’m really, really sorry. I apologize unreservedly . . . The imputation was totally without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret any distress that my comments may have caused you or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future.”
John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda
#afishcalledwanda #johncleese #charlescrichton #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday

66 years ago:
The Man in the Sky (UK)
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully ...
1957-01-24
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/65651
#TheManintheSky #CharlesCrichton #JackHawkins #DonaldPleasence #LionelJeffries #Ealing Studios #Movies