East of Eden with James Dean. Never seen it before and quite enjoyed it. Boy was he a loss to the cinema world. Gone too soon.

I watched an episode of Scott & Bailey. I don't like police shows as a rule but I make an exception for this one.
I like:
1 the way Scott does her interviews, just gradually & clinically working the questions around till she gets the answers
2 the way they run the team planning sessions, getting it all done so quickly & efficiently
3. The frenetic pace of the senior woman, no wonder she has to drink
4 the shambles of Bailey's succession of love lives and her life generally

Good production compressed into an hour
Wouldn't miss it.

Have you ever seen Scott & Bailey?

I watched, for maybe the 3rd time, The Servant with Dirk Bogarde & directed by Jo Losey.
I suppose it comes into what they called the New Wave of British films.
It's a pretty dark story of the slow corruption of a young upper class Englishman by his manservant and his girlfriend.
So well acted and moodily filmed in b/w with the jazz of Johnny Dankworth fitting so well.

Night Train to Munich: for those not familiar with it, a 1940 British thriller starring Rex Harrison and Margaret Lockwood, with a not entirely believable storyline about a British secret agent (Harrison) rescuing a scientist and his daughter (Lockwood) from the clutches of the Nazis.  With a slightly similar plotline and some of the cast (Lockwood and Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne) also having appeared in The Lady Vanishes, it is inevitably compared (usually unfavourably) with the earlier film.  It is, nevertheless, good entertainment if you like films of the 1930s and 1940s.  The climax of the film, with the escape across the border to Switzerland, is probably the best part of the film.  I hadn't seen this film for many years and enjoyed watching it again although, given a choice between the two, I would rather watch The Lady Vanishes.

Nothing But The Truth: Not the 1941 remake starring Bob Hope, but the 1929 one starring Richard Dix.  Both films, incidentally, bear a significant resemblance to the execrable Jim Carrey's film, Liar, Liar, but I digress.  The quality of the picture and sound on the copy of the film I had was poor, which detracted from the viewing experience and, although it was a fairly enjoyable film to watch, I think it might be more appropriate to describe it as an interesting relic rather than as a great film.  If the quality of the copy was better, I might watch it again but, as it was, I think that will be my one and only viewing of it.  It is only idle speculation on my part, but I can't help wondering what Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn and Robertson Hare could have made out of this material.  It was rather like an Aldwych farce in some ways.

Bleak House, the BBC series. Watching it again, it's amasterpiece.
A lot of really great actors. Charles Dance as the menacing Mr Tolkinghorne. Scully from the X Files as Lady Dreadlocks (I can never remember her name).
And of course the story line by Charles Dickens.

Moby Dick is one of Peck's best roles. One of his charms was his great tone of voice, but he only had one. His attempts at dialect and accent were dismal failures. Check out his backwoodsman in The Yearling, and his Englishman in Hornblower; bloody dreadful.