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Help me identify this film from the John Lewis advert?

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BOFster · 07/11/2014 19:29

It's driving me crazy Grin

Here's a link to the John Lewis advert- take a look at the old movie showing on the television at 1 minute in, please.

Everybody thinks it's from It's A Wonderful Life, the embrace you can see at 3:21 in this clip:

But it really really isn't.

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UriGeller · 10/11/2014 14:37

Late to the party but I brought Gene.
say hello, Gene.

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DuelingFanjo · 10/11/2014 13:47

So has it been confirmed that it's a fake?

LouiseBrooks · 09/11/2014 23:06

Dirk was a great actor too and a had a wide range from the fluffiness of the Doctor movies to things like "Victim" and "The Night Porter"

MargotLovedTom · 09/11/2014 22:59

It is indeed Delicious Dirk (big boots just out of shot Wink).

I also loved him clean cut in the Doctor films.

SorrelForbes · 09/11/2014 22:50

BorderBinLiner I'm always talking I'm film/stage dialogue (much to DH's bewilderment). MFL is an excellent source of material with a much used favourite being "I washed me face and 'ands before I come"

QueenOfThorns · 09/11/2014 22:47

Margot, who is that? I bet he's wearing big boots. I love a man in tight trousers and big boots

LouiseBrooks · 09/11/2014 22:46

Margot Delicious Dirk! Is that from "Tale of Two Cities"? There's a movie he's in with John Mills "The Singer Not the Song" and I fell madly in love with a leather-clad Dirk when I watched it (No idea how old I was when I saw it but probably early teens)

PedantMarina · 09/11/2014 22:27

Well, Sorrel, I guess we are talking about sexy older men who can't sing for shit, but we lurve them anyway Grin and are rather good at, ahem, being stern

MargotLovedTom · 09/11/2014 22:26

May I butt in with a photo of this delectable young cove?

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ArsenicSoup · 09/11/2014 22:24

but about 30

ArsenicSoup · 09/11/2014 22:24

Just looking at it. Natalie Wood is dressed up like Little Red Riding Hood looking beautiful about 30 with her perm. No wonder teen rebellion was needed.

serenaserene · 09/11/2014 22:20

Rebel Without a Cause is on Sky Atlantic in just now. Sad I don't have Sky.

Natalie Wood - another tragic story, but how beautiful is she?

With Warren Beatty in 1962 - looooooooook at him!

ArsenicSoup · 09/11/2014 22:06
Grin
SorrelForbes · 09/11/2014 22:05

ArsenicSoup I couldn't agree more. "I have often walked.." Oh shut up and get a move on FFS

BorderBinLiner · 09/11/2014 22:01

I think the film changed the ending dredges memory of play

Claim to literary quote, my SIL actually stole my DD's Monsoon Wool coat, which means that when ever her name is mentioned I can go all wide eyed and mutter about 'them that pinched her new straw hat was them that done her in' no flu jabs round her

Withnail, Star Wars, My Fair Lady - some days I need never utter an original line.

ArsenicSoup · 09/11/2014 21:59

Ooo I've never even heard of it. He was quite attractive when young too, in a gangly way.

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BOFster · 09/11/2014 21:57

For anyone who enjoys an Alec Guinness comedy, the little-known but rather marvellous film The Card is available on YouTube . It's based on an old Arnold Bennett novel- I saw it a few weeks ago, and really enjoyed it.

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SorrelForbes · 09/11/2014 21:57

If we're talking sexy older men, what about Christopher Plummer in TSoM? Somewhere in my youthful childhood... tra, la, la,

Powaqa · 09/11/2014 21:53

*and Mrs Muir

SirNoel · 09/11/2014 21:53

I say the cardigan... Of course I also mean the pipe, the hat, the slippers etc.

The whole package as it were.

ArsenicSoup · 09/11/2014 21:52

(not as the reason that Rex just talk-sang Grin )

Powaqa · 09/11/2014 21:52

Rex Harrison and the Ghost of Mrs Muir

Also Blythe Spirit with the wonderful Margaret Rutherforf

Help me identify this film from the John Lewis advert?
Help me identify this film from the John Lewis advert?
ArsenicSoup · 09/11/2014 21:51

Maybe it's because Freddy is such a wet lettuce in that film?

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BOFster · 09/11/2014 21:50

I just love how he never even pretended to sing Grin

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ArsenicSoup · 09/11/2014 21:49

The cardigan!? Hmm