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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 dis...

INN FOR TROUBLE

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 Some films live on through time, remaining masterpieces, become household names, are enjoyed generation after generation and then there are others that come and go like a flash in a pan and while some are probably best forgotten and blanked out from our memory some through no fault of their own just simply fade into obscurity, one such film that I think deserves at least to have better recognition is the comedy Inn For Trouble; released in 1960 starring British battleaxe  Peggy Mount . Inn For Trouble 1960 Inn For Trouble certainly isn't a grand piece of cinematic history and there are few who would consider it a classic but it is pleasant enough to enjoy, to partially fill a lazy afternoon and at less than an hour and a half long, Inn For Trouble never outstays it's welcome. The film (the title is a pun and perhaps a warning, you're inn for trouble if you mess with mother) is based on a television series (never an indication of excellence) called The Larkins and follows t...