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Holiday On The Buses

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 Sun, sea, sex and sand who could want more from a vacation? But how about lost, wet luggage, mystery tour mayhem, nosey neighbours, exploding toilets and perhaps the luckiest middle aged men ever, you get all this and more when you take a holiday on the buses.  The 1970's for the British film industry wasn't a great decade, horror films, sex comedies and TV spin offs made up most of the nation's cinematic output, amongst all of these films were a few diamonds in the rough but by and large most have now been forgotten, much to the delight of the actors still alive today, Joanna Lumley may be absolutely fabulous now but back then was stripping down for the camera. The 1960's had seen sweeping changes in values and social trends and by the end of that decade it seemed we were living in a far more promiscuous society (no safe sex campaigns back then), into this new era came attitudes that today we may cringe at, feminism to many was a joke, sexual preference was still some

Carry On Nurse

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 Laughter Is The Best Medicine Carry On Nurse was the second in the long line of Carry On comedies that started in the late 1950s, continued throughout the 1960s and ended in the late 1970s, turning its stars into household names, entertaining millions and finding it's way into the hearts of the nation and abroad. After the surprise success of Carry On Sergeant in 1958 the team both infront and behind the camera were reunited for what would be the most successful of all Carry On films, Carry On Nurse, becoming the most successful film at the British Box Office in 1959, proving that laughter really is the best medicine with over 10.4 million tickets sold, roughly a fifth of the population at the time. Charles Hawtrey Improving His Immune System The early Carry On films seemed to poke fun at British institutions, its army, its education system and its police force but nothing is more of a British institution than it's health system and the NHS. Among the returning actors were Cha

Where Is My Closeup?

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With A Little Help From Charlie   I am perhaps not as sporty or as energetic as I could be, while others enjoy playing football, tennis or even the lazy sports such as golf or darts, while some relish taking hiking holidays, walking through national parks or climbing mountains I prefer the rather less challenging pass time of putting my feet up and watching a film, does picking up the remote count as exercise? Anyway not all the films I watch are the latest blockbusters, I indeed watch my fair share of 'oldies' and have found that many of them aren't really well known or represented on the internet, some have no photos on the movie bible IMDB, Internet Movie Data Base, so on my own little crusade I have started adding screenshots onto the site and I thought I would share some of these with you.  The Cassandra Crossing  1976 a thriller, disaster movie (interesting combination) about a train travelling across Europe where passengers have been infected with a deadly disease re