Gary Critcher

One of the guys on one of my  ‘missing tv episodes’ forums has posted these pics:

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Apparently he was watching an old episode of “Randall & Hopkirk Deceased”,  remember that (original) series?

Anyway,  in one shot,  he noticed a painting on the wall in the background that looked familiar….he finally found it in an earlier feature film,  can you tell me what film it is?

Keith Wicks

The mystery artist is 36 year-old Tony Hancock, at 40:24 into the 1961 film “The Rebel” (US title: “Call Me Genius”).  I’ve attached a shot of him with another painting, but his greatest masterpiece was, of course, ‘Aphrodite at the Waterhole’.

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Gary Critcher

Do you remember Irene Handl’s reaction when shown ‘Aphrodite’ for the first time, as Hancock tells her this is how he views women: “Oh, you poor thing” –  brilliant!

Keith Wicks

I like the discussion about the self-portrait:

“What’s this horrible thing?”
“That … is a self-portrait!”
“Who of?”
[Exasperated]”Laurel and Hardy!  Who of… Buffoon..”

Self-Portrait from “The Rebel” (1961)
         

Pat Heigham, Graeme Wall, Alasdair Lawrance

Speaking of Pictures in Pictures….

The very first of the Bond films,   “Dr. No” (Beyond cool, at the time), was released at the time that an expensive Goya painting (‘The Duke of Wellington’?) was, ahem, removed from its usual place.  The film showed the missing Goya in the villains’ lair!

Apropos nothing in particular – an episode of “Dr. Who” utilised banks of computers, the ones with spools of tape, hired in.  These came from “The Billion Dollar Brain” starring Michael Caine.  However, “Dr. Who” was transmitted well before the film came out.

Not as bad as the cheekiness exhibited by the producers of the ‘Carry Ons’ who whizzed into the Cleopatra sets at Pinewood to film “Carry On Cleo”, before they were dismantled! “Carry on Cleo” also nicked a couple of out-takes from the original for crowd scenes of the Roman army.