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The Sweeney: Hit and Run (1975)
How men in the Seventies dealt with grief
Some reviewers don't really get this episode of the classic cop show.
Back then, men were hard. When Carter cries over the death of his wife, that really meant something. And you also see displayed the unsaid love between the two men expressed perfectly through the 'drink down to the label' scene.
And note Haskins and his cold professionalism.
Terrific cast, including Doctor Who himself, Patrick Troughton, and Vicar of Dibley's Gary Waldhorn. And two women in powerful central roles, something else you didn't see much of back in the day.
Woke millennials should avoid, you will judge it by the standards of a feminised
society and you won't get it.
Minder: The Bounty Hunter (1979)
Teerific cast
Sir Derek Jacobi, the legendary Kathleen Byron and Christopher Biggins (playing it straight) together with George Layton playing a cowboy mechanic. What a cast for an amusing tale back from the first season when Minder was not a self parody, and Gergo Cole spoke with a posh accent.
Stormy Crossing (1958)
One of the most extraordinary scenes in fifties Brit movies
The film is of no interest as a who dunnit (as a child of five could guess who diddit) but for the fact that one quick scene in a garage has the most extraordinary cast. The dialogue is between John Ireland (archetypical Hollywood beefcake); Arthur Lowe (one of Britain's greatest comic actors); and John Schlesinger (one of Britain's greatest movie directors).