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Written by James M. Tate / 9/01/2023 / No comments / anthony bate , british , british new wave , caper , heist , helmut schmid , michael ripper , military , patrick magee , roddy mcmillan , sixties , stanley baker , suspense , thriller , tom bell

STANLEY BAKER AND TOM BELL SNEAK THROUGH 'A PRIZE OF ARMS'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7RUcjfPowY5kNMV_rlEaVifubAOaxqbRx6RMUNEBePOYeKEUDEWAsXPoTooXd_MxhztxXNRtznJB0y4IdpBuQXDjWs2cn7JDtqSpiMWwon-2WOlLUB3SK4iTdi8hv4EFTiPiZeOHCOkyus00U1PAMA6irtvK-coFAWZ3QYN8jZvh31CJ7ydArFC0oNLB6/s2058/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-29%20at%2011.07.31%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1352" data-original-width="2058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7RUcjfPowY5kNMV_rlEaVifubAOaxqbRx6RMUNEBePOYeKEUDEWAsXPoTooXd_MxhztxXNRtznJB0y4IdpBuQXDjWs2cn7JDtqSpiMWwon-2WOlLUB3SK4iTdi8hv4EFTiPiZeOHCOkyus00U1PAMA6irtvK-coFAWZ3QYN8jZvh31CJ7ydArFC0oNLB6/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-29%20at%2011.07.31%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanley Baker in A PRIZE OF ARMS Year: 1963 Rating: ****1/2 </td></tr></tbody></table>The most suspenseful parts from the final act of THE GREAT ESCAPE a year after A PRIZE OF ARMS and the middle of the original decade-later STAR WARS entails hiding in plain site, behind enemy lines while wearing their uniforms and keeping everything in perfect surreptitious motion, without getting noticed and thus, caught and captured... Which ARMS is, practically from beginning to end, epitomizing the sparse heist thriller where two British crooks with one German go undercover to politely infiltrate a British military compound before an overseas mission, since the armory will be loaded with cash... all for the taking...

anthony bate, british, british new wave, caper, heist, helmut schmid, michael ripper, military, patrick magee, roddy mcmillan, sixties, stanley baker, suspense, thriller, tom bell

STANLEY BAKER AND TOM BELL SNEAK THROUGH 'A PRIZE OF ARMS'

Stanley Baker in A PRIZE OF ARMS Year: 1963 Rating: ****1/2 The most suspenseful parts from the final act of THE GREAT ESCAPE a year after A...

ZENA WALKER & DENNIS WATERMAN IN THE DRAMA 'SNOWBALL'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSxG9_0ABxRIou_HuID5GUJOXDqrS4DhLCXkz2SuxNsImcaKwFF8DLGrpUpYAksAo3TrbWNeEwy2mPH3xp0p1W4omYWU1KA1ygYHEBJV6O7tZzPqrqNIuSa_TYKt5WeiJxFz_RTqWgTGdkylJtrxyZDddggJojrBVuxrk3ii_E-fwmVJuDhGcLbdPQA/s1423/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="841" data-original-width="1423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSxG9_0ABxRIou_HuID5GUJOXDqrS4DhLCXkz2SuxNsImcaKwFF8DLGrpUpYAksAo3TrbWNeEwy2mPH3xp0p1W4omYWU1KA1ygYHEBJV6O7tZzPqrqNIuSa_TYKt5WeiJxFz_RTqWgTGdkylJtrxyZDddggJojrBVuxrk3ii_E-fwmVJuDhGcLbdPQA/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zena Walker in SNOWBALL Year: 1960 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>A unique<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/british%20neo%20noir"> British New Wave/Kitchen Sink melodrama</a> involving how fate works... not the first or last... and SNOWBALL is set in some pretty warm weather, so the title's about gossip gaining momentum... And all because of child actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/dennis%20waterman">Dennis Waterman</a> as an English suburban kid who shares to his parents and neighbor how a bus driver dumped him off: having to walk home four miles — the last stretch of that seemingly breezy stride opening the movie with credits shown...

british new wave, daphne anderson, dennis waterman, gordon jackson, kenneth griffith, melodrama, roddy mcmillan, sixties, zena walker

ZENA WALKER & DENNIS WATERMAN IN THE DRAMA 'SNOWBALL'

Zena Walker in SNOWBALL Year: 1960 Rating: *** A unique British New Wave/Kitchen Sink melodrama involving how fate works... not the first ...

KEN HUTCHISON PLAYS THE ULTIMATE HEAVY FOR 'SWEENEY 2'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5CyDwi-EPuWeZCljnpNSngY4MgZE2drDKeoKqDzlUJlL4btLUIadbykG-nTcA18kJCDaku6PMrPKlRmvbRp8jTd2CPo9LDRpbxIOqQDPM30v3-iH8JfaYPRL2FQw1sMh1Ab4_1l8-U2s4f_L1XRZlnUwUV8SYo3N2BqTLbeQL1geOtLfBhhv7znbmrO5S/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202019-03-07%20at%204.08.25%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="986" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5CyDwi-EPuWeZCljnpNSngY4MgZE2drDKeoKqDzlUJlL4btLUIadbykG-nTcA18kJCDaku6PMrPKlRmvbRp8jTd2CPo9LDRpbxIOqQDPM30v3-iH8JfaYPRL2FQw1sMh1Ab4_1l8-U2s4f_L1XRZlnUwUV8SYo3N2BqTLbeQL1geOtLfBhhv7znbmrO5S/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202019-03-07%20at%204.08.25%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: SWEENEY 2 Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman Shown: Ken Hutchison Year: 1978 Rates: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Before the fourth and final season of the popular British crime television series <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/06/sweeney-sustained.html">THE SWEENEY</a>, two theatrical films hit the big screens in succession, from 1977 to 1978... The first called <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/06/sweeney-one.html">SWEENEY!</a> centered more on John Thaw's Chief Inspector Regan in a kind of NORTH BY NORTHWEST where his young protege Sergeant Carter, played by Dennis Waterman, had such little screen-time at one point he chooses not to be seen with Regan's "wrong man" at all...

british, british neo noir, buddy, cop, crime, dennis waterman, frederick treves, john flanagan, john thaw, ken hutchison, roddy mcmillan, seventies, sweeney

KEN HUTCHISON PLAYS THE ULTIMATE HEAVY FOR 'SWEENEY 2'

Title: SWEENEY 2 Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman Shown: Ken Hutchison Year: 1978 Rates: ****1/2 Before the fourth and final season of the ...

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