Movie Review - "The Wild Geese"

Movie review number 7!!  This one we got free with a Sunday Newspaper, so we made the DVD box cover for it!!!

PLOT

This starts off in London, England with Stewart Granger's character setting up a military coup in an African country to reinstate the deposed leader there and calls in Richard Burton to arrange the kidnapping of the deposed leader from prison in exchange for lots of money.  Richard B then puts together a band of mercenaries including Richard Harris and Roger Moore and trains them up for the mission.  They get out there, and rescue the African leader ..... but meanwhile back in London, Stewart Granger meets with the African owners of some copper mines and does a sneaky deal with them for even more money and THEN double crosses the mercenaries and cancels their rescue flight out of the African country!!!!  Just as the plane is about to touch down to rescue the mercenaries, the pilot is told it's called off, and he flies away without the mercenaries!!!!!  OH NO!!!!!  Richard Burton then has to lead the group out of the country by foot and try and avoid being killed off by the local army who don't want the rescued president to get away!!  And there's a really good ending on this too, when Stewart Granger gets his come-uppance for double crossing the mercenaries!!!

RECOMMENDED
Yeah, this is a really exciting movie!!  And the title song was written and sung by Joan Armatrading and it's a really good song, too!

SCORE

Beanie gives this 9 squeaks out of 10!!

RECOMMENDED SCOOBY SNACKS
Oreo cookies, but only if you take them apart and lick off the cream filling. 

Movie Review - "Waterloo Road".

This is Movie Review number three!

PLOT

This one is an early 1940s black and white movie set near Waterloo Station in London (hence the title!!)  It stars John Mills as an Army chap just about to be sent off to fight in Europe.  He's had a snotty letter from his sister Ruby (who lives with Mum & Dad and John's new wife) all about John's movie wife having an affair with Stewart Granger's character - he's a lay-about-town who's diddled his way out of being called up (forged medical certificate) and spends his time chasing anything in a skirt, drinking and dancing.  Anyway, it turns out that John's wife ISN'T having an affair - it's all made up.  BUT, the movie centres on John Mills going AWOL from the Army to hunt down Stewart Granger to give him a thumping.

RECOMMENDED??

Not really.  Other than seeing John Mills and an extremely young Stewart Granger (who's East End accent is only slightly improved on Dick Van Dyke's!), this is actually a bit of a bore.

SCORE

Beanie gives it 2 squeaks out of 10!!!

RECOMMENDED SCOOBY SNACKS
Save your money.  You'll be asleep before the end of the movie! 

Movie Review - "Footsteps in the Fog"

This is my second Movie on a DVD Review!!!

This one is called "Footsteps in the Fog" and stars Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons in the leading parts, and they were married in real life at the time.

PLOT

It's set in London ages and ages ago when Rich People (Stewart Granger's character) still had housemaids and cooks and butlers.  Probably around the 1880s.  Anyway, it starts off with Lord Stewart Granger of The Manor burying his first wife, and seemingly despondant.  Except when he's returned home, everyone's left and he has a drink by the fire and starts smiling broadly...... oh-er!!  Then, slowly but surely, the lowly housemaid (Jean Simmons) works out that the first wife didn't die of gastro-enteritis at all..... she was poisoned!!!!!  She tells Lord Stewart Of The Manor that she's worked it all out, but she'll keep her mouth shut if she gets promoted to Chief Housemaid, which Lord Stewart Of The Manor agrees to.  Housemaid Jean then sacks the other two house staff, and manipulates her way into gaining the dead first wife's jewellery.
Lord Stewart of The Manor, being of a similar character, also manipulates his way into A Big Job at a law firm, and proposes to the law firm owner's daughter while he's at it.  The daughters best friend (also working at the law firm) starts getting suspicious about Lord Stewart Of The Manor too.
Meanwhile, Lord Stewart follows scheming Housemaid Jean out of the house one evening in an attempt to Kill Her Off....... on a dark and murky and foggy evening ......... and mistakenly kills someone else!!  Who happens to be the wife of the Local Policeman!!!!!  UH-OHHH!!!!!  Lord Stewart goes on trial for murder, Housemaid Jean lies through her teeth for him and Lord Stewart gets found innocent!!!!!!!
BUT......!!!...... Lord Stewart then tries to set up Housemaid Jean for his own murder, and Housemaid Jean gets arrested by the Police..... and there's some amazing storyline twists and turns at the very end that have you sitting on the edges of the seat!!!!!

RECOMMENDED??

Hell, yes!!!!  It's a brilliant thriller movie that's well worth watching!!

SCORE

Beanie gives it a full 10 squeaks out of 10!!!

RECOMMENDED SCOOBY SNACKS
Classic Popcorn movie! 

Ed's note - this is Post number 400!!!!!

Movie Review - "Saraband for Dead Lovers"

We got some new DVDVDVDVDs recently, and we've decided to start A New Project on Beanie's Blog!!  A Movie Review!!!  The first DVDVDVD we watched was called "Saraband for Dead Lovers" by Ealing Studios and it's got Stewart Granger and Flora Robson Dobson in it.  (We discovered later it's actually a true story too!!!)

PLOT

It's set in the Hanover part of Germany ages ago, like 1700 and something and it's about Prince George Louis before he got to be King George 1st of England.  There was some Political In-fighting that got him married off to his 16 year old first cousin Sophia Dorothea, and they hated each other on sight.  A few years and two children later, a Swedish Prince Koning-something (played very dashingly by Stewart Granger) turns up at the Royal Court and he and Sophia Dorothea fall madly in love...... except she's married to Prince George and Swedish Prince is also - erm - "involved" with another woman who's - erm - bedding her way into the royal court!!!!!  Swedish Prince Koning something then gets sent off to a "never in a million years ever going to win it" war with Prince George's brother Charles in the hope that Swedish Prince thingy will get killed off - but it's George's brother Charles that gets killed and Swedish Prince thingy comes back, much to the delight of Sophia Dorothea!!!!

Anyway, the other woman then gets jealous, Swedish Prince whatsit decides to run away with Sophia Dorothea and then it all goes horribly wrong and the Swedish Prince Konings whats-it gets killed off by his Other Girlfriend!!!  And Prince George gets to be king and Sophia Dorothea gets banned to a castle for the rest of her days....... 

RECOMMENDED??

Actually, yes!!!!  It's a very good 1950s-ish Costume Drama, Stewart Granger does a very good Swash Buckle job in it, AND it has the "AAAaaahhhhh......" factor at the end!!!

SCORE

Beanie gives it 8 squeaks out of 10!!!

RECOMMENDED SCOOBY SNACKS
Marshmallows dipped in melted chocolate.