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« on: 20 May, 2005, 11:02:02 AM » |
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 Hi me again, when i was about 10 years of age, I recall seeing a film version of TMIAB. Can anyone tell me where you can get your hands on it and who starred in it? Thanks KEITH |
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« Reply #1 on: 21 May, 2005, 09:13:26 PM » |
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Kieth, do you mind telling us WHEN you were 10 years old? It would help ref the film you speak of.
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« Reply #2 on: 23 May, 2005, 09:37:44 AM » |
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I have a copy of the film I think you are referring to. It is based quite loosely on TMIAB with only a few of the actual scenes taken from the book including the Maze section. It has been changed to more of a love story with George much more of a cad. I will post tomorrow the details from the video cover.
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t is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
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« Reply #3 on: 14 July, 2005, 11:01:14 PM » |
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As no-one seems to have answered this, apparently Three Men in a Boat has been filmed three times. The film that Podge refers to is, no doubt, the one I remember. Filmed in 1956 it stared Laurence Harvey, David Tomlinson and Jimmy Edwards. Jimmy Edwards played Harris and I guess that Tomlinson played George and Harvey was "J".
Here's an internet review
"When they weren't making such prestigious Anglo-American affairs as The African Queen and Moulin Rouge, producers John and James Woolf often turned their hand to small-scale British comedy. This mannered, eccentric adaptation of Jerome K Jerome's equally mannered, eccentric novel, wasn't one of their great successes. Shooting was dogged by bad weather. Then, when the film was complete, it all but sank at the box office. (For some reason, it did extremely well in Paris, even as it failed elsewhere.) Still, it's entertaining stuff, enlivened by rum performances from Tomlinson, Edwards and Harvey as the three Edwardian duffers cruising down the Thames."
Quite why they think it's Edwardian I don't know. Anyway the good news is that it can be purchased on DVD - try searching Google for a competitive price.
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« Reply #4 on: 03 August, 2005, 11:22:06 PM » |
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thanks Tiny, dont know why I didn't think of that. especially as I spend most of my spare time (when not boating on the thames)on the net. anyway, I just bought one new for only£3.50. cant wait to watch it, I know it will be corny as the actors were all famous in my youth, but I am sure I will love it!
sean
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« Reply #5 on: 19 August, 2005, 10:39:33 PM » |
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thanks Tiny, dont know why I didn't think of that. especially as I spend most of my spare time (when not boating on the thames)on the net. anyway, I just bought one new for only£3.50. cant wait to watch it, I know it will be corny as the actors were all famous in my youth, but I am sure I will love it!
sean I hope you've received the film by now. Any chance of a review on what it was like? |
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« Reply #6 on: 21 August, 2005, 07:29:55 PM » |
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welllllllll...you know, typical 1950s film, started off ok, and was nice to see how people dressed and behaved (probably!) in those times.... but sadly of course the film makers allways had to add extra humour to " make the film go well" and so they wander wildly away from the original plot, which is a shame as I think the original story was fine, and complete in itself. still I spose thats the film bussiness! anyway, it ends up withj a preposterous cricket match and a lot of slapstick stuff. I dont suppose the director actually read the book! but anyway, the dvd was only 3.50 so it was worth watching.the maze scene works out well...............
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« Reply #7 on: 31 August, 2005, 01:42:55 PM » |
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Those of you who are as barking mad as I, should attend the Thames Traditional Boat rally, every July , this year, Rodney Bewes, stood on a pontoon in the river and read out his version of the steam boat/versus idle skiff rowers battle, as the whole scene was re-enacted on the water by a group of people in period costume in skiffs, and yes, a steamboat!! quite the most delightfull summer scene on the river you could imagine!
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« Reply #8 on: 21 September, 2005, 07:54:58 PM » |
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According to us.imdb.com, there was also a television version made in 1975, with Tim Curry (as Jerome), Michael Palin (as Harris) and Stephen Moore (as George).
Unfortunately, if that website is accurate this version is not available in either VHS or DVD. Too bad - it would certainly be entertaining.
And according to imdb, Tomlinson played Jerome and Laurence Harvey played George in the 1956 film.
It's too bad that no film could ever REALLY do justice to this story.
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« Reply #9 on: 17 February, 2008, 09:44:16 AM » |
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I have a copy of the 1975 BBC adaptation and although flawed it is the closest to capturing the spirit of the book.
This is not commercially available anywhere so far as I am aware. If anyone is interested I could upload it so we can all enjoy it. Post a message if anyone is interested.
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« Reply #10 on: 18 February, 2008, 01:05:47 PM » |
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Yes - I'm interested! Never seen it, and I'm sure many others are in the same boat. A poor pun and quite intentional. Upload away!
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« Reply #11 on: 21 February, 2008, 12:10:07 PM » |
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Ok, I'll upload it tonight and post up the links tomorrow.
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« Reply #14 on: 12 March, 2008, 10:47:11 AM » |
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Thanks to Marcoscu I have now seen the famous Tom Stoppard adaptation of Three Men in a Boat. It is far and away the most successful screen version of the book. Why? Because Stoppard shows a proper reverence for the text and has the skill to translate its style from one medium to another, and because there is a talented director (Stephen Frears) at the helm.
The three main characters played by Tim Curry, Michael Palin and Stephen Moore are excellent (even though they are a tad too upper class and Curry, as J, borders dangerously close to being too fay). All the set piece comic scenes (Hampton Court, preparing the skiff for the first night, the pineapple tin, etc) are genuinely funny. The Thames is beautifully photographed (as Marcoscu says, all in pastels and soft focus) and Stoppard includes a surprisingly large amount of Jerome's purple prose-descriptive passages of the scenery. He also, bravely, keeps in the episode of the drowned woman. A nice touch at the end was for J (the narrator, of course) to reveal the real-life identities of George and Harris, telling us, quoting from My Life and Times, where and when he wrote the book.
It was fun spotting a number of now well-known faces playing sundry minor characters. On a personal note, it was a pleasant surprise to see some old friends making brief appearnaces (Frank Mills, now my neighbour, as an old river hand, and John Harding and John Burrows, then hot new writer / actors, as two Oxford aesthetes - clearly suposed to be Oscar and Bosie, a nice Stoppard in-joke?), as well as to learn that the lovely period score was by none another than David 'African Sanctus' Fanshawe.
All in all, a highly enjoyable film. Why the BBC has not made it available commercially is a mystery (maybe contract problems?) because compared to the ghastly 1931 film, the ridiculous 1956 version, my own flawed attempt for Channel 4 and the insulting thing with Griff and chums last year, the Stoppard does the book and Jerome proud.
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