Though I can't find the words to express it in turn

[sovay]

skygiants has just finished reading Audrey Erskine Lindop's The Singer Not the Song (1953) and I recommend everyone read her review.

I had mostly heard of the book as the source material for the 1961 film, which I have not seen. It co-stars John Mills, but I've mostly heard about it in context of Dirk Bogarde, specifically in black leather pants. I went looking for photographic evidence.



Nothing I have ever read suggests the film is any good, but I see why people don't care.

Comments

[sholio]

... good Lord.

[cmcmck]

Phwoar! :o)

[isis]

Oh, my. Thank you for that!

[muccamukk]

Jesus.

Um. Hi.

[sillylilly_bird]

Goodness. *fans self*

[movingfinger]

Well

...

Is there a calendar for this movie

[sasha_feather]

oh myyyy

[kenjari]

Daaaaaamn. Well, it *was* chilly in my office this afternoon.

[poliphilo]

I read somewhere that Bogarde had been led to believe the film would be edgy and European and he'd be playing opposite someone edgy and cool like Marlon Brando- and was really rather cross when he found the guy he was supposed to be in this super-heated relationship with was being played by reliable but unsexy John Mills.

[wpadmirer]

OMG, you keep bringing up these actors from my childhood. (Though I never saw that movie. Sounds like one my mother wouldn't have let me see.)

[gwynnega]

Wow.

[lemon_badgeress]

...well.

[conuly]

...huh. That's, um, quite a picture

[tree_and_leaf]

Gosh.

[rheasilvia]

Nothing I have ever read suggests the film is any good, but I see why people don't care.

I love how you put this. :-) And wow, indeed, those pants speak a very compelling language...

[sporky_rat]

Well, I was bewailing the lack of good leather trousered folk, but gosh.

.... To quote Firefly, 'I'll be in my bunk.'