Advantages: price changes Disadvantages: same clothes
Despite my last order through the catalogues being a while back due to the appalling service provided by La Redoute I do still browse through them when the big heavy books lands on the doorstep. Last week that book was the Great Universal Spring Summer 08 edition allowing you until the 17th August 2008 to make your purchase. "Spread the cost with affordable payment options," screams the green circle of text on the lower left hand side of the page.
Flicking through I am amazed at how expensive catalogue clothes have actually got compared to the same items in the high-street. Never the less I systematically fold over the corners of any page which shows an item I wish to purchase, but my bank balance refuses to allow, something I do with every catalogue, just in case someone else happens to flick through it and wish to buy me something ...
Advantages: A haunting black and white classic Disadvantages: None
INTRODUCTION
In 1964 I was taken with school to one of our local cinemas (now ALL the cinemas in the town have gone) to watch David Lean's classic film 'Great Expectation'.
It was old, it was black and white - it was WONDERFUL!!
I have seen many adaptions of the book since that day 45 years ago, but I have never seen one that compares to Lean's film or that was so true to Dickens' book.
What a pairing - Dickens and Lean!!
Dickens's rich characters and gothic Victorian atmosphere combined with the unique and masterful direction of David Lean led to a true cinema masterpiece that has weathered the years well.
Last year I found a new DVD of the 1946 film and it is that DVD that I am about to review.
BACKGROUND
CHARLES DICKENS (1812-70)
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812 and grew up ...
THE GREAT ESCAPE.
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T his movie is based on a book by Paul Brickhill, who was actually in the camp in March 1944
Shown every Christmas and some would argue it wouldn't be Christmas without it being on telly.
It is the story of British and American POWs escaping from their prison camp.
The Movie.
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Set during the Second World War, the Germans decide to build Stalag Luft III. To quote a line from the movie 'to put all their rotten eggs in one basket'. Sick of chasing the best escape artistes, the German high command decide to put them all together where they can ALL be watched. The camp is said to be escape proof.
We follow the ups and downs of the prisoners as they plot to escape the 'Perfect' prison.
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