In addition to playing Mr. Melty-Face in "Raiders of the Lost MacGuffin," Ronald Lacey is perhaps best known as The Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells in the Blackadder II episode, "Money." -- Come to think of it, both of those guys kind of had a thing for red-hot pokers...!🤔
Ronald Lacey has a very short but memorable role as the village idiot in Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers from 1967. Took me 20 years to figure that out.
Your reviews have literally saved hours of wasted time in my life, by warning me off some of these films. Your reviews have given me many laughs, as well.
Has anyone EVER used "Tocata and Fugue in D Minor" thoughtfully in a film? Well, yes: "Fantasia" did it justice. But second place goes to "Rollerball," and they only used the Tocata, not the Fugue. (Go back and listen again if you doubt me.) Most of the time, it's like this piece of Hammering, and it makes J.S. Bach's most famous composition except perhaps the Brandenburg Concertos into a jingle from a TV commercial.
Even by 1970, whatever cinematic oomph the piece had was overtaken by people recognizing it as the cue for Dracula when he shows up in a Halloween themed beer commercial.
This looked, felt and smelled like an ultra low, low budget movie that sooner or later haunts the local Tv stations in the wee hours of the night. Ron Lacey did a great job on The Avengers as a Peter Loree like character. " I need the money to buy new scaples." " Are you a surgeon? " " No, it just a hobby ." I also like him in Blake 7.
My favorite Ronald Lacey role apart from 'Raiders' was a dual role as the Sholto brothers in Grenada's Sherlock Holmes TV film 'The Sign of Four'. His petrified death grimace from the blow-dart poison haunts me to this day.
Ronald Lacey was also The President in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. Actress Virginia Wetherell from Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange played the part of Ruth.
It's a testament to Lacey's acting that, despite my having watched both Porridge and Raiders of the Lost Ark numerous times over the last 40'ish years, it was only last year (and even then, only because I saw a Tweet celebrating his Birthday) that I discovered Harris and Arnold Toht were the same guy!! 🤯
Ronald Lacey has a brief but unforgettable rile in the utterly bizarre The Final Programme (or The Last Days of Man on Earth). If you've never reviewed this please do. I caught it on late-night HBO back in the late 70's or very early 80's. I only recently read the Michael Moorcock novel, as well three other of his Jerry Cornelius novels, none made a lick of sense and felt they were written in a single drug-fuelled day.
Wow. Mike Raven giving some favorite actors there "big" break. Well break....a job he gave them a job. Louise Jameson was this young man's favorite Doctor companion. Mike Raven was more than an actor, writer, & producer. He was a radio personality, a sculptor, a ballet dancer, a flamenco guitarist. The man was buried in the grave he dug for himself!! Everyone please look him up on Wikipedia. It's some interesting reading.
7:17 "You shall be put through excruciating pain on... the vertical RACK!" (facepalms after seeing a dish rack pulled out) "For five days... SIX! SIX DAYS! For six days... SEVEN! SEVEN DAYS! For seven days... AND NIGHTS!... I'll start over again."
I was hoping you might talk more about Mike Raven - so, it's pretty obvious why he shouldn't continue...but why couldn't he continue? Thanks for the great video as always!
This film failed so badly that no studio would hire him & he didn't have enough money to finance another. He went back to his real name (Austin Churton Fairman) ran a successful farm and took up carving in wood and granite - ar which he proved to be quite good. Many of his commissions went to churches.
The guy had quite an interesting life. He served in WWII as a Lt. in the British Infantry, then he married a Spanish lady and spent some time over there, becoming an accomplished flamenco guitar player and writing travel books about Spain. Eventually he returned to the UK and was a successful radio DJ, before trying his luck as an actor. He's acting career failed , so he went back to using his birth name, started a sheep farm and was also making sculptures & other art pieces. As mentioned above, he made commissions for churches and even had his art in various exhibitions.
Ronald Lacey was Blackadder's baby eating Bishop of Bath and Wells. 'Nuff said. Also, Robin, are you related to Mike Raven, there's a definite resemblance....
Only seen Mike Raven in "I, Monster" and, I have to say, he was considerably more subdued in that one, playing a third wheel to Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
I must say, the scenes in the orange robe come across like a somewhat pedestrian crossover between Coppola's "Dracula" and Kurosawa's "Ran"! Great stuff! By the way, I wonder where my recurring nightmares involving bavarian bloodhounds may stem from! 😊
My favourite bit of Ronald Lacey was that episode of Blakes Seven where he was wearing a poo coloured quilt by way of a costume. Even for Blakes Seven that stood out as a ridiculous outfit.
Heh. From the looks of it, Mike Raven would make a great classic silent film actor. Unfortunately, it's 1972, and he has to talk..... 2:48 I am The Master, and YOU. MUST. OBEY!!
Back in 1980, when I was 11 years old, I got up in the middle of the night in the new house we had moved into and turned on the television. The first program on a working channel was already in progress and I had missed the opening credits. It took the next 40 years for me to find out that the title was DISCIPLE OF DEATH (1972). For 4 decades I could not find anyone who claimed to have watched what I would describe as “this movie where this vampire sacrifices virgins in a cult ritual and this farmer and a pardon are trying to rescue the farmer’s fiancée from him but he summons a magic dwarf that makes tornadoes and eats the parson after biting a chunk out of his neck”. The movie might not be objectively good but I’ve never forgotten the wilder images.
Raven being the Aldi value Lee gives the scenes in 'I, Monster' with the both of them together a 'multi-Doctor team up episode of Doctor Who' vibe. Which, since Peter Cushing and Richard Hurndall are in the same scene, it already is.
On a Doctor Who note - Louise (Leela) Jameson's replacement assistant was her pal from RADA, Mary Tamm (Romana Mk 1). Thankfully, in this film they didn't make Louise wear red contact lenses to turn her blue eyes brown like they did in Doctor Who, however they stopped this when she had to throw a knife during the filming of 'Robots of Death' and, due to the lenses, nearly killed a BBC cameraman.
Looking at Ronald Lacy, I am reminded of what Jerry Seinfeld said about not knowing when they began to wear powdered wigs but they stopped wearing them when the mirror was invented!
At this point I cannot remember which film 'I'll bring my bloodhounds along' is from. Also I am definitely going to watch Disciple of Death some time now, I'm sold. It looks like so much fun!
My favorite Ronald Lacey performance was his do-over double shot of playing the villainous Sir Oswald in both SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (1973) and its remake SWORD OF THE VALIANT (1984). He’s not the first actor to do such a thing, but he might have been the first to have been in a remake which recycled his footage from the original film and edited it together with new footage shot a decade later.
Given that Ronald Lacey appreciation is few and far between I nominate his role as both Shalto brothers in The Sign Of Four from the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series.
There is so much 'Big Trouble in Little China' here. I'd never even heard of this movie before. But, not surprising since Carpenter often pays tribute to older horror.
I'm 51, and was around when the USA tv channel first appeared. This is the kind of schlop they used to show on the fantastically silly "Commander USA's Groovy Movies" every Saturday afternoon - I must have seen 100 terrible low-budget horror movies by the time I was 12 because of it. If you've never seen clips of Commander USA, there are a few floating around on youtube - worth checking out.
In IMDB's Parent's Guide: Sex & Nudity: "A man and woman embrace and kiss." So, there are no boobs to ease the pain, which is fine since there's also no script, no director, no actors etc etc.
Mike Raven's character looks like the unholy spawn of Vincent Price and Herk Harvey's ghost from Carnival of Souls. Now that I brought it up, it's a loss we never got that Price-Harvey collaboration, it would have been SO cool.
I remember watching this and thinking this had to be a spoof. I recently re-watched it and it's definitely something. But Marguerite Hardiman was great as Julia.
Absolutely admirable review, as usual. Always great fun to watch and listen.😊 A strange film, really very cheap and amsteurish. Like a low grade porn production company tries to make a real movie. It's a bless to watch the film in german dubbing, because there Mike Ravens voice is coming from someone who really can act and speak and that's making a little bit more of an impression. Raven had always commanding voices in his german dubbed movies, so it's a great joy to hear him in his natural style. Imposing look and some presence, but the moment he speaks one has to smile a bit. There are some nice rural touches in the film and a few fine visual composings, but they make the film even look more amateurish. From the right point of view a very funny movie.
I always wondered what happened to Mike Raven after the Vampire Lovers. Now I find out there are at least 2 movies I don’t REALLY need to watch . They say they dubbed him in the Vampire Lovers , his voice lacking “gravitas” , I see it now.
Is he known as the stranger in the film or is that something you call him? if he is called it in the film do you think it could be reference to Mark Twains "Mysterious Stranger"
I imagine the Dark Corners motto is something like: "Hammer may Lust for a Vampire but we lust for a good movie"
In addition to playing Mr. Melty-Face in "Raiders of the Lost MacGuffin," Ronald Lacey is perhaps best known as The Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells in the Blackadder II episode, "Money."
-- Come to think of it, both of those guys kind of had a thing for red-hot pokers...!🤔
To me, Ronald Lacey remains, Marinus van der Lubbe, the man who burned down the Reichstag, in 1967's "Firebrand".
And Harris in Porridge
He turned up in Blake's 7 too.
Mike Raven looks like the guy you cast to play Dracula in a Hammer Horror-themed haunted house.
And you'd get your money's worth! He has a rather appealing Discount Christopher Lee vibe.
I even thought it was Lee in Lust for a Vampire, not Raven
He's what you get when you order Christopher Lee from Wish.
apparently in "Lust for a Vampire" they literally used stock footage of Christopher Lee for close-ups of his eyes
Ronald Lacey has a very short but memorable role as the village idiot in Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers from 1967. Took me 20 years to figure that out.
@@astafford8865 We are still allowed to talk about his films, aren't we? Also. since i'm a guy, he wouldn't have much interest in me anyway.
Lacy was in Red Sonja as Ghedrin's Toadie and had a small role in Sword of the Valient opposite Miles O'Keefe and Sir SEAN Connery.
Thanks, one of my favorite vampire films of all time. I'll keep an eye out for Lacey in my next watch.
If someone in the original - limited audiences - didn't chant 'Kill The Wabbit' at some point, they don't deserve any good things.
When asked about future acting jobs , Raven sadly bowed his head and murmured , ' Never more . Never more . '
Is that a quote?
@@ryandtibbetts2962 Yes. From Poe's: 'The Raven.'
@@paultapner2769 I thought it
was a Roger Corman 🎬 with
Vincent Price and Peter Lorre.
LOL.
Bowed his head and, po-faced, said...
Leela AND Toht!? A true find.
Jewish Yoda sounded a lot like Monty python 's Guardian at the bridge
Your reviews have literally saved hours of wasted time in my life, by warning me off some of these films. Your reviews have given me many laughs, as well.
This guy looks like a discount Christopher Lee! 😂 Thanks Robin! Must get beer and snakos for this round!!!!🥰🤗♥️ This is fun!!!!
Has anyone EVER used "Tocata and Fugue in D Minor" thoughtfully in a film? Well, yes: "Fantasia" did it justice. But second place goes to "Rollerball," and they only used the Tocata, not the Fugue. (Go back and listen again if you doubt me.) Most of the time, it's like this piece of Hammering, and it makes J.S. Bach's most famous composition except perhaps the Brandenburg Concertos into a jingle from a TV commercial.
Actually, yes, in The Black Cat, first Lugosi/Karloff teamup.
Even by 1970, whatever cinematic oomph the piece had was overtaken by people recognizing it as the cue for Dracula when he shows up in a Halloween themed beer commercial.
Isn't that the tune that Dr. Nemo played when he was working himself into a frenzy to ram ships with the Nautilus in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea?
@@scotth6814 I never saw "20K Un-C," as those kids today call it.
Wait, so Bach didn't do the Jaws theme? So that's why I failed that music exam.
7:45 Your timing of that line was impeccable. Just before that I was laughing out loud at that guy's "IN HELL!!!!!"
4:20 The role of Ralph the potato farmer was played by Robin Bailes in a wig.
This looked, felt and smelled like an ultra low, low budget movie that sooner or later haunts the local Tv stations in the wee hours of the night. Ron Lacey did a great job on The Avengers as a Peter Loree like character. " I need the money to buy new scaples." " Are you a surgeon? " " No, it just a hobby ." I also like him in Blake 7.
That must be from the color seasons of the Avengers. Offhand, I can't recall it.
@@Bigbadwhitecracker Yep, The Tarra King days.
Every time I saw Mike Raven, I kept thinking "Discount Christopher Lee." Given what we saw, even that might be too high an estimation.
"Discount Christopher Lee."
Dracula Has Risen In Aisle 3!
Exact ditto!!!! I posted before I did the comment reads!! Great minds think alike! 🤣
@@euansmith3699Taste the Cheese Platter of Dracula!
@@rheahorvath9274same!
More like three-day-old reduced for quick sale discounted discount Christopher Lee
I love running gags! Let's hear it for "I'll bring my bloodhounds along!" 🙂🙃🙂🙃
It will never get old.🤣
Right? We had a Lorelie callback AND a Breakout Character! Now we need a trifecta: Lorelie, Breakout, AND the Science Advisor
Y'think Mel Brooks saw this before he created the character of "Yogurt" for "Spaceballs"?
Definitely has Billy Crystal in Princess Bride vibes.
My favorite Ronald Lacey role apart from 'Raiders' was a dual role as the Sholto brothers in Grenada's Sherlock Holmes TV film 'The Sign of Four'.
His petrified death grimace from the blow-dart poison haunts me to this day.
He's a Poundland Christopher Lee...😂 Side note - Mike Raven passed in 1997 and was buried on Bodmin Moor...in a grave he'd dug himself! Oooh...😮
If only he'd applied that much forethought and planning to his movie making then maybe he'd be better remembered.
He sounded like he was trying to channel Boris Karloff as well in some scenes.
Ronald Lacey was also The President in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. Actress Virginia Wetherell from Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange played the part of Ruth.
It's a testament to Lacey's acting that, despite my having watched both Porridge and Raiders of the Lost Ark numerous times over the last 40'ish years, it was only last year (and even then, only because I saw a Tweet celebrating his Birthday) that I discovered Harris and Arnold Toht were the same guy!! 🤯
Ronald Lacey has a brief but unforgettable rile in the utterly bizarre The Final Programme (or The Last Days of Man on Earth). If you've never reviewed this please do. I caught it on late-night HBO back in the late 70's or very early 80's. I only recently read the Michael Moorcock novel, as well three other of his Jerry Cornelius novels, none made a lick of sense and felt they were written in a single drug-fuelled day.
"... none made a lick of sense and felt they were written in a single drug-fuelled day... across multiple dimensions."
Was this guy in that film about the artist who makes statues out of living girls by throwing molten metal over them?
Wow. Mike Raven giving some favorite actors there "big" break. Well break....a job he gave them a job. Louise Jameson was this young man's favorite Doctor companion.
Mike Raven was more than an actor, writer, & producer. He was a radio personality, a sculptor, a ballet dancer, a flamenco guitarist. The man was buried in the grave he dug for himself!! Everyone please look him up on Wikipedia. It's some interesting reading.
I liked Ronald Lacy as the twin brothers in the Granada Sherlock Holmes version of the sign of 4.
By the looks of this movie are you sure that none of the Monty Python crew were involved in the script🤣
Yes, especially the Jewish wizard bit.
7:17
"You shall be put through excruciating pain on... the vertical RACK!"
(facepalms after seeing a dish rack pulled out)
"For five days... SIX! SIX DAYS!
For six days... SEVEN! SEVEN DAYS!
For seven days... AND NIGHTS!... I'll start over again."
When that yoda guy turned up I thought it was a Monty Python sketch.
miracle Max from princess bride
I was hoping for more Leela!
I was hoping you might talk more about Mike Raven - so, it's pretty obvious why he shouldn't continue...but why couldn't he continue? Thanks for the great video as always!
This film failed so badly that no studio would hire him & he didn't have enough money to finance another. He went back to his real name (Austin Churton Fairman) ran a successful farm and took up carving in wood and granite - ar which he proved to be quite good. Many of his commissions went to churches.
Oh, that is so cool! Thanks for sharing. @@ericalbany
The guy had quite an interesting life.
He served in WWII as a Lt. in the British Infantry, then he married a Spanish lady and spent some time over there, becoming an accomplished flamenco guitar player and writing travel books about Spain. Eventually he returned to the UK and was a successful radio DJ, before trying his luck as an actor.
He's acting career failed , so he went back to using his birth name, started a sheep farm and was also making sculptures & other art pieces. As mentioned above, he made commissions for churches and even had his art in various exhibitions.
Cool! I thought that his name sounded familiar from John Peel talking about his early days in radio. @@doublep1980
As an Englishman, I approve. Brilliant performance, simply brilliant. 🏴
Ronald Lacey was Blackadder's baby eating Bishop of Bath and Wells. 'Nuff said. Also, Robin, are you related to Mike Raven, there's a definite resemblance....
One of my favorite episodes of blackadder
So that's why the Baby Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells ended up how he did
Only seen Mike Raven in "I, Monster" and, I have to say, he was considerably more subdued in that one, playing a third wheel to Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
@8:18 “A dwarf!! And he’s conducting an organ piece, the evil little savage!” 😂😂😂
Ronald Lacey had a great part in Sherlock Holmes Sign of 4 as the sons of Major Sholto alongside Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwick.
“San Franciske? So how did you came? Did you flew or take a train?”
-Sid Dithers
Starring Christopher Li.
😆
Monty Python's Disciple of Death
I seriously thought the “Jewish Yoda” was Spike Milligan for a second…
I must say, the scenes in the orange robe come across like a somewhat pedestrian crossover between Coppola's "Dracula" and Kurosawa's "Ran"! Great stuff! By the way, I wonder where my recurring nightmares involving bavarian bloodhounds may stem from! 😊
"Evil is abroad!"
Yes, she is.
Oh wow! The last time I saw Leela from Doctor Who she was wearing a loin cloth and I was 14 years old.
Every movie made by every studio in 2023 should have a SEE YOU IN HELL scene!
Every major movie studio in 2023 should be shut down ... oh wait....
7:37 !!! "I promise you it's not supposed to be funny !!" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👌👌👌
My favourite bit of Ronald Lacey was that episode of Blakes Seven where he was wearing a poo coloured quilt by way of a costume. Even for Blakes Seven that stood out as a ridiculous outfit.
Yeah, the costumes in that episode were ridiculously impractical
I honestly can't believe this channel only has 75 thousand subs. I've been watching on and off for years.
"Now, we must act!" "I'm working on it!"
“Now we must act!”
“I’m already acting!”
“…are you sure?”
Heh. From the looks of it, Mike Raven would make a great classic silent film actor. Unfortunately, it's 1972, and he has to talk.....
2:48 I am The Master, and YOU. MUST. OBEY!!
Back in 1980, when I was 11 years old, I got up in the middle of the night in the new house we had moved into and turned on the television. The first program on a working channel was already in progress and I had missed the opening credits. It took the next 40 years for me to find out that the title was DISCIPLE OF DEATH (1972). For 4 decades I could not find anyone who claimed to have watched what I would describe as “this movie where this vampire sacrifices virgins in a cult ritual and this farmer and a pardon are trying to rescue the farmer’s fiancée from him but he summons a magic dwarf that makes tornadoes and eats the parson after biting a chunk out of his neck”.
The movie might not be objectively good but I’ve never forgotten the wilder images.
Raven being the Aldi value Lee gives the scenes in 'I, Monster' with the both of them together a 'multi-Doctor team up episode of Doctor Who' vibe. Which, since Peter Cushing and Richard Hurndall are in the same scene, it already is.
Yes I remember seeing this flick on late night TV 📺 ,or Telly , back in the 70's. Back then it was Direct To 📺 tv rather than cable or video
On a Doctor Who note - Louise (Leela) Jameson's replacement assistant was her pal from RADA, Mary Tamm (Romana Mk 1). Thankfully, in this film they didn't make Louise wear red contact lenses to turn her blue eyes brown like they did in Doctor Who, however they stopped this when she had to throw a knife during the filming of 'Robots of Death' and, due to the lenses, nearly killed a BBC cameraman.
Looking at Ronald Lacy, I am reminded of what Jerry Seinfeld said about not knowing when they began to wear powdered wigs but they stopped wearing them when the mirror was invented!
"I promise you, it's not supposed to be funny."
I'm not sure l believe you.
No mention of the fact that the talisman is just a small signal mirror on a string? Okay....
The book you wrote is good, and now I want MORE! Time to do a creature from black lagoon tribute!!!
At this point I cannot remember which film 'I'll bring my bloodhounds along' is from. Also I am definitely going to watch Disciple of Death some time now, I'm sold. It looks like so much fun!
the lorelei's grasp
Mike Raven looks and sounds like Dr. Orpheus from "The Venture Brothers'' animated show, from Adult Swim!
My favorite Ronald Lacey performance was his do-over double shot of playing the villainous Sir Oswald in both SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (1973) and its remake SWORD OF THE VALIANT (1984). He’s not the first actor to do such a thing, but he might have been the first to have been in a remake which recycled his footage from the original film and edited it together with new footage shot a decade later.
Ronald Lacey played a master criminal in Olympus Force, a film which is a good candidate for any list of bad movies.
"...Coming up against their own god given ineptitude." Is now my new PC way to describe people at work.
Given that Ronald Lacey appreciation is few and far between I nominate his role as both Shalto brothers in The Sign Of Four from the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series.
To me, he's always the Shaltos!
... whoa, you had me at Louise Jameson! ...
A DWARRFFF!!! IN A FUNNY HAT!!! .... What do you mean I'm overreacting?!?
I KNEW IT! "The guy In the thumbnail looks like the dude from Lust for a Vampire!". He looks the part....but man he is a ham
3:11 A beautiful disaster Manos! YES GOD!
I'd like to hear Mike Raven's radio programs.
Ya gotta love how ol' Mike Raven tried his best, but always sounded like a bargin basement version of Christopher Lee. 🤔
3:13 Manos! YES GOD!
There is so much 'Big Trouble in Little China' here. I'd never even heard of this movie before. But, not surprising since Carpenter often pays tribute to older horror.
I'm 51, and was around when the USA tv channel first appeared. This is the kind of schlop they used to show on the fantastically silly "Commander USA's Groovy Movies" every Saturday afternoon - I must have seen 100 terrible low-budget horror movies by the time I was 12 because of it. If you've never seen clips of Commander USA, there are a few floating around on youtube - worth checking out.
In IMDB's Parent's Guide: Sex & Nudity: "A man and woman embrace and kiss."
So, there are no boobs to ease the pain, which is fine since there's also no script, no director, no actors etc etc.
Every time that organ plays I feel like I'm watching a bad Rollerball sequel! They sure do love their Bach!
Thanks for NOT using the face-melting clip. As you imply, Ronald Lacey deserves better.
Loved Lacey in Flesh + Blood!!
Communion scene was hysterical
Mike Raven's character looks like the unholy spawn of Vincent Price and Herk Harvey's ghost from Carnival of Souls. Now that I brought it up, it's a loss we never got that Price-Harvey collaboration, it would have been SO cool.
Robin, you're in top form! Great review!!
..it's "tender" young Julia thank you very much~!!!
"'l'll bring the bloodhounds along!" Don't mind if you do...
I remember watching this and thinking this had to be a spoof. I recently re-watched it and it's definitely something. But Marguerite Hardiman was great as Julia.
_"Evil is a Broad..."_
Sam Spade, is that you?
The poor man's Vincent Price!
I caught the last half of this movie on a local TV station years ago. Had no idea what I was watching.
Apparently Raven wanted to become the second Christopher Lee, but didn't succeed
I get this strange "Turkish Star Wars" vibe from this. Must be the music, video quality and the over-the-top acting :D
If they just made this a comedy then it wouldn’t be so bad 😂😂😂😂
Louise Jameson is awesome to look at!!
Great video
Absolutely admirable review, as usual. Always great fun to watch and listen.😊
A strange film, really very cheap and amsteurish. Like a low grade porn production company tries to make a real movie.
It's a bless to watch the film in german dubbing, because there Mike Ravens voice is coming from someone who really can act and speak and that's making a little bit more of an impression. Raven had always commanding voices in his german dubbed movies, so it's a great joy to hear him in his natural style. Imposing look and some presence, but the moment he speaks one has to smile a bit.
There are some nice rural touches in the film and a few fine visual composings, but they make the film even look more amateurish. From the right point of view a very funny movie.
I can't get the idea out of my head that Raven should've played an incarnation of the Master in 70s Doctor Who.
3:45 What we came here for. 💯👍🏼🤣
Why didn't he join Hawkwind? He looks like he'd fit in.
Oh come on! It you had magic, you'll open doors with it to! 🤣😎
and tins. Especially Fray Bentos pies, they're a bastard to open sometimes
I always wondered what happened to Mike Raven after the Vampire Lovers. Now I find out there are at least 2 movies I don’t REALLY need to watch . They say they dubbed him in the Vampire Lovers , his voice lacking “gravitas” , I see it now.
Great recap! Based on this, I went and watched the movie, which did not disappoint. Wild!
Is he known as the stranger in the film or is that something you call him? if he is called it in the film do you think it could be reference to Mark Twains "Mysterious Stranger"
OMG! A new movie for my "Must See List!"
It's unfortunate this Microwave Dinner Christopher Lee wasn't in more films. He just seems delightfully atrocious.
It's difficult to take the parson seriously when he's wearing a wig that makes him look as if he's Princess Leia's grandmother.
Thus Quote the Raven,
" NEVERMORE " .
Raven would have been ideal in Life of Brian - "Thampthon the Thouth Thea Thrangler".
And every time you say "Julia", I keep singing the song of the same name by John Lennon. I guess that could turn into a drinking and/or toking game?