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John Graham Inkson

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I have watched the films but I feel a book if far more in depth if you want to know the background and history. A film just shows a small window, and can bend things a bit. 

Norrette Moore

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That second website link adds loads of cookies and data collection if you click ok. Avoid it.  Am tempted to delete and block edit - now deleted

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Block it Norrette if it’s going to load cookies etc onto people’s computers, iPads etc , if in doubt  block it it can always be unlocked . 
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Sandra Kennedy

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I have watched the films but I feel a book if far more in depth if you want to know the background and history. A film just shows a small window, and can bend things a bit. 
John Graham Inkson on 04/02/2026 16:18:25
I would second that John. And with a book you can always go back and re-read portions, or the whole book, which I find very useful. These days it's sometimes hard to be sure about the accuracy of a film too.

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This one. It's an absolute corker.  Faithful to Maugham's book. Superb performances by two of the greatest English actors ever to grace a Hollywood sound stage: Herbert Marshall and George Sanders. Sanders, as Charles Strickland, is spot on---unlike Laurence Olivier in the 1959 teleplay.  
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Brett Hill

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygOpHblxj08 Voyage to Tahiti. This is more about Gauguin’s life than his art but worth looking at. 

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Dick Van Cocque

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I find you may be enlightened by one masterpiece that fulfils all one could wish for and more as regards to painting and painters on the silver screen... The Rebel 1961 starring Tony Hancock.. This film explores the absurdity of precious artwork and captures the pretence of art and artists. I do so hope you can watch it. 

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Never cared much for Hancock. The Rebel is a good film---and it's funny in spite of him. 
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John Graham Inkson

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What about the blood donor “a pint that nearly and arm full.”
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Sandra Kennedy

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Sorry John but I don't understand your comment, like to explain?

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John's referring to one of of Hancock's half hour BBC shows entitled The Blood Donor. He balks at the information that a pint is required. "A pint? That's very nearly an armful!" 
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