Riddle of the Sands on tonight

[Appledore]

Tom Cunliffe (through Youtube) put me onto a book called 'The Shadow in The Sands', by Sam Llewellyn, which is apparently 'A racy and first-rate continuation of The Riddle of The Sands'. Bought my copy from Amazon for ONE penny! Not read it yet though.

 

[johnalison]

One wet evening on the boat with the children we played a game of modified book titles, such as 'Wind up the Willows'. I think my contribution was 'Widdle in the Sands'.

 

[Greenheart]

I expect hers were bigger than the other children's...

The "child" playing her younger sister was Sally Thomsett, aged 20 at the time. Apparently she was forbidden from smoking on the set, lest anyone outside the film crew notice the disparity between her age and that of her character.

The version of Riddle of the Sands shown on Talking Pictures this week had been imperfectly trimmed, though it wasn't clear why. The scene where Davies and Carruthers notice a German seaman suspiciously not wearing seaboots, managed not to show anything below the sailor's knees. :hopeless:

 

[JumbleDuck]

Tom Cunliffe (through Youtube) put me onto a book called 'The Shadow in The Sands', by Sam Llewellyn, which is apparently 'A racy and first-rate continuation of The Riddle of The Sands'. Bought my copy from Amazon for ONE penny! Not read it yet though.

It's pretty good, though the Norfolk use of "that" for "it" gets rather clunky after a few pages.

 

[Parsonsheath]

Tom Cunliffe (through Youtube) put me onto a book called 'The Shadow in The Sands', by Sam Llewellyn, which is apparently 'A racy and first-rate continuation of The Riddle of The Sands'. Bought my copy from Amazon for ONE penny! Not read it yet though.

You were lucky, just looked on kindle and now costs £4.64

 

[JumbleDuck]

Tom Cunliffe (through Youtube) put me onto a book called 'The Shadow in The Sands', by Sam Llewellyn, which is apparently 'A racy and first-rate continuation of The Riddle of The Sands'. Bought my copy from Amazon for ONE penny! Not read it yet though.

You were lucky, just looked on kindle and now costs £4.64

It's quite common for second-hand paperbacks to be listed at 1p, postage £2.80 on Amazon. I guess Amazon don't charge commission on postage costs.

The version of Riddle of the Sands shown on Talking Pictures this week had been imperfectly trimmed, though it wasn't clear why. The scene where Davies and Carruthers notice a German seaman suspiciously not wearing seaboots, managed not to show anything below the sailor's knees.

Same on my DVD edition. Most odd. Perhaps he had particularly salacious calves.

 

[kenneth414]

Worth watching for Jenny Agutter, although it is one of the few films she doesn't get her kit off

Exactly.

 

[Greenheart]

Perhaps he had particularly salacious calves.

From the brief glance I took this week, the camera seemed to miss the sailor's unworn boots and focus instead on Michael York's legs.