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Beau Hunks
Stan and Ollie, back in the days before they had their catchphrases to rely on, were stars of the silent screen, and this is one of their finest hours. Ollie, abandoned by his fiancée, takes his buddy Stan to seek solace in the foreign legion, where they prove themselves the most useless desert rats ever recruited, but still manage to save the fort from evil marauding Arabs. Of course everyone at the fort is there because they’ve been dumped by their girl, even the Arab who tries to take over the fort has been jilted. And guess what… it’s the same girl! |
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Ice Cold In Alex
No film ever left its audience feeling thirstier than this one. Stranded in the heat of the Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, John Mills, Sylvia Sims and Anthony Quayle – who may or may not be an evil German spy – try to drive their ambulance across baking, shifting sands, all the while dreaming of the cold beer they’ll have when they reach Alexandria. Halfway through you’re dry-mouthed and gasping, so when they finally do sink that cold one it’s unbelievably cathartic. Do not watch on telly at home without at least five chilled ones in the fridge on standby. |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
The original and still the best,
what kind of chart would this be if
we didn't even mention Indy in passing?
No, Indiana Jones is probably one of film's most memorable characters - the loveable rogue of loveable rogues. Spielberg and Lucas' tomb raiding adventure series continues to wow audiences more than twenty years after its first bow.
Indiana Jones went on, with Harrison Ford, to star in two more big-screen adventures (with a third in pre-production right about now) and, without him, spawned a hugely successful mini-series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. All keeping the first film's basic ingredients: sand, cobwebs, a whip and a snappy hat.
And an out-and-out fear of snakes, of course... |
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