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Sam Wiebe's avatar

Canadian film royalty!

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Ray Banks's avatar

Plummer's the greatest. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than actors hitting it big with a part they spend much of their careers trying to shed. See also: all those little weirdos that played Bond.

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Reginald Harris's avatar

A terrific film, also revered by jazz lovers for the Oscar Peterson soundtrack!

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Ray Banks's avatar

An Oscar Peterson soundtrack that barely (if ever!) features in the actual movie, which is odd. No wonder it was his only one.

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Reginald Harris's avatar

I'm sure the jazz heads who bought the album thought they were given the wrong tape at Blockbuster when they saw the film.

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Paul David Brazill's avatar

A fantastic late night BBC2 film back in the olden days. A great soundtrack too. Nice one!

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Ray Banks's avatar

Exactly where I saw it first - I want to say it was a Moviedrome feature, but I want to say that about all of these movies.

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Paul David Brazill's avatar

Yeah, it was around that time for sure.

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Mat Colegate's avatar

I reeeally need to see this.

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Ray Banks's avatar

You do. You really do. You'd love it.

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Karloff's avatar

The movie is on TCM Dec 22, 2:45am CST.

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Mat Colegate's avatar

We don't do TCM in the UK unfortunately. Booo.

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Timber Fox's avatar

I caught up with this one after hearing about it for years. A good one.

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Karloff's avatar

I saw this a little more than a year ago on cable, can't remember the channel. I watched because it was an Elliott Gould movie I had never heard of. Very good movie. It’s such a shame that there are so many good movies that are essentially hidden from view.

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Ray Banks's avatar

It is a shame. I could argue that it was always this way, but there's really no excuse for it now. Mind you, I'm not the best arbiter of obscurity - according to me, The Offence was pretty well-known!

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