Norman Conquest
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Sat 23rd Jan 2016 10:49am
Thanks for replies and spelling correction.
I was chatting with my older sister yesterday evening and she also went, yes it was at the Hippodrome.The whole show was called, I think, Cavalcade of Comedy, with a couple of live comics and short films. Abbott and Costello, Old Mother Riley, that sort of thing.
I did think it would have been earlier than early 50s as going to such a show as a teenager would have been damaging to my street cred'.
Just old and knackered
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Midland Red
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Sat 23rd Jan 2016 11:17am
On 21st Jan 2016 7:11pm, Kaga simpson said:
Midland Red, yes you are right, The Sand Dance.
Frank Skinner and Suzy Klein recreated the Sand Dance recently in their TV series "What a Performance" - here it is |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Fri 4th Mar 2016 10:47pm
On 4th Mar 2016 12:04pm, SueL said:
A gang of us from MF used to go Ten Pin Bowling at the Forum on the Walsgrave Road, once a week after work (again in the mid-80s), and I can remember us always going for a drink in the Walsgrave pub afterwards.
Gosh! I went to the Forum to watch "The Lost World" about 1960. There was no bowling there then. Odd, the story as although written in 1912 I believe, in the film, the team were lifted off by helicopter. Back to the thread. Thank you Sue. |
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Norman Conquest
Allesley |
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Sat 5th Mar 2016 2:29pm
Hello Philip and all forumites
I went to the Forum cinema about 1949/50 time to see the film The Brave Don't Cry. It was about coal mining. My uncle was colliery engineer at Newdigate Colliery and my older brother was deputy at Coventry Colliery and I was to become shot firer at Newdigate, coal was in the blood. I have a number of blue scars left by the coal, there was a film called The Blue Scar and I have tried to get a copy without success.
I am rambling, Sue tells me off about rambling on and on. So, back to the point. I also went bowling at the Forum and if memory serves me correctly the bowling took place above the cinema.
Edited by Midland Red, 15th Mar 2016 2:23 pm (This post has been copied into "Your favourite film/films" thread, and its replies moved into there, to maintain this thread on-topic, ie "Coventry's cinemas") Just old and knackered
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Midland Red
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Mon 4th Apr 2016 8:48pm
On 16th Oct 2012 10:09am, DBC said:
I don't know if this has been featured on here before, but here is a film about the opening of the Rex cinema in 1937
This was posted to another thread |
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Slash1
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Sun 10th Apr 2016 9:36am
Last night, watched " Rock around the Clock" on the tv. Can't believe it, but clearly never seen it before.
Some real jiving which was awesome.
But my question is, can some of you remember "The Blackboard Jungle" coming to The Gaumont, presumably in about 1957ish? |
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Norman Conquest
Allesley |
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Sun 10th Apr 2016 12:15pm
Sorry never heard of them. Just old and knackered
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Midland Red
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Sun 10th Apr 2016 12:35pm
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Kaga simpson
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Sun 10th Apr 2016 1:40pm
Slash1. Do I remember it, Glen Ford. My companion was a school teacher from Stoke girls school, after leaving the cinema she said I could misbehave as badly as I wanted to! Sure I remember it. 'Put another brick in the wall' was a favourite tune in those days. |
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Slash1
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Sun 10th Apr 2016 2:43pm
Also a very early film for Sidney Poitier.
Was about teenage delinquents in the States, bought on apparently by "rock 'n' roll".
The people were dancing in the aisles. Supposed Teddy Boys and the like ripping out seats etc.
Would have been well covered in the Telegraph, I guess.
Happened at many cinemas around the UK as well as the States. |
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Sun 10th Apr 2016 3:03pm
Not in Coventry, the manager of the Gaumont threatened to shut off the projector if anyone left their seats during the performance.
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Kaga simpson
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Sun 10th Apr 2016 5:24pm
Think I must have had a senior turn, 'Brick in the wall' was about twenty years later. |
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Slash1
northampton |
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Sun 10th Apr 2016 8:36pm
Definitely different to my recollection, but may well be correct. |
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Ken Dickson
High Hesket Cumbria |
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Mon 11th Apr 2016 1:10am
I remember the film 'The Blackboard Jungle' very well, it became a cult movie. The soundtrack featured the song Rock Around The Clock by Bill Haley and the Comets as mentioned in other posts. Also mentioned is the Gaumont cinema where I was fortunate to see live in 1957 Bill Haley and the Comets. |
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Kaga simpson
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Thu 21st Apr 2016 8:32am
The Forum pics
Oh God
I went there with a girl
the film I think it was Rock Hudson and the blind girl (Liz Taylor?)
Back row
the girl fiddled with her blouse
I looked, mind churning
Girl said 'I'm sure I had two when I came out'
WHAT?
'I'm sure'
then the penny clicked
She slapped my arm
'Handkerchiefs, silly'
'I always bring two to a weepy' |
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