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Reach for the Moon (2000)
Just a small error in the cast list
Gareth Davies (that is his real name) is shown playing the part of schoolboy Nigel. If you click on his name a long list appears of acting parts that "Gareth Davies" has been involved with. However, the Gareth Davies in "Reach for the Moon" is my grand-son and at the time of filming was aged 17, clearly not the "Gareth Davies" that IMDb lists. Gareth did not appear in any other episodes after the first few and has not appeared on TV since. He has, however, been seen in various stage performances on the Isle of Wight, particularly good performances being given as the mad dentist in "Little Shop of Horrors" and in "Bugsy Mallone". We do have a VHS tape of the episode in which Gareth was featured.
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
Reading the other reviews I wondered if we had been looking at the same film!
I saw this film with my then fiancée, Sheila, in Kilburn, London in 1959. From the very beginning we knew we were watching something special. A great battle of the sexes with wonderful chemistry between real-life husband and wife team Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. We couldn't stop laughing and even now, 48 years on, we still think it was a really good and funny film. Joan Collins gave a good performance, perfectly cast as "the other woman". It is a pity that this team of very talented actors were not brought together for more projects in the same genre. When or if it comes out on DVD, we'll certainly get a copy. Certainly a "feel-good" film to relish, in the same vein as the wonderful "What's up Doc?" with Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949)
A bit of nostalgia
I saw the film in our local cinema in Paddington in 1949, when I was nearly 13 and a keen cyclist. All of us young boys rated it highly, not least for the unique way the rear brake cable was routed to the brake via a small pilot tube within the bike's top tube. It was the first time that we had seen the young Diana Dors (I think she was 16 at this time) and a real head-turner. Honor Blackman spoke with a creditable Yorkshire accent and I particularly remember the scene when, after having a puncture, she asks John McCullum to "pass the patches and solution". Years later I met Miss Blackman when she was learning to fly at my flying club, Flairavia, at Biggin Hill in 1964 after having just played the part of Pussy Galore in "Gold Finger" - she couldn't remember saying those (to me) immortal lines from the 1949 film! I think the film has stood the test of time and is well worth viewing to remind us how we all lived.
Peter Woodman.