27. Battle of the V-1 (1958), dir. Vernon Sewell

[strange_complex]

So, as established in my WIDAWTW post earlier on, last week was long and busy on the work front for me. I have a huge list of unwritten LJ reviews nagging at my conscience - I'm six Doctor Who episodes behind now, and have also read six books this year that have yet to be mentioned in these pages. But all of those reviews require thinkiness, and

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[ms_siobhan]

Michael Rennie is wonderful - he's fabulous in The Day The Earth Stood Still and as the narrator in The Desert Fox in which James Mason plays Rommel.

I can highly recommend both if you haven't already seen them.

[strange_complex]

I'd definitely like to see The Day The Earth Stood Still - that looks well up my street.

[ms_siobhan]

It's a fabulous film - got it on dvd.

Whatever you do - DO NOT watch the remake with Keanu Reeves - even out of an idle sense of curiosity. It is absolutely appalling.

[strange_complex]

Haha, OK! I'll consider myself warned.

[rich_r]

I seem to recall being told that 'Michael Rennie was ill, the Day the Earth Stood Still' :)