new pulp figures!

[argsilverson]

Bob has announced the new packs, See them here:

http://pulpfigures.com/work_bench/

[Hammers]

I se Mr Murch has revamped the whole site. I kind of prefer the look of the old one.

[The Dozing Dragon]

Unfortunate mix for me in this one as I really wanted the 2 characters but have no use for the 3 soldiers 

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Unfortunate mix for me in this one as I really wanted the 2 characters but have no use for the 3 soldiers 

the same here

[Centaur_Seducer]

Me as well!
Damn, why mix the characters this way? Not that I doubt the great mr Murch, but I just find it odd. I'd for example love a set containing the crazy characters of india, with both the guru and the british gentlemen.

[Steve F]

I se Mr Murch has revamped the whole site. I kind of prefer the look of the old one.

Oh, but you had to do so much going back-and-forth.  The new one is much easier to navigate.

Damn, why mix the characters this way? Not that I doubt the great mr Murch, but I just find it odd. I'd for example love a set containing the crazy characters of india, with both the guru and the british gentlemen.

He says that they are all based on characters from the film The Drum (which I haven't seen, so I can't comment).

[Plynkes]

The Drum is set in the late 1930s, so I'm not sure why they are lugging those dirty great swords about. I don't recall the Brits having swords but my memory may be failing me, yet I remember it more for the array of machine guns and other modern weapons being used by both sides: Grenades, Bren Guns and Lewises, with the odd Vickers thrown in for good measure. It's worth checking out if you like that kind of thing (like seeing a mountain howitzer being hauled off its mules, being assembled and then giving those wily hill tribesmen what for). It also has Roger Livesey, who is always worth watching. It's in colour too.


The little kid was played by Sabu, perhaps more famous as the Elephant Boy, and as Mowgli in the original live-action Jungle Book. He was also in that bizarre yet classic picture about hysterical nuns, Black Narcissus.



I hear he was the rear gunner in a Liberator during the war, and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

bizarre yet classic picture about hysterical nuns, Black Narcissus.

Dear lord. Hysterical nuns. Now I have to watch it. 

[Hammers]

it's a quite odd film, indeed.

On a side note: it is a shame such a distinguished and dangerous profession as 'rear gunner' has seen its name come to become something much more seedy in our present day.

[The Dozing Dragon]

Is this Frothers?

 

[Plynkes]

I just remembered* a bit with some swords. Some Highlanders are putting on one of those Highland Sword dances for the natives and are betrayed by the wily Pathans, who pull back a curtain to reveal a Vickers MG. The Scots take up the swords and charge.


Livesey cuts a dash as a kind of prototype NWF James Bond in his tux in the same scene...










*When I say 'remembered' I do of course mean "watched on Youtube."

[carlos marighela]

The Drum was famous or perhaps infamous in its time. Screenings in India provoked rioting and it was withdrawn from distribution there. This used to be repeated periodically late at night on TV here along with that greatest of all British films Rex Harrison in The Rakes Progress. It has someone interesting kit in it including some 3.7" mountain guns. Funnily enough the action scenes were all shot in Wales. I presume this was the nearest mountain kingdom the producers of the film were prepared to shell out for.

As an aside to Hammers, for much of the Second World War, navigators still wore the badge of the old observer. This was the letter 'O' with a single wing attached to the left. My late papa's twin brother was a navigator on Halifaxes during the war and I remember my father, a pilot, recalling that they were known as flying arseholes.

[Plynkes]

I don't think all of the exterior action scenes can have been filmed in Wales.






If that's Wales then I'm a monkey's uncle.




Though I concede that this...







...looks suspiciously like the Land of my Fathers. I think I once sat in some sheep shit on that hill as a child.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

If that's Wales then I'm a monkey's uncle.
.......
...looks suspiciously like the Land of my Fathers. I think I once sat in some sheep shit on that hill as a child.

 

I just love your sense of humor, Dylan 

[carlos marighela]

It wasn't sheep shit, it was the dessicated remains of a lamb biryani left there by the cast of The Drum.

There is a popular theory that the difference between a Welsh accent and an Indian one is about half an octave.