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Posted by Deggesty on Sunday, May 3, 2020 2:18 PM

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Most sources online (IMDB, Wikipedia, multiple fan sites) spell it with two L's.

 

That's fascinating.  I watched The Man From Uncle diligently in the '60s and don't remember ever seeing it, in credits or wherever, spelled with anything but one L.  That's the only reason I'd correct it.  Must be one of those alternate-history things.

There are forms of it that have two Ls in romanization, but not the Russian -- it means Elijah, by the way.

 

That's interesting; perhaps many think he is sick?Smile Or, are they trying to anglicize his name?

 

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Sunday, May 3, 2020 1:51 PM

For those wondering just what and who the hell we're talking about, here's Illya himself.

And honestly, I thought he was WAY cooler than Napoleon Solo!  So did everyone else for that matter!

So go ahead and "Open Channel D..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5_48RQha9U  

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Posted by Overmod on Sunday, May 3, 2020 1:46 PM

SD70Dude
Most sources online (IMDB, Wikipedia, multiple fan sites) spell it with two L's.

That's fascinating.  I watched The Man From Uncle diligently in the '60s and don't remember ever seeing it, in credits or wherever, spelled with anything but one L.  That's the only reason I'd correct it.  Must be one of those alternate-history things.

There are forms of it that have two Ls in romanization, but not the Russian -- it means Elijah, by the way.

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Posted by SD70Dude on Sunday, May 3, 2020 1:03 PM

Most sources online (IMDB, Wikipedia, multiple fan sites) spell it with two L's.

When searching, Google autocorrects "Ilya Kuryakin" to "Illya Kuryakin".......

I'll confess, I originally spelled it with one L when writing my post, then went back and edited it a few minutes later. 

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Posted by Overmod on Sunday, May 3, 2020 12:41 PM

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And I suppose by now you have to be at least 65 to remember who Illya Kuryakin was, unless you caught the show in re-runs.

I'm not that old, but old enough to remember 'Ilya' only has one L.

Anyone remember "The Russians Are Coming"?

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Sunday, May 3, 2020 12:05 PM

Crap!  Fat-fingered the keyboard again!  Something else to fix!

By the way, I enjoyed "Get Smart!" too! 

A bit of "NCIS" trivia.  When the role of Dr. Mallard was being cast star and co-producer Mark Harmon said "I want Illya Kuryakin!"   Yeah, he's old enough to remember "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

And I suppose by now you have to be at least 65 to remember who Illya Kuryakin was, unless you caught the show in re-runs.  Time flies, doesn't it?

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Posted by SD70Dude on Sunday, May 3, 2020 11:09 AM

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No!  I'm ashamed of myself, that's one of the few (very few) TV shoes I watch and enjoy.  How could I miss that?

I'm going to pay stricter attention from now on, trust me.

At one point someone asked Gibbs what Ducky looked like when he was younger.  His answer:

"Illya Kuryakin"

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Posted by Overmod on Sunday, May 3, 2020 11:01 AM

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No!  I'm ashamed of myself, that's one of the few (very few) TV shoes I watch and enjoy.

I had not realized that technology had moved along so dramatically, and so well, since the days of Maxwell Smart!

Now, I do remember the first day the Japanese showed a wrist-TV receiver, a thing that itself was a 'creeping-featurism' amazing future technology from the Dick Tracy strip (improved from "2-way wrist radio" on the police bands).  But screens on the footgear... what a concept!

Why didn't I think of it? -- don't worry, Bob, you will...

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Sunday, May 3, 2020 10:23 AM

No!  I'm ashamed of myself, that's one of the few (very few) TV shows I watch and enjoy.  How could I miss that?

I'm going to pay stricter attention from now on, trust me.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Sunday, May 3, 2020 10:03 AM

Speaking of Mallard, has anybody else noted the model of Mallard in the morgue in the series "NCIS"?  It's located over Dr. Mallard's (played by David McCallum) desk.

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Posted by M636C on Saturday, May 2, 2020 6:57 PM

A couple of additional movies I've watched during the lockdown:

The post WWII "Thirty Nine Steps" with Kenneth More....  The trip to Scotland on a train hauled by a Gresley A4, which proceeds north also behind 60022 Mallard (in the scene leaving Edinburgh Waverley) and of course on the scenes on the Forth Bridge (with pretty realistic passing scenes with Peppercorn Pacifics, and good scenes of More climbing on the bridge with car ferries passing below). This is available in full and in colour on Youtube.

I'm about to watch "Number Seventeen"  a B&W Hitchcock mystery with a number of scenes using a Gresley Pacific on a freight train to a train ferry port, with some good night scenes of the real train combined with the usual model shots.

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Posted by 54light15 on Sunday, April 26, 2020 10:52 PM

That's funny- I was in a bar in Buffalo- Cole's to be exact and it was playing in the background. I said to a guy, "You Americans have the coolest national anthem." He listened and then cracked up laughing. 

Another thing- I just watched "After The Thin Man" and it's a sequel to the original film from 1934 and takes up where the original left off. There are exterior shots of the train that Nick and Nora Charles are riding (stock footage I am sure) in and it's got double headed steam locomotives. I have never seen double headed engines on a movie train before. I can't quite make out the railroad name on the tenders, but it is fairly dark in the shots. Later on there is a train with a Vanderbilt tender pulling a passenger train arriving in San Francisco- that was the S.P, right? Were there others that used that type of tender? 

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Posted by Miningman on Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:19 PM

Nice find Penny! Funny , good post. 

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Sunday, April 26, 2020 7:57 PM

Big Smile  Smile, Wink & Grin  Wink

Well in the late 60's, it might as well have been!  

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Posted by Penny Trains on Sunday, April 26, 2020 7:33 PM

Trains, trains, wonderful trains.  The more you get, the more you toot!  Big Smile

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Sunday, April 26, 2020 6:34 PM

No good on "Hawaii 5-0," but here's the Danes doing "Once Upon A Time In The West," an eight-and-one-half minute suite no less!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efdswXXjnBA  

For "Hawaii Five-O" I'm just going to have to call up Steve McGarrett and the crew.

"Book 'im, Danno!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w  

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Posted by Convicted One on Sunday, April 26, 2020 5:48 PM

How about "Once upon a time in the West"?

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Posted by 54light15 on Sunday, April 26, 2020 5:29 PM

That Star Trek theme was amazing! thanks so much for posting that. Now to look for the theme to GB & U. Do you suppose they've ever done the theme to Hawaii Five-0? 

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Sunday, April 26, 2020 4:50 PM

I have!  And they make a fine job of it too!

Have you heard them do the "Star Trek Themes" medley?  Just wonderful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfwiy9JQ-PI  

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Posted by ORNHOO on Sunday, April 26, 2020 4:35 PM

Flintlock76
Flintlock76 wrote the following post 4 days ago: Well I saw it just fine! That trailer's a little different from the one I remember.  Pretty close, but I remember a line that went: "The 'Good' kill because they have  to.  The 'Bad' kill, because they want  to.  The 'Ugly' kill, because THEY LIKE TO!"   Maybe it was from a radio commercial, it has been a while.  Great Western, that's for sure!

 

BTW (and off topic), but have any of you watched the you tube video of the Danish National Symphony and and Danish National Concert Choir doing a live performance of the Ennio Morricone music from this movie?

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Posted by Miningman on Saturday, April 25, 2020 12:29 AM

York1 -- thank you for the tip... switched over and DVD'd it .. just finished watching. Seen it before but a long long time ago. 

Luv Film Noir, watch Eddie Muller's presentation every Sat. night. 

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Posted by York1 on Friday, April 24, 2020 7:08 PM

TCM is just about to start the great movie, "Double Indemnity".

Trains?  The whole plot involves a dead body and jumping off the rear platform of a moving train.

Film noir at it's best.

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Posted by Overmod on Friday, April 24, 2020 7:16 AM

54light15
Remember the immortal line, "When legend becomes fact, print the legend." 

"Bury your memories, bury your friends

Leave it alone for a year or two

'Til the stories grow hazy and the legends come true

Then do it again. Some things never end..."

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Posted by 54light15 on Thursday, April 23, 2020 10:53 PM

Lee Van Cleef was the living embodiment of a cobra. What a guy! 

Another that features a train as a key part of the plot is one of the best westerns ever made, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." Remember the immortal line, "When legend becomes fact, print the legend." 

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Thursday, April 23, 2020 9:16 PM

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I always thought that in the GB & U, that the "Ugly" referred to Eli Wallach and not Lee Van Cleef.

 

It did.  That trailer is an early version before they realized who the B and U ought to be.

 

Well sure, because Lee van Cleef's character killed because he liked to! 

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Posted by Penny Trains on Thursday, April 23, 2020 7:34 PM

54light15
I always thought that in the GB & U, that the "Ugly" referred to Eli Wallach and not Lee Van Cleef.

It did.  That trailer is an early version before they realized who the B and U ought to be.

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Posted by York1 on Thursday, April 23, 2020 6:24 PM

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My cable box essentially never leaves Turner Classic Movies.  I would watch MeTV if I didn't already own everything of interest

 

You and me both. 

I would be completely happy with a cable system that offered four channels -- TCM, MeTV, HGTV, & DIY.

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Posted by Deggesty on Thursday, April 23, 2020 11:43 AM

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Last night I watched a TV version of Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington

 

I never think of this without in the next moment recalling Neville Shunt.

 

Did Neville Shunt work in a marshalling yard?Mischief

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Posted by Overmod on Thursday, April 23, 2020 10:55 AM

M636C
Last night I watched a TV version of Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington

I never think of this without in the next moment recalling Neville Shunt.

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Posted by M636C on Thursday, April 23, 2020 7:54 AM

Last night I watched a TV version of Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington, which is not really a "train movie" although the plot is dependent on the particular features of British trains which allow one person to see an event in another similar train.

The version I saw was later than the one I have linked but the critical early scenes are very similar and probably reflect the original book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esw1FreaFbE

The B&W movie with Margaret Rutherford is, however my favourite.

The trains shown in this clip are convincingly Great Western at least, thanks to Britain's heritage railways, which are having a hard time right now.

Peter

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