Film Appreciation

The Group, rapidly expanding, meets at 10am on the fourth Monday of the month in the Scout & Guide HQ. Coffee and biscuits are available from 9.30

Monday, November 28th: 'Get Carter' (1971).  A superior crime thriller and cult classic, starring Michael Caine as London-based gangster Jack Carter. He returns to his native Newcastle to attend the funeral of his brother, supposedly killed in a drink-driving accident. Jack suspects he was murdered, and sets out to discover the truth .Ian Hendry and  Britt Ekland also feature. Contains scenes of violence.

NB THERE IS NO MEETING IN DECEMBER.

Monday January 23rd, 2012: 'The Painted Veil' (2005).  A problem with the disc meant we could not show this film  in September, as scheduled.  All is now sorted.

Monday, February 27th: 'The Brothers' (1947). A young orphan girl becomes a servant on a  remote Scottish island, where two families are arch rivals. Her presence provokes competition not only among the young men of the two clans, but between brothers, too. Patricia Roc and Maxwell Reed star.

Monday, March 26th: 'Spellbound'  (1945), a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman star as psychiatrists at a mental hospital, he the new director, she a colleague, considered unemotional and detached, who soon realises all is not as it seems with her new boss.

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