Up the Nile! First Beja Unit Complete! Yay!

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Atheling_2006 wrote: Tue Aug 25, 2020 3:41 pm
BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: Tue Aug 25, 2020 1:55 pm Looking forward to your remake of "The Four Feathers".
Cheers Baron- appreciated :)

I prefer the remake..... I'm guessing I'm in a majority of one :lol:
I always felt that the 1939 Zoltan Korda version was the best - C Aubrey Smith, Ralph Richardson and Private Fraser playing the Khalifa! (I once served an injunction on Korda's nephew to stop him stripping away the exterior surfaces of a house in order to force a tenant (my client) to leave; the interior plasterwork was all that was between him and the elements.)

During the filming of the "big battle" in the film one of the Dervish "extras" insisted on charging into the British lines and running about, when they had all been ordered to "die" at rifle range. Korda called him over and demanded to know what he was playing at, to which he replied: "Well, the British didn't kill me in the real battle, so I don't see why they should get to kill me in this one."
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 9:06 am I always felt that the 1939 Zoltan Korda version was the best - C Aubrey Smith, Ralph Richardson and Private Fraser playing the Khalifa! (I once served an injunction on Korda's nephew to stop him stripping away the exterior surfaces of a house in order to force a tenant (my client) to leave; the interior plasterwork was all that was between him and the elements.)

During the filming of the "big battle" in the film one of the Dervish "extras" insisted on charging into the British lines and running about, when they had all been ordered to "die" at rifle range. Korda called him over and demanded to know what he was playing at, to which he replied: "Well, the British didn't kill me in the real battle, so I don't see why they should get to kill me in this one."
1939...... I've watched it (obviously) but it does make one shudder when you reckon with how old it actually is. And how old I'm becoming :wall:
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One would wish that there was a way to reverse the process.
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grizzlymc wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 1:02 pm One would wish that there was a way to reverse the process.
Theoretically there is :ugeek:
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Well, the British didn't kill me in the real battle, so I don't see why they should get to kill me in this one."
:lol:

Excellent!!!
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MarshalNey wrote: Tue Aug 25, 2020 9:28 am Are they all going to be based in threes.....?
Ansars on a postcard please..... :thumbs:

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BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: Wed Sep 09, 2020 10:38 am
MarshalNey wrote: Tue Aug 25, 2020 9:28 am Are they all going to be based in threes.....?
Ansars on a postcard please..... :thumbs:

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Careful - the others will be here soon with Sudan puns. I'm too thick to think of any.
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MarshalNey wrote: Wed Sep 09, 2020 3:51 pm Careful - the others will be here soon with Sudan puns. I'm too thick to think of any.
Sudanly be here you mean ;) :fp:
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ho ho, here we go.
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