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LITTLE FEAT Rock N Roll Doctor LIVE HIGH QUALITY 1975 Old Grey Whistle Test
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This remastered version by the legendary CANNON restores the murky, candlelit interiors and the eerie winter ambience that were almost lost in decades of degraded public‑domain prints and was the highest quality cut that I could source.
Here's some weird shit to do with it:
The film’s cast is full of Warhol regulars.
Mary Woronov, Ondine, Candy Darling (in some cuts), and other Factory figures were involved.... giving the film a weird avant‑garde undercurrent beneath the gothic horror.
It was shot in a real abandoned mansion.
The crew used a decaying 19th‑century house in Oyster Bay, New York. Locals genuinely believed it was haunted, and the production lapped it up and tried to capture that atmosphere.
The director just stopped making films..
Theodore Gershuny made only a handful of films and then disappeared from the industry, leaving this film as his legacy.
The film was edited by a porn director.
Jeffrey Konvitz hired a guy who cut adult films to assemble the final version.
It accidentally became a Christmas horror pioneer.
Long before Black Christmas (1974) or Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), this film used Christmas Eve as a backdrop for murder — making it one of the earliest “holiday slashers.”
The film’s rights were mishandled, leading to decades of awful prints.
A distribution mistake pushed it into the public domain, causing endless VHS bootlegs and TV airings with missing scenes, incorrect colour, and chopped audio.
This remastered version restores the original cut.
The killer’s POV sequences predate the slasher formula by a good few years and horror historians often point out that its visual style is extremely reminiscent of how Carpenter used similar techniques in Halloween (1978).
This is a piece of horror archaeology..... a grim, atmospheric relic from the era when American horror was shifting from gothic to modern brutality.
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Love and Blood Transfusions from Andrew
It’s the companion piece to TALES FROM THE CRYPT, and it has that unmistakable Amicus flavour: theatrical, eerie, slightly camp, and packed with absolute legends.
PLOT:
Five strangers step into a lift in a London office block… and descend to a sub‑basement none of them selected.
There, they find a gentlemen’s club that shouldn’t exist... no exits, no lift buttons, just brandy, leather chairs, and the creeping sense that something is very wrong. Resigned to waiting, they begin sharing their own personal recurring nightmares… and each tale is a perfect slice of 70s British horror oddness in this brilliant anthology of Horror
⭐ THE CAST — A ROLL‑CALL OF ICONS
Tom Baker — in one of his finest pre‑Doctor Who performances, wild‑eyed and magnificent as always
Denholm Elliott — always brilliant, always haunted
Terry‑Thomas — the master of comic fussiness, immaculate as ever
Anna Massey & Daniel Massey — chilling, elegant, and unforgettable
Curt Jürgens — suave menace personified
Glynis Johns — brittle charm with a razor edge
Michael Craig, Edward Judd, Dawn Addams — all delivering that perfect British vintage theatricality
It’s one of those casts where every face is a “Oh! It’s THEM! You know....out of wotsit! That thing where the bloke from Coronation Street was a customer at the bar! You remember!” moment.
⭐ TRIVIA & ODDITIES
Directed by Roy Ward Baker, who did later direct Tom Baker in Doctor Who (“The Sontaran Experiment”, 1975). So yes, there is a Baker‑Baker connection.
Amicus shot this at Twickenham Studios, using sets that appear in about 200 other British films of the era.
Terry‑Thomas’s segment is a pitch‑perfect satire of marital fussiness taken to grotesque extremes — classic Amicus black comedy and Terry is one of my favourite ever actors and i have never seen him do anything that wasn't just incredible and amazing.
Tom Baker’s story (“The Painter’s Nightmare”) is the one most people remember: surreal, colourful, and genuinely unsettling.
The film was originally trimmed for its US release, with some gore toned down....but this version that I am uploading is the proper British cut with all the nice bits left in. It is also in 1080 HD so looks gorgeous.
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Love and Bakers from Andrew
This film is notable as Liam Neeson’s first ever screen appearance, long before his later fame. It has rarely been shown, seldom reissued, and survives mostly as a small curio from a different era of filmmaking.
Directed by Ken Anderson, a Scottish‑American Christian filmmaker who spent decades making small, heartfelt religious films outside the Hollywood system. He specialised in low‑budget productions, handmade sets, gentle storytelling, and amateur casts mixed with a few professionals.... all the things that often make one person’s vision fascinating to see when the results of their imagination are shone upon a screen.
His films were often shown in churches, schools, and community halls rather than cinemas, which should hint at the vibe of this outing.
Presented here for preservation and easy viewing, in the highest‑quality print I could get my grubby little mitts on.
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Love and Shamrocks from Andrew
Not much else to say except that I hope you like it and enjoy it...
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Love & Front Porches from Andrew
This film is four stories, one cursed house, and that unmistakable early 70s slightly‑askew British horror atmosphere where everyone speaks like they’ve been in repertory theatre, and looks at you like they are about to murder you with an Edwardian statuette.
⭐ THE STAR STUDDED CAST:
Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott (always brilliant, always slightly haunted), the inimitable Ingrid Pitt, Joss Ackland, Jon Pertwee!, Joanna Dunham, Nyree Dawn Porter, Tom Adams....
⭐ TRIVIA & ODDITIES
It was written by Robert Bloch, the same man who wrote Psycho
Amicus shot this at Shepperton Studios, using the same backlot streets that appear in about 400 other British films
Jon Pertwee’s segment is a parody of Hammer horror, and he insisted on playing it like he was auditioning for a Christopher Lee biopic
Ingrid Pitt apparently hated the vampire cloak used in the final story because it kept shedding black fibres everywhere, making her look like she’d been wrestling a moulting raven
Christopher Lee’s segment is the one most people remember....because of the child actor in this part who is genuinely unsettling
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Love and Sang Froid from Andrew
As usual, no spoilers but it's the gritty tale of a murder, a stamp, a tangle of lies, all wrapped up in that unmistakable early 70s nostalgic atmosphere you only get from British films of this era.
Classic faces British faces from yesteryear in this include James Booth, Nicky Henson, Sue Lloyd, Joss Ackland, the late great Una Stubbs and even Penelope Keith is in it!
It’s got that warm, slightly grimy British nostalgia baked into every frame....the cars, the fab threads, the interiors, the pacing… all of it.
It’s a proper time capsule, and it looks gorgeous.
If you love 60s/70s UK thrillers, police crime mysteries, or anything with that “rain‑on‑the‑windshield, cigarette‑smoke‑in‑the‑pub” energy, this is one for you.
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Love and Aunt Sallys from Andrew
This is the forgotten French TV dub of the 1967 German film A Degree of Murder — Anita Pallenberg at her most magnetic, drifting through Munich with the same dangerous glamour she carried into the Rolling Stones’ inner circle.
If you search for this French dub, the internet will confidently tell you that it doesn't exist.
Well it does. Because it is here. And now you can watch it!
Probably the biggest draw to this film though is the Majestic Satanic Stone himself - Prince Brian Jones.
This was his only full film soundtrack and it is unmistakably him and he gathers a superstar line up:
The musicians who played for Brian were:
Brian Jones – sitar, organ, mellotron, recorder, banjo, harpsichord, autoharp, dulcimer, clarinet, harmonica
Jimmy Page (I'm pretty certain you have heard of Led Zeppelin) – guitars
Nicky Hopkins (Session pianist who played on records by The Beatles, Revolution etc., and The Rolling Stones, Sympathy For The Devil etc., amongst many, many others) – piano
Kenny Jones (Small Faces) – drums
Glyn Johns (Beatles engineer/producer for Let It Be album) – engineering
Peter Gosling – backing vocals (on one song)
Mike Leander (This man is the guy who scored the She's Leaving Home orchestra bits for The Beatles when George Martin was unavailable...much to George's chagrin!) – orchestra
You can hear Brian in every note: 1966‑67 style Stones guitar, eerie organ lines, harmonica drifting in like a ghost from Aftermath, and studio effects on his shimmering guitar. It’s Brian working like Brian did. Layering sounds and textures one upon another until it sounds raw and hard and perfect.
This French dub is a mystery in itself: no credits, no documentation, no official release, and the audio clearly recorded around 1969–70 for a one‑off ORTF broadcast. Likely never broadcast again or at least not since the 1970s.
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Love and Dulcimers from Andrew
Mike Jittlov’s green‑robed, stop‑motion fever dream is presented here for your delectation in all it's glory. I always try and find the highest quality print of anything I upload and this film doesn't have an HD high fallootin' 4K version out there, but this is the highest quality version available.
There are cult films… and there are weird films.....
There are strange films.... and there are works of passion done by obsessed people who do everything...whether that's because they can' get anybody else, or as is often the case, they don't want to relinquish one iota of creative control......
And then there's this film......
Based on the legendary 1979 short, the feature was filmed between 1983 and 1986 and finally completed in 1988.
Mike Jittlov’s The Wizard of Speed and Time is a 95‑minute, sell everything I own to make it-low‑budget, stop‑motion, DIY explosion of manic creativity from a man who poured his soul into making a meta commentary upon his own struggles to make the film that we are watching whilst the film we are watching is about the struggle to make the film inside the film we are watching that he struggled to get made!!!
This is the expanded, mutated, self‑referential offspring of Jittlov’s legendary 1979 short, which ran on 'The Wonderful World of Disney' and then spent a decade haunting sci‑fi conventions like a lost colour print of the first Dr Who episode!
Mike Jittlov wrote the full screenplay.
Directed it.
Starred in it.
Edited it.
Animated it.
I genuinely wouldn't be surprised with this guy if I read that he had also grown the corn used to make the popcorn for any cinema screenings too!!!
The plot?
A “fictionalised” Jittlov (for 'fictionalised' read: 'the actual' Jittlov) battles Hollywood’s gatekeepers..... unions, studios, accountants, police interference, tourists, cynics, and anyone else who obfuscates his dream of making magical little movies.
This film describes itself as 'WHOLLY ODD'. I fully and wholeheartedly concur.
Jittlov allegedly hid over 1,000 subliminal messages in his film, and that is wholly in keeping with the man and his overarching vision.
Positive words. Affirmations. Weird little flashes of cosmic encouragement.
It’s like being hypnotised by a self help-wizard who lives inside a VHS tape.
CAST & CAMEOS
This thing is a who’s‑who of cult cinema oddballs:
Mike Jittlov (the man, the myth, the green blur)
Paige Moore
Richard Kaye
Steve Brodie
John Massari
Philip Michael Thomas (pre‑Miami Vice, Crockett & Tubbs fame)
Forrest J. Ackerman
Angelique Pettyjohn
Ward Kimball
Will Ryan
AND, my personal favourite actor in AIRPLANE!, Stephen Stucker
“I can make a hat… or a brooch… or a pterodactyl!”
and "It's a Twister!!! It's a Twister!!!"
That guy.
He’s here too, much to my excitement....
THE LOKI CONNECTION: (Yes...THAT Loki!!!)
In Marvel's LOKI, issue number 05 2019, it canonically states that this is Loki’s favourite film.
The God of Mischief himself loves this chaotic, handmade, reality‑bending oddity. And of course he does, it's probably Pan's fave movie too....
There are no pristine HD masters of this film.
No 4K restorations.
Only fan‑preserved transfers, LaserDisc ghosts, and VHS tapes that have been played thousands of times.
This is one of the highest‑quality surviving versions. Totally clean and stable...
And the trailer is included at the end too for your viewing delight.
The Wizard of Speed and Time is a wild film that is beautiful and childlike in many respects but it is a film you MUST watch if you have any interest at all in the stranger side of life or have any interest in beauty or the human soul....
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Love and Stop Frames from Andrew
Originally a Hamburg Star‑Club band, and yes it is the same sweaty wooden stage The Beatles stomped through, although presumably the floorboards were replaced at some point after the British assault had been launched upon the Hamburg stage.
By the time that 'The Witch' came out, The Rattles had completely replaced every original member. Same name… totally different band. And this was actually the second time that they had recorded the song — the first version in 1968 failed to set the world on fire.
Front and centre on the track — and in this video looking mighty splendiferous and extremely witchy — is the magnificently‑monikered Edna, the band’s briefly‑tenured but utterly magnetic vocalist. She brings a pagan‑esque, proto‑glam energy to proceedings as this wah-wah laden fuzz‑guitar song with fantastic orchestration sweeps across it.
The gorgeous video feels halfway between a Hammer Horror moment and a clip from the latest “serious music programme” on late‑night BBC2 in 1970. She strides through an autumnal wood in front of her bandmates, querying spookily whether we have seen “the Witch by her side” over and over, hypnotically.
Broadcast on various European music shows in 1970–71, this promo is one of those strange little artefacts that slipped through the cracks of pop history. Presented here for archival and educational purposes for the lovely freaks on my channel.
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Love and Corn Dollys from Andrew
Mission: Night Of The Long Knives.
Location: London, England — 10 Downing St., about teatime…
Westminster, intrigue, numbers, gunfire… and of course, somebody gets WASTED.
A short, satirical nod to the political chaos unfolding in the UK.
Love and Greasy Poles from Andrew
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Graham Stark • John Junkin • Norman Rossington • & a ridiculous number of cameos
Simon, Simon is one of those glorious British curios from 1970 where everyone involved clearly said, “Oh go on then, I’ll pop in for five seconds and help you out mate.”
Directed and written by Graham Stark, this cornucopia of early to mid 70's British comedy silently chunters along on pure visual gags, slapstick chaos, with a soundtrack that at points gets so groovy with Hammond screeches I wondered why it hadn't been sampled before....(mental note to oneself: Sample this music and make a song).....
The plot, and that is a very generous term but as long as it's funny I don't care how threadbare the concept is really, is basically John Junkin and Norman Rossington trying to get through a day without the universe collapsing around them. Naturally, the universe refuses to comply. Cue pratfalls, exploding props, malfunctioning machinery, and the kind of deadpan British silliness that shows you 100% that Graham had seen Eric Sykes and Tommy Cooper in 'The Plank'. These 2 films are so similar that they should be on a permanent double bill together.....
And the cameos! Wow! Lordy me, the cameos.
You have a sip on your cup of tea, and suddenly Michael Caine strolls through the frame for about five seconds. Adjust your bowler hat for a second and again, David Hemmings pops up, looking like he wandered in from a completely different film.
Then there’s Peter Sellers, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Bob Monkhouse, and half the British comedy club of the 1970's turning up just long enough to make you say, “Wait, was that—?” And the answer will be, yes. Yes it was. Especially when you say "Was that Tony Blackburn and Pete Murray???!"
Spike Milligan was in this in some capacity but doesn't survive in this cut, and it's the same story with Hattie Jacques too.
This film has been edited quite a few times with different versions but this is usually considered the tightest and best edit.
It’s basically a 30 minute celebrity conga line disguised as a silent film with a great soundtrack recorded specifically for this film.
If you love British 60s/70s comedy oddities, visual gags, and the sheer joy of famous faces doing something daft for the fun of it, you’re in for a treat. And if you don’t enjoy it… well, I would not like to have a cup of tea with you as you are indeed a wretched miscreant who must surely revel in their own miserabilism. And you probably smell too.
This is the extended 30‑minute TV version that was shown. The original version shown as a short in cinemas ran for about 13 minutes.
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Love and Planks from Andrew
Music created by me using AI and all lyrics written by me.
WATCH THE FULL LENGTH VERSION HERE:
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A fast 135 BPM electro‑swing political satire track about Reform UK, created as a parody music video.
‘Farage! A Racist Conman Selling A Mirage’ speaks for itself really....
Below are the lyrics written by me. The music was generated by AI after several days of prompts and many, many attempts to get the AI whipped into shape.
I made the video utilising a couple of small clips from another YouTuber’s video that he had made satirising the same subject as me.
So I would like to thank @TheCrewkerneGazette for their unwitting help and I hope that if they see this video, they wholeheartedly approve. Cheers mate.
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Love and Trumpets from Andrew.
KILL FASCISM BEFORE IT KILLS YOU !
DIVISION AND HATE DO NOT MAKE BRITAIN GREAT!
FARAGE AND REFORM MUST NEVER HAVE VIC‑TORY! TORY! TORY!
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LYRICS BY ANDREW MCCULLOCH:
[Intro}
Fed up of being healthy and want to sell the NHS?
Bit of a racist but too scared to openly confess?
Want economical policies based on a mirage?
We've got the party for you! It's Reform led by Farage!
[Main]
Reform! Reform!
Let's go back to the past!
When we were ruled by rich overlords
And we were slaves to the Ruling Class!
Now Nigel has a little gimp, name of Dick Tice,
Dick has got a dirty wife who gave him dick lice!
Isabel and Dick have moved to Dubai!
They don't want to live under a British sky!
They always lie and dispute basic true facts,
The cheek of it! They move abroad to avoid British tax!
Racist Islamophobes in a Muslim country???
Boggles the mind! What a pair of cunt-rees!!!
Reform! Reform!
Let's go back to the past!
When we were ruled by rich overlords
And we were slaves to the Ruling Class!
Now Nigel really loves his vodka. Chin chin! I cannot tell you why!
But here's a little clue, the first 4 letters are P, U, T and I......
When Nigel goes to America and hangs out with MAGA freaks,
If Trump just asks, Nigel turns around, and spreads apart his cheeks!
Nigel says he's not an antisemite, and of course he could be right.
Except , of course, for the people who say he's an antisemite!
He always says he's not a racist but of course that's just not true,
You'd have to be stupid to believe that, but that's Reform voters for you!
‘The Beast in the Cellar’ is one of those films that sits in that curious little pocket of British cinema where everything feels slightly off‑kilter — the lighting, the pacing, the performances, the whole mood of the thing — and that’s exactly why you are going to love it.
Dominating proceedings, as she always does in anything she appears in, is the late, great Beryl Reid, who I have adored since childhood watching her on TV and in many films. She has brought me so much joy over the years and I will happily watch anything that she is in, whether it’s the sublime, the ridiculous, or the downright peculiar.
The 5 year period between 1968 to 1973 is a crazy 'golden run' for her:
Amongst lots of other work:
The Killing of Sister George (1968)
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970)
The Beast in the Cellar (1971)
Psychomania (1973)
Absolutely wild! She was on fire, delivering performances that were funny, unsettling, warm, brittle, and utterly unique. There was nobody like Beryl Reid, and there never will be again. Sister George is my own personal favourite of hers but I love them all.
Alongside her is Dame Flora Robson, whose career stretches back to the 1930s and includes everything from Hollywood epics to British melodramas. Pairing her with Beryl is genius and the 2 titans combine to make the total equal more than the weighty sum.
The film itself is a curious beast (pun totally intended): part psychological horror, part wartime mystery, part character study, and part “what on earth were they thinking? Who the hell sanctioned this???!!”
It’s got that unmistakable early‑70s British gloom, the kind where even the daylight looks dark and everybody's interiors and household objects comprised of 2,000.different shades of brown all competing to be the drabbest eyesight in the house.
And the cellar scenes…... well, let’s just say that if you’ve ever wondered what happens when repressed trauma, military secrets, and two eccentric sisters collide, this film has the answer.
Is this a bizarre British step cousin to Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Possibly...probably not...but it's bloody good!
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Love and Beryls from Andrew
As always, total transparency means telling you that I used AI for this track.
I wrote all of the lyrics and then asked for a hard political hip hop song with a crew on it and used various other prompts to try and get what I wanted.
After a lot of attempts, I had something I was happy with.
I then took the result into Audacity and added some things and did some production on it and then made a video for the whole thing and this is the result.
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Love and Lions from Andrew
I like to think I have made my very first Erotic Space Funk song...... I'll leave it up to you if you agree or not...
Hope you enjoy this ditty and the video which I made for it using a colourised version of Fritz Lang's 1927 classic Metropolis.
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Love and Sins from Andrew
If you’re a fan of the early 80's era of British humour, there are some genuine laughs here, and the nostalgic amongst you will love it. Admittedly this film is a product of it's time and some might not find it even watchable!!! Some people dismiss it entirely as total crap but the people who watch this channel aren't here for run of the mill stuff...... You are here for weird crazy stuff and I'd say this fits right in.
The plot sees a group of scientists, including Everett and Pamela Stephenson, investigating paranormal activity at a site where a massacre occurred years prior, as seen by us the audience right at the very beginning of the film.
The real scene-stealer in this film is the horror icon Vincent Price, playing the 'Sinister Man'. You might wonder what a Hollywood legend was doing in a low-budget British comedy; apparently, he did it as a favour for the director, Ray Cameron, who was a close personal friend of Vincent's. Vincent clearly had a blast sending himself up..... even agreeing to swear on film for the first, (and only), time because he agreed with his friend that it would add to the comedy.
It’s a madcap spoof of everything from The Shining to Carrie. While it lacks a Hollywood budget, it makes up for it with a classic 80s feel and Barry Cryer’s unmistakable wit coming through in some funny lines.
It was Kenny’s only starring role in a feature film, making it an interesting, if eccentric and divisive, piece of UK entertainment history.
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Love and Cupid Stunts from Andrew
Do you like 1970s American comedies with a European soul?
Do you like watching a young, "devilishly handsome" Frank Langella in his film debut?
Do you like the idea of Mel Brooks making a movie as he runs around Yugoslavia with a film crew of over a thousand people who couldn't understand a word he was saying?
If the answer is yes to these seemingly unconnected, and frankly annoying questions, then '12 CHAIRS' (1970) is the film for you!
Based on the classic 1928 Soviet satirical novel by Ilf and Petrov, the story follows a former aristocrat (Ron Moody, looking very different from Fagin), a greedy priest (Dom DeLuise), and a charming con artist (Frank Langella) as they race across 1920s Russia to find a hidden stash of family jewels sewn into one of—you guessed it—twelve dining chairs.
This was Mel Brooks' second film, sandwiched right between the amazing and legendary 'The Producers' and 'Blazing Saddles', and it's often unfairly overlooked.
Mel Brooks even pops up in a cameo as Tikhon, a drunken ex-serf who actually misses the "regular beatings" of the old days. Diana Coupland is also in this funny film. If you don't know her, she played Jean Abbott who was married to Sid James in the 70's sitcom Bless This House and is a particular favourite actress of mine.
For any people out there who actually read anything I write and find it mildly interesting at all, or even for those of you who just like to get annoyed at me and call me names here's some titbits of trivia around this movie....
Mel originally wanted Peter Sellers, Albert Finney, and Alastair Sim for the leads. After that all fell through, he offered a role to Gene Wilder, but Gene turned it down because he wanted to play the "handsome" con man instead of the old aristocrat. Mel told him he wasn't handsome enough to play a handsome person!
While filming in Yugoslavia, the local extras playing museum guards were supposed to shout "Closing time!" but they couldn't speak English. So when it came to delivering their line they kept shouting "Cloakie Bye!" instead. Mel thought it was so funny that he left it in the final cut!
The fantastic theme song, "Hope for the Best, Expect the Worst," was written by Mel himself (after his wife, Anne Bancroft, gave him a nudge). The melody is actually "borrowed" from Johannes Brahms (Hungarian Dance No. 4), which Mel defended by jokingly stating that Brahms probably stole it from a "poor Hungarian peasant" anyway.
I’ve managed to find a lovely widescreen print of this for you to enjoy. It’s a wonderful, slightly surreal piece of cinema that manages to be both a slapstick comedy and a sharp satire on the failures of the early Soviet era.
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Love and Stuff from Andrew
'Entre mes reins' roughly translated means 'Enter my body' in French and 'Maintenant viens' means 'Now, come', again in French, and if you want to know where it came from just Google those words.....
'When I Think Of You' is a Twiggy song and the images for the video come from a 1931 film starring Hedy Lamarr in which she had the infamous distinction of being the first actress to ever be fimed showing a female orgasm on screen, albeit in a subtle 1931 style......
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Love and Petite Morts from Andrew
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Despite the lack of budget this film has some great photography in it of the menacing 'Battletruck'. And it looks really cool when all the vehicles are battling in the desolate desert landscape with some great explosions and lovely music on the soundtrack too.
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Love and Spinning Saw-Blades from Andrew
Series 1 Episode 13: William Clears The Slums
I hope you enjoy this brilliant version of Richmal Crompton's series of books about the irrepresible rascal William Brown and if you did don't forget to click 'like' and maybe leave a comment too as this all really helps in the eternal battle against the almighty algorithm.
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Love and Catapults from Andrew
Series 1 Episode 12: William & The Sleeping Major
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Series 1 Episode 11: Only Just In Time
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Series 1 Episode 10: Waste Paper Please
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Series 1 Episode 9: William The Matchmaker
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Series 1 Episode 8: William & The Wonderful Present
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Series 1 Episode 7: William & The Prize Pig
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Series 1 Episode 6: A Little Interlude
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Series 1 Episode 5: William And The Badmington Racket
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Series 1 Episode 3: The Outlaws & The Tramp
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Series 1 Episode 2: The Great Actor
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Series 1 Episode 4: The Sweet Little Girl In White
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Series 1 Episode 1: William And The Begging Letter
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It became quite a famous routine due to it being on at least 5 live comedy albums made by Mel and Carl that sold very well and, partly due to this, in 1975 this animation was made to accompany the recording of the live comedy routine.
Mel Brooks is in an episode of The Simpsons where Homer and him do a small parody of this sketch and Homer calls him "the 2,000 pound man thing" too if you needed any more persuasion of the stature of this iconic American comedy routine.
For any lovers of electronica, the music is fantastic and it's all made by Mort Garson, a Canadian electronic music pioneer, on a 70's Moog synthesiser.
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Love and Stuff from Andrew and "May the Schwartz be with you!!!"
Then when the British public finally, at long last, worked out that it was the Tories who had broken Britain and proceeded to vote them out, albeit after the damage was done to an almost irreparable point, now the Tories are simply swapping rosettes and proclaiming allegiance to an even worse, far right, racist, populist nationalist party/cult......
Namely Reform led by Farageski....
And large amounts of the British public are once again being conned by the simple change in the shade of blue of a rosette......
Wake Up Britain!
Reform ARE The Tories 2.0!
Don't Let The Arsonists Help With The Raging Fire That They Started And Then Poured Petrol Upon!
Don't Let The Criminals Tell You That They Have The Solution To The Crime!
A Vote For Reform Is A Vote For Putin!
Division And Hate Do Not Make Britain Great!
KILL FASCISM BEFORE IT KILLS YOU!!!
Love and White Roses from Andrew
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Love and Major Oaks from Andrew
Love and VPNs from Andrew
Speaking of music, there is some awesome background library music and as a huge fan of The Pretty Things, it sounds remarkably like them to my ears and specifically like some of their DeWolfe TV and film background recordings so that's a nice psychedelic bonus although they aren't credited so we will never know definitively but I tthink it's them.....
After getting bored at a very 1969 style party, the group of young people decide to go to a supposed haunted house that they used to play in as children. When they get there they decide to hold a séance and things go rapidly downhill from there with a murder happening......
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Love and Pentagrams from Andrew
#FuckTrump #FuckICE
Again, as The Monkees did in their awesome film Head, this film is similar as it moves from genre to genre with parts being like a Western and then other parts being like a spy film in numerous 'skits'.
This film never reaches the giddy heights of Head but is well worth a watch if you like a bit of Hollywood 1967 kitsch! It also has some great music in it, obviously done by Sonny and Cher and mainly written by Sonny Bono. Sonny also co wrote a lot of the script after the original writer left the project.
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Love and Flares from Andrew
tRump's own lawyers who he has installed as the heads of the Department of Justice are currently defying court orders to release the Epstein Files and have only released around 20% of them so far and much of that was already publicly available....
So as Donald runs from yet another set of crimes, he is slowly running out of time and the ghoulish spectre of his old best friend haunts him daily and nightly in his every waking moment, Jeffrey Epstein beats like the heart under the floorboards in the Edgar Allen Poe story that drives the culprit mad.....
Tick tock, tick, tock...with every beat of the clock, tRump is one step closer to his downfall.....
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Love and Impeachments from Andrew
As always he is down on his luck and sees a sign asking for volunteers to be punched by a fighter who is training for a fight.....
He wants the money but doesn't fancy getting hit so it seems that he is to walk on down the street.......but then he spies a lucky horseshoe in the road....
How lucky will this be for our intrepid hero?
How on earth will he utilise it in his boxing sparring session?
And just how does he get to fight the world champion?
These and many more questions will be answered in this lovely colourised version of Chaplin's classic film which has the indubitable Ben Turpin in it too.
No AI was used for this colourisation, it was done before AI.
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Love and Bowler Hats and Walking Canes from Andrew
I adore the costumes and look of it with the cars also being very groovy. They must have had a deal with a car showroom because they do have a lot of very nice cars in the show too but the music is absolutely incredible, ranking up with the best of session men library film and TV music, which as everybody knows is THE best groovy music from people such as KPM and DeWolfe. The music is so funky and groovy and heavily reliant on that giant of instruments, the mighty Hammond Organ.
This is a short film made from some promo material with an actress from the show with one of the cars in the show.
I found out that if I slowed down the theme tune being played over it, it got very laid back and if I slowed it down further it became a Horror movie them song!!!
This video has the song playing at normal speed, then I successively slowed it down until at it's slowest it is quite terrifying and like a very scary movie theme!
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Love and Hammond Organs from Andrew
It's a British certificate 18 horror film about a crazy antique dealer who sacrifices young attractive women to an African god represented by an idol he owns.
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Love and Axes from Andrew
It is a classic vintage style martial arts movie so what else do you need to know?
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Love and Jeet Kune Do from Andrew
It centres around Maya, who is elected to be the Queen of a Satanic cult. After she is chosen she starts to have bizarre dreams which start to make her mind disintegrate.
The soundtrack is seriously heavy on the synthesiser bleeps and blips and you'll probably adore it or hate it!
Christa Helm appears in this film as a character named 'The Girl'. She was unfortunately murdered about 4 years after filming this so strikes a tragic figure as you watch her knowing her fate.
This film did the grindhouse rounds in the 70's as a double bill with it's much more famous counterpart 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'.
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Love and Sacrifices from Andrew
I always lose 2 or 3 Subscribers when I post videos like this but I don't want genocidal apologists on my channel so I am quite happy when they go.... To paraphrase the late great Bill Hicks, "Oh good, I just felt my channel get lighter".
Fk tRump! Fk ICE Gestapo! Fk Fascism!
Fk Farageski! Don't be a ReTard! Don't vote for ReTard!
KILL FASCISM BEFORE IT KILLS YOU!!!
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I always lose 2 or 3 Subscribers when I post videos like this but I don't want genocidal apologists on my channel so I am quite happy when they go.... To paraphrase the late great Bill Hicks, "Oh good, I just felt my channel get lighter".
Fk tRump! Fk ICE Gestapo! Fk Fascism!
KILL FASCISM BEFORE IT KILLS YOU!!!
@NovaraMedia @supertanskiii @aljazeeraenglish@HasanAbi @Vaush @TheVaushPit@aidThompsin @ponderingpolitics @MaximilienRobespierre1 @keithedwards @SecularTalk @LukeBeasley
This is a video of my band The Sons of MOD playing live in Southport at a club called Drake's... It comes from one of only 2 gigs ever where I had to play as a power trio... The rhythm guitarist let me down at the last moment so I had to just play as a power trio...
ALL LEAD GUITAR IMPROVISED ON THE SPOT AS I PLAY IT!!!
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Love and E9s from Andrew
This is a video of my band The Sons of MOD playing live in Southport at a club called Drake's... It comes from one of only 2 gigs ever where I had to play as a power trio... The rhythm guitarist let me down at the last moment so I had to just play as a power trio...
This is called 'Karved In Stone' and was written by me.... It completely changes after about 3 minutes so don't miss that bit...
There is a small edit in this video due to 'technical difficulties'....
ALL LEAD GUITAR IMPROVISED ON THE SPOT AS I PLAY IT!!!
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Love and Power Chords from Andrew


