'Talking Pictures' on TV

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KlepperGuy
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'Talking Pictures' on TV

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Under the post 'Miranda Richardson'
The film being referred to in the above post, she appears in 'Dance with a Stranger', the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK for the murder of her lover.

The 1985 film features many aspects of 1950 fashions and the Klepper mack Ruth wore seemd to be the best they could find. Yet in reality in 1984/5 there were plenty of companies around who could have provided a typiclally British rubber lined mack for her to wear.
But seeing the Klepper was a real bonus to a very good film.

The film regularly turns up on the TV on the 'Talking Pictures' channel.

Another film to lookout for is 'Batchelor of Hearts' with the late, Hardy Kruger He plays a young german student attending Oxford/Cambridge university and regularly wears his Klepper in the film both in and out of the rain. The film as a host of British stars..........but the real star of the film is the Hardy in his Klepper.
This is another film that features on Talking Pictures.

Talking Pictures features so many vintage films and TV shows, its always fun to watch the programs and do a bit of 'Mack' spotting.

There was an episode of 'Gideon's Way' with John Gregson, it was fun to watch as two lady extras appeared in the one hour show three times. Three different scenes in the rain, one in a pvc mack and one in a rubber lined nylon mack, both walking together in the background of the shot or walking towards the camera. Sadly being filmed in black and white, we have no idea of their colours.

So in the words of Dixon of Dock Green............'keep 'em peeled' and see what you can spot.
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Re: 'Talking Pictures' on TV

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Having been to Paris as a young teenager in the early 1960's and been entranced by the sheer number of women of all ages wearing shiny black mackintoshes it was always a disappointment that few ever appeared in the contemporary "Maigret" TV series. I can recall only one episode featuring one of two young prostitutes brought in for questioning who was wearing what so many were at that time.
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